This week’s banned book – James Joyce’s Ulysses – has taken me a few weeks to slog through, with several breaks for books that I enjoy – and even a couple of breaks for other banned books.

Even last week’s D.H. Lawrence gave me a period of respite – and that is really all we need to say. 😉

I realize – perhaps to those much more intelligent than me – this is considered a masterpiece of the 20th century.

Maybe I just don’t get it – and that’s okay.

To me, Joyce’s *sort of?* adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey reads like a very long – and, yes, often vile – modernist, stream of consciousness bunch of nonsense, with characters that are unlikable at best.

783 pages of nonsense to be precise.

I am comforted that I checked this one out of the library and did not purchase it at least.

(If this is a book you love, don’t come for me. I’m sure there is somebody reading who does. I am just giving voice to us regular dummies who couldn’t quite engage – for a *very* long time. 😉 )

Still, the point of our project *again 🙂 * is not that I enjoy all of the works – but that we all have the right to read them freely.

You might find a new favorite in this one. I don’t know.

What I am certain of is that it is your right to make that decision for yourself.

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Animal Farm – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

A Separate Peace – John Knowles

Lolita – Vladmir Nabokov

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

LOTR – The Fellowship of The Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence

Ulysses – James Joyce