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[Deanne]

Reading Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary, brilliant autobiographical novel of the author's childhood growing up in Vilna and France. Brought up by a mother who adores him, and has total belief that he will grow up to be a great man.

[Dina]

I've just start The Waves by Virginia Woolf.

[Denise]

Arukiyomi wrote: "Here are my reviews (no spoilers) to help you Denise:

my To the Lighthouse review

my Michael K review

I loved them both."

Thanks, decided to go with both.

[Genia]

Starting American Psycho, of which I heard... interesting things.

[Lauren]

Genia wrote: "Starting American Psycho, of which I heard... interesting things."

Best of luck with that. I found it to be hard to read both because of the graphic violence and the way it was written.

[Bucket]

Dina wrote: "I've just start The Waves by Virginia Woolf."

A lot of people reading this lately, it seems! Hope you enjoy it; it's wonderful!

[Craig]

Martin Chuzzlewit -Dickens

So far, so good.

[Donna]

I'd like to read a Thomas Pynchon next but not sure whether to go with V, The Crying Lot of 49, or Gravity's Rainbow - it's my first Pynchon - any recommendations where to start?

[Genia]

I have heard from a friend who counselled me, that the best pynchon to begin with is The Crying of Lot 49. Take that for what it's worth.

Best of luck with that. I found it to be hard to read both because of the graphic violence and the way it was written.

I am only towards the end of part 1, but I find I am enjoying the writing.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Arukiyomi wrote: "wow Rachel, you picked two great ones back to back!"

I can completely agree with that~!!
Loved them both.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Darcy wrote: "I just started The Elegance of a Hedgehog!"

It's brilliant!!

[Donna]

Whilst I am still decided which Thomas Pynchon to embark upon first, I've decided to read The Call of the Wild in the meantime.

[Cass]

Just started Suite Francaise, thanks to help from my handy dandy 1001 Books app that I just found out existed!! Reading it on Kindle library loan. What a marvelous invention.

[Linda]

Mikela wrote: "Lauren wrote: "I just started The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky."

I also just started this book on audio. I hope I can manage to keep the characters straight - always find it challenging with foreign names.

[Mikela]

Just started Complicity. Really enjoyed two of his other books so anticipate this being a good experience as well.

[Arukiyomi]

http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?p=2915 is my review of Crying of Lot 49.

Might put you off Pynchon forever though!

[Annina]

I started to read A Clockwork Orange yesterday evening

[Deanne]

Started The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West, beginning to get into the story, will take it to work for my standby.
Can get Pilgrimage in 4 volumes, gutenberg has the first book, pointed roofs but none of the others. Can always try an inter-library loan for the 4 volumes.

[Donna]

Arukiyomi wrote: "http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?p=2915 is my review of Crying of Lot 49.

Might put you off Pynchon forever though!"

Lol! Yep, might put reading Pynchon on hold for now!!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Manda wrote: "I'm about to start Frederic Manning Her Privates We - a semi autobiographical account of his WW1 Somme experiences. Has anybody read it?"

No, but thank you for giving me this extra bit of info. I'm especially interested in these WWI experiences.

[Genia]

I am starting today a Raymond Chandler collection, which includes three entries off the list: The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The Long Goodbye.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Genia wrote: "I am starting today a Raymond Chandler collection, which includes three entries off the list: The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The Long Goodbye."

I hope you enjoy them. I haven't yet read Farewell, but have read the other two. The descriptions of California of the 40s and 50s made me nostalgic.

[Genia]

Well, I like noir, so I am coming into it with high expectations.

[Jennifer W]

Deanne, let me know how you like The Birds Fall Down. I bought it at a book sale about 6 months ago because I liked another list book by West, Return of the Soldier, not realizing that Birds was on the list, too, until I got home!

I'm still chipping away at Moll Flanders and a reread of Nervous Conditions. This weekend I will start The Arabian Nights.

[Casey]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy...for the upcoming July read. I didn't know the author also wrote the Constant Gardener!

[Emma]

I just started reading Watchmen this evening. I'd planned to finish The Temple Of My Familiar but the battery on my kindle was dead. Graphic novels aren't my thing but I'm enjoying Watchmen (I think), it doesn't feel as easy to lose myself in as a regular novel though. Temple of my Familiar is good but I preferred the other two hers on the list

[Deanne]

Started Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine, love the main character and his whole view of life. With Bardamu in the trenches during the first world war, just going to read one more chapter.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Nicholas Nickleby is calling my name.

[Becky]

Just started Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. It will be #100 on the list for me, so I had to go with a classic.

[Sunny]

Just started Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I've just started Doctor Faustus, looks like it will be a slow read with the tiny writting.

[Mikela]

I'm 62 pages into The God of Small Things and finding some difficulty with it. Hopefully I'll get more into it soon.

[Tara]

Well, I'm slogging through Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and I'm also slowly making my way through The Thousand and One Nights (Burton translation), which I think is 16 'books' in total. Feels like I've been reading it pretty constantly over the last week, yet I'm only 2% in. Gulp.

[Peter]

Kicking this month off with A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. A book which I have been meaning to get around to reading for quite a while.

[Pinar]

Starting the second half of the year with The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :)

[Judith]

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

I love it!

[Donna]

Just finished The Call of the Wild. I'm following it with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

[Ginny]

Second of the Proust volumes& Infinite Jest. I've been reading a lot of downers lately.

[Linda]

Mikela wrote: "I'm 62 pages into The God of Small Things and finding some difficulty with it. Hopefully I'll get more into it soon."
I just finished it - ehh, it was just okay; I had trouble keeping the different characters straight for a while. Not enough closure at the end for me.

[Lisa]

I am halfway through Angela's Ashes-Frank McCourt, & have on deck As I Lay Dying-Faulkner, Justine-DeSade, & Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Hardy.

Tess was actually referenced in a "free read" I read a couple of books back, so that influenced my decision to give it a shot.

[Arukiyomi]

ermmm Ashes isn't actually on the list. That was one that I thought was when I read it too.

[~Calyre~]

Currently reading Villette

[Judith]

Rites of Passage - William Golding


Rites of Passage

[Karina]

Just started Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf and still slogging through Nicholas Nickleby. Dickens can be a pain to read through sometimes.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Karina wrote: "Just started Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf and still slogging through Nicholas Nickleby. Dickens can be a pain to read through sometimes."

I have truly enjoyed all my Dickens reads, but Nicholas Nickleby will be just so-so for me.

[Annina]

I'm starting to read Sense and Sensibility today..

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I loved Nicholas Nickleby~!!

[Judith]

Demons

Devils (or Demons or The Possessed) - Dostoyevsky

Quite the commitment at around 800 pages of dense type!

[~Calyre~]

Currently reading The Brothers Karamazov

[Dina]

Just started Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. Promising for now.