2017 Challenges

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 I joined the Classics Club in 2015; making this YEAR 3.

My FIFTY original LIST is viewable by clicking here.  Or click on this progress sub-page…

 

√ What’s in a Name 10-2017 nnn(My announcement post) √ –

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• √ Title with a NUMBER not number-spelled-out – 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad JAN
• √ A building – Home by Marilynne Robinson (on my shelf) APR
  
• √ Title with an “X” – The Nix MAR
  
• √ A compass direction – Kitchens of the Great Midwest JUNE
  
• √ Item of cutlery – The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean APR
  
• √ Alliteration – Going Gray by Anne Kreamer JAN
  

The 2017 challenge site: Wormhole

Classics Challenge – (My post) √

1.  _ A 19th Century Classic – A Trollope or a Hardy?
   
2. √  A 20th Century Classic – Richard Stark’s The Hunter
   
3. _ A Classic by a Woman Author  – Woolf’s Orlando
   
4. _ A Classic in Translation –  The Three Muskateers or Love in a Fallen City
   
5. _A Classic pub’d before 1800 – Candide
6. _ A Romance?– Jude the Obscure
   
7. _ A Gothic  – Jane Eyre
8. _ A Classic a Number in the Title – One Fine Day
   
9. _ An Animal in the Title – The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
10. _ A Place Setting you’d like to visit – would like to choose a Canadian
    
11.  _ Award-winning Classic – Pulitzer?
12.  _ A Russian classic. Memories by Teffi, as suggested by Ruthiella. Or Dead Souls by Gogol?
    

POETRY!  100 poems Serena’s Challenge

                My Dedicated Tracking Page : 2017 Poetry Challenge

IRL “Neighborhood” Book Club
Jan – off
Feb –  All the Light You Cannot See
Mar – A Man Called Ove
Apr – Summer of My German Soldier
May –
Jun –

Jul –
Aug –
Sep –
Oct –
Nov –
Dec –

IRL “Scuppernongians” Book Club
Jan – The Mothers
Feb – Save Me by Kristyn Kubek Lewis
Mar –The Little Paris Bookshop
Apr – none
May – Behind Her Eyes
Jun –
Jul –
Aug –
Sep –
Oct –
Nov –
Dec –

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Personal Challenge #1 – LOANED TO ME Books

An Unlikely Angel by Ashley Smith – from my neighbor K.
√ Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli – from Nancy Jan 2016
Two Rivers by T.Greenwood – from Holly
A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard – another from Holly
Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter – again, from Holly
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder – WON in a giveaway by Trisha

Personal Challenge #2 – AUTHORS I MUST READ
√Tom Perotta – The Abstinence Teacher
Zetta Elliot – A Wish After Midnight
Tracy Kidder
Tayari Jones
Connie Willis – Either Doomsday Book or To Say Nothing of the Dog

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Readalongs:

√ The Bone Clocks – Jan, Trollope – Feb, Ulysses – Feb

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