Zuzana's Challenge Log 2020

[Zuzana]

2020 Reading:

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Books I want to read in 2020

Categories*:

1/Non-fiction books
2/Books either for JA or Brontë Challenges
3/Books I Own (a physical copy)
4/Audiobooks I Own
5/Borrowed Books
6/Books on my TBR list
7/Re-reads of my favourite books

suggestions:






*one book may fit into more categories, will count for both

[Zuzana]

My Ideal Reading January

1/Non-fiction book
2/Book either for JA or Brontë Challenges
3/Book I Own (a physical copy)
4/Audiobook I Own
5/Borrowed Book
6/Book on my TBR list

[Zuzana]

Jane Austen Yearly Challenge 2020

end of the year plan




Books on my TBR


Adaptations

📺Mansfield Park (1983 Mini-Series)
🎬Mansfield Park (1999 Movie)
🎬Mansfield Park (2007 TV Movie)
🎬Northanger Abbey (1986 TV movie)
🎬Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie)
📻Northanger Abbey (2016 BBC Radio 4 Radio Play)
📻Northanger Abbey (2017 Audible Original Drama)
🎬Love & Friendship (2016 Movie)
📺Sense and Sensibility (1971 BBC TV series)
📺Pride and Prejudice (1980 Mini-series)
🎬Emma (2020 Movie)








Present-day re-tellings

Persuasion:

Pride and Prejudice:

Sense and Sensibility:

Emma:

Mansfield Park:

Northanger Abbey:

[Zuzana]

Series I want to finish in 2020:

[Zuzana]

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once 60/100

I've already read 60 books from the top 100. Next year I'd like to read some more, at least 10.

Books I own


Audiobooks I Own


Other books on my TBR


Other interesting books


Must Read Classics 68/100
Best Feminist Books 26/100
1001 Books

[Zuzana]

Books to read in 2020

[Zuzana]

What's on my TBR that would fit these challenges?


*Brontë Yearly Challenge 2020

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[Zuzana]

1001 books
https://1001bookreviews.com/the-1001-...

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1. Candide – Voltaire
2. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
3. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
4. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
5. Emma – Jane Austen
6. Persuasion – Jane Austen
7. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
8. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
9. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
10. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
11. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
12. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
13. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
14. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
15. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
16. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
17. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
18. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
19. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
20. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
21. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
22. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
23. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
24. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
25. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
26. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
27. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
28. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
29. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
30. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
31. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
32. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
33. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
34. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
35. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
36. Dracula – Bram Stoker
37. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
38. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
39. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
40. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
43. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
44. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
45. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
46. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
47. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
48. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
49. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
50. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
51. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
52. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
53. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
54. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
55. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
56. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
57. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
58. Animal Farm – George Orwell
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
60. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
61. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
62. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
63. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
64. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
65. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
66. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
67. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
68. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
69. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
70. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
71. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
72. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
73. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
74. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
75. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
76. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
77. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
78. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
79. Atonement – Ian McEwan
80. The Diary of a young Girl - Anne Frank
81. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
82. War With the Newts by Karel Čapek
83. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
84. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
85. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
86. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
87. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
88. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
89. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
90. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
91. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
92. Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
93. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
94. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
95. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
96. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
97. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
98. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
99. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
100. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
101. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
102. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
103. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
104. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
105. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
106. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
107. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
108. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggardc
109. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
110. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
111. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
112. The Nun – Denis Diderot (hide spoiler)]

113.

[Zuzana]

Comic books on my TBR list:
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[Zuzana]

I have several suggestions.
Jane Eyre 1996 (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
Jane Eyre 2011 (Mia Wasikowska)
Wuthering Heights 1970 (Timothy Dalton)
Wuthering Heights 1939 (Laurence Olivier)

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A Novel Role-Playing Game folder
NBRC RPG - Lady Zuzana

a book with frogs
a book with demons



#9 in a series
#10 in a series
#15 in a series
#16 in a series

set at least 50 years in the future

[Zuzana]

Best Sci-fi books by the decade (My TBR edition)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

50s
(2012)A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
(2012)The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
(2012)The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
(2012)The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
(2012)Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
(2012)The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
60s
(2011)Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
(2011)Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(2013)Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
(2012)Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
70s
(2012)Ringworld by Larry Niven
(2012)Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
80s
(2012)Hyperion by Dan Simmons
(2011)Neuromancer by William Gibson
(2014)Contact by Carl Sagan
(2012)Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
(2012)The Postman by David Brin
(2012)The Running Man by Richard Bachman
(2013)God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
(2014)Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
90s
(2011)Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
(2012)Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
(2014)The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
(2014)China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
(2014)The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
(2012)The Children of Men by P.D. James
(2012)Blindness by José Saramago
00s
(2014)Old Man's War by John Scalzi
(2012)Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
(2018)The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
(2014)Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
(2011)The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
10s
(2015)The Martian by Andy Weir
(2014)Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

[Zuzana]

(2012)A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
(2012)The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
(2012)The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
(2012)The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
(2012)Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
(2012)The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
(2011)Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
(2011)Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(2013)Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
(2012)Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
(2012)Ringworld by Larry Niven
(2012)Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
(2012)Hyperion by Dan Simmons
(2011)Neuromancer by William Gibson
(2014)Contact by Carl Sagan
(2012)Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
(2012)The Postman by David Brin
(2012)The Running Man by Richard Bachman
(2013)God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
(2014)Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
(2011)Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
(2012)Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
(2014)The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
(2014)China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
(2014)The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
(2012)The Children of Men by P.D. James
(2012)Blindness by José Saramago
(2014)Old Man's War by John Scalzi
(2012)Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
(2018)The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
(2014)Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
(2011)The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
(2015)The Martian by Andy Weir
(2014)Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

[Zuzana]

STAR WARS

















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[Zuzana]

UNCOMMON MONSTERS

Fiery Salamander
20 Attack, 250 Health (Population: 5, re-spawns every 6 months)
Known for its regenerative powers. At the end of every round (after you're done with your healing) it regenerates half the amount of health your hero has. The hero doesn't lose the obtained health. Salamander's health can't go above maximum HP. 6 months after killing the first salamander their population respawns (i.e. there are 5 of them again).
Reward: 20 XP, 1 Mercenary Coupon, 1 Salamander Spot, 15 Gold.

(view spoiler)[Hero: LVL 14| HP: 19/38|| Sword: LVL 5 | Magic Staff: LVL 16 (AP: 25+B+cat) | XP: 5552

cat stuns Salamander
H: 200-28= 172
S is stunned

H: 172-29= 143
S: 19-18= 1
Heal + MHeal > H: 21
S: 143+10= 153

H: 153-30= 123
S: 21-18= 3
Heal + MHeal > 23
S: 123+11= 133

H: 133-31= 102
S: 23-18= 5
MHeal > 20
S: 102 + 10= 112

H: 112-32= 80
S: 20-18= 2
Heal + Heal > 22
S: 80+11= 91

H: 91-33= 58
S: 22-18= 4
Heal + MHeal > 19
S: 58+9= 67

H: 67-34= 33
S: 19-18= 1
S: 33+0= 33

H: 33-35= dead (hide spoiler)]

[Zuzana]

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100 sci-fi books
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audiobooks
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hollywood hits
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science books
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Wonder

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Christmas reads

Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Christmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham