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1/1/20-5/31/20
✔️Completed Squares
✔️B1: Classic of Asia-The Lover, Finished 3/10/20
✔️B2: Classic Tragedy-Dr. Faustus Finished 3/18/20
✔️B3: A Book Published at Least 200 Years Ago-Tartuffe, Finished 1/4/20
✔️ B4: Memoir, Autobiography, or Biography-84, Charing Cross Road, Finished 3/22/20
✔️B5: Classic of Europe-Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Finished 1/25/20
✔️I1: Classic Mystery or Crime-Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Finished 1/28/20
✔️I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick-A Death in the Family, by Terry, Finished 1/20/20
✔️I3: Classic Drama or Play-A Raisin in the Sun, Read 1/11/20
✔️I4: Book From Group’s 2020 Bookshelf-Stoner, Group Read January 2020, Finished 1/23/20
✔️I5: Classic Gothic or Horror-The Cask of Amontillado, Read 1/1/20
✔️N1: Book From Group’s Old School Classic Shelf prior to 2020-Ivanhoe, Group Read January 2017, Finished 2/16/20
✔️N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize-The Blind Assassin, Booker 2000, Finished 5/22/20
✔️N3: Reader’s Choice-Old Yeller, Finished 1/11/20
✔️N4: Classic Short Story-Hansel and Gretel, Read 1/6/20
✔️N5: Book From Group’s New School Classic Shelf prior to 2020-The End of the Affair, Group Read November 2019, Finished 1/9/20
✔️G1: Classic Science Fiction or Fantasy-The Midwich Cuckoos, Finished 2/23/20
✔️G2: The Bigger Read List by English Pen-The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov, Finished 2/17/20
✔️G3: Poetry or Essay Collection-Sonnets From The Portugese, Finished 2/28/20
✔️G4: Banned Book-Bastard Out of Carolina, Finished 5/31/20
✔️ G5: Classic Science or Philosophy-The Fall, Finished 3/25/20
✔️O1: Classic of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, or Oceania-South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, Finished 2/22/20
✔️O2: Classic Western-The Proving Trail, 2/1/20
✔️O3: Book Published the Year You Were Born-Dandelion Wine, Finished 1/6/20
✔️O4: Classic Adventure-Captains Courageous, Finished 3/7/20
✔️O5: Classic of the Americas-A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1/27/20
Completed: 25/25
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1/1/20-12/10/20
✔️Completed Squares
✔️B1: Classic of Asia-The Book of Tea, Finished 4/27/20
✔️B2: Classic Tragedy-So Long, See You Tomorrow
✔️B3: A Book Published at Least 200 Years Ago-A Modest Proposal, 1729, Finished 1/17/20
✔️B4: Memoir, Autobiography, or Biography-Light-Horse Harry Lee: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero - The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee's Father, Finished 11/1/20
✔️B5: Classic of Europe-David Copperfield, Finished 3/24/20
✔️I1: Classic Mystery or Crime-Death on the Nile, Finished 3/19/20
✔️ I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick-Never Let Me Go-12/7/20
✔️I3: Classic Drama or Play-King Henry IV, Part 1, Finished 3/22/20
✔️I4: Book From Group’s 2020 Bookshelf-White Fang, Finished 4/9/20
✔️I5: Classic Gothic or Horror-The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Finished 4/8/20
✔️N1: Book From Group’s Old School Classic Shelf prior to 2020-A Pair of Blue Eyes, Group Read October 2019, Finished 2/14/20
✔️N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize-The Talented Mr. Ripley, Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Romans étrangers (1957), Finished 9/29/20
✔️N3: Reader’s Choice-The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Finished 3/3/20
✔️N4: Classic Short Story-Great Short Stories by American Women, Finished 2/22/20
✔️N5: Book From Group’s New School Classic Shelf prior to 2020-Alias Grace, Group Read January 2018, Finished 10/9/20
✔️G1: Classic Science Fiction or Fantasy-The Machine Stops, Finished 3/7/20
✔️G2: The Bigger Read List by English Pen-Cousin Bette, Finished 11/23/20
✔️G3: Poetry or Essay Collection-Paradise Lost, Finished 4/1/20
✔️G4: Banned Book-The Call of the Wild, Finished 4/10/20
✔️G5: Classic Science or Philosophy-Meditations, Finished 4/23/20
✔️O1: Classic of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, or Oceania-Smith and the Pharaohs, Finished 8/7/20
✔️O2: Classic Western-The Virginian, Finished 10/20/20
✔️O3: Book Published the Year You Were Born-From Russia With Love, Finished 8/25/29
✔️O4: Classic Adventure-She: A History of Adventure, Finished 8/26/20
✔️O5: Classic of the Americas-The Glimpses of the Moon, Finished 6/1/20
Completed: 25/25
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**Books I don't own
*Recommended
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
*84, Charing Cross Road-by Sue
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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An American Tragedy-by Joseph
The Lion in Winter-by Kathleen
An Imaginary Life- by Liesl
N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize-
The Blind Assassin, Booker 2000
