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Back to the 1950’s (June 2022 Challenge)
"Whoa, this is heavy!"
"There's that word again, 'Heavy'. Why is everything so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?"
~Marty and Doc, Back to the Future
So.... are you ready to go BACK to the 1950s?
Ooh La La!
T E M P L A T E
June 2022 Challenge
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
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Annette
✅ Cozy_Pug
Janelle
Jazzy
Karin
✅ Kathy
Lynn
✅ Nidhi
✅ Nike
✅ Rosemarie
✅ Shaina
✅ Trisha
✅ Vicky
✅ Vit
June 2022 Challenge Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
2/2
🔸1 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (published 1950) - to read again - finished
🔸2 Prince Caspian (published 1951) - finished
Eldon Square
Good weather brings many people to Eldon Square to bask in the sun during their lunch break. Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, 10th May 1950. (Photo by Payne/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
June 2022 Challenge
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
1/3
Serious Jazzers
Jazz fans at Club Martinique in Newcastle upon Tyne, April 1955. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7657 - Jazz On Tyneside - pub. 9th April 1955 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
✅ 1. Look Back in Anger (1957) - John Osborne
2. The Outsider (1956) - Colin Wilson
3. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1959) - Alan Sillitoe
Fun seekers try their skill at one of the sideshows at the Hoppings fair, held on the Town Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, 19th June 1951. (Photo by Staff/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
June 2022 ChallengeBack to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
5/5 Completed on 23/6/22
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The Silver Chair by C.S. LewisFinished 5 stars
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The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis Finished 5 stars3.
The Last Battle by C.S. LewisFinished 5 stars4.
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingFinished 5 stars
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyFinished 2 stars
June 2022 ChallengeBack to the 1950s
6/1/22 - 6/30/22
2/2
✔1. A Wreath for the Enemy - Pamela Frankau (1952)
✔2. A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies (1958) Finished 6/7/22
June 2022 ChallengeBack to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
1/2 Two seems to be a doable number for me :)
✔ 1. To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite - 1959
2. Doctor Zhivago published in 1957 is also on my Mt TBR
I don’t have a lot of books from the fifties lined up for the near future but I’ll try and get to these two.June 2022 Challenge
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
0/2
1. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)
2. Jizzle by John Wyndham (1954)
Linked to here! A lot of great choices. x
The fifties...Middle of the century:
Augusto Monterroso - Complete Works 1959
Antanas Škėma - The White Shroud 1958
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination 1956
Back stage with the show girls during the rehearsal of Tom Arnold's Chu Chin Chow at the Empire Theatre, Sunderland. The girl taking it easy is Pauline Jones, of Birmingham. She is twenty and she is a skater in an ice show. And while she's waiting for the show to begin, she likes to relax with a book. 'Don't be fooled by the title,' says Miss Jones. 'It happens to be a very good novel.' 28th April 1954. (Photo by Bela Zola/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
Punch and Judy in Bermondsey
Bermondsey Spa, 2nd August 1956. (Photo by Freddie Reed/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
Royal Wave
1954: Queen Elizabeth II gives a wave as she leaves Newcastle town hall in New South wales, Australia. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Harlem in Piccadilly
A woman dances absorbed by the sound of music played at the Club Americana, owned by Anthony Harris, on Coventry Street, Piccadilly, London, UK, 25th November 1955. (Photo by John Drysdale/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Christmas Show
A teacher performing with acoustic guitar on stage during a Christmas show, UK, 20th December 1955. Original publication: Picture Post - 8435 - unpub. (Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Photo shows teenagers gettining Down to Rock'n'Roll
Teenagers getting down to serious business in a rock'n roll session in a London ballroom. (Photo by Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)
Bicycle Race - stock photo
A young couple on bicycles, circa 1955. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images)
In September 1954, Keith Edwards (right) and Queenie Marques, two newly arrived immigrants from Jamaica, lay back as Keith plays the trumpet
In 1952, George Bernard, a former tally clerk supervisor at Columbo docks, boarded an American ship bound for Calcutta in 1952 without a passport. Here in December 1956, after four years of sailing round the world and frequent spells in jail, he landed in Liverpool and was allowed to stay.
A group of children listen as a record plays in Butetown in April 1950
I'll mark this spot, but no promises. I really haven't been reading many classics lately. However, I'll check my want to read shelf and see how I feel :)
Right now I'm undecided
A young man takes a break from operating machinery at the Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham. The factory was immortalised by the Alan Sillitoe novel 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' (1958) and the film (1960) starring Albert FinneyCredit: The Roger Mayne Archive
I will be reading the book
Reserving my spot! I can fit in one book for sure.
This is a fabulous theme! I adore Queen Elizabeth - what a woman! I really wish I could visit the UK for the celebration.
Loving all these pictures, too!
Jazzy I saw the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning years ago - it was so so good.
June 2022 Challenge
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/2
1/1
1. A Few Quick Ones ✅ 06/13/22
This is a fabulous theme! I adore Queen Elizabeth - what a woman! I really wish I could visit the UK for the celebration.
Loving all these pictures, too!
Jazzy I saw the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning years ago - it was so so good.
