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[Janice]

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

Oh, I love it! It will be my 3rd time reading it! :)

[Janice]

I am almost finished rereading the New Testament books of the Bible. :) I am still rereading Middlemarch by George Eliot but it's not going very fast as I read it just before bed. ;) I am also reading The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn and enjoying it very much even though I thought I wouldn't like it at all.

[Teri-K]

Janice wrote: "Teri-K wrote: "Janice wrote: "I am rereading Romans: Bible #45, ESV by Paul the Apostle, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and [book:Middlemarch|..."

That's awesome. I felt so bad when it didn't work for me. Aren't we always eager to find another favorite book?

[Richard]

Cynda is on the return 2024 wrote: "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 ..."

And I for my part will have to watch the film - I think the full version may be available on Youtube. I hope you enjoy WMN. In case you haven't read James before, he's very much an acquired taste, but hugely rewarding once you've made the acquisition.

[Kathleen]

I wish I had Richard's comment! To be reading Flaubert in French and to go through those classics with a loved-one is wonderful and inspiring.

The favorite on my currently reading stack is Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. The subject matter weighs very heavily on me, so I'm finding it slow going, but the writing is superb.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the Hugo Award-winning first installment in the Riverworld series


To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another Science Fiction classic


Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley

[Teri-K]

Graham Greene's The Third Man just popped up in audiobook on Libby. I've never read it or seen the movie, so I'm happy to get this chance to try it.

[Enrico]

the secret history by Donna tartt

[Georgia]

I just finished Brideshead Revisited. My writing arm broken, it helped
to keep me distracted. Surprised to discover Waugh wrote it while convalescing, too. My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Katie]

Middlemarch

I'm reading Middlemarch but I don't really like it and have about 500 pages to go. Someone please tell me it gets better!

[Richard]

Katie wrote: "Middlemarch

I'm reading Middlemarch but I don't really like it and have about 500 pages to go. Someone please tell me it gets better!"

It gets better.

[Anulekha]

I am reading Murder at the Vicarage and Don Quixote.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the Pulitzer-Finalist


Basin and Range by John McPhee
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose

[Darren]

I just started the most "obscure" book on my GR shelves (with a mighty 11 ratings and 2 reviews)
namely There Ain't No Justice by the criminally under-read James Curtis


I have already been rewarded by my earliest (1937) sighting in print of the words:
"slug-fest", "cushty" and "airyated" :oD

[Franky]

Katie wrote: "Middlemarch

I'm reading Middlemarch but I don't really like it and have about 500 pages to go. Someone please tell me it gets better!"

Katie, I'm currently reading but it definitely a slow burn, but I'm actually sort of enjoying it, despite its denseness in prose. I can only read about 20 or 30 pages a day max. It seems readers are very divided on liking/hating this novel though.

I'm also reading Who Goes There? and hope to start The Frozen Deep soon.

[lu]

I'm currently reading La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer, it's been 2 months that I don't read anything, so trying to catch up with a genre that I really like.

[Teri-K]

Katie wrote: "Middlemarch

I'm reading Middlemarch but I don't really like it and have about 500 pages to go. Someone please tell me it gets better!"

How's it doing now?

I didn't find Middlemarch improved myself, and I expected to love it. I felt she picked the wrong Main Characters to follow, I couldn't care about any of them. And she brought up interesting ideas and then dropped them, which frustrated me. Perhaps you will feel differently, though!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the Science Fiction classic


Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

[Chris]

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

I loved this book and remember the movie. I am looking forward to the miniseries that is starting this week in the U.S. ENJOY!

[Chris]

I just finished Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Powerful.

[Cynda]

I am reading and savoring Don Quixote. I have read Part 1 in various forms--the "real" novel, the YA graphic novel, and an oversized version to my then-young child. I am savoring because this time I am finally--finally--seeing full-on satire. I kept reading and rereading until my understanding opened . . and I found the secondary work that spoke to me The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World by William Egginton

[Cynda]

I am also reading Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (1998) with a nonfiction group and for my bingo card (Pulitzer Prize winning writer).

If you are looking for serious history, this book will be an option as this book is professionally written.

[Franky]

Chris wrote: "I just finished Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Powerful."

I really liked this one. Frederick Douglass was such an interesting and important figure.

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I'm currently just over halfway through Anna Karenina - it's a long one but i love it! Also going through an Austen phase so thats occupying a lot of my reading time.
(and i just finished Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in school although I'm not sure if that counts;)

[Gerard]

Based on this month's short story/novella group pick, I decided to pick up The Beauties: Essential Stories by Anton Chekhov. I don't read short stories too often, but I am pleasantly surprised by this collection.

[Georgia]

Been meaning to read James Agee for ages. Finally, got to it. So glad I did. Here's my review of his Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Death in the Family.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the sixth book in the Easy Rawlins series


Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the pulp noir classic


A Killer Is Loose by Gil Brewer

[Cynda]

I have started Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel. This book adds to my possibilities stack of moral and political philosophy. I will read an occassinal text and book by
Aristotle
Immanuel Kant
John Stewart Mills
John Rawls

[Cynda]

I am also doing reading Paradise Lost by John Milton. I read as my secondary work A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis. He does a rhetorical analysis. I use some of his ideas as my guide.

