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[Ellen]

Uh-I mean GOOGLE.

[Cindy]

Oh, sorry! I forgot to post the link! That's what I get for multistasking:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...

[Ellen]

Thanks-& sometimes my multitasking turns into no tasking (which is still better than my mess-everything-up tasking!)

[Becky]

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

[Nicole]

I just started Jane Eyre.

[Tanya (aka ListObsessedReader)]

Just started The Monk. Looking forward to reading the group discussion when I'm a bit further along!

[Charity]

Marius wrote: "I just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy I already like it. The Road"

Not a list book. Sorry.

[Sonja]

I just started Middlemarch which I only realized is a list book after going through my copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

[Trisha]

just started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It's a quick read, but very strange.

My husband said it was mandatory reading in highschool!!! Wow, this much talk about open sex with no commitment and it was required 9th grade reading!? ....I hope the end helps me feel better about that :)

[Judith]

I'm half finished with Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt".

Wow, what a portrait of a completely self-serving man of his time!

[Anthony]

I'm starting "The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M. Cain, which I really should have read by now.

[Anthony]

I'm starting "The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M. Cain, which I really should have read by now.

[Becky]

The Monk

[Christina Stind]

Just started The Monk as well.

[Charity]

Just started The Shining by Stephen King last night.

[Katherine]

I started "A Prayer for Owen Meany" a couple days ago. Many people here seem to absolutely love it, so I figured I had to check it out.

[Casey]

Trisha wrote: "just started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It's a quick read, but very strange.

My husband said it was mandatory reading in highschool!!! Wow, this much talk about open sex with no commitment ..."

Haha I wouldn't count on it. I read this two years ago, it was one of the stranger things I've read

[K.D.]

Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. I like the subtlety!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Yesterday I started Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (2008 list addition) - it is a lovely story so far and very very readable.

[Ellen]

I loved Kitchen. Are there any new Yoshimoto's? I've read everything I could find so far. I really enjoy here-but Kitchen was her best.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Ellie wrote: "I loved Kitchen. Are there any new Yoshimoto's? I've read everything I could find so far. I really enjoy here-but Kitchen was her best."

I've never read anything by this author before and i'm not aware of any new books - perhaps the Japanese Literature group might know - i'm a member of that group too.

[Anthony]

The Guide by R.K. Narayan. I started this awhile ago. Misplaced it. Found it. Now I'm starting it again.

[Invidia]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Just dandy!

[Judith]

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

Since this author has has another out for several months with rave reviews, it must me high time I read this one, supposedly in the same ilk....

[Ellen]

I thought The Corrections was a solid, well-written book but I never understood all the hype around it. It's not the "defining" book of the century-at least, I hope not. I liked Franzen's earlier work better, edgier, more interesting. Corrections seemed like another contribution to the American dysfunctional success story-done so well by Mr.Bridge/Mrs. Bridge (Evan S. Connell) variety.
Freedom sounds the same only more depressing. I never found much humor in Franzen to begin with so I'm not running out to get it any time soon.

[Ellen]

On the just started thread:
The Monk.

[April]

Ellie wrote: "I thought The Corrections was a solid, well-written book but I never understood all the hype around it. It's not the "defining" book of the century-at least, I hope not. I liked Franzen's earlier w..."

Ellie, I read The Corrections last week. I feel the same as you. I felt as if I should have enjoyed it much more than I did. I agree that it is well-written. Franzen does demonstrates a sturdiness in his craft. Like you, I'm not running out to get Freedom any time soon. Especially since there are so many great reads out there waiting for me.

[Becky]

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - audio
-Sucked me right in and brought on a case of the willies!

[Ellen]

April-I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it more but I am so glad not to be alone. It would have been better without the hype, but then I probably wouldn't have read it. And I agree that there's just too much I want to run out & read to waste any time with "ok."

[K.D.]

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels.

[K.D.]

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels.

[Beth]

Money: A Suicide Note. I've never read Amis, so I'm curious to see if I am a fan.

[Ellen]

Hi Beth-I've missed your posts!
I "sort of" like Amis: admire his writing, am a little taken aback by his "personality" as present in his books.
But Money is his most acclaimed work & I'm wanting to read it. I can hardly wait to get your take on it.

[Eva]

At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition by H.P. Lovecraft.

[Craig]

A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

and

Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

[Ellen]

I love Sterne. I started to red Smollett as an undergraduate & my professor said "Don't bother," so I didn't but I've always wondered how he is as a writer. Interesting name, no? Please post your responses to Clinker (& I'll somehow restrain myself from the obvious barbs!)

[Anthony]

Beloved by Toni Morrison

[Linda]

Trisha wrote: "just started Brave New World...
My husband said it was mandatory reading in highschool!!! Wow, this much talk about open sex with no commitment ..."
I remember that was a book some of the 9th grade classes were reading when I was in Jr. High in the late 70s, but somehow I avoided. I plan to read it this year.

[Becky]

Under the Skin by Faber

[Karina]

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt. hopefully this one is a good one!

[Kristi]

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan.

[Shay]

Rabbit Redux by John Updike. I took a literature course in college and we read Rabbit is Rich. I've never read the previous novels (Rabbit, Run or Redux) until now.

[Cindy]

Finally starting The Monk.

[Mike]

I just picked up "I, Robot" by Isacc Asimov.

[Becky]

Frankenstein - audio version narrated by Simon Vance - yum.

[Ryan]

Saturday by Ian McEwan

[Christa]

Giving A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian a shot!

[Amy J.]

I just started Anna Karenina. And so fare I"m loving it.

[Judith]

"I Thought of Daisy" by Edmund Wilson

A short, but strange little love story based on Wilson's affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay in the New York of the 1920s.

[Ellen]

Judith wrote: ""I Thought of Daisy" by Edmund Wilson

A short, but strange little love story based on Wilson's affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay in the New York of the 1920s."

See-this is what I love about goodreads. I might have gone my whole life without hearing about this book which sounds like the perfect read for me! And somehow I missed that Wilson had even had an affair with Millay. I love literary gossip: it's as juicy as People but with an aura of culture!