I am excited to sign-up for the Back to Classics Challenge for 2021! It's a year long challenge with the goal of reading 12 different classical books for 12 different categories. Curious? Click here for more information on the challenge.
Here is my (tentative) reading list for the challenge:
1. A 19th century classic: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
2. A 20th century classic: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 3. A classic by a woman author: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4. A classic in translation: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 5. A classic by BIPOC author: Ramayana 6. A classic by a new-to-you author: Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 7. New-to-you classic by a favorite author: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 8. A classic about an animal, or with an animal in the title: The Call of the Wild by Jack London 9. A children's classic: Heidi by Johanna Spyri* 10. A humorous or satirical classic: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 11. A travel or adventure classic (fiction or non-fiction): Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 12. A classic play: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles *originally The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
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I'm reading Les Miz this year, too, but for 1000 Books Project @ Gather Together and Read, from June through December. I feel like I'll want six months to read it. Several favorites of mine are Pride & Prejudice, Don Quixote, and Tess. Do you plan to read Books I & II for Don Quixote? In Cold Blood is really well done, and it gave me nightmares. It was very effective.
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E.M.
1/3/2021 07:18:46 pm
Thank you! I'm really excited about this challenge. I, too, feel that Les Miz might take me a while so it'll probably be one of the books I tackle first. Same with Don Quixote since my version has both Part I & II. But I'm really excited about it. I feel that Tess will probably break my heart, but it's one of the books on my last that I want to read the most.
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1/23/2021 07:29:29 am
I loved Les Mis! It was daunting at first because of its length, but it really helped me to switch back and forth between audiobook and physical copy (as long as both are unabridged... it can get very confusing and hard to find your place otherwise! Ask me how I know, haha). The Tale of Peter Rabbit is darling. I just read it for the first time in August because I was planning a Peter Rabbit- themed first birthday for my son and felt like I should probably read the whole thing rather than relying on my memory of the snippets of book from when I was a child.
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E.M.
1/30/2021 10:43:10 am
I am deeply excited about Les Mis! The length is a little daunting, but I'm hoping to read it over the course of the year so it doesn't seem to overwhelming.
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