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[Genia]

I started reading Bleak House. I am not a fan of Dickens, so I expect this read will take me quite a while.

[Judith]

Despite the fact that I already had three books in progress, I found myself starting to re-read "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte last night. Seems better the second time through!

[Karina]

Just started reading The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras. Sounds interesting!

[Haley]

Just started Nights at the Circus and Life of Pi. Looking forward to these two for a while. So far so good!

[Haley]

Logan wrote: "I picked up Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicles at the airport last night and then spent an entire flight when I should have been sleeping sucked into the pages. One of the review snippets o..."

LOVE that book! Enjoy! I haven't read any Thomas Pynchon, but it sounds like I'll need to start.

[Lisa]

Just pulled Naked Lunch out of the bag, going to start that & alternate between that & A Confederacy of Dunces.

[Judith]

I might be crazy, but I started the ever dreaded "Ulysses" by James Joyce last night.

All encouragement is welcome!

Actually, it is easy to read, but far from easy to understand! Great dialogue!

[Heather]

I've just started Uncle Silasby Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It seems to me (at only 2 chapters in) that it might be a bit like The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins, which I enjoyed earlier this year.

[Yrinsyde]

Just started The Time Machine HG Wells - about 1/2 done already. I plan to get back to Tristram Shandy and start on The Hound of the Baskervilles (which I first read as a young teen).

[Deanne]

Started The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barberry, about 1/3 in and enjoying it so far.

Heather
I love In A Glass Darkly by Le Fanu and I've got The House By The Churchyard, not a 1001 book but I'm saving it to read at christmas.

[Sandi]

Started Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane.

[Bea]

Ulysses is so worth it. I'd suggest not trying to understand it on the first go round but just letting it flow through you. To me, Leopold Bloom, for all his failings, is the most loveable character in all of literature. Enjoy living with him for awhile.

[Logophile]

I just started Lolita. I saw the Kubrick movie years ago, and one would have to have lived in a cave for the last 50 years not to have some awareness of the critical thought about it, but I'm finding it ... disturbing. "Unreliable narrator," I keep muttering to myself.

[Karina]

just started A Room With a View by E.M. Forster. I also have Howard's End in this edition so I might as well read them both!

[mark]

i started A Maggot by john fowles about a month ago, and then promptly lost my copy. it was sad - i had held on to the paperback for about 25 years, since high school, always meaning to read it! finally got around to buying another copy. so far it is excellent. very intriguing.

[Kate S]

Just started Possession, so far I am interested. . .

[Inder]

I'm taking a quick break from Les Misérables to read something quick (and just a little trashy): Murder Must Advertise. It's fun! Don't know how I missed this in my high school days, when I read all the other Lord Peter Whimsey detective novels.

[Angela]

Jane Eyre and loving it. Don't understand why I haven't read it before!

[Ellen]

Karina wrote: "just started A Room With a View by E.M. Forster. I also have Howard's End in this edition so I might as well read them both!"

I hope you enjoy "A Room with a View" as much as I did, Karina. If you liked "Howard's End" you'll most likely this one, too. Forster is one of my favorites, and I enjoy his style very much. Thanks!

[Ellen]

mark wrote: "i started A Maggot by john fowles about a month ago, and then promptly lost my copy. it was sad - i had held on to the paperback for about 25 years, since high school, always meaning to read it! fi..."

Mark, to my way of thinking, Fowles is one of the greatest American writers of his time, and I've read many of his book. Enjoy!

[Kelly]

I will be starting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time as soon as I can get it from the library. It is a group read for one of my other GR groups. Might as well tuck another List read under my belt! : )

[Tanya (aka ListObsessedReader)]

Have just recently started Crime and Punishment. So far I am finding it very readable so I am guessing I have got a good translation. Pleased to be working on being able to tick off another Russian mammoth from the list!... Just might take a while :)

[Anne]

I'm just starting This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski.

[Lisa]

Just started A Confederacy of Dunces. It sounded like a "lighter" read, even though it's a thicker book, but I'm hoping it gets better, so far, I'm finding Ignatius, the main character to be a complete bore, a pompous ass, & a fat, lazy slob who's what I detest most in a man, a disrespectful mooch.

[Cynthia]

Lisa, I think "Dunces" is one of those you either love or hate. I loved it but many of my friends did not.

[Craig]

Started Melmoth the Wanderer by Maturin a few days ago and just started Ivanhoe by Scott, as well.

[Ginny]

I've started reading The Tale of Genji and Elegance of a Hedgehog.

[Kelly]

Ginny wrote: "I've started reading The Tale of Genji and Elegance of a Hedgehog."

Is Elegance of a Hedgehog on one of the more recent lists? I don't see it on the 2006 list, and yet two people have stated starting it here. I have it on loan from my MIL, but haven't started it yet....

