Please link your reviews for your 20th Century Classic here. This is only for the 20th Century Classic category. All books in this category must have been published between 1900 and 1969 to qualify as classics (except for posthumous publications. If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (The Grapes of Wrath)."
I read A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes. An extremely wild and weird book and one I won't easily forget!
ReplyDeleteFirst classic down! 11 more to go. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Karen, just linked In This House of Brede (1969)
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ReplyDeleteHi Karen! I just linked to my review of Elizabeth Bowen's Friends & Relations. I've been meaning to read it forever and the Challenge finally got me going! Now on to the next category!
ReplyDeleteI have visited Australia several times and have spent quite a lot of time in Melbourne so I was happy to find a well-regarded 20th Century Classic that delved into the history of that area in almost Dickensian detail and richness.
ReplyDeleteOops. Looks like I posted two for 20th century. Hmm, I'll need to recategorize something.
ReplyDeleteFinished Theater by W. Somerset Maughan! :)
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I greatly enjoyed reading CS Lewis' Space Trilogy again!
ReplyDeleteI read 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' for this one. Not a favourite of mine, but interesting and short.
ReplyDeleteThe Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch--half my categories done! And only a little after half the years gone!
ReplyDeleteI read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Disturbing but somehow still good.
ReplyDeletePilgrim's Inn... I didn't realize it was part of a series before reading it, but I didn't care for it much, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI already posted a trilogy in this category and now I get to post a second "trilogy:" Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K Le Guin. I have trilogy in quotations because it's just the first 3 books of a longer series and not actually a trilogy. All three were wonderful sci-fi world building stories!
ReplyDeleteAll Quiet on the Western Front, a short novel that packs a helluva punch.
ReplyDeleteVonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" is my 20th century classic. And with it's wealth inequality topic, it's still relevant in the 21st century.
ReplyDelete"I was young yesterday." This quote from "Perelandra" sums up well how I felt after finishing this book. It certainly gave me much to think on.
ReplyDeleteOops! I linked my review on the wrong page. Could you remove my link #57 for Murder on the Orient Express? I've got to go put this review under a different category.
ReplyDeleteCatherine Middleton. I have read The African Queen by C S Forester for 19th century classic
ReplyDeleteSerendipity here again with yet another link mishap. Number 59 is the correct one.
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