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message 1: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 06:13AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments After failing a few challenges I set up for myself last year, I'm ready to try again! Getting a late start on this, but I'm feeling pretty good about what I've read so far this year. Hopefully they will cross a few off the list.

My Baker's Dozen Challenge for 2022:

#1: New & Old TBR
#2: Second Place or Worse
#3: Decade/Century/Millennium
#4: Members' Choice Challenge
#5: Short Story Challenge
#6: 2022 Group Reads Challenge
#7: Expand Horizons with New Authors
#8: Does Time Make a Difference?
#9: Fiction/Nonfiction
#10: Diving into the Half Millennium with the Difficulty Turned Up
#11: Old and New Together
#12: A-Z Author Challenge
#13: A-Z Title Challenge


message 3: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 07:09AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #2: Second Place or Worse:

New School:
1. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
2. Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

Old School:
1. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Short Story/Novella:
1. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
2. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Quarterly Long Read
1. Possession by A.S. Byatt


message 5: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 07:32AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #4: Members Choice


1. 19th Century
2. 20th Century
3. 21st Century Potential
4. Current or Past Read
5. An Unread Author
6. Diversity Classic
7. SciFi
8. Book Published in Another Language
9. Banned Book
10. Nonfiction
11. Mystery/Crime
12. Horror or Humor


message 6: by Georgia (last edited Jan 21, 2022 06:06AM) (new)
Jan 20, 2022 07:33AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #5: Short Story

2/24 Read

1. Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft
2. The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft


message 7: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 07:34AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #6: 2022 Group Reads Challenge

0/12 Read


message 8: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 07:35AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #7: Expanded Horizons with New Authors

1/6 Read

1. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag


message 11: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 08:07AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #10: Half Millennium Challenge

TBD


message 12: by Georgia (last edited Sep 29, 2022 12:37PM) (new)
Jan 20, 2022 08:42AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #11: Old and New Linked


Category 1: Trials
Old School: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
New School: The Trial by Franz Kafka

Category 2: Mythology
Old School: The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
New School: Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Category 3: Gothic Women
Old School: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
New School: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Category 4: Philosophy
Old School: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
New School: Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

Category 5: Taoism
Old School: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
New School: The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff


message 13: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 08:44AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #12: A-Z Author Challenge


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Jan 20, 2022 08:45AM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Challenge #13: A-Z Title Challenge


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message 15: by Terris (new)
Jan 20, 2022 09:47AM

Terris | 4027 comments I like your lists, Georgia! I've read several of yours. You have a lot of good reading to look forward to :)

Three on your lists I am also reading this year:
Possession
The Merchant of Venice
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

I will be watching for your reviews and ratings on these to see what you think!

Happy Reading in 2022! :)


message 16: by Georgia (new)
Jan 20, 2022 12:57PM

Georgia Bell (geobells) | 19 comments Terris wrote: "I like your lists, Georgia! I've read several of yours. You have a lot of good reading to look forward to :)

Three on your lists I am also reading this year:
Possession
[book:The Merc..."

Thank you so much! There's a lot of well-known classics I have yet to get under my belt, so I'm using this challenge to do so!

I hope you enjoy those three books as well!


message 17: by Terris (new)
Jan 20, 2022 04:07PM

Terris | 4027 comments Georgia wrote: "Terris wrote: "I like your lists, Georgia! I've read several of yours. You have a lot of good reading to look forward to :)

Three on your lists I am also reading this year:
Possession..."

Yes, this challenge always pushes me to read classics that I need to get to!


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