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[Hubert]

Marialyce wrote: "Reading A Prayer for Owen Meany."

Enjoying it?

[Vanessa]

I've just started The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Enjoying it so far, but it's dauntingly long and the print is very small. :-(

[Bea]

Thank you Jeeves really hit the spot. It was Wodehouse's first full-length novel. (There are many short stories featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.) If you end up liking Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters is my favorite so far. Alas, it is not on the list.

I'm still working my way slowly through Uncle Silas and have just started a re-read of Bleak House.

[Bea]

Hubert wrote: "Karina wrote: "Just started Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard. Reading this while I am reading The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling which I am half way thru!"

What sugge..."

You might try listening instead. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Charleton Griffin and adored it. Your mileage may vary.

[LindaD]

Sandi wrote: "I read The Woman in White earlier this year, it was great!"

loved it! own a copy that I will reread at some point

[Judith]

"Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stepenson

This one will be a hard read for me (so much mathematics), but I think it will be well worth it.
I hope to even learn something!

[Beckie]

Just started The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells.

[Liz M]

Kristi wrote: "I just started One Amazing Thing."

I love her books, but none of them are on the 1001 list.

[Cindy]

I started Les Liaisons Dangereuses last night. It's very amusing!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Starting Daniel Deronda.

[Cait]

I'm starting The Midwich Cuckoos this morning.

[Cindy]

Cait wrote: "I'm starting The Midwich Cuckoos this morning."

Rad!!

[Mikela]

Just beginning Half of a Yellow Sun and if it lives up to its reputation should be an excellent read.

[Deanne]

Started Manon de Source by Pagnol, brilliant book.

[Max]

Just started The Trial by Kafka and liking what I've read so far!

[Lisa]

Getting ready to blow through Of Mice & Men, it's a short book, so I should be able to get that one done & start a couple of the other classics on my dresser: 1984, Catch 22, House of 7 Gables, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Northanger Abbey...

[Danyellemastro]

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. It's good, but having loved Sexing the Cherry and Oranges I was expecting to snuggle right into it, but I'm fighting distraction. Also starting War and Peace tonight! Anybody else reading it in the run up to Xmas?

[Stephanie]

Frankenstein I have read it many times but it is the October reading choicde for the book group I am in at the local library, but I am always game to read it again.

[Lisa]

I just started In Cold Blood by Capote last night & I'm already hooked :) I just love his writing style. it flows, the plotline flows along nicely, the characters are interesting, & it takes place in a tiny town in Kansas, out in the middle of the wide open prairie, where you don't think anything would happen that's bad.

[Mikela]

Just beginning The Big Sleep

[Marialyce]

Started both Daniel Deronda and Vanity Fair last night. Both are off to an interesting start.

[Anne]

Marialyce wrote: "Started both Daniel Deronda and Vanity Fair last night. Both are off to an interesting start."

Wow, you started both at the same time. Good luck. I'm reading DD. Want to get to VF, but I don't think I could manage two by Eliot at the same time.

[Bea]

I am still working my way through Uncle Silas trying not to get ahead of a group read. I dropped the Dickens (a re-re-read) and picked up Daniel Deronda. I'm almost 3/4 way through. It is my first Eliot and I am loving her writing and deep insight into human nature so much. It's wonderful to think I have a lot of George Eliot yet to read.

[Marialyce]

Anne wrote: "Marialyce wrote: "Started both Daniel Deronda and Vanity Fair last night. Both are off to an interesting start."

Wow, you started both at the same time. Good luck. I'm rea..."

Anne, Vanity Fair is by William Makepeace Thackeray, while the other is by Eliot. I am looking to finish at least one more on my challenge books so that is why the Thackeray book.

[Marialyce]

Bea wrote: "I am still working my way through Uncle Silas trying not to get ahead of a group read. I dropped the Dickens (a re-re-read) and picked up Daniel Deronda. I'm almost 3/4 wa..."

I did so like Uncle Silas and I hope you do too, Bea. It is the perfect mixture of suspense and the gothic element. So glad you like Eliot. I have read a few of her books and enjoyed them greatly. One of them Silas Marner, I read in high school. I need to re visit that one in the coming year.

