Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Wow! You did it! Congratulations!! 😀

Thank you. It was fun.

Way to go Rosemarie!!

Thanks!

Rosemarie wrote: "I finished the A - Z Author Challenge."

Way to go Rosemarie! Congrats! 👏🏻👏🏻😊

Thank you.

Congrats, Rosemarie 👏🏻

Thanks!

Years of the Century Challenge

This will be a multi-year challenge with the goal of reading a book for each year of a century.
The challenge will start on Sunday, October 7 and no books started before that date will be used.

* means I, or anybody in my family, has a copy of the book

♦️means female author

🔶means Year 2 of challenge

🔷means Year 3 (final year of challenge)


2000's:

2000: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang ♦️
2001: The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland by Hugh Thomson
2002: Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez ♦️
*2003: Deafening by Frances Itani ♦️
*2004: Eventide by Kent Haruf 🔸
*2005: Slovenia, 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II by John Corsellis 🔸
2006: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
2006: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson ♦️
*2007: October by Richard B. Wright
2008: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
2008: My Grandmother: A Memoir by Fethiye Çetin ♦️
2009: Goethe und Schiller. Geschichte einer Freundschaft by Rüdiger Safranski
2010: The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya ♦️
2011: Sometimes there is a Void – Memoirs of an Outsider by Zakes Mda
2012: The Darkest Corner of the World by Urve Tamberg ♦️
2012: Bridge of Time by Lewis Buzbee
*2013: Blood: The Stuff of Life by Lawrence Hill
*2013: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson ♦️
2014: Judas by Amos Oz
2014: El Deafo by Cece Bell ♦️
2015: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015: The Green Bicycle by Haifaa al Mansour ♦️
2016: The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg ♦️
2016: Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World by Thomas F. Madden
2017: Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
2017: The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley ♦️
2018: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty ♦️
2019: The Unteachables by Gordon Korman

1900's:

*1900: Heart of the Ancient Wood by Charles G.D. Roberts
*1901: Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf ♦️
*1901: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
*1902: Five Little Peppers Abroad by Margaret Sidney ♦️
*1903: Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
*1904: Five Little Peppers and Their Friends by Margaret Sidney ♦️🔸
1905: Cuentos de la selva by Horacio Quiroga
*1906: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß by Robert Musil
*1907: The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen 🔸
*1908: The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
*1909: Jimbo: A Fantasy by Algernon Blackwood


*1910: The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells
*1911: The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki
*1912: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
*1913: Canne al vento by Grazia Deledda ♦️
*1913: Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce
*1914: Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez
*1915: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
*1916: Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington
*1917: His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
*1918: The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
*1919: The Toys of Peace and Other Papers by Saki 🔸

*1920: Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum🔸
*1921: Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare 🔸
*1922: The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
1923: Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse 🔸
*1924: The House of the Arrow by A.E.W. Mason 🔸
*1925: The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
*1926: Topper by Thorne Smith 🔸
1927: Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
1927: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather ♦️
1928: Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth ♦️
1929: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

1930: The Mysterious Mr. Quinn by Agatha Christie ♦️
1931: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham ♦️
*1932: Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith
1933: High Rising by Angela Thirkell ♦️
1933: The Case of the Sulky Girl by Erle Stanley Gardner
1934: The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
*1935: War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
1935: Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston ♦️
*1936: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
*1936: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ♦️
*1937: Le Garcon Savoyard by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
1938: Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout
1939: Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz

1940: La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
*1940: The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge ♦️
*1941: Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig
*1942: Embers by Sándor Márai
1943: Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
1944: Ficciones byJorge Luis Borges
*1945: The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
1945: Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace ♦️
1946: The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers♦️
*1946: Independent People by Halldór Kiljan Laxness
*1947: Music at the Close by Edward Mccourt
*1948: The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
*1949: Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

*1950: Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
1950: Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary ♦️
1951: Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
*1952: Giant by Edna Ferber ♦️
*1952: The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
1953: The Bridges at Toko-ri by James A. Michener
1954: Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck 🔸
1955: The October Country by Ray Bradbury🔸
1956: Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
1956: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen ♦️
1957: The Wonderful O by James Thurber
1958: Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce ♦️
1958: Champagne for One by Rex Stout
1959: Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall ♦️
1959: A Separate Peace by John Knowles

