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from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.
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For Over the Hill, Option 2, does a book count as "published over 40 years ago" if a particular translation/edition is more recent? (GR lists both dates on the book's page)
I read page 217-233 of Reason & Persuasion: Three Dialogues By Plato. I'll plan to do another one sometime tomorrow
start at :20 for 25 min? anyone?
:45 for 25 min?
Books Read since last update (3/2/2017 to 6/3/2017)March
The Histories 816 pages
Worlds' End 168
The Kindly Ones 352 pages
The Wake 192 pages
The Sandman: Overture 224 pages
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters 126 pages
Everfair 381 pages
April
The Sparrow 431 pages
Stories of Your Life and Others 281 pages
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 310 pages
Death: The High Cost of Living Collected 104 pages
Death: The Time of Your Life 95 pages
A Thousand Mornings 77 pages
March-April: 4239 pages
May
The Tempest 112 pages
Acceptance 341 pages
The Island 40 pages
The Acharnians 78 pages
The Colonel 32 pages
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War 625 pages
1228 pages
March + April + May = 5467 pages
913, 650 + 5467 = 919, 117
Camp GottareadSeasonal Challenge June 21-Sept 21
Completed: Bookworm level (11 books)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Duration: June 21-Sept. 21 2017 - done!read: 11 books in 4/6 categories
level: completed Bookworm level
Camp Gottaread Activities:
- Climb the intimidating heights of Mount TBR
(Read books from your to-be-read stack)
Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse 8/4/2017
Beren and Lúthien 8/25/2017
Julius Caesar 8/25/2017
Babel-17 8/26/2017
- Fish for new novels you never knew existed
(Read books you just discovered)
- Hike the books you've felt were too big to read
(Read books you've always found intimidating)
The Republic of Plato 7/29/2017
Green Earth (it's so long!) 9/14/2017
- Swim the seas of series you've always meant to finish but never have
(Read books in series you've meant to finish but never found the time to do so)
Necessity 8/13/2017
- Explore the tales of new named authors
(Read books written by new-to-you authors)
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James
Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree Jr.8/27/2017
The Harvard Classics - Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch 9/6/2017
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 9/7/2017
- Listen to Campfire tales
(Read assorted novellas or short stories in anthologies that are scary)
I'm thinking of reading either The Fellowship of the Ring (I want to reread this sometime soon anyway - one of the book groups I'm in is rereading the trilogy this month and next) or Julius Caesar (which I want to read sometime in the next few months - it's one of the plays at the local theater this year, until October.)
Done! I was planning to read it anyway - one of my group reads is The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War and this is set during those events.I enjoyed it, mostly. I'll see if I can find a video version (I found a good one of Lysistrata on YouTube once, but I haven't looked for this one yet...)
Starting the play The Acharnians right now. (I'm reading the version from poetryintranslation.com). It is 78 pages in MS Word, so I should finish pretty soon.
Yesterday I read The Island. It's a short story- 40 pages - but it's listed separately on GR:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
So I think it will count - I might as well claim an I & add it to the spreadsheet, let me know if I'm wrong.
R: Daire
I: Nikki
G: Heather
A: Beth
L: Cynthia
A: Gemma
T: Karen
V: Zuzana
I: Beth
A:
R:I:
G:
A: Beth
L:
A:
T:
V: Zuzana
I:
A:
2. Tomsk, RUSSIA (detour: Read a book that has been turned into a movie)
Author/setting:
Spell-it-out:
Detour: Zuzana, Beth
1. Riga, Latvia (detour: a book whose author died this year)author/setting:
spell-it-out: Nikki, Zuzana, Daire, Karen, Beth
detour:
NBRC 1001 Books Before You Die ChallengeMay 1,2017 to May 1, 2018
The list in spreadsheet form (link from the Listopia page): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Round 1: 8 books read by May 1, 2018
The Lord of the Rings 11/2/2017 (reread)
Invisible Man 10/6/2017
The Big Sleep 11/13/2017
The Player of Games 10/13/2017
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 9/7/2017
The Once and Future King 12/24/2017 (reread)
Alias Grace 1/11/2018
The Moonstone 4/18/2018
Round 2: May 1, 2018 to May 1, 2019
1. Invisible Cities 5/28/2018
2. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 8/21/2018
3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (reread)
4. Orlando 11/17/2018
possibilities:
2000s: 2
Under the Skin
Cloud Atlas
1980s: 3
The Satanic Verses
Beloved
Midnight's Children (reread)
1950s-1970s: 10
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Sound and the Fury
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gravity's Rainbow
