Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Hi there! This will be my 4th attempt to complet the Bingo board, I wonder if I will ever manage! But of course it is always fun to see the categories and try to make reading plans, even if I rarely stick to my plans! XD I know coming year will just be the same story :-p As I didn't read quite some books from my 2022 board some that still fit a category will go on to this year and for the others I will start thinking and planning! :-) But of course this will probably end up the same as always, me just reading and rtying to fit some categories and complet ( part ) of the board along the way^^

Progress: 9/25

B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
B2: Classic written in your native language The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
B3: Classic of Europe A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
B4: Classic involving art
B5: Classic from your bookshelf The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023 Dune or The Great Gatsby
I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter read january - march
I3: Classic horror or gothicThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I5: Book from the group’s Favorites of 2022 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas or The Library of Babel

N1: Classic of the Americas To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
N2: Classic Western
N3: Reader’s Choice Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
N4: Classic mystery or thriller
N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
G2: Classic action or adventure
G3: Classic history or historical fiction Wise Child by Monica Furlong
G4: Class fantasy or science fiction A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf Sula by Toni Morrison

O1: Book Published before 1900 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
O2: New-To-You Classic Author The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger read
O3: Classic of Asia
O4: Classic in translation The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

I love your list, Irphen! You have a lot of good ones on there!!
I need to read something by Angela Carter sometime. Hope "Book of Fairy Tales" is good.
I especially enjoyed "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (so funny!), and I was impressed with "Maurice." I was expecting something different, and I was pleasantly surprised!

Hope you enjoy your Bingo Challenge in 2023!

Terris wrote: "I love your list, Irphen! You have a lot of good ones on there!!
I need to read something by Angela Carter sometime. Hope "Book of Fairy Tales" is good.
I especially enjoyed "The Hitchhiker's Gui..."

I really loved some of the stories from her The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories when I was in my 20s, but re-reading it recently, I was struck by how brutal several of the stories were. Still, I think her baroque language is a wonderful fit for fairy tales, and the best few in the collection still transported me. Hope you enjoy it Terris and Irphen! But don't go in expecting too much lightheatedness or redemption!! :)

Several others you've chosen are favorites - great and varied picks! The mix of literature and sci-fi/fantasy is just up my alley!

Have a great reading year with your Bingo plans, Irphen.

Lots of great books planned. Enjoy your challenge!

Love your list, Irphen! Enjoy!

I'll cross fingers that you get a completed bingo this year, Irphen, but remember the point is to love the reading you do, so "trying to fit them in slots" is a great strategy.

Terris wrote: "I love your list, Irphen! You have a lot of good ones on there!!
I need to read something by Angela Carter sometime. Hope "Book of Fairy Tales" is good.
I especially enjoyed "The Hitchhiker's Gui..."

Thanks!^^
I hope Angela Carter's Fairy tales book it is good as well! As I'm a fairy tale lover I think it sould be rather up my alley ;-)
I'm glad to know you liked The Hitch hikers guide and Maurice, hope it will be the same for me! :-)
Thank you and I hope you will enjoy your callenge as well!!^^

Greg wrote: "I really loved some of the stories from her The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories when I was in my 20s, but re-reading it recently, I was struck by how brutal several of the stories were...."

I had that one on my Bingo board of 2022 but as I don't had a copy yet ( it was the participant pick! ) I ended up not readying it! So this will be my first Angela Carter read :-)

Thanks! And nice to know you are into sf and fantasy as well! ;-)

Matt wrote: "Good luck on your BINGO Irphen!"

Thank you!! :-)

Katy wrote: "Have a great reading year with your Bingo plans, Irphen."

Thank you Katy! I hope you will enjoy yours as well and thanks for setting up this bingo board!! :-)

Laurie wrote: "Lots of great books planned. Enjoy your challenge!"

Thanks! :-)

Carolien wrote: "Love your list, Irphen! Enjoy!"

Thank you!^^

It will be the fourth attempt for me as well, but I might actually complete one single column this year. Maybe ...

Good luck and I'm looking forward to our buddy read 🙂

Just as I expected, you have selected some books I also like. . . . .If you want company, let me know when you want to read the Angela Carter book. I have read two others if hers, and now I am in literary love.

Enjoy your new reading year!

Cynda wrote: "Just as I expected, you have selected some books I also like. . . . .If you want company, let me know when you want to read the Angela Carter book. I have read two others if hers, and now I am in l..."

Which Carter books did you read Cynda? Just curious.

Greg and Irphen, I have read The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories and Wise Children. Bloody Chamber is good, and Wise Children is a masterpeice.

I found the Bloody Chamber awe-inspiring. There is such rawness weaved in the lyricism and beautiful imagery, while Carter’s style challenges you at every corner. Worth the investment.

To Kill a Mockingbird and Jane Eyre are wonderful (in totally different ways) and I hope you enjoy them. I’ve been meaning to read Maurice for a while now, and re-read Dune. Might add them to my board.

Good luck with your bingo. I keep trying every year ;O)

Nike wrote: "It will be the fourth attempt for me as well, but I might actually complete one single column this year. Maybe ...

Good luck and I'm looking forward to our buddy read 🙂"

Yay! We are joyfully attempting over and over again! ;-p Good luck with your signle column of this year in any case!

Cynda wrote: "Just as I expected, you have selected some books I also like. . . . .If you want company, let me know when you want to read the Angela Carter book. I have read two others if hers, and now I am in l..."

Haha, there sure is a reason for us to be goodreads friends ;-) And I will let you know when I get to the Angela Carter indeed, haven't read anything from her before but it seems very promising and doing a buddy read on it sounds great! :-)

Veronique wrote: "I found the Bloody Chamber awe-inspiring. There is such rawness weaved in the lyricism and beautiful imagery, while Carter’s style challenges you at every corner. Worth the investment.

To Kill a M..."

With all this talking about Angela Carter I will be tempted to start of the year with her! ;-)

Also Maurice is on my board for the second or even thrid time this year! I really hope to come to it this time and if ever you want to boost yourself in reading it as well this year we could think about a buddy read!^^

Thanks and good luck to you as well! :-)

Never going to finish this bingo challenge haha! It seems like each year I manage to read even less. I'm doing it backward! XD Instaed of building up the number of books I read for my bingo board I lower them eauch year ;-p

The main thing is to read things you enjoy. If they don't fit into your Bingo board, no worries!

You've got so many books on this list that I've got in my book shelves at home! But we have realised that before, haven't we? That our taste in literature is very similar.

Did you read the first of Castaneda's books? I still have this series unread. And I've got the book by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, also still unread.

I've read a few of the others on your list and the ones I really love are: "The unbearable lightness of being" - one of the best books I've ever read (⁠✿⁠ ⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠),
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (I've read the first four and since then a fifth part has come and I still can't decide whether to reread the first four or try and jump straight into the fifth) and "To kill a mockingbird" which I read this year.