November's Autumn

I really like this idea and am working on my response.

I was wondering what questions you would be asking. I am starting with some Jane Austen books that I haven't read before.

I have Thomas Mann and Death in Venice. The normal review of the book is here

I've now posted my response:

It's here.

Here is mine: http://hauntingserenade.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/january-prompt-a-classics-challenge-anne-bronte-agnes-grey/

I hope I did this right? I plan on reading her other novel soon because Agnes Grey was so good.

I loved these questions! Here is my post!

http://renees-reads.blogspot.com/2012/01/wuthering-height-classics-challenge.html

Best,
Angela Renee

Here's my challenge.

http://bookwormbitesback.blogspot.com/2012/01/hello-classics-challenge.html

I posted on Shakespeare
http://www.aesoptooz.com/2012/01/04/classics-challenge-january-all-about-the-author/

Thanks for hosting this challenge!

I'm wrapping up Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe:
http://www.exurbanis.com/archives/5776

As you will discover from reading my post, your prompts are going to get me in trouble. ;-)

http://dearhelendearjohn.blogspot.com/2012/01/victor-hugo-classics-challenge-january.html

I posted my answers!

acollectionofbooks.blogspot.com

I'm still writing my response and won't be done for a couple of days, but for now, if you want to save yourself some work, there's a thing called linkytools that would allow participants to enter their own links to appear on the main page, so you don't have to do it yourself! (Another blog that hosts writing challenges uses it, which is how I know about it.)

Great question!
My post is here:
http://she-is-too-fond-of-books.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-january-prompt.html

Thought my comment was posted this morning; anyway...this was a great idea. I have been learning alot and enjoying my journey in classic literature along the way! My post is up at http://jensbookden.com

Thanks for hosting this challenge!

This is fun! I plan a separate post for each level over the month. Here's the first...

http://cat-bookmagic.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-january-prompt.html

Thank you everyone for your participation! I'll be commenting on everyone's posts soon!

@Kelly Thank you for the link. :) Unfortunately only the first 30 days are free and it's a bit more than the service I currently use: Blenza's Mr. Linky. Who only lets you use one at a time until you upgrade, which I plan to do soon.

@Jennifer I remember your comment. I'm sorry I was in a bit of a rush this morning and must have clicked delete instead of publish. My apologies.

My post this month is on Silas Marner, by George Eliot.

http://janegs.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-george-eliots-silas.html

I have really enjoyed reading everyone else's posts. So interesting, and good prompts.

Here's my response http://kafkatokindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-january-prompt.html

Its so interesting to read everyone's responses. The prompts are a great idea.

Here are my answers to this month's questions:

http://shereadsnovels.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/a-classics-challenge-january-charlotte-bronte/

Thank you for doing this. I'm reading The Great Gatsby and have written a little here:

http://fleurfisher.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/a-classics-challenge-in-january-talking-about-the-author/

Here's my responce to the prompt:

http://irememberdelight.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-prompt-classics-challenge.html

I hope to get my review out soon too.

I've totally finished my response, though it's the same as yours--George Elliott. Love her stuff. Here's my link.

http://bookinamonthmom.blogspot.com/


--Heather Day Gilbert

I think I just commented but realized I spelled Eliot wrong in George Eliot! ARGH!

I absolutely LOVE this prompt!!! You are having us write exactly what intrigues me, as a reader -- the background information. I can't wait to read everyone else's posts, and explore my own. I ♥ this idea. :-D

Okay, here's my post, on Victor Hugo:

http://jillianreadsbooks2.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/january-prompt-a-classics-challenge-victor-hugo/

Thanks for doing this, Katherine!

Love the prompt, I found out so many interesting things! Here is my post http://thebook-garden.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-prompt-for-classics-challenge.html

I'm rather late with the whole signing up thing but this looks like a great challenge so I hope you don't mind if I jump on the bandwagon. Thanks very much for organising it.

My post on Sarah Orne Jewett is here: http://oldenglishrose.dmi.me.uk/2012/01/06/a-classics-challenge-january-prompt/

Now to investigate everyone else's!

Here's mine on Aeschylus' Oresteia: http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-classics-discussion.html

What a great way to start! My post can be found here:

http://blog.chainreader.com/2012/01/daniel-defoe-classics-challenge-january.html

It's a little late but have decided to sign up for this. Can't resist it. Will write a post and link it tomorrow.

Here is my answer to the January prompt question. Thanks for coming up with the questions and for hosting.

Judaye @Let Me Tell The Story!

http://iwannalearntowrite.blogspot.com/2012/01/color-purple-by-alice-walker.html

I am reading Animal Farm this month, so have done my post on George Orwell: http://myjournalofbecomingawriter.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge.html

This was fun! I did mine on Edith Wharton -

http://thebluebookcase.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-ingrid-encounters.html

I am reading The Scarlet Letter and chose to do Nathaniel Hawthorne:

http://jaynesbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-classic-challenge-nathaniel.html

Yay! So excited about this challenge. I posted my first response at: http://wp.me/p1ipWo-fS.

