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[Diane]

Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Quartet by Jean Rhys

[Bucket]

Spent the afternoon both entranced and reeling with Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett.

In the end, it spoke to me much more than Waiting for Godot, even though it was harder to read.

[Ian]

Just finished The Middle Parts of Fortune: Special Edition , originally released as Her Privates We, by Frederic Manning.

Right up there with very very best literature from World War One.

[Bob]

Rob Roy by Walter Scott
-- and --
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

[James]

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Sick fun.

[Sean]

Finished Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. Was not what I was expecting, but I knew very little about this book when I began it. I liked it a lot.

[Joy D]

Finished:
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro - My Review

[Sean]

I finished The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald.

Just eh

[Nocturnalux]

Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor

[Mia]

Heavy Wings by Zhang Jie.

[Diane]

Z by Vassilis Vassilikos.

[Diane]

Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe.

[Mia]

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I've liked everything I've read by him, but this felt so long.

[Sean]

I finished Forever a Stranger and Other Stories by Hella S. Haasse. Very short. And very compelling.

[Bob]

The Monastery by Walter Scott. I wish I had read this book before I read The Woman in White. There is content here that would have illuminated The Woman in White.

[Alice]

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

[Pamela]

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

[Bob]

Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess

[Liander (The Towering Pile)]

Finished King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard on the weekend. I'd say I enjoyed it overall, but it took me a while and I'm happy to be moving on.

[Peter]

Possession by A.S.Byatt
Whilst I can admire Byatt's versatility as an writer I cannot in all honesty say that I enjoyed this book but I did at least finish it.

[Nocturnalux]

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

[Diane]

H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker.

[Karen]

The Street Kids (aka The Ragazzi) by Pier Paolo Pasolini

[Carol]

Memoirs of Fanny Hill by John Cleland

[Sean]

The World According to Garp by John Irving.

Irving is one of my favorites. This being the least favorite of those I've read so far. But still good.

[Diane]

In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

[Bob]

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

[Pamela]

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Loved this one,

[Hubert]

Working through Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. Anyone else having trouble with this one?

[Hubert]

Diane wrote: "Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe."

Really enjoyed this one! I hadn't heard of it prior.

[Diane]

Finished The Recognitions by William Gaddis.

[Mia]

Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans.

[Pamela]

Anagrams by Lorrie Moore

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished my favorite book of the year so far...


The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Alice]

Embers by Sándor Márai

[George P.]

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which I liked, esp all the odd characters, but I think is overlong (4 stars). Also Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, which is creative and I semi-liked, but I just don't relate to the existentialist viewpoint apparently (3.5 stars).

[George P.]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished my favorite book of the year so far...


The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Rating: 5 stars..."

I agree with the five stars. I read it when I was decades younger and again last year.

[Karen]

The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas

[Alice]

Howards End by E.M. Forster

[Bob]

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann

[Mia]

Karen wrote: "The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas"

One of my favorites.

[Mia]

I finished Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. I didn't enjoy it as much as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

[Sean]

Embers by Sándor Márai. More on the group read thread.

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I was afraid as a Russian novel it wouldn't stand up to D & T... but to me, it did.

[Sean]

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. More pure adventure.

[Peter]

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
Some prudent editing would have made it more memorable. Good but no cigar.

[Joy D]

Loved this one:
The Master by Colm Tóibín - 5* - My Review

[Carol]

Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot

Surprisingly enjoyable!

[Sean]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. It was okay. I expected more.

[Pamela]

Love's Work by Gillian Rose. Powerful memoir.

[Bob]

Life of a Good-for-nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff. Short little romance. The author doesn't really know about dogs. In the first half of the book he mentions that a noise was heard outside in the night. He then says, "The large dog in the court-yard, roused by my shout, barked a couple times, and then all was still again." Anyone who has a dog knows it doesn't stop after two barks.