Cory Day’s Comments (group member since Aug 18, 2012)

Cory Day’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.6 Crime

The Dark Horse by Josh Lanyon

+20 Task (Mystery > Crime on book’s main page)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 350

10.8 Podcasts

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

+10 Task (http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...)
+5 Combo (10.4 – unknown)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 330

20.5 Germinal

Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History by Davitt Mcateer

+20 Task (about mining – it also does have a chapter devoted to labor unrest)
+5 Combo (10.4 – History)
+10 Not-a-Novel (Non-fiction)

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 315

20.6 Crime

Snowball in Hell by Josh Lanyon

+20 Task (Mystery > Crime on book’s main page)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 280

Joy wrote: "10.4 Scrabble

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

+10 Task (Madness = 7 letter)
+10 Not a Novel (memoir)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 130"

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://bookrageous.podbean.com/e/book...)

I'll try to pay closer attention from now on - it's amazing how many of them I can remember hearing :-P

Heather wrote: "20.4

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

+20 task
+15 awards
+5 jumbo (637 pages)
+5 combo (10.9 - 3.93 and over 900k, 10.3 - Liz)

task total: 45
grand total: 275 (e..."

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/...)

Anika wrote: "10.1 Rants and Raves

Soulless by Gail Carriger

+10 [reviewed by Jayme(the ghost reader) in Winter 14/15, post #358]

Task Total = 10

Grand Total = 10"

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://galactisuburbia.podbean.com/e/...)

itpdx wrote: "20.9 Nameless
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.3 Kate read Jan 2014, 10.5, 10.7, 10.9)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 80"

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereade...)

Valerie wrote: "20.5 Germinal

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

+20 task
+10 prize-worthy (2 awards listed on gr)
+5 borrow from mods: Elizabeth read Feb. 2009
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+5 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/...)

Katy wrote: "20.6 Crime

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

+20 task (shelved 252 times as Crime)
+15 prize worthy (Barry Award for Best First Novel, LA Times Book Prize, Ian Fleming Stee..."

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/...)

Coralie wrote: "20.10 Canonical

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9-rating 3.93, 20.2 – Maddaddam)

Task total: 30
Grand Total: 135"

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/...)

Valerie wrote: "10.7 Weird

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

shelved as weird 7x

+10 task
+5 borrow from mods: Krista read Mar. 2012
+5 jumbo - 512 pgs
+10 prizeworthy (as pe..."

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2012/...)

Claire wrote: "10.1 Rants and Raves

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
from message 524: Make it Strange (Karen Michelle): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2013/...)

Amanda wrote: "10.5 Nebula

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

+ 10 task points
+ 10 combo (10.7, 20.4)
+ 5 Jumbo (529 pgs)
+ 5 Prizeworthy ( British Book Awards, Literary Fiction, 2005 h..."

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://bookrageous.podbean.com/e/book...)

Sorry Kate for some late catches :)

Jenifer wrote: "Task 10.6 Women's Ed

That Summer by Lauren Willig
*The author has a J.D. from Harvard Law and possibly a Ph.D. as well).

+10 task

Task Total = 10 points
Grand Tota..."

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20...)

Jenifer wrote: "20.6 Crime

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
*shelved as crime 179 times*

+20 task
+5 combo (10.1-reviewed in post #506 during winter challenge)

Task Total ..."

+5 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/...)

I don't have the book in front of me anymore, but I know Station Eleven referenced both A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear (and others that I can't remember). The thing is, they're being performed as plays, not necessarily being read. Would that count or not?

Since it seems from the completed tasks thread that the books' main page genres can change, can I get The Dark Horse approved? I'm on a bit of a Josh Lanyon kick :)

I don't blame you - they're not cut and dry. I'm just trying to chime in when I remember hearing them.