Laura's 12+2 challenge for 2015

[Laura]

Trying to pick from books that I have already:-

Old classics
Villette - Charlotte Brontë - ***done 5/1/16
Heidi - Johanna Spyri - done 27/10/15
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - done 1/12/15

Newer classics
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - done 14/12/15
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - ***done 11/1/16
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - done 22/6/15

Randoms incl some modern ones
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern - done 4/4/15
The Help - Kathryn Stockett - done 9/12/15
Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx - done 16/12/15
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Beach - Alex Garland - done 6/7/15
Stardust - Neil Gaiman

Spares
The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle - done 29/10/15

***finished late (in Jan 16)

[Sarah]

Great list! The Night Circus is absolutely mesmerizing. An amazing book. I'm reading The Name of the Rose as well. I'm curious to see what you think of Vilette. I've been wanting to read that. Good luck :)

[Tytti]

You have a couple I have been meaning to read (Gatsby and Mockingbird) and I also have a book with Brokeback Mountain and other short stories. Maybe this year I will read them...

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

The best thing about this challenge is the diversity of members choices. I pick up so many good ideas for future reading. I haven't read any of your Old classics, but have read others by Bronte and Verne. From your Newer classics I have Mrs. Dalloway on my list and have read Gatsby and Mockingbird, both are solid reads. Your Random list has winners also. The Help is great, make sure you take note of what 'Minnie done', I laughed till I cried. Night Circus is very good and Brokeback was interesting. Such a good list, enjoy!!

[Sarah]

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite novels. It's incredibly well written.

[Laura]

Have seen to kill a mockingbird at theatre but not read it yet.

I live in bronte country and was at the bronte museum recently so it reminded me i haven't read some of their books.

Yes these lists are really fun to read and there are loads of great ideas for the bingo and other future reading.

[Aleta]

I've read quite a few of your choices. Can't really remember Heidi as I was a little kid, but I do remember enjoying it. Around the World is a favorite I constantly reread because it's just so fun and I read The Help this year and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Brokeback Mountain, to me at least, was better as a movie though. In the short story there is no beautiful filming by the amazing Ang Lee to distract from the fact that their poor wives actually love them. I felt so sorry for them, both of them having married someone who doesn't really love them or want to be married to them.