Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR

3/12

Old School Classics
1. Sylvia's Lovers, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1863)
2. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal (1830)
✓3. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1847) 3.75⭐ (finished 09/02/2022)

New School Classics
1. Nada, by Carmen Laforet (1944)
2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979) (currently reading, will possibly take me a long time)
3. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)

Other
1. The Mirror & the Light, by Hilary Mantel
2. The Poems Of Anne Brontë: A New Text And Commentary, by Anne Brontë
3. Filosofía y Consuelo de la Música, by Ramón Andrés (no English editions)
✓4. Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, by Ian Bostridge 4.5 ⭐ (finished 02/27/2022)
✓5. Ariadne, by Jennifer Saint 3.75 ⭐ (finished 31/07/2022)
6. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days And Other Writings, by Nellie Bly

Alternates
1. Valperga, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823)
2. The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West (1930)
3. Out of Egypt: A Memoir, by André Aciman

Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge (we'll see how it goes...)

3/24

1. The Magic Shop, by H.G. Wells (1903)
2. The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield (1921)
3. Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving (1819)
4. The Story Of An Hour: Short Story, by Kate Chopin (1894)
5. The Yellow Wall-Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
6. The Daughters of the Late Colonel, by Katherine Mansfield (1922)
7. The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1929)
✓8. Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville (1853) (March 2022 Short Story) 4⭐ (finished 03/06/2022)
9. The Birds, by Daphne du Maurier (1952)
10. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson (1948)
11. At the 'Cadian Ball, by Kate Chopin (1892)
12. The Dead, by James Joyce (1914)
13. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
14. A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury (1951)
15. Life of Ma Parker, by Katherine Mansfield (1921)
16. Crazy Sunday, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1932)
17. The Emperor's Three Questions, by Leo Tolstoy (1898)
18. The Kidnapped Prime Minister - a Hercule Poirot Short Story, by Agatha Christie (1923)
19. The Diaries of Adam and Eve, by Mark Twain (1906)
20. The Twits, by Roald Dahl (1980)
21. The Storm, by Kate Chopin (1898)
22. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - a Hercule Poirot Short Story, by Agatha Christie (1923)
✓23. The Wind Blows, by Katherine Mansfield (1920) 4⭐ (finished 01/16/2022)
✓24. A Respectable Woman, by Kate Chopin (1894) 3.5 ⭐(finished 02/05/2022)

Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge

8/12

✓1. The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (January 2022 Old School Classic) 4⭐ (finished 01/15/2022)
✓2. Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (January 2022 Short Story) 4⭐ (finished 01/31/2022)
✓3. Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre (February 2022 New School Classic) 5⭐ (finished 04/06/2022)
4. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco (March 2022 Revisit the Shelf)
✓5. Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville (March 2022 Short Story) 4⭐ (finished 03/06/2022)
6. The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges (April 2022 Short Story)
✓7. The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy (May 2022 Old School Classic) 3.5⭐ (finished 04/27/2022)
✓8. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (July 2022 Revisit the Shelf) 4.25⭐ (finished 07/09/2022)
✓9. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie (August 2022 New School Classic) 4.75⭐ (finished 08/05/2022)
✓10. Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles (August 2022 Short Story) 4⭐ (finished 08/10/2022)
11. Villette, by Charlotte Brontë (September 2022 Old School Classic)
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Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

3/6

✓1. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) - The Gambler, read January 2022
✓2. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) - Jane Eyre, read September 2022
✓3. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) - The Wind Blows, read January 2022
4. Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
5. Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
6. Henry James (1843-1916)

Nice plans. You are really starting out strong. I hope you have fun with the challenges. I think they are one of the best things this group has to offer.

Yes, the challenges do look really fun, I hope to get over as many books as I can!

This first month of challenges has gone pretty well, I have now at least started all of the challenges.
For now I have read:

1. The Gambler
2. Carmilla
3. The Wind Blows
4. A Respectable Woman

(4/~50)

February plans:

1. Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
2. Nausea
3. Nada (??)
4. The Kidnapped Prime Minister - a Hercule Poirot Short Story
5. Crazy Sunday