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[Janice]

I am still rereading Middlemarch by George Eliot, reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, and listening to The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith.

[Teri-K]

I'm also still reading Middlemarch, and I've been going through My Life in Middlemarch, too.

I started The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, which is going very fast. It's interesting to see how Shakespeare's writing and the events around him may have intersected, especially since I just finished King Lear and will pick up Antony and Cleopatra soon.

I'm in the middle of rereading North and South,which I'm taking slowly because I love it so much. And I just started rereading The 39 Steps and The Importance of Being Earnest. I'll listen to the play after I finish reading it - it's a long time favorite of mine.

[Reed]

I’m reading All The Light We Cannot See

[Patae]

I have taken on Anna Karenina. Been on my list for a while.

[Nancy (Colorado)]

Also starting Kindred! I am really looking forward to that one.

[Luffy Sempai]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Finished Matilde Kimer: The war within (Krigen indeni).

The book starts with the student protests in Kyiv in 2013 and running trough the war in eastern Ukrain in ..."

My averageness in trying to learn and also merely wanting to learn a language has come to bite me again.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the Soviet Sci-Fi classic:


Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Quiet American by Graham Greene

[Lynn, New School Classics]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished the Soviet Sci-Fi classic:


Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Rating: 5 sta..."



Roadside Picnic looks so good. I just bought a copy.

[Janice]

Teri-K wrote: "I'm also still reading Middlemarch, and I've been going through My Life in Middlemarch, too.

I started The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, which i..."

I have both My Life in Middlemarch and North and South on my TBR list. Are you enjoying My Life in Middlemarch? I love The Importance of Being Earnest!

[Janice]

Patae wrote: "I have taken on Anna Karenina. Been on my list for a while."

I was lucky to find an almost new copy of Anna Karenina at a wonderful Little Free Library in my town. I hope to read it someday! :)

[Janice]

I am still reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, started reading American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins as well as listening to The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot.

[Teri-K]

Janice wrote: "I have both My Life in Middlemarch and North and South on my TBR list. Are you enjoying My Life in Middlemarch? I love The Importance of Being Earnest!"

I didn't enjoy My Life in Middlemarch. It split it's time between George Eliot's life, this author's life and the Middlemarch itself, and I found it disjointed and uneven. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to when it moved from one to the other, not even chronological. And it didn't address the book nearly as much as I expected. I'm really glad I got the ebook from the library and didn't buy it, because I declared it DNF at about the 60% mark as I was frustrated and felt I could learn as much about the book and Eliot by reading up on Wikipedia or Spark notes online. But lots of folks seem to really like it.

The Importance of Being Earnest was hilarious. I'd forgotten how really clever and funny it is! I think I at least chuckled on every single page.

[Linda R,]

I'm reading Native Son by Richard Wright. Very powerful style of writing.

[Marilyn]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished the Soviet Sci-Fi classic:


Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Rating: 5 sta..."

Along with the book Roadside Picnic, my library has a DVD of the 1979 movie "Stalker" which is based on the book. Both are going on the list.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Lynn wrote: "Roadside Picnic looks so good. I just bought a copy."

That's great! I hope you enjoy it.

Marilyn wrote: "Along with the book Roadside Picnic, my library has a DVD of the 1979 movie "Stalker" which is based on the book. Both are going on the list."

Enjoy the book Marilyn! I haven't seen the film yet but I intend to. From what I hear it's long but some people are fascinated by it.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the short story collection


Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley

[Darren]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Roadside Picnic looks so good. I just bought a copy."

...Enjoy the book Marilyn! I haven't seen the film yet but I intend to. From what I hear it's long but some people are fascinated by it ..."

the film ("Stalker") is a masterpiece, and in my Top 20 All-Time

:oD

[Jerilyn]

I just finished Ch 4 of The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. It strikes me as a silly story, and maybe it’s because it was written in 1959. Does anyone know if there is a group discussion on goodreads? It’s okay if it was in the past, I am just interested to read comments and questions from other thoughtful readers. Thanks!

[Teri-K]

I just finished a reread of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I'm basking in the happy glow of a really great book.

