Reading with Style discussion

while not required, if you would like to share your reading plan for the 10-point task, you may do so in this thread.

All except 1 get the 1996 points, and some tick off a year for my 20th Century challenge, and others for the Mysteries Challenge. I have alternates for everything, but I think these are my top choices:

10.1 - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 92 pgs, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, 32 pgs

10.2 - Henry James: A Critical Biography, 130 pgs

10.3 - The Wrong Box, 188 pgs

10.4 - The Three-Cornered Halo, 211 pgs

10.5 - And Then There Were None, 264 pgs

10.6 - The Dusky Hour, 307 pgs

10.7 - McTeague, 385 pgs

10.8 - The Return of Captain John Emmett, 436 pgs

10.9 - Night and Day, 496 pgs

10.10 - The Divine Fire, 528 pgs

I’m in!

✔️ 10.1: two or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages
The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson (52 pages)
AND
On Stories by C.S. Lewis (32 pages)

10.2: 100-149p
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (116 pages)
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (146 pages)

✔️ 10.3: 150-199p
The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon

✔️ 10.4: 200-249p
Parenting with Theraplay by Helen Rodwell (208 pages)

10.5: 250-299p
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy

10.6: 300-349p

✔️ 10.7: 350-399p
Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie (378 pages)

10.8: 400-449p

10.9: 450-499p

10.10: 500p or more

So far....

10.1: Night + a short story

10.2: The Sorrows of Young Werther

10.3: Hark! A Vagrant

10.4: An Unfinished Conversation: The Life and Music of Stan Rogers

10.5: All Our Names

10.6: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

10.7: The Kitchen House

10.8: Un Lun Dun

10.9: Do Not Say We Have Nothing

10.10: The Legend of Holly Claus

all of which I own, so it's a tiny dent in the pile!

✔10.1 two or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages*
Educating Rita by Willy Russell 93p.
and
Croaked by T.E. Antonino 45p.

10.2 100-149 p
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber

✔10.3 150-199p
✔Urn Burial by Kerry Greenwood
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
God in Pink by Hasan Namir


10.4 200-249p
Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
Zoot Suit and Other Plays by Luis Valdez

10.5 250-299p
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

10.6 300-349p
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

10.7 350-399p
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters

10.8 400-449p
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

10.9 450-499p
Waverley by Walter Scott

10.10 500p or more

Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

My plan so far:

✔ 10.1 Quill Me Now by Jordan Castillo Price, 82 pp
+ All That Glitters by Jordan Castillo Price, 20 pp
✔ 10.2 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 110 pp
✔ 10.3 Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right by Marghanita Laski, 172 pp
✔ 10.4 The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie, 248 pp
✔ 10.5 The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles, 286 pp
✔ 10.6 The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall, 311 pp
✔ 10.7 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon, 395 pp
✔ 10.8 The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd, 419 pp
✔ 10.9 The Tree of Man by Patrick White, 480 pp
✔ 10.10 Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom, 501 pp

Round 2:

✔ 10.1 Dead Man's Quill by Jordan Castillo Price, 84 pp
+ Saint Benedict and Christianity in England by Patrick Barry 40 pp
✔ 10.2 Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel, 129 pp
✔ 10.3 The Hand by Georges Simenon, 180 pp
✔ 10.4 Pied Piper by Nevil Shute, 246 pp
✔ 10.5 The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene by E.V. Harte, 288 pp
✔ 10.6 Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano, 340 pp
✔ 10.7 There Were No Windows by Norah Hoult, 352 pp
10.8
10.9
10.10

Lots of thought required

I'll probably do this twice. I'm giving myself lots of choices since some books are interlibrary loans.

10.1 two or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages
✓ The Black Veil by Charles Dickens 28
✓ and A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson 29
✓ and The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf 25

Round 2 ✓ The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens 48
Round 2 ✓ The Bloomsbury Christening by Charles Dickens 36

Round 3 ✓ Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 70
Round 3 ✓ A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens 52

10.2 100-149 p
Round 2 ✓ Sounder by William H. Armstrong 128
✓ A Shine Of Rainbows by Lillian Beckwith 111
The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green 116
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde 126

10.3 150-199p
✓ Zorrie by Laird Hunt 176
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux 192
Round 2 ✓ The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff 160

10.4 200-249p
✓ Local Girls by Alice Hoffman 208
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston 204
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton 232
Round 2 ✓ The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt 240

10.5 250-299p
Legacy by Jeanette Baker 250
✓ The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff 294
Round 2 ✓ The Paris Hours by Alex George 272
Orlando by Virginia Woolf 272
The Hanging of Margaret Dickson by Alison J. Butler 298

10.6 300-349p
✓ The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story by Susan Boyle 336
Round 2 ✓ Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby 336
Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham 326
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell 336
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean 304
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 310
The Life of Charles Dickens : Volume II by John Forster 301
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 336

10.7 350-399p
✓ The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline 370
Round 2 ✓ The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles 351
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin 352
A Double Death on the Black Isle by A.D. Scott 359
Corrag by Susan Fletcher 368
The Exile of Sara Stevenson by Darci Hannah 386
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson 386
Round 3 ✓ Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads by David Morrell 378

10.8 400-449p
✓ The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird 420
Round 2 ✓ When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson 400

10.9 450-499p
✓ She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb 465
Round 2 ✓ What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty 476
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield 464
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 468

10.10 500p or more
✓ Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 960
Round 2 ✓ Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly 528
September by Rosamunde Pilcher 613

