Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Group Bookshelf and Shelves:

When you choose the Quick Link for the Bookshelf, it will take you to: "Never too Late to Read Classics > books"

On the left handside is the "Group Shelves" and a list:

group shelves edit
all (796)
read (86)
currently-reading (7)
to-read (703)

The actual shelves:
start with "1" and ends with "Z"

1- is French Authors say you choose 1-gustave-flaubert (4) the list will include (4) four books by Flaubert.

If you were to choose 3-american-classics (183)You would get a list of (183) one hundred and eighty three books that are considered American Classics.

Shelves...

1 is French authors and all the French Classics on the Shelf
2 is English, British, Irish, Scottish and Welsh authors and all the English/UK Classics on the Shelf
3 is American authors and all the American Classics on the Shelf
4 is Brazilian, Colombian, Spanish and Portuguese authors and all the Brazilian/Spanish Classics on the Shelf
5 is Russian/Bosnian authors and all the Russian Classics on the Shelf
6 is Italian authors and all the Italian Classics on the Shelf
7 is Austrian, Belgium, Dutch, German, and Swiss authors and all the Classics on the Shelf
8 is Danish, Norwegian, Swedish authors and all the Classics on the Shelf
9 is Hungarian and Polish authors and all the Classics on the Shelf

and many more...

"If you still need some guidance please ask below under "Comments" or PM Moderator Rafael

The 'Quick Link' is located in the same listing as the Poll, Discussions, Photos, Members and such.

On a laptop it is in the top right corner of the Group's Home page.

Regarding the 3 squares of the Group Bookshelf for the 2017 Bingo Challenge.

This is how to choose your books !

Thank you for that info, Lesle. This is a fast and handy resource to expand our reading.

Hopefully this gives us the choices in other areas.

When you read a book by an author and want to choose another book written by the same author for the Poll.

When you have a moment check out our Bookshelf!
Rafael has done a miracle!

Thank you Rafael!

I have made some changes in the catalogue, I hope I made good ones.

0 is for classics by anonymous or unknown authors
1 is french classics
2 is british classics (2a english, 2b irish, 2c scottish and 2d welsh)
3 is u.s. classics
4 is latin american and iberian classics (portuguese and spanish)
5 is slavic classics (russian, ukrainian, bosnian etc)
6 is italian classics
7 is germanic classics (german, austrian, belgian, dutch, swiss and monacan)
8 is scandinavian classics (danish, norwegian, swedish, faroese, icelandic and finnish)
9 is east european classics (polish, hungarian, lithuanian etc)
a is asian classics
b1 is canadian classics
c is african classics
d is oceania classics
e is greek and roman classics
f is near and middle eastern classics
g is european classics that not fit in any of the previous ones

and when some other classics would be added I will improve the manageament of the shelves. But I am not totally happy with this classification, I want to improve it. If someone want to give suggestions I will be happy in hear them.

Rafael
Hate to be dumb but what is Oceania Classics?

and thank you for working on this project to make it better!

Lesle wrote: "Rafael
Hate to be dumb but what is Oceania Classics?

and thank you for working on this project to make it better!"

Oceania, the continent. I don't know the adjective about this continent.

Oceania includes the geographic regions of Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. You can Google "Oceania" to discover what areas are included in each region. I would be interested to know the titles of some "Oceania Classics."

Sorry Betty when I did it came up with Oceania Cruises? Which is why I asked.

Other than Australia would those other Countries actually qualify with 50 years or older Novels? If so I would be interested in a list as well.

Rafael...it is amazing! I scrolled through and am overwhelmed with all the information there!

I think I can spend hours checking out the Authors and their Classics!

You will never know how much I appreciate the time you spent on this for us! 💛

My thanks as well, Rafael.

You're welcome, ladies!

Thank you for the compliments.

Lesle wrote: "Sorry Betty when I did it came up with Oceania Cruises? Which is why I asked.

Other than Australia would those other Countries actually qualify with 50 years or older Novels? If so I would be inte..."

