Reading with Style discussion

Here's the thread for your optional plans for our 10- and 20-point tasks in Fall 2024.

the plan.... which is always subject to change!! :)

10.1 Devotion (own)

10.2 The Turn of the Screw

10.3 Before We Were Yours (own)

10.4 So Big (own)

10.5 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (own)

10.6 The Disappearance of Signora Giulia (own)
Under a Dancing Star

10.7

10.8 The Corpse with the Silver Tongue

10.9 Come Back, Dr. Caligari

10.10 Migrations
Nettle & Bone

20.1 The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie (own)

20.2 I Can Make You Happy (own)

20.3 The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Before Your Memory Fades

20.4 Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

20.5 Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay (own)

20.6 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

20.7 The Singapore Grip (own)

20.8

20.9 Rock Paper Scissors

20.10 The Little Friend (own)

20.1 - Winkie by Clifford Chase
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffor... - "He's worked as a visiting writer at Bowling Green State University, where he instructed courses in creative writing for the English Department, and as a visiting writer and professor of English at Wesleyan University."

20.2 - How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe
3 - How; 1 - a; 4 - Easy

20.3 - The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
La Ra V Ar

20.4 -

20.5 - The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
(involves witches)
[Combo 20.1, 20.3]

20.6 - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

20.7 - Eventide by Kent Haruf OR The Red by Tiffany Reisz

20.1 ✔️The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson

We've Already Gone This Far by Patrick Dacey
Rock Springs by Richard Ford

20.3 Authors:
✔️Margaret Atwood
✔️Percival Everett
✔️Celia Fremlin
✔️Paul Harding
✔️Clark Howard
Margaret Millar
Thomas Mullen
✔️Joyce Carol Oates
✔️Stewart O'Nan
Marc Reisner
✔️Ruth Rendell
✔️Elizabeth Strout
✔️Matthew Walker
Jess Walter

20.4

20.5

20.6

20.7

20.1 The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson (In 2006 and 2007, Johnson held the Mitte Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Johnson also occasionally taught at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin; set in Nicaragua)

20.2

20.3 Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Rosita Arvigo Os--Osmium Ta--Tantalum Ar--Argon I--Iodine (set in Belize)

20.4

20.5

20.6 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (locking in, as it's currently sitting at #399)

20.7

20.8

20.9

20.10

Working on a Plan

10.1 Exception to the Rule (75-150 pg)
✓ Felicity by Mary Oliver (81 pages)

✓ 10.2 Gothic Fiction
Thornyhold by Mary Stewart #80

10.3 Thankful for Family
✓ Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (53X)

10.4 Significant Year
✓ An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James 1972

10.5 Lucky Sevens
✓ The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

✓ 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader
The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose Pg 38 gold
Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette

10.7 Helicopter Season
✓ You Are Here by David Nicholls
Close To Me by Amanda Reynolds

10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival
✓ A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
Close To Me by Amanda Reynolds
The Coffin Tree by Gwendoline Butler

10.9 Keep it Short
✓ More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson (20.1)
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett

10.10 Group Reads
✓ The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

20.1 Back to School
✓ War Trash by Ha Jin (Boston Univ Professor)
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (taught at Atlanta University)
Jeffrey Eugenides
Dan Brown
Joyce Carol Oates
Wallace Stegner
William Kent Krueger

20.2 Math
✓ Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque
All That I Am by Anna Funder
I Am the Clay by Chaim Potok
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher by Sue Halpern

20.3 Chemistry
✓ Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki (Young)
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes 1913 Mystery
The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green 1910 Mystery
On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves

20.4 Home Economics
✓ Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard

20.5 Speech and Debate
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
✓ Slade House by David Mitchell born 1969

20.6 Literature
✓ Atonement by Ian McEwan

20.7 Art (trilogy)
✓ The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

20.8 Fall Authors (born in year ending in 9, 0, 1)
✓ The Chosen by Chaim Potok born 1929
Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson born 1970

20.9 haLLowEEn
✓ Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
✓ The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

20.10 Zaphabetical
✓ Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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