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[Amanda]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "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 ..."

I see what you mean. For a while, I was a tad bored and unsure of what was going on. Then, all of the sudden, it became fantastic!

[Craig]

Marquis de Sade's 120 days of Sodom.

[Susanna]

About to start my first Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises .

[Trice]

Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - picked up this book a year or 2 ago after reading the first page or 2 in the bookstore but just hadn't gotten to it. Still love the concept. could you call it meta story? It's the story of the person reading the book in a way, and you're talking directly to the characters - removes the separation somehow - you can't be just an observer watching the lives of the characters develop.

[Shirley]

Will be starting

by John Galsworthy as a group read on June 5th if anyone is interested.

[Kate S]

I just started The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. So far (about 75 pages in) I am really enjoying it.

[Judith]

Waterland by Graham Swift

[Drew]

Just started Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. So far, I am liking it more than I expected to. Breezy and funny, whereas I was expecting bleak and moody.

[Regine]

I'm reading Rebecca which is fabulous and Les Liaisons Dangereuses which is not so fabulous.

[Zulfiya]

I am going to re-read The Picture of Dorian Gray as my book cub choice and enjoy again the hidden and perverted language of secret love.
Oscar Wilde is pretentious, elegant, and classy.

[Richard]

Just started Ben Hur.
Not really my type of book, but I'm enjoying it so far. I've got a long trip on the trains today so I should be able to make some good progress with this book :)

Zulfiya - The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favourite all-time books!

[Regine]

Zulfiya- I love Dorin Gray as well. I was actually surprised at how homoerotic it was.

[Shay]

The Count of Monte Cristo. Using the newer, non-Victorian, translation. I think it's going to be worth the money.

[Shovelmonkey1]

I've just started reading The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy - it's one of the Penguin Great Loves Editions so i'm loving the front cover. Also i recently read The Picture of Dorian Grey and loved it so much it has made it into my top ten 1001 books so far. Decadent, debauched, sleazy and brilliant - thumbs up Ozzie Wilde!

[Amy J.]

I just started Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

[Rebeca]

Susanna wrote: "About to start my first Hemingway, [book:The Sun Also Rises


I love this book,,and i read pretty much all of his books,,,

[Shirley]

Zulfiya wrote: "I am going to re-read The Picture of Dorian Gray as my book cub choice and enjoy again the hidden and perverted language of secret love.
Oscar Wilde is pretentious, elegant, and classy."

I watched the new movie version last week end WOW what an endeavor. I didn't remember it as being so dark and scary.....but London has many dark tales.

[Susanna]

Rebeca, the beginning seemed okay but now that I'm past page 100, I think the style is starting to take its toll on me.

[Bucket]

I'm reading some non-fiction for a bit, but next up is Waterland by Graham Swift. It's a reread for me, but it has been about 10 years and all I remember about it is that I loved it. So it's time!

[Gini]

I'm reading Saturday, which was on the 2008 list. It's my first McEwan, and I'm really enjoying it!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Finished The Kreutzer Sonata this morning and have now moved onto Bonjour Tristesse by Francois Sagan which is also part of the Penguin Great Loves series.

[Genia]

Just started Foucault's Pendulum. I loved The Name of the Rose tremendously, so I have high hopes for it.

[Deanne]

Started The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn, I really enjoyed Cancer Ward so I'm looking forward to this.

[Leonard]

Genia wrote: "Just started Foucault's Pendulum. I loved The Name of the Rose tremendously, so I have high hopes for it."

Just finished The Name of the Rose a few weeks ago. Like it alot.

[Genia]

Deanne wrote: "Started The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn, I really enjoyed Cancer Ward so I'm looking forward to this."

I love The First Circle. It's a fantastic book. And The Name of the Rose is probably among my favourite books of all time (yes, okay, I have way too many of those). The librarian handed it to me in... seventh grade, I believe it was, and since then I was addicted.

[Susanna]

I'm finally starting Stephen King's The Shining .

[Malou]

I'm reading "House Rules," my second Jodi Picoult novel.

[Shovelmonkey1]

I'm reading The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen. Knew nothing about the book when i picked it up, just liked the title. Elizabeth Bowen

If anyone here is also on bookcrossing.com, I'm offering this up as a bookray once i'm finished with it.

[Abhayan]

I am reading The Films of Akira Kurosawa, by Donald Richie.

[Jo]

I'm about 1/3 of the way through The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, and I love it so far.

[Asa]

Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

[Rosemary]

Malou wrote: "I'm reading "House Rules," my second Jodi Picoult novel."

I don't think there's anything by Jodi Picoult on the list!

[David]

Buddenbrooks, Verfall einer Familie by Thomas Mann.
Might take some good time, reading German never was my forté and already I discovered my dictionary does not cover all...

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[K.D.]

Passed halfway with: The Master by Colm Toibin. Very good.

[M]

Two chapters into The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Too early to know whether I like it.

[Emily]

Rosemary wrote: "Malou wrote: "I'm reading "House Rules," my second Jodi Picoult novel."

I don't think there's anything by Jodi Picoult on the list!"

Nope, but House Rules was good!

[Amanda]

Zulfiya wrote: "I am going to re-read The Picture of Dorian Gray as my book cub choice and enjoy again the hidden and perverted language of secret love.
Oscar Wilde is pretentious, elegant, and classy."


I agree. That is one of my all-time favorite books!

[Mansee]

I just issued 1984- by George Orwell from my office library

[Shovelmonkey1]

Jo wrote: "I'm about 1/3 of the way through The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, and I love it so far."

This was one of the first 1001 books i read and I thought it was great. I've got The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins on my TBR pile at the mo.

[Cassi]

Gini wrote: "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 Wuther..."

Tonight I am going to see the 2010 movie version of Jane Eyre at the request of a friend. Has anyone seen it? I usually hate movies that are based on books (especially if I have read the book first, and even more so if I loved the book). Hopefully, this film isn't too horrible! In any case, at least I'll get to eat some movie theater popcorn :)

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Maria wrote: "Villette, by Charlotte Brontë"

Loved that book.

[Emily]

Cassi wrote: "Gini wrote: "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..."

If you're watching the new version with Toby and I can't remember his whole name, who played Rochester, it was GREAT!

[David]

Katie wrote: "Just starting on Atonement, for my book club. I've been waiting to get to this one for a while, and I refuse to see the movie before reading it. That's how I've picked up a lot of books, actually. ..."

Not always reading the novel first is a must, but in case of Atonement you def made the right choice. My profound dislike of a character could never have been achieved by the (in itself good) film.

[Mikela]

There are just so many good books that selecting my next read was difficult. Finally decided on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

[laut]

Mikela wrote: "There are just so many good books that selecting my next read was difficult. Finally decided on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

I really liked I know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It's very sad in places though.

I've recently started The Colour by Rose Tremain.

[Mikela]

Am glad to hear that you enjoyed it. Looking forward to starting it.

[Deanne]

The drowned and the saved by Levi, it's a 4 day weekend with good friday and easter monday, and then another 4 day weekend with the wedding and may day. Hope to get some reading done.

[Anthony]

I'm about half way through Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist

[Gini]

I'm reading Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. It's light and fluffy fun so far.

[Tanya (aka ListObsessedReader)]

I've finally gotten around to starting The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.