Reading with Style discussion

Post your completed tasks here. In order to help us better manage our score keeping: PLEASE ONLY POST ONE BOOK PER MESSAGE and do not delete posts.

Please use the add book/author link for the book titles and include a link to both title and author in your post.

If using an outside source to qualify a book for points, please be sure to post in the appropriate task thread prior to posting in this thread.

Sample Post

10.4 Valentine's Day

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

+10 Task ("I hastily drank my chocolate, without saying a word" Book VIII)
+10 Lost in Translation
+10 Not a Novel (autobiography)
+20 Oldies (1773)
+ 5 Jumbo (676 pages)

Task total = 65
Season Total = 255 (assuming mid-season with 190 pts claimed earlier; no combos for this book)

Written in the Stars

Sample Post

15.5 WitS

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

sign: ARIES
month: 4 (1954)
element: Fire (MPG Adventure)
polarity: M

+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1954)
+ 5 Big (1216 pages)

Task total = 25
Season Total = 380 (assuming midseason with a previous total of 355; not using the Cardinal aspect for this book)

10.3 New Year, New Book

The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park by Michiko Aoyama

my carry-over book (read 97 pgs/243, <40%)

10 task
10 LiT
______
20

Running total: 20

20.9 Forces of Nature (Joanna's task)
Soms zou ik de wind willen zijn
Franco Faggiani
Disaster : earthquake around Amatrice, Italy

20 points + 5 points (combo 10.3) + 10 ( lost in translation)
Total points: 35 points

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night
To celebrate the solstice, read a short book (100-175 pages in the MPE).

De violist
Ingrid de Vries
10 points + 5 (combo 10.3)
Total: 50 points

15.1 Written in the Stars

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Scorpio - F, fantasy(water), 2020 (0)

15 task
_____
15

Running total: 35

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night

Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel

10 task
10 NaN
5 oldie
______
25

Running total: 60

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night

Goodnight Tokyo
Atsuhiro Yoshida

10 points
+ 5 (combo 10.3)
+10 (not a novel)
+10 (lost in translation)
Total: 85 points

20.10 Mystey challenge
Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha Christie
Task +20
Bonus oldies + 10 published 1934
Grand total: 30

15.1 Written in the Stars
Sign: Cancer

I read The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Polarity: Female author

Element: Water, Genre -- “Fantasy”

Month: Number 6 or 7 – 1st published 1976 (ends in 6)

Task = 15
Bonus: Old = 5 (1st pub’d 1976)
Season Total: 20

15.2 Written in the Stars
Sign: Scorpio

I read Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler.

Polarity: Female Author

Element: Water, Genre -- "Fantasy"

Modality: Standalone.

Task = 15
Season Total: 35

20.3 Mansfield Park

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

+20 Task, "Tender Hearts" refers to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Tucson, AZ (which doesn't exist...the only "Tender Hearts" in Tucson is Tender Hearts Child Development Center)
+ 15 Combo: 10.3, pub. 2025; 10.6, Luna is 10 and Ollie is 9; 20.1, Luna and Ollie are "Irish twins"

Task total: 35
Season total: 25

20.5 Northanger Abbey (1817)

Toubab by Núria Tamarit

born 1993 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BA... – published 2021, she was 28

+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel

Task total = 20

Points total = 20

10.3 New Year, New Book

La Guerre des voisins: La géopolitique à hauteur d'immeuble by Mikko

Publishes 2025

+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel

Task total = 10

Points total = 30

20.9 Forces of Nature

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

a flood happens for the most part of the novel.

+20 Task
No style points, low lexile

Task total = 20

Points total = 50

20.4 Emma (1815)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140379/

20 points
+. 10,(Combo 10.1;10. 5)
+ 10 ( lost in translation)
+ 25 (oldies)
+ 10 ( not a novel)
Total: 160 points

Post 15 Marie wrote: "20.9 Forces of Nature

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

a flood happens for the most part of the novel.

+20 Task
No style points, low lexile

Task total = 20

Poin..."

Marie, we have reduced the required Lexile score to 700, and this book is 770, so you can claim any style points you can find. You can certainly claim LiT since it was not originally written in your native language. Please make a new post to do that.

20.3 Mansfield Park

Erewhon by Samuel Butler

+20 Task (Erewhon is a fictional country)
+ 5 Combo (20.4 movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon... )
+15 Oldies (1872)

Task total = 40
Season Total = 40

20.4 Emma (1815)

Animal Farm
George Orwell

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467700/

20 points
+ 10 (combo 10.1; 10.2)
+ 10 ( oldies)
+ 10 ( lost in translation);
Total: 210 points

15.1 WitS

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Gemini: Air (Book Club, MPG), M (male author), June/6 (pub date. 2016)

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 50

10.5 - Winter or Summer

Dead Line by Marc Cameron

+10 task - Winter
+5 Combo 10.3 - published 2025

Task total: 15
Grand total: 15

10.5 - Winter or Summer

DRUID'S MOOR: A DCI Evan Warlow Novel by Rhys Dylan

+10 task - Winter
+5 Combo 10.3 - published 2025

Task total: 15
Grand total: 30

15.2 WitS

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

Taurus: Earth (Mystery MPG), F (female author), Fixed (standalone novel), April/4 (published 2024)

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 65