Which LIST book did you just start? Showing 4,901-4,950 of 6,816

[Jenny]

I started The Swimming-Pool Library which is a great read so far.

[Danyellemastro]

The postman always rings twice. I'm only ten pages in and I'm hooked!

[Lauli]

Ethan Frome. Has the great advantage of being really short.

[Mikela]

On page 24 of The Power and the Glory and not impressed so far. Have heard great things about this book so hope it improves quickly.

[Karen]

I'm half way through "Cold Comfort Farm" - and just started it the other evening. My face hurts from smiling so steadily (only because I am not a laugh-out -loud type person)! I remember liking Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence about 50 years ago, but love even more the way the author parodies their purple prose. Will have to go back and see what I think of their works nowadays. I highly recommend "Cold Comfort Farm", but think that readers who have not read late 19th and early 20th century English literature will miss much of the humor.

[Beth]

Working on The Satanic Verses on audio and just started Daniel Deronda in ebook form. I'm still working on the first Memory of Fire book Genesis at work.

[Lauli]

Delighting myself in Emma

[Deanne]

Started The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte, enjoying it so far.

[Kristine]

Disgrace, its mentioned on so many lists including this one that i felt I should give it a go.

[Susanna]

I'm going to start Kerouac's On The Road today.

[Corina]

Charity wrote: "Started The Virgin Suicides today. Since I loved both Middlesex and The Marriage Plot (not a list book) by Eugenides, I have high hopes for this one. I saw the movie adaptation, but that was years ..."
The film is rubbish...comparing it to the book. which is amazing by the way :) Enjoy your reading.

[Corina]

I started Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. It`s really long...about 500 pages. And I`ve noticed it`s a slow read for me...

[Ellen]

Deanne wrote: "Reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, enjoying it so far."

Deanne, I love this book with a passion. In fact, I really like most of Wolfe's work, and suggest that if you like this you continue reading. No one writes prose like Wolfe anymore, which is rather sad to me. Thanks!

[Ellen]

Karen wrote: "I'm half way through "Cold Comfort Farm" - and just started it the other evening. My face hurts from smiling so steadily (only because I am not a laugh-out -loud type person)! I remember liking T..."

Karen, I read "Cold Comfort Farm" for a group read, and I agree. It's so very funny! In the edition that I read the writer of the introduction called this book a "spoof on the typical rural novels of Hardy's period", and that was a good description. Just such a humorous little book, wasn't it? Do you think you'll more by the same author? Thanks!

[Amanda]

Amelia and The Great Gatsby.

[Lauli]

Myra Breckinridge. I hope it's every bit as shocking as the cover makes it out to be.

[Melissa]

Working my way through Les Miserables at the moment. I've seen the musical at least 8 times, so I know and love the storyline, but am finding that as usual ilike the book even better. I love the way language is used in this books. I think I will be really sad when this one is completed.

[Sandi]

Starting Zorba the Greek.

[Donna]

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights. I'm loving the story, within a story, within a story... and still relatable to a modern reader. Loving it!!!

[Charity]

Corina wrote: "The film is rubbish...comparing it to the book. which is amazing by the way :) Enjoy your reading."

While I was reading The Virgin Suicides, I kept saying to my husband, "I don't remember any of this happening in the film! In fact, I don't really remember the film at all, and you would think with a story like this one, I'd remember!" I thought the book was quite stellar.

[Annina]

I have been re-reading Interview With the Vampire couple days now.

[Bucket]

Donna wrote: "The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights. I'm loving the story, within a story, within a story... and still relatable to a modern reader. Loving it!!!"

Hi Donna! I'm curious to know which version/translation you're reading?

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

Annina wrote: "I have been re-reading Interview With the Vampire couple days now."

I lovely person has sent me a copy of this book, I'd be interested to know what it's like.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

I've just started The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Has very good reviews, so hopefully I'll like this one.

[Lauli]

Getting started on Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

[Deanne]

Started The Sea of Fertility by Mishima, it's a large book but beautifully written. Also wondered how much of Mishima's state of mind was in the book, he finished writing in october of 1970 and wrote,"finishing the long novel The Sea of Fertility makes me feel as if it is the end of the world". In November he killed himself by ritual suicide.
Reading the first book Spring Snow at the moment and there is a sense of sadness, but not depressing. Looking forward to the following three books and where the story takes me.

[Craig]

Last of the Mohicans -Cooper

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Starting another Dickens - Bleak House.

[~Calyre~]

Just starting The Secret History

[Jenny]

I just started re-reading The Handmaid's Tale I remember loving it when I first read it over 10 years ago, and have stumbled over it so often in posts, conversation and book clubs during the last month it almost feels like it's sitting there on it's shelf yelling: "Read me again, I know you want to!!!"

[Amanda]

Calyre wrote: "Just starting The Secret History"

I am starting this one tomorrow as well

[Aileen]

I'm a few pages into Everything Falls Apart, and struggling to be honest.

[Pilvinetaevas]

Amanda wrote: "Calyre wrote: "Just starting The Secret History"

I am starting this one tomorrow as well"


I started yesterday

[Rebecca]

Ive just started Mansfield Park by Jane Austen having just watched the movie and loving it. So far really enjoying it!

[Tara]

Just started The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga yesterday. It's going pretty quickly, but so far I haven't been 'captured' by it. To be honest, it's rare that I really enjoy a book set in India - maybe I find it difficult to relate to any of the aspects and that affects my enjoyment? Not sure.

[Lisa]

I just started The Robber Bride. Interesting so far! Took a break from list books to give myself a couple of free reads, which brought my personal book challenge for the year(since I actually started counting, LOL) to 81. I'm SURE I've read over 100, so I'm going to give myself that 100 book goal starting January 1.

[Katherine]

Deanne wrote: "Started The Sea of Fertility by Mishima, it's a large book but beautifully written. Also wondered how much of Mishima's state of mind was in the book, he finished writing in october of 1970 and wro..."

I haven't read The Sea of Fertility, but I have watched the film "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters." I recommend it if you are at all interested in Mishima's life. It was a one-of-a-kind bio pic, incredibly artful and imaginative.

[Danyellemastro]

Lady Chatterly's Lover. This tends to create more excitement for the fellow commuters on the tube, than it does for myself between the pages. The less than subtle 'nip slip' depicted on the cover has been an overwhelming succes with the 8am builder crew (n.b. - no, I don't think wolf whistling at my book is funny/sexy/attractive).

Other than that at the moment I am having a hard time sleeping in bed next to my gentleman husband worrying whether or not he resents my 'crisis' in any way. But then I remember I live in the real world and everything is ok again.

[Bea]

Abandoned without starting For Whom the Bell Tolls, which I suspect I may have actually read before. Starting The Case of Comrade Tulayev.

I have adopted a new book selection strategy for non-group reads. I am listening to List books available on audio starting with the highest ranked on Goodreads. (I have nothing against print books but cannot knit and read at the same time!).

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Bea wrote: "(I have nothing against print books but cannot knit and read at the same time!)."

:-) One must get her priorities right!

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Just started Ethan Frome. I have read The Age of Innocence also by Edith Wharton . Hopefully I will like this one also. :D

[Lauli]

Melissa wrote: "Just started Ethan Frome. I have read The Age of Innocence also by Edith Wharton . Hopefully I will this one. :D"

I just read Ethan Frome and loved it!

[Jennifer W]

I've just started The Color Purple and I'm already hooked.

[Bea]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Bea wrote: "(I have nothing against print books but cannot knit and read at the same time!)."

:-) One must get her priorities right!"

Truer words were never spoken.

[Gerrie]

I'm taking a break from writing and editing.
Don't laugh. On my new Kindle Fire I'm reading "The Legends of Arthur and His Knights" a freebie from Amazon. It's been many years since I read stories of Arthur and his knights.

Next "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.

[Cait]

I've started This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. I think it will be a quick but devastating read.

[Marialyce]

Reading A Christmas Carol and The Winter Sea

[Gerrie]

I read A Christmas Carol last year.
Loved it - again.

[Mikela]

Just about to begin A Clockwork Orange. Am really dubious about this choice as its not the type of book I'm drawn to.

[Gerrie]

I never liked A Clockwork Orange book or movie.