Reading with Style discussion

A place to post your plans.

Plan:

10.1 Member Lottery (trip on foot or horseback)
✓ The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

10.2 April Showers (water)
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri

10.3 St Patrick's Day (Ireland)
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell

10.4 Mother's Day (domestic fiction list)
✓ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

10.5 Tom Robbins (MPG Humor)
✓ How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

10.6 David Lodge (college campus)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach or
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

10.7 Singing Season
Diva by Daisy Goodwin (Maria Callas, Opera)
The Great Passion by James Runcie (Bach)

10.8 Vietnam
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

10.9 Surgery Best Wishes (MC works in medicine)
✓ Fragile by Lisa Unger (psychologist)

10.10 Group Reads
City Boy by Herman Wouk
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

20.1 Adaptation and Resilience (movie, miniseries, TV, or is a retelling)
✓ The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
✓ The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories by John Cheever

20.2 Carbon Removal (won 2 or more prizes)
✓ The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides or
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides or
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss


20.3 Climate Policy (politician/political event)
✓ Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin (Nazi occupation of Paris, WWII)
✓ The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian (US Civil War)
Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon by Suzanne M. Desan

20.4 Climate Science (climate change fiction)
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Playground by Richard Powers
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (cli fi 5x)

20.5 Human Impacts (Aspen Words Literary Prize)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

20.6 Reducing Emissions (each title word is shorter than the previous one)
✓ The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
✓ Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

20.7 Senior Sleuth
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie 1943
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie 1952
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie 1953

20.8 Temple Bar Pub (drinks beer or whiskey)
✓ Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (beer, pg 33)
The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark (whiskey, pg 77)

20.9 I Bless the Rains Down in Africa (author born or book set in Africa)
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (born Zambia, set in Rwanda)

20.10 True/False (creative or narrative nonfiction)
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

10.1 Back to Basics
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

10.2: St. Patrick's Day
The Gathering by Anne Enright

10.3 April Showers
The Lonely Silver Rain by John D. MacDonald

10.4 Mother's Day
Silas Marner by George Eliot

10.5 Tom Robbins
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore

10.6 David Lodge
Changing Places by David Lodge

10.7 Singing Season
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

10.8 Vietnam
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

10.9 Surgery Best Wishes
maybe something by Mazey Eddings

10.10 Group Reads
Orbital

20.1 Adaptation and Resilience
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

20.2 Carbon Removal
In the Woods by Tana French

20.3 Climate Policy
The Gallant Cause: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939 by Mark Zuehlke

20.4 Climate Science
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

20.5 Human Impacts
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

20.6 Reducing Emissions
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

20.7 Senior Sleuths
Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs

20.8 Temple Bar Pub
Ceremony by Robert B. Parker

20.9 I Bless the Rains down in Africa

20.10 True/False
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

20.1: House of Odysseus, Demon Copperhead

20.2: An American Marriage

20.3:

20.4: A Children's Bible

20.5: Transcendent Kingdom, Land of Milk and Honey

20.6: The Vanishing Half

10.3 April Showers
Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service by Devin Leonard

10.7 Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson

20.1 Adaption
The Maltese Falcon

20.2 Carbon Removal (won two prizes)
Children of Time
Cuba: An American History

20.3 Climate Policy (politician or political event)
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism

20.4 Climate Science
Cloud Cuckoo Land

20.5 Human Impact
Exit West

20.6 Reducing Emissions
Thin Air by Lisa Gray
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

20.20 True/False
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant