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[Ellinor]

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

[Diane]

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mother by Maxim Gorky

[Karen]

Bryan "They call me the Doge" wrote: "The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

This doesn't seem like a book to rush through to me. I plan on taking some time with it."

Definitely a book to be read slowly and pondered over. One of my favorites.

[Jim]

Started The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, in an omnibus, The Custom of the Country & Other Classic Novels, which also contains The Age of Innocence, another LIST book.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Karen wrote: "Definitely a book to be read slowly and pondered over. One of my favorites."

I'm pretty sure it's going to become one of mine as well. Right now I'm only reading about 10 passages a day or so--Pessoa's writing is sometimes slippery...I find my mind easily taking off on tangents his writing suggests.

[Kayla]

Just started Call of the Wild and it pulls you in right from the start- think I’ll finish this rather quickly. Can’t believe I’ve yet to read this or white fang OR see see either of the movies, but that’s about to change.

Also started about a week and a half ago both The Goldfinch and Thomas of Reading.

The Goldfinch is good so far, I’m enjoying it, but since it’s such a large book I’m reading it in small stints each day.

Thomas of Reading is very short but the language- I suppose its old English- makes it difficult to read through quickly so this books is taking much longer than expected despite how short it is. I’ve figured out the language for the most part now but a single sentence takes me a bit longer to get through as I try to digest what I just read and at this point I’m not quite sure I understand what’s going on- I get the gist of the storyline I think though.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

[Colleen]

I'm about half-way through Cranford. It's a fun little read. Reminds me of Jane Eyre- type books. Also, just started The Crying of Lot 49. So far, I really like it. Trying to catch up on the monthly reads!

[George P.]

Joining the group-read for The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa of Portugal. Translated from Portuguese although Pessoa was fluent in English and French.
A $4 Kindle ebook is available.

[Sean]

George P. wrote: "Joining the group-read for The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa of Portugal. Translated from Portuguese although Pessoa was fluent in English and French.
A..."

Group read?

[Tim]

The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

[Diane]

Starting The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth.

[Sean]

Starting my second read of A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute.

[Karina]

Started The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

Thank you everyone for your advice on the other books I’ve yet to finish. I am on book 3/4 in The Once and Future King (which I am enjoying, I am just reading one book at a time) and I finished Main Street (which once it started getting good again, I was able to plow through and finish) and 2666 I am slowly muddling through but am not rushing to finish and 1Q84 I have on the back burner but will go to it next when I finish TOAFK.

[Kirsten]

Karina wrote: "Started The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

Thank you everyone for your advice on the other books I’ve yet to finish. I am on book 3/4 in The Once and Future King (which I am enjoying, I am just ..."

Love John Wyndham!!

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The early going kind of reminds me of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which isn't surprising, given the immense influence Marquez' book had at the time when Allende was probably most receptive to it.

[Diane]

Starting The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

[Mia]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf.

[Peter]

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "Bryan "They call me the Doge" wrote: "The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

This doesn't seem like a book to rush through to me. I plan on taking some time with it."

It took me exactly one year. ..."

I can see that. I'm starting to wonder if reading 10 chapters at a time is too much. With this kind of writing, it's very easy for me to drift off into my own thoughts. It's also peppered with stunning passages that I don't want to miss.

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: "Bryan "They call me the Doge" wrote: "The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa : This doesn't seem like a book to rush through to me. I plan on taking some time with it."

It took me exactly one year...."

Mercedes, was that partly because you read it in Portuguese, in which you have limited fluency?
But having read about 10% of it so far, I understand that the lack of plot makes it difficult to absorb very much at an installment.

[Nocturnalux]

George P. wrote: "Mercedes, was that partly because you read it in Portuguese, in which you have limited fluency?"

I'm a native Portuguese speaker and can attest to the text not being particularly accessible. That is to be expected from Pessoa (even when he deliberately simplifies his style as he does via Alberto Caeiro).

Incidentally, there are a lot of variations to Book (and the translation did a disservice in tacking an article to it, in Portuguese there is none and none should be there) since it was compiled from several notebooks and even sparse pages.

