Reading with Style discussion

While it is not required to play Reading the Decades, if you want to post your plans, please use this thread to do so.

15.1 1922 The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
15.2 1933 To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
15.3 1944 The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
15.4 1955 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
15.5 1966 Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
15.6 1977 What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
15.7 1988 The Veiled One by Ruth Rendell
15.8 1999 Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
15.9 2000 Grasshopper by Barbara Vine
15.10 2011 Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan

These are the pub years/decades I plan to read, but not sure yet in which order:

1913: Reeds in the Wind
1926: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1930: Miss Mole
1847: Cousin Pons
1859: The Bertrams
1968: Eva Trout
1972: The Clock Winder
1984: Stones for Ibarra
1995: Resistance
2001: Lydia Cassat Reading the Morning Paper

This is how my plan shaped up:

1910 Kilmeny of the Orchard
1929 Red Harvest
1938 The Four of Hearts
1947 The Plague
1956 The Seeds of Time
1965 For Kicks
1974 Knockdown
1983 China Gate
1992 The Bridges of Madison County
2001 Blood And Gold

Draft plan:

2018 An Amish Heirloom, various authors
1927 Amerika, Franz Kafka
1936 At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
1945 Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi, or 1845 La Reine Margot, A. Dumas
1954 Contempt, Alberto Moravia
1963 Radcliffe, David Storey
1872 The Runaway, Elizabeth Anna Hart
1981 The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
1990 The Music of Chance, Paul Auster
2009 Miss Julia Delivers the Goods (keep last, have 2 others in series to read first)

Revised draft

15.1 - 1911 - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
15.2 - 1925 - The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
15.3 - 1935 - Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
15.4 - 1949 - Crooked House by Agatha Christie
15.5 - 1958 - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
15.6 - 1969 - Heat by Stuart Woods
15.7 - 1970 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
15.8 - 1985 - Bloody Kin by Margaret Maron
15.9 - 1995 - Imperfect Strangers by Stuart Woods
15.10 - 2007 - In the Woods by Tana French

Norma wrote: "My first draft

15.1 - 1911 - Ethan Frome
15.2 - 1925 - The Secret of Chimneys
15.3 - 1935 - Enter a Murderer
15.4 - 1949 - Crooked House
15.5 - ..."

You have two 1s (1911 and 2015) and no 7 in this.

Norma wrote: "My first draft

15.1 - 1911 - Ethan Frome
15.2 - 1925 - The Secret of Chimneys
15.3 - 1935 - Enter a Murderer
15.4 - 1949 - Crooked House
15.5 - ..."

I just wanted to advise (in case you hadn't done this) to check the lexile for the Christie. I had one slotted in for 1956 and the lexile ended up being too low. She's bad for that.....

2010 - The Mapping of Love and Death
2006 - City of Shadows
1992 - Blood Music
1989 - Three-legged Horse
1978 - The Artist
1965 - The Rabbi
1951 - The Daughter of Time
1947 - I, the Jury
1933 - Lord Edgware Dies
1924 - The Man in the Brown Suit

1922: The Enormous Room or Siddhartha (Lexile 1010)
1933: Tender Is the Night (Lexile 990) or The Pilgrim's Regress
1944: Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay or Sumerian Mythology
1955: Inherit the Wind or The October Country or Profiles in Courage
1966: Wide Sargasso Sea or Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
1977: A Scanner Darkly or A Summer to Die (Lexile 800) or The Amityville Horror
1988: The Book of Ruth or Breathing Lessons or Briar Rose
1999:Bud, Not Buddy (Lexile 950) or Daughter of the Forest or Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
2000: The Blind Assassin or In a Sunburned Country
2011: A Discovery of Witches or The Tiger's Wife or Ready Player One

2017: The Gallows Pole or Home Fire or The Golden House
2006: Cathedral of the Sea or The Gypsy Madonna
1995: A Spell of Winter
1984: Abeng or The Wasp Factory or The Lover
1973: My Brother, My Executioner (Rosales Saga, #3)
1862: Les Misérables or 1962: The Reivers (Lexile 970) or We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Lexile 920)
1851: Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Lexile 960) or 1951: The Catcher in the Rye or My Cousin Rachel or The Daughter of Time (Lexile 820)
1940: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Lexile 840) or The Dogs and the Wolves
1939: Aranyak: Of the Forest
1928: Lady Chatterley's Lover (Low Lexile, but I can't see the YA Ass entry in BPL) or The Man with the Dark Beard

Thanks for the heads up the lexile. What if the BPL doesn't show lexile for a book?

Valerie wrote: "Norma wrote: "My first draft

15.1 - 1911 - Ethan Frome
15.2 - 1925 - The Secret of Chimneys
15.3 - 1935 - Enter a Murderer
15.4 - 1949 - [book:Crooked House|..."

Norma wrote: "Thanks for the heads up the lexile. What if the BPL doesn't show lexile for a book?

Valerie wrote: "Norma wrote: "My first draft

15.1 - 1911 - Ethan Frome
15.2 - 1925 - [book:The Secr..."

Both of your Christies are OK for Reading the Decades.

Lagullande wrote: "1928: Lady Chatterley's Lover "

This was at one time a YA Assignment, but has apparently been removed. It is now approved for any sub-challenges and for styles for RwS tasks.

