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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

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Malavita by Tonino Benacquista

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Sword of Shannara Omnibus by Terry Brooks

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling

Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

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Favorite authorsIsabel Allende, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Inoue Yasushi, Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa, Amélie Nothomb, Stefan Zweig (Shared favorites)

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Don't do Faulkner in 2010!

Or do him and tie it in to the new Salon offshoot dedicated entirely to Faulkner! I'm trying to get a group read deal going of his books chronologically as I'm currently reading them. It's a brand new group, though, so I have no idea if we'll get enough people to take part etc.

(P.S. You should join and take part. :D)

posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:06 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2009

Hey! you have the very same Read Real Japanese book I have! Neat! I picked that up as well as a bunch of H. Murakami novels in Japanese at a shop in Seattle last summer. It was pretty neat, but also humiliating. The Japanese folks working there kept fucking with me, because the last semester I was an awful student, entirely ignoring the Kanji we were studying, and so when trying to find just the regular old literature section, I was completely lost. One employee directed me to the Chinese section, where I thought "Man...a little too much Kanji here, huh?" but wasn't wise enough to catch on to what should have been obvious until I asked a Chinese fellow, who directed me down to the Japanese section on Christianity where I stayed for 15 more minutes before asking another employee, whom I annoyed the hell out of for an hour for translations.

Hooray!

I've gotten a few mangas in Japanese off of Sasuga's online shop. I'm really, really not a fan of manga, but with furigana included, it seemed like a great way to practice. I'm sure you loved all this valuable information.

(Sorry.)

posted by RSHabroptilus at 12:28 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2009

Psh, interesting library? Screw that!

Share your knowledge of Japanese literature! now! (please?)

(I'm studying Japanese and am thus very interested! Do you know Japanese? or just enjoy their literature thru translation?)

posted by RSHabroptilus at 11:55 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2009

Thanks for the invite to the author theme read group. I have too many reading projects on the go at the moment, and want to leave some free time for more 'random' reading. I will keep an I an the group though, and would like to get involved in the future.
Cheers,
Andy

posted by depressaholic at 7:22 am (EST) on Jan 22, 2009

no problem, good to have u back. i hope the skiing was superb -- it seems this year's snow is making up for last year's...

we seem to have a good group going...i'm quite excited myself :-)

posted by deebee1 at 5:39 am (EST) on Jan 19, 2009

hi, to get some more to join us, i've sent out individual invitations, based on the 999 challenge categories and the thread about wanting to read all the author's works in book talk. i hope we'll get a few more joiners and then can start choosing our author to read ...

posted by deebee1 at 11:41 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2009

ok then. just send me a link once the forum's up, and we can start working on getting joiners from there.

posted by deebee1 at 3:22 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2009

i guess opening a new forum would be the best way to go, but i wonder if it should be done now or later, till we have more indications of interest. polotropus is also interested in an author theme read, perhaps u can ask his opinion. about getting people to join, we can post invitations in or send out feelers to the number-challenge groups, and elsewhere we're active, and just spread the word around.

posted by deebee1 at 3:14 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2009

hi lilisin,

i just didn't want us to hijack the thread over at Reading Globally, so i'm responding here instead to ur latest post. i was thinking it might be a better idea to start a totally new group or perhaps, in order to get more people in, introduce it in one of the bigger group challenges, say the 50 or the 75-book challenge forums?

i'm all for it, mind u, wherever it may be taken up. it's just that perhaps the R Globally group is not really the most appropriate one, after all, the challenge there is to read as many countries/authors as possible. quite different from ours which aim to have a more "in-depth" look.

what do u think?

posted by deebee1 at 2:09 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2009

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