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[Craig]

Almost done with Tess... This is so good.
Masanobu wrote: "Craig wrote: "Tale of Genji -Murasaki Shikibu
Julie, or the New Eloise -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
and
Tess of the d'Urbervilles -Thomas Hardy"

I loved the Tale of Genji, but I like ancient Japanese ..."

[Linda]

Just started The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia today. Listening to it on my ipod while I do my Christmas baking!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Ok had to have a brain rest from the recently started A Tale of Two Cities - i'm doing a lot of historic research at the moment and this is too much like work. So am currently whizzing through Under the skin by Michael Faber. Very excellent and not what i thought it would be like at all so far!

[Karina]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller always heard great things about it now I am finally reading it!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Now starting World's End by TC Coraghessan Boyle... and reading A Tale of Two Cities.

[Jennifer W]

I'm quickly making my way through A Christmas Carol and plan to start Moby-Dick or, The Whale by the end of the year.

[Drew]

Just started The 39 Steps. It is a very quick read, so I will likely finish today or tomorrow.

[Regine]

I'm reading Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. It's okay so far.

[Flora]

I've been trying to read Phineas Finn and so far I just can't seem to get into it. If things don't improve I'm not sure I'm gonna finish it.

[Shay]

Flora wrote: "I've been trying to read Phineas Finn and so far I just can't seem to get into it. If things don't improve I'm not sure I'm gonna finish it."

Have you read the first Palliser novel, Can You Forgive Her??

[Deanne]

Started The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, very good. Hall put a lot of herself into the main character Stephen, in 1928 this book brought about a legal trial for obscenity and was banned. In America a ban was defeated and in Paris they wondered what all the fuss was about. Apparantly Woolf said it was unreadable, she found it a dull book and couldn't concentrate long enough to find anything obscene.
However I'm enjoying it so far.

[Flora]

Shay wrote: "Flora wrote: "I've been trying to read Phineas Finn and so far I just can't seem to get into it. If things don't improve I'm not sure I'm gonna finish it."

Have you read the first ..."

Nope, I haven't read that one yet. Please tell me its better than this one.

[Bikki]

I have been plugging through Gone With the Wind since April and just started Like Water for Chocolate - which I adore so far.

[Linda]

The Time Machine by HG Wells.

[Shay]

Flora wrote: "Shay wrote: "Flora wrote: "I've been trying to read Phineas Finn and so far I just can't seem to get into it. If things don't improve I'm not sure I'm gonna finish it."

Have you re..."

It's better...no, they're all pretty much the same. Well, like all series, they deteriorate towards the end. I don't think I made it to the last book.

[Sissy]

Starting The Master tonight. I have a twisted goal to get to the 100 completed mark by New Years. I'm at 90. Lots of reading ahead of me!! =)

[mark]

Deanne wrote: "Started The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, ..."

i really didn't care for this one. but the writing was pretty.

[Yesol]

I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird because I heard it was a very great book and a must read

[Linda]

Yesol wrote: "I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird because I heard it was a very great book and a must read"

Yes, it is - one of my all-time favorites! I hope you enjoy it!

[Becky]

The Thin Man (audio)

[Sissy]

Starting Ragtime. Have been wanting to read this one since I purchased it last spring - unfortunately library books have kept taken priority!

[Linda]

Madame Bovary

[Shovelmonkey1]

Started Oscar and Lucinda last night after it was recommended to me by someone on this website. Seems ok so far and i think i'm only struggling because i'm so tired I want to go to sleep!

[Lauli]

The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul

[Becky]

Something uplifting for the holidays - Cancer Ward

[Kristel]

I am read The Music of Chance by Paul Auster.

[Beth]

Just started Wuthering Heights. Can't believe I never had to read it in an English class. Somehow I had the feeling that it would be more intimidating than it is. I'm breezing through it at night in the dark on my phone e-reader. Have to commit to not reading too much or I'd be up all night. Nice problem to have.

