Read All The Classics!!!

[Laura Tenfingers]

Love this!
I'm totally in for Ana Karenina!

Also any of the above mentioned:
Jane Austen
Bronte sisters
Elizabeth Gaskell
Edith Wharton
George Eliot (I want to read Romola)
Grapes of Wrath

I really need to finish a book or two or three first though... 😨

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Zaara wrote: "@Hailee @CP @Dragonchild
Just 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"

Helllloooooo!!!!! lol!

[Laura Tenfingers]

And Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope

[Laura Tenfingers]

Oops, just borrowed Mansfield Park.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Ok, I was looking through the comments and people have suggested lots of different books, of different genres and periods. The ones mentioned the most were:

Vilette by Charlotte Brontë
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

I've also seen and agree with suggestions of HG Wells, Jules Verne, Franz Kafka, and Aldous Huxley, since they do write Fantasy/Sci-fi/magical realism classics. ANNNNNDDDD... They tend to be quite short.

Shall we vote from this selection?

[Zaara]

@Manju a-ok for Anna Karenina in Aout.

@Laura (Dragonchild) and @Laura (Oz)....wow! This is amazing! You guys will join? I love you both. Thank you. Sure I will request the thread and @Dragonchild...you can scold me to your hearts content thru the entire read and I will not sulk or pout.....promise...bcuz truly....i swear it was a mad impulse this morning....but thanks for coming...since it is 3 ppl I shall now beam the bat signal for a thread. Hehheeh kidding I know @Dragonchild you'z too lovely to actually scold any more...and wow guys you actually said yes!
Did i say thanks? I think I did.

EDIT: this post comtains overemotional blubbering!
EDIT 2: thread requested....

[Zaara]

@Hailee...after that GIF you'd jezzt better...cave, dahlin' cave!
YOLO n all....

[Zaara]

Beste wrote: "Ohhhhh.. We have to read Divine Comedy together"

+1 and how!

[Zaara]

@Yani...I vote Villette bcuz I already read the other two. Wait...wait...is this for May? Or June?
😂😂😂😂

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Zaara wrote: "@Yani...I vote Villette bcuz I already read the other two. Wait...wait...is this for May? Or June?
😂😂😂😂"

This is for May. We're not planning so far ahead in this thread. That way people can pick what they're in the mood for closer to the time.

[Laura]

I'm in for any of the 3 Yanique. I'm trying to add some extra to my fantasy reads to avoid the genre burn-out (aka slump).

@Zaara - I love chatting with you sweety. Promise I won't scold! Not too much anyway. :D And emotional blubbering - I love that too. :) 😘

[Zaara]

Then I rescind my vote and @Yanique...would y'all consider picking Steinbeck for May so Laura and I can join for Villette in June 😁😁😁
????
I notice Oz wants in on the Brontë too.
Only if that's ok...

[Em Lost In Books]

Zaara wrote: "@Manju a-ok for Anna Karenina in Aout.

@Laura (Dragonchild) and @Laura (Oz)....wow! This is amazing! You guys will join? I love you both. Thank you. Sure I will request the thread and @Dragonchil..."

All set ma'am, we are going to Russia in August. Pack your bags. :D:D

[Yanique, Thread Master]

I'm personally voting for East of Eden, but I'll wait to see what other people are thinking.

[Sedat]

Yanique wrote: "I'm personally voting for East of Eden, but I'll wait to see what other people are thinking."

I read East of Eden, and it was one of the best other than SFF, though I probably won't join for a second ride since I'm swimming in TBR's...

[Lundos]

I'll finish MoI and In the Realm of the Wolf BRs and then see what you are reading. I have 5 BRs in June already and way too many real life appointments.

[Beste]

What do we have for June? Can we decide soon? (So that I check if I have the book or buy a new one (I couldn't find East of Eden, probably gave it to someone yrs ago) )
I haven't read Vilette so I'm definitely in for that one.

[Zaara]

THE REVISED, UPDATED AND WHOLLY IMPROVED LIST

North and South (Br scheduled for July)
Anna Karenina (BR scheduled for August)
Name of the Rose (Angela? Not yet scheduled but Aug tentative)
Villette (not scheduled, Yanique)
Lark rise to Candleford (nobody interested?)
Mockingbird (anytime Siobhan and Beste say is fine)
My Cousin Rachel (various, unscheduled)

Also wanna read Catch 22 and
@Yani/@all....really want to find a reading partner for is anybody interested??

I can read Catch and Candleford alone, no issues....

[Ahdam]

I’m interested in catch 22 Zaara since I have watched the film yet and I’m really interested to see what it’s all about

[Zaara]

Ahdam wrote: "I’m interested in catch 22 Zaara since I have watched the film yet and I’m really interested to see what it’s all about"

Ok then Ahdam, let me know when you want to start reading the book.
Btw I'm totally assuming that when you said "you are interested in reading the book" that it automatically = reading the book as a Buddy Read 😂😂😂 so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Oh and my good wishes for the festive season to you and your family.

