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Dec 04, 2020 09:13PM
I am going to start with one and see by the end of Dec if I want to add a 2nd
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Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR 4/12 Old School: 1899 and earlier
1. Moll Flanders
2. Leaves of Grass - DNF
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth - 5/17-***
New School: 1900-1999
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 2/22-***
5. Scaramouche - 2/16-****
6. A Passage to India
Six Others: All before 1990
1. Ringworld
2. Love in the Time of Cholera - DNF
3. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - 2/19-***
4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
5. The Dispossessed
6. The Sound and the Fury
Alternates
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Native Son
I like your list, Lexi! You have some really good ones there! I am also interested in reading Scaramouche. I'll watch for your comments! Enjoy your 2021 reading! :)
I also have 'Scaramouche' down for 2021 challenges, although it's for my Bingo (really don't have a lot of adventure stuff on my shelves). It'll be interesting to see what we both think of it.
I finished Scaramouche and enjoyed it a lot more than I did Captain Blood. It was an enjoyable adventure story and I enjoyed it even if I think Rafael Sabatini really struggles to write female characters. I meant to read it in January so I want to try another one this month, just not sure which one next.
Lexi wrote: "I finished Scaramouche and enjoyed it a lot more than I did Captain Blood. It was an enjoyable adventure story and I enjoyed it even if I think [author:Rafael Sabatini|8..."Glad to hear your take on this, Lexi. I think my reading of Scaramouche will go pretty smoothly now that I'm aware of its strengths and weaknesses.
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Read my February book with Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm. It really wasn't for me. It was quite dated and had the usual cold warm pro-individualism take you get. Also, I could have done without all the incest and (view spoiler). Anyways, if you want weird late 70s sci-fi, especially by a woman, may I suggest Dreamsnake instead.
Started Leaves of Grass as a book on tape. I will now get to listen to Walt Whitman on my daily walk for the next month. This may be a bit much.Edited: 5/7 - DNF - I just can't deal with how long this as and the tone. I have read excerpts and that is good enough.
Also, forgot to post that I read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which I enjoyed the beginning more than the end. The religious preaching section got really long and I felt the end just kind of dropped off.
I listened to Journey to the Center of the Earth and it was good. I always have a little issue with Jules Verne's pacing but it is one of my favorites of his so far.
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