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[Karen]

Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami

[George P.]

Midaq Alley, original title: Zuqāq al-Midaqq by Naguib Mahfouz, 1947 (Egypt). It was added to the list in 2008 along with his novel Miramar (which I've just added to my to-read list since I liked this one so much), but he's best known for his "Cairo Trilogy": Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. He is still the only writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize.

[Diane]

Finished The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and If This Is a Man by Primo Levi.

[Karina]

Just finished Dead Babies by Martin Amis and I was not huge into the ending and I didn’t think it was as funny as some people said. Maybe not my kind of humor?

[Eva]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

[Sarah]

Finished Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

[Diane]

Finished The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis.

[Ellinor]

Finished The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

[Sarah]

Finished Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.

[Diane]

Finished The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I also finished Steppenwolf, which also my 200th on the combined list.

[Tyler]

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Finished 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. I thought it was fantastic, though hard to take in some places

[George P.]

Tyler wrote: "The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt"

I'm currently reading Byatt's Possession - seems a rather dense story so far. I see Children's Book essentially replaced Possession in the latest Boxall edition.

[Bob]

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

[Tim]

Dracula by Bram Stoker - really enjoyed it!

[Laura]

Tim wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker - really enjoyed it!"

This is one of my favourite books, I never tire of reading it, and that's after I had to pull it apart for a degree course!

[Laura]

George wrote: "Tyler wrote: "The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt"

I'm currently reading Byatt's Possession - seems a rather dense story so far. I see Children's Book es..."

I really struggled with Possession, but not as much as I did with The Children's Book, which is still on the shelf waiting to be finished. Can't quite muster the enthusiasm to pick it up again

[Tatiana]

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. I have re-read it 3d or 4th time. One of my favourite books.

[Mia]

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

[Mia]

And I finished The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard today too. The beginning was ok but I really loved the end. My 3rd Ballard and I'm liking him more and more (even though Crash was terrible..)

[Karen]

Bryan wrote: "Finished 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. I thought it was fantastic, though hard to take in some places"

I've got less than 100 pages to go -- and you are so right, it is fantastic! But this last section is tough.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Karen wrote: "I've got less than 100 pages to go -- and you are so right, it is fantastic! But this last section is tough..."

Congratulations--it really feels like an accomplishment to have read this. I've only had it on my bookshelves since it first came out, and only now do I get around to reading it.

[Tim]

Laura wrote: "Tim wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker - really enjoyed it!"

This is one of my favourite books, I never tire of reading it, and that's after I had to pull it apart for a degree course!"

That's interesting! What was the name of the degree course?

[Bob]

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

[Sarah]

Finished The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.

[Diane]

Finished The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

[Sarah]

Finished An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.

[Dina]

Just finished In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee

[Kirsten]

I finished Steppenwolf last night.

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Finally finished A Confederacy of Dunces

[Tim]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - really enjoyed it!

[Aileen]

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - not what I expected at all 4/5

[Mia]

I finished Swannin tie: Combray by Marcel Proust.

[Heather]

Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant

[Karen]

2666 by Roberto Bolano

Fantastic book!! Well worth the time spent to read it.

I love this quote (so pertinent to Boxall readers): "who clearly and inarguably preferred minor works to major ones. . . .What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench."

[Sarah]

Finished Coming Up for Air by George Orwell.

[Laura]

Tim wrote: "Laura wrote: "Tim wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker - really enjoyed it!"

This is one of my favourite books, I never tire of reading it, and that's after I had to pull it apart for a degree course!"
..."

Tim wrote: "Laura wrote: "Tim wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker - really enjoyed it!"

This is one of my favourite books, I never tire of reading it, and that's after I had to pull it apart for a degree course!"
..."

It was an open university course on 19th C Literature

[Laura]

I've just given up on Nights at the Circus. Managed to reach the 100 page mark, but couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters enough to read further

[George P.]

Sarah wrote: "Finished Coming Up for Air by George Orwell."

I haven't read that but liked his Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Perhaps you'll like that one more. It was kept on the list while Coming Up for Air was dropped from the later editions.

[Sarah]

George wrote: I haven't read that but liked his Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Perhaps you'll like that one more.

It moves slowly and feels a little flat in my opinion. I’d planned to read two more but shifted gears. I’ll pick him up in the fall. :-)

[Sarah]

Finished The Devil's Pool by George Sand.

[Karen]

On Love by Alain de Botton

[Tim]

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

[Diane]

Finished The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago and Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud.

[Karen]

So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba.

[Birthe]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf ☆☆☆☆☆

[Karen]

Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
Originally published in Italian as Sostiene Pereira and also known as Pereira Declares: A Testimony

An enthralling book about the problems facing a journalist (Pereira) in Portugal before World War II during Portugal's fascist dictatorship.

[Alison]

I FINALLY just finished War and Peace! It took over 2 years to read. It was good, but I'm so glad it's done!

[Diane]

Finished The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz.