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... down in the back of my diary!!
I am just going to add the books for now and then maybe add my thoughts later.
34) The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
35) Solstice Joyce Carol Oates
36) The Rose of Sebastopol Katharine Mcmahon
37) Midnight all Day Hanif Kureishi
38) Primavera S ... ... I'm now halfway through Anna Karenina, and after that I've got a choice of either Nobel-prize-winning Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, or Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. I reckon I'll plump for the former.
I love love love the Russians - Anna Karenina is just breathtaking. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing During my degree I read some of The Golden Notebook and keep meaning to read more of her but it is one of those things I never get round to. ... humanity, but sometimes I want to read something a little more cheerful! So I picked up in the end the name of the rose, the golden notebook and then went to the charity shop and got on beauty and the accidentals
So I'm well stocked up, but not sure of the order in which to read them, ... Hi, I would recommend the Martha Quest series and the autobiographies (under my skin etc). I think the Golden Notebook is a bit daunting, although I've never read anything so powerful about mental breakdown (except perhaps, Briefing for a Descent). I'm about to start her new book, Alfred ... I've just finished reading The Golden Notebook and I'm amazed by the insightful and critical observations of the human experience (or what we call *our* human experiencie) Lessing makes. I was actually wondering if Anna Wulf is an alter-ego of Doris Lessing.... I, I, I... what a woman!
The Gol ... ... I have listed her as a favorite author since first coming here, and I keep her in formidable company.
I first read The Golden Notebook in the '60's when it was liberating women across the country (USA). I have read it twice since, and it has held up so far as I'm concerned. I haven't ... ...
I'm among those who were completely charmed by If on a winter's night a traveler; it's on my long list of favorites as is The Golden Notebook. Over many years I've replaced my original copy of the Doris Lessing book twice. I'm also a fan of Nuala O'Faolain although I never talk about ... ... Stone, God's Behaving Badly (Marie Phillips) and Climate Change by Robert Henson.
I'm just about to start The Golden Notebook which will be the first Doris Lessing I've read. ... James Runcie
One Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters
Jane Boleyn, The Infamous Lady Rochford, Julia Fox
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Trick of the Mind, Derren Brown
A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernieres
Lessons From the Land of Pork Scratchings, ... In addition to Doctor Faustus (about halfway through), I just started Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook. ... every one of his books that he just makes me want to go away and write.
Just about to make a start on Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, which too many people have told me is the best book in the world. i just hope I'm not disappointed. Thanks for these lists avaland. I'm using them for future reading suggestions. Just finished The Golden Notebook which doesn't appear here yet. 45. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962
Anna Wulf appears to me to be a sane, intelligent, self aware woman and yet by the end of the novel she has endured a period of intense emotional and psychological pressure. They used to call it a nervous breakdown. Lessing calls it a crack up. ... I've just started The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. It's a very different kind of book for me, Lessing seems to be able to look from the outside at a culture and its social conventions. Much more explicitly critical than I'm accustomed. ... Bowen
there's more, but they need airing and I already have a huge TBR pile!
Just starting a nice new edition of The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing for March.
... I don't know yet which one. It will depend on my mood.
The View from Castle Rock
Saturday
On Chesil Beach
The Golden Notebook
Oryx and Crake
The Possibility of an Island
... and for me, the following:
The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana
For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Heaven Cent by Piers Anthony
Demons Don't Dream by Piers Anthon ... ... Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Satanic Verses by ... I'd read The Golden Notebook, but last time I checked on Amazon it seemed hard to find so I might wait until they release a new edition of it.
I've just started Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress for discussion with others who are reading it. I'm only about 10 pages in, but it seems ... ... shorter, I might have decided to struggle through it despite the first 150 pages being so disappointing. I'd like to read The Golden Notebook, but I think I'm going to wait until that gets reissued, since it is a little hard to track down now but is being reprinted (or so I've heard) since Less ... ... Chronicles but want to should continue the discussion when you do finish or a long the way.
I would not like to read The Golden Notebook I think that book has the record for me of taking the longest time to read but still eventually finishing it. I found it really boring overall.
Next ... These are Lessing's most popular books in LT:
The golden notebook 741 copies, 4 reviews
The fifth child 336 copies, 9 reviews
The memoirs of a survivor 220 copies, 2 reviews
Shikasta : re, colonised planet 5 : personal,… pyschological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor, ... ... Sweden - Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic "The Golden Notebook," won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. She was praised by the judges for her "skepticism, fire and visionary power."
The Swedish academy's ... ... with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".
Hmm, I might have to bump The Golden Notebook up my TBR list...
... the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gigi, by Colette
Goblin Market and Other Poems, by Christina Rossetti
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
The Group, by Mary McCarthy
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood ... Ooops. My not buying books for the month thing just vanished... ho hum :-)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe (I'm only going into my fourth year at Cambridge. I really should have read this by now!)
The Three Musketeers, translated by Richard Pevear. I'm ... ... ves):
What's the link?
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Just William by Richmal Crompton Trixie by Wallace Graves
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (partly a diary)
Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
I can't believe that no-one's done:
The diary of a nobody by George Grossmith (& Weedon) ... Saul Bellow
78. A Jest of God Margaret Lawrence
79. Happiness Mary Lavin
80. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
81. The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
82. Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter
83. Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
84. The Jewel in the Crown Paul Scott
85. Cotter's ... ... Gustave Flaubert (movie)
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey Homer
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
Hamlet William Shakespeare (movie) & many others
The Life and Opinions ... The Golden Notebook next to Goofy Mad Libs.
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