I continue cutting back on challenges, but one I'm not cutting back on is:
Gilion's European Reading Challenge
Read five (or more) books set in unique European countries. Gilion's original challenge post is here.
My sign up is here.
The books:
1.) Stephen Budiansky/Journey to the Edge of Reason (Austria)
2.) Goethe/Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Germany)
3.) Konstantin Stanislavski/My Life In Art (Russia)
4.) Virginia Woolf/The Waves (U.K.)
5.) Carlo Levi/Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italy)
6.) Serhiy Zhadan/The Orphanage (Ukraine)
7.) Ana Blandiana/The Architecture of Waves (Romania)
8.) Josef Škvorecky/The End of Lieutenant Boruvka (Czech Republic)
9.) James Baldwin/Giovanni's Room (France)
10.) Kurban Said/Ali and Nino (Azerbaijan)
11.) Sholom Aleichem/Wandering Stars (Moldova)
12.) J. G. Farrell/Troubles (Ireland)
13.) Kurban Said/The Girl From The Golden Horn (Bosnia)
14.) Tom Reiss/The Orientalist (Turkey)
15.) Henrik Ibsen/Rosmersholm (Norway)
The Classics Club
Books I've read this year for my ongoing Classics Club challenge:
1.) Goethe/Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
2.) Virginia Woolf/The Waves
3.) James Baldwin/Giovanni's Room
4.) George Bernard Shaw/Major Barbara
and that completes my first Classics Club list!
From a not-yet-organized new Classics Club list:
1.) Konstantin Stanislavski/My Life in Art
2.) Anna Seghers/The Seventh Cross
Link to last year's omnibus challenge post.
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