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After 2 months of rainbow colours, in July we are looking at black & white. Look for classics
1 that have black or white in the title
2 written by authors whose name includes Black or White

For example
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White

If you want more choice, perhaps you can also find some classics that have black & white covers. For the ultimate difficult challenge, can you spell out BLACK or WHITE using the first letters of classic book titles or initials of their authors?

But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
0-?

1

2

3

1 2 3

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B
L
A
C
K

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W
H
I
T
E

B L A C K & W H I T E

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Black & White TV Licence Holders
📺 Cosmic
📺 Jazzy
📺 Kathy
📺 Nidhi
📺 Nike
📺 Rosemarie
📺 Trisha
📺 Vicky
📺 Vit

But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
13/13

📺 1 : The Black Eagle Mystery (1916) - Geraldine Bonner
📺 2: The Memoirs of a White Elephant (1894) - Judith Gautier
📺 3 : Black Heart and White Heart (1896) - H. Rider Haggard


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📺 B : The Body in the Dumb River: A Yorkshire Mystery (1961) - George Bellairs
📺 L : You Know Me Al (1916) - Ring Lardner
📺 A : A New Lease of Death (1967) - Ruth Rendell
📺 C : The Case of the Famished Parson (1949) - George Bellairs
📺 K Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) - George Orwell
&
📺 W : The Mystery Girl (1922) - Carolyn Wells
📺 H : The Halloween Tree (1971) - Ray Bradbury
📺 I : From Russia With Love (1957) - Ian Fleming
📺 T : The Millstone (1965) - Margaret Drabble
📺 E : Envious Casca (1941) - Georgette Heyer

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🐼 But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence! 🐼
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23

1/3

🐼1 The Black Spectacles, John Dickson Carr

2

3

1 2 3

If you do decide to do them all you can extend the end date!

But I've Only Got a Black and White TV Licence
July 23 Challenge
(July 1-31)

Books
1. The Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell Jr.✅

2. Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith by E.B. White ✅

3. The Extra Day by Algernon Blackwood✅


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2.
3.

Part 2:

B: The Bacchae by Euripides✅
L: The Lifted Veilby George Eliot✅
A: Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard R. Gribble✅
C -Count Belisarius by Robert Graves✅
K - A King's Lesson by William Morris✅

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W: Web by John Wyndham ✅
H: Heidi by Johanna Spyri✅
I: The Ion Of Euripides by Euripides ✅
T: Towards Zero by Agatha Christie✅
E: The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov✅

C:
T:
I:
W:
B:
H:
K:
E:
L:
A:

William Shakespeare:
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
Gustav Meyrink - The White Dominican 1921
Patrick White - The Living and the Dead 1941
William Heinesen - The Black Cauldron 1949

But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
1-1


The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott
5 stars

Beautiful Pictures!!!

Welcome to the challenge Rosemarie, Vit and Nidhi!

and thanks Nidhi! xx

Count me in 🙂

But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23

1. Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie Publ 1940

2 The Black Veil by Charles Dickens Publ 1836

3 The White Ship by H.P. Lovecraft Publ 1919



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Black The Black Veil by Charles Dickens
Lovecraft The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft Publ 1926
Albert Albert Nobbs by George Moore Publ 1918
Christie Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie
K

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White The White Ship by H.P. Lovecraft Publ 1919
Harper To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Publ 1960
I
The Turn The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Publ 1898
Edgar The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe Publ 1842

B L A C K & W H I T E


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But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
1/1

2023 ATY Challenge
✅1. Black Narcissus - Rumer Godden (1939) - finished 8/5/23

But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
3/3

1Whitefoot the Wood MousebyThornton W. Burgess (1922)
✔7/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
2The Ballad of the White HorsebyG.K. Chesterton (1911)
✔7/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3Blackfeet Indian StoriesbyGeorge Bird Grinnell (1915)
✔17/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

1 2 3

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B Mary Rose: A Play in Three ActsbyJ.M. Barrie
✔17/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
L Little Miss GrasshopperbyJohanna Spyri (1898)
✔9/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
A A Holiday In BedbyJ.M. Barrie
✔6/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
CCornelli by Johanna Spyri (1892)
✔21/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
KThe Loss of the Royal GeorgebyWilliam Henry Giles Kingston
✔19/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
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W We by Charles A. Lindbergh(1927)
✔12/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
HThe Prophetic PicturesbyNathaniel Hawthorne
I Isabella, or The Pot of BasilbyJohn Keats(1898)
✔8/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
TToni: The Little Woodcarver by Johanna Spyri (1890)
✔18/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
E East LynnebyMrs. Henry Wood
✔17/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

B L A C K & W H I T E
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Finished!21/7/23

I love this group, but wanted to say that this month I have too many other demands on time to participate. I have been moved to a different grade to teach and need to set up a new room and do some lesson planning.

