Reading with Style discussion

Post your Spring 2021 Reading Plans here!

10.1 Enjoyed
From Lettice and Lovage: A Comedy- I plan to read- The Three Arrows and the Servants and the Snow by Iris Murdoch

10.2 Name- four letter name
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

10.3 Naughty- naughty nineties
Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin

10.4 Spring- book with a 5 in its original publication date.
The Sea by John Banville

10.5 Mother
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

✔10.6 Sentence
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

10.7 (Codebreaking)- House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella by W. Len

10.8 -(birds)- The Redthroats by David Cale

10.9 (wines)-Baileys- Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

10.10 Group Reads- Winter by Christopher Nicholson


---20.1- (PRIZE)-The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

✔20.2-(Ann)- Gigi: A Comedy in Two Acts by Anita Loos

✔20.3 (Opposites)- Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera

✔20.4 (Crime)- Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
perhaps
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers


✔20.5 (Balkans)- Broken April by Ismail Kadare

---20.6 (Achilles)- Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust

20.7 (Real Person)- Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer

20.8-Cold Comfort by Charles Todd

✔20.9-Series (Kate S's task)-
Games to Keep the Dark Away by Marcia Muller
✔My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
✔Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
✔Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
March: Book Two by John Lewis

The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
Sorry Now? by Mark Richard Zubro

20.10 Family (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga


FABULOUS FIRSTS
---1. C -Y: The Counterfeiter and Other Stories by Yasushi Inoue
***2. B - N: Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
✔3. P - G: The Plains by Gerald Murnane
4. U - M: The Uttermost Farthing by Marie Belloc Lowndes
✔5. L - S: Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
6. F - Z: Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
✔7. R - K: Ruddy Gore by Kerry Greenwood
✔8. T - I: Thunderball by Ian Fleming
9. D - W: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
---10. O - E: One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty

Letters Used: (20)- B; C; D; E; F; G; K; I; L; M; N; O' P; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z
Unused: (6)- A; H; J; Q; V; X;

Potential alternates or 2nd round:

10.1 Enjoyed Smiley's People =>read

10.2 Name The Cider House Rules

10.3 Naughty Black Water => read

10.4 Spring Friends, Lovers, Chocolate =>read

10.5 Mother Career of Evil => read

10.6 Sentence Bless Me, Ultima (thanks to Ed!) =>read

10.7 Codebreakers: In Farleigh Field
subbed in: House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella => read

10.8 Birds: The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal =>read

10.9 Pub trivia: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection => read

10.10 Group read The House in the Cerulean Sea

20.1 The Lizard Cage
A Spool of Blue Thread

20.2 Fugitive Pieces = > read

20.3 Ignorance
A Woman's Life => read
plus many other choices

20.4 The Bungalow Mystery =>read

20.5 The Siege =>read

20.6 The Song of Achilles

20.7 The Master
plus many other choices (!)

20.8 Mystery Cats: Felonious Felines from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine =>read

20.9 Series - SO MANY choices......

20.10 Family The Kite Runner

as it stands now, if I read according to this + the sub-challenge I can move 8 books off the tower of books and into the donation box.

Book Ideas

10.1 Enjoyed
Clay's Quilt by Silas House
✓ Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner

10.2 Name (4 letter)
✓ Educated by Tara Westover

10.3 Naughty (Nineties, any century)
✓ Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas 1995
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf 1990
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker 1995

10.4 Spring (5 in publication year)
✓ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 1925
Mysteries pub in 1950s

10.5 Mother (great list of authors!)
Agatha Christie
Anne Tyler
Celeste Ng
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Daphne du Maurier
Dorothy L. Sayers
✓ Elizabeth Gaskell
Jhumpa Lahiri
Maggie O'Farrell

10.6 Sentence
✓ So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
I Am the Clay by Chaim Potok

10.7 Codebreakers
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
✓ In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen

10.8 Birds (bird's name in title or author's name)
✓ Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien

10.9 Pub Trivia
✓ The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders vodka

10.10 Group Read
✓ The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain

20.1 Prize
✓ Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✓ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

20.2 Ann/e
Anne Tyler
✓ Run by Ann Patchett

20.3 Opposites
✓ The Dry by Jane Harper 2016
✓ Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

20.4 Crime (woman author)
✓ Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Beast In View by Margaret Millar 1955
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison 2013

20.5 Balkans
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna (Croatia)
✓ Girl at War by Sara Nović (Croatia) (Woman's Prize Nom)

20.6 Achilles
✓ The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

20.7 Real Person
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
✓ Winter by Christopher Nicholson

20.8 Queen of Short Fiction (short stories or novellas, mystery anthology)
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung
G K Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Joyce Carol Oates
✓ A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

20.9 Series
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton (#1)
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (#2) 1991
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker(#3) 1995
✓ The Transatlantic Book Club by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
✓ Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

20.10 Family
✓ A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
✓ There There by Tommy Orange
✓ Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
✓ Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan

