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[AngieA]

I'm reading The Woman in White and finding it intriguing and enjoyable, if a little on the long side.

[Dini, the master of meaning]

I just bought The Woman in White for 50% off at a book fair over the weekend :D Don't know when I'm gonna read it, but I'm glad I decided to get it.

[AngieA]

Meghan wrote: "angie, i love wilkie collins! i agree with it being a bit long, but i found the structure of the novel fascinating. The Moonstone is shorter, and just as intriguing.

i'm not reading an..."

Meghan, I agree that the concept of using multiple first person narrators was pretty creative. I am getting pretty excited to know what's going to happen next and what the big Secret is! I'll add The Moonstone to my tbr list, thanks for the recommendation!

[Lori]

I finished Alice in Wonderland last night. I believe I'll read Swann's Way for a while. It might be interrupted by a quick reading of Gone With the Wind, which I promised I'd read with a friend.

[Anna]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon

[DJ]

Dini,
I think you will love THE WOMAN IN WHITE.It is one of my absolute favorites and I just finished rereading it a couple of weeks ago and what I have found is that at each age I read it I take something else out of it as mu own life experience changes.
I wish you the joy of it!

[Dini, the master of meaning]

Thanks, DJ. I'll find the right mood to read it so I can enjoy the book properly :)

[DJ]

Please let me know what you think once you have read it...

[Anna]

Rzecz o zabłąkanej duszy | Sergey Sadov

[Misty]

Reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which I like so far.

[Anna]

Der Vulkan | Klaus Mann

[DJ]

Brideshead Revisited

[Lori]

DJ, let me know how that one is. I've been wanting to read it for a while.

[Dini, the master of meaning]

DJ, I love the language in Brideshead Revisited, it's just so beautiful and poetic. The story and characters can also be great fodder for discussion, I think.

After you've read it you can also check out the movie.

[DJ]

Dini wrote: "DJ, I love the language in Brideshead Revisited, it's just so beautiful and poetic. The story and characters can also be great fodder for discussion, I think.

After you've read it you can also che..."

Don`t worry Dini,I was at the Scottish Premiere..it was good but you got more of it with the BBC Series...
I appreciate you saying...

[Kristel]

I have read Brideshead this summer (short review is somewhere in this thread). I just loved the imagery and the language.

[Ann]

I recently finished Her Royal Spyness and am now starting:
The Titan's Curse
and
Which Witch?
so far I'm enjoying both:)

[El]

Currently reading Janet Frame's Scented Gardens for the Blind and just started Stephen King's Under the Dome A Novel because... well, like the rest of the world if he keeps pooping them out, I'll keep reading them. Sigh.

[Anna]

Austerlitz | W.G. Sebald

[Lori]

I'm reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Both are really good. The Electric Kool-Aid is supposed to balance the melancholy of Sylvia.

[Deborah]

I'm just finishing Painted Shadow The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot. And El, I have Under the Dome A Novel on hold at the library. I actually think that King will get a better shake from literary history than he currently enjoys from critics. There's something almost Dickensian about his best stuff, like The Stand.

[[deleted user]]

I'm currently reading Toward a New Cold War Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There by Noam Chomsky because I am now allowed to read at work. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to get any reading done at all :( I'm looking forward to next semester a lot, where my classes will hopefully be more balanced.

[Jenny]

Misty wrote: "Reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which I like so far."

An excellent choice!

[DJ]

THE QUEEN AND I by Sue Townsend.

[Emma]

The Seance by John Harwood was recommended to me by an avid supernatural reader I met while working at the library, and I absolutely love it! It is dark and elemental with amazing setting description. I can't wait to read the Ghost Writer, also by John Harwood next!

[Anna]

The Death of Achilles | Boris Akunin

[DJ]

Now on THE BIRTHING HOUSE by Christopher Ransom.
THE QUEEN AND I was hyseterically funny.....

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

Well I was just catching up, and some of you made me jealous with all your classics I've been dying to read. At the end of August, and even without reading a single book in April, I'd read over 60 books. But then... I dunno... I just haven't read much. Love to, want to... but don't much. Part of it is recovering from ankle surgery... doesn't seem to be conducive to reading. HOWEVER -

I am reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and LOVING IT. Absolutely one of the funniest things I've read! It's horrid in public with those sudden bursts of gripping laughter, but I laugh so hard that instead of people thinking I'm nuts (which is what usually happens in those circumstances), they all want to know the book so they can go out and get it!

[Lori]

Michelle, I've had the same thing happen while reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

[Kristi]

I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land for my work book club. It's OK, but I guess I am not that into science fiction, which I find weird because I am a scientist. I'm also reading Brooklyn A Novel, which I am loving. I have put The Poisonwood Bible aside for a couple days...

[Jasmine]

I'm reading the beginning of a trilogy Jan Kjaerstad called the seducer because my friend told me to read all three in a row so I told him I'd read it over christmas break.

It is good, but I'm not sure that it is for everyone. It lacks a driving force, which is something that I love in books. Also as a warning to any prospective readers it is completely unorganized I know that bugs some people. It does have a couple of extremely strange sex scenes.

