Janet's Reading Through The Decades Challenge **Completed**

[chaliepud]

Well done Janet! What would you say the highlights of the challenge have been, what gems did you uncover that you wouldn' have come across otherwise?

[Janet]

Thanks.

 

I'm not sure there were any gems that I was unlikely to have read without this challenge - I managed to choose the majority of them from my Wish List.

 

There were a couple I really struggled with though - and would have given up on if it wasn't for this challenge. Notably A Room With A View by E M Forster (which disappointingly I found to be very dull - I'd been looking forward to it), The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit (ditto - and yet the Railway Children is one of my all-time favourite children's books/films) and the last two of the challenge - The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London and the E E Cummings book, both of which were very dry.

 

But overall it was an enjoyable experience.

 

I think the one I wouldn't have picked up and did enjoy was Pollyanna by Eleanor Parker (I think Claire might have suggested that one?)

[bree]

I have just finished my last book for this challenge!

 

 

36 books read = 100%

 

 

How wonderful Janet!

Did you find any of the books "ahead of their time" ?

[lauraloves]

Congratulations Janet It must feel great to finish a long-term reading challenge

[Janet]

How wonderful Janet!

Did you find any of the books "ahead of their time" ?

Thanks. It's an interesting question, and one I've been pondering all afternoon, but having thought about it, I don't remember any of them being ahead of their time.

 

Congratulations Janet It must feel great to finish a long-term reading challenge

Thanks - it really does feel good.