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[Ravenskya]

Just read "A Modest Proposal" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" today. I loved them both...

Still about half way through the Three Musketeers and Ulysses

Not so fond of Ulysses

[Kathyg]

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. I have never read about the dictator Truijillo. I found this book so absorbing that I could hardly bare that there was an ending. Found it fascinating how the author told about the 3 dead sisters through the viewpoint of the living sister, and wondered how the author was going to tell about the dead sisters killing when the living sister was not there to observe it.

[Miranda]

Both Atonement and The Bell Jar.

[Charity]

Kathyg,

After reading In the Time of the Butterflies, you should pick up The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz for more on Trujillo. In fact, there is a reference made to Alvarez's book in it. :-)

[Ben]

"The Greening of America" by Charles A Reich

Old book that reads like it was written this year, scary...

[Ben]

"The Greening of America" by Charles A Reich

Old book that reads like it was written this year, scary...

[Kevin]

I'm on vacation now and so I'm trying to get in a little extra reading. I don't read as much as I'd like to in my every day life. Anyway, I'm about half way through Saturday by Ian McEwan and I've also read about 100 pages into Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. So far I'm really enjoying both of them.

[Kathyg]

Charity, I will add that to my to read list. Thank you for suggestion.

[Eva]

I just finished the graphic novels Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi.

I firmly recommend them. I actually can't imagine how these would have been as "real" books. The drawings really emphasize the story.

[Denise]

Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Interesting array of chararcters but I felt like there were a lot of metaphors I didn't quite figure out. I liked it without really getting it.

[Judith]

"Return of the Native" - Thomas Hardy

I gave it four stars. I love his descriptions, and the story line and interesting characters in this one kept me reading.

[Christophe0808]

Libra by Don Delillo. Can't really get into his style of writing. The story was interesting, though.

[Denise]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I liked it, but may have been expecting too much since I'd heard a lot about it.

[Lisa]

Far From the Madding Crowd is one of my favorite books ever. Enjoy!

[Ann from S.C.]

Just finished THE BELL JAR. I am so glad I read it.

[Judith]

I finished "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh last night. Wonderful novel! I'm adding it to my favorites list.

[Kris]

My Lobotomy

[Chris]

Just finished Vanity Fair and loved it! Watching the movie first gave me some good insights when things got sort of wordy and focused on historical events that I'm not real familiar with.

[Kevin]

I just finished Saturday by Ian McEwan. I enjoyed it a lot. The writing is just so nicely done. I would definitely recommend it.

[Klara]

Didion's The White Album.

[Ravenskya]

Just finished "The Three Musketeers" I didn't like it as much as "The Count of Monte Cristo" but did like it enough to start "The Man in the Iron Mask"

[Denise]

Klara, what did you think about The White Album? I read it in my youth and found it fascinating. Is that on the list? My percentage might go up!

[Deanna]

I just finished "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth.

http://tragicrighthip.blogspot.com/20...

Meh.

[Kristi]

I stayed up late last night to finish The Corrections, then woke my boyfriend up with my crying.

[Chloe]

Kristi, The Corrections definitely isn't a feel-good book, to say the least. That book was just so depressing with all of those hateful characters. I've been leery of Jonathon Franzen ever since then.

[Denise]

Deanna, I enjoyed your review of American Pastoral. I'm planning on reading it for a book club selection next month. I won't have to worry now about expecting too much and being dissappointed.

[David S. T.]

I just finished The Killer Inside Me: pretty good, but I liked Savage Night, from the same author a little more.

[Tara]

I just finished 'Breakfast at Tiffany's.' First book by Capote that I've ever read. I enjoyed it, but it certainly wasn't what I expected.

[Hashi]

"At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neill. Loved it. Some reviewers apparently find the language difficult to follow but I didn't (maybe my ear is more attuned, being Australian? dunno). The ending didn't gel for me but I gave it four stars anyway.

[Niche]

I just finished Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. It's a quick read and very quirky and unsettling at the same time.

[Laura]

I love Winterson. I highly recommend The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. She writes so beautifully strange that I'm mesmerized every time. Well, almost. I couldn't get into Art & Lies.

[Julie]

I just finished Watchmen by Alan Moore and Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, both of which I loved.

[Pam]

Thanks Galen and Julie for the encouraging remarks on Middlemarch. I'm about 100 pages in and I'm enjoying it so far.

[Kristi]

Just finished The Thin Man (in just about 28 hours).

[Nawar]

The Devil Wears Prada
and
About A Boy

I loved both!

[Lisa]

Loved it too but the ending didn't gel for me either.

[Patricia]

I just finished Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I loved it and can see why it is a classic.

[Julia]

what do you like better, the movie or the book?
i read the book first and then watched the movie. and i have to say, that this is one of very few cases that the movie impressed me much more than the novel.

[Denise]

The Great Gatsby. For a book I had no interest in reading, I liked it a lot. In some ways I wish I had read it in a class. I feel there was a lot just under the surface that I would like help bringing out.

[Carly]

I have just finished Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, I definately didn't enjoy it as much as Pride and Prejudice.
Next on my list is either: Love in the Time of Cholera, High Fidelity, The Blind Assassin (I found it in my mother-in-laws 'throw out' pile!!!) or A Clockwork Orange.
Sadly I only have 21 under my belt.

[Carly]

Denise,
I have regularly found myself wishing the same while reading books, just to get that extra bit of insight.
A lot of people found studying books tedious and boring at school. Personally, it made me love the books more and some of my absolute favourites are those that I was "forced" to read for example, The Collector and Ender's Game.

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The cider house Rules

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About a week ago i finished animal farm

[Jennifer]

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. I am obviously not philosophical enough to appreciate this book. I am sad to say I was quite bored and am glad that I finally finished.

[Patricia]

Julia,
I think you are asking about Anna Karenina. I didn't see the movie--At least I don't think I did, but I have this vivid memory of hankie or a shawl lying on train tracks as the train pulled away and all the time I was reading, I kept thinking it had to do with the movie. Maybe that's the picture on the front of the movie or maybe it's on book dust cover.

[Klara]

White Noise, by Don Delillo. I totally judged it prior by the name... I thought it'd be boring, but I actually really liked it.

[Stewart]

Finally got round to writing up Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style.

[akaellen]

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
by Richard Brautigan


Some of it was very strange but it was oddly mesmerizing.

[Suzanne Shumaker]

Just finished Frankenstein. It was very fun to read especially since I haven't seen the movie or anything. I cam at it with no idea what it was really about.

[Denise]

I loved Trout Fishing In America. What's he say when he can't get the one-eyed trout? "He's not smart--just lucky. Sometimes that's all you need." Or something like that.