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Lysistrata wrote: "Lara wrote: "Recently started Strangers on a Train"

Ooh, I had to read that one for a college class not too long ago. It's a decent noir, and the Hitchcock film's pretty good, too!"

I'm almost done with it. I really like it! I've read another one of hers The Price of Salt and liked that one too.

Whoa, just rediscovered this old/new group from Shelfari!

Anyway, I just had to say that I finished Jane Austen's Mansfield Park the other day. Having now finished all six Austen novels in the traditional canon, I can feel justifiably well-read. :-)

Not really a classic, but I think it will become one -

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff� 5
In October 1949 Helene Hanff, a single woman living and working in her small New York apartment, responded to an ad placed in the Saturday Review of Literature by Marks & Co, a bookshop in London that specialized in used books. Thus began a two-decade long correspondence and friendship between the reserved bookseller and the irrepressible Miss Hanff. What a delight it is to be allowed to watch this growing relationship, fueled by a shared love of books, and an ability to laugh at oneself and one’s follies. It’s the kind of book I’ll read over and over just for the sheer joy of it.
Full Review HERE

R. Brent wrote: "Whoa, just rediscovered this old/new group from Shelfari!

Anyway, I just had to say that I finished Jane Austen's Mansfield Park the other day. Having now finished all six Austen novels in the tra..."

Welcome to the group, Brent. Glad you found us.

Listening to:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Just started Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania this morning. I love Erik Larson!

I just recommended this to my dad this morning! Let me know what you think. I have yet to read it but it's in my list!

Terris wrote: "Listening to:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne"

I listened to this last year. I loved it.!

I'm about half way through. It's a lot of fun!

Attending a back to college class "Hitch in the Fifties" as part of my Osher Group. I wonder if we will see that movie.

Terris wrote: "I just recommended this to my dad this morning! Let me know what you think. I have yet to read it but it's in my list!"

I like pretty much any Erik Larson book, so I'm assuming I'll like this one too. Has he read other Larson books? It's interesting to read about because honestly, while I know a lot about WWII I don't really know much about WWI.

Lara wrote: "Terris wrote: "I just recommended this to my dad this morning! Let me know what you think. I have yet to read it but it's in my list!"

I like pretty much any Erik Larson book, so I'm assuming I'll..."

I'm not sure if he has or not, but I think he'd like any of them.

I know what you mean about knowledge of WWI & WWII (or lack thereof!) -- Like you, I know and have read lots of books about, & set during, WWII. But recently I have consciously been reading and trying to learn more about WWI and that era, because I just don't know much about it all!! The more I learn, the more I'm interested in it :)

The Summer Before the War is set just before (and during) WWI

That one's on my list! :)

Reading The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard

Reading The Fallen Man and The Dead Secret.

I'm trying to figure out my next read as I'm about to finish my current book tonight...

Can't decide between




Decisions, decisions....

I haven't been reading classics, so I haven't been posting. But I see there are some other types of books being mentioned. So....I have been reading a mix of things. To mention a few, I have read some bios. The latest one on Stalin's Daughter


Then The Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall which fictiously but interestingly takes place on Sanibel island.

ilikeboox wrote: "I haven't been reading classics, so I haven't been posting. But I see there are some other types of books being mentioned. So....I have been reading a mix of things. To mention a few, I have read s..."

When you're typing your post, look at the top of the box on the right. There's something that says "add book/author." That's how you do it. You can either add just a link to the book or a picture of the cover.

Also, this group isn't JUST for posting about classics. We like to encourage discussion about anything we're reading. It's just that if it ISN'T about a classic, you're supposed to post in a specific place. But don't feel bad. I haven't read any classics lately either and I'm in charge of this group ;)

Oh! I see the "add book/author"! Thank you for taking time to tell me.

I fixed them! That's very handy!

Should I post non-classic books in "Carriage House"?

ilikeboox wrote: "Should I post non-classic books in "Carriage House"?"

Post non-classic books in the Other Reviews thread.

Okay, thank you. (That makes sense.)

ilikeboox wrote: "Oh! I see the "add book/author"! Thank you for taking time to tell me.

I fixed them! That's very handy!

Should I post non-classic books in "Carriage House"?"

