Week 1 - January #Classicsathon - Updates

[Lucy]

Share your reading updates here for the first week of the #Classicsathon!

What have you started by reading? Don't forget to tell us your thoughts on the books you've finished!

[[deleted user]]

I have The Turn of the Screw, Sanditon and Wuthering Heights on my side table for reading. The first 2 are small so I think I'll be able to read them in no time.

[Monica]

I’m starting with Withering heights and Dracula! Let’s see how that goes!

[ra]

im starting with to kill a mockingbird :-)

[Sandra]

I’m currently rereading Little Women to ease into the new year.

[Hannah]

I’ve started Evelina by Frances Burney and She Stoops to Conquer a play by Oliver Goldsmith.

[Rachelle]

I have started East of Eden and loving it!!!

[Zahraa]

I have started The Hunchback of Notre-dame. I’m 35 pages in and I’m already loving it!

[Sue]

Have already got underway with the Wuthering Heights buddy read and am waiting for House of Mirth to be delivered

[Paperback]

im starting with Swann's Way by Proust and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

[Holly]

I am reading persuasion

[nasrin]

I start reading Maurice by E.M Forster

[Jade]

Currently reading Pride and Prejudice and it feels like coming home ☺️

[Nadine]

A bit of a cheat, because I’m originally reading it in another group, throughout January 2020 I’m reading Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain in the French translation. That gives me plenty of time to choose my list of classics for the rest of the year, although I’m already considering Charles Dickens next. Happy Classics Reading!

[Tracey]

I am reading Guy Mannering by Walter Scott and started The Iliad which I am reading with another group with someone who knows their stuff.
I am working my way through the works of Scott who is so overlooked these days. This is my 7th. Anyone interested in giving him a go give me a shout as I am in a group and we will be reading 3 more this year. (1 book every 3 months)

[McKenzie]

I just picked up My Cousin Rachel, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Grapes of Wrath!

[Your Least]

I started "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde" not long ago. Hopefully I like it. *fingers crossed*

[Sarah]

I’m starting with The Picture of Dorian Grey, then a Jane Austen afterwards.

[[deleted user]]

I‘ve just started Anna Karenina today, after having it on my shelf for 7+ years. I already made it to page 80 and I’ve no idea what I’ve been so scared of! :)

[Nullifidian]

I'm reading Selected Essays by Michel de Montaigne, The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare because I'm also taking part in Ian Doescher's Shakespeare 2020 Project.

[Cathie]

I'm doing a buddy read with a friend and we decided on Frenchman's Creek as people have mentioned Rebecca I guess it's a classic. I've also got Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau just downloaded on my Kindle so maybe I'll also start that. I'm really aiming for one classic a month as I have many other books also on the go.

[Malinda]

I’m currently reading Snakes with Wings & Gold-digging Ants by Herodotus. It’s a much shorter book than his full Histories, but I am enjoying the format of it so far (and the textured cover which feels so nice in my hands!)

[Claire]

I'm currently reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and Genius and Ink essays by Virginia Woolf.

[Rebecca]

I'm starting with a modern classic The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield.

[Isabelle]

I started with Crime and Punishment and so far it’s really good. I also finished The Perks of Being A Wallflower the other day and that one was very touching.

[[deleted user]]

I'm starting with The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

[Iza]

I started re-reading Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen last week (paperback) and I started re-reading Dracula by Bram Stoker earlier this evening.

[Angela]

Just finished reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. Really enjoyed it. Governesses had a difficult time in those days. Admired her determination to live with integrity in spite of her circumstances.

[Kirsten]

I read The Magician's Nephew from the Chronicles of Narnia a little over a year ago, so I'm continuing the series with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe right now.

[Floor]

I'm reading Little Women

[Hannah]

I’m powering ahead with A School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan. It’s shaping up to be a witty play full of interesting villains, antiheroines and misunderstandings.

[Art]

I’m doing a reread of Little Dorrit! It’s such a good story.

[Eliza]

I’m starting with Evelina by Frances Burney, but I’m also partly rereading The Delicate Distress by Elizabeth Griffith for an essay (might skim some parts of it).

[BookishBoricua]

Finished Little Women, now working on Pride and Prejudice and the Selected Poems of Dorothy Parker.

[Ivy]

I'm currently finishing a biography and then diving into Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not."

[Catricia]

Starting with A Midsummer Night Dream by Shakespeare! I borrowed it from my library along with The Taming of the Shrew

[Tammi]

I’ve picked Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy I’m on page 68 this is my first Hardy so we will see how it goes.

[Malina]

I'm reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

[Ashleigh Kerton]

I'm about halfway through Little Women. At first it seemed saccharine but these chicks have won my heart! I'm on board with it and fully emotionally invested!

[Angela]

Finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Very atmospheric and tragic. Can’t say I loved the story but I will definitely remember it.

[mariana]

I am starting the Great Gatsby! (And also hearing the audiobook)

[Audrey]

I’m reading The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck! I’m hoping to get through a lot of his work this classicathon :)

[Linda]

I’m starting today with a modern classic ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt.

[jelena]

although i actually had different plans, i think i'm going to start a modern children's classic today: the endless story (not sure about the english title?) by michael ende, it was one of my fav's as a kid and since i'm kind of stressed right now i'd like to read something i know i'm going to enjoy!

[Stephanie]

I'm reading Northanger Abbey for the Austen Anonymous book club that just started this month. I haven't read it in 10ish years, and I am loving it!

[Your Least]

I finished "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde" a few hours ago and gave it a 3.5*. I'm really disappointed that I didn't love it, but that's life. I'm working on "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" now and am liking it. I'm about ~18% in so we'll see. "The Witness for the Prosecution and other stories" by Agatha Christie is up next. *fingers crossed*

[Nic]

I'm starting with The Plague by Albert Camus.

[[deleted user]]

I'm starting with Sense and Sensibility

[Chaundra]

Just finished Master & Margarita by Bulgakov. I’m hosting a mini book cub on this in a couple of weeks!

[ra]

i finished Maurice and the Bell Jar! unfortunately had to DnF to kill a mockingbird, but i'm just gonna go full steam ahead to read Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh :')