Fall Challenge

[Holly]

Since everyone liked the summer challenge so much. And we're still stuck in this world of "try to stay home" LET'S DO A FALL CHALLENGE!!

First Challenge:
Season Challenge will remain. So choose new books from each season for this challenge...or re-read some of your favorites.

Second Challenge:
Choose a one of the fall based words: harvest, pumpkin, apple, acorn, Halloween.

Read one book for each letter of the word based on title or author (you can mix). So HARVEST would have H A R V E S T starters for titles or authors (Same as the Summer challenge).

Same rules apply. Runs from September 1st through November 30th. Complete challenges will be entered in a drawing for a free book 📖😃

Start Reading!!

[Tanvi]

am in!

[Holly]

For those who need the link to the list the group uses:

https://www.blackwhitereadbooks.com/t...

[Helene]

I’m in too. Will have to look through what books to read though. Great idea 😊

[Holly]

My List:

Seasons:

Season 1: The Crucible 👍
Season 2: Frankenstein
Season 3: Henry IV part 1
Season 4: Wuthering Heights
Season 5: Catch 22
Season 6: Angela's Ashes
Season 7: In Cold Blood

HARVEST

H: Hunchback of Notre Dame
A: Little Women by Alcott
R: Rebecca
V: Valley of the Dolls
E: Eat pray Love
S: Othello by Shakespeare
T: Tender is the Night

[Tanvi]

my list season wise
S1 - madam bovary
S2 - Alice in Wonderland
S3 - Fiddler on the roof
S4 - Wuthering Heights
S5 - Daisy Miller
S6 - Charllotes web
S7 - Eva Luna

A - anna karnina
C - Charles Dickens
O - Orwell
R- rebbeca
N- Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Elba]

Oh Holly, this sounds amazing. I am in. I will publish my list and pics upon completions. Thanks

[Kim]

I have one question-- on the B&W list, there are "additional" books. Can we have the option to substitute one season with a book off of that list?

Just suggesting it to make sure those of us who are having a hard time accessing the lib (or if someone is done with all of a season and doesn't want to re-read) can have one sub-in.

*k

[Kim]

And I'm in!

ACORN Completed Books: 5/5
these are tentative-- it depends on what I can get from the lib
I'll mark them when done.

⋰ A : (title) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
⋰C : (title) A Christmas Carol
⋰ O : (title) A Clockwork Orange
⋰R : (author) Emily the Strange
⋰N : (title) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

ACORN Books Finished:

[Holly]

sure! I'm flexible

[Leni Jenkins]

Here's my seasons list!

S1 - Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
S2 - Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
S3 - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
S4 - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
S5 - A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
S6 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
S7 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

[Anneke]

S1 - War and peace, Leo Tolstoy
S2 - Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King
S3 - Macbeth, William Shakespeare
S4 - The Trial, Franz Kafka
S5 - Ethics, Spinoza
S6 - The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
S7 - Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

[Helene]

Here is my list ( which I might edit depending on if I can get a hold of all the books on it :-) )

s1. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
s.2✔️Girl, interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
s.3✔️How the Grinch stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
s.4 The trial - Franz Kafka
s.5 A room with a view - EM Foster
s.6 ✔️ year of magical thinking Joan Didion
s7. ✔️ In cold blood - Truman Capote

[Stephanie]

I like the seasons list idea.
So, im in.

Season 1- Moby Dick
Season 2- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court
Season 3-A bolt from the blue
Season 4-atonement
Season 5-a confederacy of dunces
Season 6- a tear of magical thinking(I only have 3 left on this season!!)
Season 7-Eva Luna
Additional-pigs at the trough

Once I finish listening to “Becoming” I will get started on this.

[Stephanie]

Ugh, I already read Eva Luna. (It was great!!) So I will replace it with Gender trouble.

[Holly]

finished the Crucible. reading King Henry IV part 1 right now. I will am committed to completing my challenge this time instead of missing part of it like last time.

