Reading with Style discussion

Read a book found on the Literature Map of any of the following authors:

Gore Vidal

Walt Whitman

Edith Wharton

Gertrude Stein

Kurt Vonnegut

C.S. Lewis

Arthur C. Clark or Arthur C. Clarke

Elizabeth Moon

Mikhail Bulgakov

Saul Bellow

Ha Jin

Thornton Wilder

Literature Map may not be the best speller in the world. We will require that you use the correct spelling of the listed veteran authors to access their maps. (No Saul Bellows, please.) However, authors on the resulting maps may have their names misspelled and we will accept them. Joyce Carol Oats will be assumed to mean Joyce Carol Oates for example.

You are not required to have your authors pre-approved. However, we are unsure whether the maps change and you are welcome to pre-claim your author. You can then be assured the author will be accepted when you get around to reading him or her. Please let us know which map you are using, either for your pre-approval or when you post in the completed tasks thread. When you post your book, please also post if the author was pre-approved.

I would like to use C S Lewis' map

for this book

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle is accepted. This is an author task, so you don't need to designate a specific book.

So...Gertrude Stein works for her own map page I assume?

Ed wrote: "So...Gertrude Stein works for her own map page I assume?"

Yes, all of the authors for the linked maps are pre-approved. It's worth noting that these 12 authors are veterans and qualify for 20.1 as well.

Thanks...and Gertrude Stein was a veteran? Never knew that.

Ed wrote: "Thanks...and Gertrude Stein was a veteran? Never knew that."

I think "veteran" might be a stretch for her, as well as for Edith Wharton. However, research while we were brainstorming indicated these women worked in the war effort in such a way that we have qualified them. Not all war service is equal (and not always on the side we might prefer). We're not prepared to extend veteran status to other non-uniformed people.

Finally found the reference I had seen earlier: When Stein and Toklas returned to France in 1916, the two women volunteered their services for the American Fund for French Wounded. Stein learned to drive, and she and Toklas delivered hospital supplies throughout the south of France.

Ahhhh...OK...I knew that...I just didn't think of that as qualifying for the category. Thanks!

Ed wrote: "Ahhhh...OK...I knew that...I just didn't think of that as qualifying for the category. Thanks!"

That's why we're restricting it to Wharton and Stein. We did want to find women, and the choices for author status were fewer. That will change for the future, methinks.

Preclaiming Ernest Hemingway from Thornton Wilder's map. The Old Man and the Sea qualifies for so many tasks, I have no excuse for not reading it this season!

Rosemary wrote: "Preclaiming Ernest Hemingway from Thornton Wilder's map. The Old Man and the Sea qualifies for so many tasks, I have no excuse for not reading it this season!"

Put him on the list!

I will use Henry Thoreau under Walt Whitman's map.

Mo Yan from Ha Jin's map.

⚜Chalmation⚜ wrote: "I will use Henry Thoreau under Walt Whitman's map."

Got him!

Tien wrote: "Mo Yan from Ha Jin's map."

Yes.

I'd like to pre-approve some authors for this task:

Gore Vidal ---- Michael Chabon
Edith Wharton ----- John Dos Passos, Evelyn Waugh, E E Cummings, Marcel Proust, A S Byatt, Tana French
Kurt Vonnegut ---- Stephen King
C S Lewis --- Joanne K Rowling J.K. Rowling
Mikail Bugakov ---- Magda Szabó
Saul Bellow ------ J.M. Coetzee, Richard Flanagan
Ha Jin ------ Zadie Smith, Louise Erdrich
E. Annie Proulx
Thornton Wilder ----- Robert Russo

Wow, so many choices! I'll take my chances on others if the map changes!

Karen Michele wrote: "I'd like to pre-approve some authors for this task:

Gore Vidal ---- Michael Chabon
Edith Wharton ----- John Dos Passos, Evelyn Waugh, [author:E E Cumming..."

Wow, so many choices! I'll take my chances on others if the map changes!

All of the authors in this post are good to go. Yes, Amanda and I both commented while planning that we could read for this task the whole season!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "I'd like to pre-approve some authors for this task:

Gore Vidal ---- Michael Chabon
Edith Wharton ----- John Dos Passos, [author:Evelyn Waugh|11315..."

A lot of these will go for combos;)

Karen Michele wrote: "A lot of these will go for combos;) "

This task is one of several that will have a lot of combos and is why I think this will be a high-scoring season. (Veterans, Buchan, dos Passos, and Selby tasks are others.)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "A lot of these will go for combos;) "

This task is one of several that will have a lot of combos and is why I think this will be a high-scoring season. (Veterans, Buchan, dos..."

I agree - it's going to be much bigger for combos this time! Also, I was thinking it was Richard Russo, not Robert Russo. Do you think it might be a lit map mistake? I can't find much of anything for Robert Russo.

Karen Michele wrote: "Also, I was thinking it was Richard Russo, not Robert Russo. Do you think it might be a lit map mistake? I can't find much of anything for Robert Russo. ."

I had to do a double take when looking at that one. But I think Robert Russo might be correct. I agree, it's not much, but I can't assume, in this case, that it should be Richard.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Also, I was thinking it was Richard Russo, not Robert Russo. Do you think it might be a lit map mistake? I can't find much of anything for Robert Russo. ."

I had to do a doub..."

Ok, that sounds reasonable to me;)

Two questions.

Can I assume that the Tanazaki in Edith Wharton's is Junichiro Tanizaki (Author)?

And can I take the Iain Banks in Arthur C. Clarke's as both Iain Banks and Iain M Banks?

Coralie wrote: "Two questions.

