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Kathleen’s Gluttony is Good 2024 Buffet
Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR ChallengeOnly six of the 12 books selected are required be Classics based on the Groups definitions, they do not have to come from the groups bookshelf. At least 3 books from the Old School category (published before 1900) and 3 books from the New School category (published between 1900 & 1999). The other six and your three alternates can be any genre or age you wish to read. Yes, even post 2000.
You can post your list and make all the changes you want until then, but no changes after midnight 12/31/2023.
Old and New *Final!*
1899 and earlier/Old School
✔️1. New Grub Street by George Gissing 1891 ✨✨✨✨✨
✔️2. Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861 Finished 10/22/24 ✨✨✨✨
✔️3. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 1898 ✨✨✨✨✨
1900-1999/New School
✔️4. Quicksand by Nella Larsen 1928 - Finished 1/6/24 ✨✨✨✨
✔️5. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 1953 ✨✨✨✨✨
✔️6. In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden 1969 ✨✨✨✨
Wildcard: Writing Books
✔️7. On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner ✨✨✨✨✨
8. Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice by Colum McCann
✔️9. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders ✨✨✨✨✨
✔️10. remembered rapture: the writer at work by bell hooks ✨✨✨✨
11. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
✔️12. The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson ✨✨✨✨
Alternates
A1. The Masterpiece by Émile Zola 1886
✔️A2. Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell 1959 ✨✨✨✨✨
✔️A3. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart 1973 ✨✨✨✨
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse 🙆 🏳️Go back through the groups past polls and select Four (5) total books that are of interest to you but lost the poll and to date has never made it to our group bookshelf. Pick one book from New School, one from Old School, two from Short Story/Novella, and one from the Quarterly Long Read.
Second Place or Worse **PLANNING**
New School
Long Day's Journey into Night - March 2022
The Bell - October 2021
Old School
New Grub Street - January 2024
Lysistrata - June 2023
The Masterpiece - September 2022
Short Story/Novella
Liza of Lambeth - November 2023
Pedro Páramo - November 2023
The Driver's Seat - June 2023
The Verger - February 2023
Quarterly Long Read
The World According to Garp - 2nd Quarter 2022
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales - 2nd Quarter 2021
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge 🏆Only one version of the challenge is required to participate. For those exceptional readers, over achievers, or competitive eating gluttons, feel free to increase the difficulty of the challenge by taking on 2 or all 3 versions. There are three ways to participate. First, read one book per year for 10 consecutive years, one-decade total. Second read one book from 10 consecutive decades, one century total. Third, read one book from 10 consecutive centuries, one millennium total.
The Decade Challenge: Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive years (1 book per year). The authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you. Or you can add a level of difficulty to your challenge by selecting only authors you've never read before.
Century of Women Challenge
✔️1904 - Italian Villas and Their Gardens, Edith Wharton ✨✨✨✨
✔️1917 - Images in a Mirror, Sigrid Undset ✨✨✨
✔️1928 - Quicksand, Nella Larsen ✨✨✨✨
✔️1930 -
✔️1948 - I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith ✨✨✨✨
✔️1954 -
✔️1969 - In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden ✨✨✨✨
✔️1973 - The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart ✨✨✨✨
✔️1987 -
✔️1998 - Spiderweb, Penelope Lively ✨✨✨✨
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge Choose one book per category/genre for a total of 12 books. 🏆✔️1. 19th Century - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
✔️2. 20th Century - Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
✔️3. 21st Century - Less Is Lost, Andrew Sean Greer
✔️4. A book originally written in a language other than your own - Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
✔️5. An Author never read before - Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
✔️6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours - My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
✔️7. Science Fiction/Fantasy - Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
✔️8. Action/Adventure - The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart
✔️9. Childrens/Young Adult - The Dark Horse, Rumer Godden
✔️10. Nonfiction Memoir/Biography - remembered rapture: the writer at work by bell hooks
✔️11. Mystery/Thriller - When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
✔️12. Horror or Humor - Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge 🏆Challenge = Read 24 short stories
Read 32 stories plus two collections
January
Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham ✨✨✨✨
The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit by Giovanni Papini ✨✨✨✨
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens ✨✨✨
February
Frritt-Flacc by Jules Verne ✨✨✨✨
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe ✨✨✨✨
Split Second and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier (title story only) ✨✨✨✨
March
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro (Collection) ✨✨
