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Which LIST book did you just start?
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Nov 26, 2023 03:19PM
I just started I Robot yesterday and am 40% through as it is a wonderful read that I'll finish off by tomorrow. Though I like science fiction, I've not read Asimov's well known books so this is a treat to finally dig in.
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Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
George P. wrote: "Now reading Quicksand by Nella Larsen and Middlemarch by George Eliot."Glad I saw your post about Quicksand. I’d never heard of author Nella Larsen, and after checking her out, I picked up both Quicksand and also Passing, her other book on the list. I’m looking forward to reading both.
Rose wrote: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré"Glad I saw this, and I can’t believe I’ve never read one of his books! The Kindle is currently only $1.99, and I also saw it’s available on my library’s digital platform Libby, where the book can be opened on Kindle and read in that app.
I don't usually comment in this discussion topic, but I thought I'd make an exception this time. I have started on the journey that is Remembrance of Things Past. I started volume 1 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust today. I'm looking forward to the trip.
Bob wrote: "...I have started on the journey that is Remembrance of Things Past. I started volume 1 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust today. I'm looking forward to the trip."I've also started that one, Bob.
RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Bob wrote: "...I have started on the journey that is Remembrance of Things Past. I started volume 1 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust today. I'm looking forward to the trip."I've also started that one..."
Good luck and happy reading.
Bob wrote: "Good luck and happy reading."Thank you. Same to you.
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt andJahrestage by Uwe Johnson - I'm reading this while the group reads Middlemarch
I started reading one of the greatest Science-Fiction cultural touchstones of the 1960s
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
I'm reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I don't read a lot of scifi so was uncertain about this one. But I as I go on, I am getting more out of it. Seeing that it was translated into English 100yrs ago, its remarkable that it hasn't really aged.
Cannery Row by John SteinbeckI don't think I read a single list book last year and going to make an effort to get through it this year especially with books I already own but haven't yet read.
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And still working on The Mysteries of Udolpho
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
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