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The classics i want to read over time ,not necessarily ,this year though..(.more of reducing tbr as i add to it)

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siriusedward wrote: "The classics i want to read over time ,not necessarily ,this year though..(.more of reducing tbr as i add to it)"

You have some really excellent books on your list siriusedward! Best of luck! :)

Thank you ,loretta .... :)

siriusedward wrote: "Thank you ,loretta .... :)"

:)

Nice list, Elena! :) Actually, there's a few on there I'm keen to get to myself. Have fun with this!

Also fun to reduce the TBR lists. And with good books.

Thank you..

Looks like a great list, I like your 'Hard and Harder' category!

currently reading

St. Peter's Fair
The Nightingale
The Plague
The Black Tulip
Middlemarch(paused till i get my hands on a paperback)
Little Women(paused ,as i found it slow going..dnf)
Eagle in the Snow(paused to read after the currently reading ones...slow going...much.. :( )

Albert Camus



When the war of independence broke out, his position was invidious. He did not want to see his 1.2 million compatriots expelled from their Algerian home. He did not want to see civilians attacked. Nor did he want to see the French state murder and torture those fighting for independence. As his daughter Catherine Camus wrote in her moving foreword to the English edition of The First Man, he did not believe that "the ends justify the means", and that left him isolated from both the left and the right in France

. I think there's a danger of underestimating Camus, and of oversimplifying his attitude to the "Arab" in The Outsider. There is no easy answer about how we should feel about the colonialism in the novel. But if we do agree that there are things we cannot accept, does that mean we should condemn the novel, or does it just add to its interest as a historical artefact?

LECTURES -

North America

1.United states - The Collected Works of Willa Cather-Nebraska
/The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth - California
Of Mice and Men-California
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - NY state

15.Canada. The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set by L.M. Montgomery


South America
12.Argentina Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

Africa

2.Algeria - The Stranger& The Plague by Albert Camus

Asia
3.China - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
4.India - Siddhartha

Europe

5.Russia - The Death of Ivan Ilych
4.France -The Mysteries of Udolpho
5.Scotland -Collected Poems of Robert Burns
6.Italy -The Name of the Rose
7.England - Watership Down
8.Sweden - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf
9.Switzerland - Heidi by Johanna Spyri
10.Germany -Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem
11.Norway - A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
13.Ireland. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
14.Poland. Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

Australia

so ,
August Reading :) (iA)

plans, which may change , according to mood ( being a mood reader) / circumstances, you never know...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ( Pre-1600s , BINGO)(beautiful verses)
The Nightingale (looks good, though intense)
Canon of Medicine Volume 1 (non-fiction, BINGO)(SLOW READ over months , of course)
The Odyssey
Middlemarch finally
Titus Groan
L'Enfant de la haute mer
And Then There Were None
The Metamorphosis

This all looks really great! For your publications from other countries are you looking for authors that were born there or books that take place there?

Sarah Anne wrote: "This all looks really great! For your publications from other countries are you looking for authors that were born there or books that take place there?"

thanks Sarah Anne.
i was thinking of adding books that takes place there....
that is, i am thinking of adding them, as i come across books that fit into the map ...

I've been working on kind of the same thing but I haven't done that cool map. Good luck :)

Sarah Anne wrote: "I've been working on kind of the same thing but I haven't done that cool map. Good luck :)"


Thanks :)
But i got the link from this group....i think around the world challenge ir some such thing...
This group has broadened my reading souch

So much..and i love the discussions here..even if i am not reading the book being discussed...

What an interesting list for August! And I love the idea to use the map for books that take place in certain countries rather than where the author is from. That's really more like the traveling feeling that reading brings, and looks like you've done some traveling!

Yup through books and google maps...
:)

ancient classics



sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Classics i want to read in relation to The Odyssey

Aenid by Virgil
The Iliad by Homer
Ulysses by James Joyce
Penelopiada by Margaret Atwood, not sure though..

siriusedward wrote: "Classics i want to read in relation to The Odyssey

Aenid by Virgil
The Iliad by Homer
Ulysses by James Joyce
[book:..."

Same here, except I've read Ulysses already. The others are all on my tbr. I might try The Penelopiad after I finish The Odyssey.

I am not sure which i want to read next.once i finish this whichever strikes my mood i guess.

Pink wrote: "siriusedward wrote: "Classics i want to read in relation to The Odyssey

Aenid by Virgil
The Iliad by Homer
Ulysses by [author:Jam..."

Did you like Ulysses?

Yes I did, it was hard to get through in places and there were so many parts I didn't understand, but the language and sheer genius of it was quite amazing. It did take a few chapters to really get into and it helped that I read and discussed with a few other people. I think it would be interesting to read after The Odyssey and see the connections, as I'm noticing them the other way around.

