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I just started Crime and Punishment. It's my first time reading Dostoevsky. I can already see why it's a classic.

I'm reading too.. and am hoping to really love it. :D And have LOADS of other books on hold= primarily , which I have to cover before I take it out in public. I know it's silly, cos what Iread is my own choice, but honestly- look at that cover! i can't take the stares of fellow passengers in the train as they wonder what in the world I'm reading. :D

Lol, Jey, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about things like that when I'm reading a book. Sometimes it's the title... either it sounds racy, even if the book is not, or it sounds like a really dumb book, even if it's not. I shouldn't care, but I don't want to be judged :)

Jey wrote: "I'm reading too.. and am hoping to really love it. :D And have LOADS of other books on hold= primarily , which I have to cov..."

I've had this issue before... I was reading [image error] a couple of years ago and my Russian teacher told me off... But it's such a good book!

Jessalyn wrote: "I just started Crime and Punishment. It's my first time reading Dostoevsky. I can already see why it's a classic."

If you enjoy Crime and Punishment, be sure to add The Brothers Karamazov to your list of books to read.

Hah - talking about covers, I don't usually get embarrassed about them but when I was reading the UK version of Tom Robbins' "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" with this cover I got second thoughts :)

Those two cover you mentioned though are incredibly tame. Are Russians particularly prudish?

I'm reading A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness . . . its really good! i was attracted to it by the spine and cover but i never expected to be unable to put it down! i already have the 2nd book of the All Souls Trilogy ordered so hopefully i'll enjoy the rest of the books as much as i'm enjoying this one!

Jessalyn wrote: "I just started Crime and Punishment. It's my first time reading Dostoevsky. I can already see why it's a classic."

Dostoevsky was brilliant!! i read portions of The Brothers Karamazov and they blew my mind! I hope you enjoy it! :)

Helen wrote: "Andrea wrote: "Helen wrote: "I'm currently reading The Book Thief
I'm reading it for school as it is part of my main English exam of highschool. I've heard a lot about this book so I'm looking forw..."

Oh just you wait!! but remember to love the middle along with the end, the fun and brilliance of that book is the journey :)

in the past two months I've had the pleasure of reading two very deserving classics..midnight's children by Salman Rushdie and the great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald! both were a true saga of a brilliantly written book. yesterday I started with 1984 by George Orwell and of the first few pages that I've read I can only admire the effortless charm of the writing. It's going to be one hard book to pit down once you've started reading it.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and can't wait to get started on Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle!

Alan wrote: "Jessalyn wrote: "I just started Crime and Punishment. It's my first time reading Dostoevsky. I can already see why it's a classic."

If you enjoy Crime and Punishment, be sure to add The Brothers K..."

Adding it to my to-read. :)

I just finished Cloud Atlas. It was unusual but amazing! I'm now mostly reading Les Misérables, A Christmas Carol, The Master and Margarita, and a few others. Someone just gave me Let the Right One In but I'm a bit dubious.

Wuthering Heights,after seeing the movie, time to read the book.

The next two up for me are Light In August and Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend - not necessarily in that order!

I'm reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flyn

Anna Karenina took me longer to complete than I expected, due to a particularly busy period of time at work when I didn't have any spare time to read, so I missed Woman In White and The Scarlett Letter. I'm excited to jump back in with the group on the December pick!

I'm going to try to get through The Worm Ouroboros.

Henry wrote: "Wuthering Heights,after seeing the movie, time to read the book."

Now, I need to see the movie! The book was great!

I'm reading

Having read David Copperfield already I started in Dickens Hard Times

Andrea wrote: "I just finished Cloud Atlas. It was unusual but amazing! I'm now mostly reading Les Misérables, A Christmas Carol, The Master and Margarita, and a few others. Someone just gave me Let the Right One..."

Let The right One In is supposed to be a great book. The movie (the swedish one, not the US remake) is a cracking film,

Good luck, Lobstergirl. I got a whole lot of nowhere on that one! Although that was back when my kids were tiny; maybe I should give it a second go now I theoretically can focus better.

Sheryl wrote: "Good luck, Lobstergirl. I got a whole lot of nowhere on that one! Although that was back when my kids were tiny; maybe I should give it a second go now I theoretically can focus better."

I don't know if there's even any point in my reading it as fantasy is not at all my genre. I don't read it. Ever. Yet somehow I own this book. I don't know. The language is beautiful, but I just don't see much point in the storyline.

Just finished reading The Road. I give it 3/5 stars. Worth reading and completely different but I like a book to answer the questions it raises in regards to the setting and story.

Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry. At least I'm trying to read it! My churches have been crazy busy all month. Today I preach three times and have three meetings! So much for pastors working only an hour a week on Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to the Thanksgiving holiday so I can take a day off and get some reading done!

I'm in the middle of Human Traces. not a light read, it's quite densely written, but has had some really sparking passages in it.

Cloud Atlas is likely next on my list. I've seen some rather mixed reviews, so it'll be interesting to get into it and see how it works for me.

