Krista’s Comments (group member since Jul 24, 2010)

Krista’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.7 10-20 Time Traveler
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
(Publ - 2010, Author Born 1958)

+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 535 + 25 = 560

10.10 Group Reads
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9 - Main character is Vietnamese)
Task Total = 15

Grand Total: 520 + 15 = 535

10.2 Subtitles
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr

+10 Task
+10 Style: Not-a-Novel (Non-Fiction)
Task Total = 20

Grand Total: 500 + 20 = 520

10.1 Square Peg
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Lexile score of 990

+10 Task
Task Total = 10

Grand Total: 490 + 10 = 500

PS: Congrats to Anika for the Mega Finish!

Karen Michele wrote: "I'm back from Montana and checking in! It's great to "see" everyone and welcome back, Bea! The challenge for fall is looking great. Thanks for stepping in, Krista, and I also hope you enjoy your br..."

Hi Karen:

Thanks for the well wishes! I just got back from driving vacation to Banff, Lake Louise (Alberta Canada), Glacier Park and Whitefish, (Montana)

It's such a beautiful stretch of Canada and the US. It's hard to see so much of it on fire right now.

Okay -- Now I've got to go figure out my 20 point task. I've been without internet for almost 2 weeks. In some ways it was good to have that break, but now I have so much to catch up on!

Welcome back Bea!

Here is a list of authors who have recently won the Pulitzer Prize in History.

Any books by these authors will fit this task:

2015 - Elizabeth A. Fenn
2014 - Alan Taylor
2013 - Fredrik Logevall
2012 - Manning Marable
2011 - Eric Foner
2010 - Liaquat Ahamed
2009 - Annette Gordon-Reed
2008 - Daniel Walker Howe
2007 - Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2006 - David M. Oshinsky
2005 - David Hackett Fischer
2004 - Steven Hahn
2003 - Rick Atkinson
2002 - Louis Menand
2001 - Joseph J. Ellis
2000 - David M. Kennedy

20.9 Novel Lives
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Historical Fiction about Beryl Markham.
(Honestly, I think that Markham's memoir West with the Night was a better read.)

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8 - 'Sun'
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 465 + 25 = 490

15.6 10-20 Time Traveler
Playing With Fire by Katie MacAlister
Publ: 2008 -- Author Born: 1964

+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler bonus
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 440 + 25 = 465

10.6 Willa
Four Souls by Louise Erdrich
Nominated 2005 in Historical Fiction category

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.9: Genre, Historical Fiction and 20.3 Post-Modern)
Task Total = 20

Grand Total: 420 + 20 = 440

I'm so excited! -- I got an ARC copy of Circling the Sun the other day from Netgalley. I'm just about ready to dive into it!

My library has a copy on order, but I got too impatient to read it, so I checked Netgalley. The upside of Netgalley is that it loads to my Kindle. Double "Wa-hoo"!

Christine wrote: "Yes so far so good. I have good drugs, good husband, and good books to get me through."

What could be better? So glad to hear things went well.

Happy Reading!
-Krista

15.5 10-20 Time Traveler
A Deeper Sleep by Dana Stabenow
Publ: 2006 Author Born: 1952

+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 395 + 25 = 420

15.4 Time Traveler
Publ 2002 --- Author born 1961

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 370 + 25 = 395

20.5 Post Colonial
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Shelved 12 times as Post Colonial

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (Task 20.1 Publ 1990)
+10 Style: Non-Western
+ 5 Style: Oldies
Task Total = 40

Grand Total: 330 + 40 = 370

20.2 Awards
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz

2014 American Book Award winner

+20 Task
+10 Style: Not-a-Novel (Poetry)
Task Total = 30

Grand Total: 300 + 30 = 330

20.6 Under 31
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

Publ 2012 Author Born 1997 (15 or 16 years old at publication)

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo Task 10.2 (Subtitles)
+20 Style: Not-a-Novel (Non-Fiction) & Non-Western
Task Total = 45

Grand Total: 255 + 45 = 300

20.3 Post Modern
Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood

+20 Task
+10 Style: Not-a-Novel (Short Stories)
Task Total = 30

Grand Total: 225 + 30 = 255

15.3 10-20 Time Traveller
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason

Book Publ: 2001 Author Born: 1961

+15 Task
+10 Task Bonus
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 200 + 25 = 225

10.9 Diverse Genres
Malice: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino

Genre = Mystery

+10 Task
+10 Style: Non-Western (Japanese)
Task Total = 20

Grand Total: 180 + 20 = 200

Rebekah wrote: "Krista wrote: "I'll jump in here (not that I was asked)!

I have really enjoyed books by Sandra Dallas, Louise Erdrich, and Nancy Turner. They all have books on the list.

Sarah's Quilt (Agnes P..."

That is SO cool Rebekah!

I can't decide between Dallas' The Chili Queen or Erdrich's Four Souls. I'll probably go with Four Souls since it qualified for Combo points with the Diverse Genre task.