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poem) ✨✨✨✨
The Beauties by Anton Chekhov ✨✨✨✨
Peter og Rosa by Isak Dinesen ✨✨✨✨✨
The Tattooer by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ✨✨✨✨
April
To Build a Fire by Jack London ✨✨✨✨✨
Lady into Fox by David Garnett ✨✨✨✨
Father's Last Escape by Bruno Schulz ✨✨✨
A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse ✨✨✨✨
June
The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson ✨✨✨✨
July
In the Cart by Anton Chekhov ✨✨✨✨
The Singers by Ivan Turgenev ✨✨✨✨
The Darling by Anton Chekhov ✨✨✨
Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy ✨✨✨✨
Alyosha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy ✨✨✨✨
August
The Eyes by Edith Wharton ✨✨✨✨
September
The Door in the Wall by H.G. Wells ✨✨✨✨
The Friends by Silvina Ocampo ✨✨✨✨
Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce In One Act by Charles Dickens ✨✨✨
A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka ✨✨✨
Et In Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams ✨✨✨
Los cautivos de Longjumeau by Léon Bloy ✨✨✨
October
What the Shepherd Saw byThomas Hardy ✨✨✨
The Birds by Daphne du Maurier ✨✨✨✨
November
The Fisherman and his Soul by Oscar Wilde ✨✨✨✨
The Apple Tree by Daphne du Maurier ✨✨✨✨
December
Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale by Anthony Trollope ✨✨✨✨
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories by William Saroyan (collection) ✨✨✨✨✨
Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads Challenge 🏆 The challenge is to read 12 total books/stories from this year's group poll winners or Buddy Reads, in any combination.
1. Quicksand, Nella Larsen January New School Classic
2. China Court, Rumer Godden January Buddy Read
3. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck February New School Classic
4. Swann's Way, Marcel Proust First Quarter Long Read
5. My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok March buddy read
6. The Beauties, Anton Chekhov March short story read
7. In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden March buddy read
8. To Build a Fire, Jack London April short story read
9. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens April Old School read
10. The Dark Horse by Rumer Godden June buddy read
11. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen June Revisit the Shelf read
12. Miss Mole by E.H. Young July Buddy read
13. The Eyes by Edith Wharton August Short Story read
14. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood September New School read
15. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka September Short Story read
16. The King Must Die by Mary Renault September buddy read
17. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. September Revisit-the-Shelf read
18. What the Shepherd Saw by Thomas Hardy October Short Story read
19. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende September/October buddy read
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors 🏆Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, from any genre or era you want.
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Finished 1/10/24 ✨✨✨✨
Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America Finished 2/24/24 ✨✨✨✨
bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work Finished 2/26/24 ✨✨✨✨
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way Finished 3/10/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev Finished 3/10/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet Finished 3/17/24 ✨✨✨✨
Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem Finished 3/30/24 ✨✨✨✨
David Garnett, Lady into Fox Finished 4/14/24 ✨✨✨✨
Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge Finished 5/3/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front Finished 5/11/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
Victor Serge, The Case of Comrade Tulayev Finished 6/30/24 ✨✨✨✨
E.H. Young, Miss Mole Finished 7/15/24 ✨✨✨✨
Diane Wolkstein, Sun Mother Wakes the World: An Australian Creation Story Finished 7/28/24 ✨✨✨✨
Ha Seong-nan, Flowers of Mold Finished 8/12/24 ✨✨✨
Marlen Haushofer, The Wall Finished 8/16/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
Wisława Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems Finished 8/22/24 ✨✨✨✨
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night ✨✨✨✨
Mary Renault, The King Must Die ✨✨✨
Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding ✨✨✨✨
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle ✨✨✨✨
Challenge #8 –Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year 🙆 🏳️Locate and list 10 books that most interest you from the year of your choice. The challenge is to read five 5 books from that list. You can use the year of your birth, the birth year of a family member, or friend, or any random year you choose.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...
NOTE: click on the link above then change the date to the date you wish to search.
**PLANNING**
1969
✔️In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden ✨✨✨✨
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
Sounder, William H. Armstrong
Travels with My Aunt, Graham Greene
I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories, Ray Bradbury
The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier
Contemplative Prayer, Thomas Merton
The Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday
✔️Mr. Bridge, Evan S. Connell ✨✨✨✨
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-FictionSelect 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.
