What did-we read in October ?

[lupe]

Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges (started in September)
Collected Poems – Frederico Garcia Lorca
Pandora in the Congo - Albert Sánchez Piñol
Ti-Jean L'Horizon - Simone Schwarz-Bart
The Gathering - Ann Enright
La caverna de las ideas (The Athenian Murders)- José Carlos Somoza (not finished yet)

[Kafka's Crow]

Huxley Brave New World
Benedict Flynn A Life of Dante
Jose Saramago Blindness
St Augustine Confessions
de Qunicey Confessions of an English Opium Eater

[bouquin]

A Thousand Acres -- Jane Smiley
The Mill on the Floss -- George Eliot
Flaubert's Parrot -- Julian Barnes
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha -- Roddy Doyle

[Mariamosis]

Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz - Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz - Frank Baum
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - Frank Baum

[Thespian1975]

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Murder in Mesopatamia - Agatha christie
Carry On, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse

Started - Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

[Three Sparrows]

Typhoon and other short stories- Joseph Conrad
Eugene Onegene- Pushkin
The Gambler- Dostoevsky
Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
The Inspector General- Gogol
The Overcoat-Gogol

[Dark Muse]

The Woman in White ~ Wilkie Collins
Thristy ~ M.T Anderson
The Gargoyle ~ Andrew Davidson
Beloved ~ Toni Morison
The Haunter of the Dark ~ H.P Lovecraft

[Modest Proposal]

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Friday, Michel Tournier
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
Nervous Conditions , Tsitsi Damgarembga
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzheinitsyn
The Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling
Der Stein der Weisen, J. K. Rowling
Vanity Fair, William Thackeray

I read ‘Harry Potter’ in English and German to work on my German, I needed something fairly easy.

[atiguhya padma]

Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish
Jo Marchant - Decoding the Heavens
Richard Holmes - The Age of Wonder
John Carey - William Golding
Segun Afolabi - Goodbye Lucille

[husker du]

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
Being There by Jerzey Kosinski

Short novels are a god-send when you barely have enough time to read.

[Barbarous]

Blindness by Saramago
Underworld by Delillo (started a month earlier)
The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music by Nietzsche
The Recognitions by Gaddis
Now I'm trying to finish up a reread of Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon and The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing.

[Eryk]

I read ‘Harry Potter’ in English and German to work on my German, I needed something fairly easy.

Cool... I'm doing the same thing right now with the French translation of HP.

What I read in October:

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
The Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky
Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Westward the Tide by Louis L'Amour
Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Marxism, Capitalism, and their Relation to Sexism, Racism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism by Lenny Flank
The Sea by John Banville
Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Metta: Philosophy & Practice of Universal Love by A. Buddharakkhita
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Caspar Hauser by Jacob Wassermann
No Logo by Naomi Klein

[thelastmelon]

Friday night knitting club – Kate Jacobs
Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
Knit Two - Kate Jacobs
La Grève des bàttu (The Beggars' Strike) – Aminata Sow Fall
Becoming Abigail – Chris Abani
City of Glass – Paul Auster
Ghosts – Paul Auster

[Modest Proposal]

Friday night knitting club – Kate Jacobs
Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
Knit Two - Kate Jacobs
La Grève des bàttu (The Beggars' Strike) – Aminata Sow Fall
Becoming Abigail – Chris Abani
City of Glass – Paul Auster
Ghosts – Paul Auster

What did you think of Abani's book? He taught at the university I got my minor in Creative Writing from and though I didn't take his classes--alot of my freinds did--I spoke with him a bit and went to some of his seminars. He's a pretty interesting guy but I've never gotten around to his writing.

[Page Turner]

The Good Earth ~ Pearl S. Buck
Oliver Twist ~ Charles Dickens
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ~ Haruki Murakami

[tbarnes]

working my way through gravity's rainbow

[My name is red]

Unfortunately not much considering my early reading list for October,
The Lover - Marguerite Duras:rolleyes:
The Knot of Vipers - François Mauriac:thumbs_up
The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet:thumbs_up
Things - Georges Perec:nod:
Budha of Suburbia -Hanif Kureishi:thumbs_up
The Life and Times of Michael K- Coetzee:nod:
Gargantua - Rabelais:nod:
A pale view of hills -Kazuo Ishiguro
Herztier - Herta Müller (still reading)

p.s:The Life and Times of Michael K was a very interesting experiance even though the story was not that interesting.As far as i can remember,this has been the only book that made me cry

[bohn]

Zuckerman Bound
Oliver Twist
Lolita
Of Mice and Men
How to be a Straight A Student
Catch-22 (still reading)

[manolia]

“Our mutual friend” – C Dickens
“Life and times of Michael K” – J. M Cotzee
“The man in the high castle” – P. K. Dick

[753c]

A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
What did you think Bouquin?
The Black Dahlia - James Elroy
INTENSE!
The Long Fall - Walter Mosely
The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
Re-read. Great story.

For those that read the Cotzee book, would you recommend it?

[ElectricCatfish]

i recommend the coetzee book. waiting for the barbarians and elizabeth costello are also great.

[Akeldama]

I only completely finished:
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
Shardik - Richard Adams

I've been doing a looooot of reading for school, but nothing cover to cover.

[Ultravox]

For, or related to my course:

Life's Little Ironies, Hardy
Hard Times, Dickens
The Death of Ivan Ilych, Tolstoy
Lolita, Nabokov

and I managed to squeeze in a few others amongst those and essays:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
Cakes and Ale, Maugham
Delight, Priestley

[aamir]

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

[ForKnowledge]

and the hippos were boiled in their tanks jack kerouac and william burroughs
too fat to fish artie lange
down to the dirt joel thomas hynes
inferno dante
fifth buisness robertson davies
a wild old man on the road morrley callahan