#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge discussion

What classics are you hoping to read in September?

I'm hoping to read Bridge to Terabithia, Heidi, Sleeping Murders (Agatha Christie), Ramona's World (Beverly Cleary) and Anne of Windy Poplars. And I just started reading War and Peace, too, but I'm sure I won't finish reading that book this month, lol!

Hi Gia! I just started Frankenstein last night, a perennial favorite. I’m listening to the audio book while I read along. The narrator voice gives it atmosphere.

I’m also reading Cold Comfort Farm, which is a 20th century classic. It’s very clever. I don’t know if I will be able to read more than that in a month. I’m still working.

@Shannon Thank you! It's very good so far:)

@Cedricsmom Hello! What a great idea to listen to audio and read along! Sounds like some great reads:)

I'm currently reading 'Germinal' by Emile Zola and planning to read 'The Age Of Innocence' by Edith Wharton.

I’m currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo and Anna Karenina.

I’m hoping to finish Silas Marner this month, seeing as it’s a little one ☺️

Cedricsmom wrote: "Hi Gia! I just started Frankenstein last night, a perennial favorite. I’m listening to the audio book while I read along. The narrator voice gives it atmosphere.

I’m also reading Cold Comfort Far..."

I read Cold Comfort Farm earlier this year. It’s so fun. I recommend watching the movie version with Kate Beckinsale.

I’m going to read “The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas” by Machado de Assis. I’m also reading “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Nora Zeale Hurston. I’ve read some, but I also started listening to the audiobook version with Ruby Dee. She is fantastic at bringing the characters to life, and I’ll finish it in audio format.

As part of an online book challenge called Space Opera September, I need to read a space opera (science-fiction) written before I was born. Well, as I was born in 1958, what I read will be a sci-fi classic. Yes, I can consider myself a classic at my age. I’m not sure what I’ll read, but it might be either Alfred Bester’s “The Stars, My Destination” (a sci-fi version of “The Count of Monte Christo”) or one of the early space opera books by E.E. ”Doc” Smith. He wrote the Lensman series.

I'll will be trying to read the following:
Dune
Cannery Row
Virgin Suicides
Catch 22
Room with a View
Cloud Atlas
Watership Down
The Red Pony
Persepolis
In Cold Blood (maybe)
Chronicles of Narnia (maybe)

Anne wrote: "I'll will be trying to read the following:
Dune
Cannery Row
Virgin Suicides
Catch 22
Room with a View
Cloud Atlas
Watership Down
The Red Pony
Persepolis
In Cold Blood (maybe)
Chronicles of Narnia (..."

In Cold Blood is really good. It still pops into my head sometimes...

I want to continue reading Crime and Punishment... also start re-reading Persuasion

Hoping to read:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dubliners - James Joyce
Emma - Jane Austen
The night is darkening round me - Emily Brontë
...and try to at least make a dent into Les Mis!

I’ve already read The Scarlet Letter and The Yellow Wallpaper since the first of September.

Amber wrote: "Hoping to read:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dubliners - James Joyce
Emma - Jane Austen
The night is darkening round me - Emily Brontë
...and try to at least make a dent into Les Mis!

I’ve already..."
I'm also reading Les Miserables
Continuing with East of Eden by Steinbeck and reading some more of Fitzgerald's short stories. Will read Books Three and Four of Paradise Lost by Milton.

I'm currently reading Germinal by Emile Zola and The haunted hotel by Wilkie Collins. I'm not sure about what I'll read next when I'm finished.