[Kerem]

Lisa wrote: "Just started A Confederacy of Dunces. It sounded like a "lighter" read, even though it's a thicker book, but I'm hoping it gets better, so far, I'm finding Ignatius, the main character to be a com..."

Ahhhhh!!!! That book is meant to be a classic and i had to stop reading it exactly because of those reasons you mention. Hated the main character. If you don't like it yet, trust me, start something else!

[Ophelia]

Is Elegance of a Hedgehog on one of the more recent lists? I don't see it on the 2006 list, and yet two people ha..."

According to my spreadsheet it was added in the 2010 edition =]

I've just started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Heard a lot about it and so far it's keeping me interested!

[Deanne]

The Living and the Dead by Patrick White, good so far but reminds me of Woolf.

Ellen
John Fowles can't be one of the greatest American writers as he was born in England and lived there most of his life, except when living in Greece.

[Kelly]

Thanks, Lemon Crisis! I still need to add the newer versions to my spreadsheet.

[Ellen]

Deanne wrote: "The Living and the Dead by Patrick White, good so far but reminds me of Woolf.

Ellen
John Fowles can't be one of the greatest American writers as he was born in England and lived there most of ..."

Er, DUH! This is what happens when one stays up too late and posts on Goodreads. I had completely forgotten about Fowles being British. Apologies all around! Thanks for pointing this out, Deanne!

[Rusty]

Wow! Was reading Fingersmith but had to return it to the library before I finished it. Have read Middlesex and need to get to Foucault's Pendulum which is on my TBR for this year. The Life of Pi was such a wonderful read that I can't stop thinking about it.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Janie wrote: "I'm reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History. My favourite from the ones on the list i've read so far. Can't put it down!"

I quite liked this one too - even though my review was a bit sarcastic! I'm currently reading The Graduate. Very readable but i keep hearing Dustin Hoffmans voice in my head as I read the lines. It doesn't seem to have taken much to adjust this from book to screenplay.

[Pilvinetaevas]

"Unless" Carol Shields

[Katrina]

Just started Cloud Atlas for the second time, I abandoned it half way through last time. Not massively impressed so far, but only have read 2 of the stories so far.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Katrina wrote: "Just started Cloud Atlas for the second time, I abandoned it half way through last time. Not massively impressed so far, but only have read 2 of the stories so far."

The middle story (the apex) made me die inside. I confess I skipped 90% of it. The rest was sort of ok though.

[Katrina]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "Katrina wrote: "Just started Cloud Atlas for the second time, I abandoned it half way through last time. Not massively impressed so far, but only have read 2 of the stories so far."

The middle sto..."

That's the part that finished my reading last time!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Katrina wrote: "Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "Katrina wrote: "Just started Cloud Atlas for the second time, I abandoned it half way through last time. Not massively impressed so far, but only have read 2 of the stories so..."

Not surprised. It killed it for me. But i quite liked black swan green and number9dream despite thinking i wouldn't.

[Catalina]

Started Adam Bede a couple of days ago. It's quaint so far. I like the way Eliot sets up the scene before the entrance of a character, like a painting or a set for a play.

[Sissy]

Lemon Crisis wrote: "I've just started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Heard a lot about it and so far it's keeping me interested! "

Would love to know what you think when you finish. I just finished this the other day - still a bit muddled. So many things I wish had been answered!

[Kerem]

Amanda wrote: "Finally finally finally started The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Gotta keep up my hipster cred, you know."

That is one AMAZING book. I think it might be his masterpiece to be honest, although his new one 'iq84' comes out this winter and is meant to be really good too. Enjoy!

[Entre Chás e Cafés ❀Renata CR❀]

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

[Lisa]

Just started The House of the Spirits. You know it's going to be a good book when one of the first scenes in the book is a ranting & raving Catholic priest, & in the silence that falls once he pauses to catch his breath, you hear the voice of a 10 year old girl say "if all that stuff about Hell is a lie, we're all fucked aren't we?" I literally CHOKED with laughter! So far this book is imminently readable, funny, & the characters are warm & relatable.

[Anne]

Lisa wrote: "Just started The House of the Spirits. You know it's going to be a good book when one of the first scenes in the book is a ranting & raving Catholic priest, & in the silence that falls once he pau..."

I wish someone had quoted that line for me long ago - I would have read it by now. Thank you. Now I look forward to reading it soon.

[Judy]

SATURDAY BY IAN MCEWAN

[Ellen]

Lisa wrote: "Just started The House of the Spirits. You know it's going to be a good book when one of the first scenes in the book is a ranting & raving Catholic priest, & in the silence that falls once he pau..."

That's just brilliant, Lisa! Now you've made me want to read this book, too. What a great start! Thanks!

[Robin]

I just started "The Book about Blanche and Marie" and it seems interesting.

[Kerem]

Janie wrote: "I'm reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History. My favourite from the ones on the list i've read so far. Can't put it down!"

The secret history is a masterpiece, very beautiful and dark. Hope you like it. It's a shame her second book wasn't as good though.