Im currently reading Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey.

I've picked up The Lay of the Cid again after a near 3-month hiatus. I've also just finished Anna Karenina, it took me a long time partially because I got so busy and I didn't want to just read a paragraph here and there, I wanted to really be able to concentrate when I was reading it; and partially because I didn't really like it that much. It just couldn't hold my attention and I realised recently that I read 8 other books in between starting and finishing Anna Karenina... ;o) I'm also reading Travels With Tinkerbelle - 6000 Miles Around France In A Mechanical Wreck, not exactly a classic but a very enjoyable read nonetheless! Trying my best not to start reading lots of other books now but rather finish a few so I can join December's group read! :o)

last thing I read was "please look after mom"..I can't read anything yet after this book cause I still am under it's emotional spell...beautiful book..

trully impressed by the books on everyone's list. I am currently reading "Snowflower and the Secret Fan" and enjoying it...

I am almost finished with the count of monte cristo. I don't know why but it has taken over a month to finish this book. I have set it down several times, read a few books, then picked it back up. It really is an interesting book but I can't get excited about reading it. It makes no sense!

I am currently trudging through Anna Karenina. I am enjoying it, but it is taking me a while to get into it. I am determined to finish it, because I know I will love it.

Chauncey wrote: "I am currently trudging through Anna Karenina. I am enjoying it, but it is taking me a while to get into it. I am determined to finish it, because I know I will love it."

You won't regret it :)

Just started . And also reading

Chahrazad wrote: "Chauncey wrote: "I am currently trudging through Anna Karenina. I am enjoying it, but it is taking me a while to get into it. I am determined to finish it, because I know I will love it."

You won'..."

Thank you for the encouragement! Time to go back to the book!!!

I'm reading "The Middlesteins" and look forward to finishing it and reading something wonderful. "The Book Thief" was fantastic, Helen. I'm so derelict in my reading of the classics so that's why I just joined this group.

I'm in the middle of the first (of three) books of Gulag Archipelago, this collection of real stories about the terror Solzhenitsyn and others lived through the Stalinism its heart-wrenching.

Gabriel, I recently finished The First Circle, which was also intense. I'm pausing before the Gulag Archipelago!

Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy.

I finished (again!) Pride and Prejudice and then followed with Death Comes to Pemberley. The story is supposed to be a continuation of "Pride and Prejudice" six years later but with a twist -- murder. I have never read P. D. James, but have heard good things about her writing style. However, in this book, she had the main characters acting in ways that Jane Austen would never allow. Elizabeth always seemed undecided about what to do. She kept allowing the housekeeper to make all the decisions! Mr. Darcy kept looking ahead to how the English jury system would change. The worst part was the end where P. D. James introduces characters from Emma by Jane Austen to help resolve the crime. Out of fairness to P. D. James, I am going to assume she meant to do this and that it wasn't a mistake. It may be awhile before I read another P. D. James book again.

PD James is one of my favorite authors and this was absolutely a departure for her. So, hopefully you will try another one!

Yes....I am reading through all of James's mysteries but I definitely won't read the Pemberley book. I've heard the most horrible things about it.

I really disliked Death Came to Pemberly. The plot failed at developing, the action was minimal, and I felt like she lost touch with Pemberly and all that is Pride and Prejudice

Selected Poems by James Tate, a few pages a day.

On the Road: The Original Scroll on audio to and from work.

The Qur'an

In Search of Lost Time, about 1% a day.

Any suggestions on which P. D. James book I should read? I have heard such good reviews about her that I would like to try another one of her books. Unfortunately, Death Comes to Pemberly was such a mess.

If you're going to delve into her mysteries, which is what she's known for, I'd start at the beginning, so you can follow the arc of Adam Dalgliesh, her detective. It won't totally ruin it if you start in the middle or at the end, but I always think it's nice to have the story arc of the detective make sense. The first Dalgliesh is Cover Her Face. The problem with the early Dalgliesh novels is that they can seem extremely dated, like women can only be nurses, or are spinsters by age 26, or whatnot.

Or if you feel like her female detective, Cordelia Gray, who has two books, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman being the first.

Then there's a standalone, Innocent Blood. Or her dystopia, The Children of Men.

Kathy F wrote: "I finished (again!) Pride and Prejudice and then followed with Death Comes to Pemberley. The story is supposed to be a continuation of "Pride and Prejudice" six years later but with a twist -- mur..."

I was very disappointed by Death Comes To Pemberley as well - in addition to the points you raised, the language was far too modern in bits and the plot was so thin I saw through the main parts of it very early on. I may very well read another book by P.D. James, but I don't think I'll read any follow-ups to the classics any time soon... ;o)

You can heal your life....

I am reading Age of Innocence and I really do love it. I also gave it a try to Death comes to Pemberley just because I am a big fan of Jane Austen's works, I think there are couple of successfull ones of these type of books but this one was just wrong. I got so angry that I wasn't able to finish it. It just completely washed out the characters.