What did-we read in February ?

[lupe]

Animal's People - Indra Sinha
The Idiot (volume 2) - Fiontor Dostoyefski
Seléected Poems - Adunis
Bedside Manners - Luisa Valenzuela
Poisson d'or - J. M. G. Le Clézio (just started)

[Brad Coelho]

I've been all over the place:

Notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky
Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Housekeeping, Marylinne Robinson
Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
Naked Lunch, Burroughs
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner

Yikes, it looks problematically large in list form...trust me, I don't sit in a locked room & bury my nose in the books...books on tape have certainly assisted me in the process!

[Tournesol]

I've been all over the place:

Notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky
Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Housekeeping, Marylinne Robinson
Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
Naked Lunch, Burroughs
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner

Yikes, it looks problematically large in list form...trust me, I don't sit in a locked room & bury my nose in the books...books on tape have certainly assisted me in the process!

I admire you Brad, you've still got a lot of reading done!

Sadly, and yet gladly, I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' in February. Yes, I know, only one book. But for me, I need to absorb readings like these. I can't chare emotions for a work like this one, with other works.

Soon, I hope to move on to Edgar Mittelholzer's 'My Bones and My Flute'...it's a Guyanase horror/mystery!

[Desolation]

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, finally finished it, didn't love it.
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun, which was incredible.
Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell, which was very good.

Not a very productive month, but I'm satisfied.

[The Comedian]

The Seven Storey Mountain -- Thomas Merton
Five Dialogues -- Plato
Hellboy Vols 3-4
Preacher vol 8

[Mariamosis]

Jack London - 'The Call of the Wild'
Jack London - 'White Fang'
E.M. Forster - 'Howards End'
Charles Dickens - 'Oliver Twist'
Emile Zola - 'La Terre'

While I enjoyed all of the books that I read, Emile Zola's 'La Terre' ranked well above the others.

[kiki1982]

Not a lot, never a lot...

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Le Médecin Volant/The Flying Doctor - Molière

I started on Le Tartuffe, but I have stopped. I'm going to read Le Notre Dame now. I tought Le Tartuffe was shorter than it was :(.

[johnw1]

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Imperium - Robert Harris
Lustrum - Robert Harris

All of which I enjoyed a lot although my reading speed increased exponentially - I always have to slow right down when reading Eco whereas I zoomed through the Harris novels! Wolf Hall is probably the best of those I read; beautifully written, moving at times and very interesting take on Thomas Cromwell. It somehow managed to take a period that has almost been done to death and make it fresh and vibrant.

[ktr]

The Great Gatsby (4 times, yeah.. i know)

Heart of Darkness

[Three Sparrows]

The Marble Faun-Hawthorne
As I lay Dying-Faulkner
The Toilers of the Sea-Hugo
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Twain
The Idylls of the King-Tennyson
A bunch of modern plays whose titles would take way to long to write down.
At present reading The Odyssey-Homer

[Dark Muse]

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Tenant of Wildfell Fall by Anne Bronte
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Omerta by Mario Puzzo

[Paulclem]

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Imperium - Robert Harris
Lustrum - Robert Harris

All of which I enjoyed a lot although my reading speed increased exponentially - I always have to slow right down when reading Eco whereas I zoomed through the Harris novels! Wolf Hall is probably the best of those I read; beautifully written, moving at times and very interesting take on Thomas Cromwell. It somehow managed to take a period that has almost been done to death and make it fresh and vibrant.

I've got Wolf Hall on my To read list. I'm glad you thougt it was a good read. I've got about halfway through another earlier novel - Beyond Black - which is about Spiritualism. I'll have to see whether I like it as the story unfolds, though it is well written. I got eyond black to sample Mantel. it is certainly interesting and accurately drawn.

[Modest Proposal]

Marxism and Literary Criticism & Essays, Terry Eagleton
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tragedy of Antonie, Mary Sidney
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Camille, Alexander Dumas
Mythologies Roland Barthes
The Passion According to G. H., Clarice Lispector
The Sign of Four/The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle
Une Semaine de Bonte, Max Ernst
Edward IV, Part I & 2, Thomas Heywood
Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Four Novellas, Muriel Spark
Henry V Part II & Henry VI, William Shakespeare
The End of Nature, Bill McKibben

Mostly read for classes this month. Besides Shakespeare, the only things I really liked were my own choices: "The Brothers Karamazov", Muriel Spark and "Perfume".

[johnw1]

I've got Wolf Hall on my To read list. I'm glad you thougt it was a good read. I've got about halfway through another earlier novel - Beyond Black - which is about Spiritualism. I'll have to see whether I like it as the story unfolds, though it is well written. I got eyond black to sample Mantel. it is certainly interesting and accurately drawn.

I've not read any of her other novels. Their subjects seem very varied. I'd definitely be tempted to try some others after reading Wolf Hall.

[OrphanPip]

Not much reading done this month.

Evelina - Frances Burney
On Liberty - John Mill
The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
Book III and IV of The Faerie Queene - Spenser (Intend to finish the last two books off this month)

More reading than I usually get done. I enjoyed most of them, though the Carson one was a bit disappointing, not as good as Autobiography of Red.

[purplybob]

W. Somerset Maugham Creatures of Circumstance
Kurt Vonnegut Timequake
John Updike Bech Is Back
Stephen King Lisey's Story
Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi

[AlekceyM]

A. Malov Confessions of a carder (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51245)

[IceM]

Let's see.

Freakonomics- Dubner and Levitt
Red Badge of Courage- Crane
The Inferno- Dante

Working on:
Notes from the Undergroud-Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying- Faulkner

[estelwen]

Short stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Maussapant
Far From the Madding Crowd--Hardy
Keats, Dickinson, Blake... various poems
"Surprised by Joy" and "An Experiment in Criticism"--Lewis, still in process
Madame Bovary--Flaubert
some of Le Morte D'Arthur--Malory
Slaughterhouse Five--Vonnegut
Parts of Gulliver's Travels--Swift
Candide--Moliere
"Dora"--Freud (under duress)
Several random children's books including "When You Reach Me", Newberry Award

[manolia]

"Poor folk" – F. Dostoyevski
"Slaughterhouse 5" – K Vonnegut
"World War Z" – Max Brooks
"Purgatory" – Dante

[dfloyd]

The Prarie by James Fenimor Cooper - R.I.P. Natty Bumpo
Tono Bungay b y H. G. Wells
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (this was a reread, love those Tarzan books)
Do Androids Dream of e;ectric Sheep?
Turn of the Screw by Henry James (reread)

[neilgee]

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
Leonard Woolf biog by Victoria Glendiggin
James Joyce by Richard Ellman

[Page Turner]

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman~Haruki Murakami
Water for Elephants~Sara Gruen
The Known World~Edward P. Jones
The Road~Cormac McCarthy
Snow Country~Yasunari Kawabata
oops, almost forgot A Confederacy of Dunces~John Kennedy Toole

[Kafka's Crow]

I read only one book but it was a whale: Moby Dick

[bouquin]

Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Truman Capote
Carry Me Down -- M.J. Hyland
The Complete Stories -- Flannery O'Connor
The Mystic Masseur -- V.S. Naipaul