Pamela’s 2022 Challenge Buffet - a few nibbles!

[Pamela]

Going to stick with a couple of challenges I really enjoyed last year, and add a couple of different ones!

[Pamela]

Challenge #3 Decade Challenge

This year I’m going back to the 1950s

✅ 1950 - Some Tame Gazelle
✅ 1951 - They Came to Baghdad
✅ 1952 - Pigs Have Wings
✅ 1953 - Go Tell It on the Mountain
✅ 1954 - The Tortoise and the Hare
✅ 1955 - The Talented Mr Ripley
1956 - Train to Pakistan
✅ 1957 - Justine
✅ 1958 - The Guide
✅ 1959 - Goldfinger

[Pamela]

Challenge #5 Short Story challenge

* COMPLETED 28 November 2022 *

✅ 1. The Letter by Anton Chekhov - Read in About Love and Other Stories
✅ 2. Millie by Katherine Mansfield - Read in The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
✅ 3. The Seraph and the Zambezi by Muriel Spark - Read in The Complete Short Stories
✅ 4. Death of a Comrade by Julian Maclaren-Ross - Read in The Penguin Book of the British Short Story, Volume 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith
✅5. Dead Men Tell No Tales by Émile Zola - Read in Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories
✅ 6. A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka - Read in The Complete Short Stories
✅ 7. The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell - Read in Gothic Short Stories
✅ 8. Luella Miller by Mary Wilkins Freeman - Read in Gothic Short Stories
✅ 9. The Hand by Guy de Maupassant
✅ 10. The Only Only by Candia McWilliam - Read in The Penguin Book of the British Short Story, Volume 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith
✅ 11. The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle - Read in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
✅ 12. The Stealer of Marble by Edgar Wallace - Read in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
✅ 13. Cream by Haruki Murakami - Read in First Person Singular: Stories
✅ 14. Flush by Virginia Woolf
✅ 15. The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Read in Flappers and Philosophers
✅ 16. The Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Read in Flappers and Philosophers
✅ 17. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
✅ 18. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
✅ 19. New York to Detroit by Dorothy Parker. Read in New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories: from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
✅ 20. The Hind by Grazia Deledda. Read in The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
✅ 21. Horseshoes for Luck by Anthony Gilbert
✅ 22. The Whistle by Eudora Welty. Read in New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories: from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
✅ 23. The Ransom by Leonardo Sciascia
✅ 24. The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia

[Pamela]

Challenge #6 Group Reads Challenge

* COMPLETED 14 December 2022 *

✅ 1. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky - January Old School
✅ 2. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky - February Revisit the Shelf
✅ 3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre - February New School
✅ 4. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard - March Old School
✅ 5. Persuasion by Jane Austen - April Revisit the Shelf
✅ 6. Blindness by José Saramago - April New School
✅ 7. The Hand by Guy de Maupassant - May Short Story
✅ 8. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith - August Old School
✅ 9. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles - August Short Story
✅ 10. Flush by Virginia Woolf - September Short Story
✅ 11. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe - October Short Story
✅ 12. Before the Party by W. Somerset Maugham - December Short Story

[Pamela]

Challenge #9 Fiction/Non Fiction Challenge

Excited about this one, I want to read more non fiction

Topic 1 India during the Raj
✅ Fiction - The Jewel in the Crown
✅ Non fiction - The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

Topic 2 The sport of cricket
✅ Fiction - Murder Isn't Cricket
✅ Non fiction - Over and Out: Albert Trott: The Man Who Cleared the Lord's Pavilion

Topic 3 The Sicilian Mafia
✅ Fiction - The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
✅ Non fiction - Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

Topic 4 Dogs
✅ Fiction - Dog Days and Flush
Non fiction - Dog Days: A Year with Olive and Mabel

Topic 5 Cyprus conflict 1974
✅ Fiction - The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Non-fiction - The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know by James Ker-Lindsay