3rd Quarter - Reading through the Decades

[Nina]

Okay, this one took me quite some thinking. First I wanted to go with "female protagonists", which would be something I am interessted in, but also a quite easy task.

I then suddenly realised that the one topic I love in books is time travel. But this is so specific that it was not quite what I wanted.
So the theme I came up with is: "Books that include settings in different time periodes". That basically includes time travel, but also books where a story of the past is told. With this optimised theme I have quite a selection for the challenge, but i will first stick to 4 books.

4/4

Possible books:
✔1450's (B.C):Reflections in the Nile
500's:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
✔1820's:Das verborgene Tor
✔1890's:The Glass Sentence
✔1900's: The Winter People
??:The Wise Man's Fear

[Rebecca]

This is a really cool challenge!
black women and their fight for feminism: 0/4
2010's: We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1930's: The colour purple by Alice Walker
1940's : The bluest eye by Toni Morrison
?

[Amanda]

Reading Through The Decades
Duration: July 1, 2018 - September 30, 2018

Theme: Love

1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Completed 18/7/18 Rating 3 stars

1870s - name is important, money is important, keeping up appearances, no freedom, divorce is a scandal

2. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Completed 24/7/18 Rating 5 stars

1930s - money is an issue in this case, nonetheless more freedom to choose. It has progressed since 1870s


2/5

[Rebecca]

What does leading the challenge consist in?

[Rachelnyc]

I love this idea but like Nina wrote, it took some thinking. I hope this isn't too broad but I'd like to explore familial relationships. I'm thinking mostly the parent/child dynamic but I am currently reading Middlemarch and am fascinated by all the different relationships explored in the 1830s and think it will be interesting to compare to more modern decades.

I'll go with 10 books. ETA: Completed but I'll see if I can get to 15!

13/10

1830s Middlemarch (I've already started this in June but I have over 500 pages left so I think it should count!)
2060(ish) Artemis
1820s My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
2000s The Yiddish Policemen's Union
1990s Interpreter of Maladies
1950s Mommie Dearest
1890s The Night Circus
1940s Beneath a Scarlet Sky
1920s Mrs. Dalloway
1930s The Color Purple
2010s Paris Time Capsule
1700s Robinson Crusoe
1970s Housekeeping

[Rebecca]

Okay perfect! I am interested in leading the challenge :D

[Rachelnyc]

Kristin wrote: "Rebecca - leading involves tracking participants and their progress (goal and number of completed books). Are you interested in leading?

Rachelnyc - that sounds like a great theme and doesn't seem..."

Thanks Kristin! I'm looking through my tbr list now and already have a few that I think will make for interesting comparisons.

[Rebecca]

Participants:
Amanda: 0/5
Berit: 4/10
Brittany: 4/10
Cindy III : 0/3
Dlyn: 1/6
Jill: 0/10
Kristin: 0/4
Nina: 2/4
Rachelnyc: 4/10
Rebecca: 2/4
SarahKat: 4/6

[Jill]

I’d like to join, but I’m not sure what topic or decade. I need some time to think. But I’ll do 10 books for now. Just need a topic.......

[Berit]

Hi, I’d like to join. My topic is Africa, and I’m in for 10 books,

So far 8/10.

Possible options:
2010’s: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - READ
2000’s: Bill Bryson's African Diary - READ
1990’s: Purple Hibiscus - READ
1980’s: Stay with Me - READ
1970’s: A Dry White Season
1960’s: Half of a Yellow Sun
1950’s: The Shadow of the Sun
1940’s: The Plague - READ
1930’s: Green Hills of Africa - READ
1920’s: Out of Africa - READ
1890’s: Heart of Darkness - READ

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Put me down for 6 books please. I need to think about what I want my topic will be though.

[Brittany]

I'm going to do YA novels set in each decade of the 1900s.

1900s: Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined
1910s: Like Water on Stone
1920s: Debutantes
1930s: The Secret of the Old Clock
1940s: Hollow City
1950s: The Loud Silence of Francine Green
1960s: Purple Daze
1970s: Burn Baby Burn
1980s The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
1990s The Princess Diaries

[Rebecca]

I started off with "The color purple" by Alice Walker.
Here are my thoughts on this book here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZ-N...

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

I think I might go with Magic as my theme.

Out of curiosity, how are people handling books set in a fantastical world where the "decade" is indiscernible?

[Rachelnyc]

I just started Artemis which is set in the future so I was wondering about this as well. Fortunately, there was a reference about the tv show Star Trek being almost 100 years old so I am going to use the year 2060 as an approximation.

I know a lot of fantasy novels will be more vague but for anyone reading science fiction, keep your eyes open for hints.

[Brittany]

Update to message #16. I finished Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined for the 1900s today.

[Rebecca]

As I'm going to be reading mostly non-fiction I think the date in which the book is published and the time setting of the book will be mostly similar, although I've chosen these mostly without knowing anything about the plot so if i've made any mistakes i will edit my original message.