1960: A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
1960: Decision at Delphi by Helen MacInnes ♦️
*1961: These Ruins Are Inhabited by Muriel Beadle♦️
1962: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
1963: The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
1964: Seacrow Island by Astrid Lindgren ♦️
*1965: Astérix et Cléopâtre by René Goscinny 🔸
*1966: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
1967: When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson ♦️🔸
*1968: Ox Bells and Fireflies by Ernest Buckler
1968: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey ♦️
*1969: When Pumpkins Blossomed by Dragoslav Mihailović

1970: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume ♦️
1971: Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan 🔸
1972: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson ♦️🔸
*1973: Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie ♦️
1974: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
*1975: Postscript To Adventure: The Autobiography Of Ralph Connor by Charles W. Gordon
1976: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor ♦️
*1977: La tía Julia y el escribidor by Mario Vargas Llosa 🔸
*1978: Electric Delights by William Plomer
*1979: Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende

1980: A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
1980: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson ♦️
1981: X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont 🔸
1982: I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1983: The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1984: Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
*1985: Missus by Ruth Park ♦️
*1985: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1986: Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy♦️
*1987: Watchmen by Alan Moore
*1988: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams 🔸
1989: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda

1990: Carthage: Uncovering the Mysteries and Splendors of Ancient Tunisia by Howard David Soren
1991: Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood by Judith Ortiz Cofer ♦️
1991: Les Jardins de lumière by Amin Maalouf
*1992: The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
1993: Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor
*1994: All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel
*1995: Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
*1996: Noticia de un secuestro by Gabriel García Márquez 🔸
1997: Our Man in Belize: A Memoir byRichard Timothy Conroy
*1998: I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer
*1999: Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse ♦️
*1999: Plainsong by Kent Haruf

1800's:

1804: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
*1808: Marmion by Walter Scott

*1812: The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth 🔸♦️
*1814: Nussknacker und Mausekönig by E.T.A. Hoffmann
*1815: Guy Mannering by Walter Scott 🔸
*1816: Old Mortality by Walter Scott
*1817: Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann
*1819: A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott

*1823: Annals of the Parish: or The Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt 🔹
*1826: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
*1827: Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller: Ein Herbstgeschenk für Freunde des Weines by Wilhelm Hauff 🔸
*1828: Konrad Wallenrod by Adam Mickiewicz

*1834: Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz🔸
*1835: The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol
*1837: Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne 🔸
*1838: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe🔸

*1841: Uli der Knecht: Wie Uli der Knecht glücklich wird by Jeremias Gotthelf
*1842: Die schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf
*1843: Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner
*1846: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*1846: La Mare au Diable by George Sand ♦️
*1848: The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens 🔸

*1850: The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell ♦️🔸
*1851: Un Drame En Livonie by Jules Verne
*1852: To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens 🔸
*1853: Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville 🔸
*1854: The Enchanted Isles or The Encantadas by Herman Melville 🔸
*1855: Benito Cereno by Herman Melville 🔸
*1856: The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell ♦️
*1857: The Professor by Charlotte Brontë ♦️
*1858: A House to Let by Elizabeth Gaskell 🔸
*1859: Hunted Down by Charles Dickens🔸

*1860: Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli 🔸
*1861: Erniedrigte und Beleidigte by Fyodor Dostoyevsky🔸
*1862: Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen 🔸
*1863: Cinq semaines en ballon by Jules Verne
*1864: Voyage Au Centre de la Terre by Jules Verne
*1865: De la Terre à la Lune by Jules Verne 🔸
*1866: The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin ♦️
*1866: Aventures du capitaine Hatteras by Jules Verne
*1867: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant by Jules Verne
*1868: Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens🔸
*1869: Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope

*1870: Autour de la Lune by Jules Verne 🔸
*1871: Une ville flottante by Jules Verne
*1872: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
*1873: The Eustace Diamonds byAnthony Trollope
*1874: Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
*1875: Les Vaines Tendresses by Sully Prudhomme 🔸
*1876: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
*1877: The House on the Beach by George Meredith
*1878: An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
*1879: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

