Read a book from every year of your life challenge
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Feb 2021
7:56pm, 18 Feb 2021
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Night-owl
That's OK I will watch with interest.
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Feb 2021
6:42pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Serendippily
If I’d known I’d inadvertently picked one of these I would’ve chosen another. Read five, a tiny bit through a sixth bbc.co.uk
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Feb 2021
6:43pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Serendippily
Oh and read three books in a seventh
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Feb 2021
6:44pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Diogenes
I’ve started 4 of those, only read one all the way through (Bleak House) A Little Life was unpleasantly dire. |
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Feb 2021
6:50pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Serendippily
A suitable boy I really enjoyed in a Don Juan way - a lot of verse but really a readable novel. Don Quixote I thought was great, and War and Peace. Moby Dick left me completely cold I speed read it for no good purpose. I enjoyed Proust a bit but after three books I was becoming increasingly languid and could barely ring the bell for tea. Middlemarch I don’t even remember as particularly long. God help me with infinite jest I won’t be reading the footnotes. I am very grateful for book group for the monthly break
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Feb 2021
6:51pm, 21 Feb 2021
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LazyDaisy
I loved Bleak House, have never attempted (or, really, been tempted by) any of the others except A Little Life which I started twice and gave up on twice. Maybe one of these days I'll read Middlemarch. |
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Feb 2021
6:53pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Serendippily
I think I may have given up on bleak house 
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Feb 2021
6:56pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Night-owl
I started War and peace this year but kind of stalled
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Feb 2021
7:03pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Mouseytongue
Currently reading Graham Greene's 'The Human Factor' in which the protagonist (a version of Greene himself?) has difficulty engaging with 'War And Peace'. Any recs for 1980? I'm stuck. |
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Feb 2021
7:13pm, 21 Feb 2021
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Diogenes
I recommend Ridley Walker by Russel Hoban en.m.wikipedia.org Or for something lighter, How Far Can You Go, by David Lodge. |
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