You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

I will do the Low Octane Challenge with the Author´s name, from A-Z :)

Just went through my embarassing "own-but-have-not-read-yet" TBR pile of books at home, looking for books I can use for the challenge. It drives me crazy how many I have, and cannot use grrr :D

Okay, so here is a first draft of books I plan to read. I will add, change, remove, and add again for sure but it will help me to get (and stay!) organized for now.

A) Monica Ali - Brick Lane
B) A.S. Byatt - The Children's Book
C) J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
D) Emma Donoghue - Room
E) Esi Edugyan - Half-Blood Blues
F) Nick Flynn - Another Bullshit Night In Suck City: A Memoir
G) Petina Gappah - An Elegy For Easterly
H) Tupelo Hassman - Girlchild: A Novel
I) Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child
J) Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
K) Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
L) Arnošt Lustig - Lovely Green Eyes
M) Gerald Murnane - Barley Patch
N) Anaïs Nin - Delta of Venus
O) Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
P) Milorad Pavić - Dictionary of the Khazars
Q) Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style
R) Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
S) Szabó Magda - The Door
T) Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
U) Linn Ullmann - Stella Descending
V) Vanessa Veselka - Zazen
W) Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
X) Gao Xingjian - One Man's Bible
Y) Mo Yan - Red Sorghum
Z) Juli Zeh - Eagles and Angels

If someone is wondering about the letter S .. Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer and they do write their family name first before the given name, so Szabó is indeed correct.

You might enjoy these groups

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and especially

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I like to read a book and use it in more than one challenge. :)

Haha, thanks Shirley, I have bookmarked the links and will take a look at a later date maybe. For a starter I will focus myself on - is there an abbreviation? "You´ll love this one...!! A book club & more" is for sure a long name to type :D And one challenge is more than enough for me. Dont want to overload myself with too many at a given time.

That's a pretty good start, Ada. Dive in! I think most of us shorten the group's name to YLTO.

Some interesting books on there (adds some to my ever growing list) I read The Children's Book, which didn't turn out at all the way I expected. But it certainly sucked me in.

YLTO it should be then :)

I love Possession but sure have heard complaints before about "The Children´s Book". She is a show-off and her novels drives me constantly up the wall and on the search for a dictionary but she is one of the best imho :)

Ada wrote: "Haha, thanks Shirley, I have bookmarked the links and will take a look at a later date maybe. For a starter I will focus myself on - is there an abbreviation? "You´ll love this one...!! A book club..."

Good idea they will be there when you are ready.

You've got some interesting books on your list!

Yes, YLTO is the abbreviation we use for this group.

Janice wrote: "You've got some interesting books on your list!

Yes, YLTO is the abbreviation we use for this group."

:) I am pretty sure they are not really all that bad lol I may replace Lidia Yuknavitch with Mo Yan then, but have not decided yet what to do. I am too intrigued by her memoir, and would rather read it sooner then later.

Updated my list per Dec, 16th. I, U and X still missing

Great list, Ada! I read Lovely Green Eyes a couple of months ago - it was, as expected, a very sad story but I really liked the writing style, almost dream-like.

I was going to use Kazuo Ishiguro as my I read if I go with last names. Not sure if he's your kinda thing but have a look-see.

Kat wrote: "Great list, Ada! I read Lovely Green Eyes a couple of months ago - it was, as expected, a very sad story but I really liked the writing style, almost dream-like."

I have read one book before by himWaiting for Leah and it was sad but lovely. "Lovely Green Eyes" is collecting dust now for a year (?) so it´s about time I´d read it finally and the challenge is a good opportunity :)

Rusalka wrote: "I was going to use Kazuo Ishiguro as my I read if I go with last names. Not sure if he's your kinda thing but have a look-see."

Right, thanks for the reminder. I have read The Remains of the Day and found it truly amazing. Might be a very good choice for the letter I :) Never Let Me Go? Will have to see, not sure, the blurb sounds a bit odd.

Judy wrote: "Ada, I love the variety in your book selections: old, new; a range of countries; a many styles of writing. Well done!"

Thanks Judy, just seen the comment. Another one I have missed.

I might replace the Jelinek novel with Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You, U might be John Updike but I am not sure I actually want to read him lol. X is mind-boggling, the ones I have found are a) too short grrr or b) some porn novels :D

Yeah, completed my list and found writers for the missing letters too. I am proud of myself, what should I say :D I will stick to the list and dont think I will change anything anymore.

In such a short time, you have demonstrated that you are indeed one of us list-making, spreadsheet analyzing, addicted YLTO members!

Janice wrote: "In such a short time, you have demonstrated that you are indeed one of us list-making, spreadsheet analyzing, addicted YLTO members!"

I know there is a reason why I am buying books all the time, for a challenge like this :D

Thank you, there is alot of encouragement in the group & seeing the other lists makes me a tiny bit competitive *blush*. Sooner or later I would have come around to read them anyway, now its sooner and not later. And its all because of the spirit of the YLTO - so thank you ladies :)

@Judy, I would have probably read some M/M romance with my eyes closed if I wouldnt have found anything else to read lol

What a wonderful variety of books! I've had to add some to my tbr. I have Brick Lane, so I look forward to your thoughts on it.

Is that your special power, being able to read with your eyes closed? ☺