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Which LIST book did you just finish?
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Feb 14, 2023 01:57PM
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
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I finished the short story collection
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Capping off a relaxing weekend, I finished
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
In Chancery (Book 2 of The Forsyte Saga) and Awakening (Book 2.5 of The Forsyte Saga) by John Galsworthy
Foam of the Daze: L'Ecume Des Jours by Boris Vian (also known as Froth on the Daydream)
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Foam of the Daze: L'Ecume Des Jours by Boris Vian (also known as Froth on the Daydream)
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
The People of Hemso by August Strindberg-and-
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. I enjoyed both Deronda and Silas Marner better than Middlemarch. This may not be a popular opinion, but there it is.
In February: The 39 Steps by John Buchan, Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov & Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht. Threepenny Novel is set in London though Brecht is German and wrote it in that language while he was in Denmark I think, avoiding the Nazi government during World War 2 due to his socialist sympathies.
I finished
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I’m trying to get back into the list. I just finished Thérèse Raquin. It was interesting, not what I expected though.
Alice wrote: "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera"I have this on my kindle, how was it?
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann. Excellent. It blows me away that he published this at age 26- clearly a literary genius.
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