Angie's Optimistic 2017 Classic Bingo Challenge - DONE

[Angie]

The following represents my initial thoughts as to what I'll read in 2017. I might change my current choices depending on availability of books, my time, and/or my general whim.

25/25

B1: Written by Nobel Laureate –A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro (12/01/2017) ****
B2: Classic Comedy or Satire – Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (07/02/2017) *****
B3: Classic Tragedy – Macbeth by William Shakespeare (01/20/2017) *****
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (07/09/2017)
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize – The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - Man Booker Prize, 1989 (01/11/2017) ****

I1: 20th Century Classic – Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (10/20/2017) ***
I2: New-to-You Author – Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (09/13/2017) ****
I3: Classic Play – Buried Child by Sam Shepard (06/21/2017) *****
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (06/15/2017) ****
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic – Oedipus the King by Sophocles (11/18/2017) ***

N1: South American Classic – A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez (10/25/2017) ****
N2: Short Story Classic – Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (06/01/2017) ***
N3: FREE SPACE – Carrie by Stephen King (07/01/2017) ****
N4: Poetry Collection – The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems by Joy Harjo (06/18/2017) ****
N5: European Classic – Animal Farm by George Orwell (06/17/2017) *****

G1: 19th Century Classic book: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (01/13/2017) ****
G2: Bokklubben (Norwegian Book Club) World Library List Book – A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (11/04/2017) ****
G3: Classic Non-fiction – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (01/17/2017) ****
G4: Group Read – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - (06/20/2017) ****
G5: Classic Recommended by a Friend - "Wild Plums" by Grace Stone Coates published 1929 according to The Best American Short Stories of the Century (summer 2017) ****

O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region – Live or Die by Anne Sexton Pulitzer Prize, 1967 (06/22/2017) *****
O2: Classic Folklore or Mythology – Aesop's Fables by Aesop (11/11/2017) ***
O3: Asian Classic – The Art of War by Sun Tzu (12/01/2017) ***
O4: Classic Romance – Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (11/25/2017) **
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling British Book Award, 1999 (02/12/2017) *****

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Wow, you are a planner! Welcome to the challenge. It will be fun to see how you like the books you've chosen.

[Sarah]

Light in August is absolutely brilliant! You've got a great list going :)

[Pink]

Amazing planning already! Good luck!

[Angie]

Thanks everyone! This is my first full year as a member, and I had a lot of fun planning. Several of the books already on my list fit perfectly.

Sarah Anne, I've loved every Faulkner I've read so far, so I'm excited for Light in August.

[Angie]

If anyone has a good suggestion for Classic Romance, please let me know, I'm iffy about Pride and Prejudice,

[Kathleen]

Angie wrote: "If anyone has a good suggestion for Classic Romance, please let me know, I'm iffy about Pride and Prejudice,"

I've loved pretty much all of the popular classic romance novels I've read so I might not be very discriminating. :-) (P&P is not a particular favorite of mine though.) Good ones that come to mind are The Age of Innocence and Like Water for Chocolate. I'm considering Foreign Affairs for this category.

[Brina]

Ooh can I read Chocolat as a romance- that gave me an idea. Like What for Chocolate is one of my favorites.

[Angie]

Those are some awesome suggestions! I especially like the idea of Like Water for Chocolate.

[Sara, New School Classics]

Great list. You have some of my favorites on there! Very interesting to see how you like some of them.

[Sue]

Great list. Lilke Water for Chocolate is one of my favorite films so I plan to read that some day as well. King Lear is on my challenge also.

[Susie]

I'm stealing your idea for South American Classic...very unfamiliar territory for me and your book sounds good (and not very long ;))...

[Andrea AKA Catsos Person]

You have some really interesting books planned for this challenge.

Good luck with them!

[Katie]

Very beautiful list! Good luck!

[Nathalie]

Good luck with your challenge, Angie.

[Claire]

Nice list'. Marquez can't go wrong:-) I read slaughterhouse five this year and enjoyed it. And gone with the wind...I'm telling myself the whole time it is not yet the time to read it a fourth time...
enjoy and good luck!

[Angie]

Thank you! I have a friend who rereads Gone with the Wind every five years. I should probably take the plunge and read it for the first time. :)

[Brina]

I read it for the first time this year and just loved it. I feel like I will be one of those who rereads it every 5 years. You should totally take the plunge.

[Angie]

Gone with the Wind disappears from my library on a pretty regular basis, that's for sure. I'm surprised I've never read it. I generally love works set during the period.

[Brina]

My story. I'm the lunch lady at my kids' school and I timed starting GWTW for the first day of summer vacation and reserved the book two weeks in advance. You should pick when you want to read it and do likewise.

[Angie]

Brina wrote: "My story. I'm the lunch lady at my kids' school and I timed starting GWTW for the first day of summer vacation and reserved the book two weeks in advance. You should pick when you want to read it a..."

There are nine people ahead of me right now. It'll probably be summer before I get it, lol.

[Brina]

I'd reread with you but I have my long book of the summer picked out already.

[Angie]

Brina wrote: "I'd reread with you but I have my long book of the summer picked out already."

What are you reading?

[Brina]

Lonesome Dove. And this winter I'm reading No Ordinary Time.

[Angie]

Brina wrote: "Lonesome Dove. And this winter I'm reading No Ordinary Time."

One day I might tackle Lonesome Dove.

[Nathalie]

Angie wrote: "Thank you! I have a friend who rereads Gone with the Wind every five years. I should probably take the plunge and read it for the first time. :)"

I'm also planning it for my Bingo. Glad to hear it's a favourite with many.

[Angie]

Finally making some progress! I've just finished Buried Child by Sam Shepard, which was absolutely fantastic.

[Angie]

Three more to do! I've recently finished Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Doll's House, and Aesop's Fables.

Next up... Thomas Hardy.

[Angie]

I've finished up Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy for Classic Romance. I wound up giving it two stars--beautiful, vibrant language but annoying, shallow characters. There were pages of (paraphrasing here) "why are you wearing that pretty dress to church if I won't be there? You've never curled your hair and worn that pretty dress for me" and similar shallow fits of angst. Gag.

Two more to go.

[siriusedward]

Yea..onky two more...

[Angie]

Finished! I did a last minute switcheroo with my Nobel choice, because I wanted to celebrate Ishiguro winning the Nobel Prize this year by reading something of his.

[Rosemarie]

That is a great list, Angie. Congratulations on finishing your challenge.

[Kathleen]

Congrats, Angie! You read some great titles here! I'm in the middle of a few switcheroos myself ...

[Angie]

Thanks, ladies!

[Pink]

Well done!

[Angie]

Thanks!

[Zoe]

Congrats!