Reading with Style discussion

Here's a place for your plans for the season, if you'd like to post them (not required).

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Possibilities:

10.1

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night (100-175 pages)
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell 157 pages

10.3 New Year, New Book (pub 2021-2026)
The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

10.4 Valentine's Day (consumes chocolate)
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny (check for hot chocolate; 2021; winter)

10.5 Winter or Summer? (set 75% in winter)
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis (Rockettes Christmas Show)

10.6 Old Man Time or Baby New Year (Main character is 70+, or 12 or younger)
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans age 73

10.7

10.8

10.9

10.10 Group Reads

20.1 Sense and Sensibility (siblings)
The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club by Martha Hall Kelly
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

20.2 Pride and Prejudice (shelved as Science 100 or more times)
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel

20.3 Mansfield Park (title has fictional location)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

20.4 Emma (book to movie, or a retelling of one of Austen's novels)
Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

20.5 Northanger Abbey (author in their teens or twenties)
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

20.6 Persuasion (posthumously published book)
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs

20.7

20.8 Talking Heads (set in Caribbean)
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid

20.9 Forces of Nature (natural disaster)
Promise by Minrose Gwin
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

20.10 Mysteries Challenge (mystery or crime pub before 1980)
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton 1908
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins 1856

10.2 Shortest Day/Night
Reasons to Live

10.3 New Year, New Book
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park

10.4 Valentine's Day
The Poisoned Chocolates Case

10.5 Winter or Summer

10.6 Old Man Time or Baby New Year (Anika's Task)
When the Cranes Fly South

10.7

10.8

10.9

10.10 Group Reads
Greek Lessons

20.1 Sense and Sensibility
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

20.2 Pride and Prejudice
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

20.3 Mansfield Park
Cannery Row

20.4 Emma
Cape Fear

20.5 Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey

20.6 Persuasion
The Man With the Golden Gun

20.7

20.8 Talking Heads
In a Free State

20.9 Forces of Nature
The Nature of Fragile Things

20.10 Mysteries Challenge
God Save The Child

10.1 Member Lotto (Jayme's task)

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night
Read a short book (100-175 pages in the MPE).
Jack Reacher's Rules by Lee Child (160 pgs)

10.3 New Year, New Book
Read a book first published in the last 5-6 years (2021-2026).
Highway Thirteen: Stories by Fiona McFarlane (2024)

10.4 Valentine's Day
Read a book where a character consumes chocolate or a chocolate-flavored item.

10.5 Winter or Summer?
Read a book set at least 75% in winter if you live in the northern hemisphere.
A Maigret Christmas And Other Stories by Georges Simenon

10.6 Old Man Time or Baby New Year (Anika's Task)
Read a book whose main character is, throughout the book, either “old” (70+) or a child (for this task, “child” would refer to anyone 12 or younger).
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

10.7

10.8

10.9

10.10 Group Reads
Read one of the following books OR any book by the author of one of these books.

20.1 Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Read a book that focuses on a pair or group of siblings.
My Brother's Keeper by Marcia Davenport
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

20.2 Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Read a book shelved as Science 100 or more times.
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith

20.3 Mansfield Park (1814)
Read a novel whose title includes the name of a fictional location.

20.4 Emma (1815)
Read a book that has been adapted into a movie, or read a retelling of one of Austen's novels.
Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White
Fat City by Leonard Gardner 1972 film

20.5 Northanger Abbey (1817)
Read a book written when the author was in their teens or twenties.
Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Pub. 1966; Oates born 1938

20.6 Persuasion (1817)
Read a posthumously published book.
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski

20.7

20.8 Talking Heads (Apple's Task)
Read a book by a writer born in a Caribbean country.
The Great Yacht Race by Anthony C. Winkler

20.9 Forces of Nature (Joanna's task)
Read a book featuring a natural disaster.

20.10 Mysteries Challenge (Rosemary's Task)
Read a book with MPG Mystery or Crime published before 1980.
I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1933)