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July Reads

unKeMPt

unKeMPt

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I know usually a moderator takes care of this thread but I love it so that I can't bear its absence at the end of the month... I can wait no longer... Sorry all!

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
 
Here's how my July went:

Heavy Water and Other Stories-Martin Amis 3/5

Perfume-Patrick Suskind 3/5

A Sister of Scheherazade-Assia Djebar (Algeria) 3/5

Daughter of Fortune-Isabel Allende (Chile) 5/5

The Return of the Water Spirit- Pepetela (Angola) 1/5

The Last Will & Testament of Senhor La Silva Araunjo -Germano Almeida (Cape Verde) 1/5

Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel (Mexico) 4/5

Time Gifts-Zoran Zivkovic (Serbia) 4/5

The Compromise-Sergei Dovlatov (Estonia) 2/5

Oracle Night-Paul Auster 5/5
 
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
Salt Herring On Saturday, Margaret M. Bochel
The God Boy, Ian Cross
A Closed Book, Gilbert Adair
A Month In The Country, JL Carr
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
Beasts Of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
 
Mao: The Unknown Story - Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

ABC - did you enjoy the Allende book - I am looking for a first read by her...
 
Not read it but there's Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's lipogrammatic novel,La Disparition. In English, A Void. From no 'e' in French to no 'e' in English. Madman.

Again, without the 'e': Gadsby by Ernest Wright.
 
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

*August is going to be a much more productive month; I've got a car trip to Alberta coming up in a couple of weeks and will have time then to read more, hopefully, well, at least while we drive.
 
Here are my July reads:

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Green Mile series by Stephen King (reread)
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Twenty Tellable Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald
Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit, and Castle of Wizardry by David & Leigh Eddings (Books 1-4 in the Belgariad - rereads)

And I'm still working on Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and book 5, Enchanter's End Game, of the Belgariad.
 
If The Spirit Moves You by Justine Picardie
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
Perfume by Patrick Suskind (reread)
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
 
Here's my July. Black Swan Green seemed to take me forever to get through, though I enjoyed it.

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Winkie by Clifford Chase
Jack by A.M. Homes
Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker
Harm's Way by Stephen White
Remote Control by Stephen White
Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
 
In order, my reads were:

The Lake of Darkness - Ruth Rendell
Under the Banyan Tree - R.K. Narayan
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Vendor of Sweets - R.K. Narayan
A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle
Pnin - V. Nabokov

I also began The Information by Martin Amis, a reread. Thanks to this forum for alerting me to the value of Nabokov. :cool:
 
Magician by Raymond E Feist
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Out by Natsuo Kirino
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
The Last Juror by John Grisham
Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyner

Unfinished - Catch-22 by Jospeh Heller

And I'm still plodding on with Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
 
Wow. July felt like a slow month until I looked at what I read. 8 books isn't bad considering how much I worked.

In The Company of the Courtesan-Dunant, Sarah
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and it's Women-Albert, Alexa
Harvest for Hope-Goodall, Jane
Not Buying It-Levine, Judith
The Constant Princess-Gregory, Philippa
The Birth of Venus-Dunant, Sarah
The Geographer's Library-Fasman, Jon
 
Stewart said:
Not read it but there's Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's lipogrammatic novel,La Disparition. In English, A Void. From no 'e' in French to no 'e' in English. Madman.
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"A Void" (also translated as "Vanish'd", I think) is a great read, though I can't vouch for the English translation. Mad, certainly, but fun. Also, imagine the fate of the poor translator; Perec only had to avoid words that had "E" in them in French, whereas the translator for the most part can't use words with "e" in them in EITHER language...


Comrade Rockstar - Nadelson, Reggie 3/5
Bacacay - Gombrowicz, Witold 3/5
Things Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua 4/5
Bärsärkarna - Näsström, Britt-Marie 3/5
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me - Fariña, Richard (4/5)
American Purgatorio - Haskell, John 3/5
Gangsters - Östergren, Klas 2/5
Motherless Brooklyn - Lethem, Jonathan 5/5
Anansi Boys - Gaiman, Neil 3/5
 
its summer so I've read mostly chick lit!
Have also read Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets and Little Girl Lost, The Burn Journels and Behind Closed Doors.
 
In July I read

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
Out - Natsuo Kirino
 
Concetta said:
ABC - did you enjoy the Allende book - I am looking for a first read by her...
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I loved Daughter of Fortune and can't believe I let it sit on my tbr pile so long. Zorro was good too, but this one is better by far.
 
The Hanged Man - Francesca Lia Block
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg
Rule Britannia - Daphne Du Maurier
Ruby - Francesca Lia Block and Carmen Staton
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez Reverte

I read a couple books by some old favorites, and discovered some new favorites too!
 
It was a fantasy/sci-fi month for me... :).

Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

Chainfire (reread) by Terry Goodkind

Labyrinth of Evil (Star Wars) by James Luceno

Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Star Wars) by James Luceno

Also started Goodkind's latest novel, Phantom. Didn't finish it until today.

Edited to add: Forgot to include Storm Front and Fool Moon. Both were written by Jim Butcher.
 
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