Can I assume that the Tanazaki in Edith Wharton's is Junichiro Tanizaki (Author)?

And can I take the Iain Banks in Arthur C. Clarke's as both [author:Iain Banks|76..."

Yes and Yes. (and I'll go add them tout suite)

Coralie wrote: "Two questions.

Can I assume that the Tanazaki in Edith Wharton's is Junichiro Tanizaki (Author)?

And can I take the Iain Banks in Arthur C. Clarke's as both [author:Iain Banks|76..."

I apologize. I'm not seeing Iain Banks on Arthur C. Clarke. Why am I missing it?

He's on the right, directly under Ray Bradbury, near Greg Bear. Unless you are looking at a different Arthur C Clarke. I think it might be me. All I can find is Arthur C Clark and Sir Arthur Charles Clarke.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Coralie wrote: "Two questions.

Can I assume that the Tanazaki in Edith Wharton's is Junichiro Tanizaki (Author)?

And can I take the Iain Banks in Arthur C. Clarke's as both [auth..."

It's on this Arthur C Clarke link:

http://www.literature-map.com/sir+art...

I guess that's why I don't see it. We are using only the links in Post #1. (That's why Post #2 talks about spelling.)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I guess that's why I don't see it. We are using only the links in Post #1. (That's why Post #2 talks about spelling.)"

I typed them all in the first time I did it because I didn't know there were links in the help thread and I just remembered having seen Iain Banks, so I tried typing it in again and found that it was completely different from the linked one above;

I read post #2 and only used the first link in post #1. So which is it, the link in post #1 or the correct spelling as requested in post #2?

Karen Michele wrote: "I typed them all in the first time I did it because I didn't know there were links in the help thread and I just remembered having seen Iain Banks, so I tried typing it in again and found that it was completely different;!"

I don't know whether the maps change, so I do encourage preapprovals. I don't want anyone to get to a book in November having thought in August s/he is on one of the maps.

You all have already reserved some of the authors I was looking at, and I thank you. I was so overwhelmed with this task during task planning that I didn't really do any of planning for my own reading. I have a few, but I still need to double check some that were there a week ago.

Off the C.s. Lewis map -Nicholas Sparks, also Agatha Christie. I have a few Agatha Christie and can I use this as combo?

Off of Elizabeth Moon-Tamora Pierce

OK, I have a few!

From Edith Wharton -- John Wyndham, Jhumpa Lahiri, W.B. Yeats

From Kurt Vonnegut -- Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Philip K. Dick, Haruki Murakami, David Sedaris

From C.S. Lewis -- Dorothy Sayers

From Elizabeth Moon -- Elizabeth Peters, Robin McKinley

Coralie wrote: "I read post #2 and only used the first link in post #1. So which is it, the link in post #1 or the correct spelling as requested in post #2?"

The Mods decided to post the links due to the spelling discrepancy. Technically, both post 1 and 2 are correct, because an initial would have a "." after it.

Amanda wrote: "Coralie wrote: "I read post #2 and only used the first link in post #1. So which is it, the link in post #1 or the correct spelling as requested in post #2?"

The Mods decided to post the links due..."

Actually it was the lack of an 'e' on the end of the name that confused me. the name is Clarke not Clark as in the link.

Coralie wrote: "Actually it was the lack of an 'e' on the end of the name that confused me. the name is Clarke not Clark as in the link. "

Thanks Coralie, I missed that, I guess because my eyes expected to see it, so the only difference I could see between them was the "."

Let me check ...

Thornton Wilder - Isabel Allende, Georgette Heyer, Garrison Keillor, Barbara Kingsolver, Josephine Tey

And, is Chandler (on that same map) the same as Raymond Chandler?

Elizabeth Moon - Rudyard Kipling, Anne McCaffrey, Stephen Donaldson, Robert A. Heinlein, Elizabeth Peters, Dick Francis

Arthur C. Clark - Samuel Clemens

C.S. Lewis - Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Nicholas Sparks, George MacDonald, Chaim Potok, Ray Bradbury

Kurt Vonnegut - Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Ray Bradbury (again), Mark Twain (Same as Samuel Clemens)

Can I use Kurt Vonnegut himself?

Edith Wharton - Tony Hillerman, Garrison Keillor (again), Tanya French, Wilkie Collins

The discussion about combos above twigged this question - should we have any potential combos pre-approved?

OK, I'm sorry I finally see the problem. Kate's link *does* go to the wrong map. Unfortunatly, she is away from her computer for several days and Post #1 will not be edited until she returns. Because we messed up, you can use that map, or you can use

Arthur C. Clarke


On which I see Iain Banks, and he is approved in both ways he published.

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Off the C.s. Lewis map -Nicholas Sparks, also Agatha Christie. I have a few Agatha Christie and can I use this as combo?

Off of Elizabeth Moon-Tamora Pierce"

All of these are approved. Yes, this task can be used for combo.

Katy wrote: "OK, I have a few!

From Edith Wharton -- John Wyndham, Jhumpa Lahiri, W.B. Yeats

From Kurt Vonnegut -- Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Philip K. Dick, Haruki Murakami, David Sedaris

From C.S. Lew..."

All of the authors in this post are on the list!

Bea wrote: "Thornton Wilder - Isabel Allende, Georgette Heyer, Garrison Keillor, Barbara Kingsolver, Josephine Tey

And, is Chandler (on that same map) the same as Raymond Chandler?"

Got these, including Raymond Chandler

Bea wrote: "Elizabeth Moon - Rudyard Kipling, Anne McCaffrey, Stephen Donaldson, Robert A. Heinlein, Elizabeth Peters, Dick Francis"

All of these are on our list now!