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Allison wrote: "It looks like I've read a book for every year until, weirdly. 1944. Several in 45 and 43, but none in 44"I was OK for 44 and could have chosen
Dragonwyck
Forever Amber
Friday's Child
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Green Dolphin Street
I used to read a lot of what was called Historical Fiction (this later morphed into the soft porn Historical Romances whereupon I gradually stopped reading it. I remember really enjoying all four of those books and I reread Friday's Child recently and it still was a good read
The ones I’ve found for 1944 are Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord and the Enid Blyton children’s book The Island of Adventure.
This was a fun question! I was surprised that I did have books for every year since I was born (1971) because I didn't realize how many pre-GR reads I'd added, including back to books read grade school. My first 'missed' year is 1940. But I'll be checking to see if there's more I can add to my Read pile on the past year's lists.
Becky wrote: "I'm not quite 1030, but sometimes I feel like it."
Tell me about it... :-(
I am far too negligent in maintaining my GR bookshelves to be certain, but this is quite likely. After all, 1957 was not that long ago...
Stephen wrote: "I haven’t found anything for 1846."The Count of Monte Cristo
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are first translated into English
The Three Musketeers was first translated into English in 1846
I’ve read The Three Musketeers, but it doesn’t seem fair to count the translation.
Though huge, The Count of Monte Cristo is a must read!
I think I started it once a long time ago, but for some reason didn’t get very far.
I was surprised to only be missing 2023 and my birth year...I'm sure someone read me a book in my first year...wonder if that counts as pre-audible or perhaps not since I don't remember it! My oldest book in GR (from 1400) is one of my faves though technically it's a newer translation: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience
Stephen wrote: "I’ve read The Three Musketeers, but it doesn’t seem fair to count the translation."it's kinda a new book as most of the translations took a few liberties with the text.
CBRetriever wrote: "Stephen wrote: "I’ve read The Three Musketeers, but it doesn’t seem fair to count the translation."it's kinda a new book as most of the translations took a few liberties with the text."
The thing is, I counted original publication of a few other foreign language books. I shouldn’t do both.
I am missing 3 years: 1967, 1975 and 1981. Interestingly enough, if my reading this year goes as planned, I will knock out 67 and 75 without having planned for it (by "it" I mean reading a book published for every year I have been alive)...
Yes, original pub date of course, not edition pub date! :o(Unless someone wants to do it differently, which is also fine :D)
I thought this was supposed to be books read in years you have been alive. Apparently we have a few vampires who were alive in the 1800's :)
Haha yes, but some of us like to always go the extra mile and/or create more challenges for ourselves :D(And tbf, I did ask for dead people and time travellers to participate, so we don't know when anyone was born!)
I wanted to see how far back I could go. I’ll probably read Poor Folk at some point, which would give me 1846, but I’m in no hurry.
Stephen wrote: "I wanted to see how far back I could go. I’ll probably read Poor Folk at some point, which would give me 1846, but I’m in no hurry."That is crazy impressive!
I find it a little surprising, but there it is.
The oldest books on my read list are Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - Pub 1513 and Kramer and Sprenger's The Malleus Maleficarum Pub 1485.No way i'am going to be able to fill in all the years up until today :)
1666 for The Blazing World and Other Writings is my earliest. There are probably short stories/novellas/poems that were older like Grendel
No. I’ve been reading in earnest and for leisure since I was 17 y/o. Many years have elapsed since then lol.
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Tom Swift for me. They were all from the same publisher.