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[Carol]

Just started A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

[Nocturnalux]

Carol wrote: "Just started A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride"

I'll be picking up this one soon.

[Carol]

I will be interested to see what you think of it. It's very different.

[Sean]

This morning I started Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

[Nocturnalux]

Carol wrote: "I will be interested to see what you think of it. It's very different."

Very much so. I've leafed through it and it does seem quite an unusual take on narrative.

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.
I've been looking forward to this one for quite a while.

[Mia]

Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

[Diane]

Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans.

[Diane]

Great Apes by Will Self.

[Kirsten]

Diane wrote: "Great Apes by Will Self."

Oh? I've heard him on BBC Radio. He has a good sense of humor.

[Nocturnalux]

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro.

[Diane]

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

[Diane]

Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

[Sean]

Keeping with a theme, I started Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[Diane]

Martin Eden by Jack London.

[Nocturnalux]

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood.

[George P.]

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih.

[Diane]

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant.

[Gayle]

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

[Mia]

I started Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

[Diane]

Middlemarch by George Eliot.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Diane wrote: "Middlemarch by George Eliot."

Ha--I'm starting that as well. I bet you'll finish a lot sooner than I do though.

[Sean]

This weekend I picked up Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi.

[Angie]

I just started One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Sean]

I was browsing the library and Smiley's People caught my eye. So today I started Book 1 in the trilogy: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré.

[Gayle]

I just started Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. 20 pages in and enjoying it. Hope it continues.

[Frances]

Starting Summer today. 🤗

[Ellinor]

Gayle wrote: "I just started Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. 20 pages in and enjoying it. Hope it continues."

It‘s not on the list though.

[Tim]

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

[Amanda]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. I usually like to read all scary books in October, so it will probably be my last non horror read for awhile:).

[Gayle]

Thanks for letting me know that Tiger Moon isn’t on the list. I got my wires crossed somewhere.

[Sean]

This weekend I started The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi.

[Nocturnalux]

Sean wrote: "This weekend I started The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi."

Sean, have you read his 'If This is a Man'? If not, I strongly recommend reading it first. The Drowned makes several references to If and makes a greater impact when seen in contrast to it.

[Sean]

I did. I just finished it. I read them back to back. My edition was called Survival in Auschwitz. And it's a huge contrast. Such a difference in style. 40 years really put some perspective on the horrific event.

[Nocturnalux]

Sean wrote: "I did. I just finished it. I read them back to back. My edition was called Survival in Auschwitz. And it's a huge contrast. Such a difference in style. 40 years really put some perspect..."

Does it also include The Truce? Levi meant 'If' and 'The Truth' to be read back to back.

[Sean]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Sean wrote: "I did. I just finished it. I read them back to back. My edition was called Survival in Auschwitz. And it's a huge contrast. Such a difference in style. 40 years really put ..."

My copy did not include The Truce. I will probably read that as well, I'm finding this very informative and interesting and sad.

[Pooja]

Angie wrote: "I just started One Hundred Years of Solitude."
I loved this book! The way the family's history tangles with that of the place was really cool.

I have just started Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. I'm also halfway through Treasure Island right now. I'm enjoying both, but they're very different books so I'm currently alternating between them as the mood strikes.

[Mia]

I started Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard.

[Diane]

The Master by Colm Tóibín.

[Diane]

Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

[Sean]

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Sean wrote: "The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa"

I read that recently--at least the Penguin edition of it. I found I couldn't read more than about ten passages a day. It probably would have been better for me to read one passage a day, like a meditation book. I never could quite come round to Pessoa's viewpoint on life, but there were some interesting comments here and there.

[Sean]

Bryan--Treasurer, Middlemarch Appreciation Society wrote: "Sean wrote: "The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa"

I read that recently--at least the Penguin edition of it. I found I couldn't read more tha..."

It's quite out there. Some of them are very short, but I am seeing what you mean. I do find them interesting for the most part. Still trying to make some overall sense of the work. Not sure that's gonna happen...

[Sean]

Vikki wrote: "The Pelican Brief by John Grisham"

I've heard this was good. But it's not on the list.... not on this list, anyway...

[Frances]

Dracula -as my October read. 🎃

[Peter]

American Rust by Philipp Meyer

[Carol]

I'm starting The Pilgrim's Progress today. That leaves 24 pre-1970 books for me to read next year. I'd like to clear that category!

[Vikki]

Sean wrote: "Vikki wrote: "The Pelican Brief by John Grisham"

I've heard this was good. But it's not on the list.... not on this list, anyway..."

Oops, I guess I will read it anyway.

[Diane]

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.

[Diane]

Dead Babies by Martin Amis.