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[David]

Just finished Leucippe and Clitophon and just starting Anna Karenina and The Republic

[Nente]

Just done with Piranesi. I do so love it when the author has the strength and confidence to tell a new and utterly different story with each book.

[ALLEN]

I like to alternate fiction and nonfiction, and sometimes fiction - NF - genre. As RJ says, it can be very handy.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Darren wrote: "after finishing 37 books so far this year, I had my first DNF yesterday - Valley of the Dolls - it had a "so-bad-it's-funny" thing going on that kept me reading til half way, but that..."

I sneaked that book (The Valley of the Dolls) off my parents' bookshelf when I was a teenager and read it against their wishes. I think the book was probably not very good, and I was probably too young to be reading it. It was the forbidden nature of the book that I remember, not anything at all about the story. Seems like there was drugs, drunkenness and sex. The people seemed unhappy.

[Luke]

Since I last posted, I've started:

The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Love Poems - Anne Sexton
Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran

[PattyMacDotComma]

Aussie B Michael Radburn is a reliable, go-to author for thrilling mysteries. The Reach is the third featuring Park Ranger Taylor Bridges in a beautiful (though terrifying!) Australian bush setting.
4.5★ Link to my review of The Reach

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

ALLEN wrote: "I like to alternate fiction and nonfiction, and sometimes fiction - NF - genre. As RJ says, it can be very handy."

I've had no more reading slumps since I started reading multiple books at the same time and alternating them.

[PattyMacDotComma]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "ALLEN wrote: "I like to alternate fiction and nonfiction, and sometimes fiction - NF - genre. As RJ says, it can be very handy."

I've had no more reading slumps since I started reading multiple bo..."

That may be the trick, RJ, if you're getting bogged down in a slow book.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Open Water, a novella by British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson, is a poetic, complicated, lyrical love story, some of which I loved.
3.5★ Link to my review of Open Water

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished


The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Christie's first novel, Hercule Poirot's first appearance...
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith - book 2 of "The Ripliad" (or, the sequel to The Talented Mr. Ripley if you prefer)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Booker-winning, Tasmanian Richard Flanagan has written a remarkable parable for our times. During Australia's Black Summer of bushfires, three adult children play tug-of-war over their dying mother, while her mind is often floating in The Living Sea of Waking Dreams. Suspension of disbelief is required, as the daughter's finger disappears and almost nobody notices.
5★ Link to my review of Living Sea of Waking Dreams

[PattyMacDotComma]

On a bright, cheery note, My Monsterpiece by Amalia Hoffman is a terrific little book that will make your fingers itch to open up the craft box!
5★ Link to my review of My Monsterpiece with colourful illustrations!

[Wreade1872]

Finished Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline [4/5] review which was much better than the first book. Unless you thought the first book was good in which case i'm sure this will disappoint because thats just how change works :) .

[Luke]

Since I last posted, I've started:

An Untamed State - Roxane Gay
The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
Precious Bane - Mary Webb

[Wreade1872]

I started The World's Desire by H.Rider Haggard which is a sequel to The Odyssey by Homer but check out that 1970s cover art :lol , thats my new frontrunner for most ridiculous cover art for a classic reprint.
Narrowly beating out this 60's cover for C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength :) .

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just enjoyed Trust, the third of Aussie author, journalist, and former foreign correspondent Chris Hammer's Martin Scarsden series. Sydney is at its corrupt, murderous worst.
4★ Link to my review of Trust

[PattyMacDotComma]

I was pleased to see Mary Anning added to the Little People BIG DREAMS series by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara. All kids love collecting things, so they'd enjoy seeing how this little girl grew up finding fossils and becoming famous.
4★ Link to my Mary Anning review, including several illustrations

[J_BlueFlower]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Finished Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline [4/5] review which was much better than the first book. Unless you thought the first book was good in which ..."

Wow, better than the first. For me the first was epic and the second good - definitely worth reading and better than expected.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo is the long-awaited sequel to the popular Nobody's Fool. I'm happy to report that Sully and all were still at their stations in the White Horse and Hattie's when I left. (But you'll want to stay clear of the dog.)
4★ Link to my review of Everybody's Fool

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the penultimate book in the Amber series (which is also the fourth book in the Second Chronicles of Amber):


Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I am going to read a story from


The Conquering Sword of Conan by Robert E. Howard

before I get started on the FINAL book in the Amber series:


Prince of Chaos by Roger Zelazny

[Richard]

Voss by Patrick White

[PattyMacDotComma]

It's almost beyond me how Aussie journalist Shannon Molloy survived his teens as a gay kid in a country town, but I'm glad he did! His memoir, Fourteen: My year of darkness, and the light that followed is sad and funny and worth a listen.
4★ Link to my review of Fourteen

[PattyMacDotComma]

I can see a market opening up for dog buttons! How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog is a fascinating look at author Christina Hunger's work with pre-lingual kids who need help communicating and how she adapted her techniques so her dog Stella can communicate. And boy, does Stella 'talk'! Terrific!
5★ Link to my review of How Stella Learned to Talk

[Terry]

Since there is a bout to be an Amazon TV series, I launched into The Underground Railroad by Colton Whitehead. At 10% in, it’s pretty good so far.

[Janice]

I just finished reading Jane Eyre yesterday and today I started A Room with a View

[Heather L]

Janice: Two good books!

