The Challenge:
Read one Willa Cather novel each month in order of publication from January through December 2012.
The Reading List:
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January: Alexander’s Bridge (1912)
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February: O Pioneers! (1913)
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March: The Song of the Lark (1915)
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April: My Ántonia (1918)
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May: One of Ours (1922)
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June: A Lost Lady (1923)
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July: The Professor’s House
(1925) -
August: My Mortal Enemy (1926)
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September: Death Comes for the Archbishop
(1927) -
October: Shadows on the Rock (1931)
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November: Lucy Gayheart (1935)
- December: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
Guidelines for this Challenge:
1. Read all 12 of Willa Cather’s novels in order of their publication, one per month, from January 2012 through December 2012.
2. Sign-up/express your interest in participating in the comments
section below. If you find this challenge after January feel free to
jump in.
section below. If you find this challenge after January feel free to
jump in.
3. If you have a blog please post the badge/image on your site with a link back to this post for others to find.
How this will work:
1. I’ll write a post on the first day of each month reminding everyone
what book is up for the month and will provide a little background or
interesting information about the novel.
what book is up for the month and will provide a little background or
interesting information about the novel.
2. I’ll post my thoughts about the book on the third Monday of each month.
3. Share your thoughts each month about the novel–however brief or detailed–in the comments section of my post on the novel.
4. If you have a blog, provide the link to the post that you write for
your blog in the comments section for others to find. OR, if you don’t
have a blog but post reviews on Goodreads, LibraryThing, or elsewhere,
provide the link to your review in the comments section.
your blog in the comments section for others to find. OR, if you don’t
have a blog but post reviews on Goodreads, LibraryThing, or elsewhere,
provide the link to your review in the comments section.
F. Scott in 2012 hosted by Literary Lindsey
Lindsey Says:
“Before I started this blog, I toyed with the idea of reading the entire
cannon of an author in a year. I couldn’t figure out quite who I wanted
to read, so I didn’t pursue this in 2011. Recently, though, I figured
out who I wanted to read, or rather re-read. F Scott Fitzgerald is one
of my favorite authors and I haven’t read some of his works in almost a
decade.”
cannon of an author in a year. I couldn’t figure out quite who I wanted
to read, so I didn’t pursue this in 2011. Recently, though, I figured
out who I wanted to read, or rather re-read. F Scott Fitzgerald is one
of my favorite authors and I haven’t read some of his works in almost a
decade.”
Here is the schedule:
January
This Side of Paradise
February
Flappers and Philosophers (stories)
March
The Beautiful and the Damned
April
Tales of the Jazz Age (stories)
May
The Vegetable (play)
June
All the Sad Young Men (stories)
July
The Great Gatsby
August
Tender is the Night
September
Taps at Reveille (stories)
October
The Last Tycoon (unfinished)
November
Save the Last Waltz
December
Catch Up!
At the risk of being obvious, whoa, that's a lot of Cather and Fitzgerald.
I know! I can't promise that I'll get to all of them but there are several on both lists I've been wanting to read.
I'm so excited you will be reading F. Scott with me. You are so prepared for reading in 2012 with all of these challenges!
I know, sometimes I think I may have gone overboard but the buttons are just so pretty… Thanks for hosting I'm looking forward to it.
As I own the three Library of America volumes of Willa Cather, this is a splendid opportunity to join the read-a-thon. The arrangement in LOA is somewhat different; Early Novels starts with The Troll Garden, which is a collection of stories. Alexander's Bridge is in a volume called Stories, Poems and Other Writings. Curious, eh?
I hope you pop over and check out Fitzgerald Musings. I stop in here and I look forward to hearing what you have to say while you reread Fitzgerald. Really I look forward to it!
http://fitzgeraldmusings.blogspot.com/
-Laurie