Reading with Style discussion

Feel free to share your Winter 19-20 Reading Plans here.

Thank you much!
✔️ 10.1 5-Star Reads
Embers by Sándor Márai (Elizabeth)
Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (Anika)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Elizabeth)
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (Kate S) #166

✔️ 10.2 Anniversary
The Accident by Natalie Barelli #196

✔️ 10.3 Industrial Revolution
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell #441
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne

✔️ 10.4 Postmodern Genius
White Teeth by Zadie Smith #339
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
I, etcetera by Susan Sontag

✔️ 10.5 Debut
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Everything Happens as It Does by Albena Stambolova
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector #570

10.6 not quite Jumbo
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 455 pages
The Street by Ann Petry (448)
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia (471)

✔️ 10.7 Alphabet Soup
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Love and Life by Charlotte Mary Yonge #541


✔️ 10.8 Single Word
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett #122
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Son by Lois Lowry
Jenny by Sigrid Undset
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

10.9 Play the Numbers
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
You, the Jury by Mary Borden (1952)
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia (2019)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

10.10 Group Reads
Jenny by Sigrid Undset
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Everything Happens as It Does by Albena Stambolova


✔️ 20.1 Decade
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple #608

20.2 Emancipation Season
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes (Louisiana)


✔️ 20.3 She Writes
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Indiana by George Sand#694

✔️ 20.4 Poets non Poetry
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot #493

20.5 A Sense of Place
Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

✔️ 20.6 Stand Up For Your Rights
From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream by Janice S. Ellis
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie # 677

✔️ 20.7 Island Dreams
The Price of Paradise by Susana López Rubio #413
The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey

✔️ 20.8 Unification Season 1961-1989
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall
War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich #537

✔️ 20.9 Season of Shorter Day’s
Vacations from Hell by Libba Bray et al
Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers by Melissa Edmundson #605
Writers Who Quilt, Quilters Who Write: Stories Stitched with Pens & Needles by Anne K. Kaler

✔️ 20.10 Winning Decade
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Agatha 2018)
Improvement by Joan Silber (Pen/Faulkner 2018) #285
How to Be Both byAli Smith (Costa 2014)

10.1 5 star reads
Good Morning, Midnight(from Ed's books)
Under the Volcano (from Rosemary's books)
The Day of the Triffids (as above = R)

10.2 Industrial Rev.
Whom the Gods Love

10.3 PoMo
A Scanner Darkly

10.4 Anniversary
Nemesis

10.5 Debut
The End of East

10.6 Not quite a jumbo
Russian Winter

10.7 Alphabet soup
The Third Man

10.8 Single Word Title
Surfacing

10.9 Play the numbers
How to Be Good

10.10 Group Reads
The Dovekeepers

20.1 Decade
The Song of Achilles
A Tale for the Time Being

20.2 Freedom season
A Streetcar Named Desire

20.3 She writes
The Art of French Kissing
Sisterland (lexile 700)

20.4 Poet's non-poetry
The Fur Person

20.5 Sense of Place
The Bookshop on the Corner
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (kobo)

20.6 Stand up for your rights
Cry, the Beloved Country

20.7 Island Dreams
Mr. Potter (Antigua)

20.8 Unification season
Difficulties with Girls (1988)

20.9 Shorter days
The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers
(anthology)

20.10 A winning decade
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Costa 2017)

10.1 5-Star Reads DONE
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (Karen's books)
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher (Elizabeth's books)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Valerie's books)

10.2 ANNIVERSARY DONE

10.3 Revolution
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore set in 1888

10.4 Genius DONE
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck #187 on list, no styles DONE

10.5 Debut (or most recently published) DONE
The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg DONE
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

10.6 Not Quite Jumbo
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler

10.7 Alphabet Soup DONE
The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel DONE
Zoli by Colum McCann

10.8 Single Word Title
Wake by Anna Hope
Longing by Mary Balogh
Corrag by Susan Fletcher

10.9 Play the Numbers DONE
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield 2011

10.10 Group Reads


20.1 Decade
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

20.2 Freedom Season
The Promise by Ann Weisgarber TX


20.3 She Writes DONE
The Godforsaken Daughter by Christina McKenna
America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray

20.4 Poet's Non-Poetry DONE
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
The Fur Person by May Sarton

20.5 Sense of Place
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

20.6 Stand Up For Your Rights DONE
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

20.7 Island Dreams DONE
The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber (Ireland) DONE
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg

20.8 Unification Season DONE
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell 1968
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively 1977

20.9 The Season of Shorter Days
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers by Elizabeth Merrick

20.10 A Winning Decade
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (combo 10.1 Valerie's books)

10.1 -The Professor's House by Willa Cather
10.2- if Industrial Rev.- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
10.3- If Postmodern Genius- perhaps Orlando by Virginia Woolf-cd's available at library
10.4-if Anniversary- perhaps Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton
10.5-The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
10.6-Broadway Anecdotes by Peter Hay
10.7- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon-
10.8- Menaechmi; Or, the Twin-Brothers by Plautus or- Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki
10.9- Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy -PS 2019 task-OR-Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
10.10- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

20.1- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
20.2-Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey
20.3- Indiana by George Sand-audiobooks-OR- Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima
20.4-The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker-
20.5- Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit#1 on Ondaatje list
20.6 The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates if approved
20.7- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson-UK
20.8 Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood 175p. OR The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
20.9- The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection by Clifton Fadiman
20.10- The Overstory by Richard Powers

I am just going to post the books I am interested in reading. So far, I have not determined the best way to put list them in the tasks.

December books:
1. Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
2. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In January-February I plan on reading Dante's Divine Comedy, but it is broken into three books:
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3: Paradise by Dante Alighieri

If I plan anymore than that, I will just change my mind!!

Oh, I have a recommendation for 10.1 the 5 Star Read. If you have not read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger yet and can tolerate the swearing, I rated it 5 stars. It has a lexile level in the 700 range, so this would be the season to read it if you are interested.

Lynn wrote: "both Elizabeth from Alaska and I rated it 5 stars. "

I'll have to run check my shelves. I've never read this.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Lynn wrote: "both Elizabeth from Alaska and I rated it 5 stars. "

I'll have to run check my shelves. I've never read this."

You caught me before I deleted that part! Ha! I went to double check to make sure I was remembering correctly and it was a different friend named Elizabeth.

Ha! I'm speedy in my old age.

As I plan to do CYOA twice, I'll note here the 2 books I hope to read. I fear I won't have much time for the RwS tasks.

10.9 - Typhoon by Joseph Conrad

20.4 - Sweetland by Michael Crummey

Lynn wrote: "I am just going to post the books I am interested in reading. So far, I have not determined the best way to put list them in the tasks.

December books:
1. Rose Cottage by [author:Mar..."

Thanks for the reco - I may have to add this to my 10.1 list.