What did-we read in May ?

[lupe]

Alabama Song - Gilles Leroy
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
The boy in the striped pyjamas - John Boyne
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The possibility of an island - Michel Houellebecq

[Dark Muse]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Charbon
The Ligtining Thief by Rick Riordan

[Desolation]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

[OrphanPip]

I was really lazy in May, I nearly finished rereading The City and The Pillar, and I have 3 others going but not finished.

[wokeem]

Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoesvky
Nausea- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Stranger- Albert Camus
The Devil's Dictionary- Ambrose Bierce
American Psycho- Brett Easton-Ellis

It's been a good month

[victorianfan]

The possibility of an island - Michel Houellebecq
How did you like it? I'm curious.

Balthazar and Blimunda by José Saramago
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Gaudi Key by Esteban Martin & Andreu Carranza
Impure Blood by Borisav Stanković
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwann
Novellas by Yoko Ogawa
La Bête humaine by Émile Zola
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster
Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol

[OrphanPip]

Jesus Christ, where do you find the time.

[bouquin]

Le Liseur - Bernhard Schlink
Is This What You Want? - Kate Pullinger (ed.)
Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn
Night Train - Martin Amis
The Colour of Blood - Brian Moore
Ordinary Love & Good Will - Jane Smiley
Le Divorce - Diane Johnson

[lupe]

How did you like it? I'm curious.


I haven't finished it yet, I'll let you know. But I always enjoy the humourous side of his novels and this is no exception.

[wessexgirl]

:eek6: Wow! How do you manage it Victorian? I'm so envious. I'm lucky if I can finish one book per few months, let alone a month. Stupid daily life gets in the way. D*** those pesky chores! :D

[victorianfan]

Jesus Christ, where do you find the time.

Jealous, ha! :biggrin5:

[victorianfan]

I haven't finished it yet, I'll let you know. But I always enjoy the humourous side of his novels and this is no exception.

Please, do. I'm looking forward to it. :smile5:

[GoldenCarcajou]

Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Sharyn Mccrumb
Illusion by Richard Bach

[rabid reader]

Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Heidegger and a Hippo walk the those Pearly Gates Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein.
Alice and her Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carol
A few short stories by Edgar Allen Poe
On Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[milktea]

Q'uran - surahs 3-5
Deep River - Endo Shuusaku
Vampyre Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce
ABC of Reading - Ezra Pound

Original Language Reads
Complete Poetry Collection - Senke Motomaro (unfinished)
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (unfinished)

[Drkshadow03]

How did you like it? I'm curious.

Balthazar and Blimunda by José Saramago
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Gaudi Key by Esteban Martin & Andreu Carranza
Impure Blood by Borisav Stanković
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwann
Novellas by Yoko Ogawa
La Bête humaine by Émile Zola
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster
Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol

Where did you find the time to read so much?

[victorianfan]

Where did you find the time to read so much?

I hardly ever watch television.

[Mariamosis]

I only managed to read Emile Zola's "The Kill" or "La Curee" in May.
Excellent book as with everything by him. 10/10