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Read All The Classics!!!
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Vilette by Charlotte Brontë
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
If you don’t get enough interest here you might consider joininghttps://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
I’ve been a member awhile and there’s always lively interest and encouragement.
The classics I'm definitely reading this year are:Persuasion. I'm reading that this month, hopefully starting it in about a week.
Mansfield Park
North and South (Zaara and I have arranged to buddy read this starting 20th July so people are more than welcome to join us. There isn't a thread set up as before this last few weeks we were unsure as to whether we would be allowed to have a thread on this group.
I'm also hoping to get to The Count of Monte Cristo but I don't know whether there will be time. I suppose it depends if there is interest to buddy read that this year.
Lena wrote: "If you don’t get enough interest here you might consider joininghttps://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
I’ve been a member awhile and there’s always lively..."
Haha I was going to mention this group as well. I'm also a member and its the reason I'm reading Persuasion this month :-)
Ooh, I’m starting Persuasion next week too. See you in non Spoilers Hailee!
Here are some that I own and either haven't read or would be up for reading again (because it has been aa long time). The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens
Great Expectations by Dickens
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Any Jane Austen novel
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Howards End by E M Forester
I can easily get others from the library, so I will be happy to join when they catch my interest.
Silas Mariner is going to be the Book of the Month in May.
Might have to do that with you if you want, Lena!And I wish I could reread Persuasion this month but I think that would be stretching myself too much.
I'll go through my shelves and add my titles tomorrow. And I'll check which of the titles you girls suggested are on my bookshelves at home.
I try and participate in at least one of The Catching Up With Classics reads a month.
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So we're not planning on making this thread redundant by mirroring the reading lists from other groups, but if you are planning on reading something soon post it and see what people feel about it.
I have been reading Classics for years and usually do several per year. so I will jump in on any that I haven't already read. On the Bronte's I haven't done Vilette or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Of the Dickens I believe Great Expectations and Old Curiosity Shop is missing for me. Everything else above I have read.
I would highly recommend Trollope or Austen for those who haven't ventured in to them
Anyone for George Elliott?
I'm wanting to read Silas Marner soon. Have you read that, Frank?
As mentioned in another thread I have a gap in my formal education and will be joining in in some of these books.My current TBR list includes these
East of Eden
Rodion Raskolnikov - Forbrydelse og straf 1
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Idiot
Of Mice and Men
The Call of the Wild
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
EDIT: I'm hoping to do at least 6 classics a year going forward. Anyone wants to join in the above (besides East of Eden, which is just a question of when)?
I checked my shelves and from what you girls suggested I found Vilette - C. Bronte
by J. Austen:
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
by Anne Bronte
Agnes Grey
The Tennant of Wildfell Hall
and Silas Marner by G. Eliot
I would be willing to BR any of the above
also @Lundos
if you decide to read Of Mice and Men and the Jack London book I'll gladly reread them with you. They are among my all time favourite.
If you guys decide to set up a BR for East of Eden or Count of Monte Cristo I'll join for that one also. So let me know. :)
Excellent Laura. I knew I could count on you.
Lundos wrote: "Excellent Laura. I knew I could count on you."Anytime :)
I might have a go at mice and men since schools here love it so much and I admit it was a pretty good book but it would be nice to read it again and talk to people about it rather than writing an essay for it. 😂😂😂
C.P. wrote: "I'm wanting to read Silas Marner soon. Have you read that, Frank?"Yes, I have, also Middlemarch. Would like to read The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda and Adam Bede.
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I'm thinking that the end of the month may be a good time for scheduling our reads, since people will be finishing up their other BRs scheduled for that month (maybe). So somewhere in the third week we'll make our choices on which one(s) we're in the mood for and schedule them. What do you think?
I was thinking about:- Little women
- Huckelberry Finn
- Tom Sawyer
- Moby Dick.
And 'Uncle Tom's cabin.' These were al classics that I enjoyed as a kid. There are some interesting titles given here :)
I have some George Orwell's and lesser known Jules Verne's books I want to read:Down and Out in Paris and London
Coming Up for Air
The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories
Sounds good to me too Yanique. :)And I would also like to set down a few titles in the hope of getting a BR for them this year, because I'd really really like to read them.
The Moonstone
Allan Quatermain
The Phantom of the Opera
AIAIAIAIAI...what has happened here in the few days I been away?Heck,I'm not complaining.
I'll read Villette with you, @Yani and Dickens with C.P.
I think Manju (Team Satan) and I both have Anna Karenina on our TBR for the year.
And as she says, Hailee and I already have a BR for North and South set up for July 20. If there's enough interest perhaps we could make that the July book and not double up on threads?
Also Angela (she asked to remind her closer to the date) and I had talked about a Name of the Rose read in August. So there's one definite yes and one firm maybe for your chalkboard, Yani.
I dunno how well poetry lends itself to a BR...I reckon ppl here may be shy? to talk about poetry. Certainly it lends itself to discussion.
Just bought Lark Rise to Candleford but I'll be ok to go thru it alone. Let's go with the books that generate most interest.
