Lori's First Time at the Buffet

[Lori]

I'm going to try this one because I have found that doing challenges really encourages me to read more. I am working on all my lists!

[Lori]

A Bakers Dozen Menu for the 2022 Buffet:


Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge

[Lori]

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR

1899 and earlier/Old School

1. Jane Eyre, 1847, ✓Completed 5-15-22
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876, ✓Completed 4-10-22
3. The Pilgrim's Progress, 1684, ✓Completed 10-16-22

1900-1999/New School

4. The House of Mirth, 1905, ✓Completed 1-26-22
5. Dune, 1965, ✓Completed 10-19-22
6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926, ✓Completed 1-27-22

My Wild Card Six

7. Mary Poppins, 1906, ✓Completed 10-01-22
8. Mansfield Park, 1814, ✓Completed 2-16-22
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890, ✓Completed 10-28-22
10. The Princess and the Goblin, 1872, ✓Completed 11-1-22
11. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 1952, ✓Completed 4-17-22
12. Too Many Cooks, 1938 - ✓ Completed 1-13-22

Alternates
A-1. The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, ✓Completed 3-10-22
A-2. The Secret Garden, 1910, ✓Completed 11-3-22
A-3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967, Did not finish this alternate.


Challenge #1 Completed!

[Lori]

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

Go back through the groups past polls and select seven (7) total books that are of interest to you but lost the poll and to date has never made it to our group bookshelf. Pick two books from New School, two from Old School, two from Short Story/Novella, and one from the Quarterly Long Read.

New School 1900-1999
1. Tarzan of the Apes, 1912 ✓Completed 12-08-22
2. Whose Body?, 1923, ✓Completed 2-13-22

Old School
1. Phantastes, 1858, ✓Completed 2-8-22
2. The Pilgrim's Progress, ✓Completed 10-16-22

Short Story/Novella
1. The Monkey's Paw, 1902, ✓Completed 11/18/22
2. The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1937, ✓Completed, 10/21/22

Quarterly Long Read
1. Shōgun, 1975, ✓Completed 11/17/22

Challenge #2 Completed!

[Lori]

Challenge #3 The Decade Challenge

Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive years (1 book per year). The authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you. Or you can add a level of difficulty to your challenge by selecting only authors you've never read before.

My Decade Challenge the 1920-1929
✔️- 3/10 Completed/Read

1920
1921
1922 - The Forsythe Saga
1923 -
1924 - Inspector French's Greatest Case, ✔️Completed 1-31-22
1925 -
1926 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, ✔️Completed 1-27-22
1927 - The Three Taps: A Detective Story Without a Moral, ✔️Completed 2-25-22
1928 -
1929 -

[Lori]

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge Choose one book per category for a total of 12 books.

1. 19th Century, Mansfield Park, 1814, ✓Completed 2-16-22
2. 20th Century, The House of Mirth, 1905, ✓Completed 1-26-22

3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic,

4. Current or Past Group Read,

5. An Author not read before,

✓6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. - The Wisdom of Father Brown - Catholic Priest - Completed 1-16-22

7. Science Fiction,

8. A book originally written in a language other than your own,

9. A Banned Book,

10. Nonfiction,

✓11. Mystery/Crime, The Hollow Man - completed 1-4-22

12. Horror or Humor,

[Lori]

Challenge #5 Short Story Challenge

Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year. Read them all at once or spread them out, it's up to you.

The Wisdom of Father Brown, 1914

1. The Absence of Mr Glass - A Father Brown Mystery ✓ Completed 1-3-22
2. The Paradise of Thieves ✓ Completed 1-4-22
3. The Duel of Dr. Hirsch: A Father Brown Mystery ✓ Completed 1-5-22
4. The Man in the Passage ✓ Completed 1-6-22
5. The Mistake of the Machine: A Father Brown Mystery ✓ Completed 1-7-22
6. The Head of Caesar: A Father Brown Mystery ✓ Completed 1-8-22
7. The Purple Wig✓ Completed 1-10-22
8. The Perishing of the Pendragons ✓ Completed 1-12-22
9. The God of the Gongs ✓ Completed 1-13-22
10. The Salad of Colonel Cray: A Father Brown Mystery ✓ Completed 1-14-22
11. The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois ✓ Completed 1-15-22
12. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown: A Father Brown Mystery ✓Completed 1-16-22
13. The Importance of Being Earnest ✓ Completed 3-10-22
14. Xingu ✓ Completed 10-5-22
15. Snowdrift and Other Stories "Snowdrift" ✓ Completed 10-5-22
16. Snowdrift and Other Stories "Full Moon" ✓ Completed 10-6-22
17. Pistols For Two, ✓ Completed 10-8-22
18. The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre, ✓ Completed
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[Lori]

Challenge #6 2022 Group Reads Challenge

The challenge is to read 12 of this years group selections. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new and 12 reread books per year, giving us plenty of choices.

1. The House of Mirth, ✔ Completed 1-26-22
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[Lori]

Challenge #7 Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, male or female, from any genre or era you want.

1. The Hollow Man - John Dickson Carr ✓ Completed 1-4-22
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[Lori]

Challenge #8 Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?

“Select 10 books from any single year of interest, then select 10 more from 100, 50, or 25 years earlier, for a total of 20 books. List your choices for other members to explore. The challenge is to successfully read 10 of the 20 books selected, five from your year of choice and five from the earlier year chosen."

1945

1. The Great Divorce
2. Animal Farm
3. Ross Poldark
4. An Inspector Calls
5. A Girl to Come Home To
6. In His Presence
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1845

1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
2. The Raven
3. The Little Match Girl
4. The Cricket on the Hearth
5. The Red Shoes
6. The Snow Storm: A Christmas Story
7. Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
8. The Portable Walt Whitman
9. Sybil, or the Two Nations
10. Twenty Years After
alternate: Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg: A Golden Legend

Reserved

[Lori]

Challenge #9

Reserved

[Lori]

Challenge #10

Reserved

[Lori]

Challenge #11

Reserved

[Lori]

Challenge #12 A - Z Author Challenge


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C - The Hollow Man, John Dickson Carr ✓ Completed 1-4-22
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S - Too Many Cooks, Rex Stout ✓ Completed 1-14-22
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[Liesl]

Wow! I'm impressed by your enthusiasm by taking on the entire buffet. Good luck, Lori.

[Lori]

Thanks Liesl! We'll see how that goes. Isn't it funny how these challenges make you want to read books you never even thought of before....

[Lori]

Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge


A - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - ✓ Completed 4-10-22
B - A Bride Most Begrudging - ✓ Completed 1-29-22
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H - The Hollow Man ✓ Completed 1-4-22
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T - Too Many Cooks ✓ Completed 1-14-22
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W - The Wisdom of Father Brown ✓ Completed 1-16-22
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[Sue]

Congratulations on your first buffet, Lori! You have picked some great books. The Secret Garden, The Picture of Dorian Grey, The House of Mirth and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Raven are among my most favorite books. I look forward to seeing how you like these and others.

[Ila]

A good selection, with many of my favourites. All the best!

[Lori]

Sue wrote: "Congratulations on your first buffet, Lori! You have picked some great books. The Secret Garden, The Picture of Dorian Grey, The House of Mirth and [book:Na..."

Thanks Sue, I'm reading the House of Mirth now. It's good but it makes me sad.

[Lori]

Hi Lori! Welcome to the buffet challenge! It looks like you’re off to a great start! I have to mention how much I loved Pilgrim’s Progress last year.