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I'm Hanan, 28 yo, from Tel Aviv, Israel.
a total bookworm though it is my first exprience participating in a reading forum. really happy to be here and get to know all of you!
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Welcome Hanan! Glad to have you in the group! What are some of your favorite books?

thanks, greg! I love so many books! I'm a huge Virginia Woolf fan so ''To The Lighthouse'' is definitely at the top of the list. I love Margaret Atwood's ''Cat's Eye'' and James Baldwin's ''Go Tell It On The Mountain'' and ''Giovanni's Room'', and Toni Morrison's ''Beloved'' and ''Song of Solomon'' and there are so many I can't choose :)

Welcome Hanan! I love Baldwin and recently got Go Tel It On a Mountain to read again. Our current group read The Stranger's Child might interest you.

thanks, I'll try it :)

Hanan wrote: "thanks, greg! I love so many books! I'm a huge Virginia Woolf fan so ''To The Lighthouse'' is definitely at the top of the list. I love Margaret Atwood's ''Cat's Eye'' and James Baldwin's ''Go Tell..."

I like every single one of the books you mention Hanan! Cat's Eye was devastatingly sad, but I can relate to it. And Baldwin is definitely a favorite of mine - such a perceptive man and a beautiful writer too. Woolf is also a favorite.

I'm glad we have a similar tastes :)
what are some of your favorite books that weren't mentioned?
I always happy to get new recommendations

A few of my other favorites you might like based on the ones you list:

the WWI novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. I think it's one of the best novels on war ever written.

the 1930's classic Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. This one has a possible stumbling block though - it has a lot of dialect from the period that can be a nuisance to decode. I don't know if you like audiobooks, but if you do, this one can be a good one to listen on audio. If you can get past the nuisance of the dialect, the writing underneath is absolutely gorgeous and I'd say downright astonishing in style for 1937. Hurston was a fascinating character in herself, a folklorist and anthropologist and a brave woman.

I'd also definitely recommend two novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, the eerie, oddly intimate sci-fi book Never Let Me Go and the classic tale of the English Butler The Remains of the Day. They couldn't be more different from each other. Both are fairly short, but they both also had a huge impact on me. His writing is quiet and not showy, but it's powerful.

None of these are gay or lesbian themed though. :)

thanks for the recommendations, Greg!
I will definitely check them out.
''Their Eyes Were Watching God'' is on my to-read list for a while and I've been looking forward to reading it.

Hanan wrote: "thanks for the recommendations, Greg!
I will definitely check them out.
''Their Eyes Were Watching God'' is on my to-read list for a while and I've been looking forward to reading it."

My pleasure Hanan! If you have any other recommendations for me too, I'd be happy to get them.

Be sure to post on the 'What Are You Reading?' monthly threads when you read books that you end up liking a lot - based on your taste, I'll have a good chance to like them too!