Sunday, October 3, 2010

October 2010 Reviews and Wrap-Up


Post your October reads in the Mister Linky below using the following format:

Your name: Trish (Wuthering Heights)
Your URL: http://www.lovelaughterinsanity.com/2010/06/wuthering-heights-emily-bronte.html

If you are posting a wrap-up to the challenge, enter in "Your Name": Trish (Wrap-Up)




Congratulations on coming to the end of the challenge--whether you read one book or several.  This will be my last year hosting the challenge and I appreciate those who joined again this year.

Happy reading!

Friday, September 3, 2010

Sept 2010 Reviews


Post your September reads in the Mister Linky below using the following format:

Your name: Trish (Ethan Frome)
Your URL: http://www.lovelaughterinsanity.com/2009/11/ethan-frome-edith-wharton_930.html

If you don't have a blog, simply fill out the name portion with the title of the book you read and put http://classics2008.blogspot.com in the URL field.



Do you have a favorite Classic from the challenge yet? Let us know in the comments how it's going!!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

August 2010 Reviews


Post your August reads in the Mister Linky below using the following format:

Your name: Trish (Wuthering Heights)
Your URL: http://www.lovelaughterinsanity.com/2010/06/wuthering-heights-emily-bronte.html

If you don't have a blog, simply fill out the name portion with the title of the book you read and put http://classics2008.blogspot.com in the URL field.

Do you have a favorite Classic from the challenge yet? Let us know in the comments how it's going!! Also, if you've finished the challenge, feel free to put your wrap-up post in the linky below: Your Name (Wrap-Up)

Thursday, July 1, 2010

July 2010 Reviews and Brothers Karamazov Readalong


Post your July reads in the Mister Linky below using the following format:

Your name: Trish (Wuthering Heights)
Your URL: http://lovelaughterinsanity.blogspot.com/2010/06/wuthering-heights-emily-bronte.html

If you don't have a blog, simply fill out the name portion with the title of the book you read and put http://classics2008.blogspot.com in the URL field.

Happy reading!



In other classics reading news, I've coerced Jill from Fizzy Thoughts to host a readalong of Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. It’s the Brothers Karamazov Ceilidh!


The readalong starts July 10th and we plan to finish at the beginning of October--a perfect fit for the Classics Challenge time frame. If you're interested, pop by Jill's Brothers K post for all the details and sign up. It's sure to be the highlight of the summer (or so we tell ourselves).

Friday, June 4, 2010

June 2010 Reviews


Eeeep! Apologies for being a few days late. Guess summer is here!

Post your June 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 and put http://classics2008.blogspot.com in the URL field.

Do you have a favorite Classic from the challenge yet? Let us know in the comments how it's going!!

Friday, April 30, 2010

May 2010 Reviews


Post your May 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 and put http://classics2008.blogspot.com in the URL field.

Happy reading!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

April 2010 Reviews


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 and put http://classics2008.blogspot.com in the URL field.

Happy reading!


Sunday, February 21, 2010

Classics Challenge 2010: Sign Ups

Welcome to the Classics Challenge
April 1 - October 31, 2010


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.





Thank you Veens for the lovely buttons!!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Classics Challenge 2010

Coming Soon:

Classics Challenge 2010
April 1-October 31, 2010


Look for sign-ups around February/March!

If you're interested in designing a button for next year's challenge, email me at trishsreadingnook at gmail dot com. :)

2009 Future Classic Picks

*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

Sunday, October 4, 2009

October Reviews


Post your October 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've finished the challege and want to write a wrap-up post, you can also leave your link here. Put (Wrap-Up) after your name.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

September Reviews


Post your September 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!

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

August Reviews


Look what's back--Mister Linky! Post your August 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!

(**Also, a lot of you signed up after Mister Linky went down--feel free to add your link again) Yay Mister Linky!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

July Reviews


Post your July reviews in the comments below using the following format:

Your name and title of book: Trish -Middlemarch
Your URL: http://trishsbooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/middlemarch-george-eliot.html

Since Mister Linky is down, I'll add them to this post so you have a list to click through.

JULY REVIEWS:
1. Veronica - Agnes Grey
2. TheBlackerSheep - Agnes Grey
3. Sequestered Nooks - Atonement
4. Laurie - Oliver Twist
5. Sequestered Nooks - Little Dorrit
6. Mari - Persuasion
8. CB James - Les Miserables
9. Architha - Agnes Grey
10. CB James - The Epic of Gilgamesh
11. Traci - Howards End
12. Book Psmith - Coming Up for Air
13. Trish - Tom Sawyer
14. Traci- Howards End
15. CB James - The Epic of Gilgamesh
18. Dolce Bellezza - Candide
21. TheBlackSheep - The Pickwick Papers
22. Sharone - A Room with a View
23. Sharone - Atonement
25. TheBlackSheep - To the Lighthouse
26. Sequestered Nooks - 1984
27. Book Psmith - North and South

Monday, June 1, 2009

June Reviews


Post your June reviews in the comments below using the following format:

Your name and title of book: Trish (Middlemarch)
Your URL: http://trishsbooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/middlemarch-george-eliot.html

Since Mister Linky is down, I'll try to add them to this post so you have a list to click through.

JUNE REVIEWS:
1. Michelle - Life of Pi
2. Melanie - Agnes Grey
3. Shona - Vanity Fair
4. TheBlackSheep - Saturday
5. TheBlackSheep - The Secret Garden
6. Shona - Lady Susan
7. Molly@Bookhopping - Northanger Abbey
8. TheBlackSheep - David Copperfield
11. Amanda - Atonement
12. Melody - Persuasion
13. Joanna - A Study in Scarlet
14. Joanna - The Handmaid's Tale
15. Christina - Pride and Prejudice
16. Between the Covers - Bleak House
17. Melissa (Book Nut) - Atonement
18. Becky - Middlemarch
21. Clueless - Franny and Zooey
22. Haiku Amy - Little Men

Happy reading!

Friday, May 1, 2009

May Reviews

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!


Wednesday, April 1, 2009

April Reviews

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!

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Classics Challenge 2009 Sign Ups

Welcome to the Classics Challenge
April 1 - October 31, 2009

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)
Last year 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 last year, see HERE. To start off the list, I'm going to suggest Atonement by Ian McEwan.

Leave your suggestions 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. But, people are always asking me where to start with classics. In the comments below, I'd love if you would give a 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 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy.

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.



Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Classics Challenge 2009: Coming Soon!

CLASSICS CHALLENGE 2009 COMING SOON
Button Created by Nymeth
Button Created by Bethany

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Classics Challenge 2008 Winner

I am thrilled to announce the winner of the drawing: NYMETH!!


Again, thank you thank you thank you to everyone who participated. I'll be hosting the challenge again on this same blog, so be watching in the next month or so for more information. The challenge will either start in March or April, so I hope you'll come back and join us!
Until then...Happy Reading.