Hi, folks!

It’s less than twenty days until the end of 2018 and I am making my reading plans for next year. As I need to catch up with my Classics Club list, I decided to sign-up for two related challenges that might inspire me to read those books:

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Back to the Classics 2019

This is a challenge hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate to encourage readers to tackle the classic books we’ve been procrastinating to read. Full details of the challenge are here.

Below are the categories for 2019, and my books for each:

• The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard (1862)

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)

• Evelina by Fanny Burney (1778)

• Lavinia, by George Sand (1833)

• Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons (1932)

• The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (1928)

• Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1871)

• Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor (1952)

• The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)

• Letty Fox: Her Luck by Christina Stead (1946, Australia)

• Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (1894, Germany)

• The Rover, by Aphra Behn (1677, in: Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works, Aphra Behn)

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2019 Victorian Reading Challenge

This challenge is hosted by Becky at Becky`s Book Reviews, to promote Victorian literature. The goal is to read a minimum of 4 Victorian books in 2019, and you can choose between four options. Full details of the challenge are here.

My choice is option A, the bingo card (first line, horizontal):

• Free choice: Belinda, by Rhoda Broughton (1883)
• Any Brontë sister: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (1847)
• Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
• George Eliot: Romola, by George Eliot (1863)
• Free choice: Hester, by Margaret Oliphant (1883)
• Other possible free choices:
  • The Beth Book by Sarah Grand (1897)
  • Marcella, by Mary Augusta Ward (1890)
  • Moths, by Ouida/ Maria Louise Ramé (1880)
  • Red Pottage, by Mary Cholmondeley (1899)
  • Aurora Leigh, by Elizabeth Barret Browning (1856)

That’s all for now, folks. Are you making any plans for 2019?

Yours truly,

J.