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[Ruby]

Krizia Anna wrote: "The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy anyone?"

This is in my list to read too :)

[Krizia Anna]

Ruby wrote: "Krizia Anna wrote: "The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy anyone?"

This is in my list to read too :)"

Halika let's read this together! haha Next week?

[Ruby]

Krizia Anna wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Krizia Anna wrote: "The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy anyone?"

This is in my list to read too :)"

Halika let's read this together! haha Next week?"

i'll get the book from my friend first ^_^

[K.D.]

I wish to have a reading buddy for any of these books:

1) Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2) The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
3) The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins
4) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
5) Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
6) Middlemarch by George Eliot
7) Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
8) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
9) Howard's End by E. M. Forster
10) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
11) King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
12) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
13) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
14) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
15) The Iliad by Homer
16) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
17) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
18) Kim by Rudyard Kipling
19) Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
20) Waverley by Walter Scott
21) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
22) The Red and the Black by Stendhal
23) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
24) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
25) Barchesters Towers by Anthony Trollope
26) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
27) La Bete Humaine by Emilie Zola

Hope there is somebody out there who loves reading real classic works so I'll have the drive to finish this list within this year!!! I'll treat him/her to dinner and will be very grateful as in we'll be close friends as we will compare notes and talk about these books! Not just on-line discussions maybe. I am serious. I want to finish but still enjoy and appreciate all these books within the year.

[Angus]

KD: Half of those books are in my TBR! Unfortunately, only one of them is set for this year. I've selected other classics for 2012. Probably you have already read them (like Portrait of a Lady, Ulysses, etc.). Ayaw ko namang puro classics lang, I also want to read contemporary works. Baka magkaroon ako ng "classics fatigue."

I joined a new classics club for bloggers to help me finish my pile of classics. They also have a group here in Goodreads. I set a personal goal of finishing 75 classics in five years, which are:

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (2012)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (2012)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (2012)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (2012)
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Emma by Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2012)
Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2012)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (2012)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun (2012)
Native Son by Richard Wright (2012)
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (2012)
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (2012)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de LaFayette
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (2012)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Ulysses by James Joyce (2012)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

PS: Welcome back din! :D

[K.D.]

Angus: Only 10 of those you listed, I've read already. Some of those are not pre-1900 so I did not include them in my list.

Oh I have to wait for somebody. I don't want to join other groups. GR and my 3 groups are enough to keep me busy.

Thanks!

[Angus]

KD: I chose pre-1950 books because I don't have a lot of pre-1900 books. Some books I have yet to find (like Clarissa and Waverley).

[H]

I have 29 of those books and have read only 7 hahaha. Are we still reading Ulysses in April? Penitensya ba natin yan for Holy Week? ahahaha

[Angus]

H: Yes! Oddly, mauuna ang Ulysses sa bucket list na iyan. Sa end of March na natin pagplanuhan.

[Tina]

KD & Angus: I have Vanity Fair and I am thinking of reading it sometime this year. :D Me and my classics challenge. Medyo 4 years na ata nasa TBR ko yung Vanity Fair. :D

[H]

Oo nga..mejo mahaba pa ang March...hehe.

[Angus]

Tina: This year? Hmm. That's a brick (and I already have a handful of bricks this year). If you can postpone it early next year, I'd love to read it with you. Or maybe KD is up for it this year. What you think?

[Tina]

Angus wrote: "Tina: This year? Hmm. That's a brick (and I already have a handful of bricks this year). If you can postpone it early next year, I'd love to read it with you. Or maybe KD is up for it this year. Wh..."

Haha I don't mind postponing. I have Pillars of the Earth and Game of Thrones lined up pa, and I haven't even started on any of them. "Ideally" lang yung this year. ;)

[Krizia Anna]

K.D. wrote: "I wish to have a reading buddy for any of these books:

1) Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2) The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
3) The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Colli..."

sayang. I am reading "House of Mirth" now

[Angus]

Krizia: I remember your announcement regarding The House of Mirth.

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Hmm. We always look for reading buddies but seldom do we accept these offers. Someone has to adjust his reading plan or prospective buddies should plan far ahead to make the buddy reading possible.

[Rollie]

Angus wala ka planong basahin this year yung Snow Crash?

[AennA]

LS wrote: "I'm planning to start on Stephen King's 11/22/63 on April 1. I'll be listening to the audiobook, and I can upload it to the Box folder for those interested to join me. :)"

hey, LS let's start the buddy read for The Woman in Black on the 21st. I haven't received my copy, but in case it hasn't arrived yet by that time, I'll stick with the audiobook.

I believe it'll only take us 5 hours to finish the audio version, but maybe we can evenly spread it for a couple of days. Baka one day reading lang mangyari! =))

[AennA]

LS: cge, let's spread it for 3 days.

I'll start the thread later, also for those who might want to "listen/read" with us.

I'm not sure if PO will be joining us. (tamang sya ang nag-offer, tapos ngayon sya pa tinatanong ko kung kasali sya! Hehehe)

So, Mr. Kung PO Panda will you be joining us on the buddy read?