June 2022 Challenge
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/2
1/1
1. A Few Quick Ones ✅ 06/13/22
Will try my hand at this as I have 2 books I plan to read that fit this category.June 2022 Challenge
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
2/2
✅1. Lord of the Flies
✅2. Crossed Skis
Linked to here. Cozy_Pug it's a fab film! I just found out about the book :)
Shaina wrote: "Will try my hand at this as I have 2 books I plan to read that fit this category.June 2022 Challenge
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
0/2
1. Lord of the Flies
2. [book:Crossed Skis..."
Shaina, I read Crossed Skis earlier this year - I hope you enjoy it as much as I did,
I'm in and I will probably read The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith - a book about lesbian love that was very controversial when it came and therefore the author used a pseudonym. The alternative is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Both of them have been on my "Read-them-NOW-list" for quite some time =)
I'm in as usual!
June 2022 Challenge
-BTW,GREAT challenge!!!
Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
(5/5) COMPLETED 10/6/2022
Choices will be taken from something by :
John Wyndham
The Kraken Wakes
✔ (3/6/22)★★★★
Not as gripping as The Day of the Triffids-but,like a good deal of science fiction,this novel sees ahead of its time.LikeOrwell,Wyndham anticipates something that will happen in the future.
Arthur Miller
An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen
✔ (7/6/22)★★★★★
Superb.I watched this in production-the best way to experience a play!
Samuel Becket
Krapp's Last Tape
✔ (7/6/22)★★★★★
Preferred this to Waiting for Godot-the best live production for me was by English actor,John Hurt.
John Osborne
The Entertainer
✔ (7/6/22)★★★★★
They made a film of this and it is well worth seeing-a young Alan Bates and two Oliviers are in the cast.
Graham Greene
The Potting Shed
✔ (9/6/22)★★★★★
The first work of Graham Greene that I have read.A wonderful twist at the end!
I really enjoyed this challenge-will also read other books from the fifties eg The Bellby Iris Murdoch,The Quiet American by Graham Greene,The Ship That Died of Shameby Nicholas Monsarratand C S Lewis'biography Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
June 1950's ChallengeI'll begin with two books and take it from there.
1. Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov✅️️️️1950
2. Prisoner's Base by Rex Stout✅️️️️1952
3. The Currents of Space bybIsaac Asimov ✅️️️️1952
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June 2022 ChallengeBack to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22
2/3
1 City by Clifford D. Simak (1952) 5* completed 8/6/2022
2 Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (1958) 5* 25/6/2022
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3I started my first book today June 1st, City by Clifford D. Simak winner of the 1953 International Fantasy Award for fiction. I love this author and loved this book. Golden Age 카지노싸이트 Fiction is my fun-read category.
Trisha wrote: "Shaina wrote: "Will try my hand at this as I have 2 books I plan to read that fit this category.Thanks, Trisha! I have been dithering with this one no idea why (I usually love her books). I will let you know how this one goes.
Everyone's linked to here!Some fab books listed so far xx
This doesn't count, of course, because it's a new book, but I read a book that is partly set in the 1950s, but it was a disappointing read When Women Were Dragons
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it Karin! x
Count me in your challenge!!1. The Scapegoat Finished 6/11
2They Do It With Mirrors June 20, 2022
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's Finished 6/16/22
4. Pawns In The Game: FBI Edition June 30, 2022
(1958)
If anyone could find a list of little known books from the 1950s by NON-American authors i'd love to see it!
This is not a little known book, but I highly recommend it: The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.It's on the BBC List.
Oh i'll have a look! Thanks Rosemarie. The books I chose to read this month were British books from the 'angry decade' of the 1950s. (Because of the Jubilee, of course)
I finished Crossed Skis and thoroughly enjoyed this one! This might be the first BLCC I have rated 5 stars
Shaina wrote: "I finished Crossed Skis and thoroughly enjoyed this one! This might be the first BLCC I have rated 5 stars"That’s great news, Shaina!
Challenge complete (message #19)! That's 2 challenges in a row for me - I'm on a roll!
Jazzy I'll be curious to know what you think about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning!
Jazzy I'll be curious to know what you think about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning!
Super Cozy_Pug! I'll let you know when I get to it!and Well Done Shaina! x
Cozy_Pug wrote: "Challenge complete (message #19)! That's 2 challenges in a row for me - I'm on a roll!Jazzy I'll be curious to know what you think about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning!"
Way to go Cozy-Pug
Completed my challenge of 5 books (message 6), including the last 3 books of Narnia series. I enjoyed the series very much. Also I liked Lord of the Flies very much.
Way to go, Nidhi! Congrats!I'm a big fan of the Narnia books too.
Three very different books.Three equally excellent books.
⭐⭐⭐ Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination 1956
⭐⭐⭐ Augusto Monterroso - Complete Works 1959
⭐⭐⭐ Antanas Škėma - The White Shroud 1958
I finished my challenge-I ended up reading three books and enjoyed them all!
I don't think i'm going to finish all mine, but having a grand time all the same!
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Enjoy whatever book(s) you choose to read. Some members will have an extra holiday & perhaps be part of the Jubilee celebrations - have fun & enjoy this historic moment.