Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

✅ B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 - The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy (4 Jan 2023)
✅ B2: Classic written in your native language - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain (8 Jan 2023)
✅ B3: Classic of Europe - Death in Venice (1912) by Thomas Mann (11 Jan 2023)
✅ B4: Classic involving art - Seabird: A Newbery Honor Award Winner by Holling Clancy Holling (14 Oct 2023)
✅ B5: Classic from your bookshelf - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (15 Oct 2023)

✅ I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (5 Nov 2023)
I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir
✅ I3: Classic horror or gothic - The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (13 Nov 2023)
✅ I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humor - The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (24 Nov 2023)
✅I5: Book from the group’s Favorites of 2022 The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (24 Sept 2023)

✅ N1: Classic of the Americas - To Have and Have Not (1937) by Ernest Hemingway (19 Feb 2023) (21 Jan 2023)
N2: Classic Western
✅N3: Reader’s Choice - The Heather Blazing (1992) by Colm Tóibín
✅ N4: Classic mystery or thriller - The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph Conrad (5 April 2023)
✅ N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania - Woman at Point Zero (1975) by Nawal El Saadawi (15 Apr 2023)

✅G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win - The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle (31 Jan 2023)
✅ G2: Classic action or adventure - Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (7 Oct 2023)
✅ G3: Classic history or historical fiction - All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) by Erich Maria Remarque (10 Feb 2023)
✅ G4: Classic fantasy or science fiction - Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (28 May 2023)
✅ G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf - The Story of an Hour (1894) by Kate Chopin (3 Sept 2023)

✅ O1: Book Published before 1900 - David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens (3 Jun 2023)
✅ O2: New-To-You Classic Author - The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman / Suspicion (1953) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (28 Feb 2023)
✅ O3: Classic of Asia - The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene (6 Feb 2023)
✅ O4: Classic in translation - The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) by Leo Tolstoy (6 Jan 2023)
✅ O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 - The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) by May Sinclair (9 June 2023)

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Welcome to Bingo. I hope you have a great time reading for this challenge.

Welcome Jennifer! You have a few squares here already. The Midsummer Night's Dream will fill another. . . . You have time to fill the bingo card or to get a few bingoes along the way.

You're off to a great start!

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr was a great writer. Breakfast of the Champions is high on my list of possibilities.

Another bingo!

Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz was an excellent adventure story. Though billed as a true story, the facts have been disputed. Regardless of its factuality, it was a great read! I am going to see if my hsuband will watch the film version with me after we finish the Band of Brother series.

Well done, you're making a ton of progress!

Bingo #3!

A Tale of Two Cities was on the group's bookshelf from before 2023.

It was a 5-star read. What an excellent book! I am going to have nightmares about Madame Defarge and her knitting.

Congratulations! I also really like Dickens. You're making great progress on your challenge.

It looks like you're almost done -- that's great!

Wobbley wrote: "It looks like you're almost done -- that's great!"

Thanks! I just started The Pickwick Papers, which can count for "I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humor." It is indeed being hilarious!

I finished The Pickwick Papers. It was uneven -- occasionally lagging a bit, but with some truly brilliant sections!

Two left if I want to get to a blackout. I am not sure about getting to two more this year. Hopefully!

Possibilities, if there is time:
I2/Memoir
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937)
- Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920)

N2/Western
- The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1902)

You should definitely read The Virginian! That's a good one and not too long :)

Good luck! I think you can do this! ;)

So many Dickens novel this year -- very impressive!

Wobbley wrote: "So many Dickens novel this year -- very impressive!"

Thank you, Wobbley!

I am currently reading a fourth Dickens, Hard Times, but don't think it fits any of the remaining challenges!

Terris wrote: "You should definitely read The Virginian! That's a good one and not too long :)

Good luck! I think you can do this! ;)"

Thanks, Terris! I'll give it a try!

JenniferAustin wrote: "I finished The Pickwick Papers. It was uneven -- occasionally lagging a bit, but with some truly brilliant sections!

Two left if I want to get to a blackout. I am not sure about gett..."

I am currently reading The Virginian for the Western Square. I'm not quite ready to decide on a rating for it yet.