[Cuitlahuac]

The Romance of Atlantis, I almost finish it. Sadly its not a very good book but I am clearing the shelves of my house and there is lots of garbage left.

[Nike]

I've started Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. So different from the classic movie!

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Last Reunion by Aussie Kayte Nunn is historical fiction with a war story (Burma), romance, and mystery (stolen works of art).
4★ Link to my review of The Last Reunion

[PattyMacDotComma]

I loved Aussie author Garry Disher's country cop mystery in the dry, dusty (dangerous) outback of South Australia. Peace is the 2nd book featuring demoted cop Hirsch. The powers-that-be did not appreciate his whistle-blowing.
4.5~5★ Link to my review of Peace

[Luke]

Since I last posted, I've started and/or finished:

Les Liaisons dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Vet's Daughter - Barbara Comyns
The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer

[Steven]

I just started 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. He’s in my top five for fave authors.

[Wreade1872]

Steven wrote: "I just started 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. He’s in my top five for fave authors."

I don't know if i've ever read the unedited version of that, i know there are cut down editions.
The edition i have is from 1924. I should probably try a different one sometime but this one smells so good! :P Its so dry if i bent a page it would actually crack :lol .

[Steven]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Steven wrote: "I just started 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. He’s in my top five for fave authors."

I don't know if i've ever read the unedited version of that, i know there are cut ..."

I've read it edited and unedited. So, as a kid I used to read classics in the series Great Illustrated Classics. I figured out just recently that they were abridged. I have a few copies of 20000 Leagues. The one I'm reading right now is by Vintage Classics. I also have the B&N leatherbound Jules Verne collection and the Everyman's Library three novel collection. I kind of like his books.

I love hearing well loved book stories. I've had books that I've read so much that they've done that or had pages fall out. I had one or two where the cover even fell off.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the second book in the "Ripliad" - the sequel to The Talented Mr. Ripley:


Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first book in another series (as part of a group read for the Mystery, Crime and Thriller group here on Goodreads):


The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri

[Lilly]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Steven wrote: "I just started 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. He’s in my top five for fave authors."

I don't know if i've ever read the unedited version of that, i know there are cut ..."

That's a good one. I read it several years ago in French, I guess it was uncut. But I should really re-read it ...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Blacktop Wasteland is where author S.A. Cosby's Beauregard 'Bug' Montage earned his reputation as a high-speed wheelman and risks everything for one last job. Promise. Yeah, right.
5★ Link to my review of Blacktop Wasteland

[Wreade1872]

Finished Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card [4/5] review
started one from the 20's called The Doctor of Souls by W.Kobold Knight which seems like it might be similar to Dion Fortunes The Secrets of Dr. Taverner but we'll see.

Also still tripping my way through the second volume of the Illuminatus trilogy The Golden Apple which i am absolutely going to have to buy at some point :D .

Edit: Oh i unexpectedly hit the end of this volume The Golden Apple by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson [4/5] review .

[PattyMacDotComma]

William Faulkner was a giant of American Literature (with a capital L!), and I just enjoyed his short story A Rose for Emily. It's about an elderly widow who gets more and more reclusive and peculiar.
4★ Link to my Rose for Emily review with a link to the story.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Another cute Story Without Words, Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words by Karl Beckstrand. I can imagine little kids making up dialogue and "telling the stories" themselves.
4★ LInk to my review of Polar Bear Bowler with enough of the pictures to get the idea of the story.

[Heather L]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "William Faulkner was a giant of American Literature (with a capital L!), and I just enjoyed his short story A Rose for Emily."

One of my favorite short stories!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Heather L wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "William Faulkner was a giant of American Literature (with a capital L!), and I just enjoyed his short story A Rose for Emily."

One of my favorite short stories!..."

I can see how it would have influenced a lot of stories and themes in the years since, Heather.

[Janice]

Today I just started reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[PattyMacDotComma]

A Summoner had a pretty free rein in 14th century England. He could decide you were guilty of something and summon you to court - unless of course you bribed him. And he never paid for anything. Who would dare charge him? In The Summoner's Sins, author Keith Moray continues his series, which is pretty gruesome.
3★ Link to my review of The Summoner's Sins

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Wreade1872 wrote: "...Also still tripping my way through the second volume of the Illuminatus trilogy The Golden Apple (Illuminatus, #2) by Robert Shea The Golden Apple which i am absolutely going to have to buy at some point :D ..."

I have GOT to re-read those at some point.

[Terry]

I started The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and I am loving it so far at about 40% in. I have not seen the movie, so I am not sure what’s in store.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the third book in the Vampire Chronicles:


The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Psycho by Robert Bloch

...which I heard they made a movie out of a few years back?

[Luke]

Since I last posted, I've started:

Geisha, a Life - Mineko Iwasaki
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
The Giver - Lois Lowry

[PattyMacDotComma]

After many years, I loved my second reading of a favourite, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won author Mark Haddon many awards. Young Christopher is a persistent, special, very trying kid. Love him!
5★ Link to my Curious Incident ... review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just enjoyed NZ/Aussie author Jacqueline Bublitz's new mystery, narrated by a murdered girl, that should stir up some good book club conversations, Before You Knew My Name.
3.5~4★ Link to my review of Before You Knew My Name