Bucket’s Comments (group member since Feb 13, 2015)

Bucket’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

+20 Task (author has published 20+ books)
+5 Oldies (pub’d 1981)
+10 Aged (author lived to ~87; 1927-2014)
+10 Non-Western (author born in Colombia, lived in Mexico)

Task total =45
Season total = 80

20.1 Paul Auster and Alice Munro

Pulse by Julian Barnes

+20 Task (author is on the American Academy author list)
+5 Combo (20.3 - author has published 20+ books)
+10 Aged (author is ~78; born 1946)

Task total =35
Season total = 35

15.10 Scrabble

Martín Fierro by José Hernández

Tile: Z1 (Z in author last name)
Letter points: 10

Task points =15
Finisher bonus = 150 (exactly 31 points)
Total points = 165

Season total = 630

20.10 Zalphabetical

Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz

+20 Task
+ 15 Combo (10.5 - Mahfouz = 7 letters; 20.7 - book 2 in The Cairo Trilogy; 20.8 Mahfouz was born in 1911)

Task total =35
Season total = 465

10.5 Lucky Sevens

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

+10 Task (Wharton = 7 letters)
+ 5 Combo (10.6 - “His thin hair was worn a little too long over his coat collar, and a Masonic emblem dangled from the heavy gold chain which crossed his crumpled black waistcoat.”)
+ 5 Multiple (Post #75)

Task total =20
Season total = 430

20.9 haLLowEEn

The Keep by Jennifer Egan

+20 Task (2 E’s in Keep, 2 N’s in Jennifer)
+ 10 Combo (10.4 - pub’d in 2006, the year I graduated from college; 20.3 - JenNiFeR eGan = Ni, Nickel; Fe, Iron; Re, Rhenium; Ga, Gallium)

Task total =30
Season total = 410

20.8 Fall Authors

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

+20 Task (Thomas Hardy was born in 1840)
+ 10 Combo (10.7 - Tree in HELICOPTERS; 20.3 - THomAs HArdy = Ho, Holmium; As, Arsenic; H, Hydrogen; Ar, Argon)

Task total =30
Season total = 380

10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader

Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell

+10 Task (“Silver willow, heavy with dust, grew along the river banks, perfuming the air around with its honey smell.")
+ 10 Combo (10.6 - pub’d in 1947; 20.9 - 2 E’s in Seen, 2 L’s in Mitchell)

Task total =20
Season total = 350

15.9 Scrabble

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Tile: Y2 (Kai Cheng Thom is 33 - born in 1991)
Letter points: 4

Task total =15
Season total = 330

15.8 Scrabble

The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943 by Inge Scholl

Tile: R6 (biography of Hans and Sophie Scholl)
Letter points: 10

Task total =15
Season total = 315

15.7 Scrabble

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

Tile: Q1 (Quickening starts with Q)
Letter points: 10

Task total =15
Season total = 300

15.6 Scrabble

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Tile: U3 (Toni Morrison born in 1931)
Letter points: 1

Task total =15
Season total = 285

15.5 Scrabble

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Tile: I3 (372 pages)
Letter points: 1

Task total =15
Season total = 270

15.4 Scrabble

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Tile: O6 (letter sequence “oo” in Tooth)
Letter points: 1

Task total =15
Season total = 255

15.3 Scrabble

No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo by Redmond O'Hanlon

Tile: T4 (400-499 pages; book has 480 pages)
Letter points: 1

Task total =15
Season total = 240

15.2 Scrabble

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Tile: N2 (200-299 pages; book has 213 pages)
Letter points: 1

Task total =15
Season total = 225

20.3 Chemistry

The Man in the Box by Thomas Moran

+20 Task (THomAs MORan = Ho, Holmium; As, Arsenic; O, Oxygen; Ra, Radium)
+10 Combo (10.5 - pub’d in 1997; 10.6 - “Then they walked back to their tin pots and drove off.”)

Task total =30
Season total = 210

15.1 Scrabble

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

Tile: A6 (author last name has no A)
Letter points: 1

Task total =15
Season total = 170

20.7 Art

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

+20 Task (#2 in the Broken Earth trilogy)
+20 Combo (10.5 - 7 letters in Jemisin; 10.6 - “But when you turn to look at the iron shard, you’re confused, because all you see is smooth bronze skin streaked with blood and a scrap of familiar cloth.”; 20.5 - many supernatural elements including ability to move stone with the mind and creatures who eat stone; 20.10 - TOG)
+5 Series

Task total =45
Season total = 155

10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival

The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson

+10 Task (new to me author, genre: crime)
+10 Combo (10.5 - 7 letters in Jackson; 20.1 - assoc. Prof. of writing at NYU)

Task total =20
Season total = 110