Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

So here I go again! This will be the third time in a row I do an atempt at complete this bingo challenge. With a couple of Catching up on Classics friends we discovered three is actually a lucky number in many countries and that in quite a few languages there are sayings that say that the third time is the right one. so we concluded this must be the lucky year in which completing the bingo challenge will be achieved! ;-p

Still thinking about the books I'm going to read in most of those categories :-) Also for the participant pick I will be glad to check out any recommendation and see if it seems up my alley ;-)

Progress: 15/25


B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin ( 1971 ) read in april
B2: Classic written in your native language The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
B3: Classic Science or Philosophy Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse read begin august
B4: Classic Banned Book The Well of Loneliness or reread The Picture of Dorian Gray
B5: A Classic NOT on Our Bookshelf that Should be There Ubik by Philip K. Dick read begin june

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2022 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson january
I2: New-To-You Classic Author The Turn of the Screw by Henry James read in june
I3: Classic Drama or Play The Iceman Cometh or The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama About Women in Villages of Spain
I4: Classic Over 500 pages The Confessions of Nat Turner or The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
I5: Literary Prize or Your Country or Region The Ice People by René Barjavel read begin september

N1: Classic Involving Music Anyone suggestions...?
N2: Classic Mythology or Folklore Beowolf by Unknown mars
N3: Free Space The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec january
N4: Classic Poetry or Essay Collection Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire read in march
N5: Classic by an Author from a Country you didn’t Read in 2021 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky

G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize The Night Circus
G2: Book from a group poll during your birthday month To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (february )
G3: Classic Tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare
G4: Group Bingo Participant Pick The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
G5: Book from the Group’s 2022 Bookshelf Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu january

O1: Book Published before 1900 The Sorceress: A Study in Middle Age Superstition Jules Michelet
O2: Children’s Classic The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
O3: Classic Short Story Collection The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury read end march - begin april
O4: Classic in translation Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf read in june
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 The Pastoral Symphony or Oppression and Liberty

Irphen wrote: "Still thinking about the books I'm going to read in most of those categories :-) Also for the participant pick I will be glad to check out any recommendation and see if it seems up my alley ;-)

B1..."

How about The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter?

Aubrey wrote: "How about The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter?"

That diffinitly sounds like something that could be up my alley indeed, thank you! :-)

Great plans. It will be fun seeing you execute.

Welcome to the challenge again, Irphen. I'm hoping that three is indeed your lucky number.

Wow, I have never even heard of The Ice People before, when I now looked it up I became soo excited - I just HAVE to read it! But ... here's the problem. It has been translated into Swedish once, in 1975. There is no copy at the libraries in this city and this is the secong biggest city so when they haven't got in any of their facilities it means it's really hard to find. I started to search elsewhere. I found it on a site for second hand books - but so expensive. I have searched for the English version - I can't find it anywhere apart from at Amazon (and there this title is soo expensive!) I was amazed! So my plan is to ask the libraries of Göteborg (Gothenburg) to search for it in Stockholm and see if they've got it. My French is not what I'd like it to be, I studied French for six years but I have unfortunately almost never used it so it would be really difficult to read an entire novel. Anyway - Thankyou so much for informing me about this writer.

Jillian ❀‿❀ wrote: "Wow, what a great card, Irphen! Walden, T.S. Eliot, Hamlet, Ray Bradbury, Woolf... you're going to have a GREAT year! I would have suggested Testament of Youth for your G4, but I see ..."

Thank you! I think as well it will be a great year^^ Well it doesn't matter if G4 is already occupied, I will always check out other suggestions ;-)

Sara wrote: "Great plans. It will be fun seeing you execute."

I hope I will succeed in keeping to the plan this time! ;-p

Katy wrote: "Welcome to the challenge again, Irphen. I'm hoping that three is indeed your lucky number."

Thank you Kathy! :-) Will keep my fingers crossed ;-p

Nike wrote: "Wow, I have never even heard of The Ice People before, when I now looked it up I became soo excited - I just HAVE to read it! But ... here's the problem. It has been translated into Swedish once, i..."

Haha, well my pleasure^^ I hope you will manage to find it in English or Swedish! :-)
I didn't knew you studied French! That's cool, even if it is a pitty you lost it. That's the problem when you don't use a language anymore... I'm having the same problem with Spanish, I used to understand and speak it very well but now I'm losing it bit by bit :-/ I try to read a Spanish book once in awhile but I don't practice often enough at all. Any way if you want to practice your French you can with me ( though I doubt I bit of quick practice would be enough to read a whole novel ;-p )

Irphen wrote: "Nike wrote: "Wow, I have never even heard of The Ice People before, when I now looked it up I became soo excited - I just HAVE to read it! But ... here's the problem. It has been translated into Sw..."

Merci, Irphen pour votre offrir ... mais il faut que vous avez beaucoup de patience avec moi.
There - one sentence and my brain is already exhausted! =D And I'm not even sure it's correct to use the word "offrir" here. I also studied Spanish, only for three years but I used it some when I once was living with a man from Chile. Since he spoke fluently Swedish I didn't speak Spanish with him but with his mother and uncle. Anyway, I love learning languages but I have only been to France once, ages ago and I never meet anyoone to talk French with. And people don't usually study French any longer which is a pity since it's so beautiful. Spanish is nowadays the most common third language to study in schools here, more teenagers chose Spanish than German even. Spanish is a great language too but I'm glad I studied French, I imagine it's stuck somewhere inside my brain.

Nike wrote: "Irphen wrote: "Nike wrote: "Wow, I have never even heard of The Ice People before, when I now looked it up I became soo excited - I just HAVE to read it! But ... here's the problem. It has been tra..."