The God of Small Things, 1997
Possession, Booker 1990
Never Let Me Go
The Beautiful and Damned
The Leopard
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Lord Jim
The Proving Trail
Jubal Sackett
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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**The Midwich Cuckoos
**4:50 from Paddington
**From Russia With Love
**Pnin
The Cat in the Hat
**The Comforters
**A Death in the Family
**Reflections on the Guillotine
**The Black Cloud
**Mythologies
**April Lady
**The Wapshot Chronicle
**Little Bear
**The Untouchables
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Well, that is one way to start ;)
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Well, that is one way to start ;)"
I'm a work in progress, never enough time in the day.
I will get the skeleton put together today, but the planning, now that will take a while. The sad thing with Bingo planning is that it gets so easy to set aside a pre-picked selection when something better comes along. I guess I'm just fickle
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Not fickle. Totally normal :0)I also want to focus next year on books I already own, which is a lot.
Good luck with your challenge
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I also want to focus next year on books I already own, which is a lot.
Good luck with your challenge"
Thanks, my planning has started, I'm surprised how many books I own are working out
Great list of choices Bob. I loved 84 Charing Cross Road so much. I hope you end up reading that one. Many of your choices were 4-4.5 star reads for me.
I'm glad you can fit many of the books you own into this challenge!
The book about Roosevelt sounds interesting. I'm not much of a non-fiction reader, but I love podcasts, especially about history. History on Fire has a great podcast episode about Roosevelt. Sadly, now it's paid subscription only.
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I am also working on using the books I own. I like the way your marked yours. I might go back and copy-cat that idea.
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Please, I do ask for recommendations for I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick. Not necessarily something form my TBR, I'm just, if not more interested in something you consider a favorite. Thanks in advance.
Looks like a great start. I really loved Pavilion of Women and passed it on to my sisters. It's not just for women either obviously.Another one I really liked was All the King's Men. As a southerner I loved his descriptions of life in the South. This year I finally finished a biography of Huey Long, who Warren's book is supposed to be based on. Definitely an intriguing character.
I am definitely a nonfiction reader and both Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History and Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt are excellent by two great writers, Larson and McCullough.
One short book recommendation deserves another, and since I'll be reading your Oscar Wilde recommendation this week, I'll recommend a short one for you: The Lion in Winter. I just finished it, and it's especially great if you've seen the movie with Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn, but even if you haven't, it's really fun!
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Susan, I have a couple of books by Buck, Pavilion of Women and Mandala. My mother listed 6 books she loved when she was in high school. The Good Earth was one of those six books. After reading The Good Earth I always keep Buck in the back of my mind when hunting thrift shops and used books stores. I’m glad to know Pavilion will be a good read.
All the King's Men is one of those books one hears about over the years, it’s a Pulitzer, and an easy purchase when the low cost bargain comes along. I’ve had it for years and I’m hoping this will be the year I read it.
I used to read a good bit of nonfiction, but I’ve neglected it for the last four or five years. I’m happy my choices will not be a waste of time, but I’ll probably only read one of them.
Thanks for your insights.
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Kathleen, I have added Lion to my TBR. I don’t know when I will run across a copy, but it is enough for me that it has your recommendation. Thanks!
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Lynn, I put three books on hold at my library yesterday, Stoner, The Midwich Cuckoos, and Dandelion Wine. I don’t know which one will arrive first, but which ever one does, it’s likely my first read for 2020.
Great list to choose from, Bob. I look forward to seeing which books you choose. Plus, I just added The Midwich Cuckoos to my own TBR because it sounded interesting. TBR seems to always grow this time of year! Good luck with your challenge, and I hope you enjoy all the books you choose!
