Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

READ B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
READ B2: Classic written in your native language Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost
READ B3: Classic of Europe Hamlet, William Shakespeare from The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition
READ B4: Classic involving art The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
READ B5: Classic from your bookshelf The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

READ I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023 The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
READ I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir Noa Noa by Paul Gauguin
READ I3: Classic horror or gothic The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
READ I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humor Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
READ I5: Book from the group’s Favorites of 2022 The Weary Blues: A Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes

READ N1: Classic of the Americas The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
READ N2: Classic Western Texas Gunslingers by Bill O'Neal
READ N3: Reader’s Choice Calypso by David Sedaris
READ N4: Classic mystery or thriller Silverview byJohn le Carré
READ N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania We Are the Ocean: Selected Works by Epeli Hauʻofa

READ G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
READ G2: Classic action or adventure Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
READ G3: Classic history or historical fiction The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth
READ G4: Class fantasy or science fiction The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
READ G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf The Medea of Euripides by Euripides LL.D. Murray, Gilbert M.A.

READ O1: Book Published before 1900 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevskyby
READ O2: New-To-You Classic Author Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
READ O3: Classic of Asia The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
READ O4: Classic in The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
READ O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 Written on Water Eileen Chang

Since I have a tendency to change my selections, I decided to try adding what I have read as I go.

Sounds like a great plan, Gina. I hope you have a great reading year., and have fun with the Bingo.

Found one I enjoyed reading, Noa Noa by Gauguin. A first so far. Sensed some joy coming thru with this one. Needed some of that just now. So, yea! And the book itself is a keeper for the prints.

Found a Maugham related to Noa Noa, Moon and Six Pence based on Gauguin's life. Very readable.

B1 Intended to read just the first of this trilogy, but couldn't stop there. Beckett writes in a way that engages and frustrates at the same time. Can't stop, must go on. (A bad paraphrase of his last line in The Unnnameable) Guess that's point of absurd?

The Solace of Open Spaces probably doesn't fit N2 classic western, but it's certainly a good look at Western living in this century. Real cowboys still exist, as does much of what makes the classic Western classic. Well written set of essays.

I've had really mixed results with W. Somerset Maugham. I loved The Razor's Edge, and quite liked Cakes and Ale, but I didn't really enjoy his most famous book, Of Human Bondage. I'm glad to hear that The Moon and Six Pence is worth giving a try!

Good luck with your challenge!

Still plodding along. Got a few more titles read. Just finished my first Toni Morrison, Tar Baby. very dense, well written, and it does indeed stick to/with you. May visit another of her works later.

Well done, you're making great progress! Especially true since your choices are often so ambitious: the works of Frost to count in one spot, and also 3 novels by Beckett in one spot. Actually, wrapping back to my message of February 8th: I just started reading The Moon and Six Pence this evening!

Thanks, Wobbley. Hope you find it worth your while.

If anyone needs a Classic of Asia The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng is one to consider. Very good in just about all ways it could be.

Done! Tough board for me this time around, but it's done now, and I feel good about it.

Bravo! Well done finishing the board. Which were your favourite reads from Bingo this year?

Thanks, Wobbley! Hard to choose favorites really. Beckett is an old friend, as is Marquez and Saramago. Definitely add Eng, Morrison, and Hughes to the potential friends list. Not a fan of Poe, de Beauvoir, or Ballard. The others fall in between, I guess.

Gini you give me good reminder to pick up some Robert Frost. . . . .And you read other greats this year too. Best of luck!