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[Tyler]

I finished listening to Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. A very entertaining listen from Blackstone Audio.

[Karen]

The Iron Heel by Jack London
Quite good! Written in 1908, future history/dystopian novel of the rise of the corporate oligarchy in America and the Socialist resistance.

[James]

The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience
Methinks that as Angie noted about Thomas of Reading "this book needeth not be read before one dies (quoth she). Prithee goodman Boxall, why didst thou put it on the list? Fie!" While the language is not quite that bad it was written in the 19th century so shouldn't have been written this way at all. I assume Boxall put it on the list as it was the first written in Flemish but please....

[Diane]

Finished Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Wow. I am in a bit of a book coma.

[Alice]

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

[Diane]

Une vie by Guy de Maupassant

[Angie]

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I didn't realize Walden was on the list--just finished that last night

[Jennifer W]

It took a full 6 months (not entirely due to the book), but I finally finished The Magic Mountain. I am aggravated by Mann. There are some truly enjoyable sections of this book. There are some sublimely written passages. And then there's page after page of blah blah blah philosophizing that I would need a college course to decipher.

I can't recommend this one, and I can't say I'm glad I read it.

[Diane]

Fantômas by Marcel Allain.

[Dr. Sabrina Molden]

I just finished “Absalom Absalom”, my first Faulkner, and I loved it. I then read “As I Lay Dying “ which I hated as much as I loved Absalom. I loved all the different issues and characters’ different perspectives. Whereas, in “...Dying”, it was TOO dark and I did not like the people.

[Dr. Sabrina Molden]

Alice:
Which of the new additions to list did you like?

[Nocturnalux]

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion.

[Mia]

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

[JenniferAustin]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion."

I loved this book! I hope you enjoyed it, too, Nocturnalux!

[JenniferAustin]

I have finished a couple this week:

Solaris by Stanisław Lem. This one was a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me. I certainly kept track and wanted to know how it would end. However, I found aspects of both the science and the characters wanting, and those are the two main aspects of the book. It was a very ambitious book, and I can see some people loving it more than I did!

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. I treated myself to an audiobook version read by Elliot Gould. Gould did a fantastic job reading the book, and has a perfect voice for the part. He played the character in a 1973 film of The Long Goodbye. The character is very much a man of his time and place, and there are a number of casually sexist, racist and homophobic statements. That said, the writing is amazing, and we can thank this book for having novelist Walter Mosley decide to become a writer. See The Two Raymond Chandler Sentences That Changed Walter Mosley's Life.

[Freidia]

I finished Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich just now.

[Karen]

Freidia wrote: "I finished Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich just now."

This is not a Boxall List book.

[Diane]

Finished Vanishing Point by David Markson and Dead Air by Iain Banks.

[Alice]

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

I have a book that includes Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs and Miramar, all by Mahfouz. The middle one is not a list book, but I'm going to read it next, and the Miramar.

[Karen]

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (on the list as just Shikasta) by Doris Lessing

[Diane]

Pamela by Samuel Richardson.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started and finished Sula by Toni Morrison

[Nocturnalux]

JenniferAustin wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion."

I loved this book! I hope you enjoyed it, too, Nocturnalux!"

I enjoyed it greatly, it was like a punch to the gut.

[Diane]

The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr.

[Diane]

Finished Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos.

[Liander (The Towering Pile)]

Finished The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe. It's the third and final C. Auguste Dupin story, and I think my favourite of the three.

But I do feel that Arthur Conan Doyle took things up a notch with Sherlock Holmes. It's really neat to read these Dupin stories and see how much they influenced Sherlock Holmes. But I definitely prefer Sherlock.

[Mia]

Homo Faber by Max Frisch and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

[Diane]

Finished Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou.

[George P.]

Finished Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset of Norway. This is a trilogy composed of The Wreath (aka The Mistress of Husaby), The Wife and The Cross. About 1100 pages total but a worthy endeavor to read this early Nobel laureate.

[Bob]

Emile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

[Diane]

Finished Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll.

[Bob]

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Diane]

Finished The Real Charlotte by Edith Œnone Somerville.

[JenniferAustin]

I just finished Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley. I am not awfully good at reading funny books, but this one has won me over. It is a ridiculous confection of a book. I love it.

A quotation from F. Scott Fitzgerald, posted in Wikipedia, convinced me I had to read this book. Fitzgerald is said to have " observed how within the novel's ambiguous form Huxley created structures and then demolished them 'with something too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony.'"

my review

[EJ]

A Christmas Carole, by dickens

[Diane]

Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter.

[Liander (The Towering Pile)]

EJ wrote: "A Christmas Carole, by dickens"
Interesting time of year for that one! :D It's one of my favourites of all the list books I've read.

[Alice]

Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz and The Trial by Franz Kafka

[Tim]

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

[Hubert]

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. Brilliant!

[Angie]

Finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? today.
Not my usual genre but interesting nonetheless.

[George P.]

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky of France (but born in Ukraine). It was written in 1941 but not discovered and published until 2004.

[George P.]

Hubert wrote: "Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. Brilliant!"

Yes it is. I'm fortunate to have an autographed copy.

[Peter]

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The story features some very complex issues and whilst it is undoubtedly well written it failed to really grab me somehow meaning that I found it an OK read rather than a good one.

[Diane]

The Once and Future King by T.H. White. My copy consisted of 5 books, although the most common edition only has 4. I went ahead and read the 5th book since I wasn't clear which edition was the list edition.

[George P.]

After going almost 3 weeks between finishing List books, I finished two on consecutive days, the 2nd being Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Very good (and short).

[Bob]

Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell

[Bob]

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson. I had a very hard time with this book. The man was such a womanizing, gaslighting jerk in the first half of the book that no amount of renewal could redeem him. Especially with how mysogynistic and classist his sister was in the latter parts of the story. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

[Mia]

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.