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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I’m currently exploring ‘Notes from the Underground’ by Dostoyevsky and re-reading ‘The Screwtape Letters’ by C.S. Lewis….
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Currently trudging through The Golden Bowl. Just finished Vanity Fair…loved that. http://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2017/05/vanity-fair-novel-without-hero-by.html
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I am currently re-reading ‘Gone with the Wind’. Enjoying every bit of it.
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I just finished listening to How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewelyn. I really enjoyed it! Right now I’m reading The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman on audio (highly recommend for book nerds like me!). I’m trying to figure out what to read next off my bookshelf. I’m thinking either We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen or a reread of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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No classics at the moment but I do have several classics titles on my iPod ready to listen to. I’m thinking that The Picture of Dorian Gray might be just the thing.
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What a great selection of literature! I’m reading ‘Relativity’ by Albert Einstein. [Am I mad? I hear you ask]
However, I fear a review might be tricky without the mathematics.
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I’ve had a fabulous run of contemporary fiction lately -http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/insomniac-city-by-bill-hayes.html (& about to finish today I hope, What I Loved by Suri Hestveldt).
But I’m also rereading my way through LOTR – I’ve now started The Two Towers – http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/01/hlotrreadlong2017-masterpost.html
And I’m hanging out for the new Arundhati Roy at the end of this month too!
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I’m beginning my intensive Charles Dickens reading adventure (hoping to read (almost) everything by Dickens) by reading Pickwick Papers. What a great beginning, and I have great expectations for my Dickens project. Other book bloggers are invited to join me now and then at:
http://informalinquiries.blogspot.com/
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This is excellent. I embarked on a similar journey sometime ago but the progress is snail pace. I got caught up with other Classic reads. All the best in your journey.
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Just finished My Cousin Rachel. Currently reading Paradise Lost, and listening to the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, with awesome narrator Simon Prebble. I’m now in the collection: The Return of SH
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Isn’t My Cousin Rachel disturbing? You’re not sure whether to feel sympathy for Rachel or curse her for being a scheming cow! I can’t wait to see how they approach the movie version.
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Paradise Lost is one of my all-time favourite books/poems. I hope that you’re enjoying it as much as I did! 🙂
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I just downloaded the complete Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry! All I’ve read of Holmes is The Hound of the Baskervilles, so I’m excited to read more. I also have been meaning to finish My Cousin Rachel. I started it ages ago so I’ll probably have to start again
Hate when I do that!
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I’m in the midst of several books at the moment: Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope (on audio); Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (on my phone, whenever I have a moment); and two print books: a biography of Queen Victoria by Julia Baird; and finally, Marriages Are Made in Bond Street, a delightful nonfiction book about two young women who started a Marriage Bureau business just before WWII.
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I, Claudius is wonderful but definitely draw a family tree because it can get very confusing.
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I recently began Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo and finished A Game of Love and Chance by Marivaux.
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I’m reading I, Claudius by Robert Graves. I’m enjoying it, but finding it quite a challenging read, as I know very little about Ancient Rome!
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I just pulled this off the shelf to take a closer look at last night! Dang, I was hoping it would be something surprisingly enjoyable…I’ll get around to it one day!
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No classics at the moment. I’m reading a history of the Russian Revolution, and Colm Toibin’s new one, House of Names, which so far is excellent. And listening to Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves on audio for a little light relief!
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Which Russian Revolution book are you reading? I have a thing for that period in time!
The Colm Toibin is on my wishlist, but have yet to hear/see any reviews for it at all.
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A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes, at the moment, which is excellent but massive! But I’m doing a Russian Revolution cahllenge this year, so I’m reading loads of Russian stuff, bith factual and fiction – that’s the plan anyway…
The Toibin was very good, but not quite as excellent as I hoped it would be from the first section. I’m still mulling over it, but will probably review it next week or the week after.
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I’m reading Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War (I just finished The Histories and it is a good follow-up), Dead Souls by Gogol and continuing my serial read of The Pickwick Papers.
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I’ve been watching your progress with pleasure through Herodotus and now Thucydides. I had hoped to join you, but too many other things (& books) got in the way!
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I hope you can get to them whenever you clear your schedule a bit. I’m enjoying both, although both are very different!
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I’ve been watching your progress with pleasure through Herodotus and now Thucydides. I had hoped to join you for this reread, but too much other stuff got in the way this year.
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I’m making my way through the complete Stories & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, and also reading A Raisin in the Sun.
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How do you like A Raisin In the Sun. It is dear to me 😊
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It was absolutely wonderful.
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Lovely!
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Currently reading the Metamorphoses of Ovid, as well as My Disappointment in Russia by Emma Goldman. I also have the Vulgate edition of the Bible open, but I expect that will continue over the course of a couple years (I’m still at Genesis 35). Here is my list:
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I read Metamorphoses last year and just loved it. I believe it made my favourite book of the year. I hope that you’re enjoying it too!
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I am enjoying it! It is longer than I expected, but because it divides into so many little stories, I find myself retelling them at each meal I sit down for. Some of them quite dreadful though (remember the one with the King of Thrace? And cutting that girl’s tongue out? Oi, wretched. But it keeps a listener’s attention). Happy reading!
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Are you using the Douay Rheims translation to read the Vulgate?
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No, I am reading through the Latin text. My version is a critical edition from a German publisher. It is not as difficult as I expected, but it will still take some time (for indeed, it always takes some time to get through the whole Bible).
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Oh wow. In Latin! Very impressive. I have only very very basic Latin knowledge.
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I find myself looking up maybe two words or so per page, but it is certainly much easier than writings by classical authors! Being familiar with the text in English also helps quite a bit.
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After reading When Books Went to War, which is about the pocketbooks that were printed for soldiers during WWII, I hunted down a copy of Rosemary Taylor’s Chicken Every Sunday, which was one of the best-loved and most requested pocketbooks. It’s a bit dated, but great fun.
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I loved that book! I remember doing a search afterward for Chicken Every Sunday, though I don’t think I ever requested it from the library. I loved learning about what all the soldiers read.
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I haven’t heard about the pocketbooks for war before – interesting story.
Have you read Vera Brittain’s memoir from this time – Testament of Youth?
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No, I haven’t yet read Testament of Youth, although I own a copy of it. And it’s on my Classics Club List, so sooner or later, I will read it.
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I’m actually working on 3 books right now: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis and The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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The Tempest is probably my favorite Shakespeare play (if it’s possible to choose a favorite).
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I’m really liking it so far! My favorite is Julius Caesar, but we’ll see if this passes that one!
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My favorite is The Taming of the Shrew. 🙂
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For me it’s The Merchant of Venice, but I still have many more plays to explore….:-)
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