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Best of luck, Julie! Interesting titles as well, especially Gösta Berling's Saga. The title rang a bell, so I looked it up, and apparently the author is the first female writer to be awarded the Noble prize for literature prize for literature? Sure looks promising...I hope you'll like it as much as the Noble committee :)
I hope you enjoy All the King's Men. I started it this year and enjoyed the couple of chapters I read but unfortunately didn't have time to dedicate to it so put it back on my TBR. I'm hoping to get to it in 2018 myself 🤞
Good luck on the challenge! The planning is always my favorite stage of challenges too.
Great list. I hope Paradise Lost wins the February poll. I really want to fit it in. I'd also like to fit in All the King's Men but it's going to be hard.
I loved One of ours.Enjoy your books ,Julie.
Lonesome Dove! FANTASTIC read. I made my husband (who is a big fan of the movie version) read it when I was pregnant with my first son. He opened it to read aloud the first word: Augustus. It was the same moment we realized our son's name. So much love for this book!!
Not as far in this challenge as I would like to be - but that's primarily because I've been focusing on some of my other challenges (Bingo etc.) for the first part of the year.
Just enjoy the process, if you finish the challenge it's a bonus!
Well, did a 'sprint' on this the last couple of months, so actually managed to finish them all :)
Congratulations, Julie. You even read the two alternates. Well done!
Laurie wrote: "Congratulations, Julie. You even read the two alternates. Well done!"thank you :)
Rosemarie wrote: "Way to go, Julie! Congrats!"Thanks :)
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Books mentioned in this topic
Gösta Berling's Saga (other topics)Leonora Christinas Jammersminde (other topics)
Paradise Lost (other topics)
One of Ours (other topics)
All the King's Men (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Selma Lagerlöf (other topics)Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (other topics)
John Milton (other topics)
Willa Cather (other topics)
Robert Penn Warren (other topics)
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Old School:
1. Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf (1891)Read April-May 20182. Leonora Christinas Jammersminde by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1869?)Read August 20183. Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)Read July-August 2018New School:
4. One of Ours by Willa CatherRead July-August 20185. All the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenRead October 20186. The Outsiders by S.E. HintonRead January 2018Wild Cards:
7. High Fidelity by Nick HornbyRead October 20188. Absent In The Spring by Mary Westmacott (pseudonym for: Agatha Christie)Read June 20189. The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanRead May 201810. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryRead January 201811. A Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyRead November 201812. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsRead August 2018Alternates:
A-1: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettRead October 2018A-2: Atonement by Ian McEwanRead November 2018