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JAZZY'S WILD PROJECT TEA PARTY 2020
Choose 12 books you want to read and list two alternates, to use as substitutes should one of your choices need to be replaced.
14/14
1899 and earlier/Old School
✅ 1. Inferno (1320) - Dante Alighieri
✅ 2. The First Part Of King Henry The Sixth (1689-92) - William Shakespeare
✅ 3. The History of Rome, Vol 1 (1854) - Theodor Mommsen
1900-1999/New School
✅ 4. Atlantis (1912) - Gerhart Hauptmann
✅ 5. A Personal Matter (1964) - Kenzaburō Ōe
✅ 6. Memoirs of Mistral (1906) - Frédéric Mistral
My Wild Card Six
✅ 7. Bashan and I (1918) - Thomas Mann
✅ 8. A Rose for Emily (1930) - William Faulkner
✅ 9. Jenny (1911) - Sigrid Undset
✅ 10. Les Vaines Tendresses (1875) - Sully Prudhomme
✅ 11. A Happy Boy (1860) - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
✅ 12. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 - Anton Chekhov
Alternates
✅ A-1. Henry VI Part Two (1591) - William Shakespeare
✅ A-2. Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert
Select 10 books from the year you were born. Select 10 more from 100 years earlier, for a total of 20 books. The challenge is to successfully read 10 of the 20 books selected. 5 from your birth year and 5 from 100 years earlier.
20/20
1960s
✅ 1. 1960 - The Ormolu Clock - Muriel Spark
✅ 2. 1961 - Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
✅ 3. 1962 - The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
✅ 4. 1963 - The Long Voyage - Jorge Semprún
✅ 5. 1964 - A Personal Matter - Kenzaburō Ōe
✅ 6. 1965 - Dune - Frank Herbert
✅ 7. 1966 - Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
✅ 8. 1967 - Star Trek 1 - James Blish
✅ 9. 1968 - Star Trek 2 - James Blish
✅ 10. 1969 - Star Trek 3 - James Blish
1860s
✅ 11. 1860 - A Happy Boy - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
✅ 12. 1860 - First Love - Ivan Turgenev
✅ 13. 1862 - Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina Rossetti
✅ 14. 1860 - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✅ 15. 1864 - Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✅ 16. 1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
✅ 17. 1867 - Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
✅ 18. 1860 - The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✅ 19. 1867 - The Mystery of Orcival - Émile Gaboriau
✅ 20. 1863 - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1863) - Harriet Ann Jacobs
List the Top 10 Best Selling books from the Year you were born. This challenge is considered successful by reading 5 books from your list.
10/10
✅ 1. 1960 - Trustee from the Toolroom (1960) - Nevil Shute
✅ 2. 1961 - Franny and Zooey (1961) - J.D. Salinger
✅ 3. 1962 - Happiness is a Warm Puppy (1962) - Charles M. Schulz
✅ 4. 1963 - Security is a Thumb and a Blanket (1963) - Charles M. Schulz
✅ 5. 1964 - Herzog (1964) - Saul Bellow
✅ 6. 1965 - How to Be a Jewish Mother (1964) - Dan Greenburg
✅ 7. 1966 - Enemies: A Love Story (1966) - Isaac Bashevis Singer
✅ 8. 1967 - The Chosen (1967) - Chaim Potok
✅ 9. 1964 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) - John le Carré
✅ 10. 1967 - The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Read 12 books - 1 for each category.
(I've exchanged 'Romance' for 'Horror' to have the latter plus 'Humour.' )
12/12
✅ 1. 18th c. or older
The First Part Of King Henry The Sixth (1623) - William Shakespeare
✅ 2. 19th c.
Les Vaines Tendresses (1875) - Sully Prudhomme
✅ 3. 20th c.
The Chalk Garden (1955) - Enid Bagnold
✅ 4. Group Read (Past or Present)
A Rose for Emily (1930) - William Faulkner
✅ 5. An Author not read before
Inferno (1320) - Dante Alighieri
✅ 6. Diversity Classic - a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. (Japan).
A Personal Matter (1964) - Kenzaburō Ōe
✅ 7. Science Fiction
Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert
✅ 8. Horror
The Space-Eaters (1928) - Frank Belknap Long
✅ 9. Historical fiction
Henry VI Part Two (1591) - William Shakespeare
✅ 10. Nonfiction
The History of Rome, Vol 1 (1854) - Theodor Mommsen
✅ 11. Mystery/Crime
Strangers on a Train (1950) - Patricia Highsmith
✅ 12. Humour
How to Be a Jewish Mother (1964) - Dan Greenburg
There are two ways to participate. First read one book from 10 consecutive decades, one century total. Second, read one book per year for 10 consecutive years, one-decade total. Only one version of the challenge is required to participate. For those exceptional readers, and over achievers, or gluttons for punishment, feel free to take on both versions.