[Ahdam]

Yeah I want to read it as a buddy read and I'll be okay to read it sometime next month or any date you prefer

Thanks as well Zaara first days are usually hard there is about 45 minutes left till I can eat and I am so ready to gorge myself :) :) :)

[Zaara]

Sweet of you to agree. Next month sounds good. I own the book so we can start any day you wish.
I hope there is lassi :-) enjoy...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Ok, this is not going very efficiently, mostly people just keep nominating options and we're not narrowing it down at all.

What if I say Villette for the 26th of May. What say you?

[Zaara]

I thought y'all were going Steinbeck/East of Eden for this month, Yani.
I remember we talked abt this yesterday.
So if by 26th of May you actually meant 26th of June, 😃 then yep of course I'm totally in.

EDIT: Sorry for the seeming confusion, if any. I thought this place was like the "Invite thread" (but for classics) so Ahdam and I were just planning our own small separate BR here. Apos mate.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Well I set up this thread so we could find classics BRs for us as a group, that’s why I’m trying to get some common interest. However, very few people are responding to choose and are only nominating more books to add to the list.

I suggested the three that were most mentioned, but even though they were, I’m not seeing much interest. We also wanted to keep it low pressure and not plan to far in advanced so people who are mood readers don’t feel too locked in, like we did with Rebecca.

Seemed like a good idea at the time, but it’s not really working so far.

[Ahdam]

I think this thread needs a set of game rules so everyone knows what there doing so no one is throwing bits here and there maybe we can set it up like the competition with a poll but maybe a bit of organisation and a few guidelines might make things easier and straight it out so people aren’t throwing things at this thread

[Ctgt]

I would be interested in reading East of Eden, Anna Karenina, North and South and possibly Villette.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Ahdam wrote: "I think this thread needs a set of game rules so everyone knows what there doing so no one is throwing bits here and there maybe we can set it up like the competition with a poll but maybe a bit of..."

I did post the 3 top mentions and asked people to vote on them, and most people completely ignored that. It was supposed to be a matter of picking from the most mentioned about a week before scheduling the BR. To pick one as a group.
I hesitate to make this more complicated, since that would remove some of the very reasons for starting this thread.

[C.P.]

I've been tacking too many reads lately and haven't been able to finish off many (even had to back out of Rebecca). I will keep an eye on this, but I don't want to be a major deciding factor in the next read since I'm not sure yet if I will have time to pick up another book.

[Laura Tenfingers]

Sorry @Yanique, I didn't vote because I'm feeling a bit overextended for May. But I'm interested in Villette so I could try.

@Zaara Big yes to Catch-22 whenever that happens.

[Em Lost In Books]

Zaara wrote: "THE REVISED, UPDATED AND WHOLLY IMPROVED LIST

North and South (Br scheduled for July)..."

am a big fan BBC's adaptation of this. yet to read the book. time to remedy that. Am in for North and South. :)

[Sha]

I'm in for Anna Karenina; it's been on my list for years.

Oh and also Catch-22.

[Lundos]

Yanique wrote: "Ok, this is not going very efficiently, mostly people just keep nominating options and we're not narrowing it down at all.

What if I say Villette for the 26th of May. What say you?"

Nice try. ;)

[Laura]

@Yanique - I'd like to read Villette with you on the 26th.

East of Eden will have to wait a bit for me since I just took 3 books of Lunar Chronicles from my library and can't get anymore till I return these.

And regarding the planning of future BRs, I'd rather not do that. Planning is what started to burn me out so I'll avoid doing it for some time. A few days or one week ahead decisions are fine with me for now - that way I can read whatever strikes the mood at the moment. :)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

so many classics..!!! I'm currently reading Jane Eyre..
And Already planned Anna Karenina with manju in Augusts..
Will try to join for North and south as well..

[Beste]

Can you share the links of the determined BR's here?

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Ok I am scheduling Vilette for the 26th of this month and I will put the link here once it's up.

[jess]

I vote East of Eden!

[Zaara]

So I am just counting all the votes so far....

@LaurOz (sorry, until we find a better nick I have to do this to distinguish you from Dragomchild) @Sha and @Ahdam...June for Catch-22.

@Manu, Iniya, Ctgt and Laura North and South with Hailee is ALREADY scheduled for July 10. I think we planned this read sometime in 2017. At the time the group wasn't even reading classics so Hailee's thread request was deffo prophetic 😂😂😂 sorry we planned very far ahead on this one (this thread wasn't even a dream at the time) but we can't change the date on this.

