Each year Sarah Reads Too Much hosts the Back to the Classics Challenge. I need very little prodding to read classics, but I always participate in this one because I love the categories she comes up with! I completed the challenge and below are my books with links to each review. I earned three entries by finishing all six main categories and the six optional categories.
I read some really fascinating books for this challenge. I encountered Hemingway in the unexpected gender-bender The Garden of Eden and comtemplated solitude with Thoreau in Walden. I considered the morality debates in The Brothers Karamozov and the impact of societal expectations in Native Son. It really was a wonderful collection of books!
I’d like to say a huge thank you to Sarah for hosting this. It’s a lot of work to coordinate something like this. She even has individual pages for each category to link up, etc. I’m a list maker, so I love being able to check these off my list as I go through the year. Thank you Sarah!
THE CATEGORIES
The Required Categories:
A 19th Century Classic – Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
A 20th Century Classic – The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
A Pre-18th or 18th Century Classic – Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
A Classic relating to the African-American Experience – Native Son by Richard Wright
A Classic Adventure – Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
A Classic that features an Animal – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
A Classic that features an Animal – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Optional Categories:
Re-read a Classic – Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Russian Classic – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
A Russian Classic – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
A Classic Non-Fiction title – Walden by Hendy David Thoreau
Classic Children's/Young Adult title – Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Classic Children's/Young Adult title – Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Classic Short Stories – A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
6 comments:
good job!! I only read the first six categories!
I need lots of prodding to read classics. Some years I read none...
Great job! I failed my reading goals this year, but it's nice to see others accomplish theirs. I want to do the classics challenge now!
Thanks guys! I do very few challenges each year, but I love this one!
Congrats on finishing! Vanity Fair is one of my favourites, as is Three Musketeers and Persuasion. I'm really ashamed of not having read The Brothers Karamazov, but I have a love/hate relationship with Dostoyevsky: I loved Idiot and I hated (and DNF) Crime and Punishment. But they say third time's a charm, so I'll try it!
Ekaterina Egorova - I loved The Brothers K much more than Crime and Punishment, so I'll have to try the Idiot.
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