Novelists
New Grub Street
✔️On Becoming a Novelist
Emily Brontë
Emily's Ghost
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Goddesses
Circe
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Trees
The Overstory
Boys in the Trees
German History
✔️All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
✔️The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany
Women Writing
✔️Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
✔️remembered rapture: the writer at work, bell hooks
Back to the Land
✔️The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
✔️The Stillmeadow Road by Gladys Taber
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of DifficultSelect five books from five different centuries, using the same decade for each century you select. They do not have to be consecutive centuries but must be the same decade.
20th Century - Crampton Hodnet, Barbara Pym - 1985
19th Century - The Masterpiece, Émile Zola - 1886
18th Century - The Chapter of Accidents: A Comedy in Five Acts, Sophia Lee - 1782
17th Century - The Lucky Chance, Aphra Behn - 1686
16th Century - Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe - 1587
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories 🙆 🏳️Select five categories of your choice or use some of these sample categories. Once you make your category selections, link the categories by finding and reading an Old School (1899 or older) and a New School book (1900-1999) that contains some part or is all about your selected categories. It will be more interesting and more varied if you come up with your own categories.
Samples Ideas:
Contains a Trial
Has a Murder
Contains Time Travel
Set in or has Winter involved
Coming of Age
Is About a Fallen Woman
Set on or has The Sea involved
Animals
School
Travel
Life Changing Action
Survival
A book that made you cry
Challenge #12 - Series Books – Start, Continue, CompleteStart
For those who have never read a series collection or have finished one and are stalling off on starting another. The challenge is to find an interesting series and read at least two books this year from the selected series. Some series are only three books in length, such as The Hunger Games #1, #2, #3
1. Mr. Bridge & Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
✔️#1 Mrs. Bridge Read 5/3/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
✔️#2 Mr. Bridge ✨✨✨✨
2. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
✔️Read #1 Swann's Way Read 3/10/24 ✨✨✨✨✨
#2 Within a Budding Grove (not likely!)
3. The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin
Read #1 A Wizard of Earthsea
#2 The Tombs of Atuan
4. The King Must Die by Mary Renault
✔️Read #1 The King Must Die Read 9/17/24 ✨✨✨
#2 The Bull from the Sea
5. The Shadow of the Wind. by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Read #1 The Shadow of the Wind
#2 The Angel's Game
Continue
If you are currently reading a series and have stalled out and set it aside, here is your chance to get back to it.
Possibilities:
1. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
Have only read #1, The Country Girls
At least read #2, Girl with Green Eyes
2. Easy Rawlins by Walter Mosley
Have only read #1 Devil in a Blue Dress
✔️At least read #2 A Red Death
Read 2/29/24 ✨✨✨✨
3. My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash 1-4) by Elizabeth Strout
Have read #1 My Name Is Lucy Barton
To read #2 Anything Is Possible
#3Oh William!
#4Lucy by the Sea
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Have read #1 Gilead
To read #2Home
#3 Lila
#4 Jack
Complete
If you are close to finishing a series, but have not been actively reading them, here is your chance to finish it. Set a goal to see it finished or make a big dent in it.
1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel! I have read #1 and #2, and my top priority for 2024 is to read The Mirror & the Light
2. The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Have read #1 The Siege
Need to read #2 The Betrayal
Challenge #13 - Travel the World One Continent at a Time 🏆Select a book or an author from each of the seven world continents, *Antarctica is optional, I understand that most around the world challenges are much longer in both time and number of books required. Our challenges only run from January 1-December 31. So, this seems more doable.
Africa - At Night All Blood is Black, David Diop ✨✨✨
Asia - Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-nan ✨✨✨
Australia - Sun Mother Wakes the World: An Australian Creation Story by Diane Wolkstein ✨✨✨✨
Europe - Swann's Way, Marcel Proust ✨✨✨✨✨
North America - Cannery Row, John Steinbeck ✨✨✨✨✨
South America - Eva Luna, Isabel Allende ✨✨✨✨
*Antarctica -
Ideas
Africa - Half of a Yellow Sun, So Long a Letter, At Night All Blood is Black
Asia - A Passage to India, Masks, The Makioka Sisters, Flowers of Mold
Australia - The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Sun Mother Wakes the World: An Australian Creation Story, True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Europe - Swann's Way, Images in a Mirror, The Masterpiece, The Shadow of the Wind
North America - Alias Grace
South America - Eva Luna, Pedro Páramo
*Antarctica - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Challenge 14 - Rereading - Some do. Some don't 🏆Some of us reread regularly, others reread rarely if ever. We have all read books that we found fantastic. We finish the last page, set it aside and think someday I would like to reread this again. Let us know the titles of five books you found worthy of rereading. This year’s challenge is, reread two of your selections.
