Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Here is your thread to start your challenge for 2020. Happy Reading!

Bingo Challenge List of Categories

B1: Classic of Asia
B2: Classic Tragedy
B3: A Book Published at Least 200 Years Ago
B4: Memoir, Autobiography, or Biography
B5: Classic of Europe

I1: Classic Mystery or Crime
I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick
I3: Classic Drama or Play
I4: Book From Group’s 2020 Bookshelf
I5: Classic Gothic or Horror

N1: Book From Group’s Old School Classic Shelf prior to 2020
N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize
N3: Reader’s Choice
N4: Classic Short Story
N5: Book From Group’s New School Classic Shelf prior to 2020

G1: Classic Science Fiction or Fantasy
G2: The Bigger Read List by English Pen
G3: Poetry or Essay Collection
G4: Banned Book
G5: Classic Science or Philosophy

O1: Classic of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, or Oceania
O2: Classic Western
O3: Book Published the Year You Were Born
O4: Classic Adventure
O5: Classic of the Americas
 

Thank you very much Katy, I am not good in using softwares, I will post my list today.

Nidhi wrote: "Thank you very much Katy, I am not good in using softwares, I will post my list today."

I look forward to seeing what you read for you challenge. So glad I could help!

B1: Classic of Asia
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa ** finished 5 stars

B2: Classic Tragedy
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand ** finished 5 stars

B3: **A Book Published at Least 200 Years Ago
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 3 stars

B4: Memoir, Autobiography, or Biography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass|36536] by Frederick Douglass ** finished 4 stars


B5: Classic of Europe
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell ** finished 5 stars

I1: Classic Mystery or Crime
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins finished 4 stars

I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick:
The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera (Brina) ** finished 4 stars

I3: **Classic Drama or Play
Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot 3 stars

I4: Book From Group’s 2020 Bookshelf:
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ** finished 4 stars

I5: Classic Gothic or Horror
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe** 3 stars

N1: Book From Group’s Old School Classic Shelf prior to 2020
The Sorrows of Young Wether by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ** finished 3 stars

N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ** finished 4 stars

Winner of the 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award! Alex Award winner!

N3: Reader’s Choice The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus ** finished 4 stars

**N4: Classic Short Story The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway finished 3 stars

N5: Book From Group’s New School Classic Shelf prior to 2020The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner ** finished 5 stars

**G1: Classic Science Fiction or FantasyFrankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley finished 5 stars

G2: The Bigger Read List by English Pen
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
**finished 3 stars

**G3: Poetry or Essay Collection
The Sacred Wood T.S. Eliot finished 3 stars

G4: Banned Book
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ** finished 5 stars

G5: Classic Science or Philosophy
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard **finished 3 stars

O1: Classic of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, or Oceania
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin** finished 4 stars

**O2: Classic Western
Plainsong by Kent Haruf finished 5 stars

O3: Book Published the Year You Were Born
Clear Light of Day Anita Desai **finished 5 stars

O4: Classic Adventure
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne **finished 5 stars

O5: Classic of the Americas
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton** finished 5 stars

hi friends
This is my list , it mostly contains books from my TBR list.
I will start from level one Vertical BINGO.

Wow, that is a great list of books.
Happy reading in 2020.

Good luck on your challenge, Nidhi!

Thank you Katy and Rosemarie . I am so sure that I can’t complete this challenge that I was postponing it for 2021😂but there is nothing wrong in participating and above all I couldn’t resist the company of like minded friends.

I became active in june 2019. Became member of 18 groups and now i have a huge backlog of unread and currently reading books( most delicious books of the world) of 2019.
GR is the best thing happened to me in 2019 and I am loving the Chaos.

This looks like a great list so far, Nidhi. How about Whale Rider for N2? It is short to balance the other long books on your list.

All the best Nidhi!

Thank you Ila and Brina. Whale Rider seems interesting and yes short also, thanks for recommending the book.
I will add it when I get to my PC.

Glad to help. You have an eclectic list of books. I’m also reading The Story of My Life. I’m most curious about The Luminaries as I’ve heard mixed reviews about it.

Yes. I read some books just to know that part of culture or world on which they are based. I nominated two times in different groups but book is lengthy as well as a little difficult, it has been compared with Brothers Karazamovs ( not yet read). I really wish to read it this year.

Another book which I ardently want to read and is real pain in the neck is Wolf Hall.

Thank you Matt. I will do my best to complete and enjoy the challenge.

