Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Bingo Challenge 2018
Finished 2018-08-17

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B1: Written by Nobel Laureate Samlede Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer Read February 2018
B2: Children’s Classic Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter Read February 2018
B3: Government Banned Book Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis Read August 2018
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Read January 2018
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Pulitzer Prize, 1942) Read May 2018

I1: 20th Century Classic Alkymisten by Paulo Coelho Read April 2018
I2: New-to-You Author Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Read January 2018
I3: Mystery or Crime Classic The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie Read January 2018
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Reread January-February 2018
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) Read July 2018

N1: North American Classic The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Read January 2018
N2: Classic Short Story The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway Read February 2018
N3: FREE SPACE
N4: Classic Play A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry Read February 2018
N5: African Classic Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

G1: 19th Century Classic Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf Read April-May 2018
G2: Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith & Editors) Vi by Jevgenij Zamjatin Read March 2018
G3: Adventure or Action Classic The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Read June 2018
G4: Group Read Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Read January 2018
G5: 21st Century Potential Classic Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Read March 2018

O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region En anden gren by Jesper Wung-Sung De Gyldne Laurbær (2017, 'The Golden Laurels' awarded by Association of Danish Bookshops) Read April 2018
O2: Lesser known book by a famous author The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Read January-February 2018
O3: Australia, Antarctica, or Oceania Classic The Bone People by Keri Hulme Read May-June 2018
O4: A Classic that you have put off reading Ulysses by James Joyce Read January-March 2018
O5: Classic written by a Female Author Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes Read June 2018

Best of luck with your challenge Julie! 😊

Loretta wrote: "Best of luck with your challenge Julie! 😊"

Thank you :-)

Welcome to the 2018 Bingo Challenge Julie. I hope you have fun.

Off to a very good start on this challenge. Managed two rows allready:

Row 2:
B2: Children’s Classic Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter Read February 2018
I2: New-to-You Author Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Read January 2018
N2: Classic Short Story The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway Read February 2018
G2: Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith & Editors) Vi by Jevgenij Zamjatin Read March 2018
O2: Lesser known book by a famous author The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Read January-February 2018

Row 4:
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Read January 2018
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Reread January-February 2018
N4: Classic Play A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry Read February 2018
G4: Group Read Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Read January 2018
O4: A Classic that you have put off reading Ulysses by James Joyce Read January-March 2018

Great work, Julie.

Very nice start! I am so jealous of that O4 space. I really need to get off my butt and read Ulysses. I have Pillars on my to read list this year. How was it?

Congratulations!!!
I too am curious to know what you thought of The Pillars of the Earth.

Erin wrote: "Congratulations!!!
I too am curious to know what you thought of The Pillars of the Earth."

The Pillars of the Earth was a reread - I absolutely love it. I'm currently reading World Without End (also reread) so I can get started on A Column of Fire soon hopefully.

Ulysses was torture and a 1-star rating from me - I hated it and I'm never doing it again.

I read Ulysses a couple of years ago and gave it two stars.
I remember reading Pillars of the Earth when it was first published, and enjoying it.

Julie wrote: "Ulysses was torture and a 1-star rating from me - I hated it and I'm never doing it again.
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Congrats Julie! I just finished Ulysses last week, and felt the same way! Great list of books you have there.

Down to only two squares missing:

B3 Government Banned Book
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic

Julie wrote: "Down to only two squares missing:

B3 Government Banned Book
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic"

Wow, you are doing amazing on this challenge.

I agree. Some good books and you are almost finished. You are doing great!

I managed to finish this quite early this year.

For my final two spots I read Elmer Gantry and Paradise Lost

do you have a new favorite book from your reads this year?

Good question :-)
I reread an old favourite (The Pillars of The Earth).
From my new reads, what stood out was probably Lonesome Dove and The Outsiders.
But really I enjoyed most of my Bingo Reads this year. (Except Ulysses)

Yes, Ulysses was not for me either.