Reading with Style discussion

While not required, if you would like to share your plans for Riding the Metro, please do so in this thread.

✔️ 20.1 - The Motive by Khurrum Rahman (London)

✔️ 20.2 - Secrets of Sunbeams by Valerie Comer (Spokane, USA)

✔️ 20.3 - The Baby is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Lagos, Nigeria)

Initial ideas to jot down:
Next Rebus series (if in Edinburgh)
Lucia in London by E.F. Benson
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (Perth, Australia)
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Pune, India)
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (Paris)

Oh, thanks for Cloudstreet, Bryony. I have that as an alternate for Page Count and will keep it in mind here!

I have alternates, but this is where I hope to go:

Africa
Algiers, Algeria: Morituri

South America
Havanna, Cuba: Havana Best Friends

Oceania
Mebourne, Australia: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

North America
Toronto, Canada: Old City Hall
Washington DC, USA: The Filigree Ball: Being a Full and True Account of the Solution of the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair

Asia
Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok Tattoo
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Kingdom of Strangers
Hong Kong, China: The Piano Teacher

Europe
Venice, Italy: The Girl of His Dreams
London, England: Mystery of Mr. Jessop

20.1 Detroit Up in Honey's Room

20.2 Oslo The Snowman

20.3 Cape Town Disgrace

20.4 London The Rivers of London

20.5 Cairo The Yacoubian Building

20.6 Paris Good morning, Midnight

20.7 Hamburg A Most Wanted Man

20.8 Gabarone The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

20.9 Melbourne Autumn Laing

20.10 Shanghai When Red is Black

May 18 = changed again, 'cause really want to read Rivers of London! Less owned books (7/10) but more bonuses!

Round 1

1. Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood (Oceania) Melbourne, Australia (E-Book)
✔️2. A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint (Asia)- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
✔️3. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
(Africa)-Alexandria, Egypt
✔️4. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (N. America)(USA-Chicago)
✔️5. The Price of Paradise by Susana López Rubio (S. America)-Havana, Cuba
✔️6. Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón (Europe)(Reyjkavik, Iceland)
✔️7. Three Stars Over Luanda by Patrick Hughes- (Africa) - Luanda, Angola
✔️8. Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (Asia)- Seoul, South Korea
9. The Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai (Asia) Nagasaki, Japan
✔️10. Blood Brothers by Willy Russell- (Europe)-Liverpool, England

Round 2???

1. Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood (Oceania)- Sydney, Australia
2. A Summons to Memphisby Peter Taylor (n. America)- Memphis, TN
3. Double Blank by Yasmina Khadra (Africa)- Algiers, Algeria
4. The Master Key by Masako Togawa (Asia) Tokyo, Japan
5. My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel (S. America)- Santiago, Chile
6. Who's Killing All the Gringos?: A Paraguayan Murder by [author:David LeRoy NelsonMystery|25413578] (S. America)-Asuncion, Paraguay
7. The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (Europe) London, England
8. First Love by Ivan Turgenev (Europe) Moscow, Russia
9. The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Europe) Berne, Switzerland
10. Marta Oulie by Sigrid Undset (Europe)-Oslo, Norway

3rd Round ???

1. Autumn of the Phantoms by Yasmina Khadra (Africa)- Algiers, Algeria
2.Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood-Melbourne, Australia (Oceania)
3. Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb (Asia) Tokyo, Japan
4. It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo (S.America)_ Caracas, Venezuela
5. Crocodile Tears by Mercedes Rosende (S. America) Montevideo, Uruguay
6. Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
(N.America)- NYC; USA
7. Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi (Europe) Lisbon, Portugal
8. Stone Cold by Robert Swindells-(Europe) London, England
?????9. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith- (Africa) -Gabarone, Botswana
10. The Engagement by Georges Simenon (Europe) Paris, France

Possible Alternates-
- A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint (Asia) Denpensar?- Indonesia
-Wall Of Eyes by Margaret Millar-(N.America)- Toronto, Canada
- Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger (Europe)-Paris, France
-Abbott by Saladin Ahmed(N.America)USA-Detroit

Plan, 5 continents:

