Pick the Next Slaves Book
May 14, 2008 by Stefanie
Time to pick the next book for the Slaves of Golconda. All are welcome to join in the reading and the discussion.
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Quote of the Moment:
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
~Margaret Atwood, "Saint Joan of Arc on a Postcard" in The Door
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In Progress:
~The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
~Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
~The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
~The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
~The Histories by Herodotus
~The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3
~Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
~The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
~In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West -
Reading Challenges:
Jan 2008 - Dec 2008
~Goldberg: Variations by Gabriel Josipovici
~Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
~Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
~Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust
~Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
~House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Jan 2008 - dec 2008
~Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
~The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
~Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
~The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold by Gretel Ehrlich
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