The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

10.1 - Stormy Weather
June 1st is the start of Hurricane Season...Since 1953 the National Hurricane Center has created lists of names, one for each letter in the alphabet (A-W but not Q or U), that rotate every 6 six years (names of particularly devastating storms are retired and replaced by another name). For this task you will read a book written by an author whose first name is on the 2010 list...
Names and Examples
Alex - Alex Haley
Bonnie - Bonnie Burnard
Colin - Colin Cotterill
Danielle - Danielle Steel
Earl - Earl Emerson
Fiona - Fiona Buckley
Gaston - Gaston Leroux
Hermine - Hermine Freed
Igor - Igor Kordey
Julia - Julia Glass
Karl - Karl Iagnemma
Lisa - Lisa Scottoline
Matthew - Matthew Pearl
Nicole - Nicole Krauss
Otto - Otto Penzler
Paula - Paula Froelich
Richard - Richard Paul Evans
Shary - (For this name I will also accept Sharyn or another name that starts with Shary) - Sharyn McCrumb
Tomas - Tomas Tranströmer
Virginie - (For this name I will accept Virginia as well) - Virginia Woolf
Walter - Walter Mosley

If you need suggestions OR have suggestions for books to read for this task post them here.

Is it okay to use Alexander for Alex?

Can Shary be spelled Sheri?

I have a Richard Russo on my shelf that I can't wait to read! Thanks for this task!

Colin MacInnes
Karl Kraus
Karl Philipp Moritz
Richard Wright
Richard Brautigan
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Walter Pater

Karen wrote: "Can Shary be spelled Sheri?"
I'll take it.
Sandy wrote: "Is it okay to use Alexander for Alex?"
Yes

What about Carl instead of Karl?

Paige wrote: "What about Carl instead of Karl?"

ok

Alexandre Dumas
Thomas Pynchon
Virginia Woolf
Richard Yates
Richard Adams
Richard Russo
Virginia Holman
Julia de Burgos
Lisa Tucker
Alex Flinn
Walter Dean Myers
Julia Alvarez
Richard Wright
Nicole Galland

...now i just have to pick one.

I'm going to read 31 Dream Street by Lisa Jewell x

If Alexander is accepted, what about Alexandra or Alexandre? Thanks!

Can Tomas be spelled with an h? Like Thomas Hardy?

Kathryn wrote: "Can Tomas be spelled with an h? Like Thomas Hardy?"
yes

Kathryn wrote: "If Alexander is accepted, what about Alexandra or Alexandre? Thanks!"

yes

This may be redundant, but if Alexander is ok for Alex, can I use Tom for Tomas? I'm finishing something by Tom Robbins. Thanks!!!

And Rick for Richard? I'd love to include a Rick Riordan book here!

I was going to read something by Paula or Igor, but in honor of Alex, the first hurricane of the season, I plan on reading something by an author of that name. :)

Stacy wrote: "This may be redundant, but if Alexander is ok for Alex, can I use Tom for Tomas? I'm finishing something by Tom Robbins. Thanks!!!"

Stacy wrote: "This may be redundant, but if Alexander is ok for Alex, can I use Tom for Tomas? I'm finishing something by Tom Robbins. Thanks!!!"

yes

Ashley wrote: "And Rick for Richard? I'd love to include a Rick Riordan book here!"

yes