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[Chel]

I started Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee last night. It is very good. The author has a talent of quickly creating a believable character and has an accessible writing style to which you add the level of complexity you want to or are able to.

[christine.]

I most recently finished The Remains of the Day. What a beautiful book. Between that and Never Let Me Go, I've become a huge Kazuo Ishiguro fan!

[Stacie]

Just started Jane Eyre. I am not that far into it and am already really liking it.

[Kristin]

Niche: You and I must be on the same page...I just started Fatelessness yesterday. Thus far I've been a little irritated by the writing, mostly the choice of words, but that is probably the translation over the actual writing.

~Kristin

[Anna]

Dostojewski i Nietzsche

[Niche]

Kristin wrote: "Niche: You and I must be on the same page...I just started Fatelessness yesterday. Thus far I've been a little irritated by the writing, mostly the choice of words, but that is probably the transl..." Yeah, I know what you mean. I thought the translator's first language must not be English but Tim Wilkinson is British. There are just so many examples of awkward phrasing.

[Stephanie]

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Requiem for a Dream.

[Chel]

I started White Fang by Jack London. This is a reread from years ago.

[Stephanie]

The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by Scott Lynch

Best book I have read this year..its hard to believe that its his debut novel!!

[Chel]

Actually, instead of White Fang I decided to read The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum and I'm almost done. It is very good.

[Judith]

I started "Alias Grace" yesterday. I'm enjoying it.

[Chel]

Started The Outsider by Albert Camus (known as the Stranger in Europe). It is excellent.

[Jessica]

I just started "Emma," and have spent most of the time looking for parallels for Clueless :p

[Chel]

I just started Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren. It is on the 08 version of the list. It is sold in the juvenile lit. section of most books stores.

[Katharine]

I'm about 3 chapters into Little Women and so far its great, very easy to read and looks like it will be a quick one too! Then I have the House in Paris to read, I got it on request from the library and it's a lovely special edition from 1949, can't wait to get it started.

[Denise]

I am also just starting House in Paris. I'm looking forward to it.

[Olympia]

IFinished this morning One Thousand Splendid Suns by the author of the Kite Runner Hosseini I hope I spelled that right. Excellent book although its not on the list it was still powerful and moving. Now I'm reading two books from the list. Sinclair Lewis Main Street and Surfacing by Atwood. So far so good, but I'm not reading because now I'm here :)Let me get back to them. Bye all.

[Stacie]

I am starting Rebecca today.

[Claudine]

I'm working on The Sound and The Fury and Tropic of Cancer -- further into Faulkner than Miller. I forgot how Faulkner's stream of consciousness writing style can be difficult to read, but I'm still enjoying it.

[Chel]

I am reading The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It is the sole graphic novel entry on the list and it is superb so far.

[Chel]

Now, I started White Fang by Jack London. My entry of 02/24 is incorrect as I decided to read something else at that time instead of White Fang but now I can get it done.

[Mike]

Moving into Everything is Illuminated and A Confederacy of Dunces. I'm reading Everything is Illuminated for an analysis project and I'm reading A Confederacy of Dunces because it's the funniest novel I've read in a while.

[Barb]

I'm reading Cider House Rules and really enjoying it.

[Sara]

I am currently on Atonement and I went to Chapter's the other night with my boyfriend and picked up a pile of other ones from the book. I have read some of them already but I hope to someday get through them all but it's so hard since I have so many books to read :)

[Derrick]

I started Watership Down. I think it's on the list? Talking rabbits... so silly!

[Niche]

Neuromancer by William Gibson

[Charity]

Derrick wrote: "I started Watership Down. I think it's on the list? Talking rabbits... so silly!"

Nope, not on the list, but there has been a lot of outrage in this group about it being omitted.

[christine.]

Love love love Watership Down. It makes me mad that it's not on the list. One of the most ingenious books about animals ever.

I'm going to be starting The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie soon, and I'm going to attempt to get House in Paris out of the library.

Right now I'm reading Snow Crash (Stephenson not on the list... even though it's arguably more popular than Cryptonomicon) and Petals in the Wind, for the V. C. Andrews Reading Challenge floating around the net.

[Katie ATX]

Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

[Denise]

Derrick, Watership Down may not be on the list, but I appreciate every opportunity I get to say how much I loved it. By the way, good to see you back here. Meant to mention that down in the book club discussions.

Christine, I hope you can get House in Paris. I'm nearly finished with it and I think it's excellent.

I'm going to start a non-list book: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa.

[Kristi]

I am currently working on The House in Paris (just started), Emma (about 2/3 done), and The House of Mirth (I read about half and then took a break, need to start again before I forget about it).

[Emma]

Started The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

[Chel]

I started Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. It is excellent so far.

[Billy]

Silly Wabbits?! I loved that book! (Watership Down). It's epic and about time that rabbits got some representation out there. Haven't they gone through enough?

[Denise]

Good choice, Emma. I thouroughly enjoyed Kavalier & Clay.

[Emma]

Denise wrote: "Good choice, Emma. I thouroughly enjoyed Kavalier & Clay."

Thanks, Denise. I just finished Part I and I'm hooked!

[Chel]

I started Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.

[Rory M.]

Stacie wrote: "Just started Jane Eyre. I am not that far into it and am already really liking it."

Stacie - make sure you watch some of the movies that are out there. I think my favorite Jane was Charlotte Gainsbourg and my favorite Rochester was Toby Stephens.

[Rory M.]

I am nearing the end of Everything is Illuminated by Foer & working on Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez.

Next up is All Quiet on the Western Front...

[Chel]

I just started Silas Marner by T.S. Eliot.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I am reading The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

[Stacie]

Thanks for the movie tip, Rory. I will be sure to check it out.

I finished it and loved it!

[Lenoir]

Rory wrote: "I am nearing the end of Everything is Illuminated by Foer & working on Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez.

Next up is All Quiet on the Western Front..."

All Quiet on the Western Front is my number one "I was shocked that I liked this book" book.

[Rory M.]

Lenoir wrote: "Rory wrote: "I am nearing the end of Everything is Illuminated by Foer & working on Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez.

Next up is All Quiet on the Western Front..."

All Quiet on the West..."

Lenoir: I've watched the original 1930 film & felt that I needed to read the book. Have you watched the film - can you offer up a comparison?

[Christina Stind]

Starting The House in Paris tonight for this month's group read.

[Susan]

To Rory: I absolutely loved All Quiet on the Western Front! It such a beautiful story that I read it all in one sitting the first time I read it. I have seen the 1930 film, as well as the version with Richard Thomas in it (don't remember the year) The 1930 film is definitely the better of the two, but pales in comparison to the book. I found that the movie did not do a great job of expressing the emotional journey of the main character, from following the enthusiasm of his teacher to realizing all but too late he didn't want to be in the war after all. I will say that in the film, if you watch closely when they do close ups of the characters, you see a subtle eye movement or shift in the face that comes close to expressing what the author wanted his characters to say. Just my 2 cents.

[Lenoir]

The Berlin Stories by Isherwood knocks off two books at once with Goodbye Berlin and The Last of Mr Norris.

[Lenoir]

Rory, I've never seen the film. I was assigned the book in a college course and I didn't think I would like it. War stuff really just isn't my bag but it turned out to be one of my favorite books.

[Rory M.]

Susan & Lenoir: Thank you for your wonderful observations and feedback! Now I really look forward to the novel - I'm with you Lenoir in that war stories usually aren't my cup of tea (O'Brien's The Things They Carried was one exception).

Thanks again & happy reading...

[Chel]

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. I have seldom seen such good critical reviews for a books so I am excited to start!