✔️ 10.1 A Mercy by Toni Morrison

✔️ 10.2 The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine Green

✔️ 10.3 Moo by Jane Smiley

✔️ 10.4 The Pursuit of Love

✔️10.5 A Spool of Blue Thread
MaddAddam

10.6 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
✔️ Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

✔️ 10.7This Side of Murder by Anna Lee Huber

10.8 Cargo of Eagles
✔️ The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

✔️ 10.9 The Queen's Gambit

10.10 A Children's Bible
The Red Notebook
The Memory Police
✔️ He Never Came Back

20.1 The Zigzag Way
✔️ My Sister, the Serial Killer

✔️ 20.2 The Green Road
Milkman

✔️20.3 Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

20.4 A Crime in the Neighborhood
✔️ The Legacy

✔️ 20.5 The Tiger's Wife

20.6 The Song of Achilles
The Silver Pigs
✔️ Quo Vadis
Medicus
The Eagle of the Ninth
The Eagle and the Raven


20.7 Hamnet
✔️ The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd

20.8 Collected Works of Anna Katharine Green
✔️ The Case of Miss Elliott

20.9 Mastiff
The Quilter's Homecoming
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
MaddAddam
Leaving Everything Most Loved
Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose
Mourning Gloria
The Old Contemptibles
Murder at the Library of Congress
Origin
Morituri
The Perfect Murder
The Cosmic Clues
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
The Feng Shui Detective
Hotel Bosphorus
✔️ Swallows and Amazons

✔️ 20.10 Three Daughters

20.1 - Home

20.2 - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett or Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

20.3 - The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace or Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers or The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

20.4 - Postmortem by Patricia D. Cornwell

20.5 - People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

20.6 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

20.7 - To Capture What We Cannot Keep or Resistance Women

Done

Plan:

20.1 A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
20.2 something by Annie Haynes
20.3 something by Lilian Jackson Braun
20.4 One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (low lexile)
20.5 The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
20.6 The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
20.7 A Dreadful Murder: The Mysterious Death of Caroline Luard by Minette Walters

✔️ 10.1 Enjoyed
In My Father's House by Corrie ten Boom

10.2 Name
(an author who uses at least one four letter name)

10.3 Naughty
Read a book published in the naughty nineties, any century.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

✔️ 10.4 Spring
(Read any book with a 5 in its original publication date.)
Coronation Everest by Jan Morris

10.5 Mother
Read any book by one of these authors who is/was also a mother.

10.6 Sentence
In honor of National Speak in Sentences Day (May 31), read any book whose title is a complete sentence.

10.7 Codebreakers (Tien's Task)
(read a book related to codebreaking, cryptology, or cryptography)
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

10.8 Birds (Kim's Task)
(read a book with a bird's name (or the word bird) in the title or author's name.)

10.9 Pub Trivia (Anika's Task)

10.10 Group Reads
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (if available before June)

20.1 Prize
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

20.2 Ann/e

✔️ 20.3 Opposites
(read a book written by an author of one sex, using a point of view of the opposite sex.)
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

✔️ 20.4 Crime
(any book by a woman with an MPG of Crime.)
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

20.5 Balkans
The Man From Berlin by Luke McCallin

20.6 Achilles
(one of the top 150 books from Best Gay Fiction or one of the top 50 from Historical Fiction on Greece and Rome.)

20.7 Real Person
(a novel about a real person.)
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

20.8 Queen of Short Fiction (Denise's Task)
Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie

✔️ 20.9 Series (Kate S's task)
Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery (continuing)

20.10 Family (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Progress: 5/20

Ok, despite planning 2 rounds for Fabulous Firsts, I've penciled in these for the 20 pointers:

20.1 - Barkskins by Annie Proulx
20.2 - A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler and/or The Blue Diamond by Annie Haynes
20.3 - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
20.4 - The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
20.5 - The Siege by Ismail Kadare
20.6 - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
20.7 - The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd

First ideas:

20.1 - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones or Home by Marilynne Robinson

20.2 - Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey or Provenance by Ann Leckie

20.3 - Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

20.4 - Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

20.5 - The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto

20.6 - Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

20.7 - Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri or The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

10.1 Enjoyed
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
10.2 Name
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
10.3 Naughty
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto
10.4 Spring
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
10.5 Mother
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
10.6 Sentence
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
10.7 Codebreakers
House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella by W. Len
10.8 Birds
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
10.9 Pub Trivia
The Serbs Choose War by Ruth Mitchell
10.10 Group Reads
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
15.1 Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas
15.2 Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
15.3 Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita
15.4 The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
15.5 My Early Life, 1874-1904 by Winston S. Churchill
15.6 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
15.7 The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones
15.8 Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
15.9 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
15.10 The Postmortal by Drew Magary
20.1 Prize
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
20.2 Ann/e

20.3 Opposites
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
20.4 Crime
The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
20.5 Balkans
Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella
20.6 Achilles
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
20.7 Real Person
The Misses Brontë's Establishment by Amy Wolf
20.8 Queen of Short Fiction
Crime Never Pays by Clare West
20.9 Series
The Absolution by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
20.10 Family