Gini's Dive into the Buffet

[Gini]

Haven't ever tried the challenges. See if I can meet the one I built for myself. Here goes!!

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium read one book per year for 10 consecutive years, one-decade total. Second read one book from 10 consecutive decades, one century total. Third, read one book from 10 consecutive centuries, one millennium total.

1900 Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois
READ 1910 Peter Pan, J,M, Barrie
READ 1920 Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
1930 The Good Earth Pearl Buck
1940 1984, George Orwell
READ 1950 Day of the Triffids John Wyndham
1960 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
DNF 1970 Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice
1980 Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
1990 Green Mile, Stephen King

Challenge #5 - Short Story Read 24 short stories.
Gogol, Baldwin, Borges, King, Hoffman, Kafka, etc

Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year 10 books that most interest you from the year of your choice. The challenge is to read five 5 books from that list. https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...

1979
Matarese Circle, Robert Ludlum
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Amadeus, Peter Shaffer
Broca’s Brain, Carl Sagan
Devils Alternative, Frederick Forsythe
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
On a Pale Horse, Piers Anthony

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Challenge #9 -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.

Lincoln: A Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

Art: Van Gogh's Inner Struggle: Life, Work and Mental Illness, Liesbeth Heenk, The Curious Case of the Village in the Moonlight, Syeve Wiley

Human History: Sapiens, Harrari, The Inheritors, Willaim Golding

FAILED Interviews: Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google, Willaim Poundstone, Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice

Cats: The Way of Cats…, Pamela Merritt, If Cats Disappeared from the World, Genki Kawamura

Challenge #14 - Rereading Some do Some don't Five books you found worthy of rereading. This year’s challenge is, reread two of your selections.

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Sanders
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Marquez
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[Ila]

Great choices! I'm reading Julius Caesar this year, too.

[Terris]

Nice lists, Gini! Lots of good reading to look forward to. Have fun with your challenges :)

[Gini]

Thanks, Matt, Ila and Terris! Chomping at the bit now to get going with this.

[Wobbley]

Some great choices, Gini! I especially enjoyed the good earth and the velveteen rabbit!

[Gini]

Thanks, Wobbley. Those are part of a list of "should've read long ago but didn't" titles.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Welcome Gini! I hope you have fun in your first visit to the Challenge Buffet!

[Gini]

Thanks, Lynn. Looking forward to starting. That stack of books keeps jumping around wanting some attention and soon.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Those pesky books just won't leave some of us alone. You should have a great time with this list, Gini.

[Gini]

Thanks, Sara. Almost there, just another few days now.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Your first try has been well built. You have a great list of reading ahead. Have fun and enjoy your year.

[Gini]

Thanks, Bob. Enjoying the reading more is part of my goal this year.