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Which LIST book did you just finish?
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Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico and King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. I enjoyed the first one considerably more than the second, but both were entertaining.
#119 - I finished the 1960s phenomenon 
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
In January I finished:BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S AND THREE OTHER STORIES by Truman Capote
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Finished 2/1/24: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Secret History by Donna Tartt is one more list book I won't be reading. I gave it a try, but definitely not for me.
Summer by Edith Wharton.
I finished I Robot yesterday. It was written in the 50s and Asimov discusses the ethics of AI. Only now are our politicians trying to grapple with it. I'm in the middle of reading The Grass is Singing. It's 39c today and I was getting a little tired of reading about how hot and dry it was when it was getting hot outside.
Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta. Whilst I can admire the writing the stream of thought style isn't my favourite.
Marti wrote: "The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair"I'm on the final 20 pages of this!
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This book would fulfill Task 5; Kim is a child through most of the book and a teenager by the end.
Aileen wrote: "Marti wrote: "The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair"I'm on the final 20 pages of this!"
And now finished!
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I liked the plot and the characters, but the writing was rather long-winded and repetitive.
#120 - I finished and failed to appreciate the finer points of 
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
so go ahead and call me a Philistine, I deserve it
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. I thought it was an OK read with some good tense moments. I didn't think Ripley was homosexual - he seemed too invested in himself to fancy another person. An interesting portrait of someone with a possible anti-personality disorder.
Suite Francesa Irène NémirovskyBrilliant for what it is, it hurts to think what it could have been had the Nazis not butchered the author.
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I finished reading A Christmas Carol by Dickens yesterday. First read for me, though I have read other Dickens before. It's interesting as a piece of social history. I found the notes added interest to the story.
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis which I very much enjoyed, and The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža which I didn’t quite understand but came to appreciate.
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Krleza has another 1001 list book with a higher avg rating on goodreads, On the Edge of Reason, which I have on my to-read list. He isn't read much by English- language readers but a few of my GR friends have read it- Amanda may have read it in French possibly.
Journey To The Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
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