Description:
This is a "support group" of sorts for those of us reading some of the major works of literature. Come here to share your thoughts, struggles and triumphs about the current book.
Quote of the month: In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves. — Vasily Grossman
Current book (beginning October 1, 2009):
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.
List of books we've read so far:
The Master and Margarita-- by Mikhail Bulgakov The Woman in White-- by Wilkie Collins The Forsyte Saga-- by John Galsworthy Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Age of Innocence-- by Edith Wharton The Leopard-- by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Pere Goriot-- by Honore de Balzac The Trial-- by Franz Kafka A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man-- by James Joyce Kristin Lavransdatter-- by Sigrid Undset Bleak House-- by Charles Dickens Midnight's Children-- by Salman Rushdie Middlemarch-- by George Eliot War and Peace-- by Leo Tolstoy
