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Topic: 2014 World Literature Mini Challenge Lists

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Subject: 2014 World Literature Mini Challenge Lists
Date Posted: 12/14/2013 3:29 PM 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.   We can create a discussion thread if you wish. Choose a read (six for those who want to do it more...
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Date Posted: 12/14/2013 5:58 PM ET
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2014 WORLD LITERATURE MINI CHALLENGE   CHALLENGE COMPLETED!! Choose 6 reads (doing 7): ...as more...
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Date Posted: 12/15/2013 1:40 PM ET
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Choose a read (six for those who want to do it all) ...associated with (even loosely, or peripherally) the Islamic world---Naguib Mahfouz, Anton Shamass, more...
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Date Posted: 12/15/2013 5:54 PM ET
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from the Islamic world:  The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie---I started this, had trouble 'tuning in' to it, and have deferred it to another time. from Scandinavia: The S more...
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Date Posted: 12/17/2013 10:56 AM ET
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Choose a read (six for those who want to do it all) ...associated with (even loosely, or peripherally) the Islamic world ...by a more...
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Date Posted: 12/17/2013 5:39 PM ET
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bigstone: more...
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Date Posted: 1/1/2014 3:11 AM ET
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(I am going to include books set in one of these locations and/or i more...
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Subject: A Late Bloomer -DONE
Date Posted: 4/17/2014 3:27 PM ET
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I thought to look for a challenge like this when I found that I was reading some world lit this year.  Better late tha more...
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Date Posted: 7/4/2014 8:51 PM ET
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A little progress report------half a year p more...
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Date Posted: 7/30/2014 7:29 AM ET
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what is World Lit? If y more...
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Date Posted: 8/9/2014 7:02 PM ET
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Charles, Not just the "Third World", but everything b more...
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Date Posted: 8/11/2014 6:48 AM ET
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It might be that there have been so many im more...
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Date Posted: 8/12/2014 6:53 PM ET
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Charles: Let me elaborate a bit----For our purposes here, a book would deal with the emigrant experience, as Vilhelm Moberg's The Emigrants. (or Utvandrarna) , or the immigrant's experience, as the young boy in Joseph Roth's Call It Sleep. I urge you to read Roth's more...
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Date Posted: 8/13/2014 7:26 AM ET
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I see. The novel has to be ab more...
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Date Posted: 8/13/2014 7:29 PM ET
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Yes, Charles, Isaac Bashevis Singer is the grand old man of literature about Jewi more...
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Date Posted: 8/15/2014 6:20 PM ET
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CHALLENGE COMP more...
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Date Posted: 8/16/2014 8:50 PM ET
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Barbara B.,   Your post was gratifying to read more...
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Date Posted: 12/19/2014 6:29 PM ET
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Charles:  I got hold of a copy of The Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska.  The local library got it for me on more...
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Date Posted: 12/19/2014 6:57 PM ET
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