✔ Falling Man by Don DeLillo - New York, USA, North America
✔ 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith - Edinburgh, Scotland, Europe
✔ Kismetology by Jaimie Admans, Bristol, England, Europe
✔ 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak - Istanbul, Turkey, Asia
✔ Rickshaw Boy by Lao She - Beijing, China, Asia
✔ Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood - Melbourne, Australia, Oceania
✔ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - Moscow, Russia, Europe
✔ My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - Lagos, Nigeria, Africa
✔ Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada - Berlin, Germany, Europe
✔ My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 by Gengoroh Tagame - Tokyo, Japan, Asia

The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall - Delhi, India, Asia not 75%

Round 2:
✔ My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame - Tokyo, Japan, Asia
✔ The Evenings: A Winter's Tale by Gerard Reve - Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe
✔ Money from Holme by Michael Innes - London, England, Europe
✔ Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan - Chicago, USA, North America
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez - Havana, Cuba, South America
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer - Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

A place for a plan that I won't use.

Just making a list of possible books to choose from:

Africa
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz Cairo, Egypt
The Missing American by Kwei Quartey Accra, Ghana
20.3 ✓ My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Lagos, Nigeria
20.6 ✓ The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith Gaborone, Botswana

Asia
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City by Anna Sherman Tokyo, Japan
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Tokyo, Japan
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad Kabul, Afghanistan
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March Mumbai, India
20.10 ✓ Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia


Europe
20.1 ✓ Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham Florence, Italy
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart Vienna, Austria
The Gathering by Anne Enright Dublin, Ireland
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger London, England
20.2 ✓ The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley London, England
20.5 ✓ Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Stratford on Avon, England
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns London, England
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant Florence, Italy
20.7 ✓ Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Rome, Italy
Round 2 20.1 ✓ Love in Lowercase by Francesc Miralles

North America
A Promised Land by Barack Obama Washington DC
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride Brooklyn, New York
Beast In View by Margaret Millar Hollywood, California
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison Chicago, Illinois
20.4 ✓ The Life Lucy Knew by Karma Brown Toronto, Canada
20.8 ✓ The Silence by Don DeLillo New York City, USA

Oceania
20.9 ✓ Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood Melbourne, Australia

South America
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton Havana, Cuba

Africa
Physical tbr - Lagos, Nigeria - David Mogo Godhunter

Asia
S? - India, Delhi - Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity or City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Ov - Russia - Death in St. Petersburg
S? - Jerusalem, Israel Chroniques de Jérusalem graphic novel

Europe
Physical tbr - London, England - The White Rider or Broken Homes
Kindle - Warsaw, Poland The King of Warsaw
Sok -Italy, Florence or Venice - The Stones of Florence or Venice Observed
S? - Czech Republic Prague Pictures: A Portrait of the City
S? - Paris, France The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris. - Ov - Paris, France Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
Physical tbr - Vienna, Austria City of Lost Dreams (probably, may not be 75%)
S? - Berlin, Germany graphic novel Berlin

North America
Physical tbr - Ottawa, Canada - Mulengro
Physical tbr - Boston, US The Black Wolves of BostonKindle - NYC, US - Halsey Street

Oceania
S? - Australia, Sydney - 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account
South America
Sok - Argentina, Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires Noir
Sok - Mexico City, Mexico - Mexico City Noir

Completed - continents 1
1 - Australia, Melbourne - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Europe
Copenhaven, Denmark: The Absent One
London, England: The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
Berlin, Germany: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Warsaw, Poland: The Zookeeper's Wife
Edinburgh, Scotland: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

Asia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder

North America
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Fever Season

South America
Mexico City, Mexico: The Savage Detectives

Africa
Lagos, Nigeria: My Sister, the Serial Killer

Australia/Oceania
Melbourne, Australia: Words in Deep Blue

Europe
Paris, France - The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron by Janet Lewis
London, England - The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell
Dublin, Ireland - The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
Zurich, Switzerland - Small g: A Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
Rome and Venice, Italy - Those Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith (hopefully one of the two cities will be 75%)

South America


North America
Los Angeles, US - Ask the Dust by John Fante
Toronto, Canada - Wall Of Eyes by Margaret Millar

Oceania


Asia
Tokyo, Japan - After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Current plan, all graphic novels

Africa
✅ Aya: Life in Yop City , Yopougon Ivory Coast

South America
Angelitos: A Graphic Novel Mexico City, Mexico
✅Growing Up In Public, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Oceania
✅Bottled, Greater Melbourne area, Australia

North America
✅Abbott Detroit, USA
✅Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Toronto Canada

