Reading with Style discussion

As Ellen Foster, Jane Eyre and Eve Green are searching for new families, read a book similar to one of these authors: Kaye Gibbons, Charlotte Bronte, or Susan Fletcher.


Please post any questions or suggestions for task 20.6 in this thread.

Although the authors listed on the similar names list is pretty stable, it is subject to change. These authors are locked in. If in the weeks ahead you see an author on the similar names list that isn't on this list, please post in this thread with a link. (The similar names list is found on the author page just below the "________ Books" and after the number of distinct works.))

I see the list of acceptable authors and understand to pick one. But I do not understand how they are similar to the authors in the task post. Just curious.... Is this from that visual charting website like that one task awhile back or is there some other reasoning?

Beth wrote: "I see the list of acceptable authors and understand to pick one. But I do not understand how they are similar to the authors in the task post. Just curious.... Is this from that visual charting website like that one task awhile back or is there some other reasoning? "

Goodreads has a similar author feature. It is probably more than a slight misnomer. It is more like an "other authors readers have enjoyed" whereby Goodreads has an algorithm that somehow looks at authors readers have also shelved. I don't pretend to understand how they do it.

I extracted the authors on the similar authors list and then alphabetized the list rather than leave them one beneath their respective "similar" author.

Can we actually read the authors that are named in the task? I’ve yet to read Ellen Foster

Rebekah wrote: "Can we actually read the authors that are named in the task? I’ve yet to read Ellen Foster"

Yes, the three authors are included.

Does JK Rowling's pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, work for this task?

Norma wrote: "Does JK Rowling's pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, work for this task?"

No, only the author names as they are published will work.

So, I can read any book written by Susan Fletcher (or the other authors listed), right?

Jenifer wrote: "So, I can read any book written by Susan Fletcher (or the other authors listed), right?"

Yes.

I just got Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll from the library which I was planning to read for this task since Lewis Carroll is on the locked in list.....but, I'm wondering if it will really work. It was first published in 2009....and has a co-author. I'm thinking this is a creation of the co-author who is giving credit to Carroll... but I don't know. Please advise....thanks.

Ed wrote: "I just got Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll from the library which I was planning to read for this task since Lewis Carroll is on the locked in list.....but, I'm w..."

I think I would not plan on this title for this task. It is true Carroll's name is shown first on the covers, and GR usually uses that criteria for showing the primary author. However, I think this is a spoof/adaptation. I have asked in the librarian's group for another opinion.

The following books fit this task and 10.7
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins