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I've just started reading The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett and I'm loving it so far.
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Just started Lolita. The subject matter is a bit out of my comfort zone, but some good literature is like that.
About to open Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós. I usually enjoy books from the late nineteenth century, so I'm hoping I'll like this one. Long, though.
I've just begun The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by ETA Hoffmann. It is making me chuckle right from the first page!
About halfway through The Tin Drum, I wanted to see the true origins of two of my favourite 'magical realism' books 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Midnight's Children' and so far I am not disappointed...
"Disgrace" by J.J. Coetzee. The books was part of a care package to me as I am in Iraq. I would not normally pick this one up, as it deals with a poetry professor 30 years older than one of the students he "seduces?," the setting is in South Africa. I have not gotten far enough yet, but the cover says the book addresses issues of race, gender, age discrenpancy, and so forth. Quite a bit for a slim 200 page novel.
I started The Underdogs a few days ago. It is supposed to symbolize the late 19th century revolution in Mexico.
Everything that rises must converge by Flannery O'Connor. I think I read many of these stories in college but her writing is so enjoyable I'm happy to read them again!
I'm starting "The Grapes of Wrath" today. I've put this one off for a long time, dreading all the sadness and misery in the tale; but it's time to consume it now, I think....
Good for you Judith, Grapes has been on my TBR forever. I won't be getting to it anytime soon though.I just started "Go Down, Moses" by William Faulkner.
Just started D H Lawrence's 'The Rainbow' in anticipation of the March discussion. I'm shrorisedvat how quickly I'm getting through it.
Currently reading On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Not loving it but it has it's moments. Thinking of starting Gabriel’s Gift by Hanif Kureishi as I know nothing at all about it.
Emma wrote: "I'm finally reading Jane Eyre and can't believe I never picked it up sooner. (considering I've had a copy of it for at least 5 years)"I wish I hadn't read it so that I could read it again for the first time (I meant to write my post in this way, and yes I know it's not grammatically correct).
I recently started Rabbit Redux by John Updike. I'm also currently working my way through Anna Karenina.
Just picked up The Midwich Cuckoos. A little late, I know, but I think I will fly through this one. I need a quick read!
I started just yesterday The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges.I have a great feeling about these two.
I am about 400 pages into the Penguin Unabridged edition of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and am really loving it. What a great story.
I'm currently reading Louis de Bernieres's Captain Corelli's Mandolin and am absolutely loving it. It's a lot funnier/more thoughtful/more multi-faceted than I thought it would be.
great comment, Li. I have been wanting to read that one. Judith - Did you like it? I have that book, and keep putting it on my monthly to read list, but other things keep coming up.
Got started on Melville's Moby-Dick. Loving it so far. I'm finding it much easier to read than some of his shorter fiction, such as Billy Budd.
Lyn M wrote: "great comment, Li. I have been wanting to read that one."I hope you get around to reading it sometime, it was absolutely fantastic! =D
About a quarter of the way through D H Lawrence's 'The Rainbow' and also kist started Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Cranford', which I'm loving (and the miniseries on TV was fantastic too).
The Shining by Stephen King.Holy God it's scary. For the first time in my life
I understand why people hide under the covers when they are afraid.
I'm just getting started on The Once and Future King. I also am reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which I was halfway through when the new list came out with it on it.
I've just started reading Never Let Me Go and I'm finding it incredibly creepy. I wonder if me having had a kidney transplant is making this book creepier than it would be for others without transplants?
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