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Good luck with your challenges, All Quiet on the Western Front is a favorite.
I'm familiar with a few of your choices and have been thinking about The Magnificent Ambersons for years. Enjoy!
Have fun with your challenge.
Welcome Valerie, Happy New Year.
Congratulations on finishing your challenge with a blackout.
Congratulations!!
Anne, you have some wonderful choices. I am also looking at the Cheever stories and The Red and the Black for n next year.
You are more advanced than I, if it's not English, I can't read it. Enjoy your challenge!
Congratulations!!
Well I'm calling it quits for my 2020 Buffet. I have read myself full and left very little on my plate. Six challenges completed. Challenge Completed 8/15/20
Completed 12/12
Some of my best reads for this year came from this challenge and it is hard to say one single book is the best, so I'll recommended a small group of really good reads. These I think are great, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Moonstone, The End of the Affair, Stoner,The Glimpses of the Moon, Dandelion Wine, and The Midwich Cuckoos.
I'm leaving Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Shirley for next year.
Challenge Completed 12/22/20
Completed, 10/10
Books Read for the Challenge
1957
1-Dandelion Wine, Finished 1/6/20
2-A Death in the Family, Finished 1/20/20
3-The Midwich Cuckoos, Finished 2/23/20
4-From Russia With Love, Finished 8/25/20
5-The Wapshot Chronicle, Finished 11/11/20
1857
1-Hansel and Gretel Finished 1/6/20
2-"A Marriage of Persuasion," 1857 Susan Petigru King, Finished 2/5/20
3-Scenes of Clerical Life, Finished 6/20/20
4- Barchester Towers, Finished 9/23/20
5.-The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices, Finished 12/22/20
This isn’t an easy challenge, but worth the effort. It can be difficult to locate books of interest and not made any easier because of the 100 year separation.
This challenge most enjoyed reads are A Death in the Family, and Barchester Towers. One good thing is that I was finely able to read Ian Fleming, something I have thought about for years, now I’ve read two.
I did this challenge several years ago, lucky me!
Challenge Started 4/13/2011 Completed 7/10/16
Top 10 Best Sellers for 1957
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This was a personal challenge that I kind of like and that is why it ended up here. It was never one I work hard on and went for long periods of time not even thinking about it. I also collected a copy of all the titles for my library, that also took time. I fine it interesting to think about what was popular reading for people the year I was born.
Challenge Completed 4/8/20
Completed, 12/12
Stand out read form this challenge are Old Yeller and A Raisin in the Sun.
Challenge Completed 9/29/20
Completed, 10/10
My Decade Challenge was 1950-1959. This challenge got me my second Ian Fleming James Bond read. This is probably my second favorite challenge.
Challenge Completed 12/31/20
To date I have read 121 short stories and plan ton reading at least two more. One I'm currently reading is The Christmas Hirelings and one I try to read every year A Christmas Carol. Anything else will be just killing time till Jan. 1 so I can start War and Peace.
Challenge Completed 5/12/20
Completed, 12/12 plus 9 more
To date I have read 21 of the 2020 group poll winners. Of course several were read prior to winning, several I have no interest in, and several I just haven't been able to get to, but want to read.
Challenge #8 - A-Z Author Challenge
23/26 Finished-Letters U, X, and Y Unfinished
Challenge #9 - A-Z Title Challenge
22/26 Finished-Letters Q, U, Y, and Z Unfinished
Again the alphabet challenges are my Achilles Heel I have never but one time finished the challenge, I think that was back in 2016.
Some really good choices, I am also reading W&P, plan on starting Jan. 1. Good luck!
Ann T wrote: "I wasn't able to complete the last two Challenges (#3 and #5). I was oh so close, started both books, but unfortunately becoming COVID positive during Thanksgiving week has really taken it's toll a..."Congrats on what you were able to accomplish. I'm glad to hear you are recovering from your illness, see you next year, Merry Christmas!
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Bingo Challenge✔️Completed Squares
Blackout Completed 12/11/21
✔️B1: Book From Our Group’s Shelf Prior to 2021-War and Peace, Long Read 2014, Finished 2/23/21
✔️B2: Book That Has Been Made Into Film-Forrest Gump, 4/17/21
✔️B3: Booker Prize Winner-1979, The Sea, The Sea, 12/1121
✔️B4: Classic Romance-Washington Square, Finished 3/29/21
✔️B5: Classic of Europe-Fathers and Sons, Finished 4/1/21
✔️I1: Classic Adventure- The Deerslayer, Finished 6/22/21
✔️I2: Book Published or Written 1700 or earlier-Don Juan, 1665, Finished 2/26/21
✔️I3: Classic Short Story Collection-Cabbages and Kings, Finished 3/28/21
✔️I4: Book Published in the 19th Century-The Warden, Finished 2/1/21
✔️I5: New To Me Classic Author-Guy de Maupassant, The Inn, Finished 1/18/21
✔️N1: Nobel Laureate, Literature 1962-John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, Finished 6/7/21
✔️N2: History or Historical Fiction-Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Finished 3/25/21
✔️N3: Reader’s Choice-Joan of Arc, Finished 4/14/21
✔️N4: Classic Satire or Comedy-Mother Night, Finished 5/7/21
✔️N5: Newberry Medal Winner-1979, The Westing Game, Finished 3/21/21
✔️G1: Classic Female Author-Donna Tartt, The Secret History, Finished 3/17/21
✔️G2: Book Published in the 18th Century-Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Finished 1/16/21
✔️Completed G3: Nonfiction-Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War, Finished 5/2/21
✔️G4: Book Published in the 20th Century-Angle of Repose, Finished 3/7/21
✔️G5: Book From Another Book Club or Library List-The Snow Child, The Life of a Book Addict, Jan. 2020, Finished 2/28/21
✔️O1: Classic of Africa-Tarzan of the Apes, Finished 4/3/21
✔️O2: Classic Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller-The A.B.C. Murders, Finished 5/19/21
✔️O3: Pulitzer Prize Winner-Drama 1948, A Streetcar Named Desire, Finished 2/18/21
✔️O4: 100 Must-Read Classics in Translation-The Master and Margarita, 4/24/21
✔️O5: Book From Our Group’s 2021 Bookshelf-The Captain's Daughter, Finished 1/4/21
Completed: 25/25
I wasn’t planning on putting up a bingo card this year, call me lazy. A good friend said that she did not believe that I could make it to the New Year without starting a bingo thread. As is more times the case, she was right, and I was wrong. Catch as Catch Can-defined as the best one can do with whatever is available. Or, something done by any means or in any possible way, often haphazardly. That’s my plan for playing this year, que sera sera, whatever will be will be.
This next year I’m not going to take things to seriously, especially my challenges. I hope 90% of my reading this year is off my ever growing bookshelf. If I don’t already own it, forget it. This may make finishing challenges difficult. That said I have already found at least 3 books I want, hopefully through the library, hopefully they will stay open.
So on to next year, no hard planning, just letting it happen day by day, book by book.
Welcome Jackie
Congratulations! This is the one that I can't seem to ever finish.
I'm still planning on squeezing in a reread o A Christmas Carol , but this is one to check out. Congrats on finishing your short story challenge.
