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[George P.]

I've also started The Human Stain by Philip Roth, my third of his.
Across all editions of the Boxall list he has eight, but only this one and Portnoy's Complaint appear in all editions.

[Diane]

Started Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow.

[Karina]

Started The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Ashamed to say that I’ve never read any of her stuff, not in high school or college. I have a few of her books to read on my shelves now.

[Maggie]

I started Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy a few days ago. If not for the fact that it's on the list, I'd have put it down. But since it's on the list, I'm trying to get through it as fast as possible so I can tick it off. It's well-written, but it's so violent, and so, so bleak. The depravity is haunting.

[Mia]

I started The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.

[James]

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

[Sean]

Early this morning I started The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

[Diane]

Started The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks.

[Sean]

Just started August's group read, Cost by Roxana Robinson.

[Karina]

Started Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

[Vikki]

Room With A View by E M Forster.

[Sean]

I started The Plague by Albert Camus. It's my first Camus ever.

[James]

Hope you enjoy it. I liked it but prefer The Stranger.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien

[Nocturnalux]

Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa

The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing

[Rusty]

Just finished The Plague by by Albert Camus which is surely a book for the times since we are experiencing a worldwide pandemic. The reactions of the people certainly mirror what is happening in our own country from denial, fear, violence and ignoring it all. While COVID19 is not as deadly as the plague it is certainly so for some people in all stages of life. We have yet to see its demise.

[Mia]

Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

[Diane]

Started Marya by Joyce Carol Oates.

[Diane]

Moon Palace by Paul Auster.

[Sean]

Just started Bleak House by Charles Dickens

[Sean]

Also,

A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I just started Bleak House as well.

[Sean]

Bryan "They call me the Doge" wrote: "I just started Bleak House as well."

Sean liked, "I just started Bleak House as well."

[Mia]

Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse.

[Diane]

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

[George P.]

Started Manon of the Springs- by Maurice Pagnol. It’s the sequel to Jean de Florette which I read a year or so ago.

[Mia]

Neuromancer by William Gibson.

[Mia]

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Excited but little scared about this one.

[Diane]

George P. wrote: "Started Manon of the Springs- by Maurice Pagnol. It’s the sequel to Jean de Florette which I read a year or so ago."

I didn't realize it was a sequel. Do you think it is necessary to read Jean de Florette first?

[Diane]

Fanny Hill by John Cleland.

[Sean]

Diane wrote: "George P. wrote: "Started Manon of the Springs- by Maurice Pagnol. It’s the sequel to Jean de Florette which I read a year or so ago."

I didn't realize it was a sequel. Do you think it isnecessary to read Jean de Florette first?..."

Please let us know what you think George. The little research I did said... yes, read part 1 first.

[Sean]

On Friday, I picked up Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović at the library.

[Sean]

Also starting just a tad early on September's group read, Summer by Edith Wharton

[George P.]

Sean and Diane: yes I really think you should read Jean de Florette first. Manon of the Springs is really a continuation of the same story. In the copy I bought they are both in one volume.
PS: see my note a bit farther down.

[George P.]

I started White Noise by Don DeLillo. So far reminds me of Pynchon, but a little more restrained.

[Nocturnalux]

Mia wrote: "Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Excited but little scared about this one."

I wonder how it feels to read this one now that 'Kenosha' brings to mind entirely different associations.

[Diane]

Started American Pastoral by Philip Roth.

[Diane]

Started Cost by Roxana Robinson.

[Vikki]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

[Diane]

The Human Stain by Philip Roth.

[Diane]

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.

[Amanda]

Infinite Jest. Send help.

[James]

You won’t need help. Just some extra time. :)

[Diane]

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "George P. wrote: "Started Manon of the Springs- by Maurice Pagnol. It’s the sequel to Jean de Florette which I read a year or so ago."

I didn't realize it was a sequel. Do you think it is necessary to read Jean de Florette first? ."

It occurred to me that there were excellent French movies made from both books, and you could watch the movie of Jean de Florette, then read the book Manon of the Springs if you just want to read one book. Then you would understand the back story. Jean de Florette stars Gerard Depardieu (in early middle age), and I think Daniel Auteuil and Yves Montand are in both movies.
After reading Manon then you could watch the movie of that as well, starring young beautiful Emanuelle Beart.

[George P.]

Started The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký (Czech immigrant to Canada). The title refers to writers.

[George P.]

Amanda wrote: "Infinite Jest. Send help."

I've read and enjoyed some of his essays including the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. I may take on Infinite Jest some day; hope you like it.

[Diane]

George P. wrote: "Diane wrote: "George P. wrote: "Started Manon of the Springs- by Maurice Pagnol. It’s the sequel to Jean de Florette which I read a year or so ago."

I didn't realize it was a sequel. Do you think ..."

Sounds wonderful. I had no idea the movies existed, either. I love Gerard Depardieu, too. And French movies, in general. I noticed my copy of Manon also had Jean de Florette. I still hadn't made the connection that they were connected. Thanks, George!

[Diane]

Started The Circle by Dave Eggers.