✔️1. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories by William Saroyan
✔️2. On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
4. Middlemarch by George Eliot
✔️5. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
(Extras)
6. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
7. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Challenge #15 - A-Z Title ChallengeFor those of us who struggle, with this challenge consider it successful by using only 23 letters. There are 4 optional letters marked with an (*), you only need to use one.
A A Red Death by Walter Mosley
B The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens
C China Court by Rumer Godden
D The Dark Horse by Rumer Godden
E The Eyes by Edith Wharton
F Father's Last Escape by Bruno Schulz
G Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
H Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
I Italian Villas and Their Gardens: Edith Wharton's Ode to Italian Elegance
J
K The King Must Die by Mary Renault
L Lady into Fox by David Garnett
M Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens
N Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
O
P The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
*Q Quicksand, Nella Larsen
R remembered rapture: the writer at work by bell hooks
S Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
T This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
U Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
V View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wisława Szymborska
W When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
*X
*Y
*Z
Challenge #16 - A-Z Author ChallengeFor those of us who struggle, with this challenge consider it successful by using only 23 letters. There are 4 optional letters marked with an (*), you only need to use one.
A Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
B James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
C Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D Charles Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock
E George Eliot, Silas Marner
F
G Rumer Godden, China Court
H Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem
I Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
J Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
K Martin Kitchen, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany
L - Nella Larsen, Quicksand
M Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel
N
O Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
P Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
*Q
R Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
S Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
T Elizabeth Taylor, The Soul of Kindness
U Sigrid Undset, Images in a Mirror
V Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
W Edith Wharton, Italian Villas and Their Gardens: Edith Wharton's Ode to Italian Elegance
*X
*Y E.H. Young, Miss Mole
*Z
Mod
A great attitude to have, Kathleen! You always wind up reading a lot of great books. Next year will be no different I’m sure!! Enjoy the planning!
Nice to see you're going to play, Kathleen! Have fun.
I'm already having so much fun, Lynn. :-)You're right, Sara, that we've been doing this together for years now, and I know we both try to learn as we go. This year I'm doing this a little differently. I've been compiling a list for the last few months of books I really want to read, and promised myself to stick with those books for my challenges, and not get distracted by another one cuz it fits the year I want or whatever. It helps that I had a long list! But I was able to draft both my OLD AND NEW and my CENTURY OF WOMEN challenges from the list. I'll probably tinker with it a little between now and the end of the year.
Thank you all so much. Can't wait to see what you're planning!
Wow! You really succumbed to temptation, Kathleen! haha!But like you said, you never know what a new year of reading will bring. We like to keep ourselves open to anything, don't we? ;)
I have never heard of Crampton Hodnet, but I like Barbary Pym so much that I'm definitely reading it soon. Thanks for the recommendation!! :)
Happy Reading in 2024! :)
Yes have fun Kathleen! I’ll be keeping an eye on your reading for ideas. This planning time of year is great isn’t it?
Thanks Terris! I like Barbara Pym too--this was her last book, but I still have a bunch of her others to fit in. Yes, I totally gave in. Why not? :-) Thank you Pamela! It's such a gift, sharing this fun planning time. Hope you have fun too!
Happy reading, Kathleen! I see so many wonderful books on your list. I'm intrigued by your ''compiling a list for the last few months of books I really want to read'' and will probably try something similar in the future (2025 of course).
Thank you, Shaina! I'm surprised how many from my list are fitting in the categories. I probably made too long of a list though. :-)
Mod
You're right, Sara, that we've been doing this together for years now, and I know we both try to learn as we go. This year I'm doing this a little differe..."
We have both learned. I make sure that every book and alternate on the Old & New is a book I know I am interested in reading. You cannot change that one after the year begins, and it is so disappointing when you end up with books you don't want to finish. I am also trying to stick to books I either own or have had on my reading list for a long time.
I think I'm done planning now. Or, more accurately, I have to force myself to stop planning now. :-)It's still possible I may change my Old and New before the end of the year, but I'm feeling good about it. The rest are mostly ideas.
The fun of this planning is pretending I actually had the time to read all of these books! Well, I feel like I'm surrounded by wonderful possibilities, even if I only get to some of them.