The Carriage House is kind of like an open discussion thread. We talk about anything there. For example: if you find an article you liked that you want to share or you just saw a good movie you want to recommend to the group. Those kinds of things. We're pretty open to any discussion here, we just ask that you separate your CLASSIC book reviews from the rest of them.

I decided to start Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

Lara: That makes sense, thank you.

I read Ethan Frome this morning; it was far too depressing for such an early morning read. I have Wyllard's Weird lined up for tomorrow

Rhi wrote: "I read Ethan Frome this morning; it was far too depressing for such an early morning read. I have Wyllard's Weird lined up for tomorrow"

I keep meaning to read Ethan Frome but haven't gotten around to it...

Just finished while on holidays.

Just started We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas.

I am greatly enjoying a 5ish month group read o Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens which I have never read before.

Just started The Girls by Emma Cline. It's for my F2F book group. After that, it's on to our group read!

Just finished Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (which has been on my list forever!).
Now reading The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson, and am listening to Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music by John Fogerty (I have to finish soon because I'm going to see him perform next Saturday night!).

Terri, how did you like Go Tell it on the Mountain? I just read it a few months ago, and loved it.

I am reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and I am planning on starting The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain sometime soon

Tracy wrote: "Terri, how did you like Go Tell it on the Mountain? I just read it a few months ago, and loved it."

I liked it fine, but it wasn't my favorite. I might not have spend enough time on it. Also, I read it on iPad & I think I would have liked a "real" book better because I could have gone back & looked back at things I had forgotten or didn't remember.

Oh, yes: Have a great time at John Fogerty! CCR was comfort music for me growing up. I would love to see him!

Just started Crime and Punishment for our group read. Wish me luck!

Good luck.

I just finished The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope. Reading a few modern genre classics with The Hour of the Dragonby Robert E. Howard, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Ross MacDonald's The Chill. I am also planning to start Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane tomorrow.

My current classics are still Our Mutual Friend (the last week of discussions is Oct 9, so I try not to get ahead) but I've also started The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

I'm starting The Monk tonight. It has been on my TBR list for years.

Karin- I listened to The Woman in White last year when I had the flu. I thoroughly enjoyed it. How are you finding it?

Iasa wrote: "Reading a few modern genre classics with The Hour of the Dragonby Robert E. Howard, Dune by Fran..."

I remember reading Dune, that was a good book. I am interested in The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard. I am a bit of a Conan fan. I am almost through those 12 books series that came out in the 60's that Lin Carter and L. Sprague deCamp put together with Howard's Conan stories. If read in progression, it fleshes out Conan's life from beginning to end. The book you are reading sounds like it's more towards the end of Conan's "career". I will have to look for that one. Howard was an exceptional pulp fiction writer.

Finished two books on my honeymoon: Modern Romance and Mudbound. Got back Saturday and I'm almost finished with my third: Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

I just finished Lady Susan by Jane Austen, and am now reading The Plague by Albert Camus and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Gotta' catch up on my classics reading before the end of the year!!

Just started Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. It's for my F2F book club this month.

Lara wrote: "Finished two books on my honeymoon: Modern Romance and Mudbound. Got back Saturday and I'm almost finished with my third: [book:Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owe..."

I read "Modern Romance" recently and enjoyed it much more than I expected to!

Terris wrote: "Lara wrote: "Finished two books on my honeymoon: Modern Romance and Mudbound. Got back Saturday and I'm almost finished with my third: [book:Triumph: The Untold Story..."

I agree. It was very interesting!

So I'm reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and something happened that I don't think has ever happened to me while reading before...

I was so horrified and upset after reading a particular chapter that I had to put the book down and stop reading. It's a good book but wow...it's horrifying! I'll pick it back up again maybe later today or tomorrow at the latest, but I needed a break to process. That's never happened to me before!

Lara wrote: "So I'm reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and something happened that I don't think has ever happened to me while reading before....."

It's a powerful book .... I think I read it in about 1973 and I still remember it.

Book Concierge wrote: "Lara wrote: "So I'm reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and something happened that I don't think has ever happened to me while reading before....."

It's a powerful book .... ..."

Yes it is. I'd heard so many great things about it that I finally decided now was the time.