[Rebecca]

Brittany wrote: "Update to message #16. I finished Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined for the 1900s today."

Great job!

[Rachelnyc]

Kristin wrote: "I am planning to participate but am having trouble deciding on my theme! It is between experimental literature, time travel, multigenerational sagas, or ones that cover a protagonist's life from bi..."

Ooh those are some great ideas. I love multi-generational sagas. Do you have any in particular that's you're planning to read?

[Rebecca]

I also find that Wikipedia has really thorough lists on books, you can try browsing on the site ^^

[Rachelnyc]

Kristin wrote: "Rachelnyc wrote: "Kristin wrote: "I am planning to participate but am having trouble deciding on my theme! It is between experimental literature, time travel, multigenerational sagas, or ones that ..."

It's a great theme!

I really enjoyed Homegoing and most of the others are on my list (I'll have to look up Beauty is a Wound) so I will definitely be interested to read your thoughts if you go this route. No pressure! ;)

[Rachelnyc]

Updated msg 7. 2/10 completed.

The most striking difference between familial relationships as depicted in Middlemarch in the 1830s to the father/daughter relationship in Artemis in the future is the loss of formality over the years.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

1/6 and I did land on Magic for sure for my theme.

1. 2010's (set in present day; published in 2008): The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

Magic in the form of supernatural beings (ghosts, goblins, vampires...) and their abilities (fading, coercion...).

[Rebecca]

Rachelnyc wrote: "Updated msg 7. 2/10 completed.

The most striking difference between familial relationships as depicted in Middlemarch in the 1830s to the father/daughter relationship in Artemis in the future is t..."

SarahKat wrote: "1/6 and I did land on Magic for sure for my theme.



1. 2010's (set in present day; published in 2008): The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

Magic in the form of supe..."

Dlyn wrote: "1/6 complete :)"

Great guys!!

[Rachelnyc]

Msg 7 updated. 4/10

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

2/6

1900's: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

[Leslie]

Here's what I have so far:

Old School (1899 and earlier)
1700's:
1710's:
1720's: The First Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Church at Corinth by Pope Clement I (1728)
1730'S:
1740'S:
1750's:
1760'S:
1770's:
1780's:
1790's:

1800's: The Secrets of the Harem by Anonymous (1804)
1810's:
1820's:
1830's: The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1836)
1840's: The Business Man by Edgar Allan Poe (1840)
1850's: Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter (1853)
1860's: Tithonus by Alfred Tennyson (1860), Nelly's Hospital by Louisa May Alcott (1865)
1870's: A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (1877)
1880's: How John Wilkes Booth Crossed the Potomac River by James L. Barbour (1884), A Dead Woman's Secret by Guy de Maupassant (1884), Among The Redwoods by E. R. Sill (1884). The Race for the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge (late 1800's), The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde (1887), The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888),
1890's: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (1890), Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde (1891)

New School (1900-1999)
1900's: The Conversion of Sum Loo by Willa Sibert Cather (1900)
1910's: The Dead by James Joyce (1914), In Berlin by Mary Boyle O’Reilly (1915), T.B. by Fannie Hurst (1915), Get Ready The Wreaths by Fannie Hurst (1917)
1920's: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1924), Short story "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston (1926)
1930's: The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (1936)
1940's: Sweet Ermengarde by H.P. Lovecraft (1943), The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen (1945), Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1948)
1950's: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1954), Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958), The Sandbox by Edward Albee (1959)
1960's: Christ Comes to the Indians by Brother Raymond Papenfuss, C.S.C. (1960), Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (1961), Saint Dymphna : Patron of the Nervous and Emotionally Disturbed by Lawrence G. Lovasik (1961), The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury (1962), The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (1965)
Door Into the Dark: Poems by Seamus Heaney (1969)
1970's: The Flowers by Alice Walker (1970), 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1970), Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe (1971)
1980's: Am I Blue by Alice Walker (1986), Flossie and the Fox by Patricia C. McKissack (1986), To Hell With Dying by Alice Walker l Summary & Study Guide by Alice Walker (1988), So Much Water, So Close to Home by Raymond Carver (1989). And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende (1989)
1990's: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates (1994), And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende (1994)

Unknown date: Death's Confessor: A Civil War Murder Mystery by Phillip Bryant

Modern School (2000 - present)
2000's: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (2000), Massachusetts by Joan Leotta (2001), El Dia de Los Muertos by Mary Dodson Wade (2001), The Irish Famine: The Birth of Irish America by Tony Allan (2001), The Story of Ireland by Richard Brassey (2001), When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan (2002), Ireland by Jean F. Blashfield (2002), The Not Forgotten War by Nicholas Dick Jr. (2003), Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason (2003), Runaway by Alice Munro (2003), Day of the Dead by Linda Lowery (2003), Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe (2004), The Secret Goldfish by David Means (2004), Clatter Bash!: A Day of the Dead Celebration by Richard Cleminson Keep (2004), Heroin by Aileen Weintraub 2005), Mother's Hitching Post by Pak Wan-So (2005), Day of the Dead: A Latino Celebration of Family and Life by Carol Gnojewski (2005), The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami (2005), Dia De Los Muertos / All Souls Day by Ann Heinrichs (2006),
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Rode Off to Battle by Ann Kramer (2006), A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (2007), Benedict XVI General Audience Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 7 March 2007: St Clement, Bishop of Rome by Pope Benedict XVI
(2007), Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman (2007), All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown (2008),
Poems from the Women's Movement by Honor Moore (2009), Bayou Trackdown by Jon Sharpe (2009)

