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A to Z Challenge - Stage Edition 2019
Late to the game but I want to give this a shot. I'm going for 25. I am going to try to make them all from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
There are no books on that list with any words starting with X in the title. I will give myself half credit if I read one of the three with an Author's name starting with X.
A - The Secret Agent - Gainsborough Studios 1936 (as Sabotage) - 8/26/19
B - Mary Barton - BBC 1964 - 4/5/19
C - Catch-22 - Anonymous Content 2019 - 3/19/19
D - The Day of the Triffids - Power 2009 - 3/15/19
E - Parade's End - Mammoth Screen 2012 - 3/7/19
F - The Fall of the House of Usher - Bermuda Dunes Production 2014 - 2/5/19
G - Alias Grace - Halfire Entertainment 2017 - 4/17/19
H - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Touchstone Pictures 2005 - 5/29/19
I - The Age of Innocence - Columbia Pictures 1993 - 2/19/19
J - Tales of Jacob - German Film 1965 (as Jakob und Rahel) - German Film 1965 - 11/15/19 - 11/15/19
K - The Brothers Karamazov - Avon Productions 1958 - 9/27/19
L - The Little Prince - Onyx Films 2015 - 8/19/19
M - A Prayer for Owen Meany - Hollywood Pictures 1998 (as Simon Birch) - 7/4/19
N - Never Let Me Go - DNA Films 2010 - 6/24/19
O - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Fantasy Films 1975 - 6/3/19
P - The Garden Party and Other Stories - ACI 1973 - 4/18/19
Q - Don Quixote - Elysium Bandini Studios 2015 - 8/19/19
R - The Talented Mr. Ripley - Production Companies Miramax 1999 - 5/22/19
S - The Girls of Slender Means - BBC 1975 - 5/12/19
T - A Tale of Two Cities - MGM 1935 - 5/20/19
U - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - BBC Drama Productions 2008 - 7/9/19
V - Quo Vadis - MGM 1951 - 8/18/19
W - Wuthering Heights - Mammoth Screen 2009 - 7/26/19
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Y - The Yellow Wall-Paper - Ascent Releasing 2011 - 4/6/19
Z - Zorba the Greek - Twentieth Century Fox 1964 - 12/4/19
Updated message 29-- 17/26-- Murder on the Orient Express (Multiple Adaptations; However there is only one Hercule Poirot-- 2010 with David Suchet)
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UPDATE M 42: 19/20 + O (Outsider)= 20/20
Update #36: 26/26CHALLENGE COMPLETED!!!
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Thank you for another fantastic challenge!
Sunny wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Updated to message 341! you are all doing great! Just so there is no more confusion I will be trying to update this challenge once to twice a month. I do hope that works for everyon..."thank you!
TerryJane wrote: "Updated message #84.Progress: 26/26 -- COMPLETED on 8/11/19
Thanks for managing this fun challenge!"
congrats
updated to 365! You are all doing great!
Update to #360I definitley got more from The Brothers Karamazov this go-round than I did in highschool.
K - The Brothers Karamazov - Avon Productions 1958 - 9/27/19
23/25
I have a question about whether or not a book I read should be used for this challenge and am looking for opinions. I just read Dead Until Dark. The HBO series True Blood is based on this. Normally I wouldn't count a book unless there was an episode that matched up to it pretty well. In this case, though, I checked IMDB and each episode of season one aligns pretty closely to the book. So count it or not?
Amy wrote: "I have a question about whether or not a book I read should be used for this challenge and am looking for opinions. I just read Dead Until Dark. The HBO series True Blood is based on..."I say yes. A few of my books have changed names between the pen and the camera.
Sean wrote: "Amy wrote: "I have a question about whether or not a book I read should be used for this challenge and am looking for opinions. I just read Dead Until Dark. The HBO series True Blood..."Cool, thanks! That's the way I was leaning.
Updated message 29-- 19/26-- Dead Until Dark-- HBO's True Blood season 1 was based on this book; letter U
Edited post #37.Changed my goal to 26.
So far 23/26.
17/18I had to move one:
R: Crazy Rich Asians (2018 film)
So I could use this:
C: Carrie (1976 film/1988 musical/2002 film/2013 film)
Updated pst 160 (15/26) Seriously guys, I'm so behind. I've been reading a lot, but haven't been reading for this.
Update message 45, I'm at 14/26✓P: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (finished 11/6) (2015 movie)
Update M 160: 19/26Totally failed. There are other books that I have been more interested in reading than these, and there's no way I'm going to finish.
Amy wrote: "I have a question about whether or not a book I read should be used for this challenge and am looking for opinions. I just read Dead Until Dark. The HBO series True Blood is based on..."YES
updated to message 400!
Message 69 Updated 26/26-CHALLENGE COMPLETED
Update to Message 36024/25
Z - Zorba the Greek - Twentieth Century Fox 1964 - 12/4/19
Just finished Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. Zorba made me laugh and cry. I loved this one.
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