Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I think MK is still enjoying her sabbatical, so I will get October's Collecting Dust Challenge started.

Remember, this is a monthly challenge for those readers who have unread books on the TBR collecting dust.

This challenge will help you get to the books yu want to read but just keep putting off.

If you want to participate then from your TBR bookshelf list 5 books that you would like to read in the month of October. The next person who comments will pick two choices from your list. You are only obligated to read 1 of the books chosen, but you may want to read both. Once you have read it, let us know and you may add your review or link to your review.

Rules:
1. If you want to participate, please sign up (list your five books) by September 30th.

2. Choose two books from the person's list that commented before you. First person to list 5 books is the person who picks two books for the last person of the month. (I'll remind you)

3. You have the entire month to read your selections and post your thoughts. No pressure all the past months this year are still open for comments.

I went first last month I'll pass this month.

I'll go first this month (and try to remember that I'm the last one to pick then...):

I would like to read from the following list of five books:
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
Exodus by Leon Uris
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Julie, for you I choose
The Zookeeper's Wife & Echoes from the Dead

I'm going old school horror for October
My 5 choices are
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Psycho by Robert Bloch

Alissa, for you I choose:
Interview with the Vampire and Rosemary's Baby

My 5 choices are:
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Magician: Apprentice, Volume 1 by Raymond E. Feist
Dark Moon by David Gemmell
Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

for haley i choose:
Alias Grace
Dragon Prince

my list:
Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Jane and His Lordship's Legacy by Stephanie Barron

*Cell by Stephen King: read 10.10 and all i can say is WOW. gave it 5 stars

Below Zero by C.J. Box
Taltos by Anne Rice

For Lindy-Lane:

Cell and Taltos

Here are my DOS:
1. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
2. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
3. The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins
4. Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
5. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Timesby George Crile

For Rachel: Prep and The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids


My October picks:
1. 14 by Peter Clines
2. Red Hill by Jamie McGuire
3. Haunted by James Herbert
4. The Gates by John Connolly
5. Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry

For Nathan: I select Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry and Haunted by James Herbert (Since it's for the month of All Hallow's Eve!)

My October Picks:
1. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
2. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. Forgotten Roots by Richard Whitten Barnes
5. Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille

For Janice I choose:
Wizard's First Rule and
Slaughterhouse-Five

My choices are:
1. Spider Web
2. Night of the Living Thread
3. Fly in the Cobweb
4. The Ghost Writer
5. White Ghost Girls

For you Darlene, I choose Fly in the Cobweb and Night of the Living Thread.

My picks for October:
-The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
-Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
-Sudenmorsian (Finnish werewolf story) by Aino Kallas
-Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
-Romeo ja Julia by William Shakespeare

Maarit, I chose Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories and Gun, With Occasional Music.

My picks for October:

1. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Silas Marner by George Eliot
3. The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley
4. The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
5. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Wait so, we choose the book for the previous poster and then list 5 we would like to read and so on? New here and highly confused

Heather wrote: "Wait so, we choose the book for the previous poster and then list 5 we would like to read and so on? New here and highly confused"

Yes, if you choose to participate you choose two books from Pigletto's list of five if you are the next player. Then you list 5 of the books on your TBR you have been wanting to read but keep putting off. The next player picks two book from your list for you to read in October. Remember you don't have to read both books, one is good for the challenge.

Thank you so much Bob.

Pigletto I chose Silas Marner and The Name of the Wind

My picks for October:

1.The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
3. The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
4. Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
5. The Kilkenny Cat Book 1: by William Forde

Heather,

For you I choose Dark Places and The Thief Lord. Happy reading!

My picks for October:
Animal Farm
1984
East of Eden
When We Were Orphans
The God of Small Things

Heather, I choose for you and


My picks for October:






I read Speak. I believe it is fast becoming a contemporary classic as it is now taught in a lot of high schools.
I read it from the eyes of a parent. Made me want to be more cognizant of my child's behavior than Melinda's parents were of hers. She had so many changes in her behavior that were unnoticed by so many.
I really related to Rachel and her arguments about symbolism in the The Scarlet Letter. I totally remember having those exact same feelings about my English teacher.
Thanks for helping me to get it off of my TBR list.

