Gail's 2024 Randomised Reading List

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Gail – Standard

✔ 1. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
✔ 2. Southern Seas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (WL)
3. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
4. Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
✔ 5. In the Heart of the Seas by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
6. The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese (WL)
7. Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
8. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
9. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

[Gail]

Just a note so we are tracking together. I have read The White Tiger and have posted a review. I see you gave me another book already. Thank you Book.

[Gail]

I have read Ignorance and have added a short reviews to 1001 book reviews.

[Gail]

Hello Book, I have read Southern Seas and posted a review .

[Gail]

I have previously read Rashomon and here is the review:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Gail]

I read In the Heart of the Seas and have posted a short review.

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New book added

[Gail]

I have read Extinction and have posted a short review.

[Gail]

I know that Book has retired from this activity but I will just continue to post as I read and perhaps a new moderator can catch up later.

[Patrick]

Hi Gail,

Give me a few days to sort out the transition and I'll be able to provide you with another pick.

[Patrick]

Gail – Standard

✔ 1. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
✔ 2. Southern Seas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (WL)
3. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
✔ 4. Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
✔ 5. In the Heart of the Seas by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
✔ 6. The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese (WL)
7. Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
✔ 8. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
✔ 9. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
✔ 10. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
✔ 11. The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
✔ 12. Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair (WL)
✔ 13. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
14. A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
15. Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez
16. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
✔ 17. Beloved by Toni Morrison
✔ 18. Novel with Cocaine by M. Ageyev
✔ 19. The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
✔ 20. Couples, Passerby by Botho Strauss
21. The Pharaoh and the Priest by Boleslaw Prus
✔ 22. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
23. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
24. Beloved by Toni Morrison

[Patrick]

New book added (and list copied, since I can't edit BookWormy's posts)

[Gail]

Thank you Patrick

[Gail]

I have read The Sound of Waves and added a short review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....

[Patrick]

New book added

[Gail]

I have read The Moon and the Bonfires MOON & THE BONFIRES Paperback and added a short review. It is not yet linked in the 1001 review file but I will alert Kristel that it exists. Here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Patrick]

New book added.

Thanks for the review, I could also have done the linking (part of my new responsibilities).

[Gail]

Thank you Patrick.. Kristel has not responded so I guess you could link it.

[Patrick]

She had already done it :)

[Gail]

Okay, great. Thank you

[Gail]

I have finished reading The Home and the World and have added a review.

[Patrick]

New book added.

[Gail]

I have finished reading Song of Solomon and added a short review.

[Gail]

I have finished reading The Birds and added a short review.

[Patrick]

New books added. Apologies for the delay, I've been really busy these last few weeks.

[Gail]

Thank you Patrick. No worries about timing. I have plenty to read.

[Gail]

Of course I should have looked at the added books before replying. I have read both the new books. Here is the review for Martin Fierro: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Gail]

And here is the review to A Short History of Tractors; https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Patrick]

New books added. I checked that you haven't reviewed them before posting.

[Gail]

Great. Magic Mountain should keep me busy for the rest of the year!

[Gail]

Patrick here is the link to Dining on Stones, a wish list book with no other reviews so you will have to link it in to the 1001 reviews file.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Thank you

[Patrick]

New book added. Sorry about the long delay, I've been (and still am) super busy lately.

[Gail]

No worries, Thank you

[Gail]

I have read The Bell and posted a short review.

Patrick, I hope the conclusion of the Olympics finds you able to relax a bit more and that you efforts were successful, whatever they may have been.

[Patrick]

New book added. Thanks Gail, yes, my efforts have been quite successful. I might be able to catch up on my late reviews now.

[Gail]

Hello Patrick, here is a review of Novel with Cocaine. There is no other review currently posted that I could find. Thank you.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Patrick]

New book added. Thanks for the heads-up on the missing link.

[Gail]

I have read and reviewed Beloved.

[Patrick]

New book added

[Gail]

I have read and reviewed The Busconductor Hines. Here is the link, although Amanda had read it previously: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Patrick]

New book added. Now I realise that I've lost track of which one was supposed to be the Wish List book...

[Gail]

Yes, I thought it was Busconductor Hines until I went to post the review. It doesn’t really matter. Open to anything and don’t need points.

[Gail]

I have read Couples, Passersby and posted a very short review.

[Gail]

Patrick, as noted above I did read Couples, Passersby and just now finished Go Tell It on the Mountain and also posted a very short review for that. I may sneak in the Pharaoh and the Priest but obviously I am not going to get to the Thomas Mann. Really Joseph and his Brothers was enough for one year. So we will call it a wrap for 2024. Thank you

[Patrick]

Oh, I missed that October update... I recall I was quite busy at that time, so I probably saw it, put it on the "To do later" pile and forgot about it. I've added two new picks, just in case it makes it easier for you.