#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge discussion

What classics are you hoping to read in March?

I hope you have a great reading month!

First Love and Other Novellas by Samuel Beckett and The Plague by Albert Camus! What about you?

I'm hoping to read Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse.

I'm finishing Emma by Jane Austen, and I'm planning on reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott :)

My sister brought home a bunch of books from my Grandparents' house, and they had Black Beauty in there so I really want to read that because it looks adorable

I'm planning on reading The Arabian Nights translated by Sir Richard Burton.

Villette by Charlotte Brontë! Just started the audiobook recently and I'm loving the narrator and Polly so much.

It's a more modern classic, but one of the last books in my winter TBR is 'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin. I DNF'd it previously and I really want to finish it. It is such a popular gay classic that I feel obligated to at least finish it once.

East of Eden for me.

I really wanna get to Mrs. Dalloway this month as well as to read Pride and Prejudice (it’s going to be my first Jane Austen book and I’m super excited)

I'm planning on finishing Gone with the wind, Dracula, and The Idiot this month✌

I'm hoping to finish The Three Musketeers this month and I'll also be reading Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie.

I'm planning to read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

I'm planning to continue reading Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

I'm also planning A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Lord of the flies by william Golding and Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott

I'm also interested in participating in a buddy read of The Brothers Karamzov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, but I just fear that it will be too much to read three giant russian classics all at once 🤣 It might work if it was decided to read few chapters a week so we'll see how that goes 😋

I’m carrying on with Samuel Pepys’ Diary (it’s long and he writes as furiously as he lives, making it quite an exhausting read), and I also have Jane Eyre (a re-read) and Wide Sargasso Sea although I’m not sure in which order to read them.

I started David Copperfield, the audible version read by Richard Armitage yesterday. It's 35 hours but hoping to finish it this month.

I also started Liljecronas hem, by Selma lagerlof, as part of my swedish classics to be read pile, and will also hopefully continue the Stockholm series, by Per Anders Fogelstrom, which turn out to be really really good (I am now on the 4th book out of 5)

I'm planning to continue reading Pride and Prejudice and War and Peace, I've had a wonderful experience reading them so far!
I'm also planning to finish some books I started in February but couldn't finish, I'm mostly excited about finishing If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, which also it fits with my overall goal to read more Italian literature.
If I get to it I would also love to read some Shakespeare, maybe Anthony and Cleopatra or Otello.

I’m hoping to finish reading The professor by Charlotte Brontë and at start reading Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane and/or The odyssey by Homer (Robert Fagles translation).

Maybe finally finish Dracula !!

I just finished my first Agatha Christie book, murder on the oriental express. Im still working on wuthering highst and hope to finish one more classic this month

Cecilia wrote: "I started David Copperfield, the audible version read by Richard Armitage yesterday. It's 35 hours but hoping to finish it this month.

I also started Liljecronas hem, by Selma lagerlof, as part of..."

Hi Cecilia. I too am listening to Richard Armitage and David Copperfield. So far 3 hours in and loving it !!

Cecilia wrote: "I started David Copperfield, the audible version read by Richard Armitage yesterday. It's 35 hours but hoping to finish it this month.

I also started Liljecronas hem, by Selma lagerlof, as part of..."

I have the book, but I would be tempted to get the audio book just so I can listen to Richard Armitage read it to me.

Reading Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.

I'm currently reading Anne of Green Gables and when that one is finished I'll continue in Anne of Avonlea

I’m re-reading North and South, Rainbow Valley and Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M Montgomery.

I’m tossing up whether to read The robe by Loyd C Douglas

We're on Episode 8 "Lystragonians" of Ulysses if anyone wants to join in on BookTube . . .

I’m reading Framley Parsonage, book four of the Chronicles of Barsetshire series by Anthony Trollope. Really enjoyed Doctor Thorne, the third in the series and I’ve heard that this one is better so I’m looking forward to see how they compare.

Lucy wrote: "What classics are you hoping to read in March?

I hope you have a great reading month!"

I plan on reading Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and making a dent in Anna Karenina. All re-reads, but it has been a while for all but P&P.

I don't know if Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books would count as "classics". They're not exactly what I think of as literary. However, they are old—the oldest ones are written in the 1930s—and I've read two of them so far this month: The Rubber Band and The Red Box and I'm currently reading Too Many Cooks (Edited to add: I finished this on the 16th). These are numbers 3, 4, and 5, respectively, in the series.

Other than that, I just finished Emma by Jane Austen, so now I can go see the movie... and re-watch Clueless.

I'm also reading The Jeeves & Wooster Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse, containing The Mating Season, The Code of the Woosters, and Right Ho, Jeeves. I have the same qualms about Wodehouse as I do about Stout, but someone else is reading a Jeeves book so I think that lets this in. Edited to add: I finished this book on the 15th.

The rest of my reading I have no reservations about: Henry James: Selected Fiction edited by Leon Edel, The Duchess of Malfi: Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama edited by Frank Kermode, and Selections Illustrating the History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1: Thales to Euclid translated by Ivor Thomas (a Loeb Classics book). I might also throw in a reread of Persuasion. Reading Emma brought home to me how pleasant it is to read Austen and Persuasion is my favorite Austen novel. I recently picked up a copy in a Dover Thrift Edition (Edited to add: finished on the 24th).

This month I will be reading Union Street by Pat Barker, which I am so excited about! :)

I'm reading Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë and also planing to add something after that :)

Several books I wanna pick up but The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, or Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Hopefully I can read two.

Hi, I’m currently reading Anna Karenina and hoping to also read the two towers.

I finished Monsieur de Chauvelin's Will by Alexandre Dumas and Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. I am trying to decide what I will read next.

I’ve started Anna Karenina. I’m sure it will take me months to read it. Already I love Tolstoy’s style of writing!
But since it’s a big classic, I’m breaking it up with reading North and South

So I am in the progress of listening to David Copperfield now.. The audible performance really is good, and I think the main reason I am actually continuing, I find the story a bit of a slog to be honest. But I am halfway through now so I don't want to give up

I suppose it is never too late to set up a monthly TBR. While we are approaching the end of March, I am confident that I will read some amazing books over the next few weeks. The last classic I read was Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. I am currently reading North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell on my Kindle. We will soon begin reading The Outsiders by SE Hinton in English class. I am dying to read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

I have read David Copperfield ***** and The Mayor of Casterbridge **** this month. At this stage I’m thinking of starting Agnes Grey Just so many beautiful books to choose from 😊

I'm reading Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I'm a little lost with it, but I'm distracted by other books.

I added in a new book, Ten Plays by Euripides. So far I've read three of the ten plays, Ion, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia Among the Taurians. The last is the source of one of my favorite operas, Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck. He also did an operatic adaptation of Iphigenia in Aulis too.