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

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

20.4 Plath*

Fences by August Wilson

+20 Task (August Wilson born 1945)
+10 Canon
+10 Not a Novel (play)

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 635

*edited to change task - totals remain the same

20.8 Informed

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish

+20 Task (Gaza - mentioned in November 2012)
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.10, 20.4 - Izzeldin Abuelaish born 1955)
+10 Non-Western (born in and citizen of Palestine)
+10 Not a Novel (non-fiction)

Task Total: 55
Grand Total: 595

10.8 Historical

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

+10 Task (set between around 11 BC and 41 AD)
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.3 - #14 on list)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 540

Location, Location, Location: Pittsburgh
Time Period: 1955-2011

15.4 - The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City, 1877-1919 by Francis G. Couvares (orig pub 1986)
Setting: Pittsburgh

+15 Task
+25 Bonus (only a few paragraphs that add up to fewer than 2 pages reference locations outside the city limits)

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 520

20.5 Spanish

Last Train from Cuernavaca by Lucia St. Clair Robson

+20 Task (set entirely in Mexico)
+10 Combo (20.2 - winner of long novel Spur Award 2011, 20.4 - graduated college 1964, making her likely to have been born circa 1942: http://www.luciastclairrobson.com/Luc...)

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 480

Oh, good call. No worries... I've got plenty. I've seen Fences but never read it, so it should be good :)

FYI, I updated my post in the real estate listings thread. I'm adding a couple books and I've done some rearranging.

10.9 Not a Random Penguin

Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts

+10 Task (published by Twelfth Planet Press - http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/ - pretty much the inspiration for the task)
+10 Not a Novel (short stories)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 450

Location, Location, Location: Pittsburgh
Time Period: 1955-2012

15.3 - The Spencers of Amberson Avenue: A Turn-of-the-Century Memoir by Ethel Spencer (orig pub 1983)
Setting: Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh

+15 Task
+25 Bonus (fewer than 10 pages take place outside of the neighborhood)

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 430

Location, Location, Location: Pittsburgh
Time Period: 1955-2012

15.2 - Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh by James Van Trump (orig pub 1983)
Setting: Pittsburgh

+15 Task
+25 Bonus (within city limits - except total of about 25 pages that compare Pittsburgh buildings to others outside the city)

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 390

20.7 Notable

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough

+20 Task (on 2012 list)
+10 Not a Novel (non-fiction)

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 350

20.3 Magical Realism

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I finally finished!)

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 - 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature; 20.5 - originally published in Spanish; 20.6 - #2 on list)
+10 Non-western (Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez is Columbian)
+10 Canon

Task Total: 55
Grand Total: 320

10.1 Year in Review

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1550 Lexile)

I've been watching so much of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (http://www.lizziebennet.com/) that I felt the need to go back to the original!

+10 Task (read in Winter 2011/2012 - post 185)
+15 Combo (10.5 - #50 on list; 10.7 - first published January 1813 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_an... - and available via Project Gutenburg; 20.9)
+10 Canon

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 265

10.4 Fairy Tales

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

+10 Task (shelved 169 times as fairy tales)
+5 Combo (10.5 - #123 on list)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 230

10.2 Pronouns

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (1000 Lexile)

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 215

20.6 Poetic

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (950 Lexile)

+20 Task (#6 on list)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 205

10.3 Library Lovers

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

+10 Task (#56 on list)
+5 Combo (10.7 - first published February 1930 - http://januarymagazine.com/features/h... - and borrowed from the library)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 185

10.10 Group Reads

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks (Rosemary's book)

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 170

20.10 Undaunted

1984 by George Orwell (pub 1949)

+20 Task (I had this on my list of books I've been avoiding and was finally going to tackle this year - got it in under the gun)
+10 Canon
+10 Combo (10.3 - #13 on list; 10.5 - #13 on list)

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 160

Thanks!