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2022 CHALLENGE BUFFET -A Bakers Dozen

Let’s try again. Although I couldn’t finish any of the challenges in 2021I found a lot of great books thanks to the buffet.

2022 will be busy. In the spring we are facing a big move back to our home country after living elsewhere for several years. In summer we are expecting our third child... Will I have time to read…? I hope to find a few quiet hours away from the fun chaos. But I'll be using the challenge again this year more as a rough guideline and will certainly have a lot of fun with it. Thanks for creating it again. :)

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge
Read: 1/12

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Armadale 1866
2. Madame Bovary 1856
3. Framley Parsonage 1860

1900-1999/New School
4. The Pillars of the Earth 1989
5. Le Mystère de la chambre jaune 1907
6. Hopscotch 1963

My Wild Card Six
✔ 7. The Gambler 1866
8. Lady Audley's Secret 1962
9. Das kleine Gespenst 1966
10. Sense and Sensibility 1811
11. Pavilion of Women 1946
12. The House of Mirth 1905

Alternates
1. Le Capitaine Fracasse 1963
2. The Servant of Two Masters 1745
3. Housekeeping 1980

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

New School
1. Housekeeping 1980
2. Hopscotch 1963

Old School
1. Lady Audley's Secret 1862
2. Uncle Silas 1864

Short Story/Novella
1. The Servant of Two Masters 1745
2. Der Sandmann 1816

Quarterly Long Read
1. Armadale 1866

Challenge #3a - Decade Challenge

1860: Framley Parsonage
1861: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1862: Lady Audley's Secret
1863: Le Capitaine Fracasse
1864: Uncle Silas
1865: Our Mutual Friend or The Notting Hill Mystery
1866: The Gambler and Armadale
1867: Peer Gynt
1868: Slaves of Paris: Caught in the Net & The Champdoce Mystery
1869: Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances

Challenge #3b - Century Challenge - Women as main characters
1810: Sense and Sensibility
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1830: Eugénie Grandet
1840: Vanity Fair
1850: Madame Bovary
1860: Armadale
1870: Far From the Madding Crowd
1880: The Portrait of a Lady
1890: Effi Briest
1900: The House of Mirth

Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge

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Challenge #8 – Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?

1966 (To Read: 5 out of 10)
1. Silence by Shūsaku Endō
2. Third Girl by Agatha Christie
3. Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
4. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
5. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
6.The Secret of Skeleton Island by Robert Arthur
7. Das kleine Gespenst by Otfried Preußler
8. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
9. This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
10. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

1866 (To Read: 5 out of 10)
1. Armadale
2. The Gambler
3. The Dead Letter
4. Wives and Daughters
5. Crime and Punishment
6. Miss Marjoribanks
7. Goldelse
8. The Islanders
9. Kapalkundala
10. The Toilers of the Sea

Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Category 1: Is About a Fallen Woman
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Category 2: A Vampire-Story
Old: Une vieille maîtresse
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Category 3: Coming of Age
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Category 4: A Family Saga
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Category 5: Guilt
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Category 6: Love Affairs
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