No book list is ever too long. I think listing books this way helps us remember they exist on our tbr or shelf. I usually forget about books I have bought or want to read until I come across them somewhere else. So this is very helpful.
Shaina wrote: "No book list is ever too long. I think listing books this way helps us remember they exist on our tbr or shelf. I usually forget about books I have bought or want to read until I come across them s..."The best thing about these challenges is sharing books with each other. :-) And "No book list is ever too long," now there's a motto I can live by. Thanks, Shaina!
Lovely to see someone including an Penelope Fitzgerald-who started writing when she was my age and ended up a Booker prizewinner!Super lady,Super choice!
Vicky wrote: "Lovely to see someone including an Penelope Fitzgerald-who started writing when she was my age and ended up a Booker prizewinner!Super lady,Super choice!"Yes, I'm inspired by her late start to writing, and am looking forward to reading more from her. Thanks, Vicky!
Have fun with your reading, Kathleen! Your Century of Women list looks especially enticing!
Thank you, Connie! I'm excited about the century challenge.I just reviewed my Old and New one last time to be sure, and I'm ready. Honestly, I wish I could read all of the books on New Year's Day!
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Kathleen wrote: "Thank you, Connie! I'm excited about the century challenge.I just reviewed my Old and New one last time to be sure, and I'm ready. Honestly, I wish I could read all of the books on New Year's Day..."
Good for you, Kathleen! I think I'm ready for Old/New, too. This year I actually put in books I wanted to read instead of books I was making myself read! I decided to make this year's challenge fun -- I think I might finally finish an Old/New challenge! We'll see how it goes ;)
Thanks, Terris and Matt. I'm definitely going with BIG plans!Terris, you've hit on the key to the Old and New, and I'm sure you'll finish this year. Fun is what it's about!
Mod
Bob wrote: "I see you are entering the buffet with an empty stomach and a positive attitude. You have some wonderful selections. I will always remember Silas Marner, a real favorite. Your year 196..."I'm so glad to hear about Silas Marner! And I didn't get to Sounder last year, so really want to get to it this year. I've seen the Godfather movies many times too, and read the book decades ago, when I'd only seen the movies once. Should be fun!
Thanks Bob, and thanks for the buffet that we'll be enjoying all year long!
Off and running with Quicksand by Nella Larsen, which ticks a lot of boxes here. It's also an excellent read, very unusual and intriguing. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Well done knocking off the first book in your challenge. I'm glad it was such a rewarding read for you!
Mod
Wow, you went all in this year! I always plan ten years worth of reading for every year, and end up half-arsing everything. So this year I'm just doing the Bingo. But you tempt me! I think I'll check how I'm doing halfway through the year and maybe sample the buffet a bit then.
Thanks, Wobbley and Bob! And Bob, it's a short one, maybe you can fit it in. :-)
Leni wrote: "Wow, you went all in this year! I always plan ten years worth of reading for every year, and end up half-arsing everything. So this year I'm just doing the Bingo. But you tempt me! I think I'll ch..."
Ha! Ten years worth is about right, Leni. I'm already having trouble not getting ahead of myself. Deep breath. One book at a time. :-) See you at the buffet table later--know you won't be able to resist at least a little snack!
Kathleen wrote: "Off and running with Quicksand by Nella Larsen, which ticks a lot of boxes here. It's also an excellent read, very unusual and intriguing. Review: https://www.goodreads..."
I have Quicksand to read also for the challenge. Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Rora wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "Off and running with Quicksand by Nella Larsen, which ticks a lot of boxes here. It's also an excellent read, very unusual and intriguing. Review: http..."
I think Larsen's a wonderful writer, Rora. Hope you like it too!
First short story of the year was a winner! Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories (other topics)Jude the Obscure (other topics)
The Nether World (other topics)
The Odd Women (other topics)
New Grub Street (other topics)
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George Gissing (other topics)William Saroyan (other topics)
Anthony Trollope (other topics)
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Daphne du Maurier (other topics)
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🏆Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
🏆Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium
🏆Challenge #4 - Members Choice
🏆Challenge #5 - Short Story
🏆Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads
🏆Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors
Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - Series Books – Start, Continue, Complete
🏆Challenge #13 - Travel the World One Continent at a Time.
🏆Challenge #14 - Rereading Some do Some don't
Challenge #15 - A-Z Author
Challenge #16 - A-Z Title