Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Anderson
Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Anderson
The Forsyte Saga and for fun, The Art of Seduction
"Oh the clever
Things I should say to you
They got stuck somewhere
Stuck between me and you"
1. Fall of Giants - Ken Follett
2. Chose it because I loved The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End
3. On the day George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, Billy Williams went down the pit in Aberowen, South Wales.
4. pg 282
5. LOVE IT!
I have about 20 pages left in Hogg by Samuel Delany. The book is incredibly disgusting and makes me want to take a shower every time I sit down to read it. But it is an interesting book.
I think I'm going to go on a T.C. Boyle kick after it. A kick of maybe 5 books.
Coconut Chaos by Diana Souhami. An account of the Bounty mutineers very far removed from any film version. Author was persuaded to go there by the accounts of sexual assaults on young girls by the males of Pitcairn. Mutiny story is interleaved with her own voyage and adventures on the way. very enjoyable.
1. Cane by Jean Toomer
2. I am reading it for my English 335 class- Southern Literature
3. "Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down."
4. Just started. Page 3
5. Since I have just started this book I don't really know what I think yet, but I feel like it is going to be a slow boring read.It's not really my style.
1. Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons
2. It's the first great modern Russian novel
3. '"Nothing to be seen yet Peter?" was the question asked on 20th May 1859 by a landowner of a little over forty, in a dusty overcoat and checked trousers, as he came out on to the low front steps of a post-station on the **** highway, addressing his servant, a young, round-cheeked fellow with some whitish fluff on his chin and small, lacklustre eyes.
4. 77/200
5. It's prodgressing well and is most agreeable. The language is simple yet fully engaging.
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As I Lay Dying. (Breaking from DQ)
1. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
2. I read a different book by the same author, so I decided to read this one.
3. "When I took possession of the table, it was as supreme monarch."
4. I am on page 57.
5. It's okay so far.
Slaughterhouse 5 - Jurt Vonnegut
Halfway through and loving it.
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
People of the Mist by Henry Rider Haggard
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ~ Oscar Wilde
Home - Marilynne Robinson
1. E.M. Forster "Maurice"1. author + title
2. why u desided to read the book
3. first sentence in the book
4. page u are on
5. what u think of the book till now
2. I found the movie on youtube and had previously read another book by Froster - "A Passage to India" it was called, I think - and I was intrigued.
3. "Once a term the whole school went for a walk - that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys."
4. p. 30
5. I love it. This kind of book isn't generally my cup of tea but I like Forster's style a lot. I'm not all that sure yet what to think of the characters, but I think I'll like them too.
Just completed Judge The Obscure by Thomas Hardly. An elegiac, saddening end but, aside, an appreciably good book!
I'm also reading 'Finders Keepers', a collected book of prose by Seamus Heaney consisting for the most part of expatiations on the work of other poets. It is also a brilliant book, mind, which I heartily commend and recommend to any persons here attending courses in English Literature at University.
On the side, I've also got Shakespeare's and Robert Lowell's complete works to keep me engrossed for several lifetimes.
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