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[Bob]

Ormond by Maria Edgeworth

[Joy D]

It has not aged well - I am surprised it is still on the list:
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis - 1* - My Review

[Casey]

I finally finished Metamorphoses by Ovid.
My attention wavered the whole time but it was definitely interesting

[Bob]

Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans

[Liander (The Towering Pile)]

Just finished 1984 by George Orwell. A reread, but last time I read it was in high school so I didn't remember much. Good but oof, depressing.

[Sean]

Finished The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Reportedly he claims it's his favorite book. I'd have to say it was my least favorite of the three on the LIST. But still good.

[Mia]

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Carol]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

[Joy D]

Finished:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - 4* - My Review

[Pamela]

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

[Alice]

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes and The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

[Jamie]

The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt

[Andrew]

The Secret History by Donna Tart. Christ, I'm slightly overwhelmed. I don't know what I feel right now, mixture of sadness, awe, faint dissapointment. What a bloody book, its quite an achievement.

[Sean]

I finished Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. I liked it much more than I thought I would. I think I could relate to JIm.

[Bob]

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

[Bob]

Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans

[Mia]

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson. And I re-read The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. It reminded me that I need to read more of his short stories.

[George P.]

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante. I did read the first three books in the series before this, which is pretty necessary.

[Sean]

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. A bizarre but interesting short book.

[Joy D]

Finished:
Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz - 4* - My Review

[Scott]

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Sean]

The Death of Ivan Ilych. Another short one. And fairly straight forward and easy to read.

[Pamela]

The Lusiads by Luís de Camões

[Bob]

The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience. A good piece of historical fiction.

[Sean]

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor. I loved the organization of this book. I just love the writing here.

[Bob]

Sean wrote: "The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor. I loved the organization of this book. I just love the writing here."

I have enjoyed everything by her that I have read, including this.

[Pamela]

The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago.

[Sean]

Bob wrote: "Sean wrote: "The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor. I loved the organization of this book. I just love the writing here."

I have enjoyed everything by her that ..."


Same! Her writing is amazing.

[Sean]

Finished King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. More in the group read thread.

[George P.]

The novella Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist of Germany. Even giving it some allowance for having been written 200 years ago, I didn't think it was very good (two stars). At least it's short.
I also read Kafka's short A Hunger Artist (not on Boxall list) which was in the same volume and was good, so getting the book from the library wasn't a total loss. One can stream the audio of this one from Librivox I see.

[Bob]

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

[Ben]

Sean wrote: "Bob wrote: "Sean wrote: "The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor. I loved the organization of this book. I just love the writing here."

I have enjoyed everything ..."

Likewise - I read Wise Blood last year and thought it was wonderful. What a writer.

[Kathleen]

I'm also a Flannery O'Connor fan!

I recently finished The Razor's Edge by another author I'm a fan of, W. Somerset Maugham. Loved it. Entertaining and thought-provoking.

[Karen]

Finished The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese and By the Open Sea by August Strindberg.

[Ellinor]

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

[Sean]

So is the book better than the movie?

In the case of Contact... Definitely!

[Karina]

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Excellent book!

[Dina]

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

[Diane]

Emile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

[Bob]

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis.

[Diane]

Love's Work by Gillian Rose.

[Alice]

The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd

[Alice]

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

[Diane]

The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon
The People of Hemso by August Strindberg
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel

[Karen]

The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy.

[Nocturnalux]

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

[George P.]

Embers by Sándor Márai of Hungary. My second Hungarian after Kertesz' Fatelessness read two years ago.

[Joy D]

Just finished and very much enjoyed:
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - 4* - My Review

[Emma]

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. Amazing.

[Pamela]

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist