Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

2021 Challenge Buffet

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge


1899 and earlier/Old School
1.Beowulf FINISHED 5 Stars
2.Villette FINISHED 5 Stars
3.Wives and Daughters FINISHED 5 Stars

1900-1999/New School
1.Four Quartets
2.The Sound of Wavesfinished 5 stars
3.Half a Lifelong Romance

My Wild Card Six
1.Demons FINISHED 5 stars
2.The Golden Notebook
3.The Bluest Eye
4.Berenice FINISHED 3 Stars
5.Half of a Yellow Sun
6.Conjure Women


Alternates
1.The Count of Monte Cristo FINISHED 5 Stars
2.The Man Without Qualities

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge
Choose one book per category for a total of 12 books.

1. 18th Century or older,
The Lusiads

2. 19th Century,
Pillars of Societyfinished 5 stars

3. 20th Century,
Happy Days FINISHED 4 Stars

4. Current or Past Group Read,
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl FINISHED 5 Stars

5. An Author not read before,
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuffinished 5 stars

6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours.
Half of a Yellow Sun

7. Science Fiction,
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

8. Romance,
Half a Lifelong Romance

9. Historical fiction,
Rob Roy

10. Nonfiction,
Letters to a Young Poet FINISHED 5 Stars

11. Mystery/Crime,
The Castle of Otranto finished 3 stars

12. Horror or Humour
[book:The Master and Margarita FINISHED 5 Stars

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge (12 collections)


1. Curious, If True: Strange Tales (5 stories)
2. Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima FINISHED 4 Stars
3. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw FINISHED 3 Stars

Challenge #8 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

Seek out six (6) authors that you have never previously read, male or female, from any genre you want, but please use the group's time line insuring that authors selected books were published before the year 2000.

1.For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

2.The Sound of WavesbyYukio Mishima

3.Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4. The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse

5. Euthyphro by Plato
6. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
7.The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. The Sun and Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur
9. Stoner by John Williams
10. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Challenge # 7 Group Reads

1. Letters to a Young PoetFINISHED 5 Stars
2. Goblin MarketFINISHED 5 Stars
3.Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl FINISHED 5 Stars
4. Songs of Innocence and of Experience FINISHED 4 Stars
5. Babette’s Feast FINISHED 3 stars
6.Wives and DaughtersFINISHED 5 Stars
7. Babette’s Feast FINISHED 3 Stars
8. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd FINISHED 3 Stars

Wish you luck with your challenges

Looking forward to your choices, enjoy.