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Good luck Ginib!Welcome to bingo!
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Welcome Gini. I like your book choices. Good luck :0)
Welcome! I plan on reading The Shipping News at some point as well. I'm on a North America trek. Will most likely also use it for Female Price Winner in bingo, unless some other book gets there first!
Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "Good luck Ginib!Welcome to bingo!" Thank you. Started a couple of the selections now.
Kathy wrote: "Welcome to the challenge Gini! The four corners sounds like the perfect challenge to start with -- good luck & have fun reading."Thank you. Classics has such an intimidating ring to it and now that I've started a couple it's not all that difficult. Glad to be a part here.
Leni wrote: "Welcome! I plan on reading The Shipping News at some point as well. I'm on a North America trek. Will most likely also use it for Female Price Winner in bingo, unless some other book gets there first!"Thank you. A totally blind pick. Author's name rang a bell, so why not try one.
Welcome to classics bingo! The four corners look like a great goal and you've chosen some nice looking books. Good luck :)
Welcome to the fun, Gini! I haven't read any of these, but they all look good, and a good mix. I think you'll enjoy Annie Proulx.
Slow going with this. Find myself reading anything but the choices I made. Got behind with some other reading that I'm obligated to as well. But that's nearly under control so maybe this challenge will turn out OK. Lacuna seems pretty transparent as to where it's headed already and I'm just started. Don't like knowing where I'm headed so early in fiction.
Don't worry, I always have the same problem, finding myself reading anything but my planned books. Remember you can change your choices if you want to, but there's plenty of time yet :)
Pink wrote: "Don't worry, I always have the same problem, finding myself reading anything but my planned books. Remember you can change your choices if you want to, but there's plenty of time yet :)"Good to know I'm not the only one. Thanks fro the encouragement
Ginib,Don't worry about it if you end up reading other books than those you've planned for bingo.
It's a flexible challenge! It's all good!
I ended up reading several other books instead of those that I thought I'd read for this challenge and it's still a lot of fun!
This is the second year that I wanted to read "Dangerous Liaisons" for bingo as I've been wanting to read it. However, I keep making changes and still haven't read it.
I'll get that book read eventually!
Just have fun!
Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "This is the second year that I wanted to read "Dangerous Liaisons" for bingo as I've been wanting to read it. However, I keep making changes and still haven't read it..."This is me with War and Peace!
Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "Ginib,Don't worry about it if you end up reading other books than those you've planned for bingo....
Thanks for the encouragement here. Sorry to be so long in a response--out of pocket lately. Have made some progress though, so I'm more pleased with myself. :)
Dangerous Liasons? A new title for me, have to check it out.
AT LAST!! Got the first square covered. Kingsolver's The Lacuna is read. Review posted for anyone who is interested. Sure glad I chose a simple bingo this time around. Classics require a bit more work. :)
Ginib wrote: "AT LAST!! Got the first square covered. Kingsolver's The Lacuna is read. Review posted for anyone who is interested. Sure glad I chose a simple bingo this time around. Classics require a bit more w..."Clap, clap, clap!!! :)
Ginib wrote: "AT LAST!! Got the first square covered. Kingsolver's The Lacuna is read. Review posted for anyone who is interested. Sure glad I chose a simple bingo this time around. Classics require a bit more w..."Well done :)
Just started Shipping News by Proulx. Reads well, characters unusual to say the least, but still believable enough to pull the reader into the story. Watching a couple of them that pop in and open a new direction for Quoyle to see if that's their only function. Prose reminds me of the pace and directness I've heard in an upper northeast region of the USA. Maybe, the speech pattern of the setting?
All I can say is WOW! Shipping News is a tough act to follow. Can't remember reading anything like this before. So Chabon may have to wait a couple days just to give him a fair shake. Still working on the Great Enigma collection. You just can't rush that one.
Ginib wrote: "All I can say is WOW! Shipping News is a tough act to follow. Can't remember reading anything like this before. So Chabon may have to wait a couple days just to give him a fair shake. Still workin..."
Great to see your response to it. I just put it on my TBR list.
I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)
Going to abandon the Chabon choice for this challenge and find another. Just not working for me. Maybe some other time.
Adding O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
The sample is pure craziness and that sounds good about now
Done with bingo challenge. Found several new authors, ones I'd never have read, through this and appreciate it for that. Worth the effort. Thanks for the opportunity.
Congrats on Bingo! I'm really looking forward to reading The Shipping News now. :)
Was the Percival Everett one any good?
Just saw your review. I need to look into Percival Everett's books. He looks like an interesting author.
Leni-- thanks. Do take a look a Everett. I was thinking of reading him again pretty soon.
B1: READ! Written by Nobel Laureate The Great Enigma Tomas Transtormer
B5: READ!! Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
O1: READ! Literary Prize of Your Country/Region I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
O5: Prize READ!!-Winning Female Author The Shipping News Annie Proulx