Aucun problème, je peux être très patiente :-) Actually it is "offre", "offrir" is the verb form, but you were close! ;-)

I like learning languages too, but it isn't always easy especially because as you see you don't necessarly have someone to pratice with :-/ This happenned to me with Italian which I studied a little bit a couple of years ago and I forgot totally now...
How funny Spanish is that popular in your schools, I would never have guessed that! Here Spanish is also popular at high school but then again we are close to the Spanish border and in the north of France German is a more popular chose.

I'm having some trouble finding something for N1, the classic involving music... If ayone has suggestions I would be glad to check them out!

Irphen wrote: "I'm having some trouble finding something for N1, the classic involving music... If ayone has suggestions I would be glad to check them out!"

I will probably read The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason. I believe it can counts for a Modern Classic.

Je vais probablement lire l'Accordeur de piano. Je crois qu'est-ce que c'est une classic moderne.

Okay, that's enough French for now! But I didn't check a single word or spelling up so on the one hand I'm glad I managed to create some sort of translation from the English sentence and on the other hand I really don't know how wrong or how right I were. Lol!

(I did understand though that i mixed French and Spanish - again. I think I adjusted the word for read from Spanish to French now. Something felt off. )

Irphen wrote: "I'm having some trouble finding something for N1, the classic involving music... If ayone has suggestions I would be glad to check them out!"

Mann's Doctor Faustus is a popular choice. I'm personally doing The Tin Drum by Günter Grass. There's also Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera and Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.

@Jillian: Thank you for sharing, I will go check that out! :-)

@Nike: Thanks for the suggestion^^ And your french sentence was quite right! Bravo! :-) Just a little errors it would be "je crois que c'est un classique moderne" and you didn't mixe up with spanish "lire" is french for read, in spanish it would be "ler" which is a bit similar indeed so I can understand the confusion ;-p

@Aubrey: Thank you for all those suggestions! I will go check them out :-)

@Matt: Thanks! :-)

Irphen wrote: "@Jillian: Thank you for sharing, I will go check that out! :-)

@Nike: Thanks for the suggestion^^ And your french sentence was quite right! Bravo! :-) Just a little errors it would be "je crois qu..."

Good, but I did write Leer first and then changed it. It just didn't feel right. I remember when I studied French and Spanish a long time ago. I had two classes of each every week but one of the days I had both Spanish and French classes and directly after one another. Those days I mixed especially the short words completely so my sentences became totally off - =D.
Like and (et/y), yes (oui/si), is, (est/es) and so on. But now I feel how fun it would be to start repeating those languages again. I tried the other night to start reading a novel in Spanish that I bought a few years ago. "La Guerra del Fin del Mundo" by Mario Vargas Llosa. Almost 600 pages with very small font size so I guess it's equivalent with 900 pages. In a language I haven't used for 18 years. It took me twentyfive minutes to get through the first one and a half pages ... then I told myself "Please .... you are waaay behind with your reading schedule Nike, do you really believe it's a good idea starting reading Spanish now and starting out with this book? Maybe you should start with a childrens book? And why don't you start with French instead?" I shall try and listen to myself this time. I do have "Un petit prince" in French. I've read it in Swedish a long time ago and it would be a much better start to for me.

Wow that must have been definitly confusing indeed!
Haha, I know what you mean when you talk about directly reading quite complicated books when it's a language you haven't used for some time. XD I've done that in Spanish as well with The Shadow of the Wind after not using Spanish for 3 or 4 years. It turned out not too bad but given you haven't praticed for a bit longer maybe you would be better of indeed in reading something easier ;-) Le Petit Prince seems indeed like a good idea for French, and if you end up reading it this year just give a call on me I might join you with that :-)

I keep seeing The Night Circus even though it was published after 2000. Are you going off piste, lol. I did! I changed a few categories.

Lena wrote: "I keep seeing The Night Circus even though it was published after 2000. Are you going off piste, lol. I did! I changed a few categories."
Well it did win a foreign litarary prize so it's still more or less in the category! ;-p But anyway, from time to time when may adjust a bit the categories I think, there is no harm in it ass still most of them are classics. Also not sure I will really end up reading it for that category cause I'm still thiking about the books I will read for my bingo challenge ( and also the other ones ) so I might juste change it along the way^^

I think Katy has confirmed in the past that as long as a category for bingo does not have the word classic in it, its fine to use a newer book that fits the description. Hope that helps, and good luck with your challenge!

Milena wrote: "I think Katy has confirmed in the past that as long as a category for bingo does not have the word classic in it, its fine to use a newer book that fits the description. Hope that helps, and good l..."
Well that's perfect then! ;-) And thank you!^^

There are alraedy quite a few months that passed by of 2022 and I'm not making much progress. I think I won't complete the bingo challenge this year either. But anyway, it has always been more about the pleasure of reading so we will see how I come along :-) Maybe I can at least make a two rows! ;-)

Irphen wrote: "There are alraedy quite a few months that passed by of 2022 and I'm not making much progress. I think I won't complete the bingo challenge this year either. But anyway, it has always been more abou..."

I hope to manage reading one row at least but I think that will be it! =D I'm hopeless when it comes to this!

Nike wrote: "I hope to manage reading one row at least but I think that will be it! =D I'm hopeless when it comes to this!"

Haha, I know what you mean! Somehow it is really very hard for some of us to stick to reading plans XD I'm not being very strategic either in my reading progress so I think one or with a lot of luck two rows will be my maximum as well ;-p
Lets hope luck is on our side! ;-)