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... happy to begin with "A", because I did not join this thread until it was almost finished on the last round. I have to say Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov. It is a stunning piece of literature! I am about two-thirds of the way through Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov and it is gorgeous. I am trying really hard to finish it within a couple of days so my oldest son, who would rather talk about books than almost anything else, can call me from hunting camp and we can discuss it. What can I say, I like staying on the cutting edge. :)
Howards End and Ada, or Ardor remain holdovers from last month. The following are on my list to try and get through this month as well (fingers crossed):
Veronika Decides to Die -- Paulo Coelho
Watchmen -- Alan Moore
Between ... I too had a very slow 1001 month. Howards End and Ada, or Ardor both remain works in progress, while today I finished To the Lighthouse. I think I need a bit of a Virginia Woolf break for now, so I won't be diving into Orlando quite yet.
I'll catch back up next month, after I read ... ... will be forthcoming as I head back there tomorrow, and maybe on Saturday and Sunday as well.
The first installment is:
Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
A Child's Book Of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Blood and Guts In High School by Kathy Acker
Crea ... ... at 100 books in, I've pretty much read all the books I've been most anticipating. I do have one more Nabokov though, Ada, or Ardor, which is slow going right now, but should be exciting.
My least, without a doubt, is Ulysses. Let's get it started for another month!
I'm working my way through Howards End for class and Ada, or Ardor for pleasure. ... to buy into "prize winners" for the sake of their prizes, but it took the Booker and deservedly so.
Still working on Ada, or Ardor, but with the semester kicking into gear, I have to start working through assigned reading. Of course, it helps that my first book, Howards End is also on ... Ada, or Ardor is one of my all-time favorites! I am a big fan of Nabokov. I am in awe of his use of language. Enjoy! ...
Finished Mrs. Dalloway, though I'm not convinced that one reading will suffice on that one. Either way, I've moved on to Ada, or Ardor. ... in my reading. I experience powerful emotional reactions to his writing. I couldn't finish Lolita because of it, and Ada was magnificently disturbing.
I think I will try to expand the "N" section:) ... in the game but I will do my part again for a while. (Thanks so much Booksloth for updating the list.) So, yes to Ada . Much of my reading in the next year will be French-based. So how about a book to be read and reread, and which comes across very differently in the numerous ... Okay....I read it..........now..........how about Ada; or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov? May
Ada, or Ardor - Nabokov
Mask of the Andes - Jon Cleary
The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature - Pratt, ed
Shooting an Elephant - Orwell
The Time Machine - Wells
Bad Vibes - Alberto Fuguet I'm halfway through Ada, or Ardor at the moment and it's a strange babbling brook of a book, but sweet as they are, the gushing Hippocrene draughts, I yearn from time to time for some plainness, stupidity or ugliness. At any rate there's no better three-word clause with which to end Part 1 than "h ... Fine! I'll participate.
East of Eden
The Beautiful and the Damned by Fitzgerald
Lolita
Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Beloved
A Room of One's Own
Anna Karenina
Romeo & Juliet
Gone with the Wind
Othello
Mating by Norman Rush
The Count of Monte Cri ... Notable this quarter:
Ada, or Ardor - Nabokov
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Nabokov's pretty much going to shove any others down to another league,
and
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris. This last one because it made me laugh hard and often. ... to reading, but a beautiful sentence is not my only criterion. These are not, I think, in order. Except the first one.
Ada, or ardor: a family chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov*
The garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Tractatus logico-philosophicus by L ... ... that several of them were re-reads for me. The most impressive of the "new" books (to me) I've read this quarter were:
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine ... Daniel Mason
Iraq/The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Burma/The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Around Europe/Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
EnglandYear of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
That was without thinking too much about it, because I joined LT in January 2008, so now I ... Killeymoon, Pnin has been tempting me from my hallway table. I finished Ada not long ago and wanted to read some other authors, but Nabokov's words are so tempting. Which gives me an idea.
I'll rank the 2008 books as I read them:
Ada
Olive Kitteridge: A life in stories
The Secret Life of Bees
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him
The Shadow Year
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Yes, it was my favorite book of 2007. So far this year, Ada is the one to beat. ... online, I'm eager to find someone who reads Hellenistic history or who can have an intelligent discussion of Nabokov's Ada (e.g., one going on right now). Weirdly, those have always been the center of my social life, even ... (redundant!) I finished Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov several days ago. Magnificent and astounding.
Today, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - terrific escapism. I'm moving directly to the next in the trilogy. ... a brand new, boxed set of the trilogy at HPB this past weekend for less than $10. And it seems to me, since you started Ada after me, and since your copy of the trilogy hasn't even arrived... that you're stalking me!
=oP ... arriving in the mail tomorrow and I thought it would be a nice spot of light reading, too. Although, I'll still be reading Ada (just got to Part Two).
Great minds, I guess. :-} I finally finished Ada, and am about to spend my evening delving into the world of Philip Pullman for the first time in The Golden Compass. After a month of Nabokov, I'm definitely in need of some easy, indulgent reading, and I'm hoping the His Dark Materials trilogy will fit that ... 123, 124, etc. This week's Newsweek's featured author was Ha Jin. He listed Ada as the book he should have read but hadn't. I found it interesting that the 10 books he listed as having most influenced him were by Nabakov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. He said that Anna Karenina influenced ... I know what you guys mean. Ada makes me a little bit squirmy and I'm not even discussing it with anyone. But not always squirmy, because, as mentioned, you'll be reading along, thinking, "You know, this seems perfectly normal." Then, "What am I thinking?" Interesting writer. Alright you two - I just added Ada to my wishlist. Now I must go leave this thread to read one of my 400+ unread books in my library before I go adding any more... ... read them - first Invitation to a Beheading, then Laughter in the Dark. But every time I imagine talking to him about Ada, I feel like it would be uncomfortable, and possibly inappropriate :-\ I read Ada this past summer and loved it. Nabokov's writing is so seductive. I sort of float away on it then suddenly focus on the topic and feel a bit shaken. He is phenomenal! >120 Weird coincidences day. I'm also (still) reading Ada, am a little past halfway. Started it right at the new year.
