Idit's 2019 [20th century mostly] Bingo

[Idit]

Classic Bingo

✅B1: 18th Century or Earlier Classic
The Iliad ★★★★★

✅B2: Book Chosen by the Cover
The Crucible ★★★★



✅B3: European Classic
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ★★★★★

✅B4: Telegraph’s 100 Novels List
Scoop ★★★★

✅B5: 20th Century Classic
The Go-Between ★★★★★

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✅ I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2019
In Cold Blood ★★★★★

✅ I2: New-to-You Author
The Sea, The Sea★★★★★

✅ I3: Classic Play
The Maids ★★★★★

✅ I4: Literary Prize of Your Country
Cloudstreet | Tim Winton | ★★★★

✅ I5: Classic on Your Bookshelf For over a Year(physical shelves. I didn't add books to goodread prior to 2018)
Ragtime ★★★★★

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✅ N1: South American Classic
Suor (sweat - haven't been translated to english. read in hebrew) ★★★★

✅ N2: Short Story Collection
Winesburg, Ohio ★★★

✅ N3: FREE SPACE
Wise Blood ★★★★★

✅ N4: Poetry or Essay Collection
Under Milk Wood ★★★★★

✅ N5: Asian Classic
Untouchable ★★★

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✅ G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize
Earthly Powers ★★

✅ G2: Classic By a Female Author
The House of the Spirits ★★★★

✅ G3: Classic Non-fiction
Selling Hitler ★★★★

✅ G4: Written by Nobel Laureate
Lives of Girls and Women ★★★★★

✅ G5: Book from the Group's 2019 Bookshelf
Antigone ★★★★

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✅ O1: 19th Century Classic:
The Picture of Dorian Gray ★★★★

✅ O2: Classic Sci-fi or Fantasy
The Forever War ★★★

✅ O3: Classic Comedy or Satire
Decline and Fall ★★★

✅ O4: Classic Romance
Love and Mr. Lewisham ★★★

✅ O5: 21st Century Potential Classic
My Brilliant Friend ★★★★★

[Idit]

Finally starting
How things stand ...

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[Idit]

Here we go
making plans instead of reading books:

B1: 18th Century or Earlier Classic
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

B2: Book Chosen by the Cover

(from left: spring snow, being dead, Words - Sartre's childhood memoir)

B3: European Classic
The Street of Crocodiles

B4: Telegraph’s 100 Novels List
A Passage to India; Midnight's Children

B5: 20th Century Classic
The Stranger

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I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2019
Beloved; The Color Purple

I2: New-to-You Author
Elizabeth Bowen: The House in Paris; To the North

I3: Classic Play
maybe shakespeare, maybe 20th century classic... we'll see
Actually: Antigone

I4: Literary Prize of Your Country
Dirt Music; Voss

I5: Classic on Your Bookshelf For over a Year
Pnin

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N1: South American Classic
The Passion According to G.H. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

N2: Short Story Collection
Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood; Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

N3: FREE SPACE


N4: Poetry or Essay Collection
Aeneid Book VI

N5: Asian Classic
Confessions of a Mask;The Wild Geese

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G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize
Light Years; Earthly Powers; Shame

G2: Classic By a Female Author
Wide Sargasso Sea

G3: Classic Non-fiction
Selling Hitler; The Journalist and the Murderer

G4: Written by Nobel Laureate
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster; Shira; The Bridal Canopy The Fish Can Sing

G5: Book from the Group's 2019 Bookshelf

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O1: 19th Century Classic
Wuthering Heights; First Love

O2: Classic Sci-fi or Fantasy
The Forever War

O3: Classic Comedy or Satire
Lucky Jim; The Bottle Factory Outing; Extinction

O4: Classic Romance
Doctor Zhivago; Le Grand Meaulnes; See Under: Love

O5: 21st Century Potential Classic
Purple Hibiscus; Kafka on the Shore

[Katy, New School Classics]

I love making plans also. Enjoy your Bingo.

