One of my reading goals for the year is to tackle one of these #nyrbchunksters ... Who's with me?! If any #NYRBclassics lovers or #NYRBbookclub members have any interest, hit me up for a buddy read 👋🏻
GatheringBooks, sprainedbrain, sisilia, LeahBergen, Leftcoastzen, youneverarrived, MicheleinPhilly, mklong, Suet624, merelybookish, saresmoore, batsy, vivastory, BarbaraBB, Liz_M, Theaelizabetsisilia I‘ll be reading Life and Fate on 19th this month 😸 .. Have you read Stalingrad? 4y
Leftcoastzen @sisilia remind me , I think Life & Fate was translated first , but Stalingrad was written first? 4y
Leftcoastzen I read Life & Fate years ago but could do a re read.The others look good too! 4y
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emilyhaldi Oh crap... Do I need to read Stalingrad first?? @sisilia I didn't realize it was a prequel to this book! Or can they be read independently? (edited) 4y
emilyhaldi @Leftcoastzen glad you would be interested!! Did you enjoy L&F? 4y
merelybookish I'm intrigued by Eustace and Hilda. But not sure I can commit because those are some serious chunksters! But if you decide to read it, let me know. 4y
emilyhaldi @vivastory I hope I'm not overstepping the book club by making this suggestion.. I only assume that it's a rare chance someone will nominate a chunkster for their selection? 😂 4y
Leftcoastzen I did! And I could be wrong, but you know how it can be with translations ,they don‘t always come in order especially from countries with complicated politics. 4y
sisilia @emilyhaldi It‘s fine if you skip Stalingrad; the consensus is that Life and Fate is a much better story 🤩 Let‘s do it! Hahaha 4y
emilyhaldi @merelybookish I know, I'm somewhat intimidated by these chunksters, but im inexplicably drawn to concrete-slab-like books 🤷🏻♀️ 4y
sisilia @Leftcoastzen That‘s correct. The translator Robert Chandler is considering to redo L&F but no specified date yet 4y
emilyhaldi @sisilia the 19th of this month might be a challenge for me with all the other books I have lined up but I'll see what I can do! Would love to be able to join you. 4y
sisilia No worries @emilyhaldi I read Stalingrad in Nov, and am hoping that I still remember all the Russian names if I read it this month 🤞🏻 (edited) 4y
Leftcoastzen @sisilia thanks ! I read in my old edition of L&F that Stalingrad was serialized in a periodical as For a Just Cause , he ran afoul of Stalin ,it was “hacked up” with a post Stalin edition with parts restored in 1956 .In 1960 KGB confiscated manuscript of L&F,so Grossman never saw it published. 4y
Leftcoastzen Long story short I would try to work a chunkster into the rotation!😃 4y
Liz_M I would be interested in either L&F or E&H, but in April. I am (always) reading nyrb's Anniversaries and have a group read of Don Passos's USA for the first quarter. 😁![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl 4y
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahlemilyhaldi Oh! @Liz_M I have Anniversaries on my shelf too.. how are you liking it?! I think April might be a good time for me too.. maybe we can start to plan a readalong for that time period too 4y
emilyhaldi Fascinating history!! @Leftcoastzen how are you feeling about working L&F into your January to-read?? If it's too soon for you too perhaps we can do another buddy read for later in the year 4y
Suet624 Thank you for tagging me but I don‘t think I‘ll be able to. I‘m so tempted, but I HAVE to deal with the books I already own. It‘s my one goal of the year! My one exception are books for the NYRBbookclub. 😀 4y
LeahBergen @Suet624 I‘m trying to do the same thing (and with the same exception 😆). 4y
Leftcoastzen I could probably add it in , but if you want more people to join in, I could wait. 4y
BarbaraBB I‘d love to read L&F but January is too soon for me. If you decide to read it later in the year, I‘d love to join! 4y
batsy Thank you for tagging me! I don't own any of these and at the moment not sure if I will buy them, but I've been interested in A&C for a long time so if you do plan to read it after March or so, please feel free to give me a shout then 🙂 4y
Suet624 @LeahBergen I‘m not sure why it‘s so hard to do. 🤦🏻♀️ but I‘m going to go crazy if I don‘t. I read almost 100 books last year - imagine if those had all been mine and not the library‘s! Good luck to you, Leah. Hopefully we can keep encouraging each other. 4y
Suet624 @LeahBergen Also, did you see that @shawnmooney is trying to do the same thing? Well, at least read or deal with one shelf of books. 😀 he talked about it on his recent YouTube post. (edited) 4y
Reviewsbylola You didn‘t even tag your own sister. Damn, that‘s cold. 4y
emilyhaldi LOLOL I don't know how I forgot you 😂😂 @Reviewsbylola 4y
emilyhaldi @Suet624 @LeahBergen good luck to you both! My goal is similar in that I really need to work through the collection of NYRB classics I‘ve amassed over the past year 😅 4y
vivastory I'd definitely be interested in joining one of these. Are you still thinking of reading Life and Fate? 4y
vivastory And no, you're not overstepping the book club. The more NYRB that is read, the better 👍🙂 4y
emilyhaldi @vivastory yes definitely! L&F is high on my list. Perhaps we should plan on regrouping in March/April to see how everyone is feeling about giving this one a go?! @Leftcoastzen @Liz_M @BarbaraBB 4y
vivastory I'd be interested in reading it. Tag me when others are too 👍 Or, if you decide on another NYRB chunkster 4y
Leftcoastzen I‘m game! 4y
Liz_M I might have committed to reading Ducks in March. 😬Ducks, Newburyport 4y
Ducks, NewburyportBarbaraBB I‘d be interested too! 4y
emilyhaldi Oh boy! @Liz_M that will surely keep you busy 😆 perhaps the group will be fine with April instead if that works better for you. We can touch base in a couple of months!! 4y
Mdargusch NOPE! 4y
emilyhaldi LOL @Mdargusch 4y