Moopy Book Club (May '20): Vladimir Nabokov - 'Lolita'

[Cerro de Casa]

Shall we remix & revisit Book Club for the autumn saison 2020 and aim for a soft relaunch for Oct 2020?

 

[RS]

I shall try to, but can’t promise I’ll have time to buy a new book.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Why don't we choose something you already have on your shelves/intending on reading papi?

 

[RS]

Now that’s an excellent suggestion even though I now have no shelves at all in my new flat and all books are packed in boxes. But anyway here are the books I have but haven’t read yet:


Anna Karenina
The Catcher in the Rye
Pride and Prejudice
Little Women (saving this for December)
Wuthering Heights
Orlando
The Waves
Doctor Zhivago
IQ84
A History of the Jews (non-fiction)
Madame Bovary

 

[RS]

Then I have these short stories from the Penguin Love series, but some of them are non-fiction:


Doomed Love
The Eaten Heart
Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests
Cures for Love
The Seducer’s Diary
A Mere Interlude
A Russian Affair
Deviant Love
Magnetism
Something Childish but Very Natural
Mary (by Nabokov)
Eros Unbound
Bodily Secrets
The Women Who Got Away

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Shall we read The Seducer's Diary and/or A Russian Affair? I like the titles.

 

[RS]

Fine by me!

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Now that’s an excellent suggestion even though I now have no shelves at all in my new flat and all books are packed in boxes. But anyway here are the books I have but haven’t read yet:


Anna Karenina
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Waves
Madame Bovary

I'd be down ( ) for those. Well I've read Wuthering Heights but I wouldn't mind a re-read.

Mind you Anna Karenina is epic and we'd need a 2-month window I feel...

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Fine by me!

Shall we have a DOUBLE Raspberry Swirl bill? As in, short stories followed and a novel? Give it to us.

 

[RS]

I can’t wait to read Anna Karenina but yeah it would need a lot of time. Maybe after New Year? Is it a winter book?

 

[RS]

Shall we have a DOUBLE Raspberry Swirl bill? As in, short stories followed and a novel? Give it to us.

I’m afraid it would be too much for the book club (considering that you’re all having a dry spell).

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I can’t wait to read Anna Karenina but yeah it would need a lot of time. Maybe after New Year? Is it a winter book?

Yeah we can do it for Jan/Feb - good idea.

 

[RS]

Deal!

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Let's do it!

 

[Mats]

Shall we read The Seducer's Diary

FINALLY something Danish. although it's philosophy rather than fiction

 

[Mats]

I am KNEE DEEP in epic fantasy so I'll be occupied for a while but Orlando or one of the Russian ones at some point, definitely

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Try reading it without getting a hardon.

I finished this in the end (and goodness me how moist and marvellous and also really rather sad ) and I must say that I didn’t get a boner at any point although I did enjoy the mentions of HH’s “woolly chest”