Three Men in a Boat illustration by 20th century artist Paul Rainer |
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Monday, March 18, 2024
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Victorian Reading Challenge 2024
A Pleasant Corner by John Callcott Horsley, 1865 |
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Tea and Ink Society 2024 Classics Reading Challenge
I really love all of the wonderful offerings from the Tea and Ink Society, and I am excited to be participating in their 2024 Classics Reading Challenge. I'm taking a break from Saturday spring cleaning this afternoon to plan out some of my reads for the challenge. (Today's tea: Bengal Spice with milk and honey.) Here are the categories:
February: A Nordic or Scandinavian classic
March: A novel with a place or house name in the title
April: An epistolary novel
May: An L. M. Montgomery novel or short story collection
June: A novel or short story collection from the American South
July: A utopian or dystopian novel
August: A children’s classic
September: A pastoral novel
October: A spooky classic or short story collection
November: A classic recommended by a friend
December: A Shakespeare play
Friday, March 15, 2024
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
A painting of the Dutch school |
Thursday, March 14, 2024
100 Classics in 5 Years
I have joined the Classics Club Challenge. My goal is to complete 100 classics in 5 years, by March 14, 2029. I will blog about each book as I finish it, updating the list as I go. Here's my list:
Books Completed: 21/100
1. Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
2. Armadale - Wilkie Collins
3. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
4. Middlemarch - George Eliot 8/31/24
5. Adam Bede - George Eliot 12/2/24
6. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
7. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
8. Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey
9. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
10. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
11. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
12. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
13. Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell 4/18/24
14. Kim - Rudyard Kipling 3/17/24
15. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 10/16/24
16. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
17. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
18. A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy
19. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy 3/15/24
20. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
21. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome 3/21/24
22. Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
23. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
24. Aurora Floyd - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
25. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
26. East Lynne - Mrs. Henry Wood
27. The Odd Women - George Gissing
28. New Grub Street - George Gissing
29. Red Pottage - Mary Cholmondeley
30. Deerbrook - Harriet Martineau
31. Olive - Dinah Mulock Craik
32. Hester - Mrs. Oliphant
33. Miss Marjoribanks - Mrs. Oliphant
34. The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
35. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
36. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
37. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
38. The Golden Ass - Apuleius 11/9/24
39. An Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede
40. Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
41. Vera - Elizabeth von Arnim 7/22/24
42. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
43. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole 10/4/24
44. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 12/20/24
45. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
46. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan 10/6/24
47. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
48. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
49. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
50. Evelina - Frances Burney 4/25/24
51. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
52. The Awakening - Kate Chopin 6/19/24
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
55. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 4/26/24
56. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
57. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
58. Kipps - H.G. Wells
59. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne 12/12/24
60. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
61. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
62. The Trial - Franz Kafka
63. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
64. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
65. The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
66. The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
67. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
68. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
69. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay 3/30/24
70. The Book of Margery Kempe - Margery Kempe
71. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
72. A Philosophical Enquiry - Edmund Burke
73. Cindie - Jean DeVanny
74. The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
75. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
76. Trilby - George du Maurier
77. Faust - Goethe
78. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
79. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
80. The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West
81. The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
82. Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets - Thomas De Quincey
83. The Monarch of the Glen - Compton Mackenzie
84. In the Mountains - Elizabeth von Arnim
85. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson 10/16/24
86. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
87. Piers Ploughman - William Langland
88. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 7/20/24
89. The Song of Roland
90. The History of Rasselas - Samuel Johnson 10/11/24
91. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
92. He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
93. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
94. Parzival - Wolfram von Eschenbach
95. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
96. The White People and Other Weird Stories - Arthur Machen
97. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals - Dorothy Wordsworth
98. Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
99. The Lark - E. Nesbit
100. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg 9/11/24