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Bookpossum · 04-23-2021, 04:26 AM

Hello AuntiWiddershins. Wodehouse is great, but isn't Public Domain worldwide, so wouldn't be eligible. It looks as if we have suggestions to keep us going for several years already. I don't know the Buchclub, but assume it is within MR?

issybird · 04-23-2021, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by AuntiWiddershins

I enjoy reading anything by P. G. Wodehouse. He writes light comedy.

Also, I never tire of reading Robinson Crusoe, especially the first chapter where his father begs him not to go to sea and he just won't listen.

An easy/enjoyable russian author is Anton Chekhov, a travelling doctor, author of short stories.

Perhaps the salon could be reading recomendations.

I’m a huge Wodehouse fan! For several years now, I’ve been engaged in a personal challenge to read all of his works in order. I’ve now completed 65 and happy that he was so prolific, because it will be a sad day when I’m done. Although I suppose it will be a case of painting the Forth Bridge.

Chekhov’s short story The Bet seems especially apropos for readers.

Certainly the salon should include reading recommendations, anything bookish at all.

JSWolf · 04-23-2021, 10:29 AM

I suggest H. G. Wells.

AuntiWiddershins · 04-24-2021, 01:19 AM

I don't know the Buchclub, but assume it is within MR?[/QUOTE]
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=336055
Buchclub is german language book recommendations and reading self-challenge in MR.

drofgnal · 04-24-2021, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I suggest H. G. Wells.

I could go for that. The 1960 version of The Time Machine is one of my favorite films. I've wanted to read the book.

JSWolf · 04-24-2021, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by drofgnal

I could go for that. The 1960 version of The Time Machine is one of my favorite films. I've wanted to read the book.

I'm up for reading The Time Machine. I've not read it in a rather long time. It's a very good book.

sun surfer · 04-24-2021, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by issybird

Germinal by Emile Zola
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Something by Anthony Trollope, not from either of the six-book series

And how about A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe?

I'd love to read all these, too. I've only read one title each by three of those authors - The Unknown Masterpiece, The American Senator and Robinson Crusoe - and nothing yet by Zola.

Let us hope if we read A Journal of the Plague Year that, by whatever year we do, we can compare it to recently passed events rather than current ones!

drofgnal · 04-25-2021, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'm up for reading The Time Machine. I've not read it in a rather long time. It's a very good book.

I downloaded it today.

CharlieBird · 04-26-2021, 09:00 PM

Would Moby Dick be considered a classic? I've started it several times but for some reason or other never finished it.

Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Daniel Deronda, most anything by Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities for sure), P.G. Wodehouse, and The Time Machine could get me on board.

I've read Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary and disliked both...a lot.

Bookpossum · 04-26-2021, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by CharlieBird

Would Moby Dick be considered a classic? I've started it several times but for some reason or other never finished it.

Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Daniel Deronda, most anything by Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities for sure), P.G. Wodehouse, and The Time Machine could get me on board.

I've read Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary and disliked both...a lot.

Hello CharlieBird. Well, as this isn't a formal book club but more of an informal "buddy read", you may well want to join us when a book which interests you is next in line.

So, referring back to the first post, we are going to start with Daniel Deronda in mid May, and Don Quixote is slated towards the end of the year. We are going to see how we go with the first three books and if we decide to continue (which I hope we do) we shall be looking at the various suggestions for next year and maybe beyond that, though probably not trying to plan too far ahead.

So feel free to join us on 15 May when we start reading Daniel Deronda.

WT Sharpe · 04-26-2021, 11:11 PM

If anyone would rather read Daniel Deronda in hardcover, Amazon has a couple in stock starting at $228.79 with free shipping! Not a Prime item, though, and shipping takes 2 to 3 weeks.

astrangerhere · 04-27-2021, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Bookpossum

Hello CharlieBird. Well, as this isn't a formal book club but more of an informal "buddy read", you may well want to join us when a book which interests you is next in line.

So, referring back to the first post, we are going to start with Daniel Deronda in mid May, and Don Quixote is slated towards the end of the year. We are going to see how we go with the first three books and if we decide to continue (which I hope we do) we shall be looking at the various suggestions for next year and maybe beyond that, though probably not trying to plan too far ahead.

So feel free to join us on 15 May when we start reading Daniel Deronda.

I also see a lot of folks tossing around books they seem interested in reading now. The presence of the salon in no way prevents you from starting a thread in the Reading Recommendations to do a buddy read on any book you want to right now!

