500 Great Books By Women discussion

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B I N G O - 8/25
O O O O O
X O O X X
O O ? X X
O O X X O
O O X O O

B
1 - Published in the pre-1800s - Anti-Pamela - Eliza Fowler Haywood
2 - Fantasy - The Vampire Tapestry - Suzy McKee Charnas (completed 3/31/21)
3 - Less than 5,000 Ratings on Goodreads - The Vet's Daughter - Barbara Comyns
4 - Disability as Theme and/or Disabled Author - Precious Bane - Mary Webb (Currently Reading)
5 - Long Read - More than 600 Pages - Adam Bede - Mary Ann Evans

I
1 - Nobel Laureate Author - Not Just For Lit - The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer
2 - Sci-Fi - We Who Are About To... - Joanna Russ
3 - Translated from Language Other Than English/Not Originally Written in English - The Blood of Others - Simone de Beauvoir
4 - Queer Theme and/or Author - Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel - Rachilde
5 - Less than 1,000 Ratings on Goodreads - Voltaire in Love - Nancy Mitford

N
1 - Mystery/Thriller - All This, and Heaven Too - Rachel Field
2 - Published in the 1900s - The Towers of Trebizond - Rose Macaulay
3 - Free Space
4 - Potential Classic Published After 1970 - On Photography - Susan Sontag (completed 1/13/21)
5 - Nonfiction - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (completed 2/18/21)

G
1 - Published in the 1800s - Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
2 - Less than 10,000 Ratings on Goodreads - The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy (completed 2/27/21)
3 - Author Born in Latin America - He Who Searches - Luisa Valenzuela (completed 4/14/21)
4 - Play -Bones & Ash - Jewelle L. Gómez (completed 2/28/21)
5 - Short Story Collection - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford - Jean Stafford

O
1 - Poetry - Love Poems - Anne Sexton
2 - Author Born in Africa - Idu - Flora Nwapa (completed 1/23/21)
3 - Author Born in Asia - Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya (completed 1/6/21)
4 - Novella - Less than 200 Pages - No Signposts in the Sea - Vita Sackville-West
5 - Published in the 2000s - Threats - Amelia Gray

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Quest for Women - 5/20

Century - 1/10

1850s - Adam Bede - Mary Ann Evans*
1860s – Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon**
1870s - That Lass O' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story - Frances Hodgson Burnett* (completed 1/30/21)
1880s - Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel - Marguerite Vallette-Eymery
1890s - Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim*
1900s - A Woman - Sibilla Aleramo
1910s - Pilgrimage - Dorothy M. Richardson (Vol. 1 completed 1/21/21) (Vol. 2 completed 2/19/21) (Vol. 3 completed 3/20/21) (Currently Reading Vol 4)
1920s - Precious Bane - Mary Webb (Currently Reading)
1930s - All This, and Heaven Too - Rachel Field
1940s - The Blood of Others - Simone de Beauvoir*

Decade - 4/10

1953 - Maud Martha - Gwendolyn Brooks (completed 2/24/21)
1954 - Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya (completed 1/6/21)
1955 - The Changelings - Jo Sinclair (completed 2/6/21)
1956 - The Towers of Trebizond - Rose Macaulay
1957 - Voltaire in Love - Nancy Mitford
1958 - The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy (completed 2/27/21)
1959 - The Vet's Daughter - Barbara Comyns
1960 - Hons and Rebels - Jessica Mitford*
1961 - No Signposts in the Sea - Vita Sackville-West
1962 - Selected Works of Djuna Barnes - Djuna Barnes*

* - Previously Read Authors
** - To Be Acquired

So many great reads in here! I'd love to hear what you think of the rest of Pilgrimage if you finish it. I stopped at Pointed Roofs a couple years ago, but was thinking of picking it up again.

Nell wrote: "So many great reads in here! I'd love to hear what you think of the rest of Pilgrimage if you finish it. I stopped at Pointed Roofs a couple years ago, but was thinking of picking it up again."

Cheers, Nell. As soon as January hits, l'll be reading one volume per month, which is my usual strategy with works of that length. I'm not sure if my four volume set is technically the full thing, as there is apparently a fifth segment that was published much later, but I feel it'll be fine to track that down later and just finish the quartet for now.

It's good to pace it out! I did the same with Ulysses. Yeah, I don't have the last part either, as it didn't come in the University of Illinois Press set. There's a Goodreads group for Dorothy Richardson that has a link to where it's available online, though, I think!

https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=4070

Thanks for the link, Nell. Something for me to explore when the time is right.

Chipping away at this bit by bit, with three done for the bingo and one for the decade quest for women. It'll be somewhat slow going with me devoting the first four months of the year to a 2100+ page work, but the world continuing to be what it is, less haste is probably exactly what I need right now.

Another one done, this time for the Century Quest for Women. I also finally got a copy for the last work I needed for my Decade one, so now I just need to pin that last Century one down and I'll be swimming for the rest of the year.

Finished a couple more for Bingo and another for Quest. I'm finally starting the fourth and last volume of the monumental 'Pilgrimage' that I've been working on since January, so once that's finished, I'll be moving a lot more speedily on these challenges.

Aubrey, you can delete this as its not related to the challenge:
https://twitter.com/Read_WIT/status/1...

They are posting one author everyday and its pretty great. I have discovered a lot of new authors from around the world - some new, some old. Some don't have English translation yet though they are pretty famous in their region. I am not sure where else I can post this or if its already posted in this group.

Cheers!

Thanks, Sookie! I hadn’t know about this. I don’t tweet but I’ll follow :)