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[Mia]

Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Özdamar.

[Sean]

Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse.

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Özdamar."

I enjoyed that one.

[Diane]

Starting The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll.

[Sean]

The new group read is posted. And I just started it as well: The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

[Diane]

Sean wrote: "The new group read is posted. And I just started it as well: The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth"

Great book.

[Diane]

Sean wrote: "The new group read is posted. And I just started it as well: The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth"

I was hoping to update that in the Bookshelf so the book would show on the home page, but apparently that function is locked, too.

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Özdamar."

I enjoyed that one."

I'm really enjoying it too.

I also started Pakenija by Marcel Proust today. It's the second last book from "In Search of Lost Time".

[Diane]

Mia wrote: "Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Özdamar."

I enjoyed that one."

I'm really enjoying it too.

I also started Pakenija by..."

I really enjoyed that series, too. It's super long, though, so I'm glad to have it behind me.

[George P.]

Mia wrote: "Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Özdamar."

That's a very hard one to find for English translation- $85 on Amazon. The English university (Middlesex) that published it has closed its press. I may try interlibrary loan when I feel inclined, but not optimistic that will work.

[Diane]

Starting Money by Martin Amis.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble. So far, this book is so 'just ok' it's killing me. It's just good enough not to DNF.

There's nothing wrong with it--it's just that reading about Thatcherite England doesn't seem all that urgent to me at the moment.

[Diane]

Started The Green Man by Kingsley Amis.

[George P.]

Started The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. I can't quite decide if Hesse was very intellectually pretentious or if he really had the goods. I've previously read his Steppenwolf and Siddhartha- liked Siddhartha better.

[Yrinsyde]

I started Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd. I was excited to see that it had an introduction by Will Self. Apparently, Ackroyd and Self are influenced by Iain Sinclair (who is a relation of mine and whom I had the privilege to meet in '19).

[Diane]

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.

[Sean]

After all the talk about Raymond Chandler's Marlow, on the Red Harvest group thread, I decided to start The Big Sleep.

[George P.]

Also started The Waves by Virginia Woolf (audiobook).

[Diane]

Underworld by Don DeLillo.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Diane wrote: "Underworld by Don DeLillo."

That's been on my radar for a while--I just find it hard to get going on those long epics unless I'm nudged by one of the groups I'm in.

[Nocturnalux]

3 Lives by Gertrude Stein

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

[Peter]

Chocky by John Wyndham

[Liander (The Towering Pile)]

The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night; Volume 1 of 16, as translated by Richard Burton

Starting this one against my better judgment lol! With no big hurry on it. I got it at Project Gutenberg . I put the epub on my Kobo and then read it with the file open on my computer showing the footnotes, so that I can easily refer to them.

I've been trying to find good editions of the pre-1700 books on Project Gutenberg (where my public library doesn't have them).

[Mia]

I started Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

[Alice]

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

[Diane]

Nocturnalux wrote: "3 Lives by Gertrude Stein

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters"

I'll be interested to see what you think of 3 Lives.

[Diane]

Started Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.

[Sean]

I just started Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

[Sean]

I also started the next group read, Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg.

[George P.]

I've started Like Life (stories) by Lorrie Moore. I enjoyed her novel Anagrams a couple years ago.

[Diane]

George P. wrote: "I've started Like Life (stories) by Lorrie Moore. I enjoyed her novel Anagrams a couple years ago."

Hi, George. Sorry off-topic. Check your Group Invitations folder. I sent you an invitation to the 1001 mods group.

[Diane]

Just started a re-read of The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.

[Jamie]

I started a couple List books this week- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, and Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard. I was going to stick to just the Hedgehog book, but I decided to fit in Get Shorty alongside, as an audiobook, while I can find it still on youtube. I tried to get it 2 years ago through interlibrary loan, and our library was unable to find a copy in their ILL network. I also started poking at The Glass Bead Game, which will be a reread for me. I'll be playing moderator for The Glass Bead Game for another group's book-of-the-month. It's one of my all-time favorite books, so that should be fun. :)

[Nocturnalux]

Diane wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "3 Lives by Gertrude Stein

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters"

I'll be interested to see what you think of 3 Lives."

Well. I didn't much care for it, to be honest.

The second story was so viciously racist that I had to push in order to finish it. Terribly repetitive, characters literally say the exact same things over and over again. And then they will repeat the same lines a couple of pages later.

[Diane]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Diane wrote: "Well. I didn't much care for it, to be honest."

Ha, it is one of my least favorite list books. The repetitiveness drove me insane!

[Diane]

Starting The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.

[Peter]

Faces in the Water by Janet Frame.

[Karen]

Jamie wrote: "I started a couple List books this week- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, and Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard. I was going to stick to just the Hedgehog book, but I decided to fit in ..."

I enjoyed Get Shorty (I actually read it when in was originally published).

You intrigued me with the audiobooks on YouTube. I have used YouTube often for children's books I couldn't find, but never for any other type of book. I was surprised at how many there were. What is your favorite channel?

[Karen]

Peter wrote: "Faces in the Water by Janet Frame."

A difficult book to read.

[Nocturnalux]

Diane wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "Diane wrote: "Well. I didn't much care for it, to be honest."

Ha, it is one of my least favorite list books. The repetitiveness drove me insane!"

Even worse than that was the unrelenting racism of that second and longest story. Time and time again we are reminded that 'black' equals 'violence' and that darker skinned characters are 'lazy' or 'add horrible quality here'.

The lead's father, in particular, is always referred as a 'black man' and then 'awful'. There is a stressing of this point that is not accidental.

The repetition was annoying but I can put it down to style but the racism is just that, racism.

Not the only highly racist book on the list but surely, one of the grossest examples I ever had the displeasure to encounter.

[Diane]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Even worse than that was the unrelenting racism of that second and longest story. Time and time again we are reminded that 'black' equals 'violence' and that darker skinned characters are 'lazy' or 'add horrible quality here'."

I completely agree. It shouldn't be on the list.

[Rose]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

[Tyler]

I started Underworld by Don DeLillo last year toward the end of the year, but I forgot to post it! About half way through and enjoying it so far.

Also, I have embarked on the journey that is Les Miserables! Wish me luck!

[Karen]

Tyler wrote: "I started Underworld by Don DeLillo last year toward the end of the year, but I forgot to post it! About half way through and enjoying it so far.

Also, I have embarked on the journey that is Les M..."

I just love Les Miserables! It is definitrly in my top ten favorite books. Enjoy!

[Diane]

Started The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse.

[Angie]

Just started Don Quixote - this may take a while...

[Diane]

Just started Cecilia by Frances Burney. And to use Angie's words (in the post above me), this may take a while....

Looking forward to getting another >1,000-pager out of the way.

[Angie]

Diane wrote: "Just started Cecilia by Frances Burney. And to use Angie's words (in the post above me), this may take a while....

Looking forward to getting another >1,000-pager o..."

*virtual high five*!

[Mia]

Cphe wrote: "Started:

Waiting for the Barbarians"

That's one of my favorites of his books.

I started Pastoralia by George Saunders. This one will be different.

[Karen]

Mia wrote: "Cphe wrote: "Started:

Waiting for the Barbarians"

That's one of my favorites of his books.

I started Pastoralia by George Saunders. This one will be diffe..."

Definitely, Pastoralia was rather strange!