Bettina, for you I choose, The Art of Racing in the Rainand Speak

My 5 for October are:
Wuthering Heights
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
War and Peace
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice

Carrie, I choose Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility! Enjoy!

My October Five are:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Shōgun by James Clavell

Kate, for you I choose The Grapes of Wrath and Pride and Prejudice.

My October picks are:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Pernille, I choose

Under the Dome and The Turn of the Screw

My October Picks:

I Am Pilgrim
1Q84
Birds Without Wings
Faust
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sarah for you I choose One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and 1Q84

Happy reading :-)

Yay! Library time...

Well, there's no one before me. But here's my list:

Kirsten I will pick for you No Dominion and Blood Moon, don't know any thing about them but they look good for October and Holloween.

That's it no more challenges for this month. Tomorrow is October 1st, please post your book comments and reviews as you wish. Good luck!!

Finished both my October reads.

Echoes from the Dead, is classic scandinavian crime. Seems to me like Johan Theorin has been inspired by swedish crime queen Camilla Läckberg. This novel has much the same 'feeling' as her books. Looking forward to reading his other novels.

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story is quite a different read, as it is non-fiction. I have read quite a lot of fiction centered around WWII, and off course know a lot about how WWII affected Denmark and especially the Island of Bornholm where I grew up. This book gave me alot of insight into how WWII affected Poland and certainly the Warsaw Zoo.

I'm done with both of my October picks.

Haunted was a good read. here's a link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ghost Road Blues was terrible. I slogged through 100 pages and gave up. It's not that the story was that bad, it was the writing. An author can improve dramatically between books, but they never do so between page 100 and page 472.

Nathan wrote: "An author can improve dramatically between books, but they never do so between page 100 and page 472..."

That made me laugh. I think it's probably a good choice to quit.

So I read (finally) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I'm so glad that this was picked for my challenge. I've been wanting to read it for so long and it is such a beautiful book. I knew it would be sad but I didn't know it would be heartbreaking. It was really an amazing book. Thank you Julie for picking it for me :)

Pernille wrote: "I'm currently on page 337 (31 %) of Stephen Kings "Under the Dome".
Enjoying it so far."

This is a book I have been thinking about for awhile. Glad to hear its going OK.

I finished Rosemary's Baby, chosen for me by Haley. Thanks for the great choice! I really enjoyed it!! I do like horror/creepy novels and I always real people creepier than the boogeyman/paranormal. So a whole apartment building full of creepy devil worshippers??? GAH. Loved it.

finished one of the books that rachel picked for me. comment in original post #6 of this thread.

It seems to be that I won't be finishing either one of the books chosen for me this month. I've started them both, but I seem to have the mood of "not interested in reading anything that much" (happens to me from time to time, as I read way too much).

Numbers in the Dark and Othe Stories seems to be an interesting read, but Gun, With Occassional Music is a bit too absurd for me at this moment. I will finish them at later time (maybe in November), though, so I'm not abandoning them :)

Maarit wrote: "happens to me from time to time, as I read way too much"

Happens to me, too. Recently I read over 400 pages in a week, and then less than 100 in the next two. (Yes, I have a Excel spreadsheet for counting pages, I like numbers and statistics.)

I am thinking of taking part in that November Reading Challenge (#lukuhaaste), 30 pages of fiction EVERY day. It's not that much, really (though I guess 900 pages per month is more than the majority of people read), but I usually read more at a time and not every day.

Well I finally finished my book for this challenge and just in the nick of time too :-)

Dragon Prince was really good and engaging. An interesting storyline that wasn't the same traditional fantasy story that many other books have. I do think, however, that the writing style definitely had a flare for the dramatic which sometimes felt too forced and fake, but overall I would recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy novels.

I'm a third through The Handmaid's Tale and while I doubt I'll finish it in the next few hours I'm really enjoying it!