[Chel]

Marialyce wrote: "Bea wrote: "I am still working my way through Uncle Silas trying not to get ahead of a group read. I dropped the Dickens (a re-re-read) and picked up Daniel Deronda. I'm a..."

Silas Marner is one of my favorite books.

[Anne]

Marialyce wrote: "Anne, Vanity Fair is by William Makepeace Thackeray, while the other is by Eliot. I am looking to finish at least one more on my challenge books so that is why the Thackeray book. "

Oh, excuse me for the slip. I was so overawed by your taking on both books at the time I wasn't really thinking about the authors.......

[Marialyce]

Anne, no problem at all......I do have lots of reading time particularly at night since I do not watch TV.

[Anne]

Marialyce wrote: "Anne, no problem at all......I do have lots of reading time particularly at night since I do not watch TV."

Happy reading. D))

[Aileen]

I've just picked up An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus, which I'm really hoping is what is listed as An Ethiopian Story as it was all I could find!

[Liz M]

Aileen wrote: "I've just picked up An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus, which I'm really hoping is what is listed as An Ethiopian Story as it was all I could find!"

How odd. I see that Ethiopian Story is on the group bookshelves, but it is not on any version of the 1001 to read list, as far as I know.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Liz M wrote: "Aileen wrote: "I've just picked up An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus, which I'm really hoping is what is listed as An Ethiopian Story as it was all I could find!"

How odd. I see that Ethiopian S..."

it's listed and deleted from the 2006 list as Aithiopika. It has been combined here with Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance. I really know nothing, but it looks like the same one, Aileen.

[Judith]

Marialyce wrote: "Bea wrote: "I am still working my way through Uncle Silas trying not to get ahead of a group read. I dropped the Dickens (a re-re-read) and picked up Daniel Deronda. I'm a..."

Reading "Silas Marner" in school was one of the experiences that turned me on to literature. I've never re-read it, but I've never forgotten the marvelous psychological profile built in that novel.

[El]

I started Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) last night. It reads quickly, but I'm only 80 pages in so I don't want to say quite yet excactly how I feel about it.

[Mikela]

Just began The Quiet American

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I've just started Ivanhoe, though probably should have started Love in the Time of Cholera...whoops ;)

[Dana]

Just started FRANKENSTEIN and Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. While I normally read several books at once, I may put down Ovid until I have time to fully appreciate everything going on in his writing.

[Danyellemastro]

Rachel (Sfogs) wrote: "I've just started Ivanhoe, though probably should have started Love in the Time of Cholera...whoops ;)"

Love in the time of Cholera nearly KILLED me, hope it goes well for you!

[Annina]

Just started The Picture of Dorian Gray couple days ago

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Dbolden wrote: "Rachel (Sfogs) wrote: "I've just started Ivanhoe, though probably should have started Love in the Time of Cholera...whoops ;)"

Love in the time of Cholera nearly KILLED m..."

Ha Ha! Thanks! I have a copy of Love In The Time Of Cholra that I brought in a second-hand sale a while back. I really should get round to reading it.
Though I'm really enjoying Ivanhoe so far.

[Bea]

Just started I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Had been putting it off because I was afraid it would be upsetting. So far I'm really enjoying it though.

[Beth]

Just started 1984. Liking it a lot so far.

[Mikela]

Just picked up Everything Is Illuminated and after reading the reviews have to admit I'm doubting my choice. Well, nothing ventured nothing gained.

[Lauli]

Out of The Jungle into Far from the Madding Crowd. Bracing myself for, yes, more naturalistic suffering.

[Linda]

just started All the Pretty Horses. It's okay so far; I always find it a little challenging to read books that don't use quote marks within the dialogue between characters...

[Linda]

"Karina wrote: "Just started Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard. Reading this while I am reading The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling which I am half way through..."

Bea suggested listening to Tom Jones, and I agree. I also did Tom Jones via audio. It made it go a little quicker I think.

[M]

Starting The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. It looks like it's going to be a good story.

[Deanne]

Just started Things by Georges Perec, good so far.

[Amanda]

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. So basically porn.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I've just started Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. And went to a big 'bookarama' second-hard book sale, and came home with 25 new books!
Most of which are list books :)