Books you've read in 2020

[RaspberrySwirl]

It does sound like a nightmare.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

What's our June book then? Any suggestions? @RaspberrySwirl @Beverley @Mats @jivafox ?

Anyone else?


Otherwise I'll just pick something myself.

 

[Beverley]

I haven't even started on May! What about some Lesbi-fiction? Carol?

 

[jivafox]

Ooh yes! The Price Of Salt! Patricia Highsmith.

 

[Beverley]

Ooh yes! The Price Of Salt! Patricia Highsmith.

YAY!!!! I live for Ms Fox's approval

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I haven't even started on May! What about some Lesbi-fiction? Carol?

Ooh yes! The Price Of Salt! Patricia Highsmith.

Done & DONE.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

I was literally going to suggest Carol too, but the other one sounds good too.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I was literally going to suggest Carol too, but the other one sounds good too.

Carol is The Price of Salt though isn't it.

 

[jivafox]

Yes. One and the same!

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Can't wait to read and flick my imaginary bean to it

 

[Beverley]

I was literally going to suggest Carol too, but the other one sounds good too.

Carol was originally called The Price of Salt!

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Ooh well then that’s fantastic!

I’ve been wanting to read it for years and haven’t watched the movie.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Didn’t find Carol in store but bought these instead. Can’t wait to read them (God help me get through the 900+ pages of Anna Karenina, I hope it’s good).

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Good luck with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. You'll need it.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Look at that lovely family tree it has.

 

[Phoenix]

Didn’t find Carol in store but bought these instead. Can’t wait to read them

Did you look for The Price of Salt? That’s what Carol used to be named.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

The only Highsmith book they had in store (in English) was The Talented Mr Ripley. I really hate what online bookstores have done to proper stores.

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

I read The Kite Runner at last after reading the other two novels a while back and it is AMAZING.

Also, I haven't started Lolita yet but will strive to in June and comment in the thread.

 

[Tisch]

2 chapters in on Price of Salt/Carol so far and enjoying it. I like her writing style. Tells you exactly what's going on, not airy at all. Like a good solid Doc Martin.

The characters are instantly interesting and I'm not trying to remember who's who all the time.

 

[Beverley]

2 chapters in on Price of Salt/Carol so far and enjoying it. I like her writing style. Tells you exactly what's going on, not airy at all. Like a good solid Doc Martin.

The characters are instantly interesting and I'm not trying to remember who's who all the time.

Is there not a thread for this? @Suedey

 

[Tisch]

I was going to ask/start it but didn't want to tread on any toes. I know I'm a day early but I need the headstart!

 

[Mats]

I was going to ask/start it but didn't want to tread on any toes.

I know right! these book club queens are the worst!!

I have something else on the shelf (a local release) for June so Carol's crème cornucopia will have to be a future delight for me

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Can we not have a book forum please so we can easily find and organise our topics?

 

[Zu]

Yes, seconded. It’s not very nice when the more sophisticated topics such as these are plonked next to ones with loungers bleating on about their favourite CRISPS and wanting to be done up the bum by cartoons of potatoes with hats on. Who ARE these people?

 

[Beverley]

i quite like being amongst THE PLEBS

 

[jivafox]

This is a YA novel but it sounds so lovely (and the cover is so lovely) I’m just going to have to get it

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

https://imgur.com/a/AqiwfoI



Thank God for Amazon!

Reading Giovanni’s Room made me aware of another essential collection that I needed to get Penguin Great Loves, but turns out its an old collection and only Giovanni’s Room is available nowadays. But thanks to Amazon I found a ”used” package even though it looks like the books are brand new.

Not only is it a beautiful series, but they’re all fairly short novels so it’ll get me closer to my 50 books a year target.

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

Getting through Goodbye to Berlin (Isherwood). So good.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I've hit a wall with reading

 

[Mats]

me too I blame the heat

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

It’s been a bit of a struggle this past week. I blame the heat too.

 

[vespertine]

I've also felt like some queer YA stuff lately because it's summer and I want to keep it light. I've got these two lined up.

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

Goodbye to Berlin (Isherwood) - 5/5
The Story of the Night (Tóibín) - 5/5

Devastated that the latter is finished.

 

[win_the_game]

Good luck with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. You'll need it.

On the back of this, I decided to investigate further and purchased a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Very much looking forward to reading it now!

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

On the back of this, I decided to investigate further and purchased a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Very much looking forward to reading it now!

Let’s read it together

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

I’m reading The Plague now, some parts of it are like about what’s happening now.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I'm so over reading! I need to get back into it but I don't know how. Help!

 

[KindaCool]

Just finished "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee.

Gorgeous.

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

Thanks to Moopy I recently read What Belongs to You and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, I loved both. Reading On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous at the moment.

 

[vespertine]

All right, who's read Little Fires Everywhere? Looking at you, @Suedey - I finally found it for about $15 so I picked it up. Sorry but when they make a TV series and jack the price of the novel up to $30 or something my inner latchkey kid refuses to pay it.