What are you reading from the 1001 list in JANUARY 2010?

I'm still reading The Swarm.

I finished Blood Meridian which was a loopy ride through wanton bloody violence. The judge is a superhuman villain. Great writing - I loved it.

Note to self, book number 156 ( so I work out out many I read this year)

Now reading The Cement Garden

Happy New Year all!

I'm starting Mansfield Park today !

Still working on The Unconsoled. It's super fascinating, but just hasn't gripped me yet like the other Ishiguro I've read. (Could be the length though.)

I'm still going on London Orbital. I may be some time.

I'm reading Dr Zhivago at the moment, hoping to knock at least 30 books off the list this year.

I am determined to make it all the way through Emma this time!

I'm on Pride and Prejudice.

Just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray and am starting The Three Musketeers. That's going to about do me for January.

Grabbed A Pale View of Hills from library, so I guess I'll be reading that one.

Enjoying The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy after the bleakness of revolutionary Russia in Dr Zhivago, though I expect The Woodlanders will end in tragic circumstances like so many of Hardy's other novels.

I picked up The Cancer Ward at the library. I'm a little nervous because I didn't really enjoy dr. Zhivago and I don't know if I'm ready for another Russian author. Why does every character in Russian books have multiple names?! Reading War and Peace I had to have a cheat sheet as a bookmark to keep everyone's multiple names together.

Finished The Swarm very good.
Starting Everything is Illuminated.

Still listening to Agnes Grey this month.

Finished The Woman in White - such a fresh and exciting book!
Started Sense and Sensibility which I'm enjoying, but not as much as I thought I would.

I'm just taking a brief time out to read the new Wheel of Time novel, but will be going back to/starting afresh The God of Small Things and Tristram Shandy shortly.

Can't say I'm really terribly excited... but I am determined!

Still reading Wonder Boys and listening to The Woodlanders.

Finished White Teeth, highly recommended.

I'm listening to Villette on my iPod, but I don't get to it very often, so it's been a long journey.

I am currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray for my 1010 challenge.

Just started Catcher in the Rye. Still can't believe I never had to read this one in school.

And will be, happily, starting the second volume of In Search of Lost Time as soon as I can get to the library.

Started At the Mountains of Madness.

I started Pippi Longstocking.

Julia

i started "the master and margherita"

Finished Doctor Zhivago, wasn't for me
Starting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland then Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There I've seen films and Disney versions but never read the books

I am reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and I absolutely adore it!

Currently 182 pages into Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell, got it for Christmas, but haven't had too many opportunities to read it. Surprisingly, I'm finding it quite easy to read, and more enjoyable than I expected. I was daunted by the size at first, but I think this is quite an achievable one.

#28 Gone with the Wind is a total shock isn't it! When I read it I was expecting to hate it (I was working my way through the BBC Top 100 at that point - still not finished that...) and yet it's totally excellent!

Working on Les Miserables. I am finding it very enjoyable.

I am reading Can You Forgive Her? and i finished Giovanni's Room yesterday. 2 a month would be an awesome average to keep through 2010!

#31 ooh - what did you think of Giovanni's room? I just got it out of the library on a whim?

I'm starting Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. I'm sure I'll love it - Hardy is one of my favorites.

Hi, I'm new to this group :-)

I've only read about 50 books from the 1001 list until now.

This year I want to read at least 30 or maybe 40 more.

In January I'll read definitely Wuthering Heights and probably Dr Zhivago

But first I have to finish East of Eden (which should be on the list, it's fantastic)

Still reading The Magus (started in November), I'm hopeful I'll finish it this week.

#30, Also working my way through Les Miserables and am thoroughly enjoying it. Just finished Club Dumas, loved it! Today I started Drabble's The Red Queen, seems like it will be interesting. And am trying to pick up Middlemarch here and there when I can.

Finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray I don't know what I will be reading next.

-34 East of Eden is one of my very favorite books!

I just started The Way of All Flesh this morning, and it is inoffensive so far. My husband and I are also still reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. We finish a mystery a night, and are thoroughly enjoying it.

Reading Catch-22 just now, very good actually.

Listening to Far From the madding Crowd.

Reading The Turn of the Screw via DailyLit. It's a nice short one.

#27 I'm also reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and also love it. Must admit to not knowing much about it before hand, and the format really surprised me, I was expecting a traditional mystery I suppose, not just deductions. Whats your favourite one?

#28 & #29 I too was completely suprised with Gone with the Wind, I knew nothing about it before hand, and just decided to read it because its always on the best-loved book lists. Whats your thoughts on the movie? I must admit to never seeing it and I'm not sure whether I should now or not.

Gone With the Wind is a fabulous movie--but rather long. You must see it from the beginning and stick with it, otherwise you really miss the experience.

I have finished Agnes Grey - a surprisingly good story and am now listening to Mansfield Park.

I read The Book of Illusions: Paul Auster, and have to say I much preferred What I Loved: Siri Hustvedt.

I've moved onto a re-read of SuperCannes, by J. G. Ballard.

I finished The Cement Garden Well written "ickyness".

Now reading Fingersmith

Just finished Life of a Good-For-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff and now starting Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

I'm dedicating some January holiday reading time to George Orwell. I've just started Keep the Aspidistra Flying and have Coming Up For Air waiting. I'm thinking of revisiting Animal Farm as it's been a while since I last read it.

I also read The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter which an extremely short Japanese folk tale.

Color me excited. .. I'm reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and just noticed it's on the 1001 list. Score!