[Jane]

Sadly the summer challenge flopped for me, so I will give it another try :D

CHALLENGE 1:READ THROUGH THE SEASONS:
read one book from each season (7 books total)
1. Jane Eyre (thats a reread for me! First read in 2012 and loved it!)
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
4. Atonement
5. The Da Vinci Code
6. Beowulf
7. In Cold Blood

[Karin]

Count me in > 16/16
Seasons 7 /7
S1-Moby-Dick or, the Whale ✔️
S2-Frankenstein: The 1818 Text✔️
S3-How the Grinch Stole Christmas!✔️
S4-Alice in Wonderland✔️
S5-Catch-22 ✔️
S6-The Diary of a Young Girl ( from new list ) ✔️
S7-In Cold Blood✔️

HALLOWEEN> 9/9
H-The Howling ✔️
A-A Streetcar Named Desire ✔️
L-Little Women (from new list ) ✔️
L- Lady Chatterley's Lover ✔️
O-Oliver Twist ✔️
W-What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ✔️
E-Emma (from new list ) ✔️
E-Eloise ✔️
N-Nickel and Dimed ✔️

Challenge COMPLETED Nov.15

[Star Geek]

I'm in! 7 and 7 for a total of 14

Seasons:
(1) Out of Africa
(2) Secrets of the Flesh - A life of Collette
(3) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(4) Wuthering Heights
(5) A Room with a View
(6) Beowulf
(7) In Cold Blood

Word Challenge - Harvest (Combination of Titles and Author Last Names)

(H) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(A) Atonement
(R) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(V) Valley of the Dolls
(E) Emily the Strange
DONE (S) Frankenstein
(T) Tuesdays with Morrie

[Kim]

Random question--

do any of you have creative ways (candles, certain pjs, etc) to get into reading in the same space you're working/living/existing/doing everything because of covid? Figured I'd post this in the fall challenge to encourage us in month 198,374 of 2020 and our new reading challenge.

I have some book-theme candles, but am also looking for additional ideas :)

[Jane]

I have a special chair (from ikea) in the corner of my room that I use only for reading. Listening audio books while doing other things like cleaning also help me to keep up :)

[Star Geek]

Kim wrote: "Random question--

do any of you have creative ways (candles, certain pjs, etc) to get into reading in the same space you're working/living/existing/doing everything because of covid? Figured I'd p..."

I like sitting at the table over a cup of coffee or tea or curled up in the easy chair by the window with the blinds up so that the sunlight is pouring in through the windows. I reserve e-books (Scribd) for reading in bed or when I'm out and about (like waiting in line at the store).

[Kim]

Thanks for the ideas, Jane and Star Geek :)

[Karin]

Update to message #18
progress 5/16

[Holly]

Karin, check your messages. you have a message from me :-)

[Rozemarijn]

Hi all! I'm joining quite late, but I just stumbled across this group and couldn't resist this challenge! Hope I'm not too late to join. I'm going to try to read a book from each season:

Season 1: Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - finished!
Season 2: Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - finished!
Season 3: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Season 4: Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - finished!
Season 5: The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir (substitute from the additional list)
Season 6: Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Season 7: The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Quite a lot of classics that I've been meaning to read forever but have never gotten around to. This seems like a great opportunity!

[Sakshi]

Let's get this fall challenge tackled !! I am in.

[Stephanie]

Im going to try for pumpkin

0/7

P-Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
U-Ulysses by James Joyce
M-Moby Dick by Herman Melville
P-Parker, Dorothy- The portable Dorothy Parker
K-King, Stephen-Rita Hayworth/The Shawshank Redemption
I-Inherit the wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
N-Nick Hornsby-High Fidelity.

Seasons
1-A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens
2-A CT yankee in king Arthur's court by Mark Twain
3-A bolt from the blue and other essays by Mary McCarthy
4-Atonement by Ian McEwan
5-A confederacy o Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
6- ( only have 3 options left here...) The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion
7- In cold blood by Truman Capote

[Stephanie]

LOL. I just realized I made two lists... oh well.

[Karin]

message #18 updated
progress 10/16

[Stephanie]

I have made zero progress on this list. Im not sure Im set to read like this. I get most of my books from the library (or my book budget would be hundreds of $$$) so I have to wait a lot.

[Karin]

update to message # 18

progress 5/7 for seasons & 6/9 for word = 11/16

[Sue]

Fall Challenge
September- November
This sounds fun. Also, the link for the list of books does not work.

Seasons
✔1 Jane Erye
2 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
✔3 The Bell Jar
4 Wuthering Heights
✔5 Brave New World
6
7

Peytons Place
U
Moby Dick
P
K
I
Northanger Abby

[Brittney]

I'm late to posting but started last week and would like to join the fun so am adding my books below. The blackwhiteread list no longer works so I had to use others and there may be some discrepancies with my picked books but I tried my best to verify that these are accurate books per season.

