Reading with Style discussion

This is the place to post your path in case you want to post books out of order.

Sample Path:

15.1 - Science Fiction/Fantasy - Babel by R.F. Kuang - MPG Fantasy

15.2 - Far Future - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

15.3 - Cat - The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

15.4 - Persian - Guapa by Saleem Haddad

15.5 - Tabouleh - The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

15.6 - Mythology - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

15.7 - Noun - An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges

15.8 - Pseudonym - Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire (also publishes as Mira Grant)

15.9 - <5k ratings - The Dragon Head of Hong Kong by Ian Hamilton

15.10 - Thriller - The Ninja Daughter by Tori Eldridge

Tentative Plan:

1 Classics - American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens (15.5, comment # 147)

2 100-299 pages - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (15.1, comment #69)

3 Wine - The Life Impossible by Matt Haig (15.3, comment #95)

4 Rioja - translated from Spanish - The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato (15.7, Comment # 339)

5 Madrid - The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman (15.8, Comment #411)

6 Same Letter - The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller (15.6, Comment #159)

7 Play - Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (15.9, Comment # 429)

8 Book with a Death - The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman (15.2 Comment #71)

9 A 9 in the Pub Year - The Promise by Chaim Potok 1969 (15.10, Comment # 472)

10 Nature, Thriller, or Historical Fiction - Still Missing by Chevy Stevens (15.4 Comment # 118)

Plan:

✔ 15.1 Classics: England Made Me by Graham Greene

✔ 15.2 301+: The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
(This is an audiobook that will take me a while so I may post out of order)

✔ 15.3 Seeker: Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

✔ 15.4 Orient Express, France: Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep by Georges Perec

✔ 15.5 Grandeur: The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Laura Ingalls Wilder
or The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI by Colin Evans

✔ 15.6 Music, 1950s: The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins

✔ 15.7 Color: Pink Sugar by O. Douglas

✔ 15.8 Death: Lessons in Temptation by Charlie Cochrane

✔ 15.9 Six: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss

✔ 15.10 Historical Fiction: Lessons in Seduction by Charlie Cochrane

This looks fun!

15.1 mystery: Always a Cold Deck
15.2 Poirot: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

rest will be up to chance.... unless I can't cope with the uncertainty, ha, ha

Joanna, your sample path shows Fantasy, so I am assuming the MPG Does NOT have to be Sci-Fi/Fantasy, it can be either, is that correct?

I am choosing to pick one path at a time. Not sure I needed to tell you this, but figured I would.

Joanne wrote: "Joanna, your sample path shows Fantasy, so I am assuming the MPG Does NOT have to be Sci-Fi/Fantasy, it can be either, is that correct?"

That is correct :-) It can be either Sci-Fi or Fantasy

Path

15.1 - Mystery - Hurt Mountain by Angela Crook

15.2 - Poirot - Extraordinary People by Peter May

15.3 - Coffee - Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein - 1996

15.4 - White - The Wrong Man by Kate White

15.5 - Fauna - Wolf Hollow by Victoria Houston

15.6 - Ruth Rendell - Henning Mankell - Before the Frost

15.7 - Comforter - Without a Trace by Malcolm Forsythe - 1991

15.8 - Numbered Chapters - We Forget Nothing by D.D. Black

15.9 - My Decade - 1950's - My Gun Is Quick by Mickey Spillane

15.10 - Thriller - Vanishing Angels by Melinda Woodhall

1. Read Fantasy/ science fiction
De kleuren van schaduw

2. Read a book set in ancient times
Hier waak ik

3. read a book where a character drives a car
Als wij schurken waren

4. Read a book set 50 % either in China
Parel van China

5. Your task is to choose a book whose title contains all the letters of whichever city you choose. Shangai
Ikigai: Het Japanse geheim voor een lang en gelukkig leven

6..For this task, choose a title that has a a compound word
Schuilplaats

7. read a book by… .Tad williams
The Left Hand of Darkness

8.. Your task is to read a book that has won at least two awards
James

9. read a book with with <5K ratings.
De zaak Magritte

De zaak Magritte Toni Coppers 287 p. 2 march

10. Thriller
De winter van de profeet

It Looks like I won't be reading in order (a challenge with holds and not finishing what I have started because ... too many library books, and my first book is my own!), so here is my plan ...

Path - Sci Fi

1) MPG Sci Fi - Neuromancer by William Gibson

2) Far Future - Old Man's War by John Scalzi

3) Character who has a cat - The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

4) Siamese (Set in South East Asia) : The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (Malaysia)

5) Pad Thai (contains all letters) : Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

6) Outer Space (book set in): Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

7) 5 star read active RWS member: The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (Anika)

8) Memoir / Biography : M Train by Patti Smith

9) Ratings (read a book with less than 5k):Democracy by Joan Didion (3943 ratings as of posting)

10) Visit another shelf (MPG Thriller): The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

I was planning to post in order, but I found an error, so now I will be posting out of order. Also, I love this sub challenge!

Mystery

Naked in Death by J.D. Robb

Poirot

My Favorite Monster & Other Poems by Luis Alberto de Cuenca

Coffee / 1968

Setting Free the Bears by John Irving

White

The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

Flora

The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović

Young

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Favorite Author

The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

Historical Figure

The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict

Translated / Japanese

Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Thriller

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Apple wrote: "It Looks like I won't be reading in order (a challenge with holds and not finishing what I have started because ... too many library books, and my first book is my own!), so here is my plan ...

P..."

And I am already changing ...

1) MPG Sci Fi - Neuromancer by William Gibson

2) Far Future - Old Man's War by John Scalzi

3) Character who has a cat - The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

4) Siamese (Set in South East Asia) : The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (Malaysia)

5) Pad Thai (contains all letters) : Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

6) Outer Space (book set in): Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

7) 5 star read active RWS member: The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (Anika)

8) Memoir / Biography : All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

9) Ratings (read a book with less than 5k):Democracy by Joan Didion (3943 ratings as of posting)

10) Visit another shelf (MPG Thriller): The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

Apple wrote: "Apple wrote: "It Looks like I won't be reading in order (a challenge with holds and not finishing what I have started because ... too many library books, and my first book is my own!), so here is m..."

And another change:

1) MPG Sci Fi - Neuromancer by William Gibson

2) Far Future - Old Man's War by John Scalzi

3) Character who has a cat - We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

4) Siamese (Set in South East Asia) : The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (Malaysia)

5) Pad Thai (contains all letters) : Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

6) Outer Space (book set in): Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

7) 5 star read active RWS member: The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (Anika)

8) Memoir / Biography : All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

9) Ratings (read a book with less than 5k):Democracy by Joan Didion (3943 ratings as of posting)

10) Visit another shelf (MPG Thriller): The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler