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[Karen]

Finished --
Cost by Roxana Robinson, Fathers and Sons and Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev, and The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen.

[Tim]

The Plague by Albert Camus - I highly recommend it.

[Karen]

Tim wrote: "The Plague by Albert Camus - I highly recommend it."

It was very good and very relevant to what we are going through.

[Gayle]

Finished The Year of the Hare. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Diane]

Finished At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill.

[Megan]

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett.

[Joy D]

Finished this classic, published in 1938;

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene - 4 stars - My Review

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Finished At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill."

I thought it overlong but agree with Nicola's description: “...grim and humourous by turns and written in a lyrical way...”.

[Mia]

I finished Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. I enjoyed it a lot. And I'm probably the only one who haven't seen any movies of Gulliver's Travels.

[Diane]

Finished The Young Man by Botho Strauß.

[Bob]

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

[Amanda]

The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence. It was definitely his weirdest novel.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Finished The Young Man by Botho Strauß."

One of the least-read/rated books on the list. Yours is just the 33rd rating!

[Vikki]

Dracula by Bram Stoker. I actually liked it much better than I thought I would.

[Diane]

George P. wrote: "Diane wrote: "Finished The Young Man by Botho Strauß."

One of the least-read/rated books on the list. Yours is just the 33rd rating!"

After reading it I understand why...

It was better than Couples, Passersby, though.

[Diane]

Finished Felicia's Journey by William Trevor.

[Angie]

Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist.
Found the idea behind this novel very interesting.

[Sean]

Finished Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally. A sad but important work.

[Diane]

Finished The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán.

[Cecilia]

Diane wrote: "Finished The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán."

How did you like that, Diane?

[Joy D]

Recently finished this classic:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - 4 stars - My Review

[Nocturnalux]

Amanda wrote: "The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence. It was definitely his weirdest novel."

Lawrence was going through a Fascist-friendly phase when he wrote it and boy does it show.

[Diane]

Cecilia wrote: "Diane wrote: "Finished The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán."

How did you like that, Diane?"

I liked it a lot. A pleasant surprise.

[Diane]

Finished The Child in Time by Ian McEwan.

[Angie]

I finished this month's group read The Last September and two other short titles: In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan (strangely compelling and rather good) and The Floating Opera by John Barth (didn't much care for it).

[Edgar]

Finished A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry in the German translation. A marvelous piece of work and a true must-read.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's been a while since I've read something I enjoyed this much

[Joy D]

I have never read anything quite like this one. Wasn't sure at first, but ended up enjoying it immensely:
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi - 4 stars - My Review

[Joy D]

Edgar wrote: "Finished A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry in the German translation. A marvelous piece of work and a true must-read."

I agree, Edgar, this one is a must-read.

[Joy D]

Bryan--Pumpkin Connoisseur wrote: "The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's been a while since I've read something I enjoyed this much"

Bryan, I read this earlier this year and it will be in my top 10 for the year.

[Diane]

Finished The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq.

[Karen]

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir. I love this book! It's long, historical, philosophical, and fascinating. The book is about a group of French intellectuals dealing with the end of the war and the Nazi occupation of Paris, the struggle to navigate the political minefields of the Left, and their own personal moralities. Beauvoir, in her autobiography, said that the book was not a roman á clef, but she does admit that the main character, Anne Dubreuilh, was modeled after her and Lewis Brogan after Nelson Algren (The Man With the Golden Arm) with whom she had a long affair. Henri Perron is considered to be Albert Camus and Robert Dubreuilh as Jean-Paul Sartre.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Karen wrote: "The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir. I love this book! It's long, historical, philosophical, and fascinating. The book is about a group of French intellectuals dealing w..."

That's interesting to know--I have this on my shelves but I kind of shied away, thinking it would be boring. You've moved it a few notches up my TBR

ETA: Upon further review, I don't know why I thought a book about a bunch of French intellectuals would be boring.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Joy D wrote: "I read this earlier this year and it will be in my top 10 for the year. ..."

Mine as well. It's gone onto my rather exclusive favorites shelf.

[Karen]

Bryan--Pumpkin Connoisseur wrote: "Karen wrote: "The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir. I love this book! It's long, historical, philosophical, and fascinating. The book is about a group of French intellect..."

LOL -- I was a little intimidated by it at first, but they were a very interesting group. Even the philosophical discussions, or arguments, were not hard to follow.

[Mia]

I finished Atonement by Ian McEwan.

[Sean]

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

One part bizarre
One part screwball
Two parts confusing
Three fun and amazingly creative writing
Two parts "I can't believe that just happened"
One part "What just happened?"
Many parts brilliant

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Sean wrote: Many parts brilliant ..."

There are some sections of IJ that I think may be the best narrative writing of its time. Unfortunately, there's a lot of other parts that I think are kind of sophomoric. But Don Gately's storyline is absolutely riveting in parts.

[Joy D]

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - 4 stars - My Review

[Joy D]

Bryan--Pumpkin Connoisseur wrote: "It's gone onto my rather exclusive favorites shelf."
I've added it to my favorites as well!

[Carol]

Surprise (for me)!
I was just leisurely browsing through "the list" today and saw that last week I finished a book that I didn't even know was ON the list! The book I just finished is The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard. It was on the 2006 original list and was removed in 2008.

[Karen]

The True History of The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

[Edgar]

Finished H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald in the German translation (H wie Habicht). A special non-fiction book. Almost poetry.

[Diane]

Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Nocturnalux]

The First Garden by Anne Hébert.

I went into this one entirely blind and ended up absolutely loving it.

[Edgar]

The Plague by Albert Camus in the German translation (Die Pest). I was missing emotions, despair and some details. In the light of mass-dying, the description was too bland.

I read afterwards the description of the plague in Bocaccio's Decamerone and Thucydides' Peleponnesian War. More impressive than Camus IMHO, both of them.

[Karen]

Finished Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet -- Autumn, Winter (on the list), Spring, and Summer. Excellent!! You must read all four, starting with Autumn, or you will miss clues to the characters histories.

[Pooja]

In honor of the coming Christmas season I just read A Christmas Carol! I enjoyed it more than other Dickens works I've read - I think because of the more informal writing.

[Liander (The Towering Pile)]

Pooja wrote: "In honor of the coming Christmas season I just read A Christmas Carol! I enjoyed it more than other Dickens works I've read - I think because of the more informal writing."

A Christmas Carol is the only Charles Dickens book I've ever read, and reading it made me wonder why he has such a reputation for wordy, difficult texts. I love A Christmas Carol and found it a very pleasant read!

[Sean]

Just finished The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. You were all correct. That was a great book that I will put toward the top of my list. Maybe not top 10... but up there somewhere.