Classics Catchup 2021

[Fran]

34.) Black Mesa (HB) - Zane Grey 4 stars
35.) Chrystal and the Sea Larks (PB) - Crona Temple

The original title of this was "Sea Larks" and was published it 1895. I purchased it to use for our homeschooling English last year, and since I'm trying to clear some shelves ;) I picked it up to read and was plesantly delighted.

[Cheryl]

20.) Wife in Name Only by Charlotte M. Brame
2 and a half star Victorian sensation-novel. Very melodramatic.

[Fran]

36.) Middlemarch (AB) - George Eliot
37.) Summer Crossing (HB) - Truman Capote

[Fran]

38.) Beowulf (HB)
39.) Dune (AB) - Frank Herbert
40.) The Sign of Four (AB) - Arthur Conan Doyle

[Cheryl]

21.) Leonore Stubbs by Lucy Bethia Walford
2 stars.

[Cheryl]

22.) The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
3 and a half stars.

[Fran]

41.) Towards Zero (HB) - Agatha Christie
42.) Wuthering Heights (AB) - Emily Bronte


(I also read Hamlet; The Young Reader's Shakespeare by Adam McKeown. It was an excellent edition geared towards children, that tells the story in chapters, like a novel. I wasn't sure if it would count. Will someone let me know please?)

[Fran]

43.) Hamlet; The Young Reader's Shakespeare (HB) - Adam McKeown
44.) A Grief Observed (PB) - C.S. Lewis
45.) Call it Courage (PB) - Armstrong Sperry

[Fran]

Hello all, quick question: Does Georgette Heyer count as a "classic"? I think I've seen other posts featuring her name, I just wanted to double check.

[Cheryl]

Fran wrote: "Hello all, quick question: Does Georgette Heyer count as a "classic"? I think I've seen other posts featuring her name, I just wanted to double check."

Not sure, as I don’t know much about that author. See what year she wrote it. (Heena says pre-1950s in the first post for this Challenge.) I know we accept Agatha Christie as classic Mystery. Georgette Heyer could be classic Romance, though. Perhaps Dagny knows more and could give her opinion?

[Fran]

Thanks Cheryl. I will check it out. Either way it works for my first author run and historical fiction:)

[Fran]

46.) Graphic Cannon Vol. 1 (PB) - Russ Kick
This is a great way to condense a great number of classics into bite sized pieces. It's a bit or piece of a classical work told through illustrations. Now typically I'm not into Manga or comic strip art work, but this is a variety of artwork by modern artists. Be warned it is not a typical size (more of a coffee table piece) and over 500 pages.
47.) These Old Shades (AB) - Georgette Heyer (This was originally published in 1926.)

[Fran]

48.) The Long Winter (PB) - Laura Ingalls Wilder
49.) Shakespeare's Sonnets (PB) - William Shakespeare

[Fran]

50.) N or M? (HB) - Agatha Christie
51.) Hard Times (AB) - Charles Dickens
52.) Doctor Doolittle (HB) - Hugh Lofting

[Cheryl]

23.) The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes
3 stars

[Fran]

53.) The Martian Chronicles (AB) - Ray Bradbury
54.) The Last Word & Other Stories (HB) - Graham Greene
55.) Daniel Deronda (AB) - George Eliot
56.) Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (HB) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Cheryl]

24.) Michael Strogoff: A Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne
3 stars

[Fran]

57.) Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (PB) - Sappho

[Cheryl]

25.) Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
3 stars

[Cheryl]

26.) At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Capes
3 stars

[Cheryl]

27.) The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
4 stars

I think 27 will be my total for the 2021 Classics Catchup. I always enjoy this Challenge and will join in again next year.

[Fran]

58.) The Bridges of Toko-Ri (PB) - James Michener
59.) A Study in Scarlet (AB) - Arthur Conan Doyle

[Fran]

Dagny, I picked the shorter ones to read but the longer ones were audio books. I was hoping to get a solid 60 in this year but there are so many books I'd like to finish this year with, that I doubt I'll manage.

[Fran]

I think we've all upped our reading since last year, I'm hoping for great things for 2022 (and not just in my reading challenges :)