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[Wreade1872]

Started West with the Night by Beryl Markham (1942) .

And reading The Metal Monster by A.E.Merrit (1920) and Doctor Jones' Picnic by S.E.Chapman (1898 ).

In the Metal Monster just got through like, the 4th chapter in a row of them travelling through something like the end of 2001 a Space Odyssey, or actually its starting to feel like Star-Trek the Motion Picture where they're flying through V'ger lol .

[Janice]

I am rereading The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

[Pharmacdon]

Just finished The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Dave wrote: "I have started The Farthest Shore by Leguin, the third in the Earthsea series and a challenge book in another Group."

Nice. I'll be reading that one in the next month or so.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the basis for Hitchcock's noted film


Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the Science-Fiction classic


Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown

[Gerard]

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Was very resistant to picking this novel up after being highly disappointed by "Underworld." So glad I gave it a chance, though. Read about half of it in an evening and can already say that it will be entering my "favorite" shelf.

[Pharmacdon]

Gerard wrote: "
White Noise by Don DeLillo

Was very resistant to picking this novel up after being highly disappointed by "Underworld." So glad I gave it..."
I enjoyed this book also. By the way, the pill delivery system mentioned in the book exists.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the excellent "weird" short story collection


The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Peter]

I have started Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence.

[Luffy Sempai]

I have ignored my other reads to concentrate, for only a day or two though, on Means of Ascent, by Robert A. Caro. It is proving to be as exciting as the better kinds of fiction. It is absolutely riveting. Has anyone read it?

[ALLEN]

Yes, and you're quite right -- it is stunning!

[Wreade1872]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I started reading the Science-Fiction classic Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown..."

I read one of his, a sort of crime story Here Comes a Candle. It was pretty good pulp, i should try one of his sci-fi works eventually.

Peter wrote: "I have started Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence."

That's on my to-do list hope its good. Looks rather long, probably leave it till next year.

[Pharmacdon]

I am reading In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo. It won the LA Times Book Award for Fiction.

[Dave]

I finished The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor. Dark, violent, brutal and unsettling, it is among the greatest of American Southern Gothic fiction comparable to the best of Faulkner.

[Beth]

I just started War and Peace

[Kevin]

Book Hunter Beth wrote: "I just started War and Peace"

Nice, BH Beth! I really have to read War and Peace again. I have read the first page in Russian several times. Not to hard because it is half French. :-). My goal is to read the entire work in Russian. But reading it again in English would work too. Advice: read it fast.

[Wreade1872]

Finished The Metal Monster by A.E.Merrit [3/5] review
Just looked up a couple of words from it, there was probably quite a few more i didn't know but didn't think to note, very descriptive writer.

barmecide : illusory and therefore disappointing.
pandect : a complete body of the laws of a country.

[Dave]

I finished The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the pulp-era Science-Fiction tale


Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and in a completely different vein I started reading


A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Dave wrote: "I finished The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner"

One of my favorite authors of all time, Dave.

[Dave]

Sara wrote: "Dave wrote: "I finished The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner"

One of my favorite authors of all time, Dave."

Yes, a favorite of mine also Sara. I have read Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety. Stegner is an author in my “treat yourself” basket. I ration how often I read his works because they also run a high risk of breaking loose from my two hour rotation schedule and leave me headed for the last page hell bent for leather.

[Dave]

I finished Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Dave wrote: "Sara wrote: "Dave wrote: "I finished The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner"

One of my favorite authors of all time, Dave."

Yes, a favorite of mine also Sara. I have read [book:Angle ..."

lol. I like the idea of the basket, but I could never keep the two-hour rotation. Happy reading, Dave.

[Beth]

Kevin wrote: "Book Hunter Beth wrote: "I just started War and Peace"

Nice, BH Beth! I really have to read War and Peace again. I have read the first page in Russian several times. Not to hard because..."

Haha yeah if I'd have known there was so much French I'd have waited until I became a little more fluent. I guess it counts as "practice" to read while studying French too though. I'm enjoying it though! It seems so daunting but the book is actually really easy to digest.

