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Happy New Year! (January 2024 challenge)

It’s time to start some new challenges. This month there’s lots of choice. Read at least one classic book (or short story) for any of the following themes:

A new book you got recently
A book you have never read before
A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups)

Please do not post to this discussion until Jazzy has completed setting up the challenge - thank you.

Update - it’s ready!

Tr1sha you're a Smasher!

Happy Rockin' New Year
(January 2024 Challenge)
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Celebrants...
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Thanks Jazzy - you made it look great!

🎀Happy Rockin' New Year🎀
(January 2024 Challenge)
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A new book you got recently: (obtained 12/31/23)
Flight To Arras, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

🎀A book you have never read before:
Calamity in Kent, John Rowland, 1/6/24, 4*

🎀A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups):
The Widow of Bath, Margot Bennett, 1/30/24, 2*

Happy New Year! (January 2024 challenge)

Read at least one classic book (or short story) for any of the following themes:

A new book you got recently
A book you have never read before
A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups)

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A book that is part of a new challenge for 2024
1. Short story challenge The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges (1941) Jan 16, 2024 4*

2. A book I got recently and for a Challenge in another group.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) Jan 20, 2024 5*

This was a reread for me, but my original 1980s copy had long ago disappeared so I bought a new physical book. I am using it for multiple challenge categories;

An award winning female author.
A science fiction book.
The A-Z author/title challenges

3. This is a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin that was the seed for her novel The Left Hand of Darkness

Short story Winter's King (1969) 34 pages, Jan 20, 2024 5*

4. I just read The City At Worlds End by Edmond Hamilton (1951) Jan 28,2024 4*

This book is something I have never read before and an author I have never read before. It will work for several challenges in another group.

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Happy New Year! 🎉 (January 2024 Challenge)

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1. A new book you got recently: A Coin of Edward VII by Fergus Hume✅

2. A book you have never read before: The House Under The Water by Francis Brett Young✅

3. A book that is part of a new challenge: The Terror by Arthur Machen✅

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Happy Rockin' New Year (January 2024 Challenge)

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1. A new book you got recently
✅The Bell - Iris Murdoch (1958)


2. A book you have never read before
✅The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley (1929) 1/3/24


3. A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups)
✅Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope (1865)

Happy Rockin' New Year (January 2024 Challenge)

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1. A new book you got recently- The Forbidden Notebook 5 stars

2. A book you have never read before - Prometheus Bound 5 stars

3. A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups) - Quicksand 5 stars

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Happy New Year! (January 2024 challenge)

Read at least one classic book (or short story) for any of the following themes:

A new book you got recently
QuicksandbyNella Larsen
✔3/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
A book you have never read before
Ghosts: Henrik IbsenbyHenrik Ibsen
✔4/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups)
Out of AfricabyIsak Dinesen✔4/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

✅Challenge Completed 4/1/24

Happy New Year! (January 2024 challenge)

Read at least one classic book (or short story) for any of the following themes:

A new book you got recently: Jag ger mig av – men inte ensam by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
(this edition is new but the short stories in it are from the 19th century and I'll choose one of them this month)

A book you have never read before: Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie Publ 1937

A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups): Gösta Berlings saga by Selma Lagerlöf Publ 1891


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A newly obtained roman-fleuve by the author I’ve never read before…

Genre: family saga.

Location: France.

The Thibaults by the Nobel Prize winner Roger Martin du Gard

Happy Rockin' New Year
(January 2024 Challenge)
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A new book you got recently

All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System


A book you have never read before:

35 Sonnets

Pure, White and Deadly: The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers


A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups):

The Princess and Curdie Finished

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Happy Rockin' New Year
(January 2024 Challenge)

1. A book you have never read before
✅The Home
✅Introduction to Sally
✅He Who Whispers
✅Helen Passes By

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2. A book that is part of a new challenge for January or for 2024 (in any of your Goodreads groups)

✅Xingu
✅The Chrysalids
✅Big Ben Strikes Eleven
✅Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
✅The Misty Harbour
✅Raising Demons
✅On Her Majesty's Secret Service
✅Jane and Prudence
✅Someone at a Distance
✅The Farthest Shore

A book you’ve never read before:
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (I’ve never seen the movie either!) 4 stars

A book you’ve read for a 2024 challenge (in another GR group)
- The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato 3.5 stars

Finished my challenge. I recommend The Forbidden Notebook and Quicksand. Quicksand is mostly in Madame Bovary strain.

Everyone has read so much for this challenge. Well done, I’m sure you have read even more than you planned! A great start to your year of reading.

I managed only one of the reading tasks this month - a book I've never read before: Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie.

Two new authors to me:
***** Du Gard, Roger Martin - The Thibaults
***** Fraser, Ronald - Flower Phantoms

New authors are new friends x

Nike wrote: "I managed only one of the reading tasks this month - a book I've never read before: Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie."

I've always loved that book!