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Our May challenge started with
“In May, read one or more classic books or short stories that have a colour in the title.

The traditional rainbow colours include
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet”

It was a big challenge & many of us need more time or some new ideas. So, for the first time in this group, we are using a second month for the same challenge. But you can choose how to use June in 3 different ways:

1 just continue the challenge by reading books with the rainbow colours you still want to read
2 if you found more than one book for a particular colour, then read another book for the same colour
3 if you want a more difficult challenge, read a book with a colour in the title that also has a cover mostly in that colour

The most important part of the challenge is to have fun!

The Template:

Return to Oz (June 2023 challenge)
Books read
0/?

1
2
3

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...and you were there, and you were there, and YOU were there!
Cosmic
Jazzy
Kathy
Lynn
Nidhi
Nike
Rosemarie
Trisha
Vit

Oh, good! I can read a few more color books.

Return to Oz (June 2023 challenge)
Books read
2/2

✅1. The Indigo Necklace Murders by Frances Crane (1945)
✅2. The Red Inn  by Honoré de Balzac (1831)
3. The Yellow Violet by Frances Crane (1942)

Return to Oz (June 2023 challenge)
Books read
2/2

1 Yellow: The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2 Red: The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

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2

🌈 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (May Challenge 2023)🌈
1/5/23 - 31/5/23
3/7

🌈 Orange The Five Orange Pips, Arthur Conan Doyle

🌈Yellow The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux

🌈 Blue The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Arthur Conan Doyle

R O Y G B I V

Great! I still haven't read any of the one I planned to read, a bit difficult to find them (in Swedish).

Return to Oz (June 2023 Challenge)
Books read

(1 📙 The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle publ 1891 Read in May)
2 📘The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie publ 1928
3 📗 Greenshaw's Folly: A Miss Marple Short Story by Agatha Christie publ 1956
4 🟥 The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle publ 1891
5 🟦 The Indigo Necklace by Frances Crane publ 1945
(6 📒 Yellow Iris: Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie Publ 1937 Read in May)
7 🟪 Violets and other Tales - Alice Dunbar Nelson (With Notes)(Biography) by Alice Dunbar-Nelson publ 1895

🔴🟠 🟡 🟢 🔵🔵 🟣

I found audiorecordings on YouTube for The Five Orange Pips. I think The Red-Headed League might be there too.

Kathy wrote: "I found audiorecordings on YouTube for The Five Orange Pips. I think The Red-Headed League might be there too."

I've got them in a book but thank you 🙂, that's a good idea to look for audiobooks on YouTube! I had no idea that one could find audiobooks there! Great!

I'll have to read most of them in English but I wanted to read them in my own language and there is only one of them that I can find in Swedish. But it's okay, I have no problems reading in English it's just that I read a bit faster in my own language. I have started to try and listen to audiobooks in English as well and that was easier than I thought. Now I know I can search the You Tube as well 🌷

Nike, I just recently started using YouTube to find audiobooks. I hadn't known about that either.

Welcome, Kathy & Nike.

🌈 Return to Oz (June 2023 challenge)
Books read
2/2

These are the two books I didn't get to last month

🌈 1 Indigo : Mood Indigo (1947) - Boris Vian

🌈 2 Violet : The Violet Book - Willis Boyd Allen (1855-1938)

At the end of the rainbow you will find…
…a chest of books…
Eça de Queirós - The Yellow Sofa 1925
H.E. Bates - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1961
Vsevolod Ivanov - Azure Sands 1923

Trisha wrote: "Welcome, Kathy & Nike."

Thank you 🙂👋🌷📚

Great stuff Vit! x

You're welcome Nike! xx

I am just using copy and paste to pull last month's post over.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (May/June Challenge 2023)
1/5/23 - 31/5/23
1/3
Continuing in June
3/7


☑ Red The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen (1845) 4* 6/7/2023

Orange

Yellow " A Golden Wedding" by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1909)

☑ Green Looking For Mr. Green by Saul Bellow (1951) June 3, 2023 4*

☑ Blue Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin (1957) May 23, 2023 4*

Indigo

Violet



O Y I V

I will definitely need to copy off of someone else's paper to come up with the rest of these ideas!

