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Amanda's Classics Challenge
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Amanda
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Nov 13, 2015 07:08PM
I knew when I put this together that I was way overreaching. Ulysses and Swann's Way in the same year wasn't really feasible for me but I am disappointed that I didn't do better than I did. So I decided instead of being disappointed I would at least try and get the shorter ones done. I'm halfway through The Ice-Shirt right now and I'm reading Lolita in Dec. So I'm going to try and see if I can't get in Notes From The Underground and The Uncanny and maybe Wildfell Hall. I have a ton of other books scheduled between now and the end of the year but I'm going to make a last push to at least make my challenge respectable :)
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I will do Swann's Way with you in say 2018? I'm glad to see you're getting a few more done :)
Ironically I intended to put a ;) after 2018. Apparently only my conscious mind thought I was joking.
That's funny. Hopefully 2017. I think we have enough heavies planned for 2016.
I agree. We need to find some way to list future reads without scheduling them.
That's what my tbr list was supposed to be but there are so many books on there now that will never get read it's almost useless. Maybe we should start a shared Google doc or something like that.
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Maybe there should be some kind of challenge where you have to pick all the books from your TBR-list (and maybe only from those that are put there this year or before). I think that might help me!
Yes, mine is getting much too long. I like that challenge Desertorum!
I'm definitely going to accomplish some of that next year the problem is for every book I read 10 get added. I really need to delete my whole tbr list and start again with books that I only seriously intend to read not just oh that looks good ooh pretty cover etc!
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I have given serious thought to having a category for exactly that...TBRs that I seriously want to read NOW.
That's actually not a bad idea. That would be better than deleting my whole list.
I added a "priority" folder but I haven't been using it.
Oh I have that book! It looks amazing I can't believe I've never gotten to it.
Usually when I see the word "erotic" I flee very quickly in the other direction. The combo of elements in this looks way too fascinating though.
I went through a phase a few years ago where I read a bunch books about asylums and insane people but I never got to this one. Do you have any plans to read it soon or was just one of those oh this looks good I'm buying it purchases?
I put a bunch of stuff into my Amazon cart to "sneak" into orders as I make them. This was just the first I bought. No plans so far.
Somehow it doesn't seem so bad to slide a $10 book in here and there rather than spending $50 all at once :)
Okay, here's what I'm looking at:Old School
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Sentimental Education
New School
The Wings of the Dove
This Side of Paradise
Light in August
Six Pack
Moll Flanders
Out of Africa
The Once & Future King
Kristin Lavransdatter
The Naked and the Dead
Maurice
Alternates
Sacajawea
Mason & Dixon
I also have Salammbo and Cider House Rules that I could put in there. I'm not entirely satisfied yet. Too many of these are buddy reads, too, but I'm closed through August if you can believe it.
That looks like a good list to me. We have a LOT of buddy reads next year so it makes sense that a lot of them are. I'll just pick different ones.
We have plenty to choose from :) I may swap out The Once & Future King.
I would love to read Swann's Way with you at some point.
Ok. Do you want to try and fit that in somewhere next year?
It would have to be Nov or Dec but I would love that.
Ok so I'm making a crazy mad push in the last month and half to get 10 + 2 alternates (12 total) complete. Today I finished Notes from Underground. I really liked it and gave it 4 stars. If I had read it in my 20's I would have given it 10 stars. I have less patience for wallowing than I did back then :)
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Funny how that happens. lol. I suppose we have less time left and wallowing is so unconstructive.
Awesome Amanda :) I have no patience for wallowing and this book irritated me through the second half. Glad you finished another :)
Hi Amanda!Some of us participated in the group read here of "Notes" early this year.
I had a hard time at the beginning, but I got through it. I can't recall the rating I gave it though. I think I liked it in the end.
What really called a difficulty though was that I tried to read Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" right after "Notes." That was rough, so I had to CNF "Dalloway." I'm still shuddering.
That's funny Andrea - I love Mrs Dalloway. It's one of my favorites but I understand it's not every ones taste. I actually liked the first part of Notes better than the second. I almost gave up on my challenge this year and probably would never have read this. I'm really glad that I didn't give up.
I'm going to have to try something else by VW, since Mrs Dalloway went wrong.:)
I'm planning on To The Lighthouse next year. The only other one I've read is Night and Day which is pretty different from her other stuff but I enjoyed it. At some point I want to try The Waves but I think that one takes some work.
How do you feel about "Orlando?" When I told others about the trauma of Mrs Dalloway due to reading "Notes" Directly beforehand, Orlando was suggested.
Finished The Ice-Shirt. I started that a couple of weeks ago and despite not really liking it at first I ended up giving is 4.5 stars rounded up to 5.
Finished The Uncanny gave it 3.5 stars. The essays are pretty interesting. Especially the one about childhood memories as that is a topic of interest to me.
Congrats :) I've been curious about that one.
I majored in psychology so obviously I have an interest :) It's worth reading for the first and the last essay alone.
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It would be interesting to see what Freud himself had to say. Everything I know about him really comes second hand.
I finished Daniel Deronda (4.5 stars) I listened to the audio narrated by Juliet Stevenson which made it even better as she is a favorite of mine. I also finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (4 stars) which I also really liked and flew through. I can't imagine the scandal that book must have caused when it was first published!
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congrats. I pushed Daniel over to next year. Nice to see that you gave it such a high rating. LOVED Tenant and yes, I can imagine the reaction at the time.
Amanda wrote: "I finished Daniel Deronda (4.5 stars) I listened to the audio narrated by Juliet Stevenson which made it even better as she is a favorite of mine. I also finished [book:The Tenant of W..."Well done. She's a favourite narrator of mine too, I've been listening to all of Austen's books read by her and I can't imagine reading them without her now!
I'm hoping to do that at some point too Pink.
Finished #11 Lolita - 5 stars what a disturbingly beautiful book. So the only thing that stands between me and finishing the challenge (12 books) is about 700 pages of the Count of Monte Cristo. I am determined!
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