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[Jazzy]

Day 17
page 495/1232
Part 3 : Marius
Book I : Paris in Microcosm
Chapter 1: Parvulus

average 29pp per day.

[Tiina]

I'm so close to finishing Part 4 - I have to admit parts 3 and 4 were easier to read than the first two for me which I took an entire month to read. Then again, there's not much to distract me at the moment either!

[Jazzy]

I don't know if I can catch up as I have music studies too :)

But be prepared for tears! *sniffle*

[Tiina]

I finished part 4 just in time! I'm going home today, so I will pick up the last volume tonight! I'm prepared to cry my heart out - even parts 3 & 4 touched my heart and made me teary-eyed

[Tiina]

This Saturday morning, I went through my shelves trying to find Mary Poppins, but I came across two Estonian children's classics instead!

[Jazzy]

Day 20
Les Miserables 550/1232 (29pp per day avg.)
Part 3 : Marius
Book III : Grandfather and Grandson
Chapter 8 : Marble Meets Granite

[Jazzy]

Brush up your Shakespeare
from Cole Porter's "Kiss Me Kate"
(an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocq0-...

[Jazzy]

Day 22
603/1232 49% (28pp day average)
Part Three : Marius
Book Six : Conjunction of Two Stars
Chapter One : Birth of a Nickname

[Tiina]

I just finished Les Misérables. Crying. How am I supposed to go on living now?

[Jazzy]

Mion wrote: "I just finished Les Misérables. Crying. How am I supposed to go on living now?"

It is the most touching and profound sense of loss. We lost our dear cat Cosette a week before Christmas, she slipped away in my son's arms, he was her Jean Valjean. Now tiny Gavroche has come to live with us. Les Misérables is irrevocably tied to my soul and my life. As we walked back from the vet without Cosette, the song A Little Fall of Rain was running through my head mixed with tears as I made my way along the shining pavement in the dark, and past the Monument to Earl Grey, 1832, who due to the events outlined in the book pushed through social reform so that the bloodshed that happened in the French June Uprising wouldn't happen here.

You have my heart and support, I am here for you. *HUGS* xx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no4B8...

[Jazzy]

Day 23
page 619
Book Three : Marius
VII : Patron - Minette
Chapter I : Mines and Miners
avg 27pp per day

[Tiina]

Jazzy wrote: "Mion wrote: "I just finished Les Misérables. Crying. How am I supposed to go on living now?"

It is the most touching and profound sense of loss. We lost our dear cat Cosette a week before Christma..."

*HUGS*

[Jazzy]

Day 24
Page 660/1232 - 54% (avg. 27.5pp per day)

Book Three : Marius
VIII : The Noxious Poor
Chapter 13 : Marius Acts

[Jazzy]

Day 26
739/1232pp - 60% (avg. 28pp per day)
Part Four: The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book II : Eponine
Chapter 1 : The Field of the Lark

[Jazzy]

Day 27
788/1232 64% (avg. 29pp per day)
Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book IV : Help From Below May Be Help From Above
Chapter 1 : The Outward Wound and the Inward Healing

[Tiina]

I've reached the point, where I feel a lot of books piling up on my immediate to-read heap. I'm trying to keep away from Dandelion Wine until February, but a lot of non-classic books keep showing up in my place. A poetry collection which I've promised to review... a manuscript of a novel that might or might not get published, but which was practically forced upon me... So many books, so little time!

[Jazzy]

are you a translator? I don't have a copy of Dandelion Wine, sadly. Quite a lot of books though. I'm in an Aussie book club so have to read a lot of Aussie authors as well as classics, too!

[Tiina]

Jazzy wrote: "are you a translator? I don't have a copy of Dandelion Wine, sadly. Quite a lot of books though. I'm in an Aussie book club so have to read a lot of Aussie authors as well as classics, too!"

I wish I was! I'm going to participate in a translating competition this year, so one day, I might be! I really want to read some of the Aussie books you're reading, but alas, our library offers a little too limited variety of books and I don't want to spend a fortune on buying all the books I want to read...

[Jazzy]

Day 28
812/1232 66% (avg. 28pp per day)

Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book VI : The Boy Gavroche
Chapter 1 : Scurvy Trick Played By The Wind

[Jazzy]

Day 29
page 850 69% (29pp per day avg.)
Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book VIII : Enchantment and Despair
Chapter 3 : The First Shadows

[Jazzy]

Day 30
864/1232 pp 70% (avg. per day - 29pp)
Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book VIII : Enchantment and Despair
Chapter 7 : Old Heart Verses Young Heart

[Jazzy]

Day 31
883/1232pp 72% (avg. per day 28pp)
Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book X : 5 June 1832
Chapter 1 : The Outward Aspect

[Jazzy]

Day 32
904/1232pp 73% (avg. per day - 28pp)
Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book XI : The Straw in the Wind
Chapter 1 : The Poetry of Gavroche

[Jazzy]

Day 33
934/1232pp 76% (avg. per day - 28pp)
Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book XII : Corinth
Chapter 6 : Waiting

[Jazzy]

Day 34
957/1232pp 78% (avg. per day - 28pp)
Part 4 : Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book XIV : The Greatness of Despair
Chapter 3 : Gavroche's Musket

...oh! my heart...

[Tiina]

After visiting my grandmother and failing to find Murder at the Vicarage on her shelves (my cousin must have borrowed it on his last visit!), I ended up with The Left Hand of Darkness and The End of Eternity. My books from an order for some more sci-fi classics were also shipped out, so hopefully I get to do a lot of reading before school starts again!

