February 2021: What are you reading?

In the Northern hemisphere, perhaps the coldest, snowiest month of the year and here in NYC it's beginning with the first real snowstorm of winter. What 1001 books are you reading to escape the cold or the heat where you are?

I'm slowly reading The Three Kingdoms and Infinite Jest and will intersperse other, shorter books in-between.

I, too, am slowly reading The Three Kingdoms and I have just started The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas which is the group read for February.

Starting to read The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas too whilst it's frosty here.

Just finished Madame Bovary. Working on Humboldt's Gift and The Tin Drum. And a few others because I am, as always, a bit scattered.

Reading Annie John. Quite breezy compared to my previous 1001 book (Foucault's Pendulum).

Just finished Ivanhoe - still undecided about what’s next.

I'm reading The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz. Very engaging so far.

>8 Trifolia: I read that a couple of years ago and enjoyed it a lot. Very low-key but powerful coming to terms with the generation of parents who kept the Nazi state going.

About to finish Journey to the Center of the Earth after which I hope to go on to Promise at Dawn.

I am currently reading The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow.

I finished the monthly group read The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, and I think I'll try to finish Love Medicine for the February group challenge. I started reading it last summer when it was a group read, but never finished!

I'm about to start The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas. After Walter Scott I felt it was time for a shorter read.

Just started Fantomas - seems to be a real page turner so won't take long.

Starting to read I'm Not Scared.

>13 arukiyomi: wow & lol...that was my worst read of 2020, in fact it was a DNF for me. Different strokes and all!

Hmmm... well Tess, if you think Fantomas is worthy of a DNF, you may be in for some rough reads on the 1001 list!

Here's my Hall of Shame so you can be forewarned!

http://arukiyomi.com/?page_id=8237

Just checked out you Hall of Shame - and your Hall of Fame.

See, this is why I love books! Everyone takes away something different - everyone likes different things. Some agreement from me, but some definite disagreement too ;)

I finished Infinite Jest and almost want to re-read it in chronological order, since the end was somewhere nearer the beginning....

Finished The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Looking at the reviews of some group members, opinions were divergent on this one. I liked it, in my opinion worth reading.

>16 arukiyomi: And so we see how divergent tastes are, because there are at least four books on your Hall of Shame shelf that I really liked: Underworld, Vathek, Cecilia and Cranford. Now that I list them, it concerns me that perhaps I just loved them for their one-word titles?

yep... that'll be it. ha!

Finished Fantomas and have picked up The Underdogs ... and started Gravity's Rainbow with the same sense of foreboding that I get from stepping out the door to the dentist.