Renee's 2021 Buffet Challenge

[Renee]

Just doing the Old & New Challenge (which I have never finished yet), and the short story challenge this year.

Challenge #1

Old School
1. War and Peace
2. Agnes Grey 12/04 *****
3. The Black Tulip

New School
4. Mrs. Dalloway
5. The Handmaid's Tale 04/06 *****
6. Cry, the Beloved Country

My Wild Card Six
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. The Big Sleep
9. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
10. The Thin Man
11. Mildred Pierce
12. Strangers on a Train

Alternates
1. Watership Down
2. Northanger Abbey

[Renee]

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge



1. Neighbours by Anton Chekhov ***
2. How Beautiful With Shoes by Wilbur Daniel Steele *****
3. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade by Edgar Allan Poe ***
4. Haircut by Ring Lardner ****
5. Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler **
6. My Kinsman Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne ***
7. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin *****
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[Ila]

I'm reading The black tulip too this time. Good luck

[Carolien]

I've enjoyed Agnes Grey, the Big Sleep and Cry, the Beloved Country. Enjoy, this is an interesting selection!

[Angie]

Great selection of books. I'm reading War and Peace now, and I'm enjoying it so far. Fahrenheit 451 and The Thin Man are fun reads. Good luck on your challenge.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Some really good choices, I am also reading W&P, plan on starting Jan. 1. Good luck!

[Donna]

Good list! W & P is up for me this year, too.

[Renee]

Just finished my first book for the challenge, Agnes Grey. It was also my first Anne Bronte book, and I loved it. It was short, but packed with feeling for the characters. I love the way it was written in a diary form with Anne telling us her story.

[Kathleen]

Glad to hear you enjoyed this one, Renee! Starting with a five-star is a good omen. :-)

[Renee]

I've had it on my challenge list for a few years, and finally got around to reading The Handmaid's Tale. I loved the way it was presented with Offred telling her story. Scary situation Offred was in, and I liked her flashbacks to the before time.

[Sue]

Congratulations on another one down Renee! You sure are bold putting War & Peace on the Old and New challenge! Thank goodness for alternates just in case. I'm planning on reading that next year after loving Anna Karenina this year.

[Renee]

Sue wrote: "Congratulations on another one down Renee! You sure are bold putting War & Peace on the Old and New challenge! Thank goodness for alternates just in case. I'm planning on reading that next year aft..."

I had it on my challenge last year, but I was in quite a slump and never got around to it. I really want to read it this year, so I can get to some of the other Russian classics I haven't read yet, Anna Karenina being one of them.