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[Genia]

Read Agnes Grey, The Cider House Rules (which I was kind of bored by) and 1Q84.

[Heather]

I just finished reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. Very vivid and powerful.

[Leora]

Finished 'Burmese Days' by George Orwell. Not my fave.

[Kristen]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

[Mandy]

Just finished Alias Grace. Enjoyed reading it. It is based around a true crime that took place in Canada.

[Craig]

Oblobmov -Goncharov
and
The Mill on the Floss -Eliot

Both very good. Still amazed at the immense talent in Eliot's writing (miles above anything by Austen).

[M]

Susan, I am also reading Swann's Way and, while I'm not struggling, it certainly isn't engrossing. I don't really think it has a purpose or that the plot (if there's one) is important, so I am simply enjoying the prose. It reminds me of visiting an art museum.

I hope I made sense! :)

[Susan]

Yes, makes sense. I am beginning to think it may also be the edition that I am reading. It is an older LD translation and when I pulled up comparisons of the LD and the MKE the MKE flows better.

[James]

I assume by LD you mean Lydia Davis and by MKE, Montcrieff/Kilmartin/Enright. If so, the Davis translation is considerably newer only being about 10 years old for Davis' first volume (the others were translated by other people) where the core of the Montcrieff edition (i.e. the part done by Montcrieff) goes back to 1922. As such most readers have found Montcrieff's to be a little archaic. Personally, because what I enjoy about Proust is the music of his prose, I like tone of Montcrieff better than than Davis because it seems to fit the times described in the book better.

BTW, the plot moves slow but is important as you get into Marcel's later years in the later volumes.

[Stephanie "Jedigal"]

Northanger Abbey (Austen) - Really enjoyed, started off a bit slow, but LOVED it after about halfway.

Timbuktu (Auster) - This didn't work too well for me in the end, but a short read, and was interesting, especially in contrast to other books where an animal is the protagonist, such as Jack London's works.

Now I've completed all 6 Austen books on the list! I'm concentrating on authors with 5+ books on the list. I also have gotten in a new habit of having three books going at once, a paperback, a kindle, and an audio, and the different formats each seem suited to different reading times/places, so I feel that I'm getting a lot of reading in. :o)

[Ellinor]

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I haven't been that disappointed in a book for quite a while.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Sentimental Education, which I loved.

my review

[Karina]

Ragtime. Meh, it was okay, kept my interest, but not sure how I feel about it being a list book.

[Stephanie "Jedigal"]

DeLillo's - The Body Artist.
I just don't get it. I might as well have been reading something written in a foreign language. SUPER short, though, folks.

[Diane]

I just finished The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. Now to start One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

[Ginny]

Finished There But For The and volume 2 of Proust.

[Drew]

Finished The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. I love his style and it was a fun read.

[Stephanie "Jedigal"]

Kafka on the Shore by Murakami.

LOVED IT!! After enjoying two of his others, but being disappointed in the endings, I am SO glad to have this one totally live up to the promise I felt from its beginning. I think I'm hooked on Murakami's style. Looking forward to the remaining list entries of his.

[Casey]

Finished The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

[Judith]

The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
Het verdriet van België

Okay, but not nearly as humorous as Gunter Grass' "coming of age" stories and not one character to like or admire by the end of the novel! Light and ignorant attitudes about The Third Reich and antisemitism were hard to take by the end as well!

[Mikela]

Breakfast of Champions

Not up to Cat's Cradle but still good.

[Andrea]

Just finished Kafka on the Shore. I need to hear others' thoughts on what was going on in this one. I think I get it but it was so bizarre I'm at a loss for a clear understanding. But definitely looking forward to more from Murakami.

[Rachel (Sfogs)]

The Talk Of The Town
Not my sort of book at all. I just couldn't stand the main character, he was just a selfish bastard (To put it lightly).
Though it's another one off the list.

[Nicole]

Mansfield Park

[Lisa]

Fahrenheit 451. I'd class it as a "quick read", because I got so drawn into the story that it only took me 4 hours....

[Teresa Dicentra]

In Watermelon Sugar.

FAST read.

[Sandi]

Lisa wrote: "Fahrenheit 451. I'd class it as a "quick read", because I got so drawn into the story that it only took me 4 hours...."

It's not on the 1001 list though. Terrible oversight on Mr. Boxall's part!

[Peter]

Just finished Rabbit, Run by John Updike. I cannot honestly say that I enjoyed the experience but did find it intriguing.

[Craig]

Far From The Madding Crowd -Hardy

As much as Tess was great, this work by Hardy felt stronger overall.

[Dan]

Just finished Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn. Loved it. Five stars. The whole (Patrick Melrose) series is dark and delightful reading but only Book Four is on "the list."

[Danyellemastro]

Wayne wrote: "i just finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and really enjoyed it."

This was my first Atwood. I think I was about 16 and remember being very excited about stumbling across it. If you haven't read the Handmaids Tale and Penelopiad, do it soon!

[Danyellemastro]

The 39 Steps by Buchan. Meh, meh, meh. Took me over a week to knock over what is essentially a short story. Not that impressed.

[Nancy]

I'm a little giddy to finally finish War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This is my third Tolstoy (first read Anna Karenina, then Death of Ivan Ilyich). Unfortunately, I wasn't as captivated by this one as much as I had hoped, but did find a majority of it very readable and memorable. The last Tolstoy on the list is The Kreutzer Sonata, but will take hold off on that one in order to read others on my TBR pile.

[Beth]

The History of Love. Here's my review: http://bethslistlove.wordpress.com/20...

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Nancy wrote: "I'm a little giddy to finally finish War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This is my third Tolstoy (first read Anna Karenina, then Death of Ivan Ilyich). Unfortunately, I wasn't as captivated by this on..."

I won't be reading War and Peace right away - at least not before summer, and maybe not then. ;-) But thanks for posting about Ivan Ilyich and Kreutzer. Your post had me looking around a bit, and I've found a way to get at least one of those in, and soon.

[Dee]

Madame Bovary. It took me longer to finished than I thought it would, nor did I enjoy it as much as I had expected. Not a bad book overall though, even if very depressing.

[Mandy]

Just finished Platform.. started off fairly good but got progressively mundane. Parts of it were funny but only at the begining.

[Mekki]

The Golden Ass: Or Metamorphoses by Apuleius

[Ed]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

On the Eve by Turgenev. My review begins "Exquisite."

my review

[~Calyre~]

Just finished Trainspotting

[Craig]

In a Glass Darkly -Le Fanu
Solid collection of well-written stories steeped in mystery and suspense. They reminded me of Poe and the Sherlock Holmes works (the vampire story was supposedly a strong influence on Stoker's Dracula).

[Karena]

I just finished The Color Purple and now I'm mad I haven't read it sooner. Great book!

And I finished Life of Pi the day before that. Pretty good book. Surprised me that I liked it more than I thought I would.

[Steve]

Calyre wrote: "Just finished Trainspotting"

what did you think?

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

I just finished A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant.

[Chel]

I finished Kiss of the Spider Woman. It was very good.

[Ian]

Hold the chariots - I've just polished off Ben Hur by Lew Wallace.

[Juliana]

I just finished Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate (and the Pursuit of Love). Enjoyed it very much.

[Dan]

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf. Just okay.

[Steve]

Mao II by DeLillo, good, great at times, but just good overall.