Nidhi’s
Comments
(group member since Jan 02, 2023)
Nidhi’s
comments
from the The Reading Challenge Group group.
Showing 21-40 of 59
Reading Literature from Asia.8/12
1. Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha 5 stars
2. Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima 4 stars
3. Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 3 stars
4. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 5 stars
5. Strange Pictures by Uketsu 5 stars
6. Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa 4 stars
7.Madonna in a Fur Coatby Sabahattin Ali 4 stars
8. The Quiet American by Graham Greene 5 stars
Reading Literature based in India or by Indian author.13/24
1. Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat: And Other Poems by Shakti Chattopadhyay 4 stars
2. The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai 4 stars
3. The Museum of Final Journeys by Anita Desai 4 stars
4. Stories on Animals Hardcover PREMCHAND by Munshi Premchand 5 stars
5. मेरा परिवार by Mahadevi Verma 5 stars
6. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq 5stars
7. A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond 3 stars
8. Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar 4 stars
9. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 5 stars
10. Musafir Cafe: An Unusual Love Story by Divya Prakash Dubey 5 stars
11. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai 5 stars
12. Toba Tek Singh by Saadat Hasan Manto 5 stars
13. Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai 5 stars
Reading Shakespeare ChronologicallyKing Henry the Sixth, Part 1 4 stars
History of King Henry the Sixth, Part 2 4 stars
2025
The History of King Henry the Sixth, Third Part 4 stars
I finished two stories.The Legend of the Christmas Rose
by Selma Lagerlöf
The Angel at the Grave by Edith Wharton
54/72 One Classic and One Contemporary each category.Part 1
January- General Fiction (Novels at least 100 pages long)
Classic: The Plague by Albert Camus 5 stars
Contemporary: The Employees by Olga Ravn 5 stars
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
February- Plays, Poetry, Romance
Classic: The Birds of Aristophanes by Aristophanes 4 stars
Contemporary:Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha 5 stars
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
March- Mystery, Suspense
Classic: Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima 4 stars
Contemporary : Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán 4 stars
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
April- Western, Humour, Adventure
Contemporary: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 3 stars
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
May- Female Authors
Classic: The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg 5 stars
Contemporary: Three Days in June by Anne Tyler 5 stars
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
June- Fantasy, Graphic Novels
Classic: The Non-Existent Knight by Italo Calvino 4 stars
Contemporary: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 5 stars
July- Children's/YA
August- Memoirs, Biography, Travel
Classic: A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir 4 stars
Contemporary: Happening by Annie Ernaux 5 stars
September- Science Fiction, Dystopia
Contemporary: Gliff by Ali Smith 5 stars
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
October- Supernatural, Thriller, Horror
Classic: Miss Mary Pask by Edith Wharton 5 stars
Contemporary:Strange Pictures by Uketsu 5 stars
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
November- Historical Fiction, Any Non-fiction
Classic: मेरा परिवार by Mahadevi Verma 5 stars
Contemporary: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut 5 stars
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
December- Classics, Short Stories
Classic: Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor 3 stars
Contemporary: God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories by Arinze Ifeakandu 5 stars
Part 2
January:
1. Read a book with a one-word title
Classic - Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell 5 stars
Contemporary: Boulder by Eva Baltasar 4 stars
2. Read a book by an author new to you
Classic: The Door by Magda Szabó 5 stars
Contemporary: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 5 stars
----------------------------------------------------------------------
February:
1. Read a book with a two-word title
Classic: The Chosen by Chaim Potok 5 stars
Contemporary: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon 5 stars
2. Read any book in a series
Classic: Time Regained by Marcel Proust 5 stars
Contemporary: On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle 5 stars
____________________________________________________________________________________
March:
1. Read a book where the main character's first or last name starts with M
Classic : The Captive by Marcel Proust MARCEL
Contemporary: Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai 5 stars MATTEO
2. Read a book with a number in the title
Contemporary: Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun
April:
1. Read a book that has the word "and" anywhere in the title
Contemporary: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 5 stars
2. Read a book where the author's first and last name begin with the same letter
Classic: The Quiet American by Graham Greene5 stars
Contemporary: Galatea by Madeline Miller
May:
1. Read a book by a female author new to you
Classic: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector 4 stars
Contemporary: Susanna Davidson The Holocaust 4 stars
2. Read a book with the name of a female character in the title
Classic: Hester by Mrs. Oliphant 4 stars
Contemporary: Nives by Sacha Naspini 5 stars
____________________________________________________________________________________
June:
1. Read a book with the name of an animal or mythical creature in the title
Contemporary:A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre 5 stars
2. Read a book set in the country you live in now INDIA
Classic: Stories on Animals Hardcover PREMCHAND by Munshi Premchand 5 stars
Contemporary: Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat: And Other Poems by Shakti Chattopadhyay 4 stars
July:
1. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with J
Classic: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 5 stars
2. Read a book set in a place you would like to visit or revisit ROME
Classic:Augustus by John Williams 5 stars
ontemporary: Musafir Cafe: An Unusual Love Story by Divya Prakash Dubey 5 stars Dehradoon (India)
August:
1. Read a book whose title begins with A or An
Contemporary: A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr 4 stars
2. Read a book with an eight letter word in the title
Classic: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 3 stars
Contemporary: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 5 stars
September:
1. Read a book set in a place that starts with S
2. Read a book with a man's name in the title
Classic: Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope 3 stars
October:
1. Read a book whose title starts with O
Contemporary: Osebol by Marit Kapla 5 stars
2. Read a book with the name of a colour in the title
Contemporary: Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar 4 stars
November:
1. Read a book with the name of a family member or title (Mrs., Miss, Mr., Sir, King, Dr., etc) in the title
2. Read a book that has more than 5 words in the title
Classic: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee 5 stars
Contemporary: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 5 stars
December:
1. Read any book for the first time
Classic:The Chosen by Chaim Potok 5 stars
Contemporary:Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 5 stars
2. Reread any book
I finished Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
by Han KangWe Do Not Part
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
Rosemarie, I was looking for the June topic, it seems there is no thread for that. I like these monthly topics.
Yes I have just Grand Hotel, I read this book with a group that reads classics by women. Rosemarie I would like to list all the books I have read and will read this year by women, they are all very good books ..... after the month ends .
I too have rated it 5 stars, I wonder if there are any other works by Vicky Baum?