Hi, Lesle & Rafael -- Did some hunting into classic Oceania and found several authors from New Zealand, Australia, and Samoa Some may qualify as "classic."
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poetry and books 1960's-1990's (Australia)
Hone Tuwhare, poet 1960's-2008 (New Zealand)
Arapera Hineirakaa Blank, poet 1950's-1990's (New Zealand)
Patricia Grace, fiction 1970's (New Zealand)
Sir Tom Davis, novel "Makutu" 1960 (Cook Islands)
Albert Wendt, fiction 1970's-present (Samoa)
There are may more recent authors as well.

Oceania classics.... Half I have read. (I tried to put this in a list format but it wasn't working.)

Jack London wrote The Cruise of the Snark and South Sea Tales

Charmian London wrote The Log of the Snark

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote South Sea Tales, The Beach of Falesá, The Wrecker, and A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

Herman Melville wrote Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

I consider a national classic a book that was written in that specific country, even if the author are writing in another country. Beckett wrote some works in french, in the France, so those books are french books not irish ones.

What define a classic (in our classification) it's the place not the plot. Thank you, Elizabeth for the suggestions, I guess that they fit more in the thread for suggestions.

This one https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

what is a legend character? or who are?

Celia wrote: "what is a legend character? or who are?"

What, Celia?

Not sure if this will help...sorry so late

The Brothers Grimm defined legend as folktale historically grounded.

A modern folklorist's professional definition of legend was proposed by Timothy R. Tangherlini in 1990:

Legend, typically, is a short (mono-) episodic, traditional, highly ecotypified historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode, reflecting on a psychological level a symbolic representation of folk belief and collective experiences and serving as a reaffirmation of commonly held values of the group to whose tradition it belongs.

my friend Lesle, you forget to make shelf for African literature classics,Chinese literature,indian literature,persian literature,arabic literature,czech literature

i will share my list Sunday

Rafael do we have these Classics covered on our shelves that rachid has notated?

rachid
a3 I think is Indian literature?
c4 and z has African?

not sure about the others, but please do share. Appreciate it. Thank you dear for bringing it to light for us.

rachid wrote: "my friend Lesle, you forget to make shelf for African literature classics,Chinese literature,indian literature,persian literature,arabic literature,czech literature"

We already have shelves to indian classics (a2 and a3, a is to asian classics), we have no chinese classics suggested yet, the c shelf (c1, c2 etc) is to african classics, f2 is to persian classics (we have not any persian classics suggested yet), f1 is to arabian classics, we have not any czech classics suggested yet.

Thank you Rafael for checking into this for me!

You're welcome.

Rafael
I cannot find the Poet link on the bookshelf, can you give me the code for that?

Thanks! :)

Epic poetry

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Poetry

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Thank you Rafael!

For some reason I was thinking it was in the "B's"

Really? Why?

I have no idea! Must be that old age creeping up on me! :>)

:)

Wow, this is amazing 😍
I'm so overwhelmed by how much work and time creating this system must have taken. Thank you, Rafael and anyone else who assisted him!

This makes me seem I need to dust and organize my shelves, when all I really want to do is read! 🤭

Trust me it is all Rafael!

He is our awesome behind the scene organizer!
His handy work shows up on the Group Home Page every month with the 'CURRENTLY READING and Upcoming' plus our Groups Bookshelf. Since we try to challenge ourselves with reading Classics from all over this makes it very handy for us. A wonderful resource he provides for us!

Not sure how we would get along without him!
So grateful :)

Thank you for the kind words! :)

Rafael wrote: "Thank you for the kind words! :)"

Your more than welcome Rafael! BTW I switched jobs. Working for our local hospital in Registration at their Diagnostic Lab Center. So much happier!

Hope you and the family are well!
Take care :)

I'm happy for you, Lesle! :) Enjoy it!

Rafael wrote: "I'm happy for you, Lesle! :) Enjoy it!"

Thanks! Take care.