The Years
10/10
✅ 1. 1947 - Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
✅ 2. 1948 - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
✅ 3. 1949 - The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
✅ 4. 1950 - Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
✅ 5. 1951 - The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
✅ 6. 1952 - Carol - Patricia Highsmith
✅ 7. 1953 - The Long Good-bye - Raymond Chandler
✅ 8. 1954 - Lord of the Flies - William Golding
✅ 9. 1955 - The Chalk Garden - Enid Bagnold
✅ 10. 1956 - The Hundred and One Dalmations - Dodie Smith
The Decades
10/10
✅ 1. 1860 - Notes from the Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✅ 2. 1870 - Les Vaines Tendresses (1875) - Sully Prudhomme
✅ 3. 1880 - The Great Galeoto: Folly or Saintliness (1881) - José Echegaray
✅ 4. 1890 - The Lady with the Little Dog (1899) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 5. 1900 - My Brilliant Career (1901) - Miles Franklin
✅ 6. 1910 - Collected Essays of Rudolf Eucken (1914) - Rudolf Christoph Eucken
✅ 7. 1920 - Pierre and Luce (1920) - Romain Rolland
✅ 8. 1930 - A Rose for Emily (1930) - William Faulkner
✅ 9. 1940 - The Penguin Dorothy Parker (1944) - Dorothy Parker
✅ 10. 1950 - The Hundred and One Dalmations] (1956) - Dodie Smith
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year.
24/24
✅ 1. The House with the Mezzanine (1896) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 2. The Beast in the Cave (1905) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 3. The Alchemist (1908) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 4. Peasants: Short Story (1899) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 5. The Tomb (1917) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 6. The Man in a Case (1898) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 7. Dagon (1917) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 8. Gooseberries (1898) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 9. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 10. Polaris (1918) H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 11. About Love (1898) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 12. A Rose for Emily (1930) - William Faulkner
✅ 13. Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 14. Memory (1919) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 15. Old Bugs (1919) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 16. The Story Of Ferdinand (1936) - Munro Leaf
✅ 17. A Visit To Friends (1897) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 18. Mr. Durant (1947) - Dorothy Parker
✅ 19. Ionych (1898) - Anton Chekhov
✅ 20. The Transition of Juan Romero (1919) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ 21. The Waltz (1933) - Dorothy Parker
✅ 22. The Wonderful Old Gentleman (1934) - Dorothy Parker
✅ 23. Song of the Shirt, 1941 (1941) - Dorothy Parker
✅ 24. The Blue Lenses (1959) - Daphne du Maurier
Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new books per year to go on our book shelf. This challenge is to read 12 of these forty.
12/12
✅ 1. Inferno - Dante Alighieri
✅ 2. Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri
✅ 3. Paradiso - Dante Alighieri
✅ 4. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
✅ 5. There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury
✅ 6. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
✅ 7. The Nose - Nikolai Gogol
✅ 8. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
✅ 9. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
✅ 10. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
✅ 11. The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
✅ 12. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
26/26
✅ A: Dante Alighieri - Inferno (1320) [4/1/20]
✅ B: Enid Bagnold - The Chalk Garden (1956) [24/1/2020]
✅ C: Anton Chekhov - The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 [23/1/20]
✅ D: Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground (1864) [19/1/20]
✅ E: George Essex Evans - The Secret Key, and Other Verses (1906) [31/1/2020]
✅ F: Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career (1901) [31/1/2020]
✅ G: Dan Greenburg - How to Be a Jewish Mother (1964) [26/1/2020]
✅ H: Frank Herbert - Dune (1965) [13/1/20]
✅ I: Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House (1879) [14/4/20]
✅ J: Shirley Jackson - The Lottery (1948) [23/1/20]
✅ K: Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous (1896) [13/2/2020]
✅ L: H.P. Lovecraft - The Beast in the Cave (1918) [1/1/20]
✅ M: Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Vol 1 (1854) [30/1/2020]
✅ N: Vladimir Nabokov - Spring in Fialta (1956) [2/4/2020]
✅ O: Kenzaburō Ōe - A Personal Matter (1964) [15/2/2020]
✅ P: Sully Prudhomme - Les Vaines Tendresses (1875) [8/1/20]
✅ Q: Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style (1947) [24/7/20]
✅ R: H.A. Rey - Curious George (1941) [18/1/20]
✅ S: Dodie Smith - The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) [23/1/2020]
✅ T: Ethel Turner - The Family at Misrule (1895) [2/7/20]
✅ U: Sigrid Undset - Jenny (1911) [28/2/2020]
✅ V: Paul von Heyse - The Dead Lake and Other Tales (Translated by Mary Wilson) (1870) [22/2/2020]
✅ W: Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince (1888) [5/2/2020]
✅ X: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince (1943) [9/2/2020]
✅ Y: W.B. Yeats - W.B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney [29/2/2020]
