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[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Misha wrote: "I always feel like it's just a little pretentious when a book's title includes "A Novel." I can understand labeling a short story collection "Stories," but if I'm in the fiction section and pick up..."

They just want to make sure you know, just in case you couldn't figure it out.

[Félix]

I think Misha's just being cranky.

[janine]

i think you're right, things like that bother me too.

[Mary]

Maybe they add "A Novel" for those people who are easily confused--the same people who pick up the little packet of silicone beads out of the shoe box and wonder if they're supposed to eat it.

[Mary]

"A Novel" may serve as a warning, much as "Do Not Eat This" does.

[Félix]

Misha wrote: "I can be both cranky and right, Larry."

Well yes. Of course you can.

[Natalie]

I'm about to start Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 .

[Félix]

I'm reading New York, a Novel. It's a big, thick one by the author of Sarum. He follows several family lines from when the Dutch arrived up to, well, I assume close to the present.

I don't give a hoot about the characters -- as the city is the main character that evolves and grows over the years, with so many monumental events that happened in and around it.

I've always been fascinated with what it was like when the Europeans started to live there, trying to imagine the present day metropolis as being rural and natural. And all of the communities and cultures that contributed to the growth and development, and how the street layout came to be what it is, and how it must have been during all of those periods from the 17th to the 20th century when I came to be there.

Okay, I'm finished now. Not with the book. Just this post about what I'm reading.

[Jammies]

Misha wrote: "Jammies, I think Perdido Street Station is considered New Weird rather than steampunk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Weird"

Duly noted, and still couldn't finish it. I'm re-reading Hunger Games right now.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Misha wrote: "I always feel like it's just a little pretentious when a book's title includes "A Novel." I can understand labeling a short story collection "Stories," but if I'm in the fiction section and pick up..."

If you're in the bookstore it may seem redundant, but if you're shopping online it might not be as clear whether something is nonfiction, fiction, stories, or a novel. Seems like I've been reading a lot of memoirs lately titled "Blah blah blah: A Memoir." So maybe the trend is toward more specific labeling in general, and not just with novels.

I believe Goodreads librarians are encouraged to take out ":a Novel" from novel titles.

[Melissa]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Misha wrote: "I always feel like it's just a little pretentious when a book's title includes "A Novel." I can understand labeling a short story collection "Stories," but if I'm in the fiction secti..."

I think you're right! This is the second novel I have read recently with "a Novel" attached to the title. I couldn't figure out why!

[Coquille]

Here's a book that might need the "A novel" tag:

The American Blow Job: A Novel

It's the only one I can think of that really needs it.

[Sally, la reina]

Larry wrote: "I'm reading New York, a Novel. It's a big, thick one by the author of Sarum. He follows several family lines from when the Dutch arrived up to, well, I assume close to the present.

I don't give ..."


That sounds amazing. What are the chances I can borrow it when you finish?

[Félix]

That sounds amazing. What are the chances I can borrow it when you finish?

You'll have to check with the Omaha Public Library, as they own the copy I'm reading.

[Sally, la reina]

Hmmm... I think the Fort Collins Public Library is more my speed.

I am one fourth of the way into the JITC series after all.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

YESSS.

I see RA gave up on Herzog....doesn't reflect well on our youth, does it.

[Leslie]

Looking forward to reading Atwood's The Year of the Flood. I just finished one of her early novels Surfacing and absolutely loved it! It's interesting to see how her early fascination with nature and sexuality carries through and evolves over her career....

Ex Lit Prof
www.the-reading-list.com

[Janice]

I finished listening to Beloved this morning on my way to work. Tonight I start Cathedral of the Sea. It's twenty-two hours long on audiobook. Yikes!

[Melissa]

I am reading Russian Winter a Novel by Daphne Kalotay. I really want to read Patti Smith's Just Kids next.

[Brittomart]

I'm halfway through Never Let Me Go, and I'm ready for it to get to the point

[Aynge]

I started Never Let Me Go a couple of years ago, but after two pages my eyes were crossing so I stopped reading it.

I won The Devotion of Suspect X and it arrived yesterday. I started it last night and I hate to say that it bored me to sleep. The prose blows, which I am attributing to the translation from Japanese, but I'm not sure how much I can take. I'll give it one more chance tonight.

[Brittomart]

I just finished Never Let Me Go. Once I got past that halfway mark, I really loved it.

Now I'm reading Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential... before I move on to finishing The Handmaid's Tale. I hope I like this.