@absolutely everyone wants to read Ana Karenina 😂😂😂 in August. Wow! It is a big book. I'm scared of it, Manu. Hope its not too hard. I will be using the P&V translation. Has anyone here read War and Peace and can advise us? 😂🙈

Yanique wrote: "Well I set up this thread so we could find classics BRs for us...
Seemed like a good idea at the time, but it’s not really working so far. "

@Yanique...Madam President, you wanted a consensus....and *poof* look heeeeere it is!
It only took two days 😂😜😝 I think what happened is everyone forgot abt this (its social media so short-term memory...stuff more than a day old gets forgotten) and the notifications got turned off. But then suddenly the thread got revived, bcuz of Rebecca. Tis true...classics always get pushed on the backburner.
But now we have two good ones under our belt, yes? Rebecca and Mansfield. So cheers for that. It is a very new idea and we are going strong. Don't be sad or lose heart, sweetz. We are all here behind you.
Which reminds me...I need to stop by Mansfield thred. I'll do that in a couple hours. Right now I'm in the mood to chat pulp romance with @Shaaaaa.

[Zaara]

Yanique wrote: "Ok I am scheduling Vilette for the 26th of this month and I will put the link here once it's up."

Go forth and conquer, (ladies of) Team Satan. I shall follow your discussion (and knowing both yous fine minds it is sure to be a lallapaloosa) with interested eyes bcuz *sigh* for anything from the Brontë stable. But XPECIALLY Charlotte.

@ctgt...just a bump bcuz this was on your list. The read is a week out. Mebbe you can make it?

[Em Lost In Books]

Zaara wrote: "@absolutely everyone wants to read Ana Karenina 😂😂😂 in August. Wow! It is a big book. I'm scared of it, Manu. Hope its not too hard. I will be using the P&V translation. Has anyone here read War and Peace and can advise us? 😂🙈..."

I will also be reading a P&V translation this time. Hi five!
honestly, i don't even remember which translation i read five years ago... and Zee, don't you dare race ahead... I will be reading a paperback, will be super slow and need to prepare myself for Levin's super long internal monologues.. ;)

[Ctgt]

Zaara wrote: " @ctgt...just a bump bcuz this was on your list. The read is a week out. Mebbe you can make it?."


Checking with my magic 8-ball.........signs point to yes.

I'm in

[Ahdam]

Definitely zaara just bought catch 22 and can’t wait to read it next month

[Hailee]

Zaara wrote: "@Manu, Iniya, Ctgt and Laura North and South with Hailee is ALREADY scheduled for July 10. I think we planned this read sometime in 2017. At the time the group wasn't even reading classics so Hailee's thread request was deffo prophetic 😂😂😂 sorry we planned very far ahead on this one (this thread wasn't even a dream at the time) but we can't change the date on this."

I thought the exact same thing when I say this thread appear lol.

Zaara - North and South is planned for the 20th July not the 10th, although we could change it to then if you prefer?

[Hailee]

Yanique wrote: "Ok I am scheduling Vilette for the 26th of this month and I will put the link here once it's up."

I love the fact that this group is going to be reading more classics now. Although I won't be joining in with Villette. I started it last year, not realising quite what the content would be and it caused me serious problems and got to the stage where I felt physically sick when I had to read it (I was buddy reading with another group). I had to DNF it in the end as I realised I had started this at the completely wrong time of my life. I don't see myself picking it up again in the next decade.

[Zaara]

Ah yes, that was my bad, sorry @Hailee...I'm good with either 10 or 20 so shall we say 15?
😂😂😂 And yep this is how the math works in my world.
Regarding your thoughts on Gillette...yeah.

@Ahdam, that's very cool. You bought the book!! Let's start on June 1 if that's ok with Laura too?
@Laura that's two books we are starting together on June 1. Wooooop!
@ctgt :-)

[Ahdam]

I can try the 1st although green angel tower will be in the 5th and that is a. If book and catch 22 is a decent size so they may overlap

If I can get my current reads done as well as on later in the week I should be able to do it hopefully

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Villete has been scheduled!

Here's the link to the thread:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Veronica]

Zaara wrote: "THE REVISED, UPDATED AND WHOLLY IMPROVED LIST

North and South (Br scheduled for July)
Anna Karenina (BR scheduled for August)
Name of the Rose (Angela? Not yet scheduled but Aug tentative)
Villett..."

I somehow missed this whole thread! I saw that people were reading Rebecca but thought it was a one-off thing. When I noticed that people were reading Mansfield Park I was sure something was afoot, lol. I'm interested in joining for some of these classic BRs. Right now I'm eyeing North and South - since I already own that one. :-)

[Beste]

Lets set the date for Anna Karenina so that we can put it in our schedules.