[Dave]

I finished my third read of The Winds of War by Herman Wouk.

[Dave]

Started and finished Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.

[Dave]

I have started From Here to Eternity by James Jones.

[ALLEN]

Tremendous book! A bit grueling at times, but well worth the going.

[Dave]

I started The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry.

[Dave]

I started Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

[CindySR]

Life of Pi

Not enjoying it but it's on my bingo, so chugging along.

[Janice]

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

[Luffy Sempai]

I have completed reading Means of Ascent.
My review.

[Tammy]

Currently reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. It's a bit of a slog, but I'm mixing in some Hemingway short stories as pick me ups when I get bogged down. The Covid years seemed to crush my will to read. I listened to music and watched way too much TV for the last two years. I'm just now getting back to reading.

[Luffy Sempai]

Tammy wrote: "Currently reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. It's a bit of a slog, but I'm mixing in some Hemingway short stories as pick me ups when I get bogged down. The Co..."

Hope you will recuperate. Anyone who listens to or watches too much media in these fearmongering times will have his/her mind distracted. Wish you the best!

[Tammy]

Luffy wrote: "Tammy wrote: "Currently reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. It's a bit of a slog, but I'm mixing in some Hemingway short stories as pick me ups when I get bogge..."

I appreciate that, Luffy, and hope to be back in my usual reading form soon. Happy reading to you!

[Dave]

I finished Wuthering Heights

[Wreade1872]

Finished Doctor Jones' Picnic by S.E.Chapman [2/5] review another obscure work from the 1890s.
In fact, another one i'm the first to rate on goodreads. Your welcome world, i've read it so you don't have to :P .

And from the 1970s i've dug up and just started, Lin Carters' lovecraftian poetry collection, Dreams from R'lyeh. That should be a bit of fun.

[J_BlueFlower]

I just started A History of Western Philosophy. I read preface and introduction, and I am already like it very much. It was primarily this book that earned Bertrand Russell the 1950 Nobel Prize in literature. He defines philosophy very broadly as what lies between science and theology.

I am planning on reading it slowly. It may take more than the rest of the year. Maybe I will read the Greek philosophers and then take a break. If anyone wants to join me, I can be flexible about the schedule.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Dave wrote: "I finished my third read of The Winds of War by Herman Wouk."

Dave wrote: "I have started From Here to Eternity by James Jones."

Dave wrote: "I started The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry."

You've got some good ones there Dave.

[Dave]

I finishedThe Misanthrope by Moliere.

[George P.]

Gerard wrote: "
White Noise by Don DeLillo. Was very resistant to picking this novel up after being highly disappointed by "Underworld." So glad I gave it..."

I've read both Underworld and White Noise now and liked both but didn't "love" either.

[George P.]

I'm almost finished reading Life: A User's Manual by George Perec (France) and Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Ozdamar (Turkey/Germany). Also reading Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster (US), and The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir (France). Also a new science book for variety, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer.
I seem to be in a French novel phase, having just finished The Count of Monte Cristo and have Swann's Way coming up.

[Luffy Sempai]

I am going to read Age of Myth. Will begin today, on Sunday afternoon. Seems epic.

[Pharmacdon]

I am reading Unfinished Cathedral by T.S. Stribling. It is the third volume of T.S. Stribling’s Southern trilogy. The second book in this trilogy, The Store, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1933.

[Dave]

I finished Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, a Baker’s Dozen Challenge book.

[Dave]

I finished The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry.

[Brian E]

For Memorial Day and Pulitzer reading purposes, I just started The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. My Dad was a WWII Navy lieutenant on a ship in the Pacific but it was a supply ship like in Mr. Roberts, rather than a destroyer turned minesweeper like the Caine. I've often seen the movies but also plan to read the book or play of Mr. Roberts soon.

[Dave]

I finished Peter Pan, I have started The Boy at the Door

[Pharmacdon]

I am reading A Bell for Adano by John Hersey. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1945.