[Terris]

Good to see you’re having so much fun, Idit! Nice list :)

[Idit]

thanks guys. I enjoy perusing all those awesome lists as well

[Idit]

Yikes! I have just remembered the bingo.
that means that for six months I've neglected my plans. Not to fear - my eclectic reading did well enough on its own. Will have to find some local prize-winner and finish the Iliad which I'm currently reading and will be back on track

[Veronique]

You’re not the only one and it does seems you’re doing well :O) Lots of high scores!

[Lynn, Revisit the Shelf]

Idit wrote: "Yikes! I have just remembered the bingo.
that means that for six months I've neglected my plans. Not to fear - my eclectic reading did well enough on its own. Will have to find some local prize-win..."

You are doing very well for not focusing on it! I know I never really read what I plan anyway.

[Idit]

With the Iliad, I think I have three level-one bingos...
4 corners, the first column and a diagonal line from top right (that I didn't notice before)
Hurray

[Idit]

Veronique wrote: "You’re not the only one and it does seems you’re doing well :O) Lots of high scores!"

Yeah. A lot of good books. (although I find I keep changing my ratings. so who knows. I might still change them as they simmer in my mind for a while

[Lynn, Revisit the Shelf]

Idit wrote: "With the Iliad, I think I have three level-one bingos...
4 corners, the first column and a diagonal line from top right (that I didn't notice before)
Hurray"


Yippie! Congratulations on the Bingos, especially with a book like The Iliad. It's wonderful, but I admit I have only read parts, not the entirety.

[Rosemarie]

Congrats on your Bingos. You have an interesting list of books.

[Pink]

Idit wrote: "With the Iliad, I think I have three level-one bingos...
4 corners, the first column and a diagonal line from top right (that I didn't notice before)
Hurray"

Well done on the bingo! I’m currently reading The Iliad for the first time and very much enjoying it.

[Idit]

Pink wrote: "Idit wrote: "With the Iliad, I think I have three level-one bingos...
4 corners, the first column and a diagonal line from top right (that I didn't notice before)
Hurray"

Well done on the bingo! I..."

which Iliad version are you reading?
I enjoyed the Fitzgerald translation. I thought it was great (a very uninformed opinion of mine of course)

[Idit]

Rosemarie wrote: "Congrats on your Bingos. You have an interesting list of books."

I have a general challenge these last 2 years of a book a year from 1900, so it forces my hand in strange directions, just to find books to cover for different years.
I like how it forced me off the beaten track

[Pink]

I’m reading the Fagles translation. I read and enjoyed his versions of The Odyssey and The Aeneid, so stuck with him for The Iliad.

[Idit]

Very exciting... Only one left - a book by it's cover. And I already purchased it. The book is The Crucible. And originaly I was going for this cover - that for some reason I really like:

But when I was at the shop, I saw this cover:

And I loved it so much (what with the penguin being cooked... That it book was chosen twice by the cover

[Rosemarie]

The orange cover is catchy, that's for sure. And it's a good play, as well. I have read it more than once.

[Idit]

It is a good play.
With the addition of The Crucible, and replacing my I5 from 'call of the wild' which I liked to Ragtime which I LOVED, I am done!
BINGO 2019 is finished.
Too light on women authors to my shame, but other than that - pretty good collection of books. I enjoyed most of them very very much

[Rosemarie]

Congratulations on finishing, Idit!

[Philina]

Congratulations!

[Laurie]

Congratulations, Idit. With so many 4 and 5 star ratings, it looks like you enjoyed your challenge.

[Katy, New School Classics]

Idit wrote: "It is a good play...
BINGO 2019 is finished...."

Congratulations to you! Well done

[Idit]

Thank you guys!
I did really enjoyed the challenge.
(I read more books that would have been eligible but chose usually the ones I liked most - but it was a very good year for classics)

[Katy, New School Classics]

So glad that you enjoyed the challenge.

[Lynn, Revisit the Shelf]

Idit wrote: "It is a good play.
With the addition of The Crucible, and replacing my I5 from 'call of the wild' which I liked to Ragtime which I LOVED, I am done!
BINGO 2019 is finished.
Too light on women autho..."


Congratulations on finishing your challenge!! Way to go.

[Idit]

Thanks Lynn!

[Annette]

Congratulations!