Vintage Tales discussion

I'm only reading Barnaby Rudge, but about to start some other books for next month: La famiglia Karnowski, The Family Fang, The Grass is Singing ...

Changed up a little. Reading Peter Pan, but also working through Lonesome Dove. Did not realize the magnitude of the book. It's like a bazillion pages. Usually I save these for my summer reads. May still end up doing that. Don't have enough time during the winter months for something this time intensive. Summer is for laying on the deck spending the day reading. With more than a foot of new snow on the ground it is great to think about.

Peter Pan is pretty good so far. I hope you are enjoying it Terry. I'm reading Peter Pan as it is my book I got recommended by two book club buddies and one did for the book recommendation swap here. I'm also reading it cuz it was the inspiration for the book The Child Thiefby Brom which was a pretty good version of Peter Pan. I'm also reading Redwall by brian Jacques which is a pretty good read thus far.

About to start - when I'll have my house back to myself: there are now people putting up awning in all my windows!!! - The Shining Girls

I'm about to start The Shining Girlstoo Laurat. my library got it in yesterday so am starting it tonight.

Just finished reading GONE WITH THE WIND. Loved it and it has really touched me.
I am now reading Suite Française. I only have another 100 pages left. I wanted to finish it today, but my eyes were too sore to finish. It is an amazing story and so very well written. It took a while to get into the story with so many characters, but I finally really got into it and am enjoying it immensely. Also, I have to finish Middlemarch. I am about half-way through that book. Small print is hard on my eyes.

that's great Beatrice. def watch the movie. gone with the wind is a pretty good film. I saw it for the first time last year and enjoyed it.

Beatrice wrote: "Just finished reading GONE WITH THE WIND. Loved it and it has really touched me.
I am now reading Suite Française. I only have another 100 pages left. I wanted to finish it today, but my eyes were ..."

Loved Gone with the Wind and even more Middlemarch! Suite Francese is on my TBR shelf since ages ago!

Iasa wrote: "This weekend I'm going to start Carmilla, Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes, and either Lady Audley's Secret or Melmoth the Wanderer"

Lady Audley's Secret is a really good book!

I just finished Redwall and it is a pretty good book. I am also going to go back to read Peter pan, the shining girls, wind in the willows and Northanger abbey. I hope to read murder at the vicarage this month too.

Glad to know it!

I'm reading some older romances I've had for years. I got way behind with by TBR pile the last year or so. I'm trying not to get any more for awhile, but I'm not sure how well that will work. :) I just can't resist buying books, especially when they are only a quarter at the thrift store.

I'm going to finish wind in the willows next then do northanger abbey and then go from there. :-)

I'm finishing - hopefully tomorrow - a book I'm NOT liking at all! La rivincita delle mogli: To Be Forgotten!

I am reading and loving The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

Currently reading Littletown Secrets. It's a pretty good children's short story collection about the seven deadly sins. am enjoying it and will finish it soon.

Sterted Murder at the Vicarage!

I am reading a couple of books. "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins is what I am currently laying down next to, though. Loving it. I am less than 100 pages in, but it is one I can tell I will keep loving until I finish it and it has to resume its spot on my shelf.

Iasa wrote: "Well I started Don Quijote. So far it hasn't tickled my fancy but I'm only about 75 pages in."

Long way to go with that book! But a book worth reading in the end

I read Murder at the Vicarage, and just finished Northanger Abbey today. Still in the middle of Middlemarch. I must finish that one, but always another seems to want to engage me somehow.

Good luck beatrice. How was northanger abbey? :-)

It all depends on the reader, I suppose. I enjoyed it because I am used to reading the classics. I downloaded the pdf file here on Goodreads. Just a little info if someone doesn't have the book.I read it in two days. One could probably read it in one full day, but the language could be troublesome if you are not used to it. It was easy to understand, though.

Currently reading:
1) A Passage to India
2) David Copperfield
3) (about to start) Half-Blood Blues

Iasa wrote: "I've always wanted to read A Passage to India, you'll have to let me know how it is."
It's been on my list for awhile. I'm only 50 pages in but I am enjoying it so far.

Yesterday I started on Tolkien's The Silmarillion. It's the common read this month in my Fans of British Writers group.

I am currently reading Northanger Abbey and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. I am hoping to have them both completed this week.

Together a classic and an contemporary:
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope and The Last Dragonslayer b Jasper Fforde.
Liking them both a lot!

Tara wrote: "I am currently reading Northanger Abbey and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. I am hoping to have them both completed this week."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is one of my favorites! I hate Angel, though. Always have. He makes me mad.

I must admit to finding him the wettest character I've ever come across, and also one of the most hypocritical. I think Hardy was trying to paint an idealistic, conscience-stricken young man, but he's a bit hard to believe.

In my review of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (www.goodreads.com/review/show/15330557 --note that spoilers are so pervasive in that review that the whole thing is hidden behind a spoiler warning!) I made a comment to the effect that at one point, I wanted to reach into the book, take hold of Angel by the shoulders, and shake some sense into him. (I realize that he was a product of the Victorian era; but not ALL Victorian males were such sexist idiots.)

Angel could use a good shaking. I don't know how many times I wanted to do that same thing while I was reading the book.

I know! I remember studying this book for "A" level at 17. The school had just become co-educational and feminism was burgeoning. Girls and boys alike were horrified by the depiction of Angel, even allowing for the time the novel was set and written in.

I wrote a paper for a women's studies class about several heroines from classic literature and how they helped portray the problems women face even today and female sexuality and whatnot. I had to throw Tess in there just so I could vent about what a hypocrite Angel was, haha.

Started a collection of short stories by Dickens; I love them - even if I generally prefere long stories!!!

Which collection, Laura? And is there a famous one in it?

Jean wrote: "Which collection, Laura? And is there a famous one in it?"


Here it is: The Short Stories of Charles Dickens
Up to now no famous story; but I'm on story 4 out of 18/19!

Ooo yes I do remember some of these, such as Mugby Junction...and the final four, for some reason! After my 2-year challenge I'll probably work through his short stories - I will have forgotten them all by then :D

I'm reading a book called Battle Magicby Tamora Pierce which is a pretty good YA book thus far, and got an ebook to read then I hope to read Little Men before the end of the month and Frankenstein sometime in April. Got some YA books coming out that I want to read too.

Iasa - another one referred to in Northanger Abbey is The Mysteries of Udolpho byAnn Radcliffe , which you might find similarly "over-the-top"! An entertaining read though!

No, neither of them! Should I?

Just started The Brothers Karamazov, but the new term at school also just started. I'm thinking I might need to set it aside until this term is over because I have a full schedule and I hear it is a book that you have to be able to spend a lot of time with.

Thanks Iasa :)

Just started Martin Chuzzlewit. It looks nice ... my last Dickens ...

I'm reading little men which is pretty good and hope to finish it shortly.

awesome Noam! Frankenstein won the April Group Read so feel free to discuss the book there too.

Clive Lee, the author of the newly-published Coral Hare: Atomic Agent (A WW2 Spy Novel) Inspired by actual historical events, was kind enough to offer me a free signed copy of the book. It arrived in the mail yesterday, just in time for me to start reading it today.

None of the books that I'm currently reading are Classics, but here they are:

Great Holly enjoy them. I am reading Bridge of Time which is pretty good so far and hope to finish Wind in the willows after that.

Thanks Amber, I'm enjoying them very much.

Awesome. If you need any classic reccomendations, look at our past/current group reads as well as the classic book threads here.