Angie's Optimistic Personal Challenges

[Angie]

Okay, I'm completely gutting this as of 12/25/2018, as I had a crappy year personally in 2018 and didn't achieve much of anything I wanted to achieve. I am giving myself a light, doable personal challenge and setting up some new long-term challenges. It's SF/F heavy, because that's what I want to read right now.

Main 2019 Personal Challenge

“With a Little Help From my Friends”—Books from the Group Shelf
1. As I Lay Dying (02/05/2019)
2. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
3. Oliver Twist
4. The Postman Always Rings Twice (01/03/2019)
5. The Stand
“Just a Girl”—Books By Female Authors
1. Catseye (01/03/2019)
2. Cranford
3. Lud-in-the-Mist
4. Murder at the Vicarage
5. Northanger Abbey
“Flying Purple People Eater”—Sci-Fi Classics to 1963
1. The Caves of Steel
2. Foundation
3. From the Earth to the Moon
4. The Invisible Man
5. The Stars My Destination
“Rocket Man”—Sci-Fi Classics 1964 to 1983
1. Babel-17
2. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
3. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
4. The Left Hand of Darkness
5. The Man Who Folded Himself
“Every Day is Halloween”—Classic Horror
1. The Call of Cthulhu
2. I Am Legend
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray
4. The Pit and the Pendulum
5. A Stir of Echoes
"The Ballad of Serenity"— Contemporary Sci-Fi
1. All Systems Red (01/10/2019)
2. The Draco Tavern
3. Leviathan Wakes
4. Lock In (01/05/2019)
5. Neuromancer
“Life is Just a Fantasy”—Fantasy Books
1. The Color of Magic
2. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
3. A Game of Thrones
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (01/19/2019)
5. The Fifth Season

[Angie]

Here are links to challenges from this and other groups. Having them in one place helps to keep me sane.

Catching Up With the Classics Challenges

Classics Bingo 2019

Old & New Challenge 2019

Quest for Women’s Authors

Outside Challenges

ATY in 52 Books

TBR Cleanup 2019

My Bucket List 2019

SF/F Bingo 2019

[Angie]

Next up is Shakespeare. I'm planning to take quite a while reading through them. I've decided to reread the plays I read in high school or college, so some of these will be rereads. Most of them are first time reads.

Shakespeare's Plays

Comedies
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labor's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
✔ Twelfth Night (07/02/2017) ★★★★★
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale

Histories
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
King John
Richard II
Richard III

Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
✔ Hamlet (07/18/2016) ★★★
Julius Caesar
King Lear
✔ Macbeth (01/20/2017) ★★★★★
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus

[Angie]

I'll disperse these between the reserved posts below when I get around to it.

Longer Term Challenges
1. Chip away at group bookshelf
2. Read more pre-1800 classics
3. Read lots of classic sci-fi/fantasy books
4. Read more short stories/anthologies
5. Read more plays

Also want to tackle the bibliographies of specific authors... not sure who yet.

Stats:
TBA

[Angie]

Long-term challenge... works written before 1800 (not including Shakespeare).

Pre-1800 Literature
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[Angie]

I want to read more SF/F books, so I think the best way to tackle this is to pick an award and start reading the winners and nominees.

Hugo Award Winners
1. All Systems Red (TBR January 2019)

[Angie]

I also want to read more plays. I am always on the hunt for female playwrights, but I'll read men and women here.

Plays
1. The Convert - Gurira
2. Eclipsed - Gurira
3. R.U.R. - Kapek
4. Fool for Love - Shepard

[Angie]

Now I have it in my head that I should read the published works of J.R.R. Tolkien. I've already got a good start.

Tolkien Challenge
1. The Hobbit, 11/2015
2. The Fellowship of the Ring, 11/2015
3. The Two Towers, 12/2015
4. The Return of the King, 8/2016
5. The Silmarillion, 12/2018
6. Farmer Giles of Ham, 12/2018

[Angie]

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[Angie]

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[Angie]

I have gutted this post with a more doable personal challenge for 2019 and have made space for longer-term challenges.

I am looking for plays written by females--classic or contemporary. If any of you know of any good ones (other than Lillian Hellman, of course), please let me know.

[Luke]

Angie wrote: "I have gutted this post with a more doable personal challenge for 2019 and have made space for longer-term challenges.

I am looking for plays written by females--classic or contemporary. If any o..."

There's always 'A Raisin in the Sun'. I have For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Wit down to read, and there's also this resource here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Angie]

Aubrey wrote: "Angie wrote: "I have gutted this post with a more doable personal challenge for 2019 and have made space for longer-term challenges.

I am looking for plays written by females--classic or contempo..."

Thanks! Wit definitely looks interesting.