Reading with Style discussion

While not required, if you would like to share your plans for the 10-point sub-challenge this summer, this is the place for it.

Reserved

All owned books:

10.1 Author's name November Rain

10.2 Number of words in title Do Not Say We Have Nothing

10.3 Number of words in subtitle A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land

10.4 Letters in title word The Reluctant Twitcher: A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year

10.5 Setting The Kitchen House

10.6 Year of Author birth Margaret the First

10.7 Original pub. Date One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

10.8 MPE page count The Sellout

10.9 Author 1st or last: F, G, H True Colors

10.10 Title begins: F, G, H A Good Hanging

Plan

✓ 10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name
Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
✓ 10.2. Number of words in title
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
✓ 10.3. Number of words in subtitle
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert
✓ 10.4. Number of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
✓ 10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)
Positano One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
✓ 10.6. Number is in year of Author birth
1812 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
✓ 10.7. Number is in original pub date
2008 Fine Just the Way it Is by Annie Proulx
✓ 10.8. Number is in MPE page count
464 pages Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
✓ 10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
✓ 10.10. Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored.
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

My spot

10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name [Clancy -6]
Against All Enemies

10.2. Number of words in title [6]
The Blue Between Sky and Water

10.3. Number of words in subtitle [7]
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

10.4. Number of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle) [Secret - 6]
The Secret of Raven Point

10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%) [Vietnam -7]
The Best We Could Do

10.6. Number is in year of Author birth [1971]
A Faint Cold Fear

10.7. Number is in original pub date [2018]
Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness

10.8. Number is in MPE page count [272]
Long Man

10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H) [H - Hilderbrand]
The Identicals

10.10. Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored. [G - Goodnight]
Goodnight, Nebraska

Summertime
6, 7, 8 (can be read in any order)

✔ 10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name
The Alchemist’s Apprentice by Kate Thompson

✔ 10.2. Number of words in title
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

✔ 10.3. Number of words in subtitle
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain by Simon Garfield

✔ 10.4. Number of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle)
The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

✔ 10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)
A Bookshop In Algiers by Kaouther Adimi, 4 June 23 (75%)

✔ 10.6. Number is in year of author birth
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)

✔ 10.7. Number is in original pub date
A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma (2007)

✔ 10.8. Number is in MPE page count
The Living and the Dead by Patrick White, 2 June 23 (358)

✔ 10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)
The Immoralist by André Gide

✔ 10.10. Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored.
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

10.1 Author name
✔️ Jennifer Latham
✔️ Sujata Massey

10.2 Number of title words
✔️ An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
✔️ The Joy and Light Bus Company

10.3 Subtitle
✔️ Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
✔️ Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army

10.4 Number letters in title word
✔️ Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items by J.W. Ocker
✔️ Remembering Laughter
Speaks the Nightbird
Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks

10.5 Number letters setting
✔️ The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star - Alabama
✔️ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives - Nigeria

10.6 Number birth year
Alexander McCall Smith -1948
✔️ Carola Dunn - 1946
✔️ Hernan Diaz - 1973
Sujata Massey - 1964
Prince Harry - 1984

10.7 Pub date
✔️ 2018-Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
1998 These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
1966 -The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
✔️ 1984 - Where the Ghosts Are: Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses

10.8 Pages
The Age of American Unreason -384 pages
✔️ Demon Copperhead - 546 pages
The Complete Maus - 296 pages
The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans - 272 pages
✔️ The Travelling Cat Chronicles -281 pages

10.9 Author name F G H
Sigmund Freud
Milton Friedman
Graham Robb
Joe Guy
✔️ Neville Goddard
Harry Caudill
Prince Harry
✔️ H P Lovercraft
Harriet Steel

10.10 Title starts FGH
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
Highland Spy
✔️ How to Stitch an American Dream: A Story of Family, Faith and the Power of Giving
✔️ Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm