Literary Exploration discussion

This month I'm planning to read Invitation to a Beheading, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, Guards! Guards!, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Winter's Bone and anything else I can fit in. Wouldn't mind rereading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Great Gatsby and Revolutionary Road

Currently reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and The Windup Girl.

Plan to read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Valdez Is Coming and Cat's Cradle.

Want to read a few other challenge books and a few of my older club books as well.

Michael - what do you think of "Invitation to a beheading"? Nabokov is my alltime favourite. This novel is a little kafkaesk (can you say so? what's your opion?)

Jutta wrote: "Michael - what do you think of "Invitation to a beheading"? Nabokov is my alltime favourite. This novel is a little kafkaesk (can you say so? what's your opion?)"

Haven't really started it yet

Kim wrote: "Currently reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and The Windup Girl...."

LOVED the Windup Girl. Hope you enjoy it.

Reading The Accursed, The Body in the Library, Picture of Evil, so far... whew...

I'm currently reading The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler & listening to The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta

This month I plan to read The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri, Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar & The Devil's Thief by Samantha Kane.

If I have time I'd like to read something from my Insane challenge - Erotica Monsieur by Emma Becker

Mish wrote: "I'm currently reading The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler & listening to The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta

This month I plan to read The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri, Sorry by Zo..."

I've just finished Chandler's The Big Sleep and enjoyed it very much :)

Getting stuck into translated fiction now - Life Form by Amelie Nothomb. A strange book so far but I think Nothomb pushing the boundaries on narrative as a habit.

Sonia wrote: "Mish wrote: "I'm currently reading The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler & listening to The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta

This month I plan to read The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri..."

So glad you did. I’m at the tail end of my first Chandler book & after a slow start I’m thoroughly enjoying it now.

I have just started 'The Engagement' by Chloe Hooper...Well, I am just hoping that I not heading down the 'Fifty shades of Grey' pathway again. If this is the case, then I will shelve it unfinished on the DID NOT FINISH shelf. I was meaning to start 'The End of the Affair' by Graham Greene last month. Unfortunately I wandered in another direction. I have just read a review of this book that has moved me so greatly that i can't wait to start it immediately....

Lisa wrote: "I have just started 'The Engagement' by Chloe Hooper...Well, I am just hoping that I not heading down the 'Fifty shades of Grey' pathway again. If this is the case, then I will shelve it unfinishe..."

It's a good one, nothing like Fifty shades

Karen wrote: "LOVED the Windup Girl. Hope you enjoy it."

So far I can't say I'm loving it. Finding it a little slow.

It does start slow.

Michael wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I have just started 'The Engagement' by Chloe Hooper...Well, I am just hoping that I not heading down the 'Fifty shades of Grey' pathway again. If this is the case, then I will shelve..."

Thanks Michael. Delved further and came to the same realisation. Glad I moved through.

like Everitt, I am reading a Russian classic - Crime and Punishment. Enjoying it so far.

I wish I had time to fit in as many books as Michael and Kim, very jealous :)

Trying to finish Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Really liking it, but having a hard time squeezing in time to read. Also, reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. After this, I plan on reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and hopefully Valdez Is Coming.

Everitt wrote: "I've been on a Russian lit bender since we read Lolita. In the past few months I've started The Brother's Karamazov, finished his collection of short stories including Notes from Underground, White..."

Awhile back I started to read Memoirs of a Geisha and it was interesting for awhile but sort of lost interest and didn't finish.

If you are looking for a real 'story' story of Japan, Shogun has everything. It's not a cleverly literary work, just a good straight forward story, political intrigue, complete culture clash, treachery. An exciting work of historical fiction and Clavell gets it right.

I'm reading The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds and hopefully more.

I just finished and I like the book more than the movie.

I just got done reading...
Love's Fate by Tracey Smith
My review
http://www.prideseries.com/indie-book...


Love's Fate

Hello...I am currently reading American Gods and The Snow Leopard. Just downloaded The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for this group discussion and hope to finally get through Niels Lyhne but not holding my breath on that one.

I'm currently reading Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories and Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children.

Leanne wrote: "I wish I had time to fit in as many books as Michael and Kim, very jealous :)"

It "helps" that I'm unemployed at the moment :P Though that is changing soon so I'll probably slow down a little bit in my reading.

Michael wrote: "This month I'm planning to read..."

No Valdez Is Coming?

Kim wrote: "Leanne wrote: "I wish I had time to fit in as many books as Michael and Kim, very jealous :)"

It "helps" that I'm unemployed at the moment :P Though that is changing soon so I'll probably slow dow..."

It also helps that I'm so anti social.

Re Valdez Is Coming: I hope to read it, I don't really want to read it on my kindle but I will try to fit it in.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Angels & Demons and Inferno.

Beloved pretty difficult subject matter but i'm nearly finished with it. Ive been thinking about reading HHhH next so Hitler and slavery in the same month, fun times!

Poppy wrote: "Beloved pretty difficult subject matter but i'm nearly finished with it. Ive been thinking about reading HHhH next so Hitler and slavery in the same month, fun times!"
I read HHhH last year, I recommend it - impressing!

Ok so finished beloved thank god! For some reason I couldn't wait to be finished with that book. I've read about 50 pages of hhhh and I'm loving it so far.

The Dinner, it is ok. Very disturbing.

Lorilee wrote: "The Dinner, it is ok. Very disturbing."

I really enjoyed that book

Reading William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal. Really enjoying it. Stumbled on a book sale yesterday and inspite of trying to resist, couldn't resist buying 4 books at dirt cheap prices - Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, Milan Kundera's The Curtain, A S Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye and Valerie Paradiz's Clever Maids - The secret history of The Grimm Fairy Tales.