Annette's Take-Out Box of Unfinished Buffet Books

[Annette]

I am not going to be able to finish my 2021 Does a Hundred Years Make a Difference? so I am going to move it here. I am also adding other books that I started in 2021 and did not finish -- pointing at The Decameron here in particular -- so they don't fall completely by the wayside.

[Annette]

Moved from 2021 #2: Does a Century Make a Difference: 1918 & 1818
Read 5 from each of the years chosen.

1918 has lots of possibilities. Here are some of the ones with better ratings:
✅*The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Owen
Rilke: Poems by Rilke
*The Enchanted Barn by Hill
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories edited by Cox
The Madman by Gibran
*The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by Gibbs
*The Amazing Interlude by Rinehart
A Spring Harvest by Smith
✅*The Magic Pudding by Lindsay
✅ *The Land That Time Forgot Collection by Burroughs
The Tin Woodman of Oz by Baum
A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 by Lu Xun
*The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington
✅* The Beast in the Cave by Lovecraft

1818 Possibilities - sometimes only one volume linked
✅*Northanger Abbey by Austen
✅[*book:Frankenstein: The 1818 Text|35031085] by Shelley (This was a reread.)
*Marriage by S.E. Ferrier
✅ *Nightmare Abbey by Peacock
The Nun of Santa Maria Di Tindaro: A Tale; Vol. I by Stanhope
*The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott

On archive.org:
The Fast of St. Magdalen: A Romance by Porter
The Bandit's Bride: Or, the Maid of Saxony: A Romance; Vol. I by Stanhope

Available on Google Books
*Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale; Volume 3 by Owenson


* Books I own, ordered or have found online or at a library.

[Annette]

I also started the following in 2021 and I want to finish them -- eventually.

I'm making progress on The Decameron
Dr Zhivago

This comment is still under construction :)

[Sara, New School Classics]

I am also dragging The Decameron in 2022. I hardly made a dent in it. Let's hope I do better next year.

[Annette]

Sara wrote: "I am also dragging The Decameron in 2022. I hardly made a dent in it. Let's hope I do better next year."

Yes, I did okay for 4 days of the stories and then... well, I am on Day 5. I do not like to read straight through anthologies of any type.

[Annette]

2022 Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction added to the Take-Out Box
Note: Only one non-fiction book was published by 1999...

Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.

1. Water
A. Non-Fiction: Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
B. Currently reading: Fiction: A River Called Titash

2. Food
A. Non-Fiction: Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
✅ B. Fiction: Oliver Twist

3. Cryptography
A. Non-Fiction: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
B. Fiction: Hacker

4. Math
A. Non-Fiction: The Loom Of God
B. Fiction: The Fourth Circle

5. Stuff
A. Non-Fiction: Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
✅ B. Fiction: Bellwether

[Klowey]

Annette wrote: "2022 Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction added to the Take-Out Box
Note: Only one non-fiction book was published by 1999...

Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction boo..."

Very creative categories!

[Annette]

Klowey wrote: "Annette wrote: "2022 Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction added to the Take-Out Box
Note: Only one non-fiction book was published by 1999...

Select five different subjects of interest to you and re..."

Thanks! I was trying to read some of the physical books that I already own. Things worked out such that ebooks became pretty much the only way I could get longer read sessions in. So I have those physical books to carry over.

[Annette]

To prevent archiving I'm posting :) I am still working thru this Take-Out Box. (Up until now, I have just edited my lists as I read.)