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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. I am excited this is on the list, as I have loved the other Chandlers I have read.
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Re-reading The Hobbit along with the companion book Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit by Corey Olsen. Adding another perspective to the reading.
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Woke up at 4 AM and couldn't go back to sleep.So I just started and finished The Great Gatsby. Great quick read.
Started Ragtime the other day and I'm really digging it.
Karina wrote: "Re-reading The Hobbit along with the companion book Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit by Corey Olsen. Adding another perspective to the reading."Love The Hobbit and LOTR and anything Tolkien!! At Christmas, I read a non list book The Father Christmas Letters that JRR wrote to his children each Christmas. Loved it. Some of my non-list books I'm reading right now are The History of Middle Earth(only 12 volumes-yikes!)
Getting ready to get back to a list book after enjoying a "free read", The Devil & the White City, which I HIGHLY recommend! My newly started list book is Of Human Bondage
Just started reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It's one of the most interesting novels I've read in a while.
Lisa wrote: "Getting ready to get back to a list book after enjoying a "free read", The Devil & the White City, which I HIGHLY recommend! My newly started list book is Of Human Bondage"Lisa I loved "The Devil & the white city" too. I read Larsen's "In the garden of the beasts" It is amazing how it reads - both books read like a novel whilst being factual.
Starting Nicholas Nickleby this evening. Was having an itch for Dickens.
Going to start Candide by Voltaire.....on kindle
Ginny wrote: "Karina wrote: "Re-reading The Hobbit along with the companion book Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit by Corey Olsen. Adding another perspective to the reading."Love The Hobbit and LOTR and an..."
The companion book was a great read while I re-read The Hobbit. Thanks for the suggestions. I also picked up The Silmarillion this weekend. Lots of Tolkien in my future even though I've read all of his List books!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Started Sentimental Education last night. I'm enjoying it so far."Nice! I picked that up not too long ago after reading Joyce Carol Oates rave about it in a collection of essays, but I haven't gotten around to it, yet. Anxious to hear how it turns out for you.
My next books are City of God by E. L. Doctorow and Anna Karenina. The previous I own and think that I will enjoy it. I have some prejudises about City of God, I suspect it wont be a easy read. But now I'm taking a one month break from this list and February is dedicated to other books like the new Rowling and Cunningham that I have waiting in my shelf.
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Mandy wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Getting ready to get back to a list book after enjoying a "free read", The Devil & the White City, which I HIGHLY recommend! My newly started list book is Of Human Bondage"Lisa I lo..."
Kind of off topic, but I too love Eric Larson; any of his books I find fascinating. The one book of his that really stayed with me was Isaac's Storm.
Right now, I'm working on the third volume of Proust and reading A Night at the Circus by Angela Carter.
I just started reading Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. It is one I have had on my shelf for a while, but never started. I am really enjoying it so far and have gotten through part one today. Looking forward to being able to cross another classic off of my ever growing list.
Heather wrote: "I just started reading Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. It is one I have had on my shelf for a while, but never started. I am really enjoying it so far and have gotten through part one today. Loo..."I'm about 4 chapters into Part 2 of Crime and Punishment as of today. Haven't been able to read as much as I have wanted to in the last couple days. It is really good. The main character is great....as in interesting, not noble or likable.
Heather wrote: "I just started reading Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. It is one I have had on my shelf for a while, but never started. I am really enjoying it so far ..."Grant wrote: "I'm about 4 chapters into Part 2 of Crime and Punishment as of today. Haven't been able to read as much as I have wanted to in the last couple days. It is really good."
Hooray for Crime and Punishment! I have it penciled in for March - looking forward to it.
Timbuktu, and Kafka on the Shore. And still reading Northanger Abbey.
Just started Rabbit,Run by John Updike. Too soon to say whether or not am enjoying it.
I loved Crime and Punishment -- don't know why but I had put it off for a long time, irrational belief that it would be hard going - what a mistake!It was compelling and hard to put down.Myself i have restarted Alias Grace..got distracted by other things so starting again.
Mandy wrote: "I loved Crime and Punishment -- don't know why but I had put it off for a long time, irrational belief that it would be hard going - what a mistake!It was compelling and hard to put down.Myself i..."
I am finding it hard to put down too. Sadly, I have had to set it aside and concentrate on homework the past couple of days, but I can't wait to get back to it.
I just started Kafka on the Shore and its very bizarre so far.
Mandy and HeatherLoved Crime and Punishment, and then went on to discover a love of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov.
Started The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis, picked up the copy I've got from the library. Last time it was out of storage was 2006, and it was published in 1955, 1 of a 1000 copies which are signed by the author.
That is so cool...signing out of a library a signed copy. Bet that doesn't happen often.
Once considered borrowing from the local library copy of Complete works of Poe..this is a very small community (approx 90). This book is a beautifully binded copy in leather and dedicated in memory of a person who must have had links to this community. I tend to read in the bath and all I could imagine was the horror of this book floating in my bath! Impossible to replace so I decided against it.
Starting Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate. I like Wodehouse and I see many reviewers compare Mitford's style to him. If I like this I intend to read more about the famous Mitford sisters.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.(IN the Budding Grove, Volume II ISOLT) Also taking an Adult Continuing ED course at a local university. So via audiobook, "re-reading" Vanity Fair.
Denise wrote: "Also taking an Adult Continuing ED course at a local university."Good luck with that! I sort of wish we had such an animal here, or by distance learning, but I haven't found one. Oh- and I'm hoping for Vanity Fair in the Spring.
In a Glass Darkly -Le Fanuand
Far From the Madding Crowd -Hardy
working on Babbitt. Wow has the US changed.
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It's really good, actually an easy read, I bet you'll enjoy it.