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20.1 South America In honor of this year's Summer Olympics host country: Read a book by an author born in South America.
20.2 The Gods!
"The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, featuring sporting events alongside ritual sacrifices honoring both Zeus (whose famous statue by Phidias stood in his temple at Olympia) and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia."
Read a book about the ancient Greek or Roman gods or ancient mythological figures, ie minotaur, etc.
20.3 Winners!
Read a book which won an award in a year in which the Summer Olympics were held. Any award will work for this task, but the award must be listed on the GoodReads book page at time of posting.
20.4 Go for the Gold!
The top three gold producing countries in the world are China, Australia, and Russia. Read a book that takes place entirely in one of these countries.
20.5 London calling
London has hosted the games three times (1908, 1948, 2012) - the most of any city - read one of the top 125 books from the list London Calling.
20.6 War
Due to war, the Olympics were cancelled in 1916, and again in both 1940 and 1944. Read one of the top 75 books on the list World War One Literature or one of the top 150 books on the list World War II Fiction.
20.7 U.S. (Rebekah's Task)
Read a book whose author has initials that exactly match US State Abbreviations. We will be including DC for Washington, D.C, but not the US territories. Authors who use more than 2 names in their published work will not work for this task.
Here is a link to the State Abbreviations.
http://www.50states.com/abbreviations...
For example Anne Rice would work for AR (Arkansas), Mark Twain for MT (Montana), David Eddings for DE (Delaware), Sandra Dallas for SD (South Dakota) or Paul Auster for PA(Pennsylvania).
20.8 Kotick (Amanda's Task)
In my other life there are a large number of people who know me as Kotick, and I know quite a number of Baloos and Bagheeras. We're all Cub Scout leaders and our names are all taken from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book .
Kipling was born in India at the time of the British Raj. In honour of this time read a book from this Books about the British Raj List, or in answer to the Colonial fathers read one of the Indo-Anglian authors mentioned in this article.
20.9 Political (Kate S's Task)
Read a political thriller or a non-fiction book about politics as we gear up for a big election season. (The genre 'political thriller' or 'politics' must show up on the Goodreads book page).
20.10 Meta fiction (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Read any book by one of these authors associated with historiographic metafiction.
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Read a book that does not fit any of the other Reading with Style 10 or 20-point tasks. This task cannot be repeated.
10.2 Picador/Virago
Read any book by one of the authors (including introduction writers) mentioned in this Picador blog, or any of these Virago authors.
10.3 Holiday
Celebrate International Day of Friendship: Read one of the Top 100 Books off this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
or the top 50 books on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
10.4 Opposite Lists
Read one top 125 from the list The Darkest Books of All Time or one of the top 125 from the list Light but not (too) dumb.
10.5 Mod Task
Read one of the top 100 from either the list The Great American Novel OR from the list Best Modern Australian Literature.
10.6 Traveling the DDC way
Read a book shelved in the 900s (900-999) at the Brooklyn Public Library, using the Dewey Decimal Classification.
10.7 First Letter (Tien's Task)
Read a book with a title that starts with a letter found in OLYMPICS.
10.8 Come to the Fair (Karen Michele's Task)
Read a book with a carnival, circus, fair, amusement park, zoo, water park, or festival featured.
10.9 It's Personal (Rosemary's Task)
Read a book whose title is the name of one person/character and no other words. A person’s title counts as part of the name if it appears with the personal name. Subtitles can be ignored. The person/character may be real or fictional, human, animal or fantastical, but not a place or an inanimate object.
These work: Richard III, Emma, Jane Eyre, Dr. Thorne, Madame Bovary, Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen (ignoring subtitle), Prince Caspian, White Fang.
These don’t work: The White Queen (no personal name), I Am Malala (includes other words), Queen Mary by James Steele (refers to a ship in this case, not a person).
10.10 Group Reads
Elizabeth (Alaska): Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Kate S: Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Amanda: Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Ed: A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
Beth: Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
Nick:Dispatches by Michael Herr
Heather: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
Joanna: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Deedee: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías
Don (The Book Guy): Shiloh by Shelby Foote
Bea: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Katy: A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
15.1-15.10 Five Years Through Summer