I’m joining a new challenge! This one will help me read some books that I’ve been meaning to read but just need that extra push to get going. It’s the Really Old Classics Challenge hosted by Rebecca. Sign up here and post reviews here. The rules:
1. Choose how many Really Old Classics you’d like to read by the end of July 2009, from 1 to 100.
2. Read that number of Really Old Classics by the end of July 2009. If you finish, pat yourself on the back.
I will commit myself to read two of the following really old classics:
The Iliad, by Homer
The Odyssey, by Homer
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Aeneid, by Virgil
If I read more, great. If not, I won’t feel like a failure. :)
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Speaking of failures, I’m going to have to call it quits on the The Wind-Up Book Chronicles Challenge. I have not made it through any of my four selections. I guess there’s a reason I didn’t finish the books the first time through. Anyway, I appreciate the theme of the challenge and may attempt it again should 3M at 1morechapter.com decide to host it again. But, for this year, these books will likely remain unfinished:
Emma, by Jane Austen
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder
Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
Have you had to call it quits on any challenges?
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The Old Classics one seems like a real challenge, as half of the books might not even be available. Maybe I’ll sign up and some some Cicero and other Roman classics, as I have copies of Loeb classics.
I haven’t called it quits on any challenges yet, but I just started blogging this summer, so we’ll have to see what happens. I have never made it all the way through Sophie’s World either, but I loved Reading Lolita in Tehran.
Jessica, your list looks a lot like mine! I always wanted to read Utopia since watching Ever After…
Matt, many of the books are online at Project Gutenberg, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find many of them.
Jessica: I “failed” in my first challenge (came up one book short), the Southern Reading Challenge sponsored by Maggie @ Maggie Reads, but I won a tin of pecans, so it wasn’t a loss. Plus I met a fellow book blogger who is one of my favorites.
Speaking of challenges: on the Lit Flicks Challenge, I’m switching my list as I go…I’ll probably have about 10 before I’m done. The Freedom Writers Diary just came in on interlibrary loan, and it looks like I’ll be adding that.
Jessica – I’m impressed with your reading selection for the old classics challenge – I’m not sure I could get through one of those in the time allowed!
I have Sophie’s World on my TBR shelf – I’ve heard good things about it but not sure I’ll get to it this year.
Jessica, I sent you an email the other day but not sure if you got it. You won The Graveyard Book from my giveaway, I posted about it in the comments section of that book review. Please email me your address to cvincent68 (at) comcast (dot) net so that I can send you your prize. And congrats!!!
Hello,
I’m also taking part in this challenge! All four of those books are on my list, as well as Metamorphoses and The Canterbury Tales. Hm, maybe I’m overestimating myself – six books suddenly seems like too much.