Reading with Style discussion

Here's the thread for your optional plans for our 10- and 20-point tasks in Spring.

I had trouble sticking to the plan for the winter season, but will try again!

Potentials:

10.1 Alexander McCall Smith

10.2: The Sellout

10.3: Cold Skies

10.4: A Great Reckoning

10.5: Track of the Cat

10.6: The Innocence of Father Brown

20.1: Sacré Bleu

20.2: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

20.3: The Travelling Cat Chronicles

20.4: Smilla's Sense of Snow

20.5: H(A)PPY

20.6: In the Time of the Butterflies

20.8: Heat Wave

20.9: Death in a Strange Country

20.10: Dressed for Death

owned: 4/6

Planning Ideas:

10.1 Restart to Winter
✓ Seven Guitars by August Wilson
✓ King Hedley II by August Wilson

10.2 The Dispossessed (The _)
✓ The Women by Kristin Hannah

10.3 St Patrick's Day (three in title, 3rd in series, pub year ends in 3)
✓ Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (2023)
✓ The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (2023)

10.4 Baby Boom (born 1950-1959)
✓ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (born 1957)

✓ 10.5 Golden Broadway Shows
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth (good)

10.6 Modernism (pub 1910-1939)
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)
Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1932)

10.7 Strange New Worlds
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

10.8 Elemental (water, earth, fire, air)
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

10.9 Anniversaries (page # ends in 2,5,1,0)
✓ All the Broken Places by John Boyne (400 pages)

10.10 Group Reads
The Mapmaker's Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

20.1 The National Gallery (art or visual artist)
✓ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans (photography)
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller

20.2 The Virgin of the Rocks (MPG Nature)
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

20.3 The Madonna of the Cat (character with cat)
✓ Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Bathsheba's cat on pages 5 and 23)
The Best Cat Ever by Cleveland Amory

20.4 The Fighting Temeraire (list of boat books)
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

✓ 20.5 Surprised! (punctuation)
South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature by Margaret Eby

20.6 Fruit, Dish, Bottle, and Violin (at least 3 POV)
✓ The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
All That Is Mine I Carry with Me by William Landay
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

20.7 International Travel (by main character)
✓ The Fury by Alex Michaelides
One by One by Ruth Ware
Strangers by Anita Brookner

20.8 Fancy Meeting You Here
Finn by Jon Clinch

20.9 Beware the Ides of March (conspiracy)
✓ Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline (Mafia)
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene (1943)

20.10 World of Crime (Crime, thriller, or mystery set where English is not official language)
The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1988, set Spain)
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas (1991, set France)
Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon (1931, set Netherlands)

30.1 Go for the Green