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Emma by Jane Austen. This leaves me with only Mansfield Park and I will have read all Jane Austen on the list. This makes me sad! Also, I had no idea that Clueless was based on this book. The more you know!
Karina wrote: "Emma by Jane Austen. This leaves me with only Mansfield Park and I will have read all Jane Austen on the list. This makes me sad! Also, I had no idea that Clueless was based on this book. The more ..."Oh, Wow! I didn't know that either! Thanks for sharing, Karina!
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It's really good, but it's really long and all in 9 point font, so I don't know if I'll ever finish it.
About halfway through audiobook - 1Q84 by Murakami. Thoroughly enjoyable! I'm starting to get concerned that the ending won't be as good as my experience of the rest of the book so far though.
Doing a re-read of DRACULA, and this time it's an annotated version with some seriously interesting side-reading.
Karina - Don't worry, Austen's novels are just as good the second time around. I've read all of her novels, and just cycle through them by reading one every year. There are a lot of contemporary film adaptations of her books too. One you might find entertaining that I recently saw is "Lost in Austen." Which was your favorite?
Just started Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun. Really enjoying the book so far and the author's clear, concise writing.
Anna Karenina, so far loving the way Tolstoy pulls us into the lives of Oblonsky, Levin and Dolly. Though it is seeming like a hefty read to get through :D
I'm currently reading Hard Times by Charles Dickens, The Swarm by Frank Schätzing, and Rabbitt is Rich by John Updike.
I'm reading four at once - usually don't have this many going at once, but they are all so different, there's no problem keeping them straight. Still reading The Life of Insects and Candide. Just started Aesop's Fables and A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Kind of like Thanksgiving, Im heading into a Pynchon feast. Here's hoping there's no sleep-inducing Tryptophan b/w the book covers!!Honestly, I like his work! Perhaps at birth we were both dropped on the same parts of our soft heads allowing similar abilities to take in what can seem trivial or irrelevant and still find deep meaning. Ha! Gift or Deficit? Ill let you all decide.
Cheers!
Just started Les Miserables in prep for the movie. Reminds me of Moby Dick - story interspersed by musings, both historical and philosophical. Reading about 1% a day so had better ramp it up! Great read so far.
I'm onto Wilkie Collins' "Woman in White". I enjoyed "The Moonstone" so I'm settling in for a very pleasant read.
Ian wrote: "I'm onto Wilkie Collins' "Woman in White". I enjoyed "The Moonstone" so I'm settling in for a very pleasant read." I'm just over half way though The Woman in White and I love it! Very difficult to put down and I'm definitely keen to try more of his work after I've finished this, would Moonstone be a good choice?
Laura wrote: "Ian wrote: "I'm onto Wilkie Collins' "Woman in White". I enjoyed "The Moonstone" so I'm settling in for a very pleasant read." I'm just over half way though The Woman in White and I love it! Very d..."Moonstone is a fantastic read, the prototypical detection novel: Sergeant Cuff is a star. Enjoy it.
Yes, I agree about Moonstone. I think I liked it better than Woman in White if I were hard-pressed to choose, but it's a tossup.Started last night The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, which is rich in language and feeling only in the first chapter. This makes #100 for me on the list and gets me to my 2012 goal.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yes, I agree about Moonstone. I think I liked it better than Woman in White if I were hard-pressed to choose, but it's a tossup.Started last night The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, which is rich in la..."
Congratulations Elizabeth. You picked a fantastic book to put the finishing touch on your 2012 goal.
Mikela wrote: "Congratulations Elizabeth. You picked a fantastic book to put the finishing touch on your 2012 goal. "Thank you! I was thinking that this morning, too! This quarter's challenge has me reading 10 books set in Paris, and I'll probably get to Thérèse Raquin before the end of the year as a bonus. ;-)
Jason wrote: "Just started Les Miserables in prep for the movie. Reminds me of Moby Dick - story interspersed by musings, both historical and philosophical. Reading about 1% a day so had better ramp it up! Great..."The book is quite different in some parts from the musical, which the movie coming out is based on. Try some of the non-musical movie adaptations to be closer to the story. That said, I LOVE the musical and will see the movie at least once in the theater and cry my eyes out.
I'm currently reading There but for the which I'm less than impressed with and Nemesis, a fast easy read.
Just started
... really enjoying it - especially the dark humour.
Getting going on the group read, Wise Blood. But also being distracted an off-list children's book. :o)
Crome Yellow -Huxleyand
Rosshalde -Hesse
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. New to the list. A fast read.
Started The Tunnel, which is the 4th book in Richardson's pilgrimage.
Linda wrote: "Karina - Don't worry, Austen's novels are just as good the second time around. I've read all of her novels, and just cycle through them by reading one every year. There are a lot of contemporary fi..."I haven't seen any modern adaptations except for I suppose Clueless. I definitely want to see more of them but I usually stick to the Masterpiece Theater versions (Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, anyone?) but will explore modern versions definitely.
Started The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa. This is my first novel of his and it looks like a doozy.
Karina wrote: "Linda wrote: "Karina - Don't worry, Austen's novels are just as good the second time around. I've read all of her novels, and just cycle through them by reading one every year. There are a lot of ..."Pride & Prejudice with Keira Knightley was pretty good
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Cost by Roxana Robinson. I couldn't get into it early on. So I stopped and returned it to the library. I had just finished The Children's Book and had been captivated, so this seemed so mundane in comparison. I'll give it another try someday.
Cry, The Beloved Country - PatonThis is a re-read from my college days. Such a beautiful story written in an almost Biblical style.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Madame Bovary. looking foward to the parallels with Anna Karenina.
Karina wrote: "Started The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa. This is my first novel of his and it looks like a doozy."I had to look up "doozy" (I'm in the UK). I thought it sounded negative, but I'm please to discover it isn't!
I co-founded a book club here on Goodreads called Classics Without All the Class and we are reading A Christmas Carol for that and I just picked up Nights at the Circus.
Cecily wrote: "Karina wrote: "Started The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa. This is my first novel of his and it looks like a doozy."I had to look up "doozy" (I'm in the UK). I thought it sound..."
Just one of our Yankee idioms! I am slowly getting through it. I hope it picks up speed!
I just started Silas Marner. Last night I finished The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton....
Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveller".
I started Farwell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. After reading The Big Sleep, I am going to assume this book is going to be a mess but I need to break up my reading of The War of the End of the World because I can't get into it but I refuse to abandon it!
I strayed from the list a while back but still go back and look at it once in a while...bad me!!!!
The Shadow-Line -Conradand
The Garden Party -Mansfield
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