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[Janice]

Erin wrote: "I started to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall my final book from the Bronte sisters. I have high hopes for this one."

I hope to read it in 2024! :)

[Chris]

Completed Sophocles Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. Boy, those Greeks could do tragedies!

[Franky]

I'm finishing up Fledgling and The Gods of Mars, and started reading Anne of Green Gables for next month's read. I might read Mansfield Park soon for another book club and just ordered Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, so I might read that next month.

[Cynda]

Chris if you are interested in reading on, I recommend reading The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and then Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene Oneill. When I read/reread these plays in 2020, I found the task daunting and still worthwhile. In 2020 I watched an old movie version on YouTube and found it worthwhile, making the play easier to understand.

[Cynda]

I am reading Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Dark fairytale-style stories written for adults. Slowing down reading. Much to consider.

[Richard]

I finished L'Éducation sentimentale, which ended up amply repaying the almighty struggle it caused me given the decidedly subfluent level of my French. I'm presently taking a break from classical literary fiction, reading The New Penguin History of Canada.

[Chris]

Cynda will back full time 2024 wrote: "Chris if you are interested in reading on, I recommend reading The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and then Mourning Becomes Electra by [au..."

I've read the Hawthorne, not my favorite of his works, but I haven't read anything by Eugene O'Neill. Appreciate the recommendations.

[Cynda]

Ti thought I thought Chris had read The Orestia

[Terry]

I am listening to Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, being mildly amused, but not quite laughing.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished Zelazny's first novel, the Hugo Award-winner


This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading one of the greatest Science-Fiction cultural touchstones of the 1960s


Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the classic thriller/mystery


The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second book in the Virgil Tibbs series


The Cool Cottontail by John Dudley Ball

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the popular science book


A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the Pulitzer Prize nominee


Basin and Range by John McPhee

[Janice]

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles which I am enjoying very much!

[Austin]

I am reading a medical thriller - The Patient

[Regina]

I'm currently reading:
Les Misérables - Loving it!
The Shining - reread
Winter Solstice - Current audiobook

Recently finished:
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Children's book. Good for what it is.
High Rising - Love the book, but deducted a star for some anti-Semitic remarks by characters. Reread.
The Ice Palace - Disappointing. Too esoteric for me, and I wasn't crazy about the style of writing, either.

[Teri-K]

I'm rereading Utopia by Thomas More. Haven't read it since college, which was a long time ago. lol

I'm re-listening to the Vorkosigan books, currently on The Warrior's Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Also rereading The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald.

And new-to-me is Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories by Diana Wynne Jones. It's a very eclectic collection of short pieces plus a novella that only go to show how wide-ranging her imagination is!

[Rachel]

Hey all,

I just happen to be reading Richard III right now and noticed it was up for a vote for March- but it's looking like it won't be selected.

I'd love to chat about it with some of you- perhaps the other 14 who picked it- let me know if you'd be interested in a buddy read.

(It looks like the buddy read section has changed a bit since the last time I used it [*cough* years ago *cough*]. Moderators, let me know if there's a better place for this invitation.)

[Chris]

Austin wrote: "I am reading a medical thriller - The Patient

"

I've enjoyed many of Palmer's books. Hope this meets your expectations.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Rachel wrote: "Hey all,

I just happen to be reading Richard III right now and noticed it was up for a vote for March- but it's looking like it won't be selected.

I'd love to chat about it with some of you- perh..."


There is a thread called Buddy Read Requests. Sara puts books on the calendar.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


Good luck!!

[Austin]

Chris wrote: "Austin wrote: "I am reading a medical thriller - The Patient

"

I've enjoyed many of Palmer's books. Hope this meets your expectations."

I am enjoying it so far. This is my 2nd Michael Palmer novel after Miracle Cure. I liked that one too.

[Franky]

Finished with Anne of Green Gables and am currently reading Mansfield Park and The Castle of Otranto.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Franky wrote: "Finished with Anne of Green Gables and am currently reading Mansfield Park and The Castle of Otranto."

What a good list. I loved all three of those.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished my first 5-star read of the year, Steinbeck's classic short novel


Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I also finished this volume of classic Science Fiction novellas - the first of two parts


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the second part


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B edited by Ben Bova

[Janice]

I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles and loved it! Tomorrow I will begin Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict.

[Janice]

Franky wrote: "Finished with Anne of Green Gables and am currently reading Mansfield Park and The Castle of Otranto."

