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message 1: by Wayne (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:08AM

This will be my first year of participating in what seems quite a daunting set of challenges, but I will plug away and see how far I get.

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message 2: by Wayne (last edited Nov 07, 2021 08:45AM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:10AM

Wayne's Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR

Old School
1. King Lear ****
2. You Never Can Tell*****
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume V of VI): 5****
New School
4. Candida(Planned)
5. Madame Curie: A Biography(Planned)
6. Wrath of the Lion (Planned)
Wild Card
7. The Shelters of Stone (Planned)
8. The Switch (Planned)
9. Tree Frog. (Planned)
10. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry (Planned)
11. Come Back Geordie(Planned)
12. Telling Tales****
Alternates
1. Conversations with My Sons and Daughters(Planned)
2. Two Brothers (Planned)

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message 3: by Wayne (last edited Nov 13, 2021 12:44AM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:10AM

Wayne's Challenge #2 - Does a Century Make a Difference?
1983(3/5)
1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One***
2. The Sign of the Beaver(Planned)
3. A Gathering of Old Men (Planned)
4. The Sheep Pig (Planned)
5. Life and Times of Michael K****
6. The Colour of Magic****
7. Poland (Planned)
8. The Little Drummer Girl (Planned)
9. To Every Birth Its Blood(Planned)
10. Stories From Central & Southern Africa(Planned)
1883(0/5)
1.Treasure Island****
2. Life On The Mississipi(Planned)
3. The Breadwinners(Planned)
4. The Story of an African Farm***
5. The Ladies' Paradise(Planned)
6.Schach von Wuthenow(Planned)
7. Keraban the Inflexible: Adventures in the Euxine(Planned)
8. Hester(Planned)
9. A Woman's Life and Other Stories(Planned)
10. Pinocchio(Planned, included by mistake but will read)
11. A Modern Lover(Planned)

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message 4: by Wayne (last edited Nov 01, 2021 01:15PM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:10AM

Wayne's Challenge #3 - Second Place or Worse
Progress: (4/7)

1. The Man of Property****
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin****
3. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There***
4. All Quiet on the Western Front(Planned)
5. The God of Small Things****
6. Waiting for Godot(Planned)
7. The Upper Berth(Planned)

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message 5: by Wayne (last edited Nov 13, 2021 12:47AM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:11AM

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge
Progress: (4/12)

1. A Modest Proposal****
2. Great Expectations****
3.Animal Farm***
4. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl***
5. Love in the Time of Cholera(Planned)
6. Slaughterhouse-Five (Planned)
7. The Time Machine (Planned)
8. The Thorn Birds****
9. Barnaby Rudge (Planned)
10. The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985(Planned)
~~11.~~ Pietr the Latvian***
12. Vile Bodies(Planned)

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message 6: by Wayne (last edited Oct 18, 2021 01:06PM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:11AM

Wayne's Challenge #5 - Decade/Century Challenge

Century Challenge : (6/10)
~~1900-1909~~: Anne of the Green Gables ****
1910 - 1919: Sons and Lovers(Planned)
1920-1929: Decline and Fall(Planned)
~~1930 - 1939~~: Little House on the Prairie***
1940-1949: For Whom the Bell Tolls(Planned)
1950-1959: The Catcher in the Rye***
~~1960-1969~~: Catch-22****
1970 - 1979: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts(Planned)
~~1980 - 1989~~: The Unbearable Lightness of Being****
~~1990-1999~~: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets****

Decade Challenge: (4/10)
1960: No Longer at Ease(Planned)
1961: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(Planned)
1962: Big Sur(Planned)
~~1963~~: Caravans****
1964: Weep Not, Child(Planned)
1965: The Source(Planned)
~~1966~~: A Man of the People****
1967: The Outsiders(Planned)
~~1968~~: A Small Town in Germany***
~~1969~~: Travels with My Aunt***

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message 7: by Wayne (last edited Jul 07, 2021 07:57PM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:11AM

