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Impressive list Motherhubbard! I've read a couple on your list (The Road, Slaughterhouse 5: both brilliant), oh! and Metamorphisis, and I have a really old copy of Candide that I've never got round to.

How did you find The Glass Bead Game and Anthem? I've been interested in both Hesse and Rand but haven't got round to reading them yet either. I'd be interested in your views.

How did you like: The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz? I keep seeing it in the bookstore. And what about Becoming Madam Mao?

Fifth-Hesse was wonderful. It was LONG but I really enjoyed it. I ordered it on Amazon and it came from a NY library. Anthem was very quick and good as well, not the best. My daughter brought it home from school for me to read. Maybe one of her longer works would be better. I hope you read Candide soon. It is a riot!

Papaya- I loved the Diaz book. Some of it was cliché and there were a lot of similes- maybe too many. I loved the characters and their flaws. I felt like one element to the story had to do with the relationship between mothers and daughters. Sometimes it seems that when a mother tries and tries to do something she feels is important for the wellbeing to the daughter that is the thing the daughter resents most.

Oh you beat me to this. I was going to write mine up by tomorrow night. Afterall 2008 is not over yet until tomorrow. Great reading Mom-H. How do you find the time. You read all of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past? Isn't that like ten volumes or so?

I didn't read all of it, but it sure felt like it, Virgil. I don't know how much I covered but it was pretty endless. It took weeks and I was ready to be done with it long before I was actually done with it.

You have me beaten;) I'm happy to be halfway through "The Jungle" at the moment. It is some of the first reading I've been able to do all year. Hopefully it will bode well for next year and my list will be more like yours instead of a line or two:D

That's fantastic! I'd been struggling through Les Mis for months before I finally decided to put it away until summertime . Other than that I haven't read any of the books you've listed . What a nice lot of reading you've done!

Wow what a list. I have read seven books in the last month but that is my only claim to fame for this year. I am going to make a bigger effort next year to I have about nine hours left before I have to start.

That list is awesome, M-H!

I want to read The Glass Bead Game, too, as I LOVE Hesse! (did you know that he wrote some cool 'fairy tales', along with the epic Siddhartha and The Steppenwolf, to name just a few). (He also painted water colours, but to find samples on the internet is like pulling hen's teeth).
Happy New Year!

Wow, you read Remembrance of Things Past in a year.

[edit: I just say Virgil's post and your reply, but it's still impressive.]