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message 6401: by Stephanie "Jedigal" (new)

Stephanie "Jedigal" (jedigal) | 270 comments Just started
The Body Artist - Don DeLillo (paperback)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn (kindle)

Still 'reading'
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami (audible)


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Ed Lehman | 122 comments Just started The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.


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Ed Lehman | 122 comments Also..just started One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I usually have several books going at the same time. Not sure why. I think for books I'm enjoying, it lets me enjoy them longer. And for books I'm not enjoying, I just need to read a bit before going back to something enjoyable.


message 6405: by Stephanie "Jedigal" (new)

Stephanie "Jedigal" (jedigal) | 270 comments Atonement, Ian McEwan


message 6406: by Sunny (new)

Sunny (travellingsunny) | 96 comments Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe


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Mandy | 154 comments Just starting Platform by Michel Houellebecq


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Dee (deinonychus) | 243 comments Mandy wrote: "Just starting Platform by Michel Houellebecq"
Gripping, and shocking, but I loved this.

As for me, I've just started Les Misérables. This is really great so far - even though I'm only a fraction of the way in - and I don't think it will take me too long to read, despite it's length.


message 6409: by Teresa Dicentra (new)

Teresa Dicentra In Watermelon Sugar and The Count of Monte Cristo (on audio)


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Kelsi (essentiallybooked) The Golden Ass! I have to write a paper on a cult mentioned in it, so I might as well read it.


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Judith (jloucks) | 1202 comments The Marble Faun - Hawthorne


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Danyellemastro | 170 comments The Collector by John Fowles - I'm loving it!


message 6414: by April (new)

April | 24 comments Dbolden wrote: "The Collector by John Fowles - I'm loving it!"

Dbolden, although I'm not even close to completing the 1001 list, I did read The Collector and it is one my favorites on the list, so far!

When you have time, please research the book a bit. You will discover that it was "inspiration" for similar true life crimes. One of the predators was actually found with the book in his hands.


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Shea | 9 comments Just started David Copperfield.


message 6416: by Elizabeth (Alaska) (new)

Elizabeth (Alaska) Starting On the Eve, the first of what I think will be a spate of reading a bit of the Russians.


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Maryellen  | 29 comments The End of The Affair - Graham Greene. It has been years since I've read his books so nice re-visiting his works.


message 6418: by Denise (new)

Denise Lives of girls and women. Anne Munro


message 6419: by Julie (last edited Feb 10, 2013 08:50PM) (new)


message 6420: by Grant (new)

Grant (ghizzle) | 8 comments The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.


message 6421: by Mandy (new)

Mandy | 154 comments Begining The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.


message 6422: by Kristine (new)

Kristine (leggygal) | 52 comments The art of fielding


message 6423: by Steve (new)

Steve mitchell | 127 comments the end of the affair


message 6425: by Heather (new)

Heather | 10 comments I am still working on Crime and Punishment, but I have also just started The Watchmen by Alan Moore and David Gibbons.


message 6426: by Elizabeth (Alaska) (new)

Elizabeth (Alaska) Off to see what Mr. Tolstoy has to say in The Kreutzer Sonata.


message 6427: by Craig (new)

Craig | 241 comments The Moonstone -Collins
and
The Monastery -Scott

So glad to start another by Scott (such excellent writing) and also intrigued to begin another by Collins (The Woman in White was quite pleasing to read).


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Sunny (travellingsunny) | 96 comments Fictions (Ficciones) by Jorge Luis Borges.
Ficciones


message 6429: by Karena (new)

Karena (karenafagan) I think the next on my list is The Sound and the Fury


message 6430: by Eva (new)

Eva | 60 comments Just started The Count of Monte Cristo... so far it's really good.


message 6431: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer | 0 comments Just started reading The Golden Ass.


message 6432: by Grada (BoekenTrol) (new)

Grada (BoekenTrol) (boekentrol) | 60 comments I just started reading A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza.


message 6433: by Ian (new)

Ian | 143 comments Can't believe I have read over 250 from the list and not done Catch-22. Time to rectify that omission.


message 6434: by Deanne (new)

Deanne | 681 comments Started The Bitter Glass by Dillon


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message 6436: by Stephanie "Jedigal" (new)

Stephanie "Jedigal" (jedigal) | 270 comments Iain Banks' Complicity, and Winterson's Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit.


message 6438: by Steve (new)

Steve mitchell | 127 comments the end of the affair and it has a great line for valentines day if you are single/bitter:)

But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.


message 6439: by Teresa Dicentra (new)

Teresa Dicentra Casino Royale.


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Maeve (mepwave) | 21 comments Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami


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message 6444: by Elizabeth (Alaska) (new)

Elizabeth (Alaska) Julie wrote: "The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy"

I'm hoping to squeeze that one in before month end.


message 6445: by Kristen (new)

Kristen (manoskm) About to start Small Island by Andrea Levy


message 6446: by Liz M (last edited Feb 16, 2013 10:10AM) (new)

Liz M Started, and am now 2/3 the way through, 1Q84 thanks to a couple of 8-hr trans-Atlantic flights. Weird and compelling -- I think about it when I am not reading it.

Also tried to read (again) The Kreutzer Sonata during the non-electronic-device portions of the flights. Found myself preferring to stare blankly at the ceiling instead....


message 6447: by Diane (last edited Feb 16, 2013 10:29AM) (new)

Diane Challenor (cynthiablue44) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra This is one of my 2013 reading challenges which I'm sharing within the GoodReads Don Quixote Group and on my website: Artuccino


message 6448: by Elizabeth (Alaska) (new)

Elizabeth (Alaska) Liz M wrote: "Also tried to read (again) The Kreutzer Sonata during the non-electronic-device portions of the flights. Found myself preferring to stare blankly at the ceiling instead.... "

LOL - I've noticed more and more that our reading preferences go in different directions.


message 6450: by Juliana (new)

Juliana (jaldous) | 21 comments Starting Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.


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