2010's: Girls At Play by Celeste Ng (2010), When Bob Met Woody: The Story of the Young Bob Dylan by Gary Golio (2011), The Wampanoag by Kevin Cunningham (2011), Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet (2011), Bomb Sniffing Dogs by Meish Goldish (2012), The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919 by Deborah Kops (2012), Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya (2013), George Washington: The Crossing by Jack E. Levin (2013), News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories by Jennifer Haigh (2013), What Was the First Thanksgiving? by Joan Holub (2013), Tenth of December by George Saunders (2013), The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Core Events of an Industrial Disaster by Steven Otfinoski (2014), Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie by Anne Martinetti (2014), Johnstown Flood by Marlene Targ Brill (2014), Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty by Michael Burgan (2015), Dia de Los Muertos by Roseanne Thong (2015), Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh (2015), Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (2016), The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman on the Frontier by Teri Kanefield (2016), Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein (2017), Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (2017), Where's Halmoni? by Julie Kim (2017), Sebastian and the Troll by Fredrik Backman (2018)
Letter from Tokyo A Theory of Relativity by Elif Batuman (2018), The Boundary by Jhumpa Lahiri (2018), Shaking the Foundations by Elizabeth Kolbert (2018)

[Cindy III]

I am in for 3, romance (and gender roles/expectations) theme

1810s A Date at the Altar 8/22 - 9/4
1840s Scandal in Spring 7/25 - 31

[Berit]

Edited post #14.
So far 4/10.

[Nina]

Finally an update to message 2.

I read 2/4 books (books that take place during two or more different time settings) and finished 1900's and 1820's

[Brittany]

Update to message 16

Finished Purple Daze for the 1960s. 2/10 completed.

[Brittany]

Update to message 16:

Debutantes for 1920s. 3/10 completed.

[Rebecca]

I am at n.2 after having changed my goal, as i lack the reading material and am having difficulty keeping up with studying and reading imposed books... Read 'We should all be feminists' which is a tedx talk that occurred a few years ago, so we can say it is set in the 2010's...

[Brittany]

Update to message 16

I finished The Agony of Bun O'Keefe today, which was set in 1986-87. 4/10 complete.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

4/6

3. 2100's: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
4. 1890's: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

[Berit]

Edited post #14.
So far 5/10.

[Amanda]

Update #4


Theme: Love

1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Completed 18/7/18 Rating 3 stars

1870s - name is important, money is important, keeping up appearances, no freedom, divorce is a scandal

2. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Completed 24/7/18 Rating 5 stars

1930s - money is an issue in this case, nonetheless more freedom to choose. It has progressed since 1870s


2/5

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Kristin wrote: "My summer got away from me, unfortunately, with a few big situations that demanded all my free time. I don't think I will be able to read the books I chose for this challenge by the end of the mont..."

I hate it when life gets in the way of my reading time. I've had an obnoxiously busy summer as well, so I tried to keep all my challenges low.

I've liked every book I've read for this one! Night Circus was my favorite.

I'm at 5/6.

Last one I finished was

5. 1940's: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

One more to go, and I'm almost done with Voyager

[Nina]

Finally a little bit more progress. I also started another book this evening for the challange so I should be able to make it.

3/4

✔1450's (B.C):Reflections in the Nile
✔1820's:Das verborgene Tor
✔1900's: The Winter People

[Rachelnyc]

Update to #7.

Challenge completed but have increased my goal to 15 and am at 13/15.

[Berit]

Edited post #14.
So far 8/10.

[Nina]

4/4 COMPLETE!

✔1450's (B.C):Reflections in the Nile
✔1820's:Das verborgene Tor
✔1890's:The Glass Sentence
✔1900's: The Winter People

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

6/6 Complete!

6. 1760's: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

[Leslie]

Edited post #40. :-)

[Rebecca]

Hello everyone! Sorry for not being very active in leading the challenge or participating but I’ve had a few problems with WiFi and data- the only times I’ve been able to access Goodreads I’ve only had my phone with me and my application isn’t the best for updating challenges, so please bear with me and I’ll try to update them all by this weekend when I go to the public library!
As for the challenge- I’ve been so submersed with schoolwork that I’ve had no time to read the books I planned to read- but I’m sure I’ll do so in the future!

[Cindy III]

update mssg41

2/3 books read