Reading with Style discussion

This is a thread for Task Ideas. We welcome your ideas for tasks. Other types of posts are best placed in the socializing thread.

Father’s Day - task with male name in title.
ie David Copperfield, Eli the Good

We have had the female name task more than once but haven’t had a male name task yet.

Another subchallenge idea linking books but no particular order needed.
I often notice when new books come out or are up for awards or even groups listed, that often titles have words that appear in more than one book. ie 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was March and a close competitor was The March.
In our own groupreads our current challenge the word “World” appears twice, and in the 2020 challenge two of the group reads were A Bird in the House and The Dutch House
In fact I found 8 more times this happened in our group.*

So I took random words and looked on my TBR shelf and easily found 10 titles sharing various words. I was able to find several words that occurred in titles at least ten times, Daughter, Son, Man, Wife, Sun, Night, Day, River, Sea, Land, Horse, Cat, Red, Green, House, Boy, Girl, Life, Death, Book, World, Light, Horse, Cat
Even in our bookshelf there are words that occur 5 or more times if liberal about plurals and compounds.*
So for the challenge pick a word (noun maybe? Pronouns, Conjugations, articles etc not permitted) and read ten books with that same word in title. Reminds me when we picked a city and read ten books based in that city.

Another version is 10 authors who share a name. First names that are common are easy, like John, James, Michael, David, Ann, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane for example
Surnames may be harder but I found about 20 Smiths in my TBR


*Spring 2023- World. Fall 2022- River and Everything
Fall 2021 - Thread. Fall 2020 - Last.
Fall 2017 - Man. Summer 2014 - Hour
?2010 - Book
**Death , World, Stone, Child/Children, Night, House, Everything, Thing
3 or more times: Sea, Life, Book, Tree, Dead, River, Time
There very likely are more but got tired of looking,

For Fall
September, October, November
First letter in each month in chronological order spells SON. Read an author whose last name ends in “SON”.
Examples; The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Spending otherwise useful time look for titles that fit Go For the Green Redux, I have seen this slightly different challenge:

Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.

We have had "set in" geographic sub-challenges. I could be wrong, but I don't recall one with an "author born in".

the 250th birthday for USA on July 4. Many tasks can come from that.

Takes place or published in the time period,

Authors born in allied countries that sent help, France, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands

Takes place in other countries who have gained independence from Great Britain ie Irish Republic, India, Kenya, Palestine, Belize etc

Authors share name with Signers of Declaration
https://www.ushistory.org/declaration...

Takes place in the original 13 colonies: examples
Connecticut - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Delaware - Sunburn by Laura Lippman
Georgia - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Maryland - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Massachusetts (at the time included Maine) - The Crucible by Arthur Miller
New Hampshire - The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
New Jersey - One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
New York - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
North Carolina - Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Pennsylvania - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Rhode Island - The Wedding People by Alison Espach
South Carolina - The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Virginia (at the time included West Virginia) - The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

We have plans for the summer, Rebekah, but maybe we can continue with the celebrations in the Fall season!