#2022 Challenges Update

2022 stats:

Fiction   –   35
Non-fiction – 55
Plays – 14
Poetry – 5
Short stories collections – 6
Essays collections – 3

#Non-Fiction:  #NonFicNov

1. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson (travelogue)
2. A Cultural History of Causality – S. Kern
   
3. The Dawn of the Belle Epoque – M. McAuliffe
   
4. The Crossroads of Should and Must – E. Luna
5. John Adams – David McCullough  (biography)
6. All That She Carried – T. Miles (NF)
7. Unbound – Tarana Burke (memoir)
8. Thomas Becket – J. Guy (NF)
9. Theatre & Ireland – L. Pilkingkton
10. Patrick Kavanagh: A Biiography – Antoinette Quinn
11. The Best of Frank O’Connor – F. O’Connor (essays)
12. Cézanne: Puissant et solitaire – M. Hoog – REVIEW
13. Le maniérisme –  P.  Falguières  – REVIEW
14. Bring the War Home – K. Belew – REVIEW
15. Writing Deep Scenes – M. Alderson – REVIEW
16. Caravaggio – José Frèches – REVIEW
17. Les délassiés – T. Porcher – REVIEW
18. Le fagot de ma mémoire – S. Diagne – REVIEW
19. The Road to Unfreedom – T. Snyder – REVIEW
20. The Age of the Strongman – G. Rachman – REVIEW
21. La guerre des idées – E. Bastié – REVIEW
22. Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission – Y. Katz – REVIEW
23. Flyboy in the Buttermilk  (essays)– Greg Tate – REVIEW
24. Stony the Road (NF) – H.L. Gates jr. – REVIEW
25. All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep – A. Henry – REVIEW
26. Hooked: Art and Attachment – Rita Felski – REVIEW
27. When Harlem Was In Vogue – D. Lewis – REVIEW
28. Until Justice Be Done – K. Masur – REVIEW
29. Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights – J. DiGaetani – REVIEW
30. Unfollow Me – J. Busby – REVIEW
31. Why We Did It – Tim Miller – REVIEW
32. Invisible Storm – Jason Kander – REVIEW
33. Le Dieu de Dostoïevski – Marguerite Souchon – REVIEW
34. Thank You For Your Servitude – M. Leibovich – REVIEW
35. Red Zone – P. Hartcher – REVIEW
36. Out of Africa – I. Dinesin (memoir)
37. Tunnel 29 – H. Merman – REVIEW
38. Freezing Order  (2022)- B. Browder (memoir) – REVIEW
39. The Periodic Table – Primo Levi  (memoir) – REVIEW
40. The Man Who Could Move Clouds  (memoir) – Ingrid Rojas Contreras – REVIEW
41. Plot and Structure – J.S. Bell (240 pg )   2004 REVIEW
42. The Figure of the Detective – C. Brownson   (216 pg) 2014  REVIEW 
43. The Little Devil in America -398 pg H. Abdurraqib (300 pg) (essays) 2021 REVIEW

#Ireland ReadingMonth22  

1. #ReadingIrelandMonth22  March  READING LIST
   
2. #ReadingIrelandMonth22  5 FAVORITE IRISH ACTORS
3. Abelard and Heloise  – H. Waddell (historical fiction)
4. The Shining City – C. McPherson (play)
   
5. Theatre & Ireland – L. Pilkingkton
6. Still Life – Ciaran Carson (poetry)
7. Patrick Kavanagh: A Biiography – Antoinette Quinn
8. The Best of Frank O’Connor – F.  O’Connor (essays)
9. The Canterville Ghost – O. Wilde (novella)
10. On Blueberry Hill – S. Barry (play)
11. The Humours of Bandon – M. McAuliffe (play)
12. Portia Coughlan – Marina Carr (play)

#Novellas:   #NovNOV22

1. The Time Machine – HG  Wells  118 pg 
2. POSTED 04.11.2022 – CLASSIC
3. Sa préférée – S.Jollien-Fardel (2022)  (206 pg) 
4. POSTED 011.11.2022 (twitter) – TRANSLATION
5. Penric’s Demon
6. POSTED – 011.18 .2022  – FANTASY
7. Ring Shout – P. Djèlí Clark (2020) 185 pg
8. POSTED – 011.25.2022 (twitter) – CONTEMPORARY

1. Captians Courageous – R. Kipling – ??
2. The Housekeeper and the Professor – Translation Y. Ogawa  – REVIEW 
3. The Canterville Ghost – O. Wilde – REVIEW
4. Ring Shout –   RIPXVII   P. Djèlí Clark  – REVIEW
5. Sa préféerée – Translation  Sarah Jollien-Fardel  198 pg – REVIEW
6. The Time Machine – HG  Wells  118 pg – REVIEW
7. Penric’s Demon – Lois McMaster Bujold – ??