Season One - Madame Bovary
Season Two - On the Road
Season Three - The Tell-Tale Heart
Season Four - The Bell Jar
Season Five - The Princess Bride
Season Six - The Year of Magical Thinking
Season Seven - In Cold Blood
[done] YITL - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

H - Howl and Other Poems
A - The Age of Innocence
R - Rapunzel
V - Valley of the Dolls
E - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (author first name)
S - Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
T - The Joy Luck Club (author last name)

[Rochelle]

Karin wrote: "update to message # 18

progress 5/7 for seasons & 6/9 for word = 11/16"

I can't get the link to work either!

[Holly]

I'm sending out a message tomorrow. We have a new list not broken down by seasons but its a pretty extensive list.

[Holly]

FYI...I say tomorrow because it won't let me mass email or change the description on my phone.

here's the link if you want to look early. https://www.prettyopinionated.com/201...

[Kim]

Holly wrote: "FYI...I say tomorrow because it won't let me mass email or change the description on my phone.

here's the link if you want to look early. https://www.prettyopinionated.com/201......"

Thank you!

I've found if you google "books mentioned in gilmore girls" and then put which season you want, lists will come up. Just a tip since half of this challenge is knowing what season a book is from :)

[Karin]

Update to message #18
Progress 12/16

and I figured the links for books read

[Kim]

The moment you realize the challenge ends in November and not December is what I am currently experiencing right now, lol.

🙃😳

[Stephanie]

Don't worry. I haven't read anything from these challenges this time. I got all my holds from the library back to back and I didn't have time to add anything in there. I'm still not finished with much as getting ready for winter is a big task at our place. I read more in winter so I will probably do more for that one.

[Karin]

Update to Message #18

Challenge COMPLETED Nov. 15th

[Kim]

Karin wrote: "Update to Message #18

Challenge COMPLETED Nov. 15th"

YAY!!!!!!!!

I'm looking through my planner for the rest of November and trying to finish the ACORN challenge-- you are an inspiration!

[Stephanie]

Maybe I can do Acorn? The list planning is not working out for me.
I realized that I actually did read one of the books before this!
And I made 2 lists that didn't work out for me because I had to wait on books and they didn't come when I wanted them and yadda , yada, yada.

✔️A-Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy (Nov. 7, 2020-I feel like I have been listening to this forever!)
✔️C-Confederacy of dunces- John Kennedy Toole (Oct. 3, 2020)
✔️ O-Oedipus Rex- by Sophicles (Nov. 19,2020-From the new list!)
✔️R-(the) Red tent-Anita Diamont (Nov 13, 2020)
N-Night by Elie Wiesel

[Elba]

I did the ACORN challenge.

A: A Street Cart Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
C: Candide by Voltaire
O: How to Breathe Under Water by Julie Orringer
R: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
N: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Completed November 25, 2020. Loved it. Thanks GG club.

[Kim]

Ahhhh I've finished 2 in the past 2 days... trying to make the sprint to finish ACORN (it'll be one book at the beginning, and then 4 in the last 4 days!) -- I know I don't have to do it, but I loved this challenge so much this summer (it got me through a real rough summer), I really want to complete the fall one!

[Kim]

Update to post #9-- I finished! (and it's only 927p in my time zone, lol).

I wasn't able to commit as much with this as I did this summer-- but I'd for sure be up for this challenge for the winter months. Hopefully we'll be headed back to societal normal by the end of that quarter (fingers crossed for vaccine//medical treatment)?

This challenge is really fun, and a perfect distraction.

[Rozemarijn]

Didn't manage to finish the whole challenge, but I read three books! Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Dalloway and Madame Bovary. All classics I had been meaning to read for a while but never gotten round to. Still glad that this challenge provided a nice 'push'!

[Lindsay]

Managed to read one from each season, but not the rest of my list. I agree this is a great motivation to read some books that have been on my shelf for awhile!

Season 1 The Bell Jar
Season 2 the Sound and the Fury (this one was HARD for me to get through.....)
Season 3 Encyclopedia Brown- boy detective
Season 4 Wuthering Heights
Season 5 The sun also rises
Season 6 Deenie
Season 7 Eva Luna

I enjoyed 6 of the 7 and some more than others. The Sun Also Rises was a pleasant surprise- enjoyed it more than anticipated.

[Stephanie]

I absolutely hated a sun also rises.
But I agree that this helps to give you a push.