I'm reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison this month. Here is my response to this month's prompts:

http://btweenthecovers.com/2012/01/09/classics-challenge-january-ralph-ellison/

Hi Katherine,
I just want to say I love your approach to this challenge. Such fun!

I posted about Shakespeare - here's the link:

http://everybookandcranny.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/classics-challenge-discussion-the-author/

This is my review - sorry, I'd written most of it before reading the prompt, this month:
http://the-book-addict.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-silas-marner-by.html

Can I make a suggestion? I think it would be great if you included the author and maybe the novel in the link list. I'm having fun browsing the blogs, but it would make finding a particular book post easier.

Been a little creative but don't know what to say about Dickens that won't be old at the moment!

http://secludedcharm.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-january-prompt.html

@Jedediah: :) I was working on exactly that-- including the author, I won't be including the novel.

Although I am reading Emma at the moment decided I would write about Dumas who is next up on my pile:

http://danitorres.typepad.com/workinprogress/2012/01/a-few-things-about-alexandre-dumas.html

Katherine: cool, thank you!

I've posted (slightly belatedly) on Anne Bronte.

My post is here:
http://diaryofadomesticgoddess.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/classics-challenge-january-prompt/

I'm so glad that you're giving us all month to post! Here is mine:
http://tbr313.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-january-with.html

Here's my post on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

http://iamalivephotos.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-strange-case-of-dr.html

Here's my author post:

http://sueysbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-january-prompt.html

Thanks again for this fun challenge!

And here are my answers about John Knowles:

http://irregularsilsbee.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-prompt-answers-for-classics.html

This is great fun! Thanks again for the challenge.

I went with the Level 2 prompt and have discussed Charles Dickens' use of characterization in the novel Bleak House. I'm a huge fan of characterization and am very much enjoying his literary style!

Dickens: The Master of Characterization

Here's my post at Sparks' Notes on EM Forster: http://lindseysparks.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-em-forster.html

My second novel this month is Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

My first novel for the challenge is Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. My post is here:

http://estellasrevenge.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-monday-and-classics-challenge.html

And my third is A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

Although I am about 2/3 of the way through the book I have done my post on John Steinbeck.

http://bookworldinmyhead.blogspot.com/2012/01/classics-challenge-january-prompt.html

My first book for the challenge was Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

For January's "The Author" post, I've answered the questions for Margaret Mitchell. :)

http://roofbeamreader.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/classics-challenge-january-margaret-mitchell/

Great questions for the beginning of the year. Here is my answer for Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens:

http://50yearproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/is-dickens-too-dramatic/

I posted about Albert Camus: http://www.fizzythoughts.com/2012/01/albert-camus.html

I read Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph this month. I couldn't find a great deal of information on her, so I mostly wrote about the book itself, which does tell you something about the sort of person she must have been, I think:
http://geraniumcatsbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/constant-nymph-by-margaret-kennedy.html

I did one on Anthony Trollope: http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-classics-discussion-anthony.html

Very, belatedly, here is my post on Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent. I got in a bit of muddle with the prompts, and everything sort of merged in together... I'll do better next time! http://goo.gl/H4BBY

I'm finally up with my post on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, here!

My post on Orwell's 1984 can be found here: http://emilybarton.blogspot.com/2012/01/1984-by-george-orwell.html.

America's First Bestseller: Charlotte Temple (1794) by Susanna Rowson.

http://readramble.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/first-american-bestseller-charlotte-temple-1794/

I'm so behind! Here's my Level 1 post about Louisa May Alcott!

Here is my January Prompt for Elizabeth George Speare:

http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-prompt-for-2012-classics.html

Here is my post about H.G.Wells - hope I have it right....
http://myrandrspace.blogspot.com/2012/01/world-of-words-wednesday-first-men-in.html

Sorry for the late post. I posted about Leo Tolstoy on my blog Closet Classicist here:

http://www.closetclassicist.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-prompt-anna-karenina.html

Jenna

Here's my post for the month!

http://enduringtrigirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-classic-read-jane-eyre-and.html

Thanks for hosting this challenge! It's great to explore other's choice of literature and thoughts on their reads.

I thought I had posted my prompt here but I suppose I forgot! So here it is:

http://inlibrisveritas.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/classic-challenge-january-prompt-h-g-wells/

Hi: I posted about George Eliot here: http://yearofreadingmybooks.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/happy-belated-birthday-edith-and-top-ten-and-teaser-tuesday/

Happy reading, Ruby

I already posted the link to my January prompt, but here is the link to my review:

http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.com/2012/02/book-review-witch-of-blackbird-pond-by.html

Completely forgot to add my post! Here it is: Anthony Trollope.

Here is my post at my new lit blog (instead of at Enduring)

http://ahopefulheroine.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-classic-read-jane-eyre-and.html