What do you plan to read this month?

[Howard]

Starting:

The Republic
The Guide
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Viper Pilot - Dan Hampton

Continuing:

The Idiot
The Pickwick Papers
Man is not Alone - Heschel
The Joy of X - Strogatz
Unlocking the Emotional Brain - Ecker, et all

Will finish:

By the Rivers of Babylon - Nelson DeMille
Battle Cry - Leon Uris

Plan to re-read:

The Man With the Golden Arm

Really looking forward to The Republic and tackling Faulkner for the first time, and rereading Algren - hope to get a better grasp of some nuances by reading it twice in fairly close succession.

[Hilary]

@Ellie I think you are the sole survivor of the expedition into the strange world of Mason and Dixon ....... Good luck!

[[deleted user]]

Good luck all with your reading plans - @ Antipodes - you must be of a very cheerful disposition to read The Man With the Golden Arm twice in such a short space of time. I must tackle a Faulkner novel sometime - I really enjoyed some of his short stories - particularly Barn Burning - which is one of he best pieces of short fiction I've ever read.

[Howard]

@Lee - well, you never know - it could just be that the backdrop to Algren all seems pretty normal to me. ; )
Actually, while it seems that almost all of the character relationships are codependently highly dysfunctional, I thought I caught a glimpse of a thread with Sophie's beginning entanglement with Frankie that I want to verify, and I also would like to look a little closer at the source of Record Head's epiphany when he's squeezing Solly to rat on Frankie.

[Howard]

@Lee - I've got Collected Stories by Faulkner! It's in my kindle reader library. I got it and Absolom, Absolom and Go Down, Moses and The Sound and the Fury all at the same time (this was to be, and still is, my Faulkner year - once I buy them I have to read them kind of a thing). So Barn Burning forthwith it is. Thanks for the heads up.

[[deleted user]]

That is an awful lot of Faulkner!

[[deleted user]]

Ok so for June I shall attempt to read:
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A.Cup
Daughters Of The House - monthly author
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Summer Book monthly book
Over the Frontier
The Woman Warrior
The Idiot Book 3
The Dean's Watch
Inferno Readalong
Next Pickwick Papers instalment
2nd half of The Sea, the Sea
The Day of the Jackal

[[deleted user]]

1st instalment of Ben-Hur - Quarterly
The Seville Communion - monthly author
Therese Raquin - monthly read
1st 200 pages of The Man Without Qualities - Readalong
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Readalong
The Day of the Jackal
A Time of Gifts
The Professor of Poetry
Pointed Roofs
Next instalment of The Pickwick Papers

[Laurel]

my plan for may is.....

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell which I'm currently reading;
Therese Raquin by Zola;
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte;
Light in August by William Faulkner;
The Croning by Laird Barron;
also a good chunk of Inferno, The Man Without Qualities and the next instalment of Pickwick.

[[deleted user]]

How are you liking Swamplandia? - I really enjoyed it.

[Laurel]

It's good so far - am only on ch9 though ;)

[Angela]

Hello to June!

This month I plan to read:
Theo's Odyssey
Finish 30-Second Philosophies: The 50 most thought-provoking philosophies, each explained in half a minute
Start Richard III
Keep going with the book of poetry The Good Thief
And reread The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet

[Laurel]

Need to finish Therese Raquin,
and am going to read The Medusa Frequency by Hoban and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler as well as a bit more of Inferno and The Man Without Qualities.
Apart from that we'll see as I'm stupidly busy at the moment...

[[deleted user]]

Ben-Hur - 2nd Instalment
More of The Man Without Qualities
Richard III
The Medusa Frequency
The Big Sleep
More ofInferno
Hangsaman
Thornyhold
The Library of Unrequited Love
Ice Cold in Alex
Stone in a Landslide
Backwater - Dorothy Richardson
Next instalment of The Pickwick Papers