I'll be starting a reread of Waverley by Walter Scott. I haven't read this in about 50 years, so we'll see what I think now.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Darren wrote: "the film ("Stalker") is a masterpiece, and in my Top 20 All-Time

:oD"

I'm glad to hear that. I've heard from people who love it, and others who can't get into it at all.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Capping off a relaxing weekend, I finished the thriller


Intensity by Dean Koontz
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I also finished


Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I started re-reading this re-telling of the Faustian tale


The Damnation Game by Clive Barker

and I also started reading


On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev

[JenniferAustin]

I just finished To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. It's my first time reading it. It's a great book. I'm not exactly "basking in the happy glow" of a great work. Stunned and grateful, though.

"I guess you find out everything in this goddamn life.. I got a good start, then. I'm way ahead of everybody now."

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Jerilyn wrote: "I just finished Ch 4 of The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. It strikes me as a silly story, and maybe it’s because it was written in 1959. Does anyone know if there is a group discussion on goodr..."

There are several groups that are dedicated to reading Science Fiction. I don't know of a particular one with this discussion, but I bet it exists on one of those pages.

[CindySR]

Jerilyn wrote: "I just finished Ch 4 of The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. It strikes me as a silly story, and maybe it’s because it was written in 1959. Does anyone know if there is a group discussion on goodr..."

I think I found what you need, at the bottom of the new page for this book you will see where you can find the quotes, discussions and questions for that book. It's a pain in the butt to find what you need on the new book pages! Anyway, the link to discussions is https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_...

[Ian]

Jerilyn wrote: "I just finished Ch 4 of The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. It strikes me as a silly story, and maybe it’s because it was written in 1959. Does anyone know if there is a group discussion on goodr..."

I think it was Vonnegut, more than when it was written. From my long-ago reading of his novels, he seems to have had a love/hate relationship to science fiction: liking it enough to borrow its tropes, disliking it enough to make fun of it. If I recall correctly, some of his books contain parodies that would likely be missed by anyone except readers of a lot of science fiction from the 1940s and 50s.

He definitely didn't want to be classified as a science fiction writer, which would probably have cost reviews in important newspapers and magazine, and caused his books to be treated as genre, rather than general, fiction in stores willing to carry it at all.

[Darren]

I am currently reading - er...
7 (seven) different books
this is a lot, even for me!
basically they are all the books I have planned to finish by the end of the month (well, 5 to a finish, and 2 to half-way)
it feels a bit like keeping plates spinning on sticks, moving from book to book and reading a "ration" to get the remaining page-count down...
fun though
:oD

[Janice]

Teri-K wrote: "Janice wrote: "I have both My Life in Middlemarch and North and South on my TBR list. Are you enjoying My Life in Middlemarch? I love The Importance of Being Earnest!"

I didn't enjoy My Life in Mi..."

With what you said about the book My Life in Middlemarch, I may not keep it on my TBR. I don't think I would like it either, with it being about some of the book Middlemarch, George Eliot's life, and the author of said book's life; too much at once. So thankful for libraries!!!

Have you read his short story Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast? I hope to read it someday. I think it's a book that I may find myself laughing at his remarks and thoughts.

[Teri-K]

Janice wrote: "Have you read his short story Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast? I hope to read it someday. I think it's a book that I may find myself laughing at his remarks and thoughts."

I haven't read anything of Wilde but his plays, and not too many of them. I just bought a (used) collection of his plays and intend to read more. I love his snarky irony and am interested in his other writing, I'll keep my eye open for that. Thanks!

[Janice]

Teri-K wrote: "Janice wrote: "Have you read his short story Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast? I hope to read it someday. I think it's a book that I may find myself laughing at his remarks and thoughts...."

I have also read his other plays, An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere's Fan, and A Woman of No Importance. I don't remember these plays very well. My favourite of what plays I have read is The Importance of Being Earnest.

[Reed]

A Dog’s Hope by Casey Wilson

[Terris]

Darren wrote: "I am currently reading - er...
7 (seven) different books
this is a lot, even for me!
basically they are all the books I have planned to finish by the end of the month (well, 5 to a finish, and 2 to..."

That is exactly how I do it, Darren -- especially by the end of the month! I have a schedule of how many pages per day I need to read in each book to finish them to be able to count them for the month. Sometimes I get bored reading straight through just one book. This kind of mixes it up for me and keeps my interest.
I'm reading seven right now, hoping to finish six of them by midnight Tuesday night!! It makes it exciting for me ;)

Good luck to you :)

[asmaa mohamed]

Now I am reading " the hitchhiker 's guide to the galaxy "

[Lynn, New School Classics]

asmaa mohamed wrote: "Now I am reading " the hitchhiker 's guide to the galaxy ""

How fun! I read all of those back in the 80's and early 90's. Few books made me laugh so much!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Terris wrote: "Darren wrote: "I am currently reading - er...
7 (seven) different books
this is a lot, even for me!
basically they are all the books I have planned to finish by the end of the month (well, 5 to a f..."

