Here’s a space to tell the club what you’re currently reading. You’re welcome to use the comments below.
No pressure, of course! But if you’re feeling social, here’s a space to tell us about your latest classic. As always, you are of course welcome to leave a link to your blog if you prefer to share there.
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THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. . BRADBURY. Fahrenheit 451 one of my favorites. . Never read more Bradbury. Glad writing on it
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I’m finishing up Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur (actually, I’m halfway through, so “finishing” might not be the right word). It’s slow going, but I am enjoying it. I am looking forward to finishing it though, so I can move on to my spin book: Gone With The Wind!
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Ah, so many wonderful books mentioned down here! 🙂 I’m making my way into the homestretch hundred pages of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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I’m working slowly through Emily Dickinson’s complete poems. I’ll also be starting Alias Grace soon (for the spin!)
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I hope you’re enjoying the experience! It has been almost a year since I started her collection, and I’m still only midway through it. I find reading poetry takes longer than prose.
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I only recently started the collection. I’d like to have it done in a year, but I’m not pushing myself. I agree, I find to appreciate poetry, it should take longer than prose.
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I’ll be starting The Count of Monte Cristo later today.
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It’s my birthday tomorrow so I’m starting my annual read of Wuthering Heights
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Happy birthday 🍰
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Yes, happy birthday to you! 🙂
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I’m now reading The Last of the Mohicans, the last 100 pages are so exciting!
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I’m getting ready to finally read All Is Quiet on the Western Front. I plan to follow that up with Not So Quiet…, and then I have my spin book, Matilda, waiting for me as well.
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At the moment I’m reading The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James as my post-colonial pick for the month. It is a historical account published in 1938 about the Haitian revolution and how it was spurred on by the French Revolution.
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I’m reading My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier, really enjoying it!
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Ohhh lots of love for this one even though Rachel is……
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Ha, I’ve still not figured out what/who she is, I have a few ideas, but who knows!
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Thanks for reminding me. I need to read Bel Ami by Guy De Maupasant
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Just about finished with The Leavenworth Case and starting The Man Who Knew Too Much
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Oh, I’d love to read The Man Who Knew Too Much. Perhaps I should slot it in for my summer reads.
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I just finished Slaughterhouse-Five and am planning to watch the movie for the Back to the Classics challenge.
My big book right now is August 1914 by Solzhenitsyn. I neglected it for a bit but got back into it last night.
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I am desperately trying to clear up my currently-reading stack. Right now I’m reading Doctor Zhivago, Barchester Towers, Plato’s Meno, Bleak House, The Decameron (over a long schedule) and Oedipus Rex for my Classics Spin. I also need to finish up War & Peace, Cicero’s Defence Speeches, The History of the Ancient World, Le Morte d’Arthur and The History of Napoleon Buonaparte. Five books I’m nearly finished and there are a couple that aren’t too long, so I feel like I’m not doing too badly. However, I need to clear the slate because I want to have time to read some new books during the summer.
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….yeah, that’s a lot at once! All great stuff, though. I loved Doctor Zhivago so much.
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That’s a pretty impressive list…
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Only if I manage to get through it all! 😉
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Ah, Cicero’s Defence Speeches! How is it so far?
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Cicero’s Defence Speeches is fantastic!! I particularly like the first one where Cicero is an untried 26 year old defence lawyer. He takes chances and is much more cheeky than in the other speeches. I highly recommend it!
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Yikes! I thought I had a lot of books on the go at once. That’s impressive!
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Yet I feel like I’m not finishing anything. Nothing new for June for me; I have to keep working at decreasing the list!
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These all are/sound like great reads. I’m reading Don Quixote and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
I actually just did a post yesterday on all the books I’m reading right now. If anyone wants to check it out, here’s the link: http://abringerofnewthings.com/2014/05/19/how-many-books-can-i-read-at-once/
I’m new to this club and am very happy to be here!
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I am currently reading The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells and Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I never read the Little House series as a child so I am making up for it now.
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I’m reading Hermione Lee’s bio on Edith Wharton for Wharton Review month. It’s a huge tome with tiny font but Lee has been very thorough in her research.
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I haven’t been around for awhile! Been so very busy with life and then trying to catch up on my reading. Right now I have two books going, one on my kindle. The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster and Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Neither are very easy reads! I read the plot on Wikipedia for LJ and I think it will get better soon!
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That must be the one Forster I haven’t read – you’ve made me curious now.
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Me too. I thought I’d read most of Forster…
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