2024 Klowey Challenge Buffet

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COMPLETED
2024 Challenge Buffet

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✔ Challenge #5 - Short Story

✔ Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors

✔ Challenge #14 - Rereading Some do Some don't

[Klowey]

COMPLETED 5 SETS:
Challenge #5 - Short Story
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
From Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
✔ 1.The tall woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón 2/17/2024 **
✔ 2. A scent of mimosa by Francis King 3/8/2024 **1/2
✔ 3. Death and the gardener by Jean Cocteau 3/17/2024 ****
✔ 4. Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham 4/23/2024 ***
✔ 5. The sick gentleman's last visit by Giovanni Papini 4/24/2024 ****
✔ 6. Insomnia by Virgilio Piñera 5/1/2024 ****
✔ 7. The storm by Jules Verne 5/10/2024 **1/2
✔ 8. A dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) 5/11/2024 **1/2
✔ 9. The facts in the case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe 5/23/2023 ***
✔ 10. Split second by Daphne du Maurier 6/19/2024 **1/2
✔ 11. August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges 5/27/2024 *****
✔ 12. How Wang-Fo was saved by Marguerite Yourcenar 6/6/2024 ***
✔ 13. From "Peter and Rosa" by Isak Dinesen 6/6/2024 ****
✔ 14. Tattoo by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 6/6/2024 ***
✔ 15. John Duffy's brother by Flann O'Brien 6/6/2024 ****
✔ 16. Lady into fox by David Garnett 6/10/2024 **
✔ 17. Father's last escape by Bruno Schulz 6/21/2024 ***
✔ 18. A man by the name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse **
✔ 19. The Argentine ant by Italo Calvino 6/27/2024 **1/2
✔ 20. The lady on the grey by John Collier 6/302024 **1/2
✔ 21. The queen of spades by Alexander Pushkin 7/6/2024 ***1/2
✔ 22. Of a promise kept by Lafcadio Hearn 7/3/2024 **1/2
✔ 23. The wizard postponed by Juan Manuel 7/3/2024 ****
✔ 24. The monkey's paw by W.W. Jacobs 7/4/2024 ***1/2

Second Set of 24
✔ 25. The bottle imp by Robert Louis Stevenson (reread) 8/21/2020 ** and 7/5/2024 *** (updated my rating)
✔ 26. The rocking-horse winner by D.H. Lawrence 7/5/2024 **
✔ 27. Certain distant suns by Joanne Greenberg 7/6/2024 ***
✔ 28. The third bank of the river by João Guimarães Rosa 7/1/2024 **1/2
✔ 29. Home by Hilaire Belloc 7/8/2024 ***
The door in the wall by H.G. Wells (previously read) 10/31/2021 ****
✔ 30. The friends by Silvina Ocampo 7/9/2024 ***
✔ 31. Et in sempiternum pereant by Charles Williams 7/12/2024 **
✔ 32. The captives of Longjumeau by Léon Bloy 7/12/2024 ****
✔ 33. The visit to the museum by Vladimir Nabakov 7/20/2024 ***1/2
Autumn Mountain by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (previously read under the title "The Hell Screen" 13th story in "The Weird")
✔ 34. The Sight by Brian Moore 7/29/2024 ***
✔ 35. Clorinda by André Pieyre de Mandiargues 7/31/2024 ***1/2
✔ 36. The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozick 8/5/2024 **
✔ 37. The Fisherman and his Soul by Oscar Wilde 8/14/2024 ***1/2
✔ 38. The bureau d'echange de maux by Lord Dunsany 8/14/2024 ****
The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin (previously read)
✔ 39. In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka (previously read) reread 8/23/2024 *****
✔ 40. A dog in Durer's etching "The Knight, Death and the Devil" by Marco Denevi 8/28/2024 ****1/2
✔ 41. The Large Ant by Howard Fast 9/6/2024 ***1/2
✔ 42. The lemmings by Alex Comfort 9/8/2024 ****
✔ 43. The Grey Ones by J.B. Priestley 9/10/2024 ****
✔ 44. The feather pillow by Horacio Quiroga 9/10/2024 ***
✔ 45. Seaton's Aunt by Walter de la Mare 9/14/2024 ***

✔ 46. The friends of the friends by Henry James (previously read in the Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday collection by Italo Calvino 8/21/2020 ****(reread in December 2024)
✔ 47. The Traveling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen 9/15/2024 ***1/2
✔ 48. The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benét 9/20/2024 ***

Third Set of 24
✔ 49. The state of grace by Marcel Aymé 9/21/2024 ***
✔ 50. The story of a panic by E.M. Forster 9/22/2024 ***
✔ 51. An Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock 9/18/2024 **1/2 YIKES
✔ 52. From the "American Notebooks" by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9/17/2024 ***** (very short excerpts)
✔ 53. The dream by O. Henry 9/14/2024 and 3/10/2025 ****1/2

From The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
✔ 54. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson 6/7/2024 ***/2
✔ 55. The Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber 7/2024 **1/2
✔ 56. White Rabbits by Leonora Carrington 7/2024 ****
✔ 57. Mimic by Donald A. Wollheim 7/2024 ***
✔ 58. The Crowd by Ray Bradbury ***1/2
✔ 59. The Long Sheet by William Sansom reread 7/20/2024 *****
✔ 60. A Child in the bush of the Ghosts by Olympe Bhêly-Quenum 7/21/2024 ***
✔ 61. The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles by Margaret St. Clair 7/2024 ***
✔ 62. The Hungry House by Robert Bloch 7/27/2024 ***
✔ 63. The Complete Gentleman by Amos Tutuola 7/28/2024 ***
✔ 64. It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby 7/28/2024 ****
✔ 65. Míster Taylor by Augusto Monterroso 8/5/2024 ***
✔ 66. Axolotl by Julio Cortázar 8/5/2024 *****
✔ 67. A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom 8/13/2024 ***
✔ 68. The Howling Man by Charles Beaumont 8/17/2024 *****
✔ 69. Same Time, Same Place by Mervyn Peake 8/18/2024 ****
✔ 70. The Colomber by Dino Buzzati 8/20/2024 *****
✔ 71. The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos 9/6/2024 ***

