Classics: We love them, we hate them, now we are going to challenge ourselves to read more of them.
**Choose Your Level (Keep reading for Bonus)
1. Classics Snack - Read FOUR classics
2. Classics Entree - Read FIVE classics
3. Classics Feast - Read SIX classics
**Rules/Guidelines
1. Cross-posting with other challenges is allowed (and encouraged!)
2. Audiobooks are fine
3. Re-reads are acceptable, BUT books must be finished after April 1st to count for the challenge
4. Lists don't have to be set in stone; you can change your selections at any time
5. Have Fun!!
6. You do NOT need a blog to participate.
**Bonus!! (Optional)
In the past two challenges we compiled a list of books that we think might be considered classics one day. I've wiped out that old list so we can start fresh, but to get an idea of what others suggested in the past, see HERE and HERE. To start off the list, I'm going to suggest Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
Leave your suggestion (one please) in the comments below. If you want to participate in the bonus round, choose a book from the list and read that in addition to the classics you have picked (e.g., if you are doing the classics snack, you will read five books total and so on).
I realize this means you may have to wait to make your list or leave the bonus book as "tentative" if you choose to participate in the bonus round, but I'm hoping this is a modern twist on the old classics challenge.
What is a Classic?
Am I going to define what a classic is? Nope! There are lots of definitions offered on the Internet, but we all have different opinions so don't stress too much. In the comments below, I'd love if you would give a (one please) recommendation for a classic you would suggest to beginners or apprehensive readers--maybe something lighter or something engaging. I'll compile a list. I'm going to suggest Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
Trish, you write a lot! Just tell me what I need to do!
1. Sign up below using Mr. Linky. Preferably link to your list for the challenge, but I'm not going to make you. :P If you don't have a blog, just enter your name.
2. Give a (one) suggestion for a "future" classic in the comments below
3. Recommended a (one) classic for "beginners" in the comments below
4. Let me know if you have any questions
5. Get reading those dang classics!!
Also - I'd love to know how you heard about the challenge.
Coming Soon:
*A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
*A Thousand Spendid Suns - Hosseini
*After Dark - Murakami
*Angela's Ashes - McCourt
*Atlas Shrugged - Rand
*Atonement - McEwan
*Blindness - Saramago
*Cloud Atlas - Mitchell
*Disgrace - Coetzee
*Dune - Herbert
*Empire Falls - Russo
*Ender's Game - Card
*Fingersmith - Waters
*Half of a Yellow Sun - Adichie
*Harry Potter - Rowling
*I Capture the Castle - Smith
*Jacob I Have Loved - Paterson
*Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell - Clarke
*Life As We Knew It - Pfeffer
*Little Bee - Cleave
*Lolita - Nabokov
*Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden
*Memory Keeper's Daughter - Edwards
*Middlesex - Euginides
*My Name is Asher Lev - Potok
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey
*Penelope - Kaye
*Peony in Love - See
*Persepolis - Satrapi
*Possession - Byatt
*Remains of the Day - Ishiguro
*Revolutionary Road - Yates
*Saturday - McEwan
*Siddharta - Hesse
*Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut
*Steppenwolf - Hesse
*The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Chabon
*The Autobiography of God - Lester
*The Blind Assassin - Atwood
*The Blue Flower - Fitzgerald
*The Bluest Eye - Morrison
*The Cider House Rules - Irving
*The Corrections - Franzen
*The Fourth Turning - Strauss and Howe
*The Giver - Lowry
*The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
*The Kite Runner - Hosseini
*The Known World - Jones
*The Penelopiad - Atwood
*The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
*The Savage Detectives - Bolano
*The Secret History - Tartt
*The Things They Carried - O'Brien
*True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi
*Underworld - DeLillo
*Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Murakami
Post your May reads in the Mister Linky below using the following format:
*5/28/09 - Mr. Linky is down. Please copy and paste your url into the comments section. I apologize for the trouble. I'll try to add the links once Mr. Linky is back up again. (You can leave a direct link as well, but please also leave the url as exampled below).
Your name: Trish (The Woman in White)
Your URL: http://trishsbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/woman-in-white-wilkie-collins.html
If you don't have a blog, simply fill out the name portion with the title of the book you read leaving the URL field blank.
You guys are doing awesome!! Happy reading!
Post your April reads in the Mister Linky below using the following format:
Your name: Trish (Tess of the D'Urbervilles)
Your URL: http://trishsbooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/tess-of-durbervilles-thomas-hardy.html
If you don't have a blog, simply fill out the name portion with the title of the book you read leaving the URL field blank.
Happy reading!
Classics: We love them, we hate them, now we are going to challenge ourselves to read more of them.Trish, you write a lot! Just tell me what I need to do!
1. Sign up below using Mr. Linky. Preferably link to your list for the challenge, but I'm not going to make you. :P If you don't have a blog, just enter your name.
2. Give a suggestion for a "future" classic in the comments below
3. Recommended a classic for "beginners" in the comments below
4. Let me know if you have any questions
5. Get reading those dang classics!!
Also - I'd love to know how you heard about the challenge.
I am thrilled to announce the winner of the drawing: NYMETH!!
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