I just finished Remains of the Day. I started it way back as part of a group read. I was enjoying it, but kept losing my place while reading and just kind of lost interest in finishing it. So, I started again from the beginning and finally read it. Ishiguro does a phenomenal job of characterization.

re 49 - I really enjoyed Androids, and I love it when you find you are reading a 1001 book by accident. I knocked one off the list in the summer, Nervous Conditions, which I didn't notice was on the list until I was updating the spreadsheet version I have a couple of months later. :))

I read The Old Man and the Sea at the beginning of the month, excellent.
At the moment I am reading The Grass is Singing by Lessing, really gripping me, a town girl falling apart after marrying a farmer in Rhodesia. Still reading Les Miserables for the 1010 Challenge readalong, good stuff.

Picked up Vanity Fair on the weekend.

#49 Have fun - Orwell is excellent and all three of those are good reads.

I just finished The God of Small Things. It's a sad story told in an interesting way.

Just finished Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Excellent. I highly recommend it. Do not be overwhelmed by the size. If you want to dare to read on huge book a year, pick this one.

Going to start A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. I need to read some small things now.

Beside that Pale View of Hills I mentioned above, I read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie earlier and now They Shoot Horses, Don't They which was pretty grim but I can see why existentialists loved that...are we allowed to mention those reality TV shows related to that book?

The last book also reminded me of En flyktning krysser sitt spor which made me look at the 1001 list and notice there isn't a single Sandemose book in it, which is just sad.

Amyway, i seem to be tackling a bunch of these short 20th century novels, maybe it's time to take a look at some of those bricks from 19th century...

I started Pride and Prejudice, not liking it as much as I liked Sense and Sensibility but still a good read!

Finished A Modest Proposal last night. It was ok and amusing. My wife just about fell out when I told her what it was about.

I am now reading Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair. Not a difficult read at all. Harriett's mother reminds me of my mother--very sacrificial.

Finally got my copy of Pride and prejudice from the library. Can't wait to get started!

I just finished The Way of All Flesh. It was much, much funnier than I was expecting (I was thinking it would be more along the lines of Maugham). It was actually a satire on a religious upbringing. We also finished reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and are now onto The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, which are apparently not 1001 material. They are both extremely enjoyable.

I have just started Small Island. I've heard good things.

Finally getting around to The Good Earth .

im reading Memoirs of a Geisha
GREAT BOOK!

# 32 as for Giovanni's Room I loved it. Really beautifully written and so sad.
I just found out the garden party is a short story and just read that over on Project Gutenberg.

#63 I agree re Giovanni's Room - read it not long after my first post. It is definitely beautiful but also so painful.

I'm still slogging through The Cancer Ward. I don't know why it is taking so long. I like it, but I can only get through 1-2 chapter a night.

Just starting The Pickwick Papers

Just finished The Life and Death of Harriet Frean. It was interesting, but not a thriller. Also finished The Old Man and the Sea. Very good. A lot of questions raised about life, death, suffering, determination, love. I'm reading The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. It's pretty good.

Finished The Grass is singing and moved on to Watchmen. Both good books in their own ways, not sure what I'm going to pick up next.

Have started The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

I just finished A Town Like Alice, fantastic, I loved it, on audio, the reader was superb.

ty, hope you enjoy it.

I've started War of the Worlds. I think that while I am at it I will finish all of the H G Wells' books on the list.

I finished Fingersmith I loved it. The initial twist gob-smacked me setting up the rest of the book superbly.

Now reading Gone with the Wind Good so far. Rhett has made his first appearance.

jdaniel, I too am reading Gone With the Wind, haven't had much time to read, but I am almost halfway at the moment, and it's brilliant!

george, I liked the Old Man and the Sea a lot.

I am now reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for a book club.

I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's a great book.

>72 jdaniel3760: I loved Fingersmith

>72 jdaniel3760:, 73 Gone with the Wind is something I'm sure I've read, but I just can't remember. I'll have to look out for it.

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I'm reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It's so good, and I'm only 20-something pages in!

Just finished The Good Earth . Loved the first half , but felt letdown during the second half . My next one will be Veronika Decides To Die .

I just started Cold Comfort Farm. So far it's like a really funny Jane Austen. Not that Austen wasn't funny. Anyway, this strikes me as a parody, and it's great.

So far I've read A Pilgrim's Progress (**) and The Picture of Dorian Grey (****'), and I'm currently reading Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours en francais!

STILL working through The Unconsoled. I get a strange sense from this one. The longer it goes on, the more one gets that Ishiguro-esque sense of complete control and focus, but the whole thing is SO weird and SO discombobulated that it's just not easy to stick with. I like it, but I don't LOVE it, like I liked, say, The Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go.

Next one will probably be a shorter one. Maybe Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates.

Well, I think at this very late date in the month it's clear that I won't be reading any 1001 books. However, i did read the short story "In a Grove" (aka "In a Bamboo Grove"), which is one of the short stories that makes up Rashomon. I enjoyed it a lot and look forward to more by this author.

Still working on Pride and Prejudice... I had hoped to finish it quicker, but I bought a house that has to be remodeled so I'm spending a lot of time tearing out old wallpaper, flooring and even a ceiling. And before you ask: yes, it will have a dedicated library. And of course, it is the largest room in the house :-)

Just finished The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, just about to start New York Trilogy

Nickelini-

Akutagawa is a splendid author. Read Rashomon soon as the imagery is stunning. Also, Hell's Screen is amazing!

I just finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston. Excellent book and excellent story.

Funkyderek, what did you think of Dorian Gray. I'm going to start it next.