Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

September

Jane Austen Celebration A year long celebration!
What will you be reading this month?

Authors From Around the World
Sept/Oct: Ancient Greek Dramatists:
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes

Non-Fiction Classics
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 155 pgs

American Mystery Classics
The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner (1942) 288 pgs

American Mystery: Substitutions
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Odor of Violets by Baynard H.
Kendrick 236 pgs

Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest

The Hefty Classics
Hefty
January - December: The Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong

July - December: Shōgun by James Clavell

Husky
September - December:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Short Story Classics
Q3: July - Sept
Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert 256 pgs DOB July 17, 1912

Frontier Western Classics
July - September
1955 - Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail by Mari Sandoz 249 pgs
1934 - A Cowman’s Wife by Mary Kidder Rak 355 pgs

Year Long Read
A.B. Guthrie Jr. AB Guthrie Trilogy = 1010 total pages
1947 The Big Sky 386 pgs
1949 The Way West 352 pgs
1982 Fair Land, Fair Land 272 pgs

Horror
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara ComynsBarbara Comyns

Authors of Lesser Know/Wilderness Classics
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (China, 1943) 321 pgs

The "Wilderness Writing Series" typically refers to a collection of literary works focused on the natural world. Works from John Muir, Jack London, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and a few others. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Sigurd F. Olson's Wilderness Days by Sigurd F Olson 1972

Children's Classics Buddy Reads
Astrid Lindgren Buddy Read https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Newbery Books Buddy Read https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

September Birthdays

Andrea P. 9th
Nidhi 17th
DaCane 17th
Rafael 21st

Larron's Birthday is the 9th. He will be 37....that is hard to say!

Am I missing and Birthdays or Anniversaries for September of a friend or family member you want to celebrate with us?

So many good things to read!!

What are you planning to read in September?
Are they catch up reads?

I am currently reading The Odor of Violets

Planning on:
Sigurd F. Olson's Wilderness Days
Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert

I would love to read East of Eden

I will read East of Eden.

I will read some Greek Classics. Just don't know whom.

Now I know. I will read by Aristotle

I'll be reading some Greek plays, some mysteries, and hopefully The Inverted World and The Consolation of Philosophy. It may take longer than one month to read the last book on my list.

I plan to read The Birds by Aristophanes and The Case of the Careless Kitten.

Maybe I'll finally get to A Cowman's Wife.

I'll be reading at least one play by the greek dramatists mentioned.

I just started The Inverted World and am still continuing with Iceland's Bell. I read The Vet's Daughter earlier in the year and will participate in that thread too!

And also if I have time, start Ronia, the Robber's Daughter for the Children's Classics Buddy Reads:
Astrid Lindgren Buddy Read, and challenges: Translated Classics and Read Classics 1-20 (because I'm falling behind on my challenges).

I started reading The Neverending Story last night, great to re-visit an old friend. Once finished, I plan to read The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides as my Greek classic and then move on to East of Eden.

The Oresteia are so good!

Kathy wrote: "Maybe I'll finally get to A Cowman's Wife."

OH yes that is on my list too! I forgot it. Thanks Kathy!!
Maybe I need to make a short list.

Michelle wrote: "Astrid Lindgren Buddy Read..."

Another one I forgot Michelle!

This is the one I got:

The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking: Pippi Longstocking / Pippi goes on Board / Pippi in the South Seas

This one has three stories in it. Is rather a large book, but wasnt much more than buying the one with just the main story in it.

Many great reads on everyones list!!

I started Aeschylus's Agamemnon. Just realised it's part of a trilogy. Ah, well. Now I have to by the Oresteia trilogy as well. I've already bought Penguin edition of Greek tragedy and planning to read Oedipus Rex and Medea.

Headed to Quebec with a hearty Revolutionary War crew - Arundel