Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

✔️Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR - participating
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse - not participating
✔️Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge - participating
✔️Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge - participating
✔️Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge - Participating
✔️Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge - Participating
✔️Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors - Participating
Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference? - ?
✔️ Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction - participating completed
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult ? -
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories -Participating ?
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge - not participating
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge- not participating

Old and New

1899 and earlier/Old School
✔️1. Sense and Sensibility (kindle) read Mar 4 stars
✔️2. Paradise Lost (kindle) read Feb 5 stars
✔️3. The Moonstone alternate Gone with the Wind read Sept 5 stars
1900-1999/New School
✔️4. The Trees (kindle) read July 4 stars
✔️5. The Fields (kindle) read Aug 4stars
✔️6. The Town Pulitzer Read Oct 4 stars (kindle)
My Wild Card Six
✔️7. Stormy Weather (physical) Read June 4 stars
✔️8. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War (physical) finished Feb 5 Stars
✔️9. The Fire Next Time (audio) Feb 4 stars
✔️10. The History of Love (physical) , Nov 5 stars
✔️11. Trustee from the Toolroom (kindle) Finished Feb 5 stars
✔️12. Peace Like a River (kindle) 5 stars

Alternates
A-1. House made of Dawn Pulitzer (physical)
✔️A-2. Gone with the Wind Pulitzer (physical) 5 stars
A-3. War and Peace (kindle)

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#3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

Decade +2

✔️2022- Black Cake CC book club 4 stars
✔️2021 Northern Spy(library CC bk club) 4 stars

✔️2020 - The Midnight Library 2 stars
✔️2019 - A Mind of Her Own 2 stars
✔️2018 - Have a Nice Day 2 stars
✔️2017 - Sing, Unburied, Sing (physical) 5 stars
✔️2016 - The Noise of Time 4 stars
✔️2015 - Circling the Sun (library) 4 stars
✔️2014 - Men Without Women <5 stars
✔️2013 - Ordinary Grace(library CC bk club) 4 stars
✔️2012 The Forgotten poker book club Dec 3 stars
✔️2011The Paris Wife Dec 5 stars
✔️2010-Requiem by Fire SLT group 5 stars

2009 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
✔️2008Bruno, Chief of Police poker book club 5 stars
✔️ 2007 Stormy Weather buddy read 4 stars
✔️2006 Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ 3 stars
✔️2005 The March SLT group 5 stars
2004 Hannah Coulter
2003 Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
2002 Train Dreams
✔️2001 Peace Like a River 5 stars
2000 Boone's Lick or Blue Ridge

#4 Member's Choice Challenge

✔️1. 19th Century, The Old Curiosity Shop (kindle/audio) Finished Jan 4 stars
✔️2. 20th Century,Christy read March 4 stars
✔️3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic, Peace Like a River 5 stars
✔️4. Current or Past Group Read] The Winter of Our Discontent 5 stars
✔️5. An Author not read before, The Razor's Edge
(kindle) 4.5 stars
✔️6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours.The Fire Next Time 4 stars
✔️7. Science Fiction The War of the Worlds 4 stars
✔️8. A book originally written in a language other than your own,La Dame aux Camélias (library) 3 stars
✔️9. A Banned Book, Darkness at Noon (library) 4 stars
✔️10. Nonfiction, West with the Night ] (physical) Nov 5 stars
✔️11. Mystery/Crime, The King's General (kindle & Physical) 5 stars
✔️12. Horror or Humor Walking Across Egypt 4 stars

< #5 - Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories.
✔️1. Drive My Car by 4.5 stars
✔️2. Yesterday by Haruki Murakami 4 stars
✔️3. An Independent Organ by Haruki Murakami 5 stars
✔️4. Scheherazade by Haruki Murakami 5 stars
✔️5. Kino by Haruki Murakami 5 stars
✔️6. Samsa In Love by Haruki Murakami 5 stars
✔️7. Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami 5 stars
✔️8. Bartleby the Scrivener 4 stars 20
✔️9. The Birthmark 4 stars 21
✔️10 Young Goodman Brown 4 stars 22
✔️11 The Wasteland and other poems 3 stars
✔️12. The Library of Babel 3 stars
✔️ 13. The Kreutzer Sonata 5 stars
✔️14. Hurt Man by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️15. A Consent by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️16. Don't Send a Boy to do a Man's Work by Wendell berry 4 stars
✔️17. Pray Without Ceasing by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️18. Watch With Me by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️19. A Hal-Pint of Old Darling by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️20. The Lost Bet by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️21. Thicker than Liquor by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️22. Nearly to the Fair by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️23. Turn Back the Bed by Wendell Berry 5 stars
✔️24. The Solemn Boy by Wendell Berry 5 stars

