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.
Twitter hashtag: #ccreadingupdate
– The Club
I have just posted the review for my last book of my first Classics Club list, and now I have posted my second list. Here is the link: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/about/classics-club/
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Wow! Congratulations! You’re an inspiration — I’m on my third list, but never got even half-way into the first two….. (and I’m one of the founders of the Club. Ha!)
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Well, thanks! Better luck on your third list!
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Still working on Man in the Iron Mask. For an exciting thriller, it’s on the slow side. And now the Spin has given me Henry IV, Part I too!
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I’ll be starting a new mystery novel this weekend, but after that I’m reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers for the Book Cougars read-along in December. It’ll be a new read for me.
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Yessss! Oh that book!
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful little book.
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I’m finishing up Agnes Grey today and working on The Milk Lady of Bangalore, a non-fiction title. Loving both of them!
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I haven’t read Agnes Grey…must add to my TBR.
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I just finished listening to We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Shirley Jackson is quickly becoming one of my favourite writers.
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The Haunting of Hill House is one of my favorites.
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I’m listening to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. I may start Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow here too!
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still reading Remembrance of Things Past…..it’s crazy long.
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I have just finished Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking”. Have started “The Brothers Karamazov” and am also reading “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” by Didion.
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I haven’t read anything by Didion yet. Ack! I plan on watching the new biography about her this weekend.
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Didion 💚💚💚💚
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I have heard about that documentary on Didion. Would like to watch it.
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I recently read “The Brothers Karamazov”. It supposed to be one of Dostoevsky’s best. It seems to me you need to be Russian to really get it.
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I really liked “Crime and Punishment”, hopefully this one is not too hard to ‘get’.😊
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I recnetly finished a re-read of Frankenstein – well, a re-listen really, since this time I went with Derek Jacobi’s wonderful narration. I’d forgotten just how good a book it is. Tonight I’ll be starting The Master of Ballantrae (RL Stevenson), and next up in classics will be We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Then a bit of Dickens for Christmas with a re-read of Nicholas Nickleby…
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OH MY! A recording of Frankenstein by Derek Jacobi? I might have to hunt that down.
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It’s truly wonderful – he’s my favourite narrator! I got it from Audible. 😀
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I just finished listening to Frankenstein as well! It was my first time through and it was very good!
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I’m finally reading Murder on the Orient Express. I’m looking forward to the #CCSpin on Friday!
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I just finished that and loved it. Hope you enjoy!
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Thanks-I’m already loving it!
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I enjoyed that one when I read it!
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It’s so good, right?!
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Yes!!
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It’s been a while since I read it, but want to revisit it after seeing the new movie adaptation.
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I can’t wait to see the movie too once I’ve finished it
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I’m reading The Weatherhouse by Nan Shepherd, a Scottish classic. I’m also reading Snowdrift which is a collection of short stories by Georgette Heyer. I’m not sure if that would count as a classic though.
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Currently in the middle of The Phantom of the Opera. This is a re-read for me, but since its been *gulp* 20 years, I’m enjoying it so far.
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I just re-read The Phantom of the Opera earlier this year! So enjoyable.
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Ah..The Phantom of the Opera, how I want to reread this. Hopefully next year!
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I’ve not read it before! I’ve seen part of it, but not all of it!
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I am reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, for Classic Book-a-Month Club.
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Same here… Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. t takes me to the classic questions about God’s existence, morality, free will… and entertains me with a murder case. What an enjoyable reading!
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It’s on the list, but I haven’t gotten to it yet!
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Funny you ask today:
yesterday, I finally reopened Paradise Lost, I’m at half of it. I started in… January.
I really enjoy it a lot actually, I read it decades ago. But there was always a more urgent book to read. I can finally catch up again with it. I also chose a simpler edition with less notes – I actually realize I didn’t need that many notes for this one, much easier to understand the references than in The Divine Comedy for instance, so I won’t get bogged down so much with reading footnotes
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I am currently reading Wuthering Heights for the third time, and loving it, while reading a small selection of EB’s poems alongside it.
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I’m reading Manderley Forever, a wonderful biography of Daphne Du Maurier.
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Just finished Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Some reminded me today of an exchange from Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being:
Tereza: “I’m reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.”
Him: “Oh, that Anna Karenina.”
I will probably finish a few of the “off-list” books I have open before I starting my next classic. It’s probably going to be Trollope next.
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Congratulations! That’s one massive book. I have yet to read a Tolstoy.
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Tolstoy is definitely an impressive writer, and describes things in a way that comes to life. I am inclined to say I liked War and Peace, but it has been awhile since I read that.
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I loved Anna Karenina, I need to re-read it.
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Anna Karenina is on the list! I had a friend who said the first part of the book was really hard to get through, but it was well worth it!
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I am currently reading The Gold Droplet by Michel Tournier, and (for the umpteenth time) The Nausea by Sartre
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I read several books at the same time, so the classic I’ve currently got on the go is Persuasion (which I’m trying to complete before Christmas so as to mark the 200th anniversary of its publication). I’m also rereading Joan Aiken’s The Whispering Mountain which won the 1969 Guardian Prize for fiction and was one of titles in her wonderful The Wolves of Willoughby Chase sequence. Oh, and an illustrated non-fiction paperback on the Brontës at Haworth full of contemporary prints, paintings and photos.
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Jamaica Inn. Book Club is in Daphne du Maurier mood. Last month it was Rebecca.
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so then you need to read this amazing bio on her: https://wordsandpeace.com/2017/06/05/booktube-daphne-du-maurier/
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I’m reading Rebecca right now!
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I’m reading The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis for the first time and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien for the seventh time. I just met up with Treebeard in LOTR the same day I started reading Screwtape, which is cracking me up because I’ve read that Tolkien based Treebeard on Lewis.
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Whoa… seventh time! I have yet to read LOTR, but next year I will finally get to it!
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Yup, seventh, and it just keeps getting more delicious. Cool that you have it to look forward to!
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