[Anulekha]

I finished Neverwhere. Started reading Yellowface and also, continuing Don Quixote after a brief hiatus.

[Teri-K]

Just finished The Metamorphoses of Ovid for the first time. I'm surprised how much I got out of it, and look forward to reading it again some time.

Right now I'm reading Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang, The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.

And I just started a reread of The Fellowship of the Ring. It's been ages since I read it, and I'm having so much fun!

[Teri-K]

Cynda is healing 2024 wrote: "I am also doing reading Paradise Lost by John Milton. I read as my secondary work A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis. He does a rh..."

I will keep the Lewis in mind next time I read Paradise Lost. Thanks for mentioning it!

[sabagrey]

I am reading Daniel Deronda and The Belton Estate with groups. And I will soon start with Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, in parallel with a re-read of Maskerade which, so to speak, is the discworld version of the roundworld Phantom.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the pulp crime classic


A Killer Is Loose by Gil Brewer
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fifth Philip Marlowe novel


The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler

[Teri-K]

I just started The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius. Other than some little bits when I was teaching myself some Latin I've never read Ancient History from the times. I thought it would be dry, but actually he's a pretty interesting writer. I can only read about 10 pages at a time because it's all so new to me, but so far I'm enjoying picking it up each day.

[Cynda]

Lilly and Lynn, I have not heard of Tom's Midnight Garden either. . . hmmm. . .We have just the word out. And I am adding it to my list of possibilities.

[Darya Silman]

I just finished The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps by Dan Healey

[Cynda]

For women's history month, I started with Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton which now leads me to Susan B. Anthony: Biography of a Rebel, Crusader, and Humanitarian of the Women's Rights and Feminist Movements by Alma Lutz. Maybe next year a book about Lucretia Mott and another about the Grimke sisters.

[JenniferAustin]

I am reading Middlemarch and enjoying it a great deal. It's a big canvas, for sure, but I am interested. I am about a third if the way in, and am sorry not to have the time to read it faster!

I just finished Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. That was suprisingly engaging. Chef Anthony Bourdain said that the section in the Paris fine dining scene changed his life, and I could easily imagine that.

Items I may tackle in April: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fool by Christopher Moore, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I am reading The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (1951). I really enjoy it. The book has a Golden Age of Science Fiction feel to it. I read Blindness by José Saramago last year. I believe Saramago gives credit to Wyndham in that Saramago was aware of the Triffids story, but Saramago's is uniquely his own. I am only 36% into the story of the Triffids right now, but it is something I really like. It is written more traditionally with a 3rd person narrator, than Blindness was. Also the story contains more dimensions and backstory than Blindness did.

[Austin]

I am currently reading No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan



An interesting book on Islam. It's a non-proselytising book.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the collection of mostly-autobiographical short stories about the author's time served in Siberian prison camps


Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical collection of reminiscences about his time wandering around in the American West


Roughing It by Mark Twain

[Cynda]

That looks good and worthwhile. I wish I had time to read it. I am making note of it.

[Cynda]

I have just read On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. I a growing list of reads and rereads just because of this aware essay.

* I continue reading SUSAN B. ANTHONY: Rebel, crusader, humanitarian.by Alma Lutz
* Want to read The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.

[Teri-K]

I finished Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power. I think it's one of the best nonfiction history books I've read, and I learned a lot.


I've started Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. So far it's fascinating.

[sabagrey]

I finished South Riding and, through crooked mental pathways, leads me on to re-read Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy - in German, but I have to wait a few weeks until its re-publication as part of Sperber's collected works.

I read that book 40 years ago, 1000 pages in 3 or 4 days, or rather nights, because by day I had to finalise my master thesis on deadline ... crazy, unforgettable days and nights, and an unforgettable, deeply moving and disturbing book. - I have no idea what my reaction to the re-reading will be. My emotional reaction to South Riding makes me fear that I have become more (too?) emotional/sentimental over the 4 decades or more that have passed since then. But I have to try.

[Cynda]

I am finishing SUSAN B. ANTHONY: Rebel, crusader, humanitarian. (1959) by Alma Lutz which is a serious-toned biography of a rather serious natured orator. This biography is written in a contrasting style from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 (1897) by Elizabeth Cady Stanton which written in a chatty style. I also want to read Resolute & Revolutionary: Carrie Chapman Catt's Pursuit (2023) by Marko D which is a short work intended to be read in about an hour, more a booklet than a book. These three women are the most prominent American feminists. I wanted to read more about them than what I find in books of the struggle such as Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement by Sally G. McMillen and The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the fifth Philip Marlowe book


The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

[Cynda]

I am reading Apollo 13/Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell (first published in 1994). Way back in 1995 I so enjoyed the movie with Tom Hanks that I told myself that I would someday read the memoir. And here I am in that someday. Well written.

[Georgia]

I am reading
Impatience of the Heart by Stefan Zweig
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov and
Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin.