Reading 1001 discussion

1. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers
2. All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
4. Amerika by Franz Kafka
✔️5. (WL) Fool's Gold by Maro Douka
✔️6. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
7. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
8. Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
✔️9. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
10. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Anonymous)
11. (WL) Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville

notes:

Murder must Advertise - read 2014 - do short review
On the Road - read 2012 - do short review
Ethan Frome - read 2014 - do short review

All Souls Day - try ILLO
Amerika - l
READ > Fool's Gold - internet archive
READ > The Swimming Pool Library - open library!
Cocaine Nights - audio on open library
READ > July's People - libby
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - kindle
Billy Budd - l

I would like to swap On the Road

I posted a short review of my hatred here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I would also like to swap: Murder Must Advertise

short review posted: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Books replaced.

Thanks Patrick. I would like Ethan Frome swapped please.

Short review here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Given that I've only read <300 books off the list, it's funny the randomiser picked 3 I've read! I would think the odds are low of that happening.

Book swapped. I must be jinxing the randomiser, because I never get what I want from it. Who knows...

You probably thought I'd forgotten about this list! However, I now have read one from the list!

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

review here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

New book added. I don't think you are late or might have forgotten; I think in general that people are busier with other challenges in the first half of the year, then start the randomised books once it gets a bit more manageable. Even I have just finished my first randomised book!

It may seem crazy, but I've actually read another book from my list:

July's People by Nadine Gordimer

review here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

New book added. Just like I said in my previous comment, there will be a few freer months like that. Then in December, everybody attempts to finish the annual read in a panic ;=)

Patrick wrote: "New book added. Just like I said in my previous comment, there will be a few freer months like that. Then in December, everybody attempts to finish the annual read in a panic ;=)"

Ha, ha.... That might be me, as Genji is 'resting' now.

You're probably going to be worried about your randomizer clicker finger, so I thought I'd mention this is probably it for a while. ;)

read: Fool's Gold by Maro Douka

review here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

New book added. It's still clicking!