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message 1: by Anika (new)

Anika | 2915 comments If you'd like to share your Winter plan, this is the place!


message 2: by Connie (last edited Feb 14, 2024 09:24PM) (new)

Connie  G (connie_g) | 1964 comments Planning Ideas

10.1 Square Peg

10.2 Singular Mystery
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline

✓ 10.3 New Year's Traditions (India)
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

10.4 Leap Year (100-150 pages)
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens

10.5 Jewish Writers
I Am the Clay or Old Men at Midnight: Stories by Chaim Potok

10.6 Winter Birthdays

10.7 Feasting
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard

10.8 Fairytale of New York (Pub 1982-1996)
J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton (1993)

10.9 Summer, Not Winter (Southern Hemisphere)
Homecoming by Kate Morton (Australia)

10.10 Group Reads
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

20.1 Shakespeare (book title references a play or quote)
Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

20.2 A Midsummer Night's Dream (top 150 of Wise Woman. . . list)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

20.3 The Tempest (winners of British Fantasy Award)
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

20.4 Othello (hidden identity)
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart

20.5 King John to Henry VIII (set or pub between 1199-1547)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (set in 1327)
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom (set in 1537)

20.6 The Sonnets (book of poetry)
Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy and Tim Armstrong

20.7 The Wild Life
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh

20.8 The Big 5-0 (memoir lists)
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

20.9 Fresh Start (new city, house, or job)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Brightest Star by Gail Tsukiyama

20.10 Boxing Day (servants, the poor, the underclass)
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
Two Trains Running by August Wilson


message 3: by Valerie (last edited Dec 13, 2023 03:56AM) (new)

Valerie Brown | 3391 comments 10.1 Square Peg
Lies Sleeping

10.2 Singular Mystery
The Blue Diamond

10.3 New Year's Traditions
Grimus

10.4 Leap Year
Signs Preceding the End of the World

10.5 Jewish Writers
So Big

10.6 Winter Birthdays
many choices on hand

10.7 Feasting
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories

10.8 Fairytale of New York
The Flanders Panel

10.9 Summer, not Winter
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

10.10 Group Reads
Happiness

20.1 Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead

20.2 A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Wee Free Men

20.3 The Tempest
The Water Dancer

20.4 Othello
The Masqueraders

20.5 King John to Henry VIII
The Lady of the Rivers

20.6 The Sonnets
Winter Garden , and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

20.7 The Wild Life
Horse Heaven
The Leopard

20.8 The Big 5-0
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

20.9 Fresh Start

20.10 Boxing Day
The Kitchen House
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris


message 4: by Beth (last edited Feb 01, 2024 09:36AM) (new)

Beth Robinson (bethrobinson) | 1195 comments 10.2 Murder on a Mystery Tour
10.3 The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
10.5 The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
10.8
10.9
10.10 could check out 7 husbands
20.1
20.2
20.8

Read
10.1 10.4, 10.6, 10.7
20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 20.9, 20.10


message 5: by Anika (last edited Nov 30, 2023 12:40PM) (new)

Anika | 2915 comments 10.1 Square Peg:
10.2 Singular Mystery: The Love of my Life
10.3 New Year's Tradition: The Covenant of Water
10.4 Leap Year: Odes to Lithium
10.5 Jewish Writers:
10.6 Winter Birthdays:
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10 Group Reads:
20.1 Shakespeare: Exit, Pursued by a Bear, The Winter of Our Discontent
20.2 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Uprooted, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
20.3 The Tempest: She Who Became the Sun
20.4 Othello:
20.5 King John to Henry VIII:
20.6 The Sonnets:
20.7
20.8 The Big 5-0: She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
20.9 Fresh Start: Lessons in Chemistry
20.10 Boxing Day: Oliver Twist, The Grapes of Wrath


message 6: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2395 comments 10.1 - Square Peg - Carrie Soto Is Back
10.2 - Singular Mystery - A Killing for Christ
10.3 - India - East, West
10.4 - Leap Year - Don't Try This at Home, Rose/House (also 10.5 and 10.6)
10.5 - Jewish Writers - Winter Journal
10.6 - Winter bdays - AFTER LONG SILENCE
10.7 - Feasting - Poor Matza: Selected Stories of Avrom Reisen Translated From the Yiddish By Harvey Fink
10.8 - Fairytale of NY - The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
10.9 - Summer, not Winter - Nine Perfect Strangers
10.10 - Group Reads - The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
20.1 - Shakespeare - Rosemary and Rue
20.2 - Midsummer Night - Bitten
20.3 - Tempest - The Scar
20.4 - Othello -
20.5 - King John to Henry VIII - Mirror Mirror
20.6 - Sonnets -
20.7 - Wild Life - Junkyard Cats, The Butterfly Lampshade
20.8 - Anika's 50th - Heavy
20.9 - Joanna's Fresh Start - Uprooted
20.10 - Rosemary's Boxing Day - Poverty, by America


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