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Complete


B
1 - Published in the pre-1800s: Oroonoko by Aphra Behn.
2 - Fantasy: Virago: Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
3 - Less than 5,000 Ratings on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble.
4 - Disability as Theme and/or Disabled Author: A Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.
5 - Long Read - More than 600 Pages: The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir.

I
1 - Nobel Laureate Author - Not Just For Lit:The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf.
2 - Sci-Fi: Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1): Re-colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing.
3 - Translated from Language Other Than English/Not Originally Written in English: A Paixão Segundo G. H. by Clarice Lispector.
4 - Queer Theme and/or Author: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
5 - Less than 1,000 Ratings on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: Girls Against God by Jenny Hval.

N
1 - Mystery/Thriller: The Only Child by Mi-ae Seo.
2 - Published in the 1900s: Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker.
3 - Free Space: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
4 - Potential Classic Published After 1970: Beloved by Toni Morrison.
5 - Nonfiction: The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield.

G
1 - Published in the 1800s: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell.
2 - Less than 10,000 Ratings on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates.
3 - Author Born in Latin America NYRB Classics: Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin.
4 - Play 1000 Guardian: The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction by Radclyffe Hall
5 - Short Story Collection: Like Life by Lorrie Moore.

O
1 - Poetry: Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath.
2 - Author Born in Africa: Ventos do Apocalipse by Paulina Chiziane.
3 - Author Born in Asia: The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
4 - Novella - Less than 200 Pages: July's People by Nadine Gordimer.
5 - Published in the 2000s: A Purga by Sofi Oksanen.

Bingo Alternates
1000 Guardian: The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction by Radclyffe Hall

1001 BBYD: The Namesake
1000 Guardian: The Well of Loneliness
100 Classics by Women
100 Classics by POC: Quicksand
100 Modern Library
Virago
NYRB Classics: Notes of a Crocodile
New Directions
Dalkey

Quest for Women COMPLETE
Century: 10/10



1900s: 3 Lives by Gertrude Stein.
1910s: The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West.
1920s: Passing by Nella Larsen.
1930s: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
1940s: The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen.
1950s: Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
1960s: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.
1970s: Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion.
1980s: Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter.
1990s: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

Welcome to the challenges, Nocturnalux. I hope they go as well for you as, if not better than, they did last year.

Thanks, Aubrey! This challenge is giving me the motivation to wait a couple of days- until the new year is upon us- before embarking on these books.

Otherwise I would end up reading a bunch of them simultaneously as tends to happen. The challenge allows myself to pace my reading better.

Glad to hear it. The reading system I've set up for myself so I don't end up neglecting any portion of my library too much (I tend towards 50+ years old books for various challenges once the new year rings in) means there's very little overlap between what I'm reading for the rest of 2020 and what I'm gearing up for in 2021, but it's still nice to see everything laid out. If only I didn't feel pressured to finish more non-challenge reading before the year is through...

I know what you mean about wanting to finish some books before the year is done. I currently have two books and one manga volume that I really want to get out of the way so as to start 2021 with a clean slate, so to speak.

With libraries closed, I may have to switch around some titles...but I hope they'll open soon enough.

Nocturnalux wrote: "With libraries closed, I may have to switch around some titles...but I hope they'll open soon enough."

Hopefully. How did the Acker go?

Nocturnalux wrote: "With libraries closed, I may have to switch around some titles...but I hope they'll open soon enough."

I read Portugal is now one of the countries with the highest infection rate. Take care. Thanks to still working part-time as a hospital nurse I was able to get vaccinated; I've been giving vaccine to other hospital workers one or 2 days a wk. I hope to be giving it to others soon.

Aubrey wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "With libraries closed, I may have to switch around some titles...but I hope they'll open soon enough."

Hopefully. How did the Acker go?"

...And things just took a take for the nightmarish, if I make it out of this alive, I'll count myself happy.

Acker was something of a mixed bag. I admired the way the book juggled radically differing styles and literary approaches but I also thought it was trying too hard to shock. Which, with me, tends to backfire.

George P. wrote: "I read Portugal is now one of the countries with the highest infection rate. Take care. Thanks to still working part-time as a hospital nurse I was able to get vaccinated; I've been giving vaccine to other hospital workers one or 2 days a wk. I hope to be giving it to others soon."

You know things are very bleak when my country makes it to the abroad.
We are all in complete lockdown, schools will not open on Monday, and everything other than absolutely essentially services are closed. Restaurants and take-away only and on a limited schedule along with grocery stores that will also close earlier.

The police has taken to the streets, too, so this is escalating and fast.

And we got the presidential elections in two days' time...I will not be voting, it pains me, but the venue is an elementary school and I know the venue was not disinfected. And I was recently made aware that my neighborhood is essentially all infected so even stepping outside is now dangerous.

Bloody churches were open this whole time, too.

Sorry for the rant but the situation is dire. Utterly dire. It can- and will- get worse.

And done! It was a wild and fun ride, that's for sure.

Congrats on finishing! Thoughts on Oronooka & Three Lives? I read both a couple yrs ago and had mixed reviews.

Both were intensely racist. Oroonoko is more understandably so considering when it was written but I find it very difficult to give Gertrude Stein the same leeway: the second story about the black woman is one of the most horrifyingly racist things I ever read.

Yep I had that reaction too. I started Three Lives having read some of Stein’s shorter, more experimental works (the review of Picasso’s life, Tender Buttons, etc.), and after this one took a pause on her. Not what I was expecting at all.

There are interesting formal experimentation in Three Lives, especially in the way repetition is patterned throughout but it only made it worse. The main character's "blackness" is insisted upon, while directly linked with negative traits, every other sentence.

I thought the other two stories were interesting takes on the kind of desperation women experienced but the racism of the second one was so overwhelming that it is quite difficult to even consider the rest!

Congratulations on finishing. Can you share a couple of highlights / recommendations? Which titles stuck with you?

I really appreciate your comments on Three Lives, one I've been wanting to read for years but may keep putting off. Congratulations on completing your challenge!

Jen wrote: "Congratulations on finishing. Can you share a couple of highlights / recommendations? Which titles stuck with you?"

I will have to give some thought to this, I'm planning to go through the whole challenge and highlight some titles that stood out to me.

Nocturnalux wrote: "I will have to give some thought to this, I'm planning to go through..."

Thanks, I'll check back!