*1880: The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
*1881: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
*1882: An Enemy of the People
*1883: Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
*1884: What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy 🔸
*1885: After London: or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
*1885: Wyllard's Weird by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ♦️
*1886: The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
*1887: The Misadventures of John Nicholson by Robert Louis Stevenson 🔸
*1888: A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
*1889: Sans dessus dessous by Jules Verne🔸

*1890: The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen 🔸
*1891: Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis
*1892: Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney ♦️🔸
*1893: The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
*1894: Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
1895: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
*1896: Discourses in America by Matthew Arnold
*1897: Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
*1898: Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
*1898: Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim ♦️
*1899: Tales of Space and Time by H.G. Wells

1700's:

1700: The Way of the World by William Congreve
*1728: The Beggar's Opera by John Gay 🔸
*1745: Die Betschwester by Christian Furchtegott Gellert 🔸
*1748: Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G*** by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert 🔸
*1749: The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 🔸
*1750: The Scholars by Wu Jingzi🔸
1769: Le neveu de Rameau by Denis Diderot
*1771: The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie 🔸
*1775: Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution Inutile by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais🔸
*1776: Common Sense by Thomas Paine
*1778: Evelina by Frances Burney ♦️🔸
*1779: Nathan der Weise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 🔸
*1784: La Folle Journée Ou Le Mariage de Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 🔸
*1790: A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe ♦️🔸

Pre-1700:

*1604: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
*1633: The Complete English Works by George Herbert 🔸
*1634: Perkin Warbeck by John Ford 🔸
*1644: Areopagitica by John Milton
*1650s: No hay mas Fortuna que Dios by Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca

*1671: Paradise Regained by John Milton🔸
*1674: Paradise Lost bybJohn Milton 🔸
*1676: The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
1681: The Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell
Circa 1686: The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō 🔸

*1516: Utopia by Thomas More 🔸
*1573: Aminta by Torquato Tasso
*1590: Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe
*1593: The Massacre At Paris: With The Death Of The Duke Of Guise by Christopher Marlowe 🔸
1595: Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
1598: The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting by Tang Xianzu

*1200's: The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris🔸
*1220: The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

*1100's: The Conference of Birds by Attar of Nishapur 🔸

*Circa 850: Beowulf

Roman Era:
* Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses translated by Ted Hughes
*The Golden Ass by Apuleius, Translated by William Adlington
*Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
*The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus 🔸

Classical Greece:
*The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes
*The Idylls by Theocritus
*Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Cyclops by Euripides
*Phaedrus by Plato
*Meno by Plato
*Gorgias by Plato 🔸
The Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes 🔸
*Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds by Aristophanes🔸
*The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by
Xenophon 🔸
*The Frogs by Aristophanes🔸

Sumerian Empire:
*The Epic of Gilgamesh

I'm interested and excited to watch what you do here! :)

Me too...

So am I. This is very exciting, Rosemarie. Happy planning!

Thanks, everyone. I am hoping this challenge will help me clear some shelves as well as providing interesting reading.

November Books:

1. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
2. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
3. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
4. Heart of the Ancient Wood by Charles G.D. Roberts
5. Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez
6. Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
7. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
8. The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
9. Nussknacker und Mausekönig by E.T.A. Hoffmann
10. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
11. Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe
12. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

I finally finished the Bingo challenge.

Rosemarie wrote: "I finally finished the Bingo challenge."

Congrats on that.

Thank you. I enjoyed doing the challenge.

Rosemarie wrote: "I finally finished the Bingo challenge."

yeyyy!!! that's excellent - and what an impressive list of books you've read

Many thanks, Inkspill!

December Books
1. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
2. Canne al vento by Grazia Deledda
3. The Red Room byAugust Strindberg
4. Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Gogol
5. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
6. The Lurking Fear and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
7. The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin
8. The Story of the Other Wiseman by Henry Van Dyke
9. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
10. Le Garcon Savoyard by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
11. Die schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf
12. Discourses in America by Matthew Arnold
13. Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
14. Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs

My goodreads challenge goal for 2019 is 213 books.