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Solaris
The Drowned World
The Third Policeman
The Master and Margarita
1900-1950: 10
Of Mice and Men (reread)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pale Fire
The Secret Agent
We
The Maltese Falcon
War with the Newts
The Glass Bead Game
Thank You, Jeeves
The Kingdom of This World
19th c: 12
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (reread)
Vanity Fair
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Red and the Black
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
Bleak House (reread)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (reread)
Daniel Deronda
1700s:
Gulliver's Travels
pre-1700s: 9
Metamorphoses
The Golden Ass
Don Quixote
Monkey: The Journey to the West
Aesop's Fables
One Thousand and One Nights
The Lusiads
Chaereas and Callirhoe
Aithiopika
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Choose Your Own Adventure: Over the Hillhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Goal - Professional : 25+ books
Option 2: Published
completed! 1 emerald coin
Choose Your Own Adventure: Quests & Legends
Option 2: Quest/Legend Themed Books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Duration: You Set the PaceOption 2: Published
Goal: Professional : 25+ books
Read: 25/25! completed 6/20/2018
1) The Tempest 5/9/2017 (first published 1610)
2) The Acharnians 5/12/2017 (first published -425)
3) The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War 5/25/2017 (first published -411)
4) The Republic of Plato (first published -380s?) 7/24/2017
5) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (published 1904) 8/23/2017
6) Julius Caesar 8/25/2017(published 1599)
7) Babel-17 8/26/2017 (published 1966)
8) Warm Worlds and Otherwise (published 1975)
9) The Harvard Classics - Plutarch's Lives 9/6/2017 (2nd c. AD - abridged)
10) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (published 1848)
(LibriVox audio) 9/7/2017
11) The Frogs 9/17/2017 (published -405)
12) Invisible Man10/6/2017 (published 1952)
13) The Man Whom the Trees Loved 10/21/2017 (published 1912)
14) The Birds 10/28/2017
15) The Lord of the Rings 11/2/2017 (published 1955)
16) The Big Sleep 11/13/2017 (published 1939)
17) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice 11/26/2017 (published 1970)
18) Woman in the Nineteenth Century 12/7/2017 (published 1845)
19) The Once and Future King 12/24/2017 (published 1958)
20) The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore 1/12/2017 (published 1902)
21) Njal's Saga 2/1/2018 (first published 1290)
22) Henry V 3/5/2018 (first published 1599)
23) The Moonstone 4/18/2018 (published 1868)
24) The Man in the High Castle 4/22/2018 (published 1962)
25) The Aeneid 6/20/2018 (published 19 BC)
Finished my book and added it to the spreadsheet. I liked most of the stories in Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances. There are a couple of other GR Choice Award Winners that I'd like to get to this year; I'll see if those will work for future stops when the time comes.
Start date: 4/18/2017DURATION: You set the pace
Option One:
Chose an author that you'd like to be friends with and a level and read only books that the author has written (or contributed to)
Level: BFFs: 1-5 books - eventually I want to reach this level for 7 authors
authors planned
Neil Gaiman - 5/5 read - complete!
1. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 4/19/2017
2. Death: The High Cost of Living Collected 4/29/2017
3. Death: The Time of Your Life 4/30/2017
4. Two Plays for Voices 4/30/2017
5. Black Orchid 10/29/2017
J.R.R. Tolkien 5/5 read - complete!
1. Beren and Lúthien 8/25/2017
2. The Lord of the Rings 11/2/2017 (reread)
3.The Story of Kullervo 2/20/2018
4. Farmer Giles of Ham 8/25/2018
5. The Silmarillion 9/17/2018 (reread)
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William Shakespeare 4/5
1. The Tempest 5/9/2017
2. Julius Caesar 8/25/2017
3. Henry V 3/5/2018
4. Love's Labor's Lost 10/15/2018
5.
Aristophanes 3/5
1. The Acharnians 5/12/2017
2. Frogs 9/24/2017
3. The Birds 10/28/2017
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Kim Stanley Robinson 3/5
1. Green Earth 9/14/2017
2. Antarctica 1/3/2018
3. The Years of Rice and Salt 3/8/2018
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James Tiptree Jr. 2/5
1. Warm Worlds and Otherwise 8/27/2017
2. Star Songs of An Old Primate 10/19/2017
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Terry Pratchett 3/5
1. The Science of Discworld 1/28/2018
2. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 3/24/2018 (reread)
3. Mort 8/23/2018
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Iain Banks 1/5
1. The Player of Games 10/14/2017
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I think I could find something to read for most European countries, if we're doing author/setting. But I think for the next few weeks I will try to start picking shorter books for this challenge, since I have some group reads that I want to catch up on soon.