Asia
✅My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 Tokyo, Japan
I Remember Beirut, Beirut Lebanon dang page count!
Year of the Rabbit , Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Europe
✅Girl in Dior Paris, France
Savage Town, Limerick Ireland just a wee bit under population.
✅ From Hell London, England

Current Plan

Africa
Woman at Point Zero - Cairo, Egypt

North America
Monster - New York, US
The Favorite Game - Montreal, Canada

Oceania
Zac and Mia - Perth, Australia

Asia
Convenience Store Woman - Tokyo, Japan
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Beijing, China

Europe
The Gathering - Dublin, Ireland
Unwanted - Stockholm, Sweden
Soulless - London, England
The Black Book - Edinburgh, Scotland

Scoring:
20.1-20.5: 20 points
20.6-20.9: 25 points
20.10: 35 points

Bonuses:
100 points finisher bonus
50 points for reading cities in 10 different countries
50 points for reading cities on 3 or 4 continents
100 points for reading cities on at least 5 continents

Oceania
✅ Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park - Sydney
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood - Melbourne
The Cleaner by Paul Cleave - Christchurch
✔️ Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter Graham - Christchurch

Asia
Taj: A Story of Mughal India by Timeri N. Murari - Agra
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf - Samarkand
✔️ The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin Moscow (also counts for Europe)
✔️ Layover in Dubai by Dan Fesperman - Dubai
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - Shanghai
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta - Tokyo
Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman - Changsha
About the Night by Anat Talshir - Jerusalem
✅ The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

Europe
✅ Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Barcelona
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz -Stockholm
A Gentleman from Moscow by Amor Towles - Moscow
✅ Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indriðason - Reykjavík
✔️ Case Histories by Kate Atkinson - Cambridge
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg - Edinburgh
Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre - Venice
✔️ The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters - Rome
✅ The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

Africa
✔️ You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town by Zoë Wicomb - Capetown - might use on page count task
The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun - Marrakesh
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud -Marrakesh
✅ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith - Gaborone
✔️ The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind by Justin Pollard - Alexandria

North America
Murder at the National Cathedral by Margaret Truman - Wash DC
✔️ 14 by Peter Clines - Los Angeles
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood -Toronto
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy - Montreal
Unless by Carol Shields - Toronto
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies-Toronto
✅ Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings - Toronto
Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry - Laredo

South America
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros - Mexico City
✔️ Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton - Havana
✅ American Visa by Juan De Recacoechea - La Paz
✔️ Oblivion: A Memoir by Héctor Abad Faciolince - Medellin
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis - Montevideo
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - Trujillo City (changed back to Santo Domingo)
Perla by Carolina De Robertis - Buenas Aires


Different countries:
✅ 1.Australia.
✅ 2.Bolivia
✔️ 3. Cuba
✅ 4. India
5. Mexico
✔️ 6. New Zealand
7. Pakistan
✔️ 8. Republic of South Africa
✅ 9. Spain
10. Sweden
✔️ 11. Italy
✔️ 12. USA
13. Uzbekistan
✅ ✔️ 14. Russia
15. Morrocco
✅ 16. Canada
✅ 17. England
18. Afghanistan
19. Palestine
20. China
✔️ 21 UAE
22 Israel
✔️ 23 Egypt
24. Scotland
25. Uruguay
26. Dominican Republic
27. Argentina
✔️ 28. Colombia
✅ 29. Iceland
✅ 30. Botswana
31. Japan
✅ 32. turkey

The Cleaner by Paul Cleave - Christchurch
This was an accident

Kim wrote: "A place for a plan that I won't use."

OMG! I die...you are too funny 😂😂😂

Guess I’ll use this space for that same purpose...

Oceania:
Sydney, Australia (pop. 5M): Truly Madly Guilty

Africa:
Lagos, Nigeria (pop. 21M): My Sister, the Serial Killer

North America:
San Antonio, USA (pop. 1.5M): In Big Trouble
Montreal, Canada (pop. 4M): Lullabies for Little Criminals

South America:
Bogotá, Colombia (pop. 7M): Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Asia:
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (pop. 180K): Disappearing Earth
Tokyo, Japan (pop. 14M): I Am a Cat
Baghdad, Iraq (pop. 7M): When the Apricots Bloom

Europe:
Paris, France (pop. 2M): Les Liasons Dangereuses
London, England (pop. 9M): The Devil's Grin