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[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

Finished Fatelessness by Imre Kertész. Very impressive & highly recommended!

[Peter]

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. Overall this disappointed me.

[Karen]

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Delightful!

[Karen]

Evelina by Fanny Burney

[Tim]

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

[George P.]

Tim wrote: "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo"

Nice. I want to read that soon, probably next year.

[George P.]

Karen wrote: "George wrote: "Finished A Town Like Alice, and enjoyed it."

A Town Like Alice is one of my favorite books. There was an excellent miniseries done in 1981 with Helen Morse and Bryan Brown...."

There was also a film 25 years earlier with Peter Finch as Joe and Virgina McKenna as Jean. Netflix has it (disc by-mail) and many libraries. I haven't seen either but would like to.

[Diane]

Mercedes wrote: "Diane was right. I should have read Obabakoak when I purchased it, 26 years ago. I'd be speaking Basque now. Very enjoyable for readers who like putting together puzzles. The autobio..."

Its a great book. I'm glad you liked it.

[Diane]

Finished The Green Hat by Michael Arlen.

[Peter]

A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. Loved is a book that truly deserves to be on the list.

[Tim]

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

[Diane]

Finished Forest Of The Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu.

[Mia]

I finished Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau.

[Tatiana]

Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus

[Diane]

Finished In the Heart of the Seas by S.Y. Agnon and Embers by Sándor Márai.

[Karina]

I finally finished Middlemarch by George Eliot. Really enjoyed it but I was reading so many books in between.

[Peter]

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster. I really enjoyed it.

[Bob]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. Poignant and not for the squeamish.

[Bob]

Mercedes wrote: "Ragtime
Good historical novel."

I really liked that book.

[Mia]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. My first Atwood and I can't wait to read more.

[Mia]

I also finished What Maisie Knew by Henry James.

[Tim]

Just finished The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

[Benjamin]

Read Nadja by André Breton today. Generic story, but told in an interesting way with lively characters and lyrically written prose.

[Diane]

Finished Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy.

[Karen]

The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil

[Tatiana]

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

[George P.]

The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Short but powerful. A month since finishing my last list book- will have another soon though.

[Aileen]

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Not as good as Ethan Frome imo.

[Mia]

The Wars by Timothy Findley.

[Karen]

Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
Beautifully written.

[George P.]

The Once and Future King by T.H. White (1938-1940). This is actually a 4-book set (tetrology) about the legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. I read the 1st book, The Sword in the Stone, a couple years ago.

[George P.]

Aileen wrote: "The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Not as good as Ethan Frome imo."

I agree, I also like E Frome better, but I wasn't a big fan of any of the Edith Wharton novels I've read.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. I thought this was great--very subtle, especially the ending.

[Aileen]

George wrote: "Aileen wrote: "The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Not as good as Ethan Frome imo."

I agree, I also like E Frome better, but I wasn't a big fan of any of the Edith Whar..."

Glad it wasn't just me. I kept waiting for something to happen!

[Diane]

Finished The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić.

[Mia]

I finished The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

[Karen]

The Once and Future King by T. H. White.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book!!

As George wrote earlier, the book is made up of 4 novels -- The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood (aka The Queen of Air and Darkness), The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind.

The original novel of the Sword and the Stone contained 3 episodes that were not included in the book when the novels were printed together as The Once and Future King (the ant and goose episodes and a battle with Madam Mim). The ant and goose episodes were later incorporated into the 5th book -- The Book of Merlyn and the Madam Mim episode was added to the Disney movie of the Sword and the Stone.

The Sword and the Stone is very lighthearted, but the 3 following books grow ever darker as the tragedy of King Arthur moves to its conclusion. The book also shows the influence of the rise of fascism and the two World Wars on White's writing.

[Tim]

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Michelle]

Charity wrote: "Due to high volume traffic causing the previous thread (of the same name) to act a bit quirky, I have opted to redirect the flow to this shiny, new thread!

Soooo, tell us which book from the 1001 ..."
The last list book I read, which was a couple weeks ago, was Dictionary of the Khazars and should be picking up tomorrow Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

[Birthe]

The Waves by Virginia Woolf a quite different read than any other book I've read, including To the Lighthouse

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "Bryan wrote: "The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. I thought this was great--very subtle, especially the ending."

Mishima is a giant. Have you read The Sailor who Fell from Grace with..."

That one I had trouble getting into--but after reading Waves, I've been seriously thinking of re-reading it. I've got a couple others of his I'll probably give a go at first though.

[Karen]

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett.

[Peter]

All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom. Sadly disappointing.

[Diane]

Finished Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami. Definitely not my thing.

[Inder]

Little Women and Lives of Girls and Women bring me to 178 list books read. This year I've been focusing on books by women, which has been really fun.

[Michelle]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit which make 103 of the list I've read.

[Tyler]

I finished A Farewell to Arms and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings today. Both are excellent!

[Karen]

Diane wrote: "Finished Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami. Definitely not my thing."

It was a bleak and depressing read.

[Karen]

Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
Another bleak and depressing read and a shocking portrayal of the violence in Medellin, Colombia in the 1990s.