It's a rare moment when I have competed some of my reading challenges this early! Usually it finishes near December. It might have been because I'm less competitive this year, or maybe that this Covid-19 pandemic changes my priorities. Either way, I'm proud of myself that I have read AND blogged every book I have intended to read this year, and I still have more time to read whatever I want (mostly Christmas books! (^__^)
Right now I still have 2 books to read and blogged until December, so for now I will wrap up only the first three challenges that I have completed so far. The rest will follow around December.
2020 Victorian Reading
Challenge
Host: Becky @ Becky's Book Reviews
Duration: January 2020 - December 2020
Goal: Quarterly Victorian Challenge - min. 4 books
Books read:
1. Agnes Grey (Anne Bronte)
2. The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
3. Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
4. Silas Marner (George Eliot)
Back to the Classics Challenge
2020
Hosted by: Karen @ Books and Chocolate
Duration: January 2020 - December 2020
Goal: Nine categories
Twitter: @Fanda
Books read:
1. 19th Century Classic: Hard
Times (Charles Dickens)
2. 20th Century Classic: This
Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
3. Classic by a Woman Author: The
Song of the Lark (Willa Cather)
4. Classic in Translation: The
Fortune of the Rougons (Emile Zola)
5. A Genre Classic: The
Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
6. Classic with Name in the Title: Agnes Grey (Anne Bronte)
7. Classic with a Place in the Title: The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith)
8.Classic About a Family: One
Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
9. Classic Adaptation: The The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
Hosted by: Gilion @ Rose City Reader
Duration: January 2020 - January 2021
Goal: Four Star (Business Traveler) - 3 books
Books read:
1. Agnes Grey (Anne Bronte) - United Kingdom
2. Dubliners (James Joyce) - Ireland
3. The Fortune of the Rougons (Emile Zola) – France