Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I will definately be joining in on this again this year - having truely enjoyed both 2015og 2016 'editions' of this challenge. I will add the books I read as I go along, but will probably do a little planning by myself ;-)

Bingo Challenge 2017

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B1: Written by Nobel Laureate Salka Valka by Halldór Laxness Read February 2017
B2: Classic Comedy or Satire A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Read February 2017
B3: Classic Tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare Read May 2017
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian Read March 2017
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2015) Read March 2017

I1: 20th Century Classic Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Read January 2017
I2: New-to-You Author A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Read January 2017
I3: Classic Play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Read Februar 2017
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages South Riding by Winifred Holtby Read January 2017
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Read February 2017

N1: South American Classic Gale kvinder by Gabriela Mistral Read March 2017
N2: Short Story Classic Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Read February 2017
N3: FREE SPACE
N4: Poetry Collection W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems Read January 2017
N5: European Classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Read February 2017

G1: 19th Century Classic Hard Times by Charles Dickens Read February 2017
G2: Bokklubben (Norwegian Book Club) World Library List Book Et Dukkehjem by Henrik Ibsen Read March 2017
G3: Classic Non-fiction Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Read April 2017
G4: Group Read The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Read January 2017
G5: Classic Recommended by a Friend Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Read January 2017 (Recommended by my mother)

O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region En ny tid by Ida Jessen (Winner of 'DR Romanprisen' 2016) Read April 2017
O2: Classic Folklore or Mythology Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Malory Read July-December 2017
O3: Asian Classic The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Read March 2017
O4: Classic Romance Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Read February 2017
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author So Big by Edna Ferber (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1925) Read April 2017

Welcome to the challenge Julia. I hope you have as much fun with this one as you have with the previous Bingo Challenges.

Good luck for 2017 bingo!

Glad you're in for another year...looking forward to seeing your picks!

Also glad to see you are in for another year. I love following your progress.

Good luck, Julie! And have fun planning for this challenge.

I've made quite a good start with some great books :-) New favorites The Remains of the Day and Kidnapped

Remains seems to win everyone :0)

I finished Treasure Island today...will probably want to read Kidnapped at some point...sounds like you really liked it!
Did you like your Yeats poetry? I find myself drawn to his writing...some really deep, some mystical, something always touches me...

You are off to a great start!

Wow, you are doing great! How did you like A Fine Balance? I've been thinking about reading that book myself :)

Susie wrote: "I finished Treasure Island today...will probably want to read Kidnapped at some point...sounds like you really liked it!
Did you like your Yeats poetry? I find myself drawn..."

Actually I really struggle with poetry in general, so I decided to do this one on audio, since I've really enjoyed audio performances of a danish poet (Sommerfugledalen - et requiem by Inger Christensen).

I did appreciate that Yeats' poetry is very good - unfortunately the performance was lacking, mostly due to mumbling which is something I really hate - simple could not hear half he was saying even when the volume was hurting my ears...

Tara wrote: "Wow, you are doing great! How did you like A Fine Balance? I've been thinking about reading that book myself :)"

I really enjoyed it, learnt a lot about 20th century Indian history and the story is also very good, I like the different viewpoints which show how many sides to a story there is and how much of our history we bring with us.

Doing really well on this challenge - have my first 'bingo' - the 'I' column:

I1: 20th Century Classic Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Read January 2017
I2: New-to-You Author A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Read January 2017
I3: Classic Play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Read Februar 2017
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages South Riding by Winifred Holtby Read January 2017
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Read February 2017

Wow--congratulations on Bingo, Julie! And on finishing some great ones. Their Eyes Were Watching God was my favorite surprise from last year.

Congrats on bingo! You've read some great books so far :)

Congrats on your first bingo Julie!
I just finished An Ideal Husband this am and really enjoyed it...

Congratualations!

Bravo on a bingo already!

Congratulations! It looks like you've been reading some great books :)

My board is filling out nicely and I now have my first row, the 4th:

B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian Read March 2017
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages South Riding by Winifred Holtby Read January 2017
N4: Poetry Collection W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems Read January 2017
G4: Group Read The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Read January 2017
O4: Classic Romance Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Read February 2017

If anyone has suggestions for the folklore category - I'm all ears :-)

A couple of nice Bingos.
For Myth/Folklore -- what about The Odyssey?

Kathy wrote: "A couple of nice Bingos.
For Myth/Folklore -- what about The Odyssey?"

Off course ! It's been on my tbr for ages :-) I've also been considering Njal's Saga but it's nice to have several options

Julie wrote: "If anyone has suggestions for the folklore category - I'm all ears :-)"

Also you could consider The Prose Edda or The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

I bought a lengthy and beautiful anthology of Icelandic Sagas, including Njal's, I'm bound to read it soon enough but I'm quite happy with the twenty pages or so foretaste I had!

I managed to finish this just in time - I've been reading Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table for almost 6 months, and finally finished it this weekend - it is a tough read because of the oldfashioned language, but fortunately the chapters are short.