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2024 CHALLENGE BUFFETAnother year, another Buffet. This year the chef has expanded the menu. Hopefully there is dish for everyone. As always feel free to pick as few or as many challenges as fits your appetite. At this buffet gluttony is not a bad thing; take as much as you want and don't worry about not finishing all you take. This is for fun!
Remember every challenge created, every author and every book listed, becomes a resource for our members to learn about authors and books they haven’t heard of before.
This year's Expanded Menu for our 2024 Buffet:
Details See Messages 2-17
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
General/Helpful Challenge Information:
These challenges are personal. It is important that you enjoy your challenge/s; don't feel pressure to finish, this is for fun. Use your own creativity to make your challenge special. Select books that you truly have an interest in reading. It's your challenge your choices. Just stick to the basic challenge configuration.
Create your own separate thread to list the challenge/s you wish to participate in. If you plan on participating in several challenges, you will want to save/reserve several message/posts at the beginning of your thread to list each challenge you intend to try. Reserve 1-17 if you are going to try them all. Remember you can always delete the save posts if you don't need them.
To Create your challenge thread simply go to the top of this folder click on the title (Challenge Buffet). Then look to the right for the words (new topic), click that, a new screen will open. In the box (topic) type the name you wish to give your challenge. In the (comment) box list your books chosen for the challenge. Use the (add book/author) link so that others can link to your choices and learn more about the book you have selected.
Feel free to mark your finished books anyway you wish. After you have finished a book you can strike it off your list. Directions are listed at the top of the comment box (some html is ok). You can list the date you finished or add the number of stars you though the book deserved.
Examples of marking books completed:
✓1. Les Misérables
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3. The Woman in White*****
4. The Great Gatsby Finished 1/25/23
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Pre-polling top votes, these 7 will move to the poll.7 Votes - 177. My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
4 Votes - 398. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott
4 Votes - 68. The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
3 Votes - 257. In the Middle of the Fields Title story by Mary Josephine Lavin
2 Votes - 174. Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
1 Vote - 323. The Wonderful O by James Thurber
1 Vote - 412. The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
0 Votes - 240. The Flying Stars by G.K. Chesterton
0 Votes - 344. You Make Your Own Lift from Essential Stories by V.S. Pritchett
0 Votes - 281. The Virgin and the Gypsy by D.H. Lawrence
0 Votes - 40, The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
0 Votes - 352. An Imaginative Woman and Other Stories title story by Thomas Hardy
0 Votes - 371. A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James
0 Votes - 326. The Newton Letter by John Banville
The A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir is our December 2023 Short Story/Novella Read.This discussion will open on December 1
Beware Short Story Discussions will have Spoilers
These are the 14 titles randomly selected from our Master Short Story List. Please vote for the one that interests you the most. You can cast your vote by using the list number or the titles name. The top 7 will move forward to the poll on the 15th. A maximum of 7 titles will move to the poll. If there is a tie for 7th place only 6 titles will go to the poll.Example: I vote for #__ -or- I vote for Story Title
240. The Flying Stars by G.K. Chesterton
344. You Make Your Own Lift from Essential Stories by V.S. Pritchett
323. The Wonderful O by James Thurber
398. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott
68. The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
174. Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
412. The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
281. The Virgin and the Gypsy by D.H. Lawrence
40, The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
352. An Imaginative Woman and Other Stories title story by Thomas Hardy
177. My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
371. A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James
257. In the Middle of the Fields Title story by Mary Josephine Lavin
326. The Newton Letter by John Banville
Shelby and Tory, welcome to the group!
Welcome, Valeria.
The seven top votes moving forward to poll5 Votes - 363. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
4 Votes - 378. A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
3 Votes - 217. After Twenty Years by O. Henry
2 Votes - 169. A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
2 Votes - 29. Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
2 Votes - 236. The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
2 Votes - 164. A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
1 Vote - 20. Revelation (1964) by Flannery O'Connor, found in The Complete Stories
1 Vote - 4. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Title story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1 Vote - 399. Albert Nobbs by George Moore
0 Votes - 135. A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
0 Votes - 105. Second Chance by Sydney Banks
0 Votes - 179. The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
0 Votes - 298. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Welcome, Ian.
These are the 14 titles randomly selected from our Master Short Story List. Please vote for the one that interests you the most. You can cast your vote by using the list number or the titles name. The top 7 will move forward to the poll on the 15th. A maximum of 7 titles will move to the poll. If there is a tie for 7th place only 6 titles will go to the poll.Example: I vote for #__ -or- I vote for Story Title
169. A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
363. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
378. A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
135. A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
29. Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
20. Revelation (1964) by Flannery O'Connor, found in The Complete Stories
217. After Twenty Years by O. Henry
105. Second Chance by Sydney Banks
4. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Title story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
179. The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
298. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
399. Albert Nobbs by George Moore
236. The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
164. A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol is our November 2023 Short Story/Novella Read.This discussion will open on November 1
Beware Short Story Discussions will have Spoilers
Congratulations on finishing all of the challenges..
One, two, three, four, six challenges finished it's really great.Five, six, seven, eight, Sara’s reading is doing great.
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, Bob’s attempt at limericks isn’t going very well.
Parden my sad attempt at humor, I know this year has been hard, but I am glad to see your reading such good books.
Terris wrote: "I finished the Group Read and/or Buddy Read Challenge! I had fun with that one and plan to read many more with you all ;)"Congratulations on finishing another challenge. Last December this is one of the challenges I had no confidence in finishing. Today I feel it possible, but still have doubts. The year end is fast approaching.
Welcome to the group, Rose, glad you are with us
Welcome, Austin.
