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Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories✔️- 10/10 Completed/Read
Select five categories of your choice. 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.
Plays
✔️New School - Our Town, 1938
✔️Old School - Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897
Has a Murder
✔️New School - Whose Body?, 1923
✔️Old School - Mary Barton, 1848
Southern Authors
✔️New School - Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
✔️Old School - Mark Twain. Roughing It
Vampire
✔️New School - I Am Legend
✔️Old School - Carmilla, 1872
Coming of Age
✔️New School - Sounder
✔️Old School - Youth: A Narrative
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult✔️- 0/5 Completed/Read
Select five books from five diffetent 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 - 1950-1959 - 1953-Nine Stories
19th Century - 1850-1859 - 1855-Little Dorrit
18th Century - 1750-1759 - 1759-The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
17th Century - 1650-1659 - 1658-The Witch of Edmonton
16th Century - 1550-1559 - 1552-A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction ✔️- 5/10 Completed/Read
Select 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.
World War II
Fiction - The Steel Wave
Non-Fiction - Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Old & New Navies at Sea
Fiction - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Non-Fiction - World War II at Sea: A Global History
A Favorite Author
✔️Fiction - The Rainbow and the Rose
✔️Non-Ficton - Slide Rule
Religious Faith
✔️Fiction - The Pilgrim's Progress
Non-Fiction - Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith or The Case for Christ
Travel/Wagon Trains West
✔️Fiction - The Way West
✔️Non-Fiction - The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Challenge #8 – Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?Select 10 books from any single year of interest, then select 10 more from 100, 50, or 25 years earlier, for a total of 20 books. List your choices for other members to explore. The challenge is to successfully read 10 of the 20 books selected, five from your year of choice and five from the earlier year chosen.
Pick a year of your choice and then go back in time 100, 50, or 25 years. You can use your birth year, the birth year of a child, a spouse, a parent, or any other year of interest.
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New AuthorsSeek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, male or female, from any genre or era you want.
6/6 Completed/Read
1. J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla & Uncle Silas
2. William H. Armstrong - Sounder
3. Thornton Wilder - Our Town
4. T.S. Eliot - The Wasteland
5. Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
6. Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel
------Additional First Time Read Authors--------
7. Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
8. Sigrid Undset - The Wreath, The Wife, The Cross
9. Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
10. A.S. Byatt - Possession
11. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
12. Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
13. John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
14. Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
15. Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
16. Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
17. Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?
18. E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
19. Walter Mosley - The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
20. Daniel James Brown - The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
21. Reginald Rose - Twelve Angry Men
22. A.B. Guthrie Jr. - The Way West
23. Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
Planned New Authors
Craig L. Symonds - World War II at Sea: A Global History
Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
Stephen E. Ambrose - Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads ChallengeThe challenge is to read 12 of this years group selections. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new and 12 reread books per year, giving us plenty of choices.
12/12 Completed/Read
1. Carmilla
2. Cyrano de Bergerac
3. The Library of Babel
4. how the poor die
5. The Hand
6. The Wasteland
7. Uncle Vanya
8. The Old Curiosity Shop
9. The Age of Innocence -A reread
10. The Magic Mountain
11. The Vicar of Wakefield
12. The Tempest -A reread
------Additional Group Reads--------
Berenice
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Before the Party
This Year's Bookshelf Additions
There weere 52 Poll Winning books this year, of those-
I've Read
15✔️ This Year, 29%
19 RP Read Prior to book winning this year's poll, 36%
Of No or Slight Interest
7 Interested - Someday?
11 Not Interested
35%
January
The House of Mirth, RP Feb '14
Carmilla✔️
The Razor's Edge, RP Sep '12
The Gambler, Not Interested
The Old Curiosity Shop✔️
February
Cyrano de Bergerac✔️
The Idiot, Not Interested
The Wasteland✔️
Nausea, Not Interested
March
Bartleby the Scrivener RP May '20
King Solomon's Mines, Interested - Someday?
The Sun Also Rises, Interested - Someday?
The Name of the Rose RP Jun '16
April
Aesop's Fables, Interested - Someday?
Blindness, Interested - Someday?
The Second Sex, Not Interested
The Library of Babel✔️
Persuasion RP Apr '17
May
The Kreutzer Sonata RP May '17
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Not Interested
The Hand✔️
Far From the Madding Crowd, RP Jan '17
June
how the poor die✔️
The House of the Dead, Not Interested
Mrs. Dalloway, RP Feb '15
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Not Interested
July
Uncle Vanya✔️
The Age of Innocence ✔️ RP Nov '15
The Magic Mountain ✔️
The Bostonians, Interested - Someday?
The Winter of Our Discontent, Interested - Someday?
August
Murder on the Orient Express, RP Mar '18
The Vicar of Wakefield✔️
Oedipus Rex, RP May '19
East of Eden, RP Nov '13
September
The Tempest✔️ RP May '20
Villette, RP July '18
Flush, Not Interested
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Interested - Someday?
October
Thérèse Raquin, RP May '15
The Talented Mr. Ripley, RP September '20
Of Human Bondage, RP June '14
All Quiet on the Western Front, RP August '15
Berenice✔️
November
Catch-22, RP Nov '15
The Mark on the Wall, Not Interested
The Blithedale Romance, Not Interested
The Satanic Verses, Not Interested
December
Before the Party✔️
Foucault's Pendulum, Not Interested
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King✔️
Little Women, RP Jul '15
Challenge #5 - Short Story/Novella ChallengeRead 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year. Read them all at once or spread them out, it's up to you.
24/24 Completed/Read
The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London
1. The House of Pride
2. Koolau the Leper
3. Good-bye, Jack
4. Aloha Oe
5. Chun Ah Chun
6. The Sheriff of Kona
7. Barn Burning
8. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
9. Our Town
10. The Colour Out of Space
11. The Wasteland
12. The Library of Babel
100 Crooked Little Crime Stories
13. Blind Date by J. Lane Linklater
14. Brand of Cain by Dan Gordon
15. The Burglar's Story by W. S. Gilbert
16. A Burning Clue by E. Hoffman Price
17. The Compliments of the Chief by Lincoln Steffens
18. The Confession by Maurice Level
19. The Crimson Complex by G. Fleming-Roberts
20. The Mouse by Saki
21. how the poor die
22. The Purloined Letter
23. A Tale of Terror
24. The Homes of the Stars
-------Additional Stories Read ---------
A Thousand Deaths
Murder!
The Mysterious Railway Passenger
Dick Baker's Cat
The Man in the Bell
The White Wolf by Guy de Maupassant
The Cheshire Cat by Lewis Carroll
The Face
On Being in Love
The Disintegration Machine
The Violet Car
The Hand
The Lottery
how the poor die
Medea
Tell Tale: Short Stories - 15 Stories
Berenice
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Reread
Youth
Before the Party
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
2BR02B Reread
Reginald - 15 Stories
Twelve Angry Men
Total - 76
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge Choose one book per category for a total of 12 books.✔️- 12/12 Completed/Read
✔️1. 19th Century, Cyrano de Bergerac
✔️2. 20th Century, The Rainbow and the Rose
✔️3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016
✔️4. Current or Past Group Read, The Odyssey
✔️5. An Author not read before, Thornton Wilder
✔️6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. Sounder
✔️7. Science Fiction, The Colour Out of Space
✔️8. A book originally written in a language other than your own, The Magic Mountain
✔️9. A Banned Book, The Jungle
✔️10. Nonfiction, Slide Rule
✔️11. Mystery/Crime, The Purloined Letter
✔️12. Horror or Humor, Carmilla
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium ChallengeMy parents were born in 1938, so I'll recycle 2021'schallenge for the 1930's
My Decade Challenge the 1930's
Recycled from 2021 Buffet
✔️- 4/10 Completed/Read
1930-Narcissus and Goldmund-Nobel Laureate
1931-The Loving Spirit-Classic Romance
1932-Stamboul Train-Classic Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller
1933-God's Little Acre
✔️1934-Tender is the Night
*1935-Death in the Clouds
✔️*1936-The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
✔️1937-Their Eyes Were Watching God
✔️1938-Our Town-Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1938
1939-Johnny Got His Gun
*Replaces these two that were read in 2021 and used for Bingo
1935-Tortilla Flat, 6/7/21
1936-The A.B.C. Murders, 5/19/21
My Century Challenge the 1900-1999
For the fun of planning only
✔️1900-1909 - 1905 Love of Life: & Other Stories
✔️1910-1919 - 1912 The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
✔️1920-1929 - 1920 Flame and Shadow
✔️1930-1939 - 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God
✔️1940-1949 - 1948 The Way West
✔️1950-1959 - 1958 The Rainbow and the Rose
✔️1960-1969 - 1961 The Moviegoer
✔️1970-1979 - 1976 Coming Through Slaughter
✔️1980-1989 - 1981 Midnight's Children
✔️1990-1999 - 1990 Possession
My Millennium Challenge
For the fun of planning only
✔️21st Century - 2017 Tell Tale: Short Stories
✔️20th Century - 1924 The Magic Mountain
✔️19th Century - 1871 The Old Curiosity Shop
✔️18th Century - 1766 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
✔️17th Century - 1684 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
