Klowey's 2022 Challenge Buffet

[Klowey]

First time tackling the Challenge Buffet.
I did it!

✔ Finished 12/19/2022
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge

✔ 12/24/2022 Finished
Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge

✔ Finished 12/31/2022
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Author

[Klowey]

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.

First set of 24 short stories:
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton read 3/16/2022 **** includes:
1. The lady's maid's bell (1904)
2. The eyes (1910)
3. Afterward (1910)
4. Kerfol (1916)
5. The triumph of night (1914)
6. Miss Mary Pask (1925)
7. Bewitched (1925)
8. Mr Jones (1928)
9. Pomegranate seed (1931)
10. The looking glass (1935)
11. All souls' (1937)

Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti read 2/13/2022 **** includes:
12. The Frolic
13. Les Fleurs
14. Alice’s Last Adventure
15. Dream of a Manikin
16. The Nyctalops Trilogy:
17. The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise The Lost Art of Twilight
18. The Troubles of Dr. Thoss Masquerade of a Dead Sword
19. Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech
20. Professor Nobody’s Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror
21. Dr. Locrian’s Asylum
22. The Sect of the Idiot
23. The Greater Festival of Masks The Music of the Moon
24. The Journal of J.P. Drapeau Vastarien

Second set of 24 short stories:
The Lady with the Dog & Other Stories by Anton_Chekhov read 3/17/2022 **** includes:
1. The Lady with the Dog
2. A Doctor's Visit
3. An Upheaval
4. Ionitch
5. The Head of the Family
6. Volodya
7. An Anonymous Story
8. The Husband

9. Bartleby the Scrivener read 3/23/2022 ****
10. The Country of the Blind read 3/29/2022 ****
11. The Library of Babel read 3/30/2022 *****
12. The Hand read 3/30/2022 ***

Capital Crimes: London Mysteries by Martin Edwards
13. The Case of Lady Sannox read 4/14/2022 ***1/2
14. A Mystery of the Underground read 4/15/2022 **
15. The Finchley Puzzle read 4/21/2022 4/18/2022 *
16. The Magic Casket (only the titular story) read 4/24/2022 *
17. The Tea Leaf read 4/25/2022 ***
18. The Hands of Mr. Ottermole read 4/25/2022 **1/2
19. The Little House read 4/28/2022 **1/2
20. The Silver Mask read 4/30/2022 ***1/2
21. The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook
     (only the titular story) read 4/30/2022 ***1/2
22. The Unseen Door read 5/3/2022 ***
23. Cheese read 5/4/2022 **
24. You Can't Hang Twice read 5/6/2022 **1/2

Third set of 24 short stories:
1. how the poor die read 6/19/2022 ***
2. The Great Silence read 7/1/2020 *****
3. …And I Show You How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes read 7/3/2022 ****
4. Berenice read 9/8/2022 ***1/2
5. The Bungalow House from the collection Teatro Grottesco read 9/26/2022 ****
6. The Glamour from the collection Grimscribe: His Lives and Works read 10/2/2022 ***
7. The Mark on the Wall read 10/3/2020 ****
8. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King read 12/10/2022 ***1/2

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
9. Tower of Babylon read 7/1/2022 ****
10. Division by Zero read 8/1/2022 ***1/2
11. Understand read 8/28/2022 read ****
12. Hell is the Absence of God read 9/25/2022 ***1/2
13. Seventy-Two Letters read 10/30/2022 ***1/2
14. Liking What you See: A Documentary 11/2/2022 ****1/2
15. The Story of Your Life, aka Arrival 11/16/2022 ****1/2

Memories of the Future
16. Quadraturin read 7/27/2022 ****1/2
17. The Bookmark read 8/27/2022 ***1/2
18. Someone Else's Theme read 9/9/2022 ***
19. The Branch Line read 9/29/2022 ****
20. Red Snow read 12/15/2022 ***
21. The Thirteenth Category of Reason read 12/19/2022 *

The Garden of Forking Paths 1941
22. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 8/29/2022 ****1/2
23. The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition) 11/30/2022 ****1/2
24. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 9/5/2022 ****1/2

A Few Extra
25. The Circular Ruins 9/7/2022 ****1/2
26. The Lottery in Babylon 9/6/2022 ****1/2
27. A Survey of the Works of 11/30/2022 Herbert Quain *****
28. The Library of Babel 3/20/2022 *****
29. The Garden of Forking Paths 12/14/2022 ***** (read many times before)

[Klowey]

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 ✔
MARCH 2022 Short Story/Novella Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville 2/23/2022 ****1/2

2 ✔
APRIL 2022 Old School Classic Aesop's Fables by Aesop 3/25/2022 ***

3 ✔
APRIL 2022 New School Classic Blindness by José Saramago 3/6/2022 *

4 ✔
APRIL 2022 Short Story/Novella The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges 3/30/2022 *****

5 ✔
MAY 2022 Short Story/Novella The Hand by Guy de Maupassant 3/30/2022 ***

6 ✔
JUNE 2022 Short Story/Novella How the Poor Die by George Orwell 6/19/2022 ***

7 ✔
AUGUST 2022 New School Classic Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 8/24/2022 ***

8 ✔
JULY-SEPT 2022 3rd Quarter Long Read The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 11/30/2022 ***

9 ✔
OTOBER 2022 Short Story/Novella Berenice by Edgar Allen Poe 9/8/2022 ***

10 ✔
OTOBER 2022 Revisit the Shelf Poll All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 12/24/2022 ***** Brilliant

11 ✔
NOVEMBER 2022 Short Story/Novella The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf 10/3/2022 ***

12 ✔
DECEMBER 2022 Short Story/Novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King 12/10/2022 ***1/2

[Klowey]

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.

Read
1. Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White 1/27/2022 ***
2. Odile by Raymond Queneau 2/5/2022 ****
3. Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick 3/2/2022 **
4. Blindness by José Saramago 3/6/2022 *
5. Hunger by Knut Hamsun 3/11/2022 ****
6. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton 3/16/2022 ****
7. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov 3/17/2022 ****
8. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy 3/18/2022 ****
9. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville 3/23/2022 ****
10. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz 3/26/2022 *****
11. The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells 3/29/2022 ****
12. The Hand by Guy de Maupassant 3/30/2022 ***
13. Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire 5/22/2022 ****1/2
14. how the poor die by George Orwell 6/19/2022 ***
15. Murder at Monk's Barn by Cecil Waye 6/26/2022 ***
16. …And I Show You How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes by Scott Alexander
7/3/2022 ****
17. Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en 7/20/2022 ****
18. The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf 10/3/2022 ****
19. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 11/16/2022 ****1/2
20. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 11/30/2022 ***
21. Concrete by Thomas Bernhard 12/31/2022 ****1/2

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Klowey wrote: "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.

[book:The Ghost Stories of E..."

Nice job on the short stories. That is always my favorite place to start with the Buffet Challenges. I think our emphasis on classic short stories is one of the things that makes this group unique. Your approach to reading collections makes it very organized. You have discipline to complete your collections! I tend to be scattered with a few here and a few there. LOL

[Klowey]

I abandoned the Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction early on. So I didn't make it on that one.

But the other 3 are a success!

Looking forward to the 2023 Challenge Buffet.