Reading with Style discussion

If you wish to share your plans for Fall, this is the place!

10.1 TBR

10.2 Halloween
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon

10.3 Back to School
J.K. Rowling
Kate Atkinson
Philip Pullman
Ian Rankin

10.4 Truth and Reconciliation (Valerie's Task)
Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

10.5 Classics (Ed's Task)
Thomas Hardy or Charles Dickens

10.6 Birthday (Tien's Task)
Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri

10.7 Service (Anika's Task)
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

10.8 Mediterranean (Coralie's Task)

10.9 Oxford (Rosemary's Task)

10.10 Group Reads
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline

20.1 Serially
(read a novel originally published serially)
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

20.2 Anti-hero

20.3 Ratings
(read a book with an average rating of 4.0 or higher)
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life by Julie Bogart

20.4 Non-linear
(read a novel told in a non-linear style)
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
(Sounds like nonlinear from cover blurb, have back up in case not accurate.)

20.5 Boomer
(read a book written by an author born 1946-1964)
Kate Atkinson
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

20.6 Awarded
(read a book that has won two or more literary awards)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

20.7 Exophonic
Samuel Beckett or Isak Dinesen

20.8 Gothic (Denise's Task)

20.9 Anniversary (Kate S's Task)

20.10 Musical Mysteries (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon

20.1 Serially
The Woman in White
plus many other choices

20.2 Anti-hero
The Wasp Factory

20.3 Ratings
The Night Hawks
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

20.4 Non-linear
Old Filth
Trainspotting

20.5 Boomer
Alexander McCall Smith
Jo Nesbo
Ben Aaronovitch
Martha Wells

20.6 Awarded
The Human Stain
Artificial Condition

20.7 Exophonic
Ignorance

I have way too many options, especially since I seem to be drawn to some jumbos this season. But as of posting, these are my top picks.

20.1 Serially
Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

20.2 Anti-hero
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

20.3 Ratings
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

20.4 Non-Linear
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam

20.5 Boomer
Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell

20.6 Awarded
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 by Mark Thompson

20.7 Exophonic
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński

Fall Styles: Combo (5), Review (10), Not-a-Novel (10), 1001 (10), Jumbo 500-699 (5)

10.1 TBR (can use one time)
✓ A Shelter of Others by Charles Dodd White (or 20.3 Ratings 4.30, or 10.3)

10.2 Halloween (death)
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd 2009
✓ A Double Death on the Black Isle by A.D. Scott

10.3 Back to School
✓ Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
✓ Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

10.4 Truth and Reconciliation (Indigenous author)
Poet Warrior: A Memoir or An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
✓ Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

10.5 Classics (100 X)
✓ The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

10.6 Birthday (male author with Sept, Oct, Nov birthdate
✓ Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Nov 8, 1954

10.7 Service
Redeployment by Phil Klay
✓ Thy Children's Children by Diana Ross McCain

10.8 Mediterranean
✓ Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (France) 1907

10.9 Oxford
✓ The Hanging of Margaret Dickson by Alison J. Butler 2013

10.10 Group Read
✓ Old Filth by Jane Gardam

20.1 Serially
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett 1902
✓ Laura by Vera Caspary 1942
Agatha Christie

20.2 Anti-hero
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc 1907
✓ Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

20.3 Ratings
✓ The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 4.34
The Color Of Lightning by Paulette Jiles 4.08
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer 4.17
✓ The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg 4.57

20.4 Non-Linear
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
✓ When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

20.5 Boomer
✓ Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley 2020 (born 1952)
✓ Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian (born 1962)
✓ The End of Her by Shari Lapena (born 1960)

20.6 Awarded
✓ Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

20.7 Exophonic
✓ Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

20.8 Gothic
✓ The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

20.9 Anniversary (champagne)
✓ The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah

20.10 Musical Mysteries
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon 1992
The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel 2015
✓ Honky Tonk Kat by Karen Kijewski 1996

10.9 Oxford
new - Kindle Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World
New - kindle New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean

20.2 Anti-hero
kindle Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

Read
10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.10
20.1, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 20.8, 20.9, 20.10

20.1 Serially
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (20.2)

20.2 Anti-hero
Grendel by John Gardner

20.3 Ratings

20.4 Non-linear

20.5 Boomer
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker (20.2)

20.6 Awarded


20.7 Exophonic
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (20.6

My scratch pad and thinking place
styles…Combo, Review, Not-A-Novel, 1001, Jumbo
10.1 TBR
Thousands!
✔️ #566Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

10.2 Halloween
Hanging Hill
Corpses Say The Darndest Things
Graveyard Dust
✔️ The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind
Pick Your Poison: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia is Making Lab Rats of Us All
Brother, I'm Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
Faithful Unto Death
Cadaver: An Edwina Crusoe Medical Mystery

10.3 Back to School
Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-Room Texas Schoolhouse.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Jane Smiley
Lee Smith
Silas House
✔️#71 John Harwood

10.4 Reconciliation
✔️ #499 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Night Watchman
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Pale-Faced Lie

10.5 Classics
✔️ #559Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
The Invisible Man
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Neuromancer
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

10.6 Birthday (male only}
✔️ #486Stephen King
Kinky Friedman
Mark Twain
H.G. Wells
Truman Capote

10.7 Service
Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
Redeployment
✔️ #361Here, Right Matters: An American Story
Massacre at Hill 303
Red Clay and Rattlesnake Springs: A History of the Cherokee Indians of Bradley County, Tennessee

10.8 Mediterranean
Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010
Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks
✔️ Divine Expectations: An American Woman In Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Barbara Kreiger

10.9 Oxford
Lady Audley's Secret
Church of Marvels
Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church
✔️ The social principles of Jesus
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

10.10 Group Reads
Old Filth
Piranesi
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
✔️ #585 Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

20.1 Serially
Killing Timeby Caleb Carr
John Dies at the End: Movie Tie-In Edition
Espresso Tales
44 Scotland Street
Agatha Christie
✔️ #359Thank You, Jeeves
Uncle Silas

20.2 Anti-Hero
✔️#382 Breakfast of Champions

20.3 Ratings
The Overstory
Olive, Again
The Vanishing Half
✔️ The Water Dancer

20.4 Non-Linear
✔️ #53Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

20.5 Boomer
Annette Gordon-Reed
Caleb Carr
Elizabeth Strout
Richard Powers
✔️#246 G. Ross Kelly Jr.

20.6 Awarded
✔️ The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

20.7 Exophonic
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
✔️ #578 The AttackYasmina Khadra

20.8 Gothic
Uncle Silas
Lost Souls
The Great God Pan
The Asylum
✔️#481 Gad's Hall
House of Leaves

20.9 Anniversary
✔️ #536 The Haunting of Gad's Hall

20.10 Musical Mysteries
Greenwich Killing Time
Holy Disorders
✔️#38 Voice of the Violin