All About Books discussion

What do you have planned for September, please share with us. You never know, you might inspire somebody to pick up a book or two.

For September, I'm planning:
Cloud Atlas (ongoing)
The Blythes Are Quoted
A Storm of Swords
The Satanic Verses
Inferno
The Golden Compass

I'm reading or planning to read:

Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Great Expectations
The Communist Manifesto
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
O Pioneers!

I've already started but probably won't finish until September:
Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic (a GR giveaways win)
Middlesex
Dandelion Wine

Starting:
The Dragon in the Sea - the first novel by Frank Herbert
The Goldfinch - I want to read it before the movie comes out!

Started Ulysses by James Joyce in August but will take most if not all September to finish.

just started "The Other Boleyn Girl " by Philippa Gregory
for book clubs
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Fear:Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Connie wrote: "Started Ulysses by James Joyce in August but will take most if not all September to finish.

just started "The Other Boleyn Girl " by Philippa Gregory
for book clubs
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Li..."
Hello Connie

I am looking for a buddy to read Ulysses, are you reading other books with explanations about the original work?

Nidhi, I think a group of members here did a buddy-read of Ulysses a couple of years ago.

You could look in the discussion archives to see who participated.

I have some books I can't wait to read next month, including

Ice by Anna Kavan
Lanny by Max Porter
Swimming home by Deborah Levy
Killing Comendatore by Murakami Song dogs by Colum Mccann re read
Everything under by Daisy Johnson

I have others on stand by if I get through these including
Vox by Christina Dalcher.

Nidhi wrote: "Connie wrote: "Started Ulysses by James Joyce in August but will take most if not all September to finish.

just started "The Other Boleyn Girl " by Philippa Gregory
for book clubs
Bad Blood by Jo..."
Hi Nidhi
B the book Addict is right. If you check in book read alongs there is one the that Petra did actually 3. will send you a message

I hope to finish the following books by the end of September:

The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith - currently reading
The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah--A Memoir by Joel Chasnoff - currently reading
The Château: A Novel by Paul Goldberg
600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster
The Reluctant Healer by Andrew Himmel
Raising Jake by Charlie Carillo

Tracey, I read Swimming Home just on six years ago and absolutely loved it.

Cleo - I just finished Chernobyl- it was very interesting and well written. It doesn’t seem right to say I enjoyed it but I do recommend it.

Pam - I thought Middlesex was a masterpiece of multilevel writing. The “middle” applies to many themes in that rich tale. I hope you enjoy it.
I was disappointed with the author’s “Marriage Plot” - I think the themes were too sophisticated for my humble brain.

B the Book addict I'm really looking forward to it. It's my first by Deborah Levy.

Joan wrote: "Cleo - I just finished Chernobyl- it was very interesting and well written. It doesn’t seem right to say I enjoyed it but I do recommend it.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Joan! I'm not very far into it, but it's certainly interesting so far. I like how he sets a background for it so, as a reader, you can perhaps have a better grasp of the cause and the following ineptitude of the containment of it.

Pam, I adored Middlesex and The Goldfinch.

Tracey wrote: "I have some books I can't wait to read next month, including

Ice by Anna Kavan
Lanny by Max Porter
Swimming home by Deborah Levy
Killing Comendatore by Murakami Song dogs by Colum Mccann re rea..."

I'm looking forward to your review of Killing Comendatore.

These my September read:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Siobhan Dowd Bog Child
Frances Hodgson Burnett His Grace of Osmonde: Being the Portions of the Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion
Gigi Paoli Il rumore della pioggia
Tom Rob_Smith Child 44
Christina Dalcher Vox da Franz B
Hubert Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream
Kristin Hannah Magic Hour
Elizabeth Jane Howard Cambio di rotta da Vabe

Sofocle Antigone
George Eliot Brother Jacob
Emile Zolà La fortuna dei Rougon