I have posted mine in #9. I think that I understood the task, and none have YA at BPL.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "1928: Lady Chatterley's Lover "

This was at one time a YA Assignment, but has apparently been removed. It is now approved for any sub-challenges and for styles for RwS tasks."

Wonderful. Thanks, Elizabeth.

(See message 9) So my decades are in order but my years are not...is that plan B?

Bea wrote: "(See message 9) So my decades are in order but my years are not...is that plan B?"

You're like me. We'll get 3 out of 4 finishers.

While I'm sure I will not be able to finish RtD, I'm posting my tentative plan anyway :) Not going to read them in order, though.

15.1 Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country - 2006
15.2 Pines - 2012
15.3 The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio - 1925
15.4 I Was a German - 1933
15.5 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - 1848
15.6 Bestiario - 1951
15.7 A Man Asleep - 1967
15.8 A Question of Power - 1974
15.9 Ultra-Solutions, Or, How to Fail Most Successfully - 1980
15.10 Everything You Need - 1999

15.1 2017 Y is for Yesterday
15.2 2006 Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA
15.3 1995 The Moor's Last Sigh, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong or A Monstrous Regiment of Women
15.4 1984 Moonheart or Nights at the Circus
15.5 1973 Breakfast of Champions, Fatelessness, Rubyfruit Jungle or The Black Prince
15.6 1962 The Death of Artemio Cruz, A Clockwork Orange, or Island
15.7 1951 Foundation, From Here to Eternity, Spartacus or Hangsaman
15.8 1940 River of Earth, The Ox-Bow Incident, or Native Son
15.9 1939 How Green Was My Valley or Mrs. Miniver
15.10 1928 The Children, Decline and Fall or Rockbound

I managed to finish the RwS challenge last season, and this season will try to do the subchallenge of reading a book from each decade.

Two questions, please:
Does my tentative plan work for option D:
Different decades and years in which both are chronological (xx19, xx20, xx31)?
and
If I read Firefly Lane first (the biggest one on the list and the last one by decade) and read in order up the list to 1919, will I meet all four bonuses or do I need to start with the 1919 book? I think the answer is "yes" because ascending or descending are allowed, but want to make sure.

Tentative Plan

15.1 1919 The Mysterious Rider 164 p.

15.2 1920 The Age of Innocence 364 p. or Flappers and Philosophers 269 p.

15.3 1931 Friends and Relations 307 p.

15.4 1942 The Screwtape Letters

15.5 1953 tentatively something by Graham Greene, John Cheever, or Conrad Richter

15.6 1964 The Pushcart War (Lex 1020 or 1040) 224 p.

15.7 1975 Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, 192 p. or A Family Affair, 208 pages.

15.8 1986 The Cat Who Saw Red, 183 p., Lexile 830, or
1886 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

15.9 1997 Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise, 189 pages.

15.10 2008 Firefly Lane, 479 p.

Owlette wrote: "If I read Firefly Lane first (the biggest one on the list and the last one by decade) and read in order up the list to 1919, will I meet all four bonuses or do I need to start with the 1919 book? I think the answer is "yes" because ascending or descending are allowed, but want to make sure."

You can start anywhere in the sequence, meaning you do not have to start with 1 and end with 0. So if you read Firefly Lane first, it would be for task 15.1. Then you could read either for 1997 or for 1919. Once on that course you need to continue in that direction. The years you have chosen will work for all 4 bonuses if you read them in order.

Thanks! For me, I think I will have to start at one end or the other to avoid confusion.

I'm not sure which way I'm going but this is my plan:

15.1 2018
An American Marriage
15.2 2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
15.3 1996
Nightwork
15.4 1985
City of Glass or
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
15.5 1974
The Bottle Factory Outing
15.6 1963
Dog Years
15.7 1952
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (not YA at BPL)
15.8 1941
Between the Acts or
Reflections in a Golden Eye
15.9 1930
Vile Bodies or
The Luzhin Defense
15.10 1929
The Last September

15.01 2016
The Butcher's Hook (2016) by Janet Ellis

15.02 2005
The Undertaker's Wife (2005) by Loren D. Estleman
Spur Award for Best Western Novel (2006)

15.03 1994
The Waterworks (1994) by E.L. Doctorow

15.04 1983
Midas World (1983) by Frederik Pohl

15.05 1972
The Clock Winder (1972) by Anne Tyler

15.06 1961
A Severed Head (1961) by Iris Murdoch

15.07 1950
Cosmic Engineers (1950) by Clifford D. Simak

15.08 1949
15.09 1938
15.10 1927

I’m not sure I’ll have time to read all of these in Spring but I’ve enjoyed planning my list just in case.

1903 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
1924 Dubliners by James Joyce
1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1936 The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori
1847 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1958 Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene or Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
xx69 tbc
1970 Troubles by J.G. Farrell
1981 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
1992 Pole to Pole by Michael Palin

Bryony wrote: "I’m not sure I’ll have time to read all of these in Spring but I’ve enjoyed planning my list just in case.

1603 Othello by William Shakespeare
1614 [book:The Duchess of ..."

You'll want to find a substitute for the Agatha Christie 1936. Some of those are YA Assignment at BPL with a Lexile below 800, and this is one of them.

Thank you for telling me, I’ve swapped it for another book published in the same year.