[Angus]

Rollie: Wala pa eh. Nakaplot na kasi 2012 ko. If you insist, next year? :D

[Rollie]

Angus: Naks! 2013? Parang puputi buhok ko niyan. :D Mauna nalang akong basahin yun. :D

[Maria]

KD: i can buddy you for The Scarlet Letter. :D

[Em]

Hi KD! I can buddy read you in Les Miserables :) i wanted to read your other books rin kase ung Les Miserables palang ung may copy ako. :) Let me know na lang kung kelan. :)

[K.D.]

Maria: April 2 - Scarlet Letter

Em: April 16 - Les Miserables (Abridged). Wag kang magbiro na babasahin natin ang Unabridged. Baka di tayo matapos hahaha.

Tina: May 7 - Vanity Fair?

I will read Madame Bovary next. Followed by "Tom Sawyer" and "Huck Finn."

I feel I should read these pre-1900 works. Otherwise, new more readable books come out so fast that these works will just be buried deeper and deeper.

Come to think of it, these books started all the trends, styles, themes, etc. If not for these books, there might not be the other books we are enjoying now. Les Miserables has French Revolution as its backdrop so you also learn from it.

Call?

[H]

Maganda yang Les Miserables...kahit unabridged! Di mo mapapansin na a million pages sya hehehe.

[K.D.]

H: Oh no. No. Oh...

[Em]

KD: cge Kuya, kasubuan na to hahaha...matatapos ko na that time ung gone with the wind ko na million pages. LOL Pano po ba ung ways or rule ng buddy read.

[Tuklas Pahina (TP)]

AennA wrote: "LS wrote: "I'm planning to start on Stephen King's 11/22/63 on April 1. I'll be listening to the audiobook, and I can upload it to the Box folder for those interested to join me. :)"

hey, LS let..."



Guys join ako sa Woman in Black...actually sinimulan ko na hehehe...

[Tuklas Pahina (TP)]

LS wrote: "Po: Booooo masyadong excited!!!!"

Yes! LS medyo na overwhelm me sa IQ84 kaya need to switch kahit saglit kumbaga na-drained na or na-lowbat ako kay Fuka-Eri at Aomame hahaha! pero balik din me agad, Chapter 13 na ako.

[AennA]

Po wrote: "Guys join ako sa Woman in Black...actuall sinimulan ko na hehehe..."
..."

Ano ba yan, excited masyado. Inantay ka pa naman namin tapos inunahan mo kami. Chos lang!

Mabilis lang yan matapos PO, by the time na magsisimula kami, malamang tapos ka na. Hehehe.

[K.D.]

Em: There is a separate thread at the homepage. :)

[Em]

K.D. wrote: "Em: There is a separate thread at the homepage. :)"

hehe oo nga kuya nakita ko na...#slow :P

[Tina]

K.D. wrote: "Tina: May 7 - Vanity Fair?"

Kuya balikan kita sa Vanity Fair ha. I think I have Little Women scheduled for May (I have a reading dare for that month -- convinced a friend to read Persuasion while I read Little Women para quits kami hehe), but I'll let you know kung matuloy. Haha. Achievement ito kung mabasa ko rin yun this year. :)

[Maria]

KD, go ako sa April 2.

[K.D.]

Hi Maria, will you be the one to create the thread? Excited na ako. Classic 'to. hahahaha. Sabay sa Jane Eyre. Di kaya masobrahan tayo hahahaha.

[Tuklas Pahina (TP)]

Wanted reading buddies for any title of the books with
Pulitzer prize or Nobel prize winner also
Books with Oprah's Book Club logo.....

[K.D.]

Po, what are the titles?

[Angus]

Lahat daw! Po, mag My Name is Red ako sa April. Nobel si Orhan Pamuk. :D

[K.D.]

Po: "Snow" na lang meron ka?

[H]

Maganda ang My Name is Red. Meron din akong Snow, but I haven't read it yet. I recently quit reading The Black Book...fail! :( hehehe.

Po...Mario Llosa na lang, samahan kita :P

[K.D.]

Po: O dikaya "The Good Earth" ni Pearl S. Buck!

[Angus]

Aba Po, pinag-aagawan kang maging book buddy! In extreme demand!

[kwesi 章英狮]

Mabenta! Haha.

[K.D.]

Ganda kasi ng mga thoughts nya hahahaha.

[kwesi 章英狮]

Thoughts lang? Haha.

[H]

Di naman...baka lang kasi gusto nya magbasa ng Llosa eh...Misery loves company :P

[Angus]

WAHAHAHA!

[K.D.]

Geez, Kwesi. Ano pang gusto mong sabihin kong maganda kay Po?

[kwesi 章英狮]

Madami! Palakaibig at nakakatawa siy! Hehe.

[K.D.]

Sabagay. In fairness, tama naman yan. Ito ang mga good points ni Po:

1. Palakaibigan (friendly)
2. Patawa (joker)
3. Nalawak ang nalalaman sa Bible (religious)
4. Pogi (Ex-Starstruck candidate)
5. Malakas ang imahinasyon (fictional)
6. Kaladkarin (laging "go")
7. Mapagtiwala (kinukuwento kahit personal hahaha)
8. Mahiyain (sensitive)
9. Movie Guide (sa kanya ka magtanong anong magandang panoorin na sine)
10. Chick-boy hahahaha.

[kwesi 章英狮]

Agree ako sa number 10! Haha!