I love Anne of Green Gables and Mansfield Park! I have never read The Castle of Otranto. :)

[Cynda]

Currently rereading The Giver by Lois Lowry. The audiobook is a bit over 4 hours on 1x speed. I can speed up a bit and get it done tomorrow or day after.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the second installment in the Virgil Tibbs series


The Cool Cottontail by John Dudley Ball
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third James Bond book


Moonraker by Ian Fleming

[Franky]

Cynda is on the return 2024 wrote: "Currently rereading The Giver by Lois Lowry. The audiobook is a bit over 4 hours on 1x speed. I can speed up a bit and get it done tomorrow or day after."

I really enjoyed this series quite a bit. I think I read it in about a year span or so. I tend to really like Lois Lowry books.

[Cynda]

Yes Franky, I read some of the series some years ago. My scifi/fantasy group is reading a series of young adult books, so I am rereading and re-enjoying. I can see all the bits I only saw in hindsight the first read :-)

[Austin]

I am currently reading The Testament

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I just read The City At Worlds End by Edmond Hamilton per Ian's recommendation of the author. It is a 1951 adventure style Science Fiction book that I thought was a lot of fun.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the doorstop


The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

much of which I have already read in the collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories and Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

[Janice]

I am rereading Romans: Bible #45, ESV by Paul the Apostle, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and Middlemarch by George Eliot.

[Teri-K]

Janice wrote: "I am rereading Romans: Bible #45, ESV by Paul the Apostle, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and Middlemarch by George Eliot."

Middlemarch was my most disappointing book of last year. But lots of people love it - hopefully you will, too!

[Sophia]

I am reading dracula

[JenniferAustin]

I am reading Three Men in a Boat, which is divinely funny! I am alternating between an ebook and listening to it as an audiobook. The audio version is narrated by Frederick Davidson, whose reading seems just about perfect to me!

[Teri-K]

I'm dong a slowish reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Plato's The Dialogues of Plato. So far Plato is interesting but Ovid is fun.

I'm buzzing through Amy Levy's "New Woman" book, The Romance of a Shop. It's fairly short, but reading like a novel, full of interesting, well-drawn characters. Really good so far!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

JenniferAustin wrote: "I am reading Three Men in a Boat, which is divinely funny! I am alternating between an ebook and listening to it as an audiobook. The audio version is narrated by [author:Frederick Davi..."

I really liked that one too, Jennifer. I bet that's a good book for audio.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the 1960s phenomenon


Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

[Franky]

Finished The Castle of Otranto and currently reading Life on the Mississippi and will be starting Middlemarch soon.

[Terry]

I am almost finished with Life on the Mississippi and just starting A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.

[Teri-K]

Middlemarch was the most disappointing book I read last year, but hopefully others will like it. I'm reading Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, and it's not my cup of tea, either.

Also working my way through Metamorphoses by Ovid, which I am really enjoying. In fact I'm surprised how good it is. I thought it might be dense or get dull, but it isn't.

Another book I'm taking slow is The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature. It goes week by week through a year in one small part of the Smoky Mountains, near where I live. I love nature books, especially if they talk about the trees.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Terry wrote: "I am almost finished with Life on the Mississippi and just starting A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving."

A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my favorite books, Terry. I'm excited to see how it affects you.

[Regina]

I am still working on Les Misérables and I started The Longest Journey last night. This is the last of Forster’s novels I have left to read.

I like to make special mention of a book I finished yesterday, O Caledonia. This is a dark book, but well worth reading. The character of Janet, our protagonist, is one of the most finely crafted characterizations I’ve ever read.

“In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-20th century.”

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished and failed to appreciate the finer points of


Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

so go ahead and call me a Philistine, I deserve it

[Darren]

at least you finished it RJ ;o)

(more than I managed)

oh and on a positive note I am currently reading/enjoying The Lost Estate

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Darren wrote: "at least you finished it RJ ;o)

(more than I managed)...]"

It was touch and go, I'm not gonna lie. ;-)

[Richard]

Since finishing L'Éducation sentimentale, which took absolutely ages to read in my subfluent French, I've read in quick succession The Woodlanders which took all of four days and was a magnificent exposition of Wessex Greek tragedy, and Candide which, despite my also reading it in French, was decidedly easier than Flaubert and only took about a week (no disrespect to Flaubert, L'ES all came together superbly in the end). I'm presently halfway through What Maisie Knew which as nearly always with James is ever so subtly masterful, and am planning to get stuck into Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot.

Later edit. I forgot to mention that I've also been reading a lot with my girlfriend. Since August we've read:-

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Oliver Twist by Dickens
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.LStevenson
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie

And we're presently about halfway through Lolita, by Nabokov.

[Rosalinda]

I'm reading Shogun by James Clavell. I'm enjoying it very much and trying to learn some Japanese words. A very good read!

[Cynda]

Richard What Maise Knew was made into an updated movie version with Julianne Moore. I saw bit of the video. I would so like a more 19th-century setting. . . .I may have to just red the novel--and enjoy.