Reading with Style discussion

20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!
In honor of Elizabeth's 80th birthday, we're revisiting some of the tasks she created over her many seasons of reading. For this task (originally found in Winter 2018/2019), read any book with an average rating over 3.74 AND under 1001 ratings.

Please post your questions for task 20.1 here. You may also "lock in" planned books that are dangerously near the limits for this task. It's not necessary to lock in every book.

I'd like to lock in A Bitter Veil by Libby Fischer Hellmann with 937 ratings. Probably won't go over 1000, but better to be safe than sorry.

Another to lock in ... Fenton's Quest by Mary Elizabeth Braddon whose current rating is 3.76.

AND Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg also current rating 3.76.

I'd like to lock in One Way Witch by Nnedi Okorafor and

Widow Walk and Isthmus by Gar Lasalle

Thanks, acknowledged :)

I have a book to lock in:

The Elements by John Boyne 4.65/225 ratings. I just won a Giveaway, and the number of ratings will be changing quickly. Thanks!

Congrats on winning a giveway and ooh, thanks for bringing a new John Boyne to my attention!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Congrats on winning a giveway and ooh, thanks for bringing a new John Boyne to my attention!"

I second that!

Thanks, Elizabeth and Karen. The book was released in Europe last year as four separate books --Earth, Air, Water, and Fire--and the four interrelated novellas are combined for the American publication.

Good info, Connie. I'll add it to the series.

Another to lock in

Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein at 3.75 avg rating and 181 ratings.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Another to lock in

Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein at 3.75 avg rating and 181 ratings."

Oh, that will be great to read along with finishing Time Regained this season. I also remembered to look at
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to 'In Search of Lost Time' and would like to lock it in. It has lots of prose included and is rated 4.35 with 899 ratings.

It's worth a ton of points, Karen Michele. Do try to get to it!

I'm not sure this one needs locking in, but I'll mention it anyway as it combos with 20.7.

Various Miracles by Carol Shields at 3.91 and 375.

I would like to lock in No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit
It was published in May and the number of ratings will probably climb.

Sorry, another to lock in. (We all know I grossly over plan.)

Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson

3.77 average and 894 ratings

I would like to add a lock for one of our group reads A Town with Half the Lights On by Page Getz

I'd like to lock in The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing by Charles Bukowski at 3.78, 279 ratings.

Also Here Comes a Candle by Fredric Brown, at 3.75, 170 ratings.

I would like to lock in Saint Death's Herald by C.S.E. Cooney currently 253 ratings and 4.17 average

Coralie wrote: "I would like to lock in Saint Death's Herald by C.S.E. Cooney currently 253 ratings and 4.17 average"

Noted

All of the above acknowledged

Another one to lock in please:

The Library Fuzz MEGAPACK® by James Holding
3.86, 107 ratings

I've read the first two stories which are fun, interesting, and light, but not so light as to be insulting. A good bedtime book.

The Last Great Death Stunt by Clark Howard

5.00, 1 rating

This book has only one rating, unless I’m missing something. I’d like to lock it in, because even one low rating will disqualify it. Another Hoopla find.