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

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

Kate S wrote: "Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "*Edit to post 222 – add +5 Combo – 20.6 (320 pg)
Grand Total: 395"

I show the most popular edition of this book to have 358 pages, sorry."

Am I missing something? I don't see any editions with 358 pages: The Brides of Rollrock Island.

20.8 Baseball Team

Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

+20 Task (4+ POVs, 12+ named characters)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 435

10.5 August 10 - Smithsonian Day

Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 - alternating perspectives and many more than 9 named characters)
+5 Jumbo (655 pg)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 415

*Edit to post 222 – add +5 Combo – 20.6 (320 pg)
Grand Total: 395

20.8 Baseball Team

An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn

+20 Task (Alternating perspectives and many more than 9 named characters)
+5 Combo (10.4)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 390

20.2 General Manager

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

+20 Task (on both lists)
+5 Oldies (pub 1980)
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.9 – Coetzee was born in South Africa)

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 365

10.4 The U's Have It

Stone Quarry by S.J. Rozan

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 330

10.9 Design your own task! (Read a book that is related to its author's TED Talk.)

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

+10 Task (Sheryl Sandberg did a TED Talk about the need for female leadership, which is also what the book is about - see help thread for links)

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 320

10.2 Neighbors

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

+10 Task (on the Books Stephen King Recommends list)
+5 Combo (20.8 – 4+ perspectives and >9 named characters) *Note: another post claimed 20.5 combo but I was led to understand from the 20.5 help thread that it would not count*
+25 Jumbo (1079 pages)

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 310

20.8 Baseball Team

Remember When by Nora Roberts

+20 Task (5+ perspectives, 20+ named characters)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 270

20.6 MLB 32 Teams

Stalking the Others by Jess Haines

+20 Task (352 pages)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 260

20.4 Baseball Hall of Fame

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Lexile 740)

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 230

20.10 World Series

A Bitter Feast by S.J. Rozan

+20 Task (set entirely in NYC)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 210

Ok, mine is going to be:

Read a book that is related to its author's TED Talk.

I'm reading Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and Sheryl Sandberg did a TED Talk about the need for female leadership, which is also what the book is about.

10.7 August 21 - Poet's Day

The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams


+10 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1967)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 185

10.3 Bodies of Water

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (558 pages)
+5 Combo (20.8 – 4+ narrators, >9 named characters)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 170

20.5 Play by Play announcer

Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 150

10.4 The U's Have It

The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove by Susan Gregg Gilmore

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 130

10.1 Sub Sandwich

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 120

20.9 Baseball Diamond

The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan

+20 Task (Lanagan born in Australia)
+5 Combo (20.8 – multiple perspectives and a whole town’s worth of named characters)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 110