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge
1. A Hunger Artist****
2. Flowers for Algernon(Planned)
3. An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge(Planned)
4. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories(Planned)
5. To Build a Fire(Planned)
6. Rip Van Winkle(Planned)
7.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(Planned)
8. The Turn of the Screw(Planned)
9. The Awakening(Planned)
10. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror(Planned)
11. The Death of Ivan Ilych(Planned)
12. The Nose(Planned)
13. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories(Planned)
14. The Pearl(Planned)
15. A Nervous Breakdown(Planned)
16. Of Mice and Men(Planned)
17. The Boarded Window(Planned)
18. Ward No. 6 and Other Stories(Planned)
19. The Man and the Snake(Planned)
20. The Minister's Black Veil(Planned)
21. God Sees the Truth, but Waits(Planned)
22. A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Stories(Planned)
23. The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre(Planned)
24. Waiting For Leila: Ravan Writers Series(Planned)

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message 8: by Wayne (last edited Mar 18, 2021 05:58AM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:11AM

Challenge #7 - 2021 Group Reads Challenge
Progress: (2/12)

1. The Captain's Daughter
2. A Streetcar Named Desire

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message 9: by Wayne (last edited Nov 19, 2021 12:08AM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:12AM

Wayne's Challenge #8 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Progress: (2/6)

1. Anthony Trollope - The Warden*****
2. Victor Hugo -Les Misrables
3. Alessandro Manzoni -The Betrothed
4. Paul Scott - The Jewel in the Crown
5. Honoré de Balzac Eugénie Grandet
6. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces****

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message 10: by Wayne (last edited Aug 30, 2021 11:08AM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:12AM

Challenge #9 - A-Z Author Challenge
Progress: (21/26)

A: Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
B: Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery
C: John le Carré - Call for the Dead
D: Louis de Bernières - Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
E: Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume the Fourth
F: F Scott K Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
G: Gerald Durrell- The Whispering Land
H: Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
I: Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods
J.: James Michener - Centennial
K: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
L : Louis de Bernières - The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
M. - J.M Coetzee - Foe
N -
O: Ousmane Sembène - God's Bits of Wood
P: P.J. Parrish - Dark Of The Moon
Q
R: Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
S: William Shakespeare - King Lear
T: Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
U: Leon Uris - The Haj
V
W: J.R.T. Wood - The Welensky Papers
X
Y
Z: Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

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message 11: by Wayne (last edited Sep 06, 2021 10:40AM) (new)

Jan 07, 2021 05:12AM

Challenge #10 - A-Z Title Challenge
Progress (25/26)

A: A Streetcar Named Desire
B: The Bridges at Toko-ri
C - The Captain's Daughter
D: Dune Messiah
E: Their Eyes Were Watching God
F. - Foe
G - The Great Gatsby
H: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume the Fourth
I:Little House in the Big Woods
J : Don Juan
K: King Lear
L: Little House on the Prairie
M: Dark Of The Moon
N: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
O: The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzmán
P : Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Q: A Murder of Quality
R: A Rare Benedictine
S: By the Shores of Silver Lake
T: The Haj
U: Up from Slavery
V: Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
W:The Whispering Land
X -
Y : Seven Years in Tibet-
Z: Zen Attitude

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message 12: by Carolien (new)

Jan 07, 2021 08:50PM

Good luck choosing your books, Wayne!

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message 13: by Wayne (new)

Jan 07, 2021 09:58PM

Carolien wrote: "Good luck choosing your books, Wayne!"

Good morning Carolien, thanks. I spent about three hours last night identifying books, and I am close to a final selection. Have a number of gardening chores, so in between getting some seeds into the soil, I will read a bit and make a final selection. Have a good day.

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message 14: by Bob, Short Story Classics (new)

Jan 08, 2021 04:19AM

Mod

Welcome to the challenge, enjoy

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message 15: by Wayne (new)

Jan 08, 2021 04:35AM

Bob wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, enjoy"

Thanks Bob

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