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A great list. Looking forward to see which ones you choose.
I don’t really have any suggestions, since you have read a lot more classics than I have But I see you added The Perks of Being a Wallflower as a potential. If you decide to read that, let me know and I will join you. I have wanted to read that one for a while.
For I2 I'll suggest An Imaginary Life by David Malouf. It is a lovely story about exile and nature. Plus it is only 156 pages.
If you don't mind me sharing my opinions of the books I've read from your list I say "84 Charing Cross Road" is a sheer delight to read! "The Lover" was a little bit of a disappointment but "The God of Small Things" is one of the best books ever written! :)
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Paula W wrote: "I don’t really have any suggestions, since you have read a lot more classics than I have But I see you added The Perks of Being a Wallflower as a potential. If you decide to read that, let me know ..."
Thank you both and Paula I'm not 100% sure I will pick up 'Perks', but it has been on my TBR for awhile and sounds interesting.
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Thank you for the recommendation, it sounds very interesting, I've added it to my TBR.
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"84 Charing Cross Road" is defiantly on my reading list for 2020. "The God of Small Things" is likely but still a maybe. However it is hard to ignore your statement of "one of the best books ever written!" As for "The Lover," I don't have a strong affinity for it, but it does fit a couple of squares. It is one of those books I no nothing about except seeing it on Goodreads repeatedly. Saw it a used book store and now we'll see. Most likely since it is so short I will give it a read.
Thanks for your input and advise.
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✔️1: Classic Mystery or Crime-Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Finished 1/28/20
✔️I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick-A Death in the Family, by Terry, Finished 1/20/20
✔️I3: Classic Drama or Play-A Raisin in the Sun, Read 1/11/20
✔️I4: Book From Group’s 2020 Bookshelf-Stoner, Group Read January 2020, Finished 1/23/20
✔️I5: Classic Gothic or Horror-The Cask of Amontillado, Read 1/1/20
I've had a good month and I hope it continues.
Congratulations on your Bingo, Bob!
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Excellent start! Congratulations on the bingo :0)
Congrats on the bingo and impressive progress! So many read already! And best of all, glad to hear the books have been outstanding! :)
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Does anyone have a suggestion for B2 Classic Tragedy?
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Anna Karenina for old school. Never Let Me Go for new school.
Sara has great suggestions for Classic Tragedy. Another might be the fantastic The Remains of the Day, of if you're up for another Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping which is odd but special.
Congratulations, what an enormous progress!Of Mice and Men, Things Fall Apart, Madame Bovary, Effi Briest, Kabale und Liebe, Wide Sargasso Sea, Oroonoko or Tess of the D'Urbervilles for the Tragedy corner? All of those are not classical tragedies, but all contain rather sad life stories with "tragic" endings.
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I have read Anna Karenina a true favorite, The Remains of the Day, Of Mice and Men another favorite, Things Fall Apart, Madame Bovary, Wide Sargasso Sea, and liked even more than Anna K, and M&M is Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Anna K, Tess, and Mice and Men are solid five star reads I consider them favorites. The others I’ve read are all good reading and easy recommendations. And thanks to Philina, it looks like I have three more for the TBR.
I had considered using Never Let Me Go as my N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize square. Until I realized it was not a Booker Prize winner, just a nominee. Now, I plan on finding out what is tragic about the story. It also gives me the letter “I” in the A-Z Author challenge. You got to love twofers.
It was in last years Bingo challenge that Kathleen recommended Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. I read it, I thought it was great, and now I’m hooked for the rest of the series. By the way Gilead #4 Jack is set to publish this October. When will I ever get to Housekeeping? Who knows, but I hope to read the rest of the Gilead series first.
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Congrats on your fantastic progress, Bob!
You're very welcome, Bob! I hope you could find the English edition of the German books. Never Let Me Go is also on my to-read list. I think/hope it will be fantastic from what I've heard about the book.
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✔️O1: Classic of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, or Oceania-South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, Finished 2/22/20
✔️O2: Classic Western-The Proving Trail, 2/1/20
✔️O3: Book Published the Year You Were Born, 1957-Dandelion Wine, Finished 1/6/20
✔️O4: Classic Adventure-Captains Courageous, Finished 3/7/20
✔️O5: Classic of the Americas-A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1/27/20
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