What did we read in October

[Dark Muse]

Well I haven't had much time to read anything but stuff for school, so this is what I have read the past month

The Great Gatsby
Winseburg, Ohio
The Sun Also Rises

[Mark F.]

Haven't read much this month, some Flanery O'Connor short stories, Eureka Street by Robert Mcliam Wilson, a collection of T. S. Eliot poetry and I'm currently reading Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace.

[Tallon]

V by Thomas Pynchon
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
and i started Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

All very good.

[Joreads]

[QUOTE=Dark Muse;635679]Well I haven't had much time to read anything but stuff for school

Me to and it is not that exciting. I hd my exam yesterday so I am now free until February 2009:lol:

[andave_ya]

man, everyone's so fast at reading except me, now. I'm still reading "Les Miserables" and "The Theban Plays," although I did finish rereading "Macbeth."

[mortalterror]

1.Duino Elegies- Rilke
2.Cuttlefish bones- Montale
3.Letters to Classical Authors- Petrarch
4.The Secret of Petrarch- roughly half
5.Ibis- Ovid
6.Argonautika- Apollonius Rhodius
7.True Story- Lucian
8.The Lottery in Babylon- Borges
9.The Lusiad Book I- Camoes
10.Batman: The Killing Joke- Alan Moore
11.The Suppliant Maidens- Aeschylus
12.Persians- Aeschylus
13.Battle of the Frogs and Mice- Unknown

[Ultravox]

For my university course, I read:

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
All Quiet on the Orient Express, Magnus Mills
Walden, Henry David-Thoreau
S.C.U.M. Manifesto, Valerie Solanas
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Billy Collins.

Which only left time for Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut for casual reading.

[Tallon]

Some of you guys must not sleep, i'm unemployed and i can't read that much.

[thelastmelon]

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Snabba Cash - Jens Lapidus
The Moomins and the Great Flood - Tove Jansson
The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris

[SleepyWitch]

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Fanny, Erica Jong, halfway through
about 100 pages from the middle of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (re-read)

critical analysis + textbooks

[waryan]

yeah I agree w/ tallon. I'm a slow reader however T_T

Leaves of Grass - Whitman
Wormwood - Corelli
Therese Raquin - Zola
Basic Writings of Nietzsche - not all
Some early Rand as well as ww2 american lit

Hey Mark, how is Brief Interviews with Hideous Men? I've always been curious but I've yet to check it out, but it has always intrigued me.

[TheFifthElement]

The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Timbuktu - Paul Auster
Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
plus bits and bobs of poetry, mainly Ted Hughes but also some Pablo Neruda and Lorca.

[manolia]

“The tin drum” – Guenter Grass
“Northanger Abbey” – Jane Austen
“The orange girl” – Jostein Gaarder
“The hunchback of Notre Dame” – Victor Hugo

[optimisticnad]

The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Timbuktu - Paul Auster
Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
plus bits and bobs of poetry, mainly Ted Hughes but also some Pablo Neruda and Lorca.

LOVE AUSTER, how you finding him? Not read Timbuktu - heard its a dog! Loved new york trilogy and the music of chance.

This past month I've been reading/rereading

1. Great expectations - our beloved DIckens, r.i.p
2 Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

[TheFifthElement]

LOVE AUSTER, how you finding him? Not read Timbuktu - heard its a dog! Loved new york trilogy and the music of chance.

I love Auster too! So far I've read the one's mentioned plus Travels in the Scriptorium and The Brooklyn Follies and I have The Book of Illusions waiting in my 'to read' pile. I really enjoyed Timbuktu, and yes it's about a dog "Mr Bones" beloved pet of Willy G Christmas. So far the only one I've been a bit disappointed with was Mr Vertigo, though it is very well written and an interesting story. So far The New York Trilogy has been my favourite - definitely a re-read.

[Emil Miller]

Well I haven't had much time to read anything but stuff for school, so this is what I have read the past month

The Great Gatsby
Winseburg, Ohio
The Sun Also Rises

An interesting selection but which one did you prefer ?

[Sin of Red]

Not a fan of Harry Potter, I must admit. But hey.:crash: I did read Fourteen Byzantine Rulers by Michael Psellus, I'm weird that way.:D

[Emil Miller]

The Moon and Sixpence by W.S Maugham ( 3rd reading )
The Warden by Anthony Trollope ( 2nd reading )
The Octopus by Frank Norris

[book_jones]

Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

[The Comedian]

The Growth of the Soil
Death and High Cost of Living
Batman: Year One
Smithsonian magazine
Barbie and the Diamond Castle (4 times to my daughter -- she loves that book).

[Kevets]

I just joined a book club with a few friends. The first selection was Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Next up is Steinbeck's Cannery Row.

I'm still working on my pick, but am thinking The Time Traveler's Wife. This club is me (a man) and three women. So it is interesting, the choices so far. I think the others are worried about hitting me with chick lit. So then I'll throw them a curve!

[TheFifthElement]

The Growth of the Soil
Death and High Cost of Living
Batman: Year One
Smithsonian magazine
Barbie and the Diamond Castle (4 times to my daughter -- she loves that book).

Yikes! Are we including books we've read to our children too?!! In that case I'll add The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe which I read to my son (he's making me work through the whole Narnia set!) and, phew, Emily Brown and the Thing (brilliant!), Mog the Forgetful Cat, Shine Moon Shine, 101 Dalmations (the Disney version, sadly), K for Kissing a Kangaroo, Little Rabbit goes to School... and so on. They're just the one's I can remember!




I'm still working on my pick, but am thinking The Time Traveler's Wife. This club is me (a man) and three women. So it is interesting, the choices so far. I think the others are worried about hitting me with chick lit. So then I'll throw them a curve!

I really love The Time Traveler's Wife. I'd be interested to hear what you think of it if you decide to pick it. I tried to get my hubby to read it but no chance! This is despite earlier well received recommendations such as Time's Arrow by Martin Amis and Heroes & Villains by Angela Carter. Sigh.

[romantic novel]

I have read:

1- My sister's keeper
2-The Tenth circle ..............both by Jodi Picoult

They were amazing especially the first one