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Deedee’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

History of the Rain: A Novel (2014) by Niall Williams (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 360 pages)

Part Two: Mythologies

(p. 160) See Under: LOVE: A Novel (1986) by David Grossman
(p. 168) Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner
(p. 169) Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) by Charles Dickens
(p. 170) Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) by Herman Melville
(p. 171) Selected Poems by D.H. Lawrence
(p. 178) Mythologies by W.B. Yeats
(pp. 183-184) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
(p. 185) Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir (1980) by Eileen Simpson
(p, 185) The Freedom Of The Poet (1976) by John Berryman
(p. 185) Blake (1995) by Peter Ackroyd
(p. 185) Dylan Thomas the Biography (2006) by Paul Ferris
(p. 185) Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paddy Kitchen
(p. 201) Anna Karenin (1873) by Leo Tolstoy
(p. 202) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Muriel Spark
(p. 219) The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(p. 219) Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
(p. 219) Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett
(p. 224) Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence
(p. 224) The Rainbow (1915) by D.H. Lawrence
(p. 227) The Gathering (2007) by Anne Enright
(p. 232) The Georgics (-39) by Virgil
(p. 234) Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) by Joseph Conrad
(p. 234) Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
(p. 234) Remembrance of Things Past: Volume One (1924) by Marcel Proust
(p. 239) The Pickwick Papers (1837) by Charles Dickens
(p. 257) Our Mutual Friend (1864) by Charles Dickens
(p. 259) Hamlet (1602) by William Shakespeare
(p. 268) The Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante Alighieri
(p. 271) Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) by William Blake
(p. 276) Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell
(p. 280) Essays and Introductions by W.B. Yeats
(p. 289) The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton

Part Three

(p. 306) Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges
(p. 317) The Iliad (-850) by Homer
(p. 327) Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1856) by Leo Tolstoy
(p. 327) Resurrection (1899) by Leo Tolstoy
(p. 334) The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy
(p. 339) The Power and the Glory (1940) Graham Greene

Task 10.01 - Square Peg

History of the Rain: A Novel (2014) by Niall Williams

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 185 + 10 = 195

Task 15.4 - 10-20 - Time Leaper

Author birthday: 1928 –1947

The Hourglass by Barbara Metzger
Born: February 15, 1944
Published: 2007

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 170 + 15 = 185

Task 10.8 - Summertime Heat
Read a book that contains at least one of the following words (or the plural form) in the title: Blazing, Bright, Burn, Burning, Fire, Fiery, Heat, Hot, Inferno, Scorch, Scorching, Sun, Sunny, Sunlight, Sunshine.

Bright

And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side (2015) by Dana Perino
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.2 Subtitle)
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-fiction

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 145 + 25 = 170

History of the Rain: A Novel (2014) by Niall Williams (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 360 pages)

Part One: The Salmon in Ireland

(p. 12) David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
(p.15) Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
(p.15) Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
(p. 16) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes; The Amateur Emigrant (1879) by Robert Louis Stevenson
(p. 18) The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
(p. 18) Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens
(p. 18) Master and Man (1895) by Leo Tolstoy
(p. 20) All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) by Erich Maria Remarque
(p. 20) The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life (1941) by Flann O'Brien
(p. 30) The Guns of August(1962) by Barbara W. Tuchman
(p. 30) Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I (1976) by John Ellis
(p. 30) Poems and Prose (1953) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
(p. 37) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
(p. 38) Bleak House by Charles Dickens
(p. 41) Sketches by Boz (1836) by Charles Dickens
(p. 43) Nicholas Nickleby (1839) by Charles Dickens
(p. 52) Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
(p. 55) Eugenie Grandet (1833) by Honoré de Balzac
(p. 57) The Aeneid (-29) by Virgil
(p. 57) The Historie of the World. in Five Bookes by Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight (1614) by Walter Raleigh
(p. 62) Don Quixote de La Mancha (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
(p. 62) Salar the Salmon (1965) by Henry Williamson
(p. 63) Castle Rackrent (1800) by Maria Edgeworth
(p. 68) A Midsummers Night's Dream (1600) by William Shakespeare
(p. 74) Twelfth Night (1601) by William Shakespeare
(p. 81) The Gallic War (-50) by Caius Iulius Caesar
(p. 95) Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
(p. 101) Macbeth (1606) by William Shakespeare
(p. 110) The Brothers Karamazov (1879) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(p. 111) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
(p. 114) Hero-Tales of Ireland (1999) by Jeremiah Curtin
(p. 114) Ulysses (1920) by James Joyce
(p. 115) The Crock of Gold (1912) by James Stephens
(p. 115) Irish Fairy Tales (1969) by Jeremiah Curtin
(p. 115) Silva Gadelica: A Collection of Tales in Irish with Extracts Illustrating Persons and Places (2007) by Standish H. O'Grady
(p. 116) Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
(p. 116) Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
(p. 122) The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
(p. 123) Collected Ghost Stories (1931) by M.R. James
(p. 123) Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot
(p. 123) Riceyman Steps (1923) by Arnold Bennett
(p. 124) Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
(p. 125) The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
(p. 125) The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson
(p. 135) The Complete Poems Elizabeth Bishop by Elizabeth Bishop
(p. 141) The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen
(p. 141) The Death of the Heart (1936) by Elizabeth Bowen
(p. 141) The Collected Stories (1981) by Elizabeth Bowen
(p. 141) Good Behaviour (1981) by Molly Keane
(p. 141 ) The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
(p. 141) Birchwood (1973) by John Banville
(p. 151) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) by Herman Melville
(p. 152) Meditations (180) by Marcus Aurelius

