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Which LIST book did you just start?
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Mar 10, 2014 10:44AM
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. My first Murakami read.
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Started the Lord of the Rings trilogy...cannot understand why I put it off so long !
Robyn wrote: "Mandy wrote: "Started the Lord of the Rings trilogy...cannot understand why I put it off so long !"Because it's long X 3? That's what holds me back anyway."
I agree Robyn...I have the three books sitting on the shelf for quite a while - this year I decided to tackle the larger books on the bookshelf, but that said it is looking like a great read.
Mandy wrote: "Going to try and crack my aversion to Jane Austen - startedPride and Prejudice...at least it was free on kindle...."How's it going? I once had an aversion to all things Austen but now I really enjoy her.
Linda wrote: "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. My first Murakami read." That book is great. Hope you enjoy.
Just started One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's not easy to get acquainted with the style and the protagonist.
S wrote: "Mandy wrote: "Going to try and crack my aversion to Jane Austen - startedPride and Prejudice...at least it was free on kindle...."How's it going? I once had an aversion to all things ..."
OK...reading in conjunction with lord of the rings....
I just started A Maggot by John Fowles. I really liked the psychological The Collector last year, and wasn't sure what to make of The French Lieutenant's Woman when I read it as a teenager. All his books are completely different!
Started Northanger Abbey. Reading it for class, but I love Austen anyway.
Mandy wrote: "Started the Lord of the Rings trilogy...cannot understand why I put it off so long !"It's so good! Have you read The Hobbit as well? I picked up his other books as well that are not on the list and need to read them!
I've just started uncle tom's cabin. I've read a few chapters & think I will enjoy it : )
Karina wrote: "Mandy wrote: "Started the Lord of the Rings trilogy...cannot understand why I put it off so long !"It's so good! Have you read The Hobbit as well? I picked up his other books as well that are not..."
Karina - I did indeed read the hobbitt - but I think I like this better!
Saramago's 'Blindness' is not a 1001 book, Becky. There is indeed a 'Blindness' on the list, as well as books by Saramago, but no combination of the two.
Just started Casino Royale for the monthly club choice and next up and loaded on the Kindle is To the Lighthouse.
I had to take a break from Herzog--not really my cup of tea.Started Updike's Rabbit Run this morning.
Aubrey wrote: "Saramago's 'Blindness' is not a 1001 book, Becky. There is indeed a 'Blindness' on the list, as well as books by Saramago, but no combination of the two."Hi Aubrey - you are correct! I'm really enjoying Blindness, however!
Started reading the free ebook version of Aesop's Fables Aesop's Fables A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones Illustrated a few days ago. Reading 5-10 fables a day. Some I recognise after reading the first few lines, others are new to me. Some of them now has become ”universal truth”, and reading them here is like “ah,.. so this is where that saying comes from”. Highly recommended.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by HardyThe Thousand Nights and One Nights, translated by Ricard Burton
@Wendy - I really enjoyed The Power and the Glory, hope you do too!
The Life and Opinions of Tom Cat Murr, ummm!!! not sure, a little strange and tends to flick between the two stories.
I just started Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut. I like Vonnegut and I've heard that this is a good book so I hope I'll like it :)
Aubrey wrote: "Starting There but for the by Ali Smith."I just got that one in the post yesterday!....hope it is a good one.
Doctor Zhivago-getting ready to start this one as well as this one... Adam Bede. I THINK this one's a 1001 book too, but my mind is fried & I can't remember, LOL
Lisa wrote: "Doctor Zhivago-getting ready to start this one as well as this one... Adam Bede. I THINK this one's a 1001 book too, but my mind is fried & I can't remember, LOL"Yep, I see that Adam Bede is on the list I have!
Just started The Time Machine by H.G.Wells. Not my usual genre but at least it's short.
Mandy wrote: "Aubrey wrote: "Starting There but for the by Ali Smith."I just got that one in the post yesterday!....hope it is a good one."
I'm about halfway through, and it's phenomenal thus far.
LaBrava by Elmore Leonard. My first by him. Hope I enjoy it.
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf. I've tried to read Mrs. Dalloway once but didn't finish it. I hope to finish this one.
Starting Pavel's Letters. Appears to be very non-mainstream for a 1001-book: Currently 32 ratings and 2 reviews here on GR.
Morvern Callar. I'm really loving it. Which worries me a little.
Falling Man by Don DeLillo (audiobook) - I was apprehensive at first because I had tried to listen to a DeLillo novel years ago and I could not get interested in it. This is a much different experience!
Moving onto The Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
I love love live Geisha. So much that ice read it 3 time listened to it twice and own the movie.
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