Reading with Style discussion

20.6 - Tempest: In honor of The Tempest, read a novel that takes place in one day. Suggestions can be found here, here, and here.

Can we read Shakespeare's The Tempest for this task, or must it be a novel?

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "Can we read Shakespeare's The Tempest for this task, or must it be a novel?"

Occasionally when composing tasks around a particular theme, a work will inspire a task for which it then does not qualify. This is one of those times.

Only novels will qualify for this task.

How are you dealing with flashbacks? I'm trying to find one that doesn't include them, but it seems like a lot of novels that might qualify could easily flash back at one point or another to develop characters, explain, etc...

I have Ulysses by James Joyce on my TBR list, and it's on all 3 of the lists in the first post here. I'll read that for this task and re-class The Tempest.

Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "How are you dealing with flashbacks? I'm trying to find one that doesn't include them, but it seems like a lot of novels that might qualify could easily flash back at one point or another to develo..."

Would love to see an answer to this! I am thinking of reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist which I think is told in one day but is the telling of a story that has taken longer. Would that qualify?

Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "How are you dealing with flashbacks? I'm trying to find one that doesn't include them, but it seems like a lot of novels that might qualify could easily flash back at one point or another to develo..."

Flaskbacks are fine as long as the frame story happens in a single day. For example, in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Embers the frame story involves two characters in a conversation on a single day, but in the course of a conversation many events/years are discussed. However, One Day does not count, as the action takes place over the course of 20 years.

Thanks Liz!