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[Karina]

Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley. I hope this is good. One of my co-workers did not enjoy it!

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Jude the Obscure

[Shirley]

The Hostage

[Luciana]

Denae wrote: "Jude the Obscure"

I also started this book today. I've had it for so many years and for some reason had never opened it. It's my first Thomas Hardy, and I adore Victorian literature, so I'm excited. :)

[Amy J.]

Karina wrote: "Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley. I hope this is good. One of my co-workers did not enjoy it!"

Well, I loved it, and I hope you do too!

[Kelley | Foxwood Press]

I just requested "What Maisie Knew" from the library, but I'm picking up "Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day" tomorrow. I've only read 17 out of the 1001, so I have a long way to go.

[Amy J.]

I'm starting Of Mice and Men. This is a reread of my favorite assigned high school book.

[Asa]

Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.

[Yassemin]

Karina wrote: "Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley. I hope this is good. One of my co-workers did not enjoy it!"

I didn't either. Gave up on it not far into it. Boring! Most enjoy it though...

[El]

I've been reading Ellison's Invisible Man. Jury is out on this one, but I'm not quite halfway through yet so I'll try to withhold judgment.

[Judith]

Lawrence Durrell's "Justine"

Such a quotable book!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Wise Children by Angela Carter - not that into it so far and also reading After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

[Becky]

Started listening to A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (audio)

[Maria]

Villette, by Charlotte Brontë

[[deleted user]]

Ellie wrote: "Is The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe a list book?

In that case, I just began The Mysteries of Udolpho."

And not done yet, will read it through April. Loving it.

[Wendy]

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin...hmmm, it's not quite what I expected...which was, oh I don't know, perhaps a more explicit Virginia Woolf? (it's NOT!) Stories are very hit/miss so far--tally is 1/8. Did enjoy the preface very much.

[Luciana]

I started The Mill on the Floss yesterday and so far I'm loving it!

[Amanda]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I am too early in to really leave feedback.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Just started Henry James, The Turn of the Screw.

[Cait]

I'm in the beginning chapters of Cancer Ward and am also rereading Everything That Rises Must Converge.

[Judith]

I started John Banville's "The Sea" yesterday after I finished a re-read of Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".

[Sophie]

I recently started 'The Maltese Falcon' - not entirely sure how I'm feeling about it just yet..

[Shovelmonkey1]

Amanda wrote: "The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I am too early in to really leave feedback."

I was really doubtful about this when i first started reading it but after about 40 pages i was hooked and ended up loving it. A new take on the dystopian novel. V good!

[Liz M]

Brent wrote: "I wrote the 2012 asteroid-impact novel Regolith, so I just started reading Carl Sagan's Contact again, after so many years. It's still good."

Spam? Four posts in under ten minutes, each mentioning the book he wrote.

[Charity]

Liz M wrote: "Spam? Four posts in under ten minutes, each mentioning the book he wrote."

Yeah, I blocked him from the group.

[Craig]

Amelia -Henry Fielding

[Jennifer W]

Judith, I wanted to read The Sea after it came up as a possible group read (but wasn't selected), but then I saw a lot of reviews saying the writing wasn't very good, so I've decided against it for the time being. Do let us know how it is!

[Judith]

Jennifer W wrote: "Judith, I wanted to read The Sea after it came up as a possible group read (but wasn't selected), but then I saw a lot of reviews saying the writing wasn't very good, so I've decided ag..."

I'm half way finished, but still holding back on whether I really like it or not. The writing is quite good, but I have trouble tracking with the narrator's perceptions...Irish terms are a real problem, not being able to identify with much of what he feels is another. I'll keep you posted.

[Cindy]

Just starting Les Misérables, and music is already running through my head. ;)

[K.D.]

Currently reading:

THE RAVISHING OF LOL STEIN
by
Marguerite Duras

Just started:

DANGEROUS LIAISONS
by
Choderlos de Laclos

[Genia]

I've just moved The Elegance of the Hedgehog from my to-read pile to my reading-now table. I am somewhat dreading it; I've heard it was heavy-handed, pretentious, and overwrought.

[Katherine]

I just started The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.

[Karina]

Just started Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I hope it is better than Jane Eyre, which her sister wrote and I throughly disliked it.

[Judith]

"The Waves" - Virginia Woolf

[Elisabeth]

Karina wrote: "Just started Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I hope it is better than Jane Eyre, which her sister wrote and I throughly disliked it."

I think Wuthering Heights is better. It is still very dark, but I loved it and though Jane Eyre was just ok, lol

[Emily]

@ Cindy - I just started Les Miz as well. Only on page 100 and is slow going for me since I can really only read during lunch. Trying really hard to hang in there and don't want to be on it for months and months.

@ Karina and Elisabeth - Really? Wuthering Heights is better? Granted, I have not read the book, seen the movie, but I really did like Jane Eyre.

[Cindy]

Emily wrote: "@ Cindy - I just started Les Miz as well. Only on page 100 and is slow going for me since I can really only read during lunch. Trying really hard to hang in there and don't want to be on it for m..."

Oooh, fantastic Emily! I've only done Book 1 of Fantine so far, but I'm loving the character development.

I'm doing it as a part of a group read in a different group - we have a 3-month schedule with weekly discussions. If you're interested, drop me a message, and I can share the details. :)

[Emily]

Cindy wrote: "Emily wrote: "@ Cindy - I just started Les Miz as well. Only on page 100 and is slow going for me since I can really only read during lunch. Trying really hard to hang in there and don't want to ..."

I would love to know more. I'm worried, though. Like I said, I only really have time to read at lunch at work (if that) I work 2 jobs so reading time is minimal. That being said, I need to got off-line so that I can read some before bed! But, give me some more information, because it might be a little more incentive to keep plugging away!

[Asa]

John Buchan's The 39 Steps - it's seems like a fun and easy read.

[Genia]

It was. It's a nice adventure story, the ur-spy novel, in its own way. What I didn't know and only found out while reading this book is that there's a whole series of them, with the protagonist becoming a sort of fin-de-ciecle James Bond. Go figure.

[Haley]

Just started Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. I'm really liking the epic scope of the book so far.

[Shay]

Memoirs of a Geisha. I've never read it because the movie looked so cheesy (never seen it) that it made me not want to read the book.

[Althesia]

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

[Gini]

Elisabeth wrote: "Karina wrote: "Just started Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I hope it is better than Jane Eyre, which her sister wrote and I throughly disliked it."

I think Wuthering Heights is bet..."

Whereas I adored Jane Eyre and disliked Wuthering Heights. It makes me really appreciate how different we all are!

[Dylan]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

[Leonard]

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin.

[Karina]

Emily wrote: "@ Cindy - I just started Les Miz as well. Only on page 100 and is slow going for me since I can really only read during lunch. Trying really hard to hang in there and don't want to be on it for m..."

I will pass judgement on it once I finish the book. I am having a hard time getting into it!

[Shovelmonkey1]

I've just started Thursbitch by Alan Garner and at the moment i'm not sure what to make of this one. The beginning is quite random (written in local dialect which is hard to understand) then it just sort of plunges off in another direction without much explanation but either way its only a short read.

[Asa]

I've started reading Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

[Jenbebookish]

I just read thru Margaret atwoods works. I'm not sure which are on the list but they all should be!! She is brilliant, & she alone has restored my faith in modern day lit. Obsession alert!!