10.1 two or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages*
X

10.2 100-149 p
X

10.3 150-199
X
Saga #6 fits here for round 2

10.4 200-249p
216 Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask

10.5 250-299p
Valor: Wands

10.6 300-349p
X
Kingfisher

10.7 350-399p
Keep open for round 1 until i know if i can claim vienna

10.8 400-449p
448 for The Last Oracle if I want to move forward after Strain

10.9 450-499p
477 - Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

10.10 500p or more
probably Bloody Rose from Matt's shelf

Completed Round One
10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.6

10.1 two or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (64p), Chicken with Plums (84p)

10.2 100-149 p
Jordan's Stormy Banks (100p)

10.3 150-199p
Aiding and Abetting (176p)

10.4 200-249p
Come, Tell Me How You Live (222p)

√10.5 250-299p
Butcher's Crossing (274p)

√10.6 300-349p
Grave Visions (331p)

10.7 350-399p
Toxin (357p)

√10.8 400-449p
Gorky Park (433p)

10.9 450-499p
Good Girls (472p)

10.10 500p or more
Cold Magic (532p)

Treated myself to a Wold Con Supporting membership, and that means I should have a ton of Hugo packet reading to do…

✅ 10.1 Finna 92 pages and Open House on Haunted Hill 13 pages (changed )
✅10.2 The Empress of Salt and Fortune 112 pages
✅ 10.3 Ring Shout 185 pages
✅ 10.4 Come Tumbling Down 206 pages
✅10.5 Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation 266 pages
✅10.6 The Collapsing Empire 336 pages
10.7 Network Effect 350 pages
10.8 The Calculating Stars 431 pages
✅ 10.9 Black Sun 454 pages
✅10.10 The Poppy War 531 pages

10.1 two or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages*
10.2 100-149 p
10.3 150-199p
10.4 200-249p
10.5 250-299p
10.6 300-349p
10.7 350-399p
10.8 400-449p
10.9 450-499p
10.10 500p or more


✔10.1 Two or three short works adding up to 150 pages:
The Little Prince (93 p.) and The Secret Life of Trees: Explore the Forests of the World, With Oakheart the Brave (48 p.)

10.2 Manalive by G.K. Chesterton 127 p.

10.3 Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym 186 p.

10.4 The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 246 p.
I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver 240 p.
Mrs Fisher's Tulip by Melanie Hughes 208 p.

10.5 _______

10.6 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 322 p.
A City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge 344 p.

10.7 The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris 350 p.

10.8 A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell 442 p.

10.9 -------

10.10 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens or Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

10.1 shorties
The Madman by Kahlil Gibran (80)
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich (48)
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (98)
Witch Way to Yazoo: Follow the Life and Events of Cassie Ravencraft as We Take a Look in Her Life History to Her Final Days to Her Death in 1884 to the Yazoo City Mississippi Fire of May 25 1904 That Gave Her the Tittle and Made Her Famous as the Witch... by Joshua Ray Lancaster (42)
Aradia: Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland (80)

10.3 - 150- 199
Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell

10.10 Biggies
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
World Without End by Ken Follett
Shōgun by James Clavell

I'm going to try REEEALLLY hard to stick to this plan, since most of the books are books that have been lent to me and I really need to return already...

10.1
10.2 New Hampshire by Robert Frost
10.3 Saga, Vol. 6 by Brian K. Vaughan
10.4 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
10.5 Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
10.6 Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson
10.7
10.8 To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
10.9
10.10 The Huntress by Kate Quinn or The Diviners by Libba Bray

One Question

The task specified 10 different authors. Can we use 2 short works by the same author for 10.1 or do they need to be by 2 different authors?

Mary wrote: "One Question

The task specified 10 different authors. Can we use 2 short works by the same author for 10.1 or do they need to be by 2 different authors?"

You may use the same author for works for 10.1.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Mary wrote: "One Question

The task specified 10 different authors. Can we use 2 short works by the same author for 10.1 or do they need to be by 2 different authors?"

You may use the same author..."

Thanks!

10.1 two or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages*
✔️ Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich
✔️ Printer's Devil Court by Susan Hill

10.2 100-149 p
The Ghosts of Nantucket: 23 True Accounts by Blue Balliett (120)
The Damned (116)
✔️ Benjamin Lay 1677 - 1759 A Pioneer Quaker Abolitionist And Activist by Benjamin Lay (100)

10.3 150-199p
✔️ Across Time And Death: A Mother's Search For Her Past Life Children by Jenny Cockell (153)

10.4 200-249p
The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh (206)
✔️ Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World by Seth Andrews (212)
How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up (240)
Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff by Chip Gaines (224)
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (288)
✅ The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis (221)

10.5 250-299p
✔️ Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman (253)
Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo (256)
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (256)
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (258)

10.6 300-349p
The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks (304)
CheckmarkLiberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer (304)
✔️ This Isn't What I Expected 2nd edition : Overcoming Postpartum Depression 336

10.7 350-399p
✔️ The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful Motherbaby Business (396)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (387)

10.8 400-449p
Sharmila's Book by Bharti Kirchner (400)
✔️ Cell by Stephen King (449)
The Rose Labyrinth by Titania Hardie (400)

10.9 450-499p
The Fire (451)
✔️ The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell (450)

10.10 500p or more
✔️ The Weight of Ink (592)
Shōgun (1152)
Doomsday Book (587)
The Overstory (502)