There is dispute among editors as to which bits of text should even be included and the order in which they are to be presented to the reader. Apart a core set-pieces, there are all sorts of scraps of prose that some editors will add while others will omit (and critical editions try to include all but it is very difficult as there is so much textual variance going on).

[Sean]

Started on The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante. This is step two on the way to The Story of the Lost Child.

[Diane]

Started The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq. I have low expectations for this one, as I didn't care for the other books of his I read.

[Sean]

I'm a little late starting the Group Read, The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes.

[Nocturnalux]

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth.

[Kirsten]

Mercedes wrote: "Tess of the D'Urbervilles

We're reading it out loud. Hardy's style agrees with me so."

I listened to this and Return of the Native on audiobook. I agree that Hardy is best read out loud.

[Karen]

Nocturnalux wrote: "George P. wrote: "Mercedes, was that partly because you read it in Portuguese, in which you have limited fluency?"

I'm a native Portuguese speaker and can attest to the text not being particularly..."

Considering that Pessoa left all his writings in a trunk (over 25,000) and there is disagreement about what to include, it would be interesting to see this as a website where the reader could pick and choose what to read and in what order creating the book as they read. It would be a unique experience!!

[Nocturnalux]

Karen wrote: "Considering that Pessoa left all his writings in a trunk (over 25,000) and there is disagreement about what to include, it would be interesting to see this as a website where the reader could pick and choose what to read and in what order creating the book as they read. It would be a unique experience!!"

As fun as that sounds, it is not at all likely to happen as access to the ark is very limited. One needs to be an accredited Pessoa scholar, for one, and even then it is up to the actual owners of the ark to decide whether one even gets to take a peek at it.

There is still plenty of material inside said ark that no-one has yet even cataloged. They have been at it for decades on end but the process is very, very slow (and in all honesty, I suspect it is deliberately so as it allows 'new' publications to pop up every couple of years so that Pessoa remains a very profitable endeavor, so to speak) and there is no telling how much headway has even been achieved thus far.

The closest you can get to 'pick your book' is getting a critical edition. The one I have is close to being such that as it includes most variants and explains how each bit of text was incorporated into what we know have. But I am unsure if such editions are available in translation, those familiar with the Portuguese language are strongly encouraged to give it a go: Livro do Desassossego.

[Mia]

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

[Diane]

Starting The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Starting part II in the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, The Hausfrau

[Nocturnalux]

De Amor y de Sombra by Isabel Allende.

Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner

With this I am now reading three list books, all in a different language (English, Spanish and Japanese).

[Kayla]

After the Quake by Murakami. I’ve stopped and restarted 1Q84 many times despite not having a “problem” with it, so I’m hoping by reading some of Murakami’s other works I’ll get a better feel for his style. So far I’m enjoying it (and I love short stories sometimes because you feel accomplished “knocking them out”)

[Kayla]

The Time Machine- HG Wells, none of his work was ever required reading in school for me so I haven’t gotten around to it yet but I’m very excited to start.

[Carol]

I've just started the third (and final) volume of A Dream of Red Mansions.

And... I've just started Justine by de Sade

[Peter]

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

[Karen]

Mercedes wrote: "I, Robot

My first Asimov ever"

One of my favorite sci-fi authors!

[Diane]

The Iron Heel by Jack London.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I started reading the crime classic:


The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

[Diane]

Complicity by Iain Banks.

[Carol]

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

[Mia]

The Ambassadors by Henry James.

[Sean]

getting closer. I started Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante. The last of the prerequisites to The Story of the Lost Child.

[George P.]

Sean wrote: "George P. wrote: "Joining the group-read for The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa of Portugal. Translated from Portuguese although Pessoa was fluent in English and French..."

Group read?

For the group "Reading 1001", another group of Boxall list readers. So I'm in both.

[George P.]

I've started the scifi novel Solaris by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem, and The Summer Book by Ms. Tove Jansson of Finland.
I'm also reading a Ferrante (Italy) and Pessoa (Portugal) so going very European for a month or so.

[Diane]

Started The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.

[Carol]

just started 10:04 by Ben Lerner

[Diane]

Started Saturday by Ian McEwan.