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Topic: 2014 World Literature Mini Challenge???

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Subject: 2014 World Literature Mini Challenge???
Date Posted: 11/20/2013 8:50 AM ET
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Should we do a wor more...
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Date Posted: 11/20/2013 4:28 PM ET
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bigstone:  If you do, how about subdividing the globe into continents,  or "cultures", or even language families more...
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Date Posted: 11/29/2013 1:59 PM ET
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I'm defini more...
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Date Posted: 11/30/2013 8:22 AM ET
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This challeng more...
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Date Posted: 11/30/2013 12:54 PM ET
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Janet:  I would think that any literary work would qualify to give a sample of the part of the world from which it stemmed.  A friend who had returned to Minnesota from Bar more...
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Date Posted: 12/1/2013 1:04 PM ET
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Bonnie, thanks, I will look for your list. I enjoy South American writers a more...
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Date Posted: 12/2/2013 11:11 AM ET
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As per Bon more...
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Date Posted: 12/2/2013 7:28 PM ET
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If I do the Lite Classics Challenge for '1 more...
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Date Posted: 12/4/2013 8:45 AM ET
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Let's make this fun.  Comment freely about your reads and read only what you feel you wish to read that somehow fits the descriptions below..  No constraints.  How about this as creative Bonnie and Barbara suggested? Choose a read ...associate more...
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 So it will consist more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2013 5:17 PM ET
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Barbieofmpls's suggestion is a good one to expand the selectivity of the challenge.  Iceland could be moved int more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2013 6:35 PM ET
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Thanks Bonnie. I've more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2013 10:03 PM ET
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Ok!  Let's add Scandinavi more...
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Date Posted: 12/8/2013 8:42 PM ET
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I've found that doing TWO Challenges is more...
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Date Posted: 12/10/2013 3:28 PM ET
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I'm ready to more...