Well, I'm out this month.

[paperlibrarian]

Read 50 pages of our selection and decided against continuing on. Apparently, non-Western and Western literature have a lot in common, with older guys having sex with younger women and acting like entitled lying douchebags.

No thanks. You guys have fun with it, though!

Comments

[zinnea]

I haven't started yet. If I hate it as much do you want to find a new selection together?

[paperlibrarian]

What, though? The only thing I can think of that I have upstairs is Out, a Japanese detective novel.

[zinnea]

IDK. Maybe we can figure out a general discussion topic on non-Western literature instead then?

[paperlibrarian]

Or why so much literature has to be about cheating douchebags?

I guess I'll just try to pick something alternate. I have Chinese Cinderella, does that count?

[bookblather]

Yeah, I'm... yeah, not fond of our protagonist. Fortunately I love the prose, and also I have some Rushdie books I've been meaning to read. Could go with one of those if necessary.

[paperlibrarian]

I think Mahasin is reading it too. Maybe we'll all quit together! :) But we've always been open to alternate reads, so whatever you want is fine.

[mabith]

I'm out as well. Sorry to have let it go so late. I've been having an awful month and then got the flu last week.

I didn't even make it fifty pages. Maybe another month I would, but I don't know.

Starting a very short novel by Naguib Mahfouz today, Wedding Song.