Classic Bingo 2019 - January

B5: Burmese Days by George Orwell
G5: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
B1: The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
G3: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister by Friedrich Nietzsche
N3: The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
G1: Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy
G4: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
O1: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
I2: The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller

2019 Books Read: 400 - 600 Pages

1. The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
2. I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer
3. I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer
4. Postscript To Adventure: The Autobiography Of Ralph Connor by Charles W. Gordon
5. Le Neveu de Rameau et autres dialogues philosophiques by Denis Diderot
6. Tout Sonia: Comment vivre avec (ou sans) Sonia, Sonia les autres et moi by Pierre Daninos
7. The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
8. The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
9. They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy
10. Aventures du capitaine Hatteras by Jules Verne
11. Lebensansichten des Katers Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
12. Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende
13. Sans Famille by Hector Malot
14. The Best of Ogden Nash
15. Sometimes there is a Void – Memoirs of an Outsider by Zakes Mda
16. Independent People by Halldór Kiljan Laxness
17. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
18. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
19. Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
20. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
21. Le Pays des fourrures by Jules Verne
22. The Poems of Eugene Field
23. New Grub Street by George Gissing
24. Guy Mannering by Walter Scott
25. L'Île mystérieuse by Jules Verne
26. Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings by Paul Theroux
27. They Were Found Wanting by Miklós Bánffy

2019 Books Read: 601+ pages

1. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister
2. The Prime Minister
3. Old Mortality
4. Collected Poems
5. Gone with the Wind
6. Wives and Daughters
7. Decision at Delphi
8. Les Enfants du capitaine Grant
9. Lonesome Dove
10. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
11. Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
12. Wolf Solent

2019: Books read in French

1. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
2. Cinq semaines en ballon by Jules Verne
3. Le Neveu de Rameau et autres dialogues philosophiques by Denis Diderot
4. Tout Sonia: Comment vivre avec (ou sans) Sonia, Sonia les autres et moi by Pierre Daninos
5. Les Jardins de lumière by Amin Maalouf
6. Aventures du capitaine Hatteras by Jules Verne
7. Sans Famille by Hector Malot
8. Les Enfants du capitaine Grant by Jules Verne
9. La mare au diable by George Sand
10. Voyage au centre de la Terre by Jules Verne
11. Un Drame En Livonie by Jules Verne
12. Une ville flottante by Jules Verne
13. Aventures De Trois Russes Et De Trois Anglais Dans L'afrique Australe by Jules Verne
14. Le Mariage du Naif by Paul Guth
15. Le pays des fourrures by Jules Verne
16. La vie sans fards by Maryse Condé
17. De la Terre à la Lune by Jules Verne
18. Le roi au masque d'or by Marcel Schwob
19. Chroniques algériennes by Albert Camus
20. Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution Inutile by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
21. Tintin et les Picaros by Hergé
22. Eloges, Gloire des Rois, Anabase, Exil bySaint-John Perse
23. Petit pays by Gaël Faye
24. Le Lotus bleu by Hergé
25. L'Étoile mystérieuse by Hergé
26. Autour de la Lune by Jules Verne
27. L'Île mystérieuse by Jules Verne
28. Les Forceurs de blocus by Jules Verne
29. Les Boutiques de cannelle by Bruno Schulz

2019: Books read in German

1. Uli der Knecht: Wie Uli der Knecht glücklich wird by Jeremias Gotthelf
2. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister
3. Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
4. Wie fünf Mädchen im Branntwein jämmerlich umkommen by Jeremias Gotthelf
5. Wie Joggeli Eine Frau Sucht / Hans Joggeli Der Erbvetter by Jeremias Gotthelf
6. Lebensansichten des Katers Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
7. Bürgersteig Aufsässiger Roman by Alexander Spoerl
8. Oh, wie klein ist Liechtenstein: Erzählungen by Armin Öhri
9. Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende
10. Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner
11. Goethe und Schiller. Geschichte einer Freundschaft by Rüdiger Safranski
12. Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist
13. Der Unfried by Ludwig Ganghofer
14. Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann
15. Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
16. Undank Ist Der Welten Lohn. Ein Satirischer Nachruf by Ephraim Kishon
17. Lieder Deutscher Dichter: Eine Auswahl der klassischen deutschen Lyrik by Hermann Hesse
18. Die Betschwester by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
19. Auf dem Staatshof und Bulemanns Haus. by Theodor Storm
20. Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
21. Fantasiestucke in Callot's Manier. T. 1-2: Blatter Aus Dem Tagebuche Eines Reisenden Enthusiasten by E.T.A. Hoffmann

2019: Books read in other languages

Italian:
1. Le avventure di Pinocchio: Storia di un burattino by Carlo Collodi
2. Aminta by Torquato Tasso
3. Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
4. Classici di Natale by Carlo Collodi

2019: Books read in Portuguese

1. Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis

Books read in Spanish

1. No hay mas Fortuna que Dios by Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca
2. Cuentos de la selva by Horacio Quiroga

In 2018 I read 137 books from my TBR shelves-physical and ebooks

Rosemarie how many languages do you read?

