{"id":5940,"date":"2017-12-10T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2017-12-10T06:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:03:12","slug":"back-to-the-classics-challenge-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/back-to-the-classics-challenge-2018","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Classics Challenge 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BackI’m happy to be participating again in the Back to the Classics Challenge, hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate<\/a>. The idea of the challenge is to read six to twelve classics that fit predetermined categories. This year’s categories are a perfect fit for many of the books I’ve already got planned, so I’m going to go for all twelve. I think most of the categories speak for themselves, but there are a couple I want to mention.<\/p>\n

First, for the “classic that scares you” I’ve chosen\u00a0The Violent Bear It Away<\/em> by Flannery O’Connor. It scares me for a couple of reasons. I really want to like Flannery O’Connor, since she is a highly regarded Catholic author, and I’m afraid I won’t like her writing. She is from the south, and I’ve not had good luck reading writers from the south. I’ve tried reading O’Connor several times and could never quite get interested enough to finish. I’m committed to finishing\u00a0The Violent Bear It Away<\/em>, but I still worry I won’t like it.<\/p>\n

Next, the “re-read a favorite classic” category was easy since I’m hosting the\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> Chapter-a-Day Read-along<\/a>, and\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> is definitely one of my favorite classics.<\/p>\n

Finally, I was surprised to discover that I had three books lined up for 2018 that could have met the “classic with a single-world title” category: She<\/em> by H. Rider Haggard, Lilith<\/em> by George MacDonald, and Ivanhoe<\/em> by Sir Walter Scott. I wound up choosing\u00a0Lilith<\/em> since I needed the other two for other categories. Here’s my full list, but I’ll be recording my progress on my 2018 Reading Challenges page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. A 19th century classic:\u00a0<\/strong>Oliver Twist<\/em> by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  2. A 20th century classic:<\/strong> Brideshead Revisited<\/em> by Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n
  3. A classic by a woman author: <\/strong>Little Women<\/em>\u00a0by Louisa May Alcott<\/li>\n
  4. A classic in translation:\u00a0<\/strong>Twenty Years After<\/em> by Alexandre Dumas<\/li>\n
  5. A children’s classic:\u00a0<\/strong>The Secret Garden\u00a0<\/em>by Frances Burnett<\/li>\n
  6. A classic crime story:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Crime and Punishment<\/em> by Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/li>\n
  7. A classic travel or journey narrative:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u00a0<\/em>by H. Rider Haggard<\/li>\n
  8. A classic with a single-word title:\u00a0<\/strong>Lilith<\/em> by George MacDonald<\/li>\n
  9. A classic with a color in the title:\u00a0<\/strong>The Black Arrow<\/em> by Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li>\n
  10. A classic by an author that’s new to you:\u00a0<\/strong>Ivanhoe<\/em> by Sir Walter Scott<\/li>\n
  11. A classic that scares you:\u00a0<\/strong>The Violent Bear It Away<\/em> by Flannery O’Connor<\/li>\n
  12. Re-read a favorite classic:\u00a0<\/strong>Les Mis\u00e9rables <\/em>by Victor Hugo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m happy to be participating again in the Back to the Classics Challenge, hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate. The idea of the challenge is to read six to twelve classics that fit predetermined categories. This year’s categories are a perfect fit for many of the books I’ve already got planned, so I’m going to go for all twelve. I think most of the categories speak for themselves, but there are a couple I want to mention. First, for the “classic that scares you” I’ve chosen\u00a0The Violent...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Back to the Classics Challenge 2018","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1002,1006,873],"class_list":["post-5940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-2018-reading-challenge","tag-back-to-the-classics-challenge","tag-reading-challenges"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/back_to_the_classics_banner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1xO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}