Sarah's Classics Challenge

[Sarah]

Now if only I can do the same next year :)

[Sara, New School Classics]

Sarah wrote: "Now if only I can do the same next year :)"

lol. I share your feelings. I have already started thinking about the list for next year.

[Amanda]

I have a much better thought out plan for next year :)

[Sarah]

And very detailed ;)

[Amanda]

Yeah my plan: read all the books with Sarah :)

[Andrea AKA Catsos Person]

I've been thinking about next year's reads to.

I want to read more from my shelves next year.

I'm seriously addicted to group reading and buddy reading, while fun, they don't necessarily reduce my tbr pile!

[Sarah]

Yeah, mine continues to grow as well :) There are just too many books available.

[Laurie]

I agree that group reads sometimes don't reduce my TBR like it should. So my goal for my last 10 books this year is that they must come my TBR list. We'll see if I can stick to that.

[Sarah]

I'm always worried I'll cheat and add a book to my TBR because I want to read it and then I can say it came off my TBR ;)

[Sara, New School Classics]

I'm guessing we all have the same problem. I add ten books for every one that I read on the TBR. However, I do have items on the list that have been there for a long time and really deserve to be read...I am going to try to stick to those.

[Sarah]

I go through it every now and then and delete the things I don't remember :) At least I won't know what I'm missing.

[Sarah]

I finished The Woman in White today, which completes my challenge. Yay! I'm still planning on finishing the other two but I'm very glad the challenge is complete. I did it!

I really enjoyed The Woman in White and it would be difficult for me to say if this or The Moonstone was the better book. They're both very fun.

[Christine]

Congrats on completing your challenge, Sarah! I agree about the two Collins books. I enjoyed them both very much, too!

[Nathan]

Congrats on finishing it! What a great group of books you read :)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Congratulations Sarah! I finished The Woman in White yesterday also. Great book I liked it from beginning to end. Now on to 2016!

[Amanda]

Congrats! I'm still determined to finish mine! One more month :)

[Sarah]

Thanks guys :) It has been a really great bunch of books and I'm so glad I did this!

[Sara, New School Classics]

Congrats on finishing.

[Sarah]

Thanks Sara :)

[[deleted user]]

Congratulations on completing your challenge :)

[Sarah]

Thanks! I'm excited for next year :)

[Desertorum]

I´m glad you liked Name of the Rose! Was it not different from the Foucault´s Pendulum?
I read this year East of Eden, maybe next year I have time for Grapes of Wrath.

[Sarah]

It was incredibly different! And so much better. Foucault was just one gigantic info dump and it got ridiculous. The Name of the Rose had me glued to it and I stayed up late because I got to the who and why at bedtime. I just HAD to know!

[Desertorum]

Sarah wrote: "It was incredibly different! And so much better. Foucault was just one gigantic info dump and it got ridiculous. The Name of the Rose had me glued to it and I stayed up late because I got to the wh..."

I absolutely agree! That´s why I had so high hopes for Foucault´s and it did not deliver.

[Sarah]

I'm reading his Prague Cemetery later this year. Hopefully it's more Rose than Foucault. The funny thing is that a lot of the info in Foucault was stuff that I enjoy learning about. I don't know, it was just disappointing.

[Sara, New School Classics]

I'm sorry to read your comments, since Foucault is on my list for this year. I will let you know if I have a similar response to it. Loved The Name of the Rose.

[Sarah]

I read Foucault with several friends who enjoyed it, so you're probably safe. :)

[Sarah]

#13 Doctor Zhivago. This book frustrated me badly in the first half and then just got mildly interesting so it only got two stars. I was very disappointed since I looked forward to this so much.

[Andrea AKA Catsos Person]

Sarah, at least you tried Dr Zhivago.

A former member of this group said there were so many characters to keep track of, that she created a tickler file on index cards in order to keep track of all of them. That frightened me off!

I have enjoyed watching the movie in the past.

[Sarah]

It was especially difficult at the beginning because he was doing multiple POVs. I had some people pop up at the end that it would talk about like I was supposed to know who they were and I was clueless. I'm glad I finished it because I would have always wondered what happened but I don't ever want to reread. I've only seen the movie once and it was a long time ago, but doesn't the romance play a huge part? Because he ran into her a few times but the romance didn't start until well after the halfway point. It was fairly minor.

[Andrea AKA Catsos Person]

There was so much going on in the movie, so many threads and people, that "romance" (view spoiler)[Lara (hide spoiler)] Seemed a minor point in the story in terms of the story.

[Sarah]

I think I was fairly young when I saw the movie so I'm apparently remembering it wrong. I should watch it again.

[Pink]

Well done Sarah!

[Sarah]

Thanks :) It's been a lot of fun.

[Sarah]

#14 and probably the hardest of all is now complete. The Sound and the Fury. I barely survived. ;)

[Amanda]

Woohoo! Well done :)

[Sarah]

Thanks!!!! I'm so excited :D It's ironic that my two most difficult (Doctor Zhivago and The Sound and the Fury) happened at the very end.

[Nathan]

Sarah wrote: "#14 and probably the hardest of all is now complete. The Sound and the Fury. I barely survived. ;)"

GOOOOOO, Sarah! :)

It was a tough one, but I'm glad we took it on. Do you think you'll try more Faulkner sometime?

[Sarah]

Thanks Nathan! That was so difficult.

I'm doing Light in August next year. I think I have the audio (narrated by Will Patton!) scheduled for July. That's the only one I have planned for next year. You?