#6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge

✔️1. The Gambler 4 stars
✔️2. The Razor's Edge4 stars
✔️3. The Old Curiosity Shop 4 stars
✔️4. The Kreutzer Sonata 5 stars
✔️5. The Winter of Our Discontent 5 stars
✔️6. Cyrano de Bergerac 4 stars
✔️7. Bartleby the Scrivener 4 stars
✔️8. The Library of Babel 3 stars
✔️9. The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems 3 stars
✔️10.The Mark on the Wall 5 stars
✔️11. Berenice 4 stars
✔️12. The Garden Party by W. Somerset Maugham 5 stars

# 7 Expand your horizons with 6 or more new authors

✔️1. The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews 5 stars
✔️2.The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 4 stars
✔️3. La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas (Fils) 3 stars

✔️4. The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke 4 stars
✔️5. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr 5 stars
✔️ 6. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 4 stars
✔️ 7. The Wasteland and other poems by T.S. Eliot 3 stars
✔️ 8. Walking Across Egypt 4 stars
✔️ 9. The Trees by Conrad Richter
✔️10 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
✔️11 The March byE.L. Doctorow
✔️12 Paradise Lost by John Milton
✔️13 Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
✔️ 14 Requiem by Fire byWayne Caldwell
✔️ 15 Elkhorn Tavern by Douglas C. Jones
✔️16. That Distant Land by Wendell Barry

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Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction

Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.

Women in aviation
✔️ Fiction: Circling the Sun (library) 4 stars
✔️ Nonfiction: West with the Night (physical) 5 stars
Civil War
✔️Fiction: The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil WarThe Black Flower (physical 5 stars
✔️Nonfiction: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief(physical)5 stars
Lost Generation
✔️Fiction: The Paris Wife 5 stars
✔️Nonfiction: A Moveable Feast 4 stars
racial injustice
✔️Fiction: Horse 3 stars (modern timeline 2 historical timelines 5 stars)
✔️Non Fiction The Fire Next Time 4 stars
Lost writings
✔️Fiction: The History of Love 5 stars
✔️: Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages 5 stars

Pioneers
✔️Fiction: The Town 4stars
Nonfiction: The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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So glad you'll be here, and I love your Old and New--particularly your trilogy. Great idea! I hope it's a happy new year of reading, Sue. :-)

Kathleen wrote: "So glad you'll be here, and I love your Old and New--particularly your trilogy. Great idea! I hope it's a happy new year of reading, Sue. :-)"

Thank you, Kathleen. I'm late at getting around to this and still haven't finished updating my 2021 challenges (even though I did the reading)! It was a strange year and I hope this one is better.

Ditto Kathleen’s sentiments, Sue! I look forward to reading with you this year! I’m also reading the same books in your women in aviation category. Can’t remember what I called mine.

Lori wrote: "Ditto Kathleen’s sentiments, Sue! I look forward to reading with you this year! I’m also reading the same books in your women in aviation category. Can’t remember what I called mine."

We should see if we can work out a buddy read for them, Lori. I've been wanting to get to those for awhile and just recently got West with the Night from a library sale. I think I want to start with Circling the Sun first.

So glad to see you have made your lists. You've got some great reads planned. I can relate to hoping for a better year...almost has to be.

Sue, a buddy read of those would be great! I would love reading them with you!

Thank you, Sara. I need to find more time for Goodreads this year.

Let me know what could work for you, Lori. April is out for me, but I could squeeze them in in most other months

All the best with your challenges Sue!

Thank you, Ila!

I haven't updated this one since Jan 4th. Pretty pathetic. It's been a crazy year for me. I wasn't able to post, update or review very much and read a lot less too. I won't be completing the decade challenge and will only have one on the fiction/nonfiction. All the others started will be completed.

Even though I read a lot less this year, I think I've read more 4 and 5 star books that ever. Maybe being able to read less makes you appreciate what you do read all the more?

I'm closing this off with the last book read to complete my 7th challenge being the 5 star Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages.

It was all I could do to read enough to complete my challenges this year. I did very few reviews. I hope to get to some reviews for my five star reads next week but I already feel behind on 2023 reading!

7 challenges in a busy year is a wonderful accomplishment, Sue!! Your last one looks great (I had to add it). Congratulations, and Happy New Year!

Kathleen wrote: "7 challenges in a busy year is a wonderful accomplishment, Sue!! Your last one looks great (I had to add it). Congratulations, and Happy New Year!"

It's an amazing book for those of us who enjoy looking at little time capsules that manage to survive unbeknownst to the owner. I hope to do a review for this one but I've been hoping to do many that never get done!

Congratulations! 7 Challenges is quite a lot. I am always impressed when people finish the Old and New Challenge! Nice job.

Sue wrote: "I haven't updated this one since Jan 4th. Pretty pathetic. It's been a crazy year for me. I wasn't able to post, update or review very much and read a lot less too. I won't be completing the decade..."

I find I enjoy the books more when I don't feel rushed. Maybe that is part of it?