[Jazzy]

Day 35
970/1232pp 79% (avg. per day 28 pp per day)
Part Four : The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue St. Denis
Book XV : In the Rue de La Homme-Armé
Chapter 1 : The Treacherous Blotter

[Jazzy]

Day 36
1008/1232pp 82% (avg. per day - 28 pp)
Part Five : Jean Valjean
Book I : War Within Four Walls
Chapter 7 : The Situation Deteriorates

[Jazzy]

Day 37
1026/1232pp 83% (avg. per day - 28 pp)
Part Five : Jean Valjean
Book I : War Within Four Walls
Chapter 15 : Gavroche

[Jazzy]

Days 38/39
1064/1232 86% (avg. per day - 27 pp)
Part Five : Jean Valjean
Book II : The Entrails of the Monster
Chapter 2 : Ancient History of the Sewer

[Jazzy]

Day 40
1104/1232 90% (avg. per day - 28pp) 128pp remaining
Part Five : Jean Valjean
Book Four : Javert in Disarray

[Jazzy]

Day 41
1129/1232 92% (avg per day - 27.5pp) 103pp remaining
Part Five : Jean Valjean
Book Six : The Sleepless Night
Chapter 1 : 16 February 1833

[Anne ✨]

I got a copy of The Mark of Zorro for $1 from library sale today, so I scooped it up for my next classics read! Task 11: classic made into a movie ->The Mask of Zorro, 1998

[Jazzy]

Anne ✨ wrote: "I got a copy of The Mark of Zorro for $1 from library sale today, so I scooped it up for my next classics read! Task: adventure :)"

Smashing!

:D

[Jazzy]

Day 42
1173/1232 95% (avg. per day - 28pp) 59pp remaining
Part 5 : Jean Valjean
Book IX : Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
Chapter 1 : Pity for the unhappy, indulgence for the happy

[Jazzy]

C'est fini... 42 days
(avg. 29pp per day)

[Tiina]

I've marked Meremaa Triloogia I as read for this challenge although I'll still be reading it for a while. For anyone confused - it's because this edition is a collection of all the books in the first Earthsea trilogy and only the first one was published before 1969

[Tiina]

I won a fairy tale collection recently. The stories were originally published in 1920s, so I suppose it counts as a classic.

[Tiina]

I just realized that 2/3 of the books I've read this year are classics!

[Jazzy]

Ah, but age alone does not make a book a classic. A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy.

I'm trying to read books that are at least 125pp and scouring all the bookshops and online for penguin classics, etc. I have a large TBR shelf full of ones I own :D

[Tiina]

Jazzy wrote: "Ah, but age alone does not make a book a classic. A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy.

I'm trying to read books that are at least 125pp and scouring all the bookshops and..."

Certainly, not every old book is a classic. After reading the fairy tale collection, I doubt I will consider it one, although this book is one of a kind. I had never heard of more than half of those fairy tales before though. I suppose in the end, the local classics do come down to the content. But still! 2/3 of the books I've read so far are considered classics here.

I went book shopping yesterday and left the shop with five classics out of which most of you have never heard of :p I'll judge my local classics based on a list of compulsory literature for school. If it's old enough AND you have to read it, it counts.

I don't know about schools elsewhere, but our literature courses are awesome. I had 100 pages of notes in Word for my final exam, excluding summaries. We had British classics, Russian classics, Estonian classics... Truly, this challenge reminds me of school and how much fun I had!

[Jazzy]

"If it's old enough AND you have to read it, it counts."

bwaaahahaha yes.

I read a lot of fairy tales, what book is it?

[Tiina]

Jazzy wrote: ""If it's old enough AND you have to read it, it counts."

bwaaahahaha yes.

I read a lot of fairy tales, what book is it?"

Kuninglikud muinaslood - it contains almost exclusively Estonian fairy tales which were published between 1922 and 1937. It's remarkable, because it's fairy tales, not folk tales - I should probably look up some of the latter.

I'm waiting for next Tuesday to buy Deep in the Forest which is also a collection of Estonian fairy tales, but it seems to contain more stories that I've heard of before than the other one.

[Jazzy]

It is not available here. The link takes me to a toddler's book called Deep in the Forest but it has no similarity to the original book other than the name!

[Tiina]

Can anyone recommend a classic published in 1941?

[Syndi Siahaan]

Evil under the sun by Agatha Christie was first published in 1941

[Jazzy]

Take your pick!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_in...

[Tiina]

Thank you!

I'm torn between listing Deep in the Forest as a classic and not. Hopefully by the time I finish the book, I'll have made up my mind! The stories in the collection are ones I've heard numerous times in my childhood.

[Tiina]

Are there any more requirements to a banned or challenge classic point?

I'm considering "Karlsson on the Roof" by Astrid Lindgren. It's as much a classic as "Pippi Longstocking" here, so I picked it up and then discovered Karlsson is apparently banned in some US states and Russia has considered banning it (not sure if it banned it), so I think it qualifies.

[Anne ✨]

I just listened to a full-cast audio edition of Macbeth that included an entertaining guided commentary explaining who's who, and what's going on as the plot unfolds. It also offered historical insights and background information. It was sooooooo helpful for me!

I thought it might be annoying to have someone breaking up the flow of the performance, but it helped me understand everything so much better, and now I could go back and listen/read it straight through and it will all make sense!

Here's a link to this specific edition if anyone's interested:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I checked it out of the library through Rb digital app.