Reading with Style discussion

10.1 Square Peg
Read a book that does not qualify for any other 10 or 20 point task. This task may not be repeated.

10.2 3, 4, or 5
Read a book whose title has exactly 3, 4, or 5 words. Sub-titles can be counted or ignored.

10.3 English Language
Read a book by an author born in one of these English Language Countries: UK, South Africa or New Zealand.

10.4 International Question Day
Read a book with “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” “why,” or “how” in the title.

10.5 Circus
In honor of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, which is closing after 146 years in operation, read a book shelved at least 5 times as circus.

10.6 Spring Equinox
Read a book written by an author with an equal number of letters in their first and last name. Names will be determined by the Brooklyn Public Library alphabetization. If the author is not available at the BPL, please ask in the appropriate help thread and the moderators will make a determination.

10.7 Dead Poet's Society (Ed's Task)
Dead Poet’s Society- Read any book by any author who has a memorial that has been posted in Waymarking’s Dead Poet Society category. Waymarking is an online scavenger hunt game with over 1100 categories but only authors with memorials in this category are eligible. There are over 1150 memorials listed in the category http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.... You can conduct a search for a particular author at http://www.waymarking.com/default.asp.... Before posting your book or combo points, please provide the link to the memorial you are citing in the task thread.

10.8 Anthology (Beth's Task)
Read a book with a main page genre of "anthology" or "anthologies".

10.9 A Wrinkle in Time (Coralie's Task)
In the middle grades, my favourite book was A Wrinkle in Time.
Read one of the top 200 books from best time travel fiction.

10.10 Group Reads
Read one of the following books:
Elizabeth (Alaska): Affinity by Sarah Waters
Kate S: Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
Amanda: Island Home by Tim Winton
Rosemary: The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Valerie: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Karin: Home to Woefield by Susan Juby
Bea: The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
Denise: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Don (the book guy): Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Deedee: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

15.01-15.10 Awards of the Decade

20.1 Lord of the Rings In honor of Don's favorite book, The Lord of the Rings, read any book written by one of these English short story writers.

20.2 Rebecca In honor of Connie's favorite book,Rebecca, read one of the top 300 books off of the Best Crime & Mystery list.

20.3 Evicted In honor of Joanna's favorite book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, read a book shelved as Current Events at least 8 times.

20.4 My Family and Other Animals In honor of Valerie's favorite book, My Family and Other Animals, read a book set at least 75% in Greece.

20.5 Foundation In honor of Jayme's favorite book, Foundation, read a book written by an author born in the U.S. between 1950 and 1959.

20.6 My Name is Red In honor of Gabriel's favorite book, My Name is Red, read a book with 25000-49999 ratings with an average of 3.75 or higher.

20.7 #AWW2017 (Tien's Task)
I’m all about supporting local authors and so I adored the Australian Women Writers Challenge. Read a book by an Australian woman writer (born and/or live in Australia).

20.8 Yours, Mine, and Ours (Amanda's Task)
Read a book where a character is taken up by a new author. Post original author and book/series in help thread prior to posting for points for this task.

20.9 National Doctor's Day (Kate's Task)
Read a book written by an author who is/was a practicing medical doctor.

20.10 Hesperus (Elizabeth(Alaska)'s Task) Read any work by an author who is published by Hesperus press.

Spring Master List thru post 702

Note: for technical reasons Christina Rosetti is not on the author list on this document, but she is approved for tasks 10.3 and 10.7.