[Judith]

Started Pat Barker's "The Eye in the Door", second in the "Regeneration Trilogy" last night and could hardly put it down to sleep. I plan to finish it tonight!

[Kristel]

I'm reading The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow.

[Tara]

Started 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon the other day and am about a quarter of the way through. A lot of people seem to like this book, but I'm finding the style of writing a bit grating and repetitive so far.

[Beth]

Now also reading The Hound of the Baskervilles. Actually finding Sherlock annoying this time.

[Beth]

Tara wrote: "Started 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon the other day and am about a quarter of the way through. A lot of people seem to like this book, but I'm finding the styl..."

Well the narrator is autistic, after all...

[Shay]

Beth wrote: "Tara wrote: "Started 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon the other day and am about a quarter of the way through. A lot of people seem to like this book, but I'm fin..."

No, he probably has Asperger's. I know the blurb says autistic, but I think the book was written before Asperger's Syndrome was commonly diagnosed. Within the contents of the book itself, the author doesn't say. (My son is an Aspie.)

[Drew]

Starting War and Peace in the Volokhonsky/Pevear translation. I read this in college and didn't love it (blasphemous, I know). I am going to try again without the pressure of balancing a gargantuan novel with other schoolwork.

[Christina Stind]

Reading The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt. So far I really like it!

[Beth]

Shay wrote: "Beth wrote: "Tara wrote: "Started 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon the other day and am about a quarter of the way through. A lot of people seem to like this book..."

Shay, I agree, although he's pretty low-functioning compared to most aspie kids I have worked with, considering he's in his teens.

[Sissy]

Tara wrote: "Started 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon the other day and am about a quarter of the way through. A lot of people seem to like this book, but I'm finding the styl..."

I didn't enjoy it as much as others have either Tara. Just didn't click for me. Maybe explains why it was dropped in 2010? Although I think it's still on the children's list?

[Sissy]

Starting The Corrections. My last library hold expired before I could get to it - I'm determined to actually start it this time before its due back.

[Damnerama]

I just began The Sea by John Banville, however I noticed this group is reading Frankenstein at the moment, so i will begin that as well!

[Tara]

Sissy wrote: I didn't enjoy it as much as others have either Tara. Just didn't click for me. Maybe explains why it was dropped in 2010? Although I think it's still on the children's list?


Finished it this morning - I got a little more into it as it went on, but still not my thing. I found myself getting frustrated throughout, which is probably one of the author's aims and which means it probably taught me more than I'm conscious of. ;)

Dove right into 'The Inheritance of Loss' by Kiran Desai this morning....talk about a style shift!

[Deanne]

Taking the Madarins into work tonight, stupid I know as it's friday night, new year's eve and I work in an operating theatre but I'm an optimist.

[Becky]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (audio) - a pleasant surprise - very funny!

[Craig]

Castle of Otranto -Walpole
Tale of the Bamboo Cutter -Kawabata
and
The Vicar of Wakefield -Goldsmith

[Casey]

Crime and Punishment- not really sure how this one will work out, but I found it used so I guess it's worth a shot

[Beth]

starting The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as soon as we get home tonight from Maine.

[Alex]

I just started my first List book and it is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I have now read the first three chapters, each one sucking me deeper and deeper into the distantly dark world of the novel. I'm excited to read more of the book and continue on to other books on the List in this exciting project.

[El]

Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott.

[Gini]

Casey wrote: "Crime and Punishment- not really sure how this one will work out, but I found it used so I guess it's worth a shot"

I'm starting it myself, tomorrow. And I feel the same way.

[Deanne]

Reading The Mandarins by De Beauvoir, interesting account of what was happening in France after the liberation of Paris. The main characters are part of the political and intellectual sets, and describes their confusion between joy of liberation and what happened during the occupation.
Some of the characters take part in punishing people believed to have collaborated with the Nazis, others want to forget what happened and move on. Told from various view points it makes me interested in reading more of her books.

[Shovelmonkey1]

I've read Oscar and Lucinda and One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich over the christmas period and have just started the Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood which I'm finding is more readable than some of her other books on the list.