May Reading List

[ktm5124]

What's on your May reading list?

So far mine is:

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Cane - Jean Toomer
Hard Times - Dickens
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Garden of Eden - Hemingway

[Desolation]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Tenant by Roland Topor

And I've got some other stuff by Flaubert, Andre Breton, Marquis De Sade, Italo Svevo, Kafka, Gogol, and so on and so forth, in case I actually have a productive reading month.

[grace86]

Already finished Rebel Angels - Libba Bray (recommended by a friend, after reading a Great and Terrible Beauty)

Next:

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Beyond Opinion - Ravi Zacharias
Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer

And maybe Jane Eyre or Memoirs of a Geisha.

Nothing too overpowering this month!

[ktm5124]

Jane Eyre and Portrait are two of my favorite books =)

Everyone seems to be reading Rebecca this spring season. I hadn't even heard of it, or the author, until a few weeks ago. Perhaps I should look into it for June.

[Cygnus X-2112]

So far i've read:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
(I was sick for a bit so i had A LOT of spare time LOL)

I'm currently reading:
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

And then i plan to read
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
or
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I havent quite decided which yet, but i'll get to that after i get through Crime and Punishment.

[lallison]

Just Finished:
The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare
The Catcher in the Rye: Salinger

Now Reading:
Hiroshima: Hersey
Songs of Innocence: Blake

Next on the list:
In Cold Blood: Capote

[kasie]

ktm - I'll be interested to know if you achieve your aim. Those are all mighty books - I calculate you have allowed yourself just over three and a half days per book. Presumably you have nothing else to do this month? :smile5:

[TurquoiseSunset]

What's on your May reading list?

So far mine is:

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Cane - Jean Toomer
Hard Times - Dickens
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Garden of Eden - Hemingway

Goodness! Do you have the month off? :p

[ktm5124]

Well, I don't have a family or a job so I have more time to read. I'm also pursuing a degree in English Literature, with one or two minors, so it's kind of my day job. But I also harbor doubts myself that I will get through it all.

There are some people on these forums whose quantity of reading in a month absolutely blows me away - people who reported at the end of April reading twenty-something texts...

[LitNetIsGreat]

This month I fully intend to put off work for as long as possible and to lounge around reading little but Jeeves and Wooster...

[grace86]

No kidding those are some great...but rather long lists. Crime and Punishment took me quite some time to finish, so good luck with that one.

With Rebecca, I had heard a lot about it as well and I just picked it up. The style is a bit odd, but it's done a good job so far at hooking me into staying up those late hours in the night. It's supposed to be real good, and while I do admit it drags just a tiny bit - I can't complain about the plot thickening!

[TurquoiseSunset]

Well, I don't have a family or a job so I have more time to read. I'm also pursuing a degree in English Literature, with one or two minors, so it's kind of my day job. But I also harbor doubts myself that I will get through it all.

No harm in trying right? :) Don't beat yourself up if you can't though.


There are some people on these forums whose quantity of reading in a month absolutely blows me away - people who reported at the end of April reading twenty-something texts...

I've seen those lists and sometimes there are a lot of short stories in them. Also...people can lie on these forums, and we'll never be the wiser :D


This month I fully intend to put off work for as long as possible and to lounge around reading little but Jeeves and Wooster...

Ah, that sounds like heaven!

[wokeem]

Genealogy of Morals- Nietzsche
Clockwork Orange- Burgess
Heart of Darkness- Conrad
American Psycho- Ellis
Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
East of Eden- Steinbeck

Spring semester is over for me now and I'm taking a significantly lighter course load for the summer semester so I'm hoping to be able to dedicate more time to just enjoying literature in the upcoming months(s).