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[Aileen]

Karina wrote: "2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Not really a fan of this one I will say."

I found it overlong and the third part repetitive but glad I could tick it off the list!

[Bob]

Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev

[Carol]

Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

[Diane]

The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus.

[Nocturnalux]

Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami

[Scott]

I just finished Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. I'm trying to read at least one book from each European country, and Bartol is Slovenian. But I see it is also on the 1001 books list (No. 614 on the 2008 list)

[Diane]

After 11 months, I finally finished The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.

[Karen]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Light, easy read and quite humorous!

[Angie]

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
A classic nordic noir crime novel. I liked it, but I don't think it belongs on the list.

[George P.]

Call of the Wild, a novella by Jack London. It's his most-popular but I've read 2 of his others before it (Martin Eden and White Fang). They're all good.

[Bob]

The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert

[Yrinsyde]

Whew! I finished reading Camilla by Fanny Burney yesterday. It only took me 5 months. We don't realise the importance of having our own bank accounts and access to ready money. Women were denied this privilege for hundreds of years.

[Jess]

I just finished The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and it was very thrilling:

my review here

[George P.]

The Story of Gosta Berling by Swedish author and Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlof. Very good, though the storyline is pretty loose.

[Joy D]

Just finished:
Deadline in Athens: An Inspector Costas Haritos Mystery by Petros Markaris - 4 stars - My Review

It was initially called The Late-Night News.

[Nocturnalux]

The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo

[Karen]

Finished Loving by Henry Green and Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

[Pamela]

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

[Joy D]

Finished:
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth - 4 stars - My Review

[Karen]

Finished a reread of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous, Yasunari Kawabata, Donald Keene (Translator), and Masayuki Miyata (Illustrator).

I read a different version of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in 2016. Since I needed a book to complete the Scavenger Hunt and I had read all the other books that did fit the task, I went with a version of the book recommended in the Boxall 2012 edition -- "Masayuki Miyata's illustrations of the Kawabata version are wonderful and almost warrant a reading of the book alone." They are beautiful!

[Sean]

Over the long weekend, I finished quite a few books.

The Idiot was a great book. Probably my favorite Fyodor Dostoevsky so far.

Pippi Longstocking was nice and short. A little silly too.

The Feast of the Goat was great read about a time in history I knew nothing about.

[Nocturnalux]

Karen wrote: "Finished a reread of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous, Yasunari Kawabata, Donald Keene (Translator), and Masayuki Miyata (Illustrator).

I read a different version of The Ta..."

I highly recommend Ghibli's take on this traditional story, Princess Kaguya.

This is one of the few truly Japanese folktales, it was not imported from China.

[Karen]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Karen wrote: "Finished a reread of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous, Yasunari Kawabata, Donald Keene (Translator), and Masayuki Miyata (Illustrator).

I read a different ver..."

Is this the movies by Studio Ghibli?

Knowing you read Japanese, the Kawabata version above also contains the complete Japanese version.

[Carol]

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I had to really, really work hard to force my way through this one. Based on GR reviews, it looks like most people love it and I'm in the minority. That's OK with me. All that pre-pubescent fart, crap, and sex humor just bored me to tears! Not to mention the endless lists of synonyms that were like reading Rogets Thesaurus!

[Bob]

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

[Sean]

Persuasion by Jane Austen. It was good. Just good. If you needed to drop an Austen off the list I wouldn't be mad at it.

[Dina]

Just finished Dead Babies by Martin Amis. I don't like it.

[Nocturnalux]

Karen wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "Karen wrote: "Finished a reread of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous, Yasunari Kawabata, Donald Keene (Translator), and Masayuki Miyata (Illustrator).

I ..."

Yes, the movie. There is a virtually endless amount of versions of this story in Japanese culture, this without including those that are just inspired by it.

This movie follows the folktale closely enough, the animation combining modern techniques with the look of more traditional art. So it feels a bit like watching a scroll come to life.

I didn't know this was a bilingual edition, I will see if I can get my hands on it! Thanks for letting me know.

[Angie]

The Manila Rope by Veijo Meri

[Karen]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Karen wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "Karen wrote: "Finished a reread of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous, Yasunari Kawabata, Donald Keene (Translator), and Masayuki Miyata (Ill..."

The movie looks interesting -- I'm going to have to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Joy D]

Loved this one:
Unless by Carol Shields - 5 stars - My Review

[Diane]

Finished Shirley by Charlotte Brontë.

[Alice]

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham and The Sea by John Banville

[Bucket]

The Professor's House by Willa Cather

I liked her Great Plains Trilogy books better, but I can see why this is a worthy classic too.

[Bob]

The Romance of Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. China's earliest novel and one of the four Chinese classics. I liked this one but I liked Monkey better.

[Karen]

Back by Henry Green

[Diane]

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos.

[Diane]

Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid by Malcolm Lowry.

[Karen]

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

[Diane]

Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdós.

[Bob]

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Somerville and Ross

[Angie]

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

[Ellinor]

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

[Diane]

The Child Of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio.

[Diane]

Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

[Ellinor]

The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis

[Joy D]

Just finished and very much enjoyed:
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - 4 stars - My Review

[Peter]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
It thoughtfully captures a pretty traumatic time in Spain's relatively recent history but could also just as easily be set in any other country that has endured civil war during the last century or so, as such it's worth the effort.

[Bob]

Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz

[Diane]

Finished The Years by Virginia Woolf.