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"Poor Julius! So many writers and so few readers! It's a fact. People read less and less nowadays....to judge by myself, as they say. It'll end by some catastrophe--some stupendous catastrophe, reeking with horror. Printing will be chucked overboard altogether; and it'll be a miracle if the best doesn't sink to the bottom with the worst."
- Andre Gide, Lafcadio's Adventures
He settled down with the intention
Of making others’ thoughts his own
-Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Bookrings I've joined:
1. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
2. Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd
3. Bathasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
6. Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
8. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Bookrings I've initiated:
1. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
2. The Turn of the Screw & Other Short Novels by Henry James
3. Monkey: A Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'Eng-En
4. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
5. The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
6. The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber by Lauren Mechling & Laura Moser
Bookrays I've started:
1. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
2. In America by Susan Sontag
3. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
4. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
5. The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi
6. The Mournful Demeanor of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky
7. The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
8. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
9. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
10. Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
My Wishlist--Thanks to cliff1976!
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