April 2015. What books are you reading?

I am reading Family Matters, which I enjoy a lot. Next will be our Group Read, Drop City, not appealing at all to me, and To Have and Have Not.

I'm reading The Saga of Gosta Berling. After that I'll be reading Orlando with an April group read in the Category Challenge group. If anyone missed our group read here from a few months ago, feel free to jump in over there!

21 days to go in my reading of Infinite Jest. Also reading the much shorter and faster Deadline in Athens.

I've recently finished Garden, Ashes and Thérèse Raquin. I just started Half of Man is Woman.

I'm also listening to Day of the Triffids.

I'm already lagging behind in my reading of Tales of 1001 nights so will hopefully but ploughing through a chunk of that in April.

I've been neglecting the 18th century so will soon be starting A Sentimental Journey on my Kindle because I also fancied something short!

Speaking of short, I found The spy who came in from the cold in a local book amnesty shop so have been thumbing through that for a couple of days.

Finally, I'm listening to Money because Martin Amis has 5 books on the complete list and so needs ticking off for my 2015 challenge.

Still working my way through In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. This month, I'll be reading Drop City for the group read, Sexing the Cherry and The Drowned and the Saved... if I ever make it through Proust.

Haven't read a 1001 book for a while, but tonight I picked up The Grass is Singing, by Doris Lessing.

I just finished The professor's house which I liked (but My Antonia was better and should have been on the list instead). Now slowly making my way through The idiot and Wise Children.

In non-1001 books, I'm reading the hilarious My family and other animals as kind of an antidote to Russian gloom and politics.

I'm about to finish Bel-Ami and on audio I'm also getting near the end of Barchester Towers. Next up, I think, will be The Crying of Lot 49 -- for something completely different. And next on audio I'll be joining paruline with Wise Children.

On paper I'm going to begin The Hours which I thought I should read while Mrs. Dalloway was relatively fresh in my mind. On audio, for a similar reason, I decided to move on to The Last Chronicle of Barset as a follow-on to Barchester Towers. Yes there are 3 more Barsetshire books in between these two but I gather that they do not follow the same group of characters so I feel I can skip them. This is one of those very annoying instances where only the last of a large group of long books is on The List.

I'm reading Night; heartbreaking.

>12 Cecilturtle: Night is definitely a must-read (and it's a quick read too, so no excuses for skippering it).

Night isn't on the list, is it?

I'm within sight of the finish line on Infinite Jest, a little behind schedule but glad I built in a few extra days before we leave in case that happened.

>14 ursula: You're right, Night isn't on the list. Perhaps because the list tries to suggest novels and Night isn't actually a novel (I know, I know, there are other non-novels on the list). There are so many books that could be dropped from the list to make room for this one.

A similar book that is equally as much of a must-read is If This is Man by Primo Levi (published in North America as Survival in Auschwitz), and this one IS on the list.

>15 Nickelini: Yeah, no point in trying to apply rhyme or reason to the novel/not novel thing with the list.

I'm gearing up to start The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. Wish me luck.

#14/15 ugh it's not on the list! and I can't believe it isn't! The non-novel argument would work but none of the Wiesel's works are there! How does that happen?
Either way, glad I read it and will carry on with the trilogy before scouring the list for a bona fide title.

I finished my original list for the month, so I've got a couple more I hope to tackle in the next week: Everything that Rises Must Converge and The Castle of Crossed Destinies. Probably will have to continue at least one of them into May though.

Am reading Treasure Island for a quick fun read on my personal challenge. Can't believe I've never read this before!

I'm reading Phineas Finn by Trollope and Chess Story by Stefan Zweig.

I decided to begin the third volume of remembrance of things past by Proust, le côté de Guermantes.

Work is finally beginning to ease and I have time to read again (if not write reviews...). I listened to A Room of One's Own and Casino Royale (both less than 5 hours), finished Mansfield Park (re-read), Ancestral Voices, and Here's to You, Jesusa! -- all relatively quick reads. I expect The History of the Siege of Lisbon will take me through the end of the month and into May.