January 2019: What are you reading?

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January 2019: What are you reading?

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1ELiz_M
Jan 1, 2019, 8:45 am

What 1001 books have you resolved to read this month?

2ELiz_M
Jan 1, 2019, 8:48 am

I was supposed to finish Kieron Smith, Boy on my day off yesterday in order to start the year fresh, but that didn't happen. Next up will be either Berlin Alexanderplatz or Pricksongs and Descants.

3Henrik_Madsen
Edited: Jan 1, 2019, 5:17 pm

I'm behind on a couple of projects from 2018. First up is The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz.

4JennySbc
Jan 1, 2019, 3:44 pm

Reading Prepping For Success by Anmol Singh

5amerynth
Jan 1, 2019, 7:34 pm

Starting off the new year with Ada or Ardor for the group read, Solitude for the monthly challenge and Howard's End just for fun.

6ELiz_M
Jan 3, 2019, 4:05 pm

>5 amerynth: Solitude is a lovely, albeit dark, read!

7MartinBodek
Jan 17, 2019, 11:27 am

Just completed Oliver Twist, and (threw out my back when I) picked up The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. I'll finish in 2021, at the earliest.

8Helenliz
Jan 17, 2019, 1:25 pm

Currently reading The Scarlet Letter for a group read in the Challenge group. Also works for the Monthly challenge, never having read any Hawthorne before.

9JayneCM
Jan 18, 2019, 4:11 am

Plodding through The Catcher in the Rye for a book I have been meaning to read for ages. Loving The Scarlet Letter as much as I remember loving it in high school. And then a few lighter books as well, not from 1001.

10Yells
Edited: Jan 19, 2019, 11:33 am

In the middle of One Hundred Years of Solitude and about to start A Suitable Boy.

11ELiz_M
Jan 19, 2019, 8:36 am

I am now reading both Berlin Alexanderplatz and Pointed Roofs, volume one of Pilgrimage.

12BentleyMay
Jan 19, 2019, 11:27 am

Wow, Yells and Eliz_M, those are some BIG books! I have two translations of Berlin Alexanderplatz but haven't decided which one to go with. Do you have a suggestion?

I read Pointed Roofs a few years ago and liked it, but I couldn't find the next books in the Pilgrimage series for kindle at the time. They have the paperback series at the Book Depository, but I don't want to spend the $$ for the four volumes.

13Yells
Edited: Jan 19, 2019, 11:36 am

I read the Michael Hofmann translation of Berlin Alexanderplatz and really didn't like it much. Not sure if it was the book itself or the translation but it didn't quite come together for me.

I try to balance the big, huge books with the short ones so that I feel like I actually making progress :)

14ELiz_M
Jan 19, 2019, 2:45 pm

>12 BentleyMay: I have no recommendation on translations, I bought it because I like nyrb books and because it's an 1001 book.

I believe most of Pilgrimage is in the public domain (in the States at least) and available through project gutenberg and the like.

>13 Yells: I am only a few dozen pages in and I don't think this is a book or a protagonist one is supposed to like.

15Yells
Jan 19, 2019, 6:05 pm

>14 ELiz_M: True enough :)

16BentleyMay
Jan 19, 2019, 6:51 pm

I bought the NYRB version just because I like NYRB books, too (it's the Hofmann one). Then I inherited another, older version. I like the look and feel of the NYRB collection. I also like that they publish a lot of lesser known, but great, titles.

Oh cool! I didn't see the Gutenberg versions - or I forgot to look there. Thank you!

17gypsysmom
Jan 22, 2019, 12:58 pm

I've just started listening to The Hobbit. This is not a new book for me but when I saw it was available as an audiobook download from my library I couldn't resist it.

18annamorphic
Jan 24, 2019, 11:08 am

I'm reading Blind Man with a Pistol and listening to Giovanni's Room. Two books that turn out to complement one another in interesting ways, both quite good. And both are actually by authors I had not read before, so meeting this month's challenge!

19japaul22
Jan 24, 2019, 4:58 pm

I've started Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson which will be a year long read.

20puckers
Jan 25, 2019, 4:57 pm

It’s the Australia Day holiday here. I’m working my way through the fascinating but slow and heavily intellectual Doctor Faustus. Not entirely suitable for a holiday weekend traveling with two infants so I’ve packed Faceless Killers for hopefully an easier read.

21LisaMorr
Jan 28, 2019, 12:14 pm

>19 japaul22: I started Pilgrimage on Saturday; I'm enjoying it so far.

22gypsysmom
Jan 28, 2019, 3:03 pm

Another reread for me. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence is the last book of Laurence's Manawaka series and it is probably the first Laurence I read. I think that was some time shortly after she won the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1974. I don't remember very much about it so I thought that since I had read the start of the series The Stone Angel fairly recently I should revisit it. So far I am loving it and I'm pretty sure I relate much more to the central character, Morag Gunn, now than I did when I was 20 something.