Thanks for the thread Janice.
If I have to pick three this year, they will be three that are on the shelf and that I've started and put down; I've spent far too much on books this year.
1. The New Testament, Trans. Richmond Latimore. (Bogged down in Paul's Letters)
2. The Tale of Genji (Can't get around all those names.)
3. Swann's Way (I liked "Combray," but "Swann in Love" left me cold).
As far as Nabokov goes, I'm working my way through his short stories. The early ones should give any beginning writer hope. By the time he gets to Berlin, he really settles down and writes some fine prose — his own translations.
I'm with you, Catherine on "The Red and the Black" but I loved "The Charterhouse of Parma."
RobW
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