GOAL: 50 books
The Gentle Challenge hosted by Silvia Cachia & You Might as Well Read
1. Smith: A Land Remembered (my new home: Florida)
2. Virgil: The Aeneid (difficult) (UR)
3. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (youth) (RR)
4. McCullough: John Adams (recommended) (UR)
5. Kirk: Roots of the American Order (monster unread of 25 years!) (UR)
6. McCullough: The Pioneers (judge by cover) (UR)
7. Barakat: Balcony on the Moon (different "nationality": Palestinian Folktale)
8. Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader (reread) (RR)
9. Eliot: Middlemarch (classic) (UR)
10. (new by 3 years...will find new bk from the library)
11. (borrowed...from the library)
12. Sinclair: The Jungle (blue topic) (UR)
The Classics Challenge hosted by Tea & Ink Society
1. January: Clark: The Ox-Bow Incident (used bookstore find)
2. February: Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (Russian) (RR)
3. March: Parkman: The Oregon Trail (pioneer) (UR)
4. April: Selden: Cricket in Time Square (turf: NYC) (RR)
5. May: Emerson: Emerson Collection (supposed to read in school) (UR/RR some)
6. June: Muir: My First Summer in the Sierra (nature) (UR)
7. July: Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (sci fi) (RR)
8. August: Bainton: The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (read author once) (UR)
9. September: Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI or WWII) (RR)
10. October: Austen: Sense and Sensibility (Austen) (RR)
11. November: Wordsworth (Romantic poetry collection)
12. December: Bulfinch: Bulfinch's Mythology (Medieval) (UR)
WEM Plays from The Well-Educated Mind Reading Challenge
1. Aeschylus: Agamemnon (UR)
2. Sophocles: Oedipus the King (UR)
3. Euripides: Medea (UR)
4. Aristophanes: The Birds (UR)
5. Aristotle: Poetics
6. Everyman
7. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (UR)
8. - 10. Shakespeare: Richard III (UR) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (RR) / Hamlet (RR)
Miscellaneous Must Reads
1. Kovaciny: My Rock and My Refuge
2. - 3. Morris: Theodore Rex (UR)(CR) / Colonel Roosevelt (UR)
Faith-based/Devotionals
1. Vincent: A Gospel Primer for Christians (UR)
2. Cleator: Always and in Everything (UR)
3. MacArthur: Truth Triumphs (UR)
4. McGee: Thru the Bible with Vernon McGee (UR)(CR)
5: Spurgeon: Morning and Evening (UR)
Christmas Reads
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I'm am excited to start a new year of possibilities. Have you read any of these? Any favorites?
The choices look great! 25 monster shelf! That’s my favorite category and I’m looking forward to seeing what people read in that. I’m also going to do the classic challenge. Cheers to the New Year! Silvia
ReplyDeleteI think that book (The American Order) has been on my unread shelf the loooooongest! I need to get that read this year, once and for all! Happy New Year, Silvia!!
DeleteI saw your comment over on Reading Freely and hopped on over. Before I start commenting much (I can't seem to keep my mouth shut on blogs), do you have an About page, or something similar? I don't want to put my boot in mouth if I can avoid it (it'll happen, guaranteed, but the less the better, you know? :-) )
ReplyDeleteCheers!
I don't think I use the About page, other than what I have on my sidebar: "About the blogger," if that's what you mean. Or what did you want to know? I have been blogging since 2012, under a different name -- and I remember you from years ago!
DeleteAhhh, I didn't see that sidebar item. I was looking for something like that, maybe expanded a bit. But since there isn't any, I'll just look at my boot very carefully before taking a step, hahahahaa.
DeleteUh oh :-D Was that on booklikes or blogspot? If you'd rather not say, that's fine too. Chances are good I might not remember your other name anyway. There's been a lot of water under the bridge over the years.
If I ever have any specific questions, I'll be sure to ask before making any assumptions.
Cheers!
I started my blog as An Experiment with The Well-Trained Mind, but then I switched to A Great Book Study. We only chatted once or twice on each other's blogs bc I think we have very different genre interests. I'm more classics, biographies, and histories, and I think you were more sci-fi and modern --- but correct me if I am wrong. LOL!
DeleteI'm definitely more SFF than biographies and histories, so that doesn't surprise me at all. I am definitely more well rounded now with a lot more classics under my belt and a deliberate bent to reading more to be more well read. I do plan on sticking around :-D
DeleteOne question:
How often do you post a month, on average?
Cheers!