Reading with Style discussion

20.4-Elfriede Jelinek (2004)-"for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power"
Read a book written by a European (by citizenship/residency) woman written in a language other than English.

Edited 11/15/15

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I would like to make a clarifying statement in this task.

The authors who work for this task need to be European by citizenship/residency.

Clarice Lispector was born in Europe, but is considered South American while Marguerite Duras was born in Viet Nam, but is generally considered European.

Lispector will not qualify for this task, but Duras will.

So I am thinking that Sylvie Granotier would work even though she was born in Algier. Per GR, she has lived in France and is currently residing in Paris.

Bea wrote: "So I am thinking that Sylvie Granotier would work even though she was born in Algier. Per GR, she has lived in France and is currently residing in Paris."

Yes, we would consider her French.

Kate S wrote: "I would like to make a clarifying statement in this task.

The authors who work for this task need to be European by citizenship/residency.

Clarice Lispector was born in Europe, bu..."

Phew! I have chosen a Duras for one of my selections.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yes, we would consider her French."

Thank you. One more decided.

Please could you advise whether Maria Dermoût works for this task? GR describes her as a "Dutch-Indonesian author", while Wiki says "Dermout is a Dutch novelist born on Java, Dutch East Indies, and educated in the Netherlands, who wrote in Dutch".
Thank you.

This task is great because I still haven't got round to reading any of Tove Jansson's novels for adults ('ve read all the Moomin books), so it'll give me a chance to do that. They'll also earn oldies points, as they were written in the 1970s and 1980s.

Lagullande wrote: "Please could you advise whether Maria Dermoût works for this task? GR describes her as a "Dutch-Indonesian author", while Wiki says "Dermout is a Dutch novelist born on Java, Dutch..."

I'm sorry, I thought I answered this. Yes, we will consider her as from The Netherlands, so that she can work for this task.

Kätlin wrote: "This task is great because I still haven't got round to reading any of Tove Jansson's novels for adults ('ve read all the Moomin books), so it'll give me a chance to do that. They'll also earn oldi..."

Great idea! I have The Summer Book on a bookshelf somewhere in the house. I've been meaning to read it for a couple of years now.

I just realized that one of the books from Sigrid Undset's series would also work for this task. You could get 'Series' Style points for this if you read one of her other books in her Kristin Lavransdatter series for Task 20.2.

There will be lots of points for these books, AND I have all three books on my bookshelf. Bingo! (The next task will be to actually find the books on the bookshelves.) :-)

Krista wrote: "You could get 'Series' Style points for this if you read one of her other books"

You'll get 5 Series style points for the first series - any series - book you read this season. The challenge will be to find a place for others in the same series to compound those points!

Right -- so if I'm reading the Series Style category correctly, you'd get 5 Series Style points for a book in the Kristin Lavansdatter series if you read a book for this task, and 10 Series Style points if you read an additional book in this series for Task 20.2. -- and if you could find a spot for the third book in the trilogy, you'd get 15 Style Points for that task.

Krista wrote: "Right -- so if I'm reading the Series Style category correctly, you'd get 5 Series Style points for a book in the Kristin Lavansdatter series if you read a book for this task, and 10 Series Style p..."

Exactly!

so say you read a book from series A and you get 5 style points, if you read a book from a different, separate series, do you get 10 style points or do you go back to 5 style points?

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "so say you read a book from series A and you get 5 style points, if you read a book from a different, separate series, do you get 10 style points or do you go back to 5 style points?"

A different SERIES is 5 points. The 10 points will be for your series A, but for a different TASK.

ok

I noticed some of the books of Jama's task were translated into English from a European language and many of those were women.

I just came across this list:

Europe Minus Men and English

Usual caveats about checking eligibility apply.

Will Naja Marie Aidt qualify? She was born in Greenland, grew up there and in Denmark, writes in Danish but the last bit of info I can find on her is that she moved to New York in 2008.

itpdx wrote: "Will Naja Marie Aidt qualify? She was born in Greenland, grew up there and in Denmark, writes in Danish but the last bit of info I can find on her is that she moved to New York in 2..."

We try to rely on citizenship over residency when we can and know it and I see no evidence that she has given up her Danish citizenship. Yes, she qualifies as European.

I'm currently reading Le sourire des pendus which is written by 2 authors, one of them a french woman.

Would this book count ?

Marie wrote: "I'm currently reading Le sourire des pendus which is written by 2 authors, one of them a french woman.

Would this book count ?"

No, sorry. The first named author is male.