✅ Z: Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (1921) [19/5/2020]
26/26
✅ A: Alice Long's Dachshunds (1967) - Muriel Spark [15/1/2020]
✅ B: Beautiful Losers (1966) - Leonard Cohen [7/2/2020]
✅ C: The Chalk Garden (1955) - Enid Bagnold [24/1/2020]
✅ D: Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert [13/1/20]
✅ E: Enough Rope (1926) - Dorothy Parker [15/1/20]
✅ F: The First Part Of King Henry The Sixth (1623) - William Shakespeare [2/1/20]
✅ G: Goblin Market and Selected Poems (1862) - Christina Rossetti [24/1/2020]
✅ H: The History of Rome, Vol 1 (1854) - Theodor Mommsen [30/1/2020]
✅ I: Inferno (1320) - Dante Alighieri [4/1/20]
✅ J: Just a Little One (1928) - Dorothy Parker [9/2/2020]
✅ K: King Henry VI Part Two (1591) - William Shakespeare [13/1/20]
✅ L: The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 - Anton Chekhov [23/1/20]
✅ M: My Brilliant Career (1901) - Miles Franklin [31/1/2020]
✅ N: Notes from the Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [19/1/2020]
✅ O: One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1957) - Dodie Smith [23/1/2020]
✅ P: Polaris (1919) - H.P. Lovecraft [5/1/20]
✅ The Quest for Lavishes Ghast (1964) - Muriel Spark [28/1/2020]
✅ R: A Rose for Emily (1930) - William Faulkner [5/1/20]
✅ S: The Secret Key, and Other Verses (1913) - George Essex Evans [31/1/2020]
✅ T: Trustee from the Toolroom (1960) - Nevil Shute [1/2/2020]
✅ U: Uncle Vanya (1897) - Anton Chekhov [29/7/20]
✅ V: Les Vaines Tendresses (1875) - Sully Prudhomme [8/1/20]
✅ W: Without Dogma (1891) Henryk Sienkiewicz [8/3/20]
✅ X: The SeXes (1944) - Dorothy Parker [30/4/20]
✅ Y: The Yellow Wallpaper (1890) - Charlotte Perkins Gilman [1/2/2020]
✅ Z: Franny and Zooey (1961) - J.D. Salinger
Many thanks Rosemarie, it's going to take a while to sort them all out :)
Jazzy looks like you are going to have fun this year!
Bob wrote: "This list was provided by LaurieBest Seller List"
As far as I can tell this is still a list of USA top sellers. Finding one from Europe, or even the UK is proving to be difficult, but I know Lady Chatterley's Lover was the top seller in 1960.
Brina wrote: "Jazzy looks like you are going to have fun this year!"Many thanks Brina :D
Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge COMPLETE - 14/1/2020
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Jazzy wrote: "Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge COMPLETE - 14/1/2020"
Nice :)
Many thanks Bob, Julie, and Rosemarie! Please, help yourself to a cuppa and a cupcake!
Wow! That's a lot of challenge! I see you have already completed the short story challenge, nice work! There is a lot of Lovecraft in there just as in my short story challenge list ;-) I wish you good luck with the rest of the challenges and I hope you enjoy!
Irphen wrote: "Wow! That's a lot of challenge! I see you have already completed the short story challenge, nice work! There is a lot of Lovecraft in there just as in my short story challenge list ;-) I wish you g..."Many thanks Irphen! I'm in another group where we're trying to read all the Lovecraft :D I'll make sure to come take a cheeky deeks at your list as well! x
Jazzy, your reading lists are awesome. And the Dutch cafe tea and cupcakes to boot. What a party!
Why thank you! That is so kind - Please, Vesna, pull up a chair! 
If you come to my tea party, please help yourself!
Can I interest anyone in a macaroon?
All my books are selected - except for challenge 7. That took a while, I think now I need a cup of tea and a biscuit!
Your lists look fabulous! What kind of tea are you having today?
We usually have normal, but I'm having Yogi Choco Chai :)
Sounds exotic! I like a tea called Buddha's Blend- a green tea with jasmine.
Jazzy wrote: "Irphen wrote: "Wow! That's a lot of challenge! I see you have already completed the short story challenge, nice work! There is a lot of Lovecraft in there just as in my short story challenge list ;..."Your welcome!^^ Oh that seems as a nice program to read all Lovecraft's work! ( I don't know why I only noticed you answer today by the way, I got mixed up in the notification stuff I believe XD )
Yummy Tea, Rosemarie! Irphen, I can never find the threads and the messages either! I'm reading a lot of compilations, Lovecraft, Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker, Muriel Spark, Vladimir Nabokov, Daphne du Maurier, etc. :)
Challenges Complete ✅1
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Many thanks Rosemarie and Bob!!More tea? x
Challenge #9 - A-Z Titles Challenge - *COMPLETE*
Rosemarie wrote: "Congrats, Jazzy!"Many thanks Rosemarie x
There are two ways to participate. First read one book from 10 consecutive decades, one century total. Second, read one book per year for 10 consecutive years, one-decade total. Only one version of the challenge is required to participate. For those exceptional readers, and over achievers, or gluttons for punishment, feel free to take on both versions.
Both versions complete! [30/7/20]
Congrats! That's another challenge complete. Jazzy how many challenges left?
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Shaina wrote: "Congrats! That's another challenge complete. Jazzy how many challenges left?"3!! Many thanks!!
and many thanks Bob 😎
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Challenges Complete
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Challenges Complete
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