[Brittomart]

17 pages in..I'm bored

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I had Kitchen Confidential out from the library a few weeks ago after sitting on a long wait list for it. I couldn't get into it.

[Brittomart]

So I gave up on Bourdain. The Corrections will be in the mail tomorrow, so I think that's gonna be the last book I read before the new semester starts.

[Sarah]

I'm craving fiction, but I'm trying to get through Packing For Mars (on the heels of Bill Bryson's At Home and then start the new Will Eisner bio that I won. I may need a quick fiction palate cleanser in between. Dick Francis or something.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I'm reading Brain Jack, which is a YA SF book, half Little Brother, half Snow Crash. So far, it's very fun. The kid is a talented hacker who breaks into the White House network, and men from the government just showed up at his house and arrested him.

Yeah, don't hack into the executive branch of the government. They don't like it. :)

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Awww poop. I read that wrong. I thought you wrote Bloody Jack and I just got that one on audio. Was hoping to see what you thought of it!

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Oh, I've heard that the Bloody Jack series books are REALLY good, Stacia! If I miss getting one right away, I hear about it!

[Natalie]

I have started Dog on It . So far its a fun story .

[janine]

nice work by david lodge.

[Brittomart]

Those who have read The Hunger Games

I can't take all of this melancholy, but I can't put it down. PLEASE tell me there's a light at the end of this tunnel.

[Janice]

Has anyone read Cathedral of the Sea? I'm listening to it on audiobook and am at chapter 6. When I got home from work tonight, I didn't want to come in. I wanted to sit out in the driveway for hours, except it's -30C and much warmer inside.

[Coquille]

Southern Fried Britt wrote: "Those who have read The Hunger Games

I can't take all of this melancholy, but I can't put it down. PLEASE tell me there's a light at the end of this tunnel."

There's some little glimmers, but I cried to the end of the third book. Couldn't put 'em down either, though.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

It's a trilogy Britt. Expect a lot of ups and downs. It's worth the journey though.

[Rachel]

Britt, it gets worse before it gets better.

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I'm reading The Pillars of the Earth. I am loving it from page one.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

That's always nice when a book grabs you from the start.

[Rachel]

I'm reading Artemis Fowl:Atlantis Complex. I'm not even half-way through and I'm bored already. :S

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I know Stacia. I have read so many books that have needed 100 pages to get into lately, it really is a refreshing change.

[RandomAnthony]

Lobstergirl wrote: "YESSS.

I see RA gave up on Herzog....doesn't reflect well on our youth, does it."

A couple friends warned me away from it. I still might read Augie March eventually...

[Brittomart]

I am so not in the mood for this book right now. It's already annoying the heck out of me.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

RandomAnthony wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "YESSS.

I see RA gave up on Herzog....doesn't reflect well on our youth, does it."

A couple friends warned me away from it. I still might read Augie March eventually..."

So you're warned off it for life? For several months? You're going to read one Bellow and that's the end of your quota?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm reading:
The Riddle of the Sands
Harlot's Ghost: A Novel
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

[Kristi]

Gail "cyborg" wrote: "I'm reading The Pillars of the Earth. I am loving it from page one."

I'm listening to it during my drive time each day. It is interesting from the start. I'm only about 8% in and I'm already attached to Tom and his family.

[Kristi]

I'm about to start One Day.

I only know of a handful of people who have reviewed it and out of those only 1 gave it above 3 stars.

Makes me a touch anxious that my bookclub chose it. Ah well. Always be open to new experiences. Right?

[Brittomart]

I just finished The Hunger Games, and I must admit that I skipped over some pages (I don't really care about Katniss talking about how Prim got her goat) and basically skimmed the last 50 because I'm not looking for metaphors or imagery, I just want to know what happens.

I NEED to read the next book. THAT WAS SO GOOD.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I like that Collins doesn't take the easy way out in her writing. She makes a lot of tough calls and isn't afraid to let people that you care about die, as you figured out in book 1 of Hunger Games.

[Brittomart]

SPOILER ALERT SPOiLER ALERT

Well, I mean, Rue had to die. She just had to.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

She did. She won't be the last. I don't consider that a spoiler because I'm pretty sure it's a given that with 3 books, there's gonna be some blood.

Can't wait to see the movie version when it comes out. I hope it's better than Battle Royale, but I have high hopes since Collins is writing the screenplay and she started as a screenwriter before she took on books.