I'm really having a hard time getting much fiction read since the first of the year, because I've been spending pretty much all day, except for the hour int he morning three ... ... to hold an intervention on myself.(I have to every few months because I juggle so much.) Particular attention to this week: Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov and Living History by Hillary Clinton. Against my better judgment I started She by H. Rider Haggard, an old adventure story.
trinah, ... Lolita is one of my favorite books, too. I'm currently reading Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov and very much enjoying it. ... "That tattered chapbook must also belong to her, Les Amours du Docteur Mertvago, a mystical romance by a pastor."
Ada, or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov 2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ... ... - it was so bad, it made me not want to read!!!), and as a result am making real progress in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, which is far better - entertaining in the extreme :D ... Ecstasy when I had to read it in high school, it's probably deserving of a re-read.
I'm still on Vladimir Nabokov's Ada and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. I've been doing so much reading for my comps this last week, I haven't actually picked up either of these all week, though. *s ... ... I finally finished Cryptonomicon last week (absolutely fantastic book), and this week I started Vladimir Nabokov's Ada. Then I had to go out, and my copy of Ada is a huge hardcover edition, so I started Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe so I could have a paperback in my purse. I'm ... ... by Harriette Arnow
3. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingslover
4. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
5. Ada or Ardor by Valdimir Nabokov
6. Moloka'i by Alan Brennet
7. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
8. Dreams From My Father ... ... Boleyn Girl
Living History
The Proust that I will be reading for the next five & half months
Olive Kitteridge
Ada, or Ardor
Out of control.... ... and really liked it, so.... It's set in Italy and I'm getting into it. This author writes relationships well.
Just started Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov. Only had the first chapter so far, but it's proving to be quite intriguing. I have high hopes, as a big fan of Lolita.
GreyHead, Irving ... You MUST read Ada. My favorite book of all time. Read it!!! ... In my mind, quite possibly the most genius thing ever written. I'm glad to see that it's on your list. (As an aside, Ada is on my own TBR pile, so I'm with you there!)
Good luck! ... them enough to continue on. To help me narrow it down pick three from the list that you feel I should absolutely read.
Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov
Underworld Don DeLillo
Gravity's Rainbow or V Thomas Pynchon
The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse
Infinite Je ... Back to really obscure books.
1. The Rosary, Florence Barclay 21 copies on LT
2. A Modern Chronicle, Winston Churchill 3 copies
3. The Wild Olive, anonymous (Basil King) 1 copy
4. Max, Katherine Cecil Thurston 0 copies
5. The Kingdom of Slender Swords, Hal ... ... posts here.
I am not gifted enough as a writer to convey these thoughts well - but perhaps if you have read Nabokov's Ada; or Ardor: a family Chronicle you will have a sense of what I am trying to say. ... Stealing
811 Poetry – Stranger Music: selected poems and songs
812 Drama – The Glass Menagerie
813 Fiction – Ada, or Ardor, a family chronicle
814 Essays – Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim
818 Miscellaneous writings – A Moveable Feast
821 English poetry – Select ... I am re-reading Ada at the moment, old friends, but often in new clothes or, at least, dressed in something I hadn't noticed before.
And everytime I re-read Pale Fire I change my mind about who actually wrote the poem. That one, in particular, is a game of chess. Different each time, ... I have not read Ada or Ardor yet, but it is certainly on my list, and waiting for me in my TBR stack.
Re Nabokov's language skills and the order of learning. He spoke English first, Russian began when he was about 5, not sure where French came in exactly but if you peruse or preferably ... ... The book takes you from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century.
I am pretty sure I read Pale Fire before Ada, or Ardor, but I don't see why that would be necessary. And I still haven't gotten around to reading Pnin, so. Ada is great though. You must love it! Yes you have it it is Ada
david ... thread, one user suggested that, of the characters in Nabokov's Ada, she'd only have Ada herself over to dinner.
Which raises the completely frivolous question: What characters from novels would we have over to dinner?
Some ground ... ...
Marcella Hazan for the classic Italian Cookbook and
More Classic Italian Cooking;Italian Regional Cooking by Ada Boni
and Italian Food by Elizabeth David.
I don't know any of the others, but I have cooked from these books for years and I swear by them. They are the BEST ... Don't know if your book sale is still coming up, philosojerk, but Ada, or Ardor is my favorite novel of Nabokov's. (The others I've read are Lolita, Pnin, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and The Eye) It has the most stunning, gorgeous prose of any of his works I've encountered, and a ... Maybe if I set myself these five it will really happen:
1. I'm going to reread Ada, or Ardor which is pretty much my favorite book ever and deserves a reread at this point. It's long enough that I'll put it on this list, and in fact I'm starting tonight.
2. I'm finally going to finish Crime ... ... by Lolita. (On the former, which seems very simple, see Barabtarlo Phantom of Fact.) Then Pale Fire, Ada, Speak Memory, Despair. Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years is without question my favorite biography—not of Nabokov, since I've only read one—bu ...
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