This is great, since I only read two books for last month's challenge!
Last month I read Yellow and Red.

Return to Oz (June 1 to 30]:
Need Orange, Green, Blue and Violet/Purple.

Failed miserably in the last one I attempted but ,perhaps....one or two of these:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (June Challenge 2023) As I'm starting late,I'll mainly concentrate on novellas/short stories.
1/5/23 - 31/6/23
6/7

Red The Red Roomby H.G. Wells ✔31/5/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Orange The Five Orange PipsbyArthur Conan Doyle✔29/6/23 ★ ★ ★ ★

Yellow White And YellowbyJack London ✔31/5/23 ★ ★ ★ ★

Green The Woman In Green by Pu Songling ✔31/5/23 ★ ★ ★

Blue Blue ReefersbyElizabeth Ashe✔17/6/23 ★ ★ ★ ★

Indigo The Indigo Necklace MurdersbyFrances Crane
✔30/6/23 ★ ★ ★ ★

Violet Those Russian VioletsbyDouglass Sherley
✔30/6/23 ★ ★ ★ ★

FINISHED CHALLENGE !!! 30/6/23

Return to Oz (June 2023 challenge)
Books read
0/?

1 The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac
2 How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
3 The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

1 2 3

The Violet Book by Willis Boyd Allen
https://ia803102.us.archive.org/22/it...

Poetry:

The Farm in the Green Mountains
by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
https://archive.org/details/farmingre...

The Black Sheep
by Honoré de Balzac

Green Dolphin Country

by Elizabeth Goudge

Return to Oz (June 2023 challenge)
Books read
1/2

1The Girl With The Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac

2Farm in the Green Mountains by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer 4 stars


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So continuing the challenge, I have now read two short stories with the colors in the title. I have some literature anthologies that are from my or my husband's university days. Slowly, I am trying to read all the selections that weren't assigned in class, years ago.

From I read "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin.

From I read " Looking for Mr. Green" by Saul Bellow.

Saul Bellow is a new author for me. Both of these short stories were set in American cities, New York and Chicago respectively, and focused on hard times and misery. They were each interesting. The time of both stories was during the Depression era years, 1930s, and it just seems like such a foreign world that is being described. I have no common frame of reference at all for these stories.

Alfred Tennyson:
“Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font.
The firefly wakens; waken thou with me.”
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Eça de Queirós - The Yellow Sofa 1925
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 H.E. Bates - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1961
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Vsevolod Ivanov - Azure Sands 1923

So I managed to add one more colour this month, Green.

The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield
✅

It was good. My two month total is Three Colours-red, yellow and green!

A great selection of colourful titles from everyone!

I finished 2 more colorful titles:
✅1. The Indigo Necklace Murders by Frances Crane (1945)
✅2. The Red Inn  by Honoré de Balzac (1831)

This was fun! Thanks.

Kathy wrote: "I finished 2 more colorful titles:
✅1. The Indigo Necklace Murders by Frances Crane (1945)
✅2. The Red Inn  by Honoré de Balzac (1831..."


I enjoyed The Indigo Necklace Murders, it was like an American Agatha Christie novel!

I finished two colourful titles this month: 💚 Greenshaw's Folly: A Miss Marple Short Story by Agatha Christie and
💙The Indigo Necklace Murders by Frances Crane

Nike wrote: "Kathy wrote: "I finished 2 more colorful titles:
✅1. The Indigo Necklace Murders by Frances Crane (1945)
✅2. The Red Inn  by [author:Honoré de Balzac..."

Yes, Nike, it was quite fun. I liked the New Orleans setting too.

Congrats to everyone who participated in this 🌈 challenge!

Thank you Rosemarie!

Well done all everyone wins!

Thank you to everyone who took part!