Single Stories:
✔ 72. The Witch by Shirley Jackson 6/7/2024 **1/2

Fourth Set of 24
Single Stories:
✔ 73. The Eyes by Edith Wharton 7/19/2024 ***1/2
✔ 74. The Paperhanger by William Gay 9/24/2024 ****
✔ 75. the hunger artist by Franz Kafka 9/23/2024 *****
✔ 76. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov 9/27/2024 *****
✔ 77. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 10/4/2024 ***
✔ 78. Don't Look Now Daphne du Maurier 10/11/2024 ****

From Artificios
✔ 79. Funes the Memorious 9/28/2024 *****
✔ 80. The Shape of the Sword (need to reread) 10/18/2024 ***1/2
✔ 81. Theme of the Traitor and the Hero 10/19/2024 ****1/2
✔ 82. Death and the Compass (need to reread) 10/21/0224 ***1/2
✔ 83. The Secret Miracle (need to reread) 10/23/2024 ****1/2
✔ 84. Three Versions of Judas 10/28/2024 ***
✔ 85. The End 10/28/2024 ***1/2
✔ 86. The Cult of the Phoenix 10/28/2024 ***1/2
✔ 87. The South 10/29/2024 ****

From Shakespeare's Memory
August 25, 1983 (already read)
✔ 88. Blue Tigers 11/3/2024 **** (on infinite series)
✔ 89. The Rose of Paracelsus 11/5/2024 ****1/2 (testing faith/belief; magic/science/alchemy)
✔ 90. Shakespeare's Memory 11/6/2024 ***** (one of his best)

From Exhalation:
✔ 91. The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate 11/13/2024 ****1/2
✔ 92. Exhalation 11/14/2024 ****1/2
✔ 93. What’s Expected of Us 11/24/2024****1/2
✔ 94. The Lifecycle of Software Objects 12/18/2024 **1/2
✔ 95. Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny 12/24/2024 **
✔ 96. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling 12/30/2024 ***1/2

Fifth Set of 24
The Great Silence (already read) ***** I loved it
✔ 97. Omphalos 12/31/2024 ***1/2
✔ 98. Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom 12/31/2024 ****

From The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
✔ 99. The Judgement
✔ 100. Contemplation, a Sudden Stroll
✔ 101. Children on the Highway
✔ 102. Exposing a City Slicker
✔ 103. Decisions
✔ 104. The Outing in the Mountain
✔ 105. The Bachelors Unhappiness
✔ 106. The Businessman
✔ 107. Absently Gazing Out
✔ 108. The Way Home
✔ 109. The People Running By
✔ 110. The Passenger
✔ 111. Frocks
✔ 112. The rejection
✔ 113. Reflections of an Amateur Jockey
✔ 114. The Window Facing the Street
✔ 115. The Wish To Be An Indian
✔ 116. The Trees **
✔ 117. Unhappiness **
✔ 118. Conversation with the Worshiper ***
✔ 119. Conversation with the Drunk **1/2
✔ 120. Great Noise ***

[Klowey]

COMPLETED:
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors
Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, from any genre or era you want.

✔ 1. Joanne Greenberg 7/6/2024
✔ 2. Daphne du Maurier 6/19/2024 and 10/11/2024
✔ 3. Alexander Pushkin 7/6/2024
✔ 4. Vladimir Nabokov 7/202/2024
✔ 5. Oscar Wilde 8/14/2024
✔ 6. J.B. Priestley 9/10/2024
✔ 7. Isaac Asimov 9/27/2024
✔ 8. Washington Irving 10/4/2024
✔ 9. Charles Beaumont 8/17/2024
✔ 10. Mervyn Peake 8/18/2024
✔ 11. Robert A. Heinlein 11/9/2024
✔ 12. Roberto Bolaño 12/4/2024

[Klowey]

COMPLETED:
Challenge #14 - Rereading Some do Some don't

Some of us reread regularly, others reread rarely if ever. We have all read books that we found fantastic. We finish the last page, set it aside and think someday I would like to reread this again. Let us know the titles of five books you found worthy of rereading. This year’s challenge is, reread two of your selections.

✔ 1. The Bear and the Nightingale Reread 8/19/2024 ****1/2
✔ 2. Candide Reread 6/12/2024 still ****
3. Our Mutual Friend
4. The Third Policeman
✔ 5. Trent's Last Case Reread 10/9/2024 ****1/2

And short stories I happened to reread this year:
✔ 1. The Bottle Imp (reread) 8/21/2020 ** and 7/5/2024 *** (updated my rating)
✔ 2. The Eyes 3/16/2022 and 7/19/2024 ***1/2
✔ 3. The Long Sheet reread 7/20/2024 ***
✔ 4. In the Penal Colony reread 8/23/2024 *****
✔ 5. The friends of the friends by Henry James (previously read in Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday collection by Italo Calvino 8/21/2020 **** (reread December 2024)

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[Rora]

Good luck on your challenge Klowey

[Wobbley]

Have fun with your planning!

[Terris]

Have fun, Klowey! Lots of good ones to choose from :)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Enjoy your challenges, happy reading.