In The Fifth Heart (2015) by Dan Simmons

(p. 3) The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James
(p. 3) The Princess Casamassima (1886) by Henry James
(p. 59) Democracy: An American Novel (1880) by Henry Adams
(p. 113) The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
(p. 113) The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins
(p. 114) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle
(p. 126) Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
(p. 156) A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle
(p. 156) The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle
(p. 203) The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James
(p. 203) Daisy Miller (1878) by Henry James
(p. 215) Pudd'nhead Wilson (1893) by Mark Twain
(p. 227) The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) by William Dean Howells
(p. 228) The American (1877) by Henry James
(p. 228) The Gilded Age (1873) by Mark Twain
(p. 230) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
(p. 328) Hamlet (1602) by William Shakespeare
(p. 328) Macbeth (1606) by William Shakespeare
(p. 328) As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare
(p. 328) Titus Andronicus (1589) by William Shakespeare
(p. 395) The Tragic Muse (1890) by Henry James
(p. 395) The Aspern Papers (1888) by Henry James (most popular version 80 pages)
(p. 510) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn #2) (1884) by Mark Twain
(p. 510) Robert Elsmere (1888) by Mary Augusta Ward
(p. 518) Love's Labors Lost (1598) by William Shakespeare

Task 20.9 – Novel Lives

Writer Henry James is one of two main protagonists (the other protaganist is Sherlock Holmes).

The Fifth Heart (2015) by Dan Simmons

+20 Task
+05 Jumbo: 500-699 Pages

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 120 + 25 = 145

Task 15.3 - 10-20 - Time Leaper

Author birthday: 1928 –1947

Leaving Home: A Novel by Anita Brookner (Hardcover, 212 pages)
Born: July 16, 1928
Published: 2005

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 105 + 15 = 120

Task 15.2 - 10-20 - Time Leaper

Author birthday: 1928 –1947

The Doctor and the Kid (Weird West Tales #2) by Mike Resnick
Born: March 05, 1942
Published: 2011

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 90 + 15 = 105

Task 15.1 - 10-20 - Time Leaper

Author birthday: 1928 –1947

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Born: October 21, 1929
Published: 1971

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 75 + 15 = 90

Do subtitles count?
bright: And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

I've sorted my ten by alphabetical-by-author last name

The Pale Blue Eye (2006) by Louis Bayard
City of Light (1999) by Lauren Belfer
Requiem for the Sun (Symphony of Ages #4) (2002) by Elizabeth Haydon
After All These Years (1993) by Susan Isaacs
The Dragon of Despair (Firekeeper Saga, #3) (2003) by Jane Lindskold
Imaginary Friends (1967) by Alison Lurie
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography (2008) by Russell Miller
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1954) by Erich Maria Remarque
The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011) by Jane Rogers
The King of Dreams (Lord Prestimion #3) (2001) by Robert Silverberg

Task 10.6 – WILLA

WILLA Literary Award for Nonfiction (2004)
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America (2003) by Linda Lawrence Hunt (Paperback, 307 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.2 Sub-title)
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-fiction

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 45 + 25 = 70

Task 20.4 – The South

Set mostly in Florida; and, the part that isn’t in Florida is set inLouisiana.

Double Whammy (Skink #1) (1987) by Carl Hiaasen

+20 Task
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1940-1990)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 20 + 25 = 45

Task 10.2 – Subtitles

The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (1996) by Giles Milton

+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-fiction

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20

Grand Total: 00 + 20 = 20

I think this one fits: The Fifth Heart (2015) by Dan Simmons -- main characters are Henry James and his new friend, Sherlock Holmes --

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce #6) (2014) by Alan Bradley


(p. 10) Railway Children (1906) by E. Nesbit
(p. 170) Bleak House by Charles Dickens
(p. 170) Paradise Lost by John Milton
(p. 184) Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Task 20.6 – Crime

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce #6) (2014) by Alan Bradley
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.4 “Vaulted”, #10.9)

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 800 + 30 = 830

Task 10.4 – Scrabble!

NUCLEAR

Doctor Who: Nuclear Time (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #40) (2010) by Oli Smith(Hardcover, 246 pages)
+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 790 + 10 = 800

Task 20.6 – Crime

Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1) (2000) by Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 322 pages)
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.9)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 765 + 25 = 790