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    What did-we read in June ?

    A World Cup month, so not so much....

    Michel Houellebecq - The possibility of an island
    Dave Pelzer - A child called "it"
    Ryű Murakami - Almost Transparent Blue
    Jean-Pierre Ruffin - Asmara et les causes perdues (Lost Causes)
    ...As a moth mistakes a bulb
    for the moon, and goes to hell...


    -Tom Waits-

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    The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

    The House of the Dead by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

    The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

    Ministarstvo boli (The Ministry of Pain) by Dubravka Ugrešić

    Pop Ćira i pop Spira (Priest Ćira and Priest Spira) by Stevan Sremac

    To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

    Silence by Shusaku Endo

    The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

    Le Pčre Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

    Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

    Prokleta avlija (The Damned Yard) by Ivo Andrić

    The Broken Commandment by Tōson Shimazaki

    The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra

    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi

    The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
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    "What a carve-up" by J Coe
    “The Road” by Cormac Mc Carthy
    “North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell
    Through the darkness of future past
    the magician longs to see
    one chance out between two worlds
    'Fire walk with me.'


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    Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow

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    In June I read...

    King Lear by William Shakespeare
    Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Abridged Audio version)
    Middlemarch by George Eliot
    Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell

    I also read various works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including all the Sonnets from the Portuguese; and the first 'book' in a large four volume history series, begun at an earlier date.

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    Pushkin - The Queen Of Spades and other stories
    Started Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
    Started Dead Souls by Gogol

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    The Iliad - Homer
    "'You scratch my foot and you're vaunting all the same--but who cares? A woman or idiot boy could wound me so. The shaft of a good-for-nothing coward's got no point but mine's got heft and edge. Let it graze a man--my weapon works in a flash and drops him dead. And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself--more birds than women flocking round his body!'"
    -Iliad 11. 452-465, Diomedes to Paris

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    The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
    Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
    Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    Madame Bovary by Flaubert (reread)
    Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
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    The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
    The Great Gatsby by Scot Fitzerald

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
    The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
    The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
    The Elements of Style by Strunk and E.B. White
    Book of the American Short Story edited by Richard Ford
    22 Jamaican Short Stories

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    Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
    Cosmocomics by Italo Calvino
    Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (re-read)
    Master and Man/The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy

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    Count of Monte Cristo
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    A Farewell To Arms
    most of Mountains Beyond Mountains
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    I just finished Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

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