Janet's Old and New Classic Challenge

[Janet]

Old School:
1. Eugénie Grandet 1/9/17 ****
2. Far from the Madding Crowd 6/15/17 ****
3. Inferno

New School:
4. A Bend in the River 7/21/17 ****
5. Scoop 10/30/17 ***
6. Fifth Business 7/28/17 *****

Wild Cards:
7. The Heart of the Matter 1/14/17 ****
8. The Beautiful and Damned 1/22/17 ***
9. The Transit of Venus 6/30/17 ****
10. Daughter of Fortune 4/6/17 ****
11. The Green Mile 11/18/17 *****
12. All the King's Men 12/7/17 *****

Alternates:
1. Lady Chatterley's Lover 2/13/17 ***
2. Memoirs of a Geisha 5/16/17 ****

[Melanti]

I really enjoyed The Heart of hte Matter when I read it earlier this year. Same for Daughter of Fortune.

I've been meaning to get to Lady Chatterly's Lover for quite some time, too. It looks like you've got some good reading head of you!

[Janet]

Thanks Melanti. Glad to hear that The Heart of the Matter was enjoyable. I already had expectations of really liking Daughter of Fortune.

[Susan O]

Glad to see All the King's Men on your list. It's on mine and a couple of other people are interested. If it doesn't make it as a group read I hope we can do a buddy read at some point.

[Sue]

Great List Janet. If I do the Old and New challenge I might also have The Beautiful and Damned on it and I'm in for All the King's Men too.

[Janet]

Would love to do a group or buddy read of All the King's Men with you both.

[Janet]

Sue wrote: "Great List Janet. If I do the Old and New challenge I might also have The Beautiful and Damned on it and I'm in for All the King's Men too."

I have nominated The Beautiful and Damned for February's Revisit the Shelf group read.

[Amanda]

I really enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha. Beautifully written.

[Janet]

Amanda wrote: "I really enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha. Beautifully written."

I started it once before but put it down because I just wasn't in the mood to read it then. I am going to give it a much fairer chance this time.

[Janet]

I have completed 12 books so officially I have completed the challenge by using my alternate selections. I have started reading All the King's Men, one of my wild cards, so I will go further in this challenge.

[Sarah]

Janet wrote: "I have completed 12 books so officially I have completed the challenge by using my alternate selections. I have started reading All the King's Men, one of my wild cards, so I will go further in thi..."

I’ve been wanting to read that one!

[siriusedward]

Congrats Janet!

[Janet]

Thank you.

[Pink]

Well done!

[Janet]

Completed All the King's Men so now I have read 13 of the 14 books for this challenge. The last two I read, All the King's Men and The Green Mile, are the best books I have read all year so I am on a really good streak.