Nidhi wrote: "Yes. I read some books just to know that part of culture or world on which they are based. I nominated two times in different groups but book is lengthy as well as a little difficult, it has been c..."

I loved Wolf Hall and did not find it a pain in the neck at all. Feel free to make it my recommendation for N2, if that will give you the push to read it. Good luck on your challenge!

Hi! : ) I've also got "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and "Frankenstein" on my list. I have read "As I lay dying" and it's a marvellous book! I have also read one book by Anita Desai and she is a writer I want to read more books by.

That’s really encouraging Milena because I have tried 3 times to read Wolf Hall. And only two members of the group could actually finish it.

i am in for Short Story challenge too. I have quite a collection of them and also i hope they will provide some respite from all the above serious long reads.

Great list! I also have Jude the Obscure on my list for next year. I hope you enjoy Woman in White, and Frankenstein as much as I did. Good luck, and have fun with your challenge!

You have some really good choices, enjoy!

# Short Story Challenge

1.Read 24 stories.
2.25 short stories by Maupassant.

Charles Dickens: (January)
1. The Signalman (3stars)
2. To Be Read At Dusk (3stars)
(Horror never holds attraction for me)

Thomas Hardy(February)
3. Three Strangers (3 stars)

Hemingway
4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (3 stars)
5. The Ladybird bi D.H. Lawrence (3 stars)
6. Wendigo by Algernon Backwood (3 stars)
7. The Lover by Marguerite Duras (3 stars)
8. The Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (4 stars)
9. The Wall by Sartre (5 stars)
10. The Man of the Crowd by Poe (3 stars)
11. There will come the soft rains by Ray Bradbury 3 stars
12. A good man is hard to fin by O' Flannery 1 star
13.The Lady's Maid Bell by Edith Wharton 4 stars
14. The Blackcat by Poe 3 stars
15. In the penal colony by Kafka 4 stars
16. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 5 stars
17. Youth by Conrad 3 stars
18. The Thousand and second Tale of Scheherazade by Poe 3 stars
19. Doctor Marigold by Dickens 3 stars
20 Revenge by yoko ogawa 5 stars
21. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 4 stars
22. The Metamorphosis by Kafka. 5 stars
23. The Garden Party by Mansfield 5 stars
24 At the Bay by Mansfield 4 stars
25. Hunted Down by Dickens 3 stars

#Personal Challenge

Reading Michael Hulse's The 20th Century in Poetry (860 pages) DNF

Read 5 poetic works by 10 poets .

1. Jayanta Mahapatra

Ash
A Summer Poem
A Rain of Rites
A Missing Person
A Grey Haze Over Ricefields

2.Maya Angelou

Alone
Ain't That Bad?
A Plagued Journey
A Conceit
A Brave And Startling Truth

3. Emily Dickinson

Selected Poetry

4. Keki Daruwalla

A Take-off on a Passing Remark
Al-azhar Lecture
Alexander Crosses The Hellespont
Bars
Before The Word

5. Siegfried Sassoon
A Wanderer
A Subaltern
A Poplar and The Moon
A Mystic as Soldier
A Letter Home

6. Robert Burns

Verses on the destruction of the Woods near
Drumlanrig
Song—there'Ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes
Hame
Song—O were I on Parnassus Hill
To Miss Logan, With Beattie's Poems
Song—fragment—love For Love

7. Taslima Nasreen

Acquaintance
A Query
A Letter To My Mother
Aggression
Another Life

8. Katherine Mansfield

A Little Boy's Dream
A Joyful Song Of Five
A Fine Day
A Few Rules For Beginners
A Day In Bed

9. Robert Southey


A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double,
And Who Rode Before Her
After Blenheim
Ariste
Birth-Day Ode 02
Birth-Day Ode 03

10. Lord Byron

My Soul Is Dark
Napoleon's Farewell
Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not
Saul
She Walks In Beauty

Finished my Bingo and short story challenge. I enjoyed it very much.
But my poetry reading was not good this year.

Congratulations on completing both challenges! You had some interesting books in there

Thank you Carolien, I am trying to finish the poetry challenge also.

Finished my poetry challenge . I read Southey and Burns for the first time and liked them very much.

Could not finish Michael Hulse's The 20th Century in Poetry, i think i will continue this book next year.

Congratulations! 🥳🥳🥳

I missed seeing that you had finished. Very nice job!!

Thanks Lynn . It’s my first Bingo and I enjoyed it very much. I have created list for Bingo 2021 also.