✔️16th Century - 1595 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
15th Century - 1438 The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
14th Century - 1353 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
13th Century - 1298 The Travels by Marco Polo
12th Century - 1150 The Life of Merlin by Geoffrey of Monmouth
11th Century - 1001 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse✔️- 7/7 Completed/Read
New School
1. The Jungle - November 2011
2. The Moviegoer - August 2014
Old School
1. The Pilgrim's Progress - October 2020
2. Uncle Silas - Oct 2021
Short Story/Novella
1. Barn Burning - February 2017
2. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - December 2015
Quarterly Long Read
1. Kristin Lavransdatter - 3rd Qtr. 2014
Choices of Interest
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Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge✔️-12/12 Completed/Read
1899 and earlier-Old School
✔️1. The Odyssey
✔️2. The Old Curiosity Shop
✔️3. Mary Barton
1900-1999-New School
✔️4. Tender is the Night
✔️5. Midnight's Children
✔️6. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Non- Classic "Brain Candy" Reads - Authors I Read Just for Fun
✔️7. Blind Descent
✔️8. Never Go Back
9. Executive Power
10. Treasure
✔️11. The Burning Room
✔️12. Doing Hard Time
Alternates
✔️A-1. The Rainbow and the Rose
A-2. The Third Twin
✔️A-3. The Way West
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A Bakers Dozen Menu for the 2022 Buffet:Status as of Dec 29
✔️12/12 - Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
✔️7/7 - Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
✔️Challenge #3 - 20/30
....4/10 - Decade Challenge
....10/10 -
....6/10 - Millennium Challenge
✔️12/12 - Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge
✔️24/24 - Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
✔️12/12 - Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge
✔️6/6 - Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
N/A - Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?
4/10 - Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
N/A - Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
✔️10/10 - Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
20/26 - Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
21/26 - Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge
I am a day late and a dollar short and way way tardy, but Congratulations on your BLACKOUT!!
Well as of now I have gone as far as I can go with my planning. I'm stuck on G3, but I have all year. Now it is time to try and set up a buffet meal.
Marilyn wrote: "Sara wrote: "I'm sure it might vary for me, Marilyn, but what I do intend is to read them back-to-back, so that I have the first on my mind as I am reading the second."But which of the two books ..."
Marilyn, like Matt and Sara any progress by me on this challenge will be read back-to-back. As to which one I read first, fiction or non-fiction, I can’t say. I don’t think I will go at it in a ridged way, such as reading all fiction first vs. non-fiction first. For me, I think it will be an impulse choice each time.
Susie wrote: "Just finishing up The Wife and the series does not disappoint. The writing is great and the story just flows...enjoy them!"Thanks Susie, it never hurts to get positive feedback about a book, especially one I know nothing about, other than the good words written by others. If I get by The Wreath, I will read the rest of the series.
Sara wrote: "Good start on your planning. I am another that read The Way West first and then The Big Sky, and I was glad I did them out of order. You are going to like this series. I also loved Kristin Lavransd..."Thanks Sara, I enjoy the planning, but it can be difficult trying to decide what to read. It is fortunate that we can make changes. Even now, before I even finish a complete bingo list I’m gong to make a change to I4: Classic Over 500 pages. I have wanted to read The Winds of War for years. I have also wanted to read The Lord of the Rings. The difference is I have wanted to read Rings for decades rather than years, so this year for sure, it will be Lord of the Rings.
Thanks also for the additional conformation that The Way West is a standalone book. I was worried, it is a book I am looking forward to, but didn’t know it was a series. I am seriously thinking about making it book one for 2022.
Jillian ❀‿❀ wrote: "Regarding this challenge: Bob wrote:
"Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction...
Women's [Suffrage]:
Fiction - Impossible Saints,
Non-Fiction - [book:Suffragettes: The Fight for V..."
OK!
Welcome Lucia.