Then , i think i will read it next.
I have wanted to read it since To the Lighthouse and The Golden Gate

I had mixed feelings about To the Lighthouse, but haven't read or heard of The Golden Gate.

If you decide to delay Ulysses for a while, or want to discuss it later, its going through to polls for our next quarterly classic read (October-Dec) though of course there's no guarantee that it will win.

I will wait for it then.... its good to read with this group...it has increased my classics, that i read.. and added(ing) more books to my TBR... i have to go through it and eliminate those that i dont want to read or those that i dont remember adding..soon.. someday soon

I think about doing the same, some books I can't remember why I added them to my tbr, but then I think there must have been a reason, so I end up keeping everything...not that I have time to read them all.

Polls will open in a couple of days and we'll know the outcome for Ulysses by the end of August.

Pink wrote: "...If you decide to delay Ulysses for a while, or want to discuss it later, its going through to polls for..."

I'm hoping it will win, because I think it will be the perfect read after The Odyssey

I hope so too Kathy, as it's a great one to discuss with a group and I think the time frame works very well for it too. Fingers crossed!

Yup fingers crossed, hope it wins... Odyssey is a great read so far...

War related books on my TBR

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II currently reading.
A Town Like Alice
The Nightingale
All the Light We Cannot See
Rilla of Ingleside
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Things They Carried
One of Ours

september / october plans

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II liked it
Foucault's Pendulum
The Nightingale loved it .beautiful writing
Middlemarch .finally
The Red Pony.want to .
Canon of Medicine Volume 1.slowly
maybe..The Merchant of Venice instead read King Lear for my Bingo
A Russian Journal for my Bingo

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Silmarillion

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a great idea Bat-Cat.. thanks for this...

good blog about the Foucault's Pendulum

siriusedward wrote: "september / october plans

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Foucault's Pendulum
The Nightingale
[book:Middlemarch|190..."

You have a lot of good ones on your list.
I enjoyed When Books Went to War, some interesting things in it I hadn't realized!

I enjoyed ""Middlemarch" when I read it--good book.

"The Red Pony" was a past BOTM selection with this group. Everyone seemed to understand it. I did not. Sara had to explain it to me. It seemed a simple, easy to read book, but I couldn't figure out the point JS was trying to make. Everyone else understood it.

Terris wrote: "siriusedward wrote: "september / october plans

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Foucault's Pendulum
The Nightingale
..."

i am enjoying the book too Terris .i just get distracted by other books on my shelf ...

Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "I enjoyed ""Middlemarch" when I read it--good book.

"The Red Pony" was a past BOTM selection with this group. Everyone seemed to understand it. I did not. Sara had to explain it to me. It seemed a..."

Andrea, Middlemarch is a beautiful book.loved it a lot.

and Red pony.I want to read it and The Pearl by him before I give The Grapes of Wrath a try.
I loved his Of Mice and Men

Wow, that's some list! When I look around the personal challenges in this group I keep thinking of the Cheshire Cat: "We're all mad here". :´D At least you're not trying to do them all in a year!

Nope.
They are just a reminder, Leni.i don't like too much pressure while reading.
And I loved The Bingo.

:) We are book mad

got this beautiful poem by while browsing goodreads groups

on GAZA by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

"They call us now.
Before they drop the bombs.
The phone rings
and someone who knows my first name
calls and says in perfect Arabic
“This is David.�
And in my stupor of sonic booms and glass shattering symphonies
still smashing around in my head
I think “Do I know any Davids in Gaza?�
They call us now to say
Run.
You have 58 seconds from the end of this message.
Your house is next.
They think of it as some kind of
war time courtesy.
It doesn’t matter that
there is nowhere to run to.
It means nothing that the borders are closed
and your papers are worthless
and mark you only for a life sentence
in this prison by the sea
and the alleyways are narrow
and there are more human lives
packed one against the other
more than any other place on earth
Just run.
We aren’t trying to kill you.
It doesn’t matter that
you can’t call us back to tell us
the people we claim to want aren’t in your house
that there’s no one here
except you and your children
who were cheering for Argentina
sharing the last loaf of bread for this week
counting candles left in case the power goes out.
It doesn’t matter that you have children.
You live in the wrong place
and now is your chance to run
to nowhere.
It doesn’t matter
that 58 seconds isn’t long enough
to find your wedding album
or your son’s favorite blanket
or your daughter’s almost completed college application
or your shoes
or to gather everyone in the house.
It doesn’t matter what you had planned.
It doesn’t matter who you are
Prove you’re human.
Prove you stand on two legs.
¸é³Ü²Ô.â€�

Beautiful and terrible.

i know...

Riveting. You have to hope beautiful poetry like this brings more understanding. Thanks for sharing this.