Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

La tregua by Primo Levi

227 pages

Group total: 13 196

387 pages read Jane Austen at Home (Lucy Worsley) 📖 ✅ 4* my review .

(13 196+387 = 13 583)

New group total: 13 583

1- The Three Kingdoms, Volume 1: The Secret Oath. Luo Guanzhang 1360. 416 pages
2- Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées. Balzac 1841. 504 pages
3- My Antonia. Willa Cather 1918. 320 pages
4- L’étranger. Albert Camus 1942. 112 pages
5- Lumière d’août. William Faulkner 1932. 640 pages
6- Ragtime. E.L. Doctorow 1975. 320 pages
7- Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse. Leo Tolstoy 1886. 90 pages
8- Augustus. John Williams 1972. 324 pages

Total 2726

2726 + 13 583= 16 309

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

128 Pages

Total in the Group: 16, 437 Pages

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
100 pages

Group total: 16 537

15/01/25. 224 pages
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon by Jane Austen

Current Group Total : 16,761

Ghosts, bandits & legends of old Monterey ... Carmel, and surrounding areas by Randall A. Reinstedt, 48p

Group Total: 16,809

Shipwrecks and Sea Monsters of California's Central Coast by Randall A. Reinstedt, 168p

Group Total: 16,977

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath, 64p

Group Total: 17,041

The Judge's House by Georges Simenon - 176 pgs

The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie - 364 pgs

The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley - 238 pgs

Tension by E.M. Delafield - 175 pgs

Group Total: 17,994 pgs

The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette


150 pages

Group Total = 18,144

A Country Cottage by Anton Chekhov



18 pages

Group Total = 18,162

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey

240 pages

Group total: 18,402 pages

243 pages read in total

70 pages Dream Play (August Strindberg) 📖 ✅ 3* my review .

173 pages Chinese Poetry (translated by Charles Budd (1912)) 📖 ✅ 3.5* my review .

(18,402+243 = 18 645)

New group total: 18 645

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 445 pages

New group total: 19 090

Augustus by John Williams

337 pages

Group total: 19,427 pages

A Dança da Morte by August Strindberg

295 Pages

New Group Total: 19, 722

Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath, 64p

Group Total: 19,786

The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath, 84p

Group Total: 19,870

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen


122 pages

Group total: 19,992

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild,
442 pages

Don Quixote (By: Edith Grossman) published: December, 2003 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
981 pages

Group total: 21,415

Crook o' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac

255 pages

Group total: 21,670 pages

21/01/25. 226 pages

The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Current Group Total : 21,896

Venetia by Georgette Heyer

384 pages

Group total: 22,280

256 pages
Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Group total: 22,536

The Dance of Death (both parts) by August Strindberg
91 pages

Group total: 22 627

243 pages read in total

243 pages The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury) 📖 ✅ 5* my review .

(22 627+243 = 22 870)

New group total: 22 870

Rocketship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
160 pages

Group total: 23 030

The Fate of Fenella by Arthur Conan Doyle

217 pages

Group total: 23 247

Victoria Winters by Marilyn Ross (W.E.D. Ross)


p. 160

Group: 23,407

Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens (1812-70). Started 23 December 2024; finished 24 January 2025. 1,036 pages.

Group Total: 24,443.

V. by Thomas Pynchon 463 pages

Group total: 24 906

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

did not find the edition I read on bookreads, but it had 56 pages

Měsíce by Karel Toman 19 pages

Total: 75 pages

The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

321 pages

Group total: 25,362

104 pages read Hecuba (Euripides) 📖 ✅ 3.5* my review .

(25 362 +104 = 25 466)

New group total: 25 466

Hi,
I am terribly sorry I did not realize that one of the books I read does not count as classic by the group standard (Samuel Beckett was friends wih James Joyce, and I did not realize that he had in fact very long life and that his last books are merely 40 years old).

I have edited my previous post, and as "Ill Seen Ill Said" is 60 pages long short story, the actual group total is 25 406

No worries, Josefina! Thanks for catching that.

Good afternoon. The correct group Total should be 24,443 + 463 + 56 + 75 + 321 + 104 = 25,462. Thank you.

Os Pré-Socráticos by Jean Brun

128 Pages

According to James, quoting above, the Total Group Read is 25,590.

James wrote: "Good afternoon. The correct group Total should be 24,443 + 463 + 56 + 75 + 321 + 104 = 25,462. Thank you."

Hi sorry to make confusions

Both of the books in total are 75 pages 56 pages for Woolf and 19 pages for the short collection of poems by Karel Toman.

Group Total 25 406

Including Luis' book, the total is now:

25 534

The Quick Red Fox 209 pages
The Magician of Lublin 246 pages

Current Group Total: 25,989

The Iron Heel by Jack London
264 pages

Group total: 26 253

Estimating 210* pages Jane Austen Collection Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion 📖 ✅ 4* my review .

*Each audiobook is an abridgement of Jane Austen’s novel that runs over 2 hours, I’ve calculated each one is the equivalent of 70 pages by comparing it to the length of unabridged audiobooks.

( 26 253+210 = 26 463)

New group total: 26 463

1) The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald 163 pp
2) Sweeney Todd or The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street by Anonymous 256 pp
3) The Bad Angel by Ernest K. Gann 544 pp
4) When The Green Woods Laugh
by H E Bates 160 pp
5) Lord of the World by Robert Hugh
Benson 296 pp
6) the Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart 340 pp
7) Four Rabbi Small Books by Harry
S. Kemelman 1089 pp
8) Elusive Isabel, the Queen of the
Apaches by Jacques Futrelle 107 pp
9) Harry Heathcote Of Gangoil by 114 pp
10) Eats, Shoots and Leaves by
Lynne Truss 209 pp
11) Death in White Pyjamas/
Death Knows No Calendar by
John Bude 536 pp
12) They Were Defeated aka The
Shadow Flies by Rose Macaulay 448 pp
13) A Breath of French Air by HE Bates 160 pp

Total no of pages = 4422 +26463

Group Total of 30 885 pages

26/01/25. 272 pages

A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner

Group Total to Date : 31,157

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
30 pages

Group total: 31 187

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima 144p

Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama 243p

Group total: 31 574

The Turn of the Screw Henry James 121p

Group total: 31 695