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[Asa]

I've just started Puzo's The Godfather.

[Deanne]

Started Max Havelaar, surprised at how good it is and the impact this book had on the lives of others. It led to welfare reforms and inspired the Fairtrade movement.

[Viviana]

Rebecca, I absolutely LOVED "The Golden Notebook"! I once started "War and Peace" but I must confess I dropped it when I got to the whole military part. I want to restart it, though, one of these days. Meanwhile, I just started "The Waves". I never read anything by Virginia Woolf, but, although I am on the very first pages, I must say I am loving her writing style: beautifully written and rich imagery!

[laut]

I just started Dining on Stones. I don't think I'm gonna like it, if I'm right I probably won't bother finishing it.

Has anyone else read it and liked it?

[Deanne]

Didn't like Dining on Stones much either, but I used to walk past the building he describes at the start of the book. I lost interest fairly quickly after that.

[Leonard]

Just started the sixth volume of In Search of Lost Time: Time Regained. Going down the home stretch.

[El]

Awesome, Leonard. I'm just starting the first volume - I've read it before (Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove), but then never continued. Now I'm starting over with full intention of reading the whole bunch. I'm really getting into it too, with a bunch of Proustian side-reads. I've totally dorked out over it. :)

[Pinar]

I hurt my belly badly and spending all day in bed reading Wuthering Heights...

[LindaD]

Pinar wrote: "I hurt my belly badly and spending all day in bed reading Wuthering Heights..."

feel better, sounds like you need to escape to another time and place...

[Donna]

Just starting Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina - will probably keep me going for some time to come!

[whimsicalmeerkat]

I need to pick my next list book. Any suggestions?

[Shay]

Denae wrote: "I need to pick my next list book. Any suggestions?"

I see you have a separate GR shelf for dystopian novels. Have you read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin?

[whimsicalmeerkat]

I've not read that. I'll have to bump it up towards the top of my list.

[Mike]

I just started "A Room With a View" by E.M. Forster.

[Kat (A Journey In Reading)]

Mike wrote: "I just started "A Room With a View" by E.M. Forster."


I just got that one on my Kindle a few days ago... it was FREE!

Donna: can't wait to see what you think of Anna K.... one of my favs.

[Genia]

The Turn of the Screw. Should be a short read.

[Donna]

Kat (LvnEvryMin) wrote: "Mike wrote: "I just started "A Room With a View" by E.M. Forster."


I just got that one on my Kindle a few days ago... it was FREE!

Donna: can't wait to see what you think of Anna K.... one..."


Kat: So far (the few chapters I've read anyway) I'm loving it. It's my first Tolstoy - a lot easier to read than I expected! :)

[Mike]

Hey, Donna! So did I.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Denae wrote: "I've not read that. I'll have to bump it up towards the top of my list."

I second Shay's suggestion for We - i read it last year and thought it was great!

I've just started The Plague by Albert Camus, which is good so far although i keep trying to work out all the philosophical points the text might be making as i read along which is a bit distracting!

[Deanne]

Reading the second book in Your face tomorrow, I'm half way through and about to start dream. Love his descriptions of things, why use one sentence when you can use six.
Also reading Phineas Finn, and can now tell the difference between Tories and Whigs, so I've learnt something.

[Shea]

Mike wrote: "I just started "A Room With a View" by E.M. Forster."

I like this one a lot! Just started Atonement.

[Mikela]

Just starting A Room With a View

[Maggie]

I just started One Hundred Years of Solitude. I read it about 40 years ago, liked it but was mystified. Now I LOVE it and am mystified.

[Kat (A Journey In Reading)]

Donna wrote: "Kat: So far (the few chapters I've read anyway) I'm loving it. It's my first Tolstoy - a lot easier to read than I expected! :)

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When you finish it, I recommend reading The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year, you will learn so much about his last days and why he was who he was. I loved it....made me appreciate him that much more.

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I am currently reading Memoirs of a Geisha. It is really interesting! I have a blog that does the books chronologically. Come check me out at 1001everything.blogspot.com.

[Kate S]

I just started On Beauty by Zadie Smith So far it's interesting

[Deanne]

Started Henderson the Rain King last night and I'm about 300 pages in, but I have the day off as I'm on nights this weekend.
Waiting for my kindle to arrive, can't wait, already looking up those free classics.

[Katherine]

I just started Vanity Fair. It may take awhile to get through, but I already find the tone amusing.

[Colten]

I just started 100 Years of Solitude.

[Gini]

Katherine wrote: "I just started Vanity Fair. It may take awhile to get through, but I already find the tone amusing."

I thought it was a marvelous read, and so engrossing that I couldn't put it down.

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I'm 3 chapters into Siddhartha (2010 list). So far, things are moving too quickly. The characters's experiences fly by; you don't get a good feel (for lack of better terminology) each path they take.

I don't know. Maybe that's the point...

[Maggie]

I'm a couple of chapters into The Master and Margarita. So far I'm not getting it. But then, I haven't run into the Master or Margarita yet. So I'm waiting in anticipation.

[Lorena]

I started Les Miserables a couple of days ago, I'm fully engaged at the moment. I watched the movie a few years back but I don't remember any of what I'm reading now from the movie.

I read Anna K. recently and really liked, I was a little confused at first because of the number of characters and all the nicknames, but once I got the hang of it, it was truly amazing.

I liked Siddhartha as well, it was an audiobbok I listen during my commute to work.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Started The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Gustavus Vassa, the African
this morning. Have been meaning to read this for ages as its the only book on the list that ties in with my work and research but somehow it kept getting left on the TBR pile.

[Judith]

Started "Marius the Epicurean" by Walter Pater.

This is a dense coming-of-age story exploring the development of one's boy's philosophy and religion. Set in the Roman Empire at the time when pagan religions are faltering and the Christian religion is spreading, the author's intent was to show how a certain type of thinker seeks maturity in his beliefs.

[Jennifer W]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf. It'll only be my 2nd Woolf, and the 1st (Mrs. Dalloway) was a decade ago.

[Deanne]

Just started On the Eve by Turgenev, and then I think I'll read the third installment of Your Face Tomorrow.

[Craig]

Evelina by Fanny Burney
and
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos

[Eva]

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

[Mike]

I started The Brothers Karamazov a week or so ago. I was bored and lost so last night I reread the first few chapters again. I got it now, so I'm trucking on.

[Deanne]

Just started Javier Marias Your Face Tomorrow: 3 Poison, Shadow and Farewell.

[Lorena]

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. =)

[laut]

I've decided to try and read Albert Camus's The Outsider quickly as I've fallen behind a little on my attempt to read 50 books this year.

[Vanessa]

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. I'm 80 or so pages in and it's not grabbing me so far, which is unusual as I normally love her books. I shall stick with it till the end but hope it gets better!

[Deanne]

Started The Trick is to Keep Breathing, a story about a woman and her ability to deal with grief.

[Stephanie]

Dracula. So far so good.

[[deleted user]]

I just started Tale of a Tub. It is a little hard to swallow. I am actually tracked the books chronologically on my blog at 1001everything.blogspot.com. Check it out!

[Shovelmonkey1]

I started Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann last night. It's actually pretty good although not something that immediately jumps out as being obviously list-worthy. It was added to the list in 2008.

[Deanne]

Started Buddenbrooks this morning, and beginning to get into it, might take it to work tonight.

[Maggie]

Yesterday I started Catch 22.