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[Ellinor]

Diane wrote: "Finished
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster"

You had a busy weekend, completing 6 books!

[Ellinor]

Finally finished Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans. I found it quite tedious and boring.

[Amanda]

Diane wrote: "Finished Complicity by Iain Banks."

I am still working on getting some of those images out of my head. What did you think?

[Diane]

Ellinor wrote: "Diane wrote: "Finished
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster"

You had a busy weekend, completing 6 books!"

That was for the whole week. I wish I read that many over the weekend!

[Diane]

Amanda wrote: "Diane wrote: "Finished Complicity by Iain Banks."

I am still working on getting some of those images out of my head. What did you think?"

I totally agree.

[Diane]

Finished Saturday by Ian McEwan.

[Karen]

Remembrance of Things Past (or In Search of Lost Time): Volume 4, Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Three volumes to go!!

[Nocturnalux]

De amor y de sombra by Isabel Allende.

It's the first time I ever read a book in Spanish.

[Ellinor]

Finished Ignorance by Milan Kundera

[George P.]

Nocturnalux wrote: "De amor y de sombra by Isabel Allende.
It's the first time I ever read a book in Spanish."

Congratulations! Maybe you should try reading one a year in Spanish (at least).

[Karina]

Just finished The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. How her books aren’t required reading (I never had to read her in high school) but we have to read Steinbeck, Hemingway, Irving and other male writers, is truly beyond me. This book was so heartbreaking but the writing and the subject matter was so intense and poetic.

[Mia]

The Ambassadors by Henry James.

[Joy D]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - 4 stars - My Review

[Diane]

Finished The Return of the Native and Billy Bathgate.

[Peter]

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.

To me it read something akin to a soap opera and as such something to be endured rather than enjoyed. But liker soap operas I can see why some people might enjoy it and why it is on the 1001 list but unfortunately it wasn't really for me and as such would struggle to recommend it to any other reader.

[George P.]

Solaris by Stanisław Lem, a highbrow scifi classic. The long passages of technical info were sometimes tedious, but gave it verisimilitude. I might read another of Lem's books some day.
Three weeks since my last Boxall list book, but I finished three non-list books in the interim.

[Sean]

Diane wrote: "Finished The Return of the Native and Billy Bathgate."

I read this three times as, "Finished The Return of the Native by Billy Bathgate." Just couldn't not see it that way...

[Sean]

Finished The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes. Posting on the group read thread next.

[George P.]

Sean wrote: "Finished The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes. Posting on the group read thread next."

I liked it, and also liked Fuentes' The Old Gringo (El Gringo Viego), which isn't a list book. They both have great dramatic mood.

[Maggie]

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I could not have chosen two more different books to read back-to-back!

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Maybe Blood Meridian and The Cat and the Hat?

JK.

Which one did you like better? Blood Meridian is awfully harsh, but I think it's a great book. Northanger Abbey is a lot easier to digest though.

[Maggie]

Bryan "They call me the Doge" wrote: "Maybe Blood Meridian and The Cat and the Hat?

JK.

Which one did you like better? Blood Meridian is awfully harsh, but I think it's a great book. Northanger Abbey is a lot easier to digest though."

Haha, that's true.

Blood Meridian had better writing, but Northanger Abbey was more enjoyable. I liked Northanger Abbey. It was hilarious, particularly the chapters that parodied gothic novels, and I felt it was more original than several other Jane Austen novels.

My feelings on reading Blood Meridian were complex. The writing was engaging and while I was reading it, I'd find it difficult to put down. But the depravity in it was so horrible, so that once I did put it down, I'd find it really difficult to pick it back up again. This was my first time reading Cormac McCarthy. First time reading a Western, in fact. Are McCarthy's / other Western books usually this violent?

[Vikki]

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers. That brings me up to 101 books. I am 66, do you think I can read the rest before I die?? :-)

[Bob]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Carol]

finished 10:04 by Ben Lerner

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

McCarthy’s books all certainly have a violent element to them. You might try All The Pretty Horses, though that has some strong stuff in it too. It’s just not as unrelenting as Blood Meridian.

[Sean]

Vikki wrote: "The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers. That brings me up to 101 books. I am 66, do you think I can read the rest before I die?? :-)"

you MUST! The list says so... Here's to long life and happy reading.

[James]

Personally I read them slowly, only a half dozen a year or so. That way I figure I’ll live to be 200! (I’m 67 now)

[Leona]

James wrote: "Personally I read them slowly, only a half dozen a year or so. That way I figure I’ll live to be 200! (I’m 67 now)"

Good idea.

[Joy D]

Just finished:

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - 4 stars - My Review

[Nocturnalux]

Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

[Tim]

What Maisie Knew by Henry James

[Sean]

I finished The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante along with its series. I have to say I liked the second book the best. Followed by this one. Such a sweeping story that lasts decades, I really felt I got to know the characters.

[Vikki]

A Room With a View by E. M. Forster.

[Vikki]

James wrote: "Personally I read them slowly, only a half dozen a year or so. That way I figure I’ll live to be 200! (I’m 67 now)"

I guess I will try that. Here’s to living to 200!

[Bob]

Native Son by Richard Wright
The beginning was interesting enough, but the ending was great. The two attorneys' speeches were so relevant. I especially liked the closing by Bigger Thomas's attorney.

[Karen]

Finished the 3 by Kingsley Amis on the list -- Lucky Jim. The Green Man, and The Old Devils.

[Mia]

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

[Carol]

I just finished the 3 volume set of A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin Cao.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Carol wrote: "I just finished the 3 volume set of A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin Cao."

I just bought that not too long ago--what did you think?

[Diane]

Finished:
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

[James]

The Nose by Gogol. Short and extremely funny. I got briefly sidetracked while reading his Dead Souls.

[Kirsten]

I've always wanted to read that, the opera is very strange.

[George P.]

The Summer Book by Ms. Tove Jansson of Finland. It's clever and moving without being overly sentimental. And this is a great time to read it.

[George P.]

Sean wrote: "I finished The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante along with its series. I have to say I liked the second book the best. Followed by this one...."

I just finished the second book- so it's downhill now, huh ;)

[Tyler]

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

[Amanda]

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. I kept waiting for something to happen other than Stein name dropping...it never did.

[James]

Kirsten wrote: "I've always wanted to read that, the opera is very strange."

I actually read The Nose because of the opera. I watched the Met's recent production and was befuddled which led me to read the story for some clarity which worked!