Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Eyes down! Let the game commence...!




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✅ Row 1

✅ B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999
Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller
✅ I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys
✅ N1: Classic of the Americas
Jacob's Room (1922) - Virginia Woolf
✅ G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win
The Enchanted April (1922) - Elizabeth von Arnim
✅ O1: Book Published before 1900
A Child of the Jago (1896) - Arthur Morrison

✅ Row 2

✅ B2: Classic written in your native language
The Beautiful and Damned (1922) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
✅ I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir
History of My Life (1789) - Giacomo Casanova
✅ N2: Classic Western
While the Billy Boils (1896) - Henry Lawson
✅ G2: Classic action or adventure
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
✅ O2: New-To-You Classic Author
Captain Blood (1922) - Rafael Sabatini

Row 3

✅ B3: Classic of Europe
The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry France
✅ I3: Classic horror or gothic
At the Mountains of Madness (1931) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ N3: Reader’s Choice
[bookThe Secret Adversary|282900] (1922) - Agatha Christie
✅ G3: Classic history or historical fiction
A Month in the Country (1980) - J.L. Carr
✅ O3: Classic of Asia
The Vendor of Sweets (1967) - R.K. Narayan India

Row 4

✅ B4: Classic involving art
Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) - Crockett Johnson
✅ I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humour
Measure for Measure (1604) - William Shakespeare
✅ N4: Classic mystery or thriller
The Odessa File (1972) - Frederick Forsyth
✅ G4: Classic fantasy or science fiction
Metropolis (1925) - Thea von Harbou
✅ O4: Classic in translation
Vera - Elizabeth von Arnim

Row 5

✅ B5: Classic from your bookshelf
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960) - Henry Farrell
✅ I5: Book from the group’s Favourites of 2022
To Sir, With Love (1959) - E.R. Braithwaite
✅ N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania
Songs of the Army of the Night (1888) - Francis Adams Australia
✅ G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf
Praise of Folly (1511) - Erasmus
✅ O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949
A Passage To India (1924) - E.M. Forster

Have a great year with your bingo challenge, Jazzy.

Thank you Katy x
Choosing the books is like looking through the window of the toy shop!

Finally chosen all my books!

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I am so impressed with your BINGO list. I hope you are able to blackout.

Klowey wrote: "😮
I am so impressed with your BINGO list. I hope you are able to blackout."

Many thanks Klowey! I did it last year and enjoyed it ever so much, hoping for a repeat performance!

I loved looking at your choices for each bingo square. So many are completely new to me. And the pictures are a wonderful addition to your thread. Happy reading!

Laurie wrote: "I loved looking at your choices for each bingo square. So many are completely new to me. And the pictures are a wonderful addition to your thread. Happy reading!"

Thank you Laurie, that's so kind! Perhaps you will look into some of these books too xx

As always I love the pictures you decorate the site with! Can't you teach me ... us ... how to insert pictures? 💜👌

Nike wrote: "As always I love the pictures you decorate the site with! Can't you teach me ... us ... how to insert pictures? 💜👌"

yes it's really quite easy. i go to a photo i want to add (sometimes finding the photo is the hard bit!) then right click and copy image address - i'm on a mac by the way. I go to the place i want to add the image and then i use the HTML to do so.

< img src="paste the copied link here" > but take away the spaces after the < and before the >

img src means IMAGE SOURCE

It might be easier with a video, and I found this

https://www.alessandratorreink.com/ho...

Hope that helps!





gifs work too!

Three to go!

Wow amazing, Jazzy !!

Janelle wrote: "Wow amazing, Jazzy !!"

Many thanks Janelle! xx

Jazzy wrote: "Three to go!"

That's fantastic! Which ones have been your favourites?

Wobbley wrote: That's fantastic! Which ones have been your favourites?"

Thank you so much!
They're all good - many are re-reads, but i think the book that meant the most this time around is The Worst Journey in the World (1922) by Cherry, Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The expedition left him with life-long PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - although they didn't have a name for it at the time.

That one sounds so harrowing! I have never been to Antarctica, but I saw a display about that journey in a museum in New Zealand some years ago, and just seeing the display and reading the placards actually made me cry.

Wobbley wrote: "That one sounds so harrowing! I have never been to Antarctica, but I saw a display about that journey in a museum in New Zealand some years ago, and just seeing the display and reading the placards..."

This wasn't about the race to the pole, but they were on a scientific expedition to collected penguin eggs, with the hopes they would be fertilised and thus provide a link to help understand evolution. It was brutal and Cherry was lucky to be alive at the end of it.

I think you'll like it. My friend Ross, who is also reading this, has recommended The Birthday Boys (1993) by Beryl Bainbridge.

Jazzy wrote: "It was brutal and Cherry was lucky to be alive at the end of it."

Yikes! I wonder how much they knew about what they were getting into when they got on that boat...

And some of them actually went back.

You know this is an annual challenge, don't you? You're doing amazing! Quite a few on my TBR here. What did you think of A year in the Country?

Carolien wrote: "You know this is an annual challenge, don't you? You're doing amazing! Quite a few on my TBR here. What did you think of A year in the Country?"

It was a very sweet story, kind of like an independent film (my son says he doesn't like those because 'nothing happens', but things DO happen) I found it pleasurable.

and Yes I know it's an annual challenge, but I have many of them and am trying to work my way through them all. The last 3 books will take longer! Thank you! xx

Keep going, Jazzy! I always find something in your challenges to add to my list. I'll definitely read A Year in the Country as I like independent films too.

Jazzy you are very close and so quickly. Your photo backgrounds are always so much fun.

Thank you so much Carolien and Lynn I'm so happy you like them xx

Ha! I love the one with the cat sleeping on all the books!

You are going to be working on your second card in a few days! How impressive you are.

Wow, you are reading fast!

Look at you go!

wow many, many thanks for all the kind comments! I like the cat pics but really love the couple happily running up the hill with the mushroom cloud in the background.

One to go!

Amazing progress, Jazzy!

Sorted!

And thanks Wobbley :)

Now to work on my MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY!

Congrats Jazzy 🎉🎉🎉

ooh many thanks Janelle! Have a cuppa tea and some cake! xx

Congratulations on completing Bingo Jazzy!

Wow! And congratulations!

Congratulations, Jazzy!

Thanks a million Lynn, Annet and Carolien!
Time for a Bingo After-Party I think!