The languages without a dictionary beside me are English, French and German.
I can read Italian and Dutch with occasional use of a dictionary. Spanish and Portuguese require more frequent use of a dictionary.
I was a qualified French teacher and took four years of Latin in high school, which really helps with Italian and the other Romance languages. German is my first language and Dutch is a variation of Low German.
I love the way languages change and develop as they move from one country to the next, and even from one region to another in the same country.
Plus, I really love to travel to Europe.

My goal this year and next is to read the fourteen oldest books on my Goodreads To-read list.🔹=read

🔹1. I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer Completed in January
🔹2. I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer Completed February 7
3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
🔹4. The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino Completed on March 14
5. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
🔹7. Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie Finished February 20
🔹8. My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust by Adrienne Kertzer
9. The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
🔹10. A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
🔹11. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
🔹12. Deafening by Frances Itani Completed March 23
13. Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina
14. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Classic Bingo 2019 books read in February

I4: Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing by Tomson Highway
B2: High Rising by Angela Thirkell
O3: Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse
B3: The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
O4: The African Queen by C.S. Forester
I3: Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
N5: The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting by Tang Xianzu

Rosemarie wrote: "In January I read 15 books from my collection, of which 5 were ebooks."

You are a reading machine! :)
I just said that to someone recently, maybe Darren. But you've got him beat!

Thank you. We have been having bitterly cold winter weather for about a week, so I had lots of time to read. It is finally starting to warm up, a bit. But I wil still find lots of time to read.

cool ! :)

Rosemarie wrote: "In 2018 I read 137 books from my TBR shelves-physical and ebooks"

That is an excellent goal and impressive progress. I also want to concentrate more on books I already own.

MK - you're no slouch yourself with 30,000 pages last year, but even if we add my 44,000 we still fall short of Rosemarie's 89,000!!!

at turn of year I had 182 un-read physical books in my house
this madness must end!
my main goal is to vastly reduce this during 2019 (grits_teeth_smiley)

Darren, I am afraid to count how many unread books I have. I live in Toronto and there are four huge used book sales at four of the University of Toronto colleges in September and October. I donate books for the sales each year but I never seem to get ahead. But I never run out of reading matter.

Darren wrote: "MK - you're no slouch yourself with 30,000 pages last year, but even if we add my 44,000 we still fall short of Rosemarie's 89,000!!!

at turn of year I had 182 un-read physical books in my house
..."

*blink*

LOL !!

Classic Bingo 2019 March books

N4: Poetry collection - Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
B4: Telegraph 100 - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
O5: Future Classic - The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
I5: From my to read shelf - Beowulf

Rosemarie, do you watch television? How many hours per day do you read? I read a lot too. But I read many hours a day everyday.

I don't know how many hours I read. It depends on my activities. I do read more when the weather is miserable, and it has certainly been that since the end of January.
I stopped watching tv a few years ago, since I was generally bored by what I was watching.
My husband and I enjoy going to plays at our local university and really love classical music concerts. We also have memberships to the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
I take a book with me just about everywhere I go if I know I will have to spend time waiting.
Plus--I really love to read!

TV is definitely a time suck. I don't watch much myself anymore either.

I watched a lot more tv when my daughters were living at home. My younger daughter moved out in 2009, and after that I gradually watched less and less tv, until I finally stopped about 3 years ago, after taking a long hard look at my bookshelves.
Of course, I still buy new books and go to the library, but I am making headway.

Bingo Books - April

I1: Group bookshelf prior to 2019: Gone with the Wind
N2: Short story collection: Lost in the City
G2: By a female author: The Member of the Wedding
O2: Science fiction classic: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress