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Great list! I read Camille when I was in high school. So sad...I sobbed over it. Probably still would! Actually would like to read it again!I still want a copy of Read This Next for my own. I got a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card from my mother-in-law. Wonder if I can get the book on there?
Great group, Charlie. Thanks for the invite!
Thanks for the invite, Charlie. I will certainly follow along and read when I can find a hole between the 4 challenges I have entered for 2011. I just wish I could read faster and RETAIN what I read better. I AM getting old....lol
THanks for the invite. I've been looking for the encouragement to read "Soulless" for a while. Should be a good start to the new year.
Hi Charlie! Thanks for inviting me! Looks like a great group! I'm reading The Liars' Club now and I think it's great. :)
If you're like me, you've probably signed up for a number of reading challenges. I created this group as a way to maximize the reading dollar and time! Several books can be utilized for 'cross-overs' in challenges. Besides, I'd like to actually discuss a book, not simply just check it off my list.
Discussion questions (taken from Read This Next) will be posted for books featured under main themes. Sub-genres: Well, we'll have to come up with our own.
OPTIONS A: Feel free to read any of the books at anytime -- post reviews, responses to discussion questions, links to blog discussions about books, talk amongst yourselves, or talk to yourself -- under topic folders.
OPTION B: If you'd like to participate and follow along (jump in and out), I will be posting the book (I'm reading and discussing) each month at my blog and also here on Goodreads. The featured book will appear at the top of the page under "currently-reading." This is to help me moderate and expand discussions with other book bloggers.
Here is the host BLOG link. CLICK Bitsy Bling Books: Read This Next!
For meme, review links, discussion...To visit, follow, link-up, stalk...
OPTION C: Waver and waffle between both options -- Let mood, time, and interest dictate. This is for the commitment phobs.
This is a SUGGESTION list. I will not be reading all of the books. That would be insane, right? Instead, I will be selecting a book or two from each theme. Do with it as you like -- it's here to be used, but not abused.
Love:
Camille, by Alexandre Dumas, fils
Endless Love, by Scott Spencer
The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald
sub genre: Historical Romance
Forever Amber, by Kathleen Winsor
Music & Silence, by Rose Tremain
Memoir:
The Liars' Club, by Mary Karr
Epileptic, by David B.
Family:
Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorthy Allison
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn
Falling Angels, by Barbara Gowdy
Politics:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Man Who Was Thrusday, by G.K. Chesterton
Humor:
Diary of A Provincial Lady, by E.M. Delafield
The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien (philosphical)
I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith (escapist lit.)
Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh
Death:
We have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson (haunted house story)
Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link (Sci-fantasy, slipstream)
Soulless, by Gail Carriger's (steampunk romance)
Homunculus, by James Blaylock (Sci/fantasy, slipstream)
sub-genre Mysteries:
Thus Was Adonis Murdered, by Sarah Caudwell (cozy, humor)
The Big Sleep, By Raymond Chandler (hard-boiled, contemp.)
Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy Sayers
To Each His Own, by Leonardo Sciascia
Brat Farrar, by Josephine Tey
sub-genre Thrillers;
The Collector, by John Fowles
Green River Rising, by Tim Willocks
The Night of the Hunter, by Davis Grubb
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherin Anne Porter
War:
Allah Is Not Obliged, by Ahmadou Kourouma
Religion:
The Bell, by Iris Murdoch
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Sotry of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer
Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor
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