#French:

1. Les délassiés – T. Porcher – REVIEW
2. Le fagot de ma mémoire – S. Diagne – REVIEW
3. La guerre des idées – E. Bastié – REVIEW
4. Cézanne: Puissant et solitaire– M. Hoog – REVIEW
5. Le maniérisme –  P.  Falguières  – REVIEW
6. Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné  – Victor Hugo – REVIEW
7. Le Dieu de Dostoïevski – Marguerite Souchon (France) – REVIEW
8. La Cousin Bette – H. Balzac – REVIEW
9. Profession du père – Sorj Chalandon (France) – REVIEW
10. Caravaggio – José Frèches – REVIEW
11. Sa préféerée – Sarah Jollien-Fardel (novella) 200 pg – REVIEW
12. Le mage de Kremlin – G. da Emploi – REVIEW
13. Le chien à ma table – C. Hunzinger – REVIEW

#Short Stories:

1. A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin
2. Collected Stories I.B. Singer – I.B. Singer
3. Last Night – James Salter
4. Redeployment – P. Klay
5. Gordo – J. Cortez
6. Dark As Last Night – Tony Birch ….in progress

#Poetry:

1. Still Life – Ciaran Carson (poetry) – REVIEW
2. Tiger Girl – Pascale Petit – REVIEW 
3. The Crown Ain’t Worth Much – (50 poems) Hanif Abdurraqib – REVIEW
4. Unaccompanied – J. Zamora (poems) – REVIEW
5. I Love Poetry – Michael Farrell – REVIEW

#Plays:  

1. Separate Tables – R. Rattigan
   
2. The Collected Short Plays –  Thornton Wilder, Volume I
   
3. The Browning Version – R. Rattigan
4. King Charles III – Mike Bartlett
   
5. Red Velvet – L. Chakrabarti
   
6. Macbeth – W. Shakespeare
7. No Man’s Land – H.Pinter
   
8. Sweat – Lynn Nottage
9. The Shining City – C. McPherson
10. Lungs – Duncan MacMillian (2011) play 
11. On Blueberry Hill – S. Barry (play)
12. Portia Coughlan – Marina Carr (play)
13. Ruined – Lynn Nottage  – 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama   – REVIEW
14. The Humours of Bandon – M. McAuliffe (play)

#RIPXVII:

1. Ring Shout –  RIPXVII   P. Djèlí Clark (novella) – REVIEW
2. The Colour of Magic –  RIPXVII    Terry Pratchett (fantasy)  – REVIEW
3. Wrong Man Down –   RIPXVII   J. Masinton (CF) – REVIEW
4. Holly and the Nobodies –  RIPXVII   Ben Pienaar (novel) – REVIEW
5. Mexican Gothic – RIPXVII   Silvia Moreno-Garcia – REVIEW

#Crime Fiction:

1. The Silence of the Sea – Y. Sigurdardottir (CF)
2. The Hummingbird – K. Hiekkapelto (CF)
3. The Hunting Dogs – J.L. Horst (CF)
4. Kolymsky Heights – L. Davidson (CF)
5. Silver – Chris Hammer (CF)
6. Devil in a Blue Dress – W. Mosely (CF)
7. Portrait of an Unknown Woman – D. Silva (CF)

#Biography

1. John Adams – David McCullough  – REVIEW
2. Thomas Becket – J. Guy – REVIEW
3. Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography – Antoinette Quinn – REVIEW
4. Cézanne: Puissant et solitaire– M. Hoog – REVIEW
5. Caravaggio – José Frèches – REVIEW

#Fiction: diverse

1. The Confessions of Nat Turner – W. Styron (novel)
2. The Art of Racing in the Rain – G. Stein (novel)
3. Dancing Lessons – Olive Senior (novel)
4. The King of Warsaw – T. Szczepan – REVIEW
5. Rescue – Joseph Conrad – REVIEW
6. Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain – REVIEW
7. Beachmasters – Thea Ashley – REVIEW
8. Everything Flows – Vasily Grossman – REVIEW
9. The Death of Vivek Oji – Akwaeke Emezi  2020 (novel)