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Lia

lianove3@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 6 months ago

I read mostly classics in English

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Lia's books

To Read (View all 5)

Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (Paperback, 2021, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Donna Tartt: The secret history (Paperback, 1993, Penguin)
Gaston Bachelard: The poetics of space (1994, Beacon Press)

Currently Reading

Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback, 2005, Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) (Paperback, 2003, Barnes & Noble Classics)
Kate Chopin: The Awakening and Selected Short Stories (Paperback, 1992, Bantam Books)

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Donna Tartt: The Goldfinch (Paperback, 2014, Abacus)
Virginia Woolf: To the lighthouse (1981, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
E. M. Forster: Maurice (1993, W.W. Norton & Co.)

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finished reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt: The Goldfinch (Paperback, 2014, Abacus) 4 stars

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, …

Great writing that is deeply researched and carefully written. I'm not going to complain about it's length, but it definitely will make me more cautious in committing to longer books. Good.