[Kristel]

I'm reading The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

Silly me didn't realize that Philippa Gregory did an entire series on the unfortunate Boleyn-family and that she was the author of the other Boleyn girl (loved the movie by the way, Eric Bana made a very sexy Henry VIII). I'm not that far in the book, but I must say, I kind of like the way she portraits her characters.

[[deleted user]]

I'm currently reading a non-fiction book about the history of the datshas in Russia :) It's a really interesting and fascinating read (if you're as much into Russia as I am, tat is) and my mom got it for me for Christmas :)

[Katri]

I'm currently rereading The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb. I only read it last May/June, but now I couldn't resist longer for a reread.

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

I'm excited for the new year. I'm determined not to care about how many I've read/am reading or what list the books are on, but to just go back to reading for pleasure as I feel like it. Mostly this will include classics I've been pining for, but are so lengthy they get passed over come selection time.

Just now I'm reading the last few pages of a new favorite, Good Omens. Then... then we'll see how I feel! But I'm thinking I might actually get to that excessively overdue library book (Swallows and Amazons)... or our group read. Or one of a half dozen others... LOL

[Kristi]

I'm reading July's People for the 1001 book group. It's only OK so far. I finished Washington Square yesterday, I loved it.

[Ann]

Recently started:

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (this SO reminds me of Pride and Prejudice!! Not so much in the characters themselves, but their situations and interactions)
and
Star Trek: Troublesome Minds by Dave Galanter. I must say, I can totally picture the crew of the Enterprise as I'm reading this!

[Rebecca, the princess of prose]

I love I actually like her so much more then Jane Austen....Try Ruthor Cranford!

[Kathy]

Am reading Dear John by Nicholas Sparks because I am a glutton for punishment. And just started Twilight. Not impressed so far.

[Dhvani]

i am rereading little women. such a lovely book that you have to go and read it over and over agin sometimes. also, i am reading the first of the hercule poirot series by agatha christie. i have read a few other hercule poirot books, but never actually read the first one, which i am doing so now.

[El]

Reading Sarah Waters' Affinity and Anne Rivers Siddon's The House Next Door. It's actually a coincidence they're both ghost stories.

[Anna]

O człowieku. Wybór pism filozoficznych by Józef Tischner and I finished Ostatni mazur. Opowieść o wojnie, namiętności i stracie by Andrew Tarnowski

[Dini, the master of meaning]

Dhvani, this group has read Little Women so if you want to join in the discussion you can always find the thread at the Rory book discussions folder.

And I love Hercule Poirot. And his companion Arthur Hastings who he always teases, haha.

[Ashley]

Currently reading Middlesex, The Book Thief, and trying to slug through The Sun Also Rises. First post btw! Haha okay bye.

[B]

I'm crusing through "The Unbearable Lightness of Scones" by Alexander McCall Smith...I love AMS! So much thoughtfulness, character and humor of living. (Part of me hopes for a truly great Scottish scone recipe based on the title but pretty sure it's not gonna happen.)

[El]

Just started reading Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor last night and so far I'm enjoying it. Still also finishing up The House Next Door as well, though for whatever reason it's taking me longer to read it than I expected.

[Rebecca, the princess of prose]

I just started The White Queen and I am loving it so far! I just finished Catching Fire!

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

Ann, I LOVE your combination of books! Completely eclectic and somehow brainy and cool all at once. I have eccesively similar tastes... I even have North and South as one of the books I DEFINITELY want to read this year. Actually, you make me want to pick it up now - but must resist, finish one of the two books I'm reading (Swallows & Amazons), and then get to this month's selection for our group (The Name of the Rose) as it happens to be the only one for which I actually voted! But I AM looking forward to North & South!

Ashley - YEA! So glad you posted! Let me know what you think of The Book Thief - I've been tempted... and if you want to comment on our group discussions of Middlesex, please do! We love that, and I'm sure more discussion will arise.

[Nicki]

Since May (I graduated from college and now have time to read whatever I want to read) I have been working on a system where I read one modern fiction book, and then one classic. I've been trying to motivate myself to read more classics, and this has been working so far. I simply take turns between modern books and classic ones.

Also, I am a substitute teacher and it is kind of hard to engulf myself in a fictional book while trying to watch over classes at the same time. --There are times when the students are simply reading and do not need me to be "teaching" them.-- So, I always have a nonfiction book going at the same time now for while I'm at work.

Right now I'm reading The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights for a classic while keeping Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox as my nonfiction. "Arabian Nights" is a little ... let's just say the original authors really tried to keep the stories interesting. There is so much happening all of the time.

"Always Looking Up" is great. I can hear Michael J. Fox's voice through his words. He's an interesting writer. I'm really enjoying it! :)

If you have any suggestions for the classic or nonfiction list (my modern fiction list is always HUGE), let me know. I always love imput.

[Nicki]

Dhvani wrote: "i am rereading little women. such a lovely book that you have to go and read it over and over agin sometimes. also, i am reading the first of the hercule poirot series by agatha christie. i have r..."

I agree about "Little Women" because I've read it at least three times so far. It's a very nice book.