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[Danyellemastro]

Christyb wrote: "I'm reading Atonement by Ian McEwan. I'm only about 70 pages in, and its slow going. Has anyone read this? Does it pick up speed?"


I loved the Cement Garden but a lot of his other work dragged for me...McEwan is the king of plot but for me the prose doesn't always ring true.

[Judith]

I'm starting "Rabbit Redux" by Updike

I didn't enjoy "Rabbit, Run" that much, but I think this series becomes more engaging as Rabbit's story unfolds....We'll see!

[Bea]

I am about to start a re-read of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. I last read it about 30 years ago, and I think it will almost qualify as a first reading. I'm actually quite excited to be tackling it again.

[Craig]

I am sure it will be great. I just finished it for the first time and loved every piece of this glorious whale-pie of a novel. Reminded me somewhat of DFW's Inifinte Jest, sans the multiple footnotes.

[Eve]

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

[Chel]

I started Quartet.

[Danyellemastro]

Nana by Emile Zola - loving a bit of filthy scandal!

[Jonpaul]

Judith wrote: "I'm starting "Rabbit Redux" by Updike

I didn't enjoy "Rabbit, Run" that much, but I think this series becomes more engaging as Rabbit's story unfolds....We'll see!"

The Rabbit series gets better as it goes along. I still haven't read the final one but I read the first three. They can be a bit tiresome. Rabbit Angstrom's head isn't the most fun to be in for long periods of time and Updike catalogs it fastidiously. However, the same things which make the next two books tiresome or slow at times are also what make them pretty great. I read Rabbit Is Rich over ten years ago and I still remember clearly some passages because of the way that they were written.

In a way, I look at those books as the evil twin to Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy.

[Jonpaul]

I started 2666, which is broken into five novellas. It's really not possible to tear through it at all but it's easy to get absorbed in it and I've already finished the first and most of the second novella.

[Ann]

I've just started The Optimist's Daughter. It seems okay, so far, but not great.

[Bucket]

Just started The Guermantes Way - number 3 in Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

[Craig]

Jane Eyre -Bronte
and
Northanger Abbey -Austen

[Beth]

Voss is not doing much for me, even 120 pages in. I'm joining a The Poisonwood Bible group read and will work on Voss at the same time. I hate getting stalled like this. UGH.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Craig wrote: "Jane Eyre -Bronte
and
Northanger Abbey -Austen"

I enjoyied them both.

[Sophie]

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

[Dana]

Concurrently reading The Long Goodbye and A Boy's Own Story, although neither are catching my interest as I'd hoped.

[~Calyre~]

Just starting The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

[Deanne]

Started Stone Junction by Dodge and really enjoying it so far.

[Janet]

Just starting The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith.

[Mekki]

I just started To Kill a Mockingbird

[Donna]

Just got my first ever kindle, so to break it in I'm reading 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote. Still working on 'Burmese Days' by George Orwell in old-fashioned paperback at the same time! :)

[Yrinsyde]

Janet wrote: "Just starting The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith."Enjoy! I thought this was funny. Let me know what you think!

[Yrinsyde]

Megan wrote: "10 pages into A Bend in the River. I think I'll enjoy this one."I really loved this novel and it began my my love of novels by VS Naipaul. I was thanking my lucky stars that I started this challenge, otherwise I would never have picked up a Naipaul novel.

[Monica]

I am 40 pages into The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Craig]

On the Eve -Turgenev

[Chel]

I just started So Long a Letter by the Senagalese author Mariama Ba.

[~Calyre~]

I just started The 39 Steps

[Genia]

Working on Camilla which, while it could use some serious trimming, is enjoyable enough.

[Rebeca]

just stared Ignorance by Milan Kundera..love this writer

[Peter]

To mark the great man's birthday have just started Oliver Twist. A story that I have seen portrayed many times on the silver screen but have never actually read. Am really looking forward to it.

[Corina]

I just started Chocky by Wyndham. It`s a really nice book. I like it.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I've just started The Blind Owl by صادق هدایت(Sadegh Hedayat).
I'm liking this book so far, as strange as it is.

[Eli]

I've recently begun reading The 120 Days of Sodom.

[~Calyre~]

Starting Good Morning, Midnight

[Craig]

Hypervorean wrote: "I've recently begun reading The 120 Days of Sodom."

Have fun!!
Despite its age, that work stays with you and not in always the best way. I am not one to be shocked, but this one is interestingly degrading.

[Eli]

Craig wrote: "Hypervorean wrote: "I've recently begun reading The 120 Days of Sodom."

Have fun!!
Despite its age, that work stays with you and not in always the best way. I am not one to be s..."

Yes so I have perceived. I'm only just getting by the introduction, but I must say that it has laid the style (don't know if this makes sense in English) already. I find it curiously appealing.

[Donna]

4evagreen wrote: "To mark the great man's birthday have just started Oliver Twist. A story that I have seen portrayed many times on the silver screen but have never actually read. Am really looking forward to it."

I'm also embarking on a birthday read of Dickens - my first time reading 'David Copperfield'. Could take me a while... Will probably read it bit by bit with other books on the go at the same time.

[Beth]

The Poisonwood Bible and I love it already.

[Beth]

Cathy wrote: "I started The Ground Beneath Her Feet yesterday. I found Moor's Last Sigh and Satanic Verses unfinishable, but I'm really enjoying this so far! I finished Maximum City, a nonfiction account of mode..."

I struggled through The Satanic Verses (but eventually did finish it), but also found this one and Fury (which isn't on the list) much more readable. Glad you are having fun with it!

[~Calyre~]

I just started Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

[Deanne]

Started The Red Room by Strindberg on my kindle.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Kyle wrote: "I just started The 13th Hourby Richard Doetsch. Unique thriller that is told in reverse."

This is not a list book, I think.

[Sophie]

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

I recently finished As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner thinking it was a list book only to discover it is not. Although I think it deserves to be.

[Amanda]

I just started The Elegance of the Hedgehog. I kept hearing people rave about it in this group and it is amazing. I really feel like it is a book for readers, which is probably why we all enjoy it so much!:)

[Denise]

Bleak House to be followed by Vanity Fair.

[Kate S]

I am just starting Gulliver's Travels

[Chel]

I started Leaden Wings.

[Tanya (aka ListObsessedReader)]

I have finally gotten around to starting Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. Almost two hours into an audio version. Loving it so far!!

[Donna]

Having a short break from 'David Copperfield' by reading The Little Prince.

[Judith]

The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth

I think I am going to like it but it was a surprise to see how different it is from Castle Rackrent. I thought all her novels were gothic tales, and they are not!