17 posts tagged classics challenge

I'm not usually a big classics reader but when making my list for the 888 challenge I decided I should be reading more classics. So my list is already made for me. I have from July 1 to Dec 31, 2008 to read at least 5 of these books (I'm doing option 1) plus one book from the modern classics list

Jane Austen is my favorite author when it comes to the classics. Her writing is timeless. It's delicate, romantic & sometimes humorous. All these years later you can still read her work and enjoy it. 'Persuasion was written between August, 1815 and August, 1816.

I wanted to post a quick note here to let everyone know that I will not be posting much for a little bit for a number of reason.  My laptop has crashed and I must be off to buy a new hard drive for it this evening so the wonderful people at Apple can fix it for me.  And secondly, I’m moving back to

Oh yeah, another challenge! But to be honest I haven't joined too many and I was actually looking forward to something like this, to give me an excuse to read all those classics that are calling me from the shelves of bookshops and libraries (yes, because I don't already own them, but they are urging me to read them so badly) so here we are.

I was going to wait...but I can't!!! Click the button below to learn more about this challenge (and please forgive my wordy description) Thanks to everyone again and again for all of their suggestions and support. You guys are the best!

by Kate Chopin The title of this book made me think of new beginnings, spring and hope; like awakening from a deep sleep and opening your eyes, seeing what is before you. What I discovered while reading was not an awakening by my definition, but rather a dark and gloomy depression.

Rating: 9/10 Published: 1954 Number of pages: 176 Started: 7 January 2008 Finished: 8 January 2008 Summary (taken from Dymocks website): Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth, but he is not alone, for every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire and they are hungry for Neville's blood.

Russian Reading Challenge #2. “The vilest thing of all about it is that in theory love’s supposed to be something ideal and noble, whereas in practice it’s just a sordid matter that degrades us to the level of pigs, something that is vile and embarrassing to remember and talk about.

Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)by Leo Tolstoy The day I never thought would come is finally here. Today I closed Anna Karenina FOREVER! The force-fed nightmare is over. While there were certainly beautifully written passges (helped by the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation, no doubt) I can’t ever imagine reading this book ever again.

I set myself quite a number of reading challenges this year. I met my main goal of 100 books for the year, and I completed the 2nds challenge. For the rest, I’ve decided to make my goals slightly more reasonable, partly so that I’ll have room for some of the other interesting challenges that have cropped up.