Shoutout for Beste and Siobhan to come here. I hope they see this.
I think that the stars may soon smile on that Mockingbird re-read....
Here here. Absolutely in for Mockingbird. We can also do Of Mice and Men, A room of ones own, The Sorrows of Young Werther etc etc. Just choose and let me know
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The Moon Is Down Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky
Knock On Any Door Motley
In Cold Blood Capote
Animal Farm Orwell
A Separate Peace Knowles
The Moon is Down is perhaps the most underrated classic ever IMO. The most overrated, preparing to be burned at the stake, is The Catcher in the Rye. A close second is On the Road. The funny things is especially in my youth I should have loved these having a rebellious streak but I found them both trite and boring.
Might as well add my stuff Of mice and men by Steinbeck
An inspector calls I think this is a play but this is a well known piece of work and the author was from Bradford
Crime and punishment- I haven’t read it but I the premise of the book had inspired the plot of my short film script
Karmazov brothers by Dostoyevsky
Time machine by wells
Modern utopia by Wells
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War of the worlds by wells
Around the world in eighty days by Verne
Brave new world by Huxley
Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde
Metamorphosis by Kafka
The trial by Kafka
War and peace by Tolstoy
My list of books I want to read so far
So shall we do like 2-3 classics a month, depending on page count??
Only classic I want ppl to read is, of course... The Magus. No other classic has as many plot twists. I've skimmed maybe three of them, but take my word for it anyway. Also, I want to discuss interpretations of the ending with ppl, so...
idiffer wrote: "Only classic I want ppl to read is, of course... The Magus. No other classic has as many plot twists. I've skimmed maybe three of them, but take my word for it anyway. Also, I want to ..."Haven't heard of it but the given GR synopsis reminded me The Great Gatsby.
Beste wrote: "So shall we do like 2-3 classics a month, depending on page count??"We were planning on trying to do one a month, I believe, but whoever wants to could obviously do more if it fits their schedule.
C.P. wrote: "Beste wrote: "So shall we do like 2-3 classics a month, depending on page count??"We were planning on trying to do one a month, I believe, but whoever wants to could obviously do more if it fits ..."
Oh I didn't see that sorry. I will join whatever you decide.
@Hailee @CP @DragonchildJust started Mansfield Park today for the billiomth time...impulse read....FYI since it is on your lists...
@Yaniiiiiiiique....uhmmmm I dunno why...just hi I guess 😝😂
#random
I completely forgot this.What's the next book?
I’m so sorry silvana I did not see this thread I’d love to buddy read We if you still want to read it
Do you have a date in mind?
Zaara wrote: "@Hailee @CP @DragonchildJust started Mansfield Park today for the billiomth time...impulse read....FYI since it is on your lists...
@Yaniiiiiiiique....uhmmmm I dunno why...just hi I guess 😝😂
#random"
Ahhhhhhhh I would have loved to join you but I am reading 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! books already at the moment and my stress levels would explode if I added another until I had at least finished one of them but preferably two
Hailee wrote: "Zaara wrote: "Ahhhhhhhh I would have loved to join you but I am reading 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! books already at the moment and my stress levels would explode if I added another until I had at least finished one of them but preferably two "Come on Hailee. Just one more. You can do it.... ;)
Lundos wrote: "Come on Hailee. Just one more. You can do it.... ;)"
@Zaara - 😤😤😤 (that's supposed to be the steam coming off from the dragonesque anger - I actually couldn't find smth with the stuff coming out of the ears :D) Cause You Started Without Me!!! 😭😭😭 And we didn't do a BR together in such a long time!!! 😭😭Of course I'll join you lovely. 😘
Now where's that thread?!
@Hailee - You can do it girl! 5 or 6? What difference does it make? You're anyway swamped. :)
Ohhhhh.. We have to read Divine Comedy together
So have you guys started any BR for May yet? I'm asking because I still couldn't adapt this group's so many discussion, can't find my way ever! lol, I might join on some of them.
Hi Sedat 🤗For now, I am just thinking about starting Mansfield Park with Zaara and Manju wants to read Age of Innocence these days - both impulse reads as Zaara said. :) Would you like to join any of them?
Also, if you have any suggestions of other classics you'd like to BR - post the list here.
Laura wrote: "Hi Sedat 🤗For now, I am just thinking about starting Mansfield Park with Zaara and Manju wants to read Age of Innocence these days - both impulse reads as Zaara said. :) Would you like to join any..."
Don't really have suggestions but I trust your taste, I might join if you on both although Mansfield Park seems to be really long (for something other than SFF ) so it would probably take so much of my time if it's anything like a classic classic :))
19-21 May is free of books for now, let me know when you decide :)
I am reading Age of Innocence paperback, so will take a month to finish it. I am slower than a snail when I read paperbacks.@Zaara: ini and I have decided to start AK in August. Are you okay with the timing? Let me know. :O)
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (other topics)Wuthering Heights (other topics)
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Feel free to post a little list of the ones you've been wanting to get to. We are going to aim for A Classic A Month, and not plan too far ahead that way we keep it fun and keep the pressure levels low.
First read:
April 28th Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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