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Jennifer wrote: "That’s an excellent challenge idea!"Thanks, Jennifer. It shouldn't be hard to find books for it.
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Great idea for a challenge; best of luck! Your first book looks so interesting. It's on my TBR, recommended because I loved A Beautiful Mind and Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, but it's not available at my libraries. I need to make a list of books to buy so I can be a little more organized when I hit the book stores! But anyways, this should be a fun challenge to complete - enjoy!
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Good evening!I have listened to or read six other books for this challenge:
Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics (1995) by Michael Guillen.
A Pirate Looks at Fifty
(1998) by Jimmy Buffett. A repeated year, but I like his music.
The Thorn Birds (1977), unabridged audiobook, by Colleen McCullough.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold(1963) by John le Carré, unabridged audiobook.
A Caribbean Mystery(1964) by Agatha Christie, unabridged audiobook.
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle(1965) by Dervla Murphy, unabridged audiobook.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert A. Heinlein (1907-88).The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). A testament to the idea that satire is perceived as a threat by totalitarian regimes, this novel depicts Soviet life during Josef Stalin's dictatorship so accurately, that it was first published only in censored form nearly 27 years after the author's death.
Now listening to the unabridged audiobook of Desert Solitaire (1968) by Edward Abbey (1927-89). The author's first nonfiction is an elegy to Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah USA.
You are doing fantastic Jim. Love this idea. A great way to motivate someone to read modern classics. I read The Master and Margarita about a month ago. I had put it on my TBR a few years ago coincidentally because it was published the year of my birth! Happy Reading!
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Borrowed from my local library through the Hoopla app The House on the Strand (1969) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-89).
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A favorite of mine.
Jim wrote: "Borrowed from my local library through the Hoopla app The House on the Strand (1969) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-89)."That looks really good! Have only read Rebecca by the author. I really need to start reading her other books. Looking forward to your review.
Finished the unabridged audiobooks of The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America (2019) by Bill O'Reilly on 27 June 2022; and of The Best of Richard Matheson (2017, although the author wrote all of the 32 short stories in this anthology between 1950 and 1970) by Richard Matheson (1926-2013).
Finished the unabridged audiobook of The House on the Strand (1969) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) on 4 July 2022.
Finished the unabridged audiobook of 84, Charing Cross Road (1970) by Helene Hanff (1915-97) on 5 July 2022. Now listening to the unabridged audiobook of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) by Philip José Farmer (1918-2009). The premise of the book, which I read years ago, and which won the Hugo Award (as voted by fans at world science fiction conventions) for best novel in 1972--that upon death, everyone who ever lived is resurrected, naked and hairless, in the valley of a million-mile long river--fascinates me.
Finished the unabridged audiobook of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) by Philip José Farmer (1918-2009).
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I've read two or three times. I always enjoy.
I finished the unabridged audiobook of Captains the Kings (1972) by Taylor Caldwell (1900-85) on 18 July 2022.
On July 26, 2022, I finished the unabridged audiobook of Knowing God (1973) by J.I. Packer (1926-2020).
On July 28, 2022, I finished the unabridged audiobook of Jaws (1974) by Peter Benchley (1940-2006).
Finished the e-book of Living Where Others Vacation (2021) by Bogumil K. Baranowski on 2 August 2022.
Finished the unabridged audiobook of Terms of Endearment (1975) by Larry McMurtry (1936-2021).
I finished Terms of Endearment 3 August 2022.
Finished the unabridged audiobooks of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) by Tom Robbins on 12 October 2022; A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978) by Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-89) on 17 October 2022; How To Read The Bible For All It's Worth (1981) by Gordon D Lee and Douglas Stuart on 31 October 2022; and Kindred (1979) by Octavia E. Butler on 1 November 2022.
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I read Cowgirls back in university. Loved Sissy and her oversize hitchhiking thumbs. I had A Distant Mirror on my bookshelf for the longest time but decided not to read it. One of my favorite history books is the Guns of August.
Finished the unabridged audiobook of People of Darkness (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee #4, 1980) by Tony Hillerman. on 4 November 2022.
Finished the e-book Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich As Related to and Edited by Solomon Volkov (1979) by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) and Solomon Volkov (born 1944).
Finished the e-book Three Weeks With My Brother (2004) by Nicholas and Micah Sparks on 14 November 2022.
Finished unabridged audiobook of Winter's Tale (1983) by Mark Helprin on 15 November 2022.
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What did you think of it?
Interesting, a little weird. A lot of violent, down and out characters. I read another book of his years ago. Now reading Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy, a really violent western. I heard about it on YouTube.
Finished Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (1985) on 18 November 2022.
Started and finished the e-book The Cayman Islands Landmark Visitors Guide (2001) by Don Philpott on 16 November 2022. Currently listening to the unabridged audiobook of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers, and reading the e-book The Rough Guide to Chicago (2003) by Rich McHugh.
Finished the unabridged audiobook of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera on 3 November 2022.
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I was born on Saturday morning, August 10, 1963, at 5:40 AM American Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Simply put, I want to read at least one book, any genre, published each year I have been alive, including the year in which I was born. That is 60 books, including 2022. I have created a Goodreads shelf for them.
There will be overlap. Most classics, defined as 50 years old or older, will be on this list, published from 1963 to 1972.
I have already read one book this year, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman. It was first published in 1998, on December 31 of which year I was 35 years, 4 months and 21 days old.
Jim