Task #7: Read a book published between 1900 and 1950

[Courtney]

Just picked up Rebeccato satisfy this category. So far it seems to be right up my alley.

[Simant]

Finished Siddhartha for this challenge.

[Elyse]

Simant wrote: "Finished Siddhartha for this challenge."

Props to you for finishing it. I haven't been able to. lol

[Chinook]

My IRL book club is reading Brave New World next month, though it's a reread for me so I will probably also read Brave New World Revisited and count them both for the challenge - only the first is in the time frame, but I don't like counting rereads for any task that doesn't require it.

[Philip]

This was my opportunity to catch up on a Hemingway I had not got around to, so I read To Have and Have Not.

[Shannon]

I read "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day". I really enjoyed it. I had wanted to see the movie, but, as usual, I had to read the book first.

[Ashley]

Shannon wrote: "I read "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day". I really enjoyed it. I had wanted to see the movie, but, as usual, I had to read the book first."

I admit I have not read the book, but instead saw the movie. I really enjoyed it! I know the fear of the movie not living up to the book but I thought the movie was really lovely. Amy Adams, Lee Pace (so dreamy!), and Frances McDormand give some of their best work, IMHO!

[Lucy]

I read The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. It's really entertaining

[quietprofanity]

Read a lot of the common choices here like Mrs. Dalloway, Rebecca and 1984 and they're all very good! (I haven't read Their Eyes Were Watching God yet, but I'm saving that for the POC on a spiritual journey task.)

I read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Found it pretty relevant to the issues of today. (I reviewed the book here.)

[Kirsten]

quietprofanity wrote: "Read a lot of the common choices here like Mrs. Dalloway, Rebecca and 1984 and they're all very good! (I haven't read Their Eyes Were Watching God yet, but I'm saving that for the POC on a spiritua..."

I agree! I read it in high school in the 80's and found it boring. Re-read it with my mother for a book club in 2008 and found it very, very relevant!

[Lynnette]

I am going to revisit Rebecca. I loved the book when I read it years ago.

[Megan]

I read Death Be Not Proud, which just squeaked into this category with an original publication date of 1949.

[Zara]

Okay, folks: if a book was published in its original language in 1922 but published in the US (in English) in 1951... and I'm reading it in English... does it count?

[Kirsten]

Yes!

[Margie]

I'm reading The Age of Innocence published in 1920 and Pulitzer prize winner in 1921. So far, I'm really enjoying it.

[Tanyka]

I am currently reading "Death Comes for the Archbishop" for this challenge. It was published in 1927. I am surprised by how much I like this novel. Willa Cather's narrative style is captivating.

Bonus: This novel satisfies my Modern Library Top 100 Novels Challenge.

[Rachel]

I read Tarzan of the Apes, which was very different from what I expected!

[Amber]

Just finished Howard's End.

[Chinook]

I had plans for this task but then realized after I read The Murder on the Links that it filled the task.

[Megan]

I really, really, REALLY want to count My Cousin Rachel for this as it was published in 1951 but my honest side won't allow it lol

[Cristy]

This task seemed wide open however, after consulting many "best of" lists, I realized I'd previously read just about all of them. Wound up with The Mysterious Affair at Styles which I did not really enjoy. Too much taking tea and not enough mystery storyline. My second choice Steppenwolf was rather more interesting.

[Melissa]

I am reading The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov which is infinitely fascinating.

[Thegirlintheafternoon]

I just finished Daddy-Long-Legs, which was definitely of its time but thoroughly charming nevertheless! Really glad to have found this one.

[Elyse]

Thegirlintheafternoon wrote: "I just finished Daddy-Long-Legs, which was definitely of its time but thoroughly charming nevertheless! Really glad to have found this one."

I picked this up at a library sale a few months ago! Haven't read it yet but will soon!

[Julia]

For this challenge I read Mule Bone by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, which was written and copyrighted in 1931, but was only published in 1991. Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes after finishing this play, they had a falling out, never worked together again and wouldn't allow the play to be published until after they both died.

I didn't love the play, but I think I'd love to see a production of it.

[Bonnie G.]

Julia wrote: "For this challenge I read Mule Bone by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, which was written and copyrighted in 1931, but was only published in 1991...."

I am a huge Langston Hughes fan and have seen most of his plays multiple times. I was lucky enough to live in Atlanta when the brilliant Kenny Leon was living and working there, and he made sure Langston Hughes made it onto every season schedule. I did not know about this one though, and did not know that story. Thanks for the heads up!

[Julia]

Bonnie,

There's more about the play, the writers and the falling out than there is play. I wish, if it gets done, that it has an onstage discussion of how the play came about, and why they wouldn't allow it to be produced. Langston Hughes had written a play when he and Zora Neale Hurston discussed this, and she hadn't. But the short story it is based on is hers, the dialect it is written in is hers, the jokes are from her ethnography.

But Hughes & Hurston shared a patron: a rich white woman, who ended it with Hughes and kept on supporting Huston for a little longer. It seems like the patron was the real problem here.

[Britany]

Finished by Willa Cather-- 4 Stars.

I think I have a new favorite female protagonist!

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[[deleted user]]

For this task, I read The Pearl by John Steinbeck

[Brian]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

[Ann]

I read F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is The Night

[Susan]

I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I had wanted to read it for a long time and this was my excuse. I really enjoyed it a lot!

[Rebecca]

I read Strangers on a Train. This is my second Patricia Highsmith, and I've decided she's just not the author for me. The premise for this was so interesting, but then it just dragged and dragged - I think it could've been a tighter novella, maybe a long short story. I struggle to relate to her characters, since they all seem independently wealthy or if they work, it's not really "work." I mean, if you can afford an apartment in Manhattan by freelancing just whenever the mood strikes you, your life is still pretty easy!

[Yrinsyde]

I read What Ho! The Best of Wodehouse - stories published primarily in the 1920s-1930s. Very funny and I chuckled a lot. I read this some time ago and only now adding to the discussion.