I can't schedule it. I need to be drawn into a story. If I am not reading a book that really appeals, I slow down. For instance, although I thought A Journal of the Plague Year was excellent, it took a few weeks. In contrast, I just finished Practical Magic in 2 days. Still both were 5* reads for me.

If I lose interest or drive like I did with the Journal, I tend to read a short story or two before returning to it.

[Terris]

Lynn wrote: "Terris wrote: "Darren wrote: "I am currently reading - er...
7 (seven) different books
this is a lot, even for me!
basically they are all the books I have planned to finish by the end of the month ..."

I know "scheduling" is a little weird and wouldn't suit everyone. But since I miss teaching, I enjoy the "planning" part; and since I miss being a student, I enjoy the "homework" part! haha! It satisfies several of my mental needs/proclivities ;) But I usually do it with books I think I "need" to read (like some Classics that aren't page-turners!), or if a book is going to be due at the library & I want to be sure I'm finished on time.
However, when I get a book that I love I read straight through and don't have schedules or look at page numbers or dates. That's the best kind of reading! :)

[Faith N.]

Reed wrote: "I’m reading All The Light We Cannot See"

I'm reading this as well.

[Reed]

I actually finished it I’m currently reading The Crossing by Michael Connelly

[Darya Silman]

I have several books on my soon-to-read list:
Петр Первый by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - around page 200 right now, it'll be classics in my native language (Russian);
Day of Infamy by Walter Lord - 3 h of listening out of 7 right now, it will go toward my Classical Bingo Challenge;
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez - next paperback, though technically it's still not classics;
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and Set This House On Fire by William Styron I took from a library, haven't started them yet.

[Janice]

I am still reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and have started listening to To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

[sabagrey]

Teri-K wrote: "I just finished a reread of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I'm basking in the happy glow of a really great book.."

oh yeah ... there are so few of these books with the 'happy after-glow'. I am glad to have discovered two more in the last half year to add to North and South, and Persuasion: Diana Tempest and Felix Holt: The Radical

[Wreade1872]

I started these in the order listed but certainly didn't finish them like that. Took me quite a while to get through the High Place but its a fine wine. Best experienced in small doses for maximum savouring :P . Completed -->
How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back by Diana Rowland [4/5] review
The High Place by James Branch Cabell [5/5] review
The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien [3/5] review
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka [3/5]

Currently reading Swann's Way by Marcel Proust .

[Kathleen]

sabagrey wrote: "oh yeah ... there are so few of these books with the 'happy after-glow'. I am glad to have discovered two more in the last half year to add to North and South, and Persuasion: Diana Tempest and Felix Holt: The Radical"

I'm so glad to hear that about Felix Holt, which I'll be reading soon!

[sabagrey]

Kathleen wrote: "I'm so glad to hear that about Felix Holt, which I'll be reading soon!."

enjoy! (but some people don't ... it's always hard to tell who will like what - and why)

[Erin]

I’m currently listening to The Tale of Genji, the Washburn translation read by Brian Nishii. I am enjoying it and also want to read the Royall Tyler translation, but am grateful to have good audio options as it is helpful with some of the difficulties I’ve been having with focus and eyestrain.

I would like to have both editions on my bookshelf — does anyone know how to add an edition? I used to be able to do so but have not been able to figure out how to do so with the new format and options.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished Graham Greene's novel set in Vietnam in the early 1950s


The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished a highly celebrated Hard-Boiled mystery


The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the first book in the Uplift series


Sundiver by David Brin

[Teri-K]

I'm currently reading:
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope - I didn't expect it to be so amusing!
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Death in Zanzibar by M.M. Kaye

Rereading:
Waverley by Walter Scott
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

Lots of good reading right now!

[Janice]

I am rereading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and still listening to To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

[Wreade1872]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I started the first book in the Uplift series

Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1) by David Brin
Sundiver by David Brin"

Hope you like it more than i did, although i apparently gave it 3-stars. Looking back though it has diminished in my memory and i'd only give it a retrospective 2-stars.
I like that cover more than the one i had though.
.

[Christine]

Starting today Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan