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[Bob]

Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang

[Peter]

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Whilst undoubtedly a powerful piece of writing that started really well in the end I simply got fed up with all the gore and sleaze, whilst the final chapters was a rather bizarre kitsch noir.

[Bob]

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

[Ozma]

Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

#123 - (forgot to post this one a few months ago)


The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Bob]

Quartet by Jean Rhys

[Mia]

Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll.

[Aileen]

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
4/5*
Found it a slow read but really liked it.

[Ian]

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna
Superb.

[Mia]

Living and the Dead by Patrick White.

[Peter]

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark'
A deeply disturbing and thankfully short read. Not a bad read but definitely not a classic.

[Pamela]

All Souls by Javier Marías

[Joy D]

Recently finished these two:

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - 4* - My Review

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov - 4* - My Review

[Alice]

Jahrestage by Uwe Johnson

I started this book January 1, 2024 and finished last week. It's written in diary form and I only read 10 pages a day, keeping with that theme.

[Kathleen]

Two more:
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
I think I'm a Hardy fan.

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Not totally sure yet, but don't think I'm a Spark fan.

[Pamela]

The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi

[Cphe]

The Inheritance of Loss

[Marti]

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

[Bob]

Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari

[Mia]

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell. 5th book in A Dance to the Music of Time series. The best one so far.

[Bob]

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

[Nocturnalux]

Como se eu não existisse by Slavenka Drakulić

[Marti]

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet

[Ozma]

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins.

[Mia]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

[Marti]

Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

[Joy D]

Finished:
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin -3* - My Review

[Pamela]

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

[Bob]

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. There were some phenomenal insights about social mores and relationships for a novel of the early 1900s.

[George P.]

Bob wrote: "Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. There were some phenomenal insights about social mores and relationships for a novel of the early 1900s."

I happen to have started Growth of the Soil a few days ago. It begins in a journalistic style but has become much more interesting about 15% in.

[George P.]

So far this month I've finished Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Diary of a Good Neighbor by Doris Lessing (the first half of the Diaries of Jane Somers dyad). I really liked Cancer Ward.

[Nocturnalux]

George P. wrote: "Bob wrote: "Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. There were some phenomenal insights about social mores and relationships for a novel of the early 1900s."

I happen to ha..."

If you're curious about how a lot of young people- and even plenty of older ones- in Norway view Hamsun these days and his role as a mandatory author to read in school, I recommend Girls Against God.

While he's viewed as just a canonical author, for the most part, abroad...in Norway, Hamsun is something of an embarrassment to many.

[Marti]

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

[Pamela]

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

[Bob]

The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings

[Bob]

Mother by Maxim Gorky

[Joy D]

Finished:

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan - 4* - My Review

[Bob]

Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann

[Bob]

None but the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler

[Bob]

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

[Mia]

Cain by José Saramago.

[Bob]

The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

[Peter]

Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
Fans of Dickens shouldn't miss Bleak House, but it also shouldn’t be your first try at his writings.

[Mia]

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

[Joy D]

This was a re-read for me:

Persuasion by Jane Austen - 4* - My Review

[Mia]

The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell. 6th book in A Dance to the Music of Time series.

[Bob]

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

[Bob]

The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

[Kathleen]

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Jane only improves with re-reads, and this one was so much better than I remembered.

[Joy D]

I have no idea what this book is doing on the list. There is no point as far as I can tell:
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - 1* - My Review