We are spending 2 months per title here, so it could well be years before we get around to that title you are ready to read. I just didn't want anyone to feel constrained by our pace or our selections.

issybird · 04-27-2021, 09:11 AM

Off the cuff, it seems to me that A Tale of Two Cities has had more mentions than any other single title, which has me a little bemused. It’s one, probably the only, Dickens that I’ve read that I’d have no interest in reading again. The whole business is sensational and everyone knows how it ends (the far, far better thing). Overall, an oddity for Dickens. But then, I loved Dickens’ other historical novel Barnaby Rudge and people don’t seem to think much of that one, so clearly my tastes are aberrant.

gmw · 04-27-2021, 11:24 AM

It's been a long while, but the main thing that sticks in my memory about A Tale of Two Cities was that it seemed to go on far too long, it's definitely not on my list to re-read. Another that fits that description was Hard Times. I don't think I've read Barnaby Rudge so at least it would be one I'd be interested in reading some time (not just now).

If people were considering some Dickens you could do worse than some of his non-fiction works, that way you might (perhaps) mange to strike on one that less people had already read. I enjoyed American Notes, which given the mixed audience here might generate some interesting conversation, but I also found The Uncommercial Traveller and A Child's History of England to be interesting.

CharlieBird · 04-27-2021, 07:22 PM

I misunderstood that the first three books were declared and not still in the proposal stage.

I started Daniel Deronda last night and will be on board for Don Quixote and anything by Dickens. Ashamed to say I've never read anything by him except A Tale of Two Cities in high school many years ago and why I'd be ready to read it again.

04-26-2021, 09:00 PM	#54
CharlieBird ¿Huh? Posts: 349 Karma: 1004526 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: rural Jalisco Device: HiSense A7 CC, Fire HD6, Kobo Libra2	Would Moby Dick be considered a classic? I've started it several times but for some reason or other never finished it. Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Daniel Deronda, most anything by Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities for sure), P.G. Wodehouse, and The Time Machine could get me on board. I've read Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary and disliked both...a lot. Last edited by CharlieBird; 04-26-2021 at 09:09 PM.

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04-23-2021, 04:26 AM	#46
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Hello AuntiWiddershins. Wodehouse is great, but isn't Public Domain worldwide, so wouldn't be eligible. It looks as if we have suggestions to keep us going for several years already. I don't know the Buchclub, but assume it is within MR?

04-23-2021, 10:29 AM	#48
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,782 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I suggest H. G. Wells.

04-24-2021, 01:19 AM	#49
AuntiWiddershins Member Posts: 18 Karma: 306870 Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: On an island in the Pacific Device: Kobo auraHD	I don't know the Buchclub, but assume it is within MR?[/QUOTE] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=336055 Buchclub is german language book recommendations and reading self-challenge in MR.

04-26-2021, 11:11 PM	#56
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	If anyone would rather read Daniel Deronda in hardcover, Amazon has a couple in stock starting at $228.79 with free shipping! Not a Prime item, though, and shipping takes 2 to 3 weeks.

04-27-2021, 09:11 AM	#58
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,517 Karma: 236076651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Off the cuff, it seems to me that *A Tale of Two Cities* has had more mentions than any other single title, which has me a little bemused. It’s one, probably the only, Dickens that I’ve read that I’d have no interest in reading again. The whole business is sensational and everyone knows how it ends (the far, far better thing). Overall, an oddity for Dickens. But then, I loved Dickens’ other historical novel *Barnaby Rudge* and people don’t seem to think much of that one, so clearly my tastes are aberrant.

04-27-2021, 11:24 AM	#59
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	It's been a long while, but the main thing that sticks in my memory about *A Tale of Two Cities* was that it seemed to go on far too long, it's definitely not on my list to re-read. Another that fits that description was *Hard Times. I don't think I've read Barnaby Rudge* so at least it would be one I'd be interested in reading some time (not just now). If people were considering some Dickens you could do worse than some of his non-fiction works, that way you might (perhaps) mange to strike on one that less people had already read. I enjoyed *American Notes, which given the mixed audience here might generate some interesting conversation, but I also found The Uncommercial Traveller* and *A Child's History of England* to be interesting.

04-27-2021, 07:22 PM	#60
CharlieBird ¿Huh? Posts: 349 Karma: 1004526 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: rural Jalisco Device: HiSense A7 CC, Fire HD6, Kobo Libra2	I misunderstood that the first three books were declared and not still in the proposal stage. I started Daniel Deronda last night and will be on board for Don Quixote and anything by Dickens. Ashamed to say I've never read anything by him except A Tale of Two Cities in high school many years ago and why I'd be ready to read it again.