Un post avec des livres dedans / Read this year

[benebu]

♦ Lu et commenté en français
♦ Read and commented in English
✓ Un livre qui compte pour mon bingo
••• A book voted for in the poll

January

♦ 1. Quartet, Jean Rhys. Marias don't get to have a happy ending, do they? This book follows Marya, English by birth, Polish by marriage, as she drifts through the Parisian English circles. Left on her

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[ylg]

J'ai Le dernier homme qui m'attend chez mes parents, je vais peut-être le faire monter de quelques places dans la pile à lire du coup ?

Pour Quartet, est-ce que "she becomes something of a toy for a couple" ça veut dire threesome ?

[benebu]

Le dernier homme est tout à fait satisfaisant - si on aime les dystopies, s'entend. Bien écrit, une intrigue intrigante, et juste assez connecté aux progrès actuels pour qu'on se dise 'merde, ils feraient pas ça quand même?'

Et dans Quartet, l'héroïne devient la maîtresse du Monsieur, fortement encouragée par la Dame, qui ensuite joue les épouses blessées auprès de toutes ses amies. Top pervers, comme relation. Et je peux te prêter le livre si tu es curieuse, pas sûre qu'il soit évident à trouver. (En plus, j'en ai déjà un à te passer :)

[lilian_cho]

Yay! You've read more Georgette Heyer! =DDD Isn't she just _fun_? What's the next Heyer on your list?

I read George Eliot 14 years ago? And never finished it. The one where the main character found out his mother was Jewish? *Wikipedia* Daniel Deronda.

I should really read the classics again. But I haven't even read Dear Enemy yet!

Oh, and thank you for posting another writing_game board =)

[benebu]

You were right, Georgette Heyer is fun! I don't know which I'll read next because they're a bit difficult to come by, but I'm attending a big booksale in the upcoming week-end - I so hope I'll find a volume or three!

I didn't like all of the George Eliot books I read. Silas Marner was very bleh, as far as I remember, but I did enjoy Middlemarch (my mind havind decided that Will Ladislaw looked like Orlando Bloom might have helped). I have yet to read Daniel Deronda. Looking forward to it, too, but classics will have to take a back seat because I've signed up for a reading bingo (those extra infos and green checks? that's it), and I have little over three months to read 18 books. Easy. OMG I need to focus on that or I won't make it!

No excuses! Public domain stuff is available online for free everywhere. And classics are great! Aw, Dear Enemy, now you should really read that one, it's lovely

[lilian_cho]

If I get around to George Eliot again, I'll read Middlemarch =)

18 books? I have faith in you!

I've just read half of Dear Enemy, skimmed the rest, backtracked to the middle point and now reading the second half slowly. =)
I'm shocked by the eugenics casually thrown in there, but otherwise enjoyed it.

Am thankful that I read loads of classic works when I was a preteen/teenager/college student. After college (and after discovering fandom), I found I no longer have the patience/persistence to trudge along books if they're not instantly gripping.
I tried reading the first book of The Dark is Rising series. I CANNOT get into it because of the writing style. But I read Tolkien and Lewis just fine???
I definitely have no desire to read all the Charles Dickens that I haven't read (I've read Great Expectations, and read/watched the gazillion adaptations of The Christmas Carol).

Yes, please do poke me =)
My first prompt is "knot"; it's meant to be! X-D

I've decided to post three prompts at once, once a month at hpgen100. I don't think I can

[benebu]

Yay for Middlemarch!

The next book I'm reading for the bingo is really, really slim. I was a bit shocked to find how slim when in found it on the library shelf. But hey, it still counts!

You see, I didn't remember the eugenics in Dear ennemy, but it's true that older books have a way to casually mention things we can't imagine condoning today.

I did read some classics when I was in high school, but I still have so many to read. I mentioned that I was interested the other day, and the neighbour I was talking to immediately beamed 'oh, classics, you've read Graham Greene then?' Oops. Not quite there yet.

(Bleak House is great! But last time I picked up Great Expectations I didn't go very far into it. Maybe next time. Also, have a link to the page where I copy/paste my thoughts about the classics I've read, because otherwise I'll feel bound to tell you about them one comment after the other

[taraxacumoff]

Je crois que je tenterais ma chance sur Maj Sjöwall et Charles Todd (pour commencer...)
J'admire ton courage à empoigner Le secret de la joie, je ne pense pas que j'aurai osé.

Sinon Georgette Heyer; si tu devais en recommander un seul, lequel choisirais-tu ?

[benebu]

Des polars, toujours des polars^^

Je ne serais pas allée vers Le secret de la joie non plus, mais voilà que j'ai eu la bonne idée de vouloir participer à books1001, et les chances sur mille, quand on n'en a vraiment pas... Dans l'esprit de la communauté j'ai vraiment voulu essayer, mais c'était dur à lire quand même. Plus adapté peut-être à du reportage/témoignage, du factuel, qu'à une narratrice folle et embrouilleuse.

C'est encore difficile pour moi de recommander un Georgette Heyer, parce qu'elle en a écrit beaucoup et que j'en ai lu peu. Ca dépend un peu de l'histoire que tu recherches, sachant que n'importe laquelle te mettra du baume au coeur - après maintes péripéties, les amoureux sont réunis!

> False Colors/Pour l'amour de Cressy: un frère se fait passer pour son jumeau et tombe amoureux de sa fiancée. Bonus pour une mère complètement évaporée et une grand-mère redoutable. A moins que ce ne soit une tante?
> Black Sheep: l'héroïne est à la limite de devenir vieille fille - un peu en dessous de la trentaine, quoi - et veille sur sa