Happy reading! I will return when I can.

Lynn wrote: "I love this group, but wanted to say that this month I have too many other demands on time to participate. I have been moved to a different grade to teach and need to set up a new room and do some ..."

That sounds like a lot of hard work, Lynn. I hope it all goes well for you. Just come back to the group whenever you feel ready, even if you don’t have time to commit to challenges.

I wish you success with your new class and grade, Lynn!

But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
0-?

1. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White

2. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

3. The Black Dwarf

1 2. 3.

Vicky wrote: "It looks as if I'm too late for this challenge but it's such a good idea I'm going to do it anyway!

Not too late at all, it only started on the first of july! xxx Glad to have you

Lynn wrote: "I love this group, but wanted to say that this month I have too many other demands on time to participate. I have been moved to a different grade to teach and need to set up a new room and do some ..."

Ah, summer is just starting here - we all have one more week of class and then go on holiday til September. Unless you're spending your summer working on next year's work? But it all sounds positively exciting! Have a lovely time xxx

Everyone is linked to here! Hope you enjoy your reading x

Vicky - & everyone else! - it’s never too late to try one of the challenges here. Also, unlike some groups, there’s no page limit for the books to read for challenges. So, read a short story if you want to catch up - short stories save time & also allow us to try an unfamiliar author without a huge commitment. I have one I’ll probably read this month - it’s only 24 pages. Remember, this group is about having fun!

Well said, Trisha - And if you read even one book that's enough!

Rosemarie those look like some canny books so far!

Jazzy wrote: "Rosemarie those look like some canny books so far!"

Thanks!

Is it okay to use a book for both 1,2,3 and for BLACK & WHITE? I'm reading a short story by Agatha Christie and the title has Black in it but I want to use Christie for the Letter C as well, if that's ok?

Nike wrote: "Is it okay to use a book for both 1,2,3 and for BLACK & WHITE? I'm reading a short story by Agatha Christie and the title has Black in it but I want to use Christie for the Letter C as well, if tha..."

It’s up to you, Nike. You can choose how much you want to do for the challenge. I put a book into both sections at first, but decided I wouldn’t have time to do everything.

Tr1sha wrote: "Nike wrote: "Is it okay to use a book for both 1,2,3 and for BLACK & WHITE? I'm reading a short story by Agatha Christie and the title has Black in it but I want to use Christie for the Letter C as..."

Great, thanks 🌺

The Little Black Boy
by William Blake
“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white…”
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gustav Meyrink - The White Dominican 1921
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Patrick White - The Living and the Dead 1941
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 William Heinesen - The Black Cauldron 1949

After looking more closely at the photos I must ask if one really has installed TV:s in barns for the cows to watch at one time? I do hope it's a joke of some sort.

Vicky wrote: "But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
2/3

1Whitefoot the Wood MousebyThornton W. Burgess (1922)
✔7/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
2[book:..."

Nicely done, Vicky 👋

Nike wrote: "Vicky wrote: "But I've Only Got a Black & White TV Licence!
(July 2023 Challenge)
1/7/23 - 31/7/23
2/3

1Whitefoot the Wood MousebyThornton W. Burgess (1922)
✔7/7/23 ★ ..."

Many thanks,Nike!

Super Vit and Vicky!

Nike I think the cows are watching telly to increase milk production, maybe?

I finished the challenge! Message 7

Rosemarie wrote: "I finished the challenge! Message 7"

Congratulations, Rosemarie!

Thank you! It was fun.

Well done Rosemarie! xx

Thanks, darling Jazzy!

Jazzy wrote: "Super Vit and Vicky!

Nike I think the cows are watching telly to increase milk production, maybe?"

My goodness!

Jazzy wrote: "Well done Rosemarie! xx"

Congrats 🙂

I didn't quite make it, I didn't manage to fulfill any reading for letters K in Black and I in White in time but I did finish the wonderful story by Lee Harper in time. What a great book, what a wonderful portrait of a very loved father.

Thanks, Nike!

Nike wrote: "I didn't quite make it, I didn't manage to fulfill any reading for letters K in Black and I in White in time but I did finish the wonderful story by Lee Harper in time. What a great book, what a wo..."

It doesn’t matter how much you read - it’s more important to join in & enjoy reading! You read a lot more than I did. I started full of enthusiasm, didn’t enjoy my first book much then got sidetracked into doing other things.

Well done to everyone who took part in this challenge!

I finally finished my one book for the challenge - Black Narcissus.

Kathy wrote: "I finally finished my one book for the challenge - Black Narcissus."

That’s great, Kathy!

Thanks, Trisha!