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Starting in 2012, I’ll be tackling several (usually 6) major works by a single Great Author who I’ve never (or only rarely) encountered – and it’ll be one author a year for ten years.

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Hemingway 2016

December 29, 2016 by Drew

HEMINGWAY 2016 editions: Scribner paperbacks The Sun Also Rises – 4 out of 5, 2/10-2/13 The Old Man and the Sea – 5+ out of 5, 4/5-4/6 To Have and Have Not – 4 out of 5, 6/27-6/29 A Farewell to Arms – 4 out of 5, 8/13-8/16 In Our Time – 3.5 out of 5, 9/12-9/17 For Whom the Bell Tolls – 3 out of 5, 12/21-12/23 Hemingway is one of those authors who you’re familiar with even if you haven’t […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, Features, Fiction, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway 2016, In Our Time, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, The Ten Year Catch-Up, To Have and Have Not

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Woolf 2015

December 29, 2015 by Drew

WOOLF 2015 editions: Penguin Hardback Modern Classics Mrs. Dalloway – 5+ out of 5, 3/2-3/9 To the Lighthouse – 4.5 out of 5, 5/17-5/24 The Waves – 3.5 out of 5, 9/5-9/20 A Room of One’s Own / Three Guineas – 4 out of 5, 10/30-11/13 Orlando – 3.5 out of 5, 12/5-12/10 For the first time, I’ve hit an author in the Ten Year Catch-Up whose major works I have at least a passing familiarity with – and, for […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: A Room of One's Own, Features, Fiction, Modernism, Mrs. Dalloway, Non-Fiction, Orlando, Recap, Stream of Consciousness, The Ten Year Catch-Up, The Waves, Three Guineas, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015, World War One

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Murakami 2014

December 30, 2014 by Drew

MURAKAMI 2014 editions: Vintage paperbacks Norwegian Wood – 4.5 out of 5, 1/2-1/5 Kafka on the Shore – 5 out of 5, 3/8-3/11 1Q84 – 3 out of 5, 5/24-5/31 The Elephant Vanishes – 3 out of 5, 8/18-8/28 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World – 4 out of 5, 10/23-10/28 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – 3 out of 5, 12/08-12/14 So, in a bit of a change of pace from the last two years, I opted to pick a contemporary author for this third year of the Ten […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: 1Q84, Features, Fiction, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami, Jazz, Kafka on the Shore, Literature, Music, Norwegian Wood, Reflection, Short Stories, The Elephant Vanishes, The Ten Year Catch-Up, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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Austen 2013

December 23, 2013 by Drew

AUSTEN 2013 editions: Penguin Clothbound Hardcover Pride and Prejudice – 4 out of 5 2/2-2/8 Emma – 4 out of 5, 3/27-4/3 Mansfield Park – 2.5 out of 5, 6/6-6/9 Sense and Sensibility – 4 out of 5, 8/15-8/19 Northanger Abbey – 5 out of 5, 10/10-10/13 Persuasion – 3 out of 5, 12/13-12/17 While the whole impulse behind the Ten Year Catch-Up was to tackle Dickens, I have to say that making a concerted effort to conquer Austen was a […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: Austen 2013, Bath, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Emma, Fiction, Jane Austen, Literature, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Regency, Sense and Sensibility, The Ten Year Catch-Up, Year Two

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Dickens 2012

December 30, 2012 by Drew

  DICKENS 2012 editions: Penguin Clothbound Hardcover A Tale of Two Cities – 3.5 out of 5, 1/12-1/22 Hard Times – 4 out of 5, 4/9-4/13 Great Expectations – 4 out of 5, 7/13-7/22 Oliver Twist – 3.5 out of 5, 9/17-9/25 Bleak House – 4.5 out of 5, 11/22-12/8 A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings – 4 out of 5, 12/23-12/25 How I made it to the year 2012 without reading a single complete work of Charles Dickens is […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: charles dickens, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Dickens 2012, Fiction, Literature, The Ten Year Catch-Up, Year One

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The Ten Year Catch-Up

January 1, 2012 by Drew

In an effort to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge of Major Authors and their work, I’ve decided to set myself a challenge.  Over the course of the next ten years (starting this year, 2012), I’ll tackle one author a year by reading several of their so-called “Great Works”.  Judging from my initial two-year plan, my target is six books per year – one every two months, give or take. The selection of just which books? will be, […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: The Ten Year Catch-Up

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