Katy’s Comments (group member since Aug 04, 2010)

Katy’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

I should be finishing 10.4 tonight and posting. I am partway done with my 10.9 and anticipate being able to post that on Friday night or Saturday morning.

I have a 20.7 on my Kindle already that I plan to read -- will be quick but I'll finish the other two first and see where we are!

I just added the 3 new tasks that were posted to the spreadsheet. Conveniently, I have one on had for 10.9 that I was hoping to find a place for!

Hey team! I'm reading my 10.4 book and have a long plane trip tonight so unless I fall asleep I should get some good reading done! :)

Karin wrote: "I have one for circus, 10.5, unless someone else reads one first 9and that's okay because right now it's on hold and is a new book."

I also have a circus book on hold...so whichever comes in first will work!

Just updated some things on the spreadsheet -- I added myself as a "second" read for the tasks where I mentioned above that the books are already out from the library, since I'll probably read them right away anyhow. That way we have a backup if someone's plans don't work out!

I will probably do some 15 pointers, just haven't planned it out yet. I don't think anyone needs to go all the way thru, just that between us, we need to have ten 15-point claims.

So, I have been reading the other teams' threads and it seems like a good idea to have a post relatively early on that we can have as a master list -- I set it up here but if someone has a better idea for how it should be set up, that's fine with me! Then I'll edit it with who's tackling what, so we know.

10.1 Square Peg
10.2 3, 4, or 5
10.3 English Language
10.4 International Question Day
10.5 Circus
10.6 Spring Equinox
10.7 TBA
10.8 TBA
10.9 TBA
10.10 Group Reads

15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1 Lord of the Rings
20.2 Rebecca
20.3 Evicted
20.4 My Family and Other Animals
20.5 Foundation
20.6 My Name is Red
20.7 TBA
20.8 Yours, Mine, and Ours
20.9 National Doctor's Day (Kate's Task)
20.10 Hesperus (Elizabeth(Alaska))

Hi team! Go Dickens! I don't read as much/fast as Karen Michele, but I do ok :) I have books in hand ready to go for 10.4, 20.2 and 20.4 right now, but have only just scratched the surface of planning! I can definitely be flexible.

Danielle Ofri is a practicing doctor and writes about medicine - specifically about medical communication/emotions. I have read her What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine and liked it and plan on reading What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear for this task.

I think I've read all of these, but I think that the Mary Russell series would work - https://www.goodreads.com/series/4096... - Sherlock Holmes is a main character. I think they're very good.

20.4 A Member of the Wedding

The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 680

So close to finishing RWS, but not quite! Next season :)

OK, I am in! Hope it's not too late to sign up :) If this throws off your numbers, puts you just over an evenly-divisible-by-four number or something, feel free to bounce me! :)

10.4 Scandinavia

The Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard

+10 task (set 75% or more in Denmark - short foray to Egypt)
+5 combo (10.4)
+10 Lost in Translation

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 660

10.1 Square Peg

Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams by Jennifer Sey

+10 task
+10 not-a-novel

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 635

20.3 Illumination and Night Glare

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

+20 task
+10 combo (10.6 - Audie; 20.2)
+10 not-a-novel

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 615

10.10 Group Reads

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

+10 task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 575

20.1 Carson McCullars

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff

+20 task (lived 1964-2012)
+20 combo (10.2, 20.2, 20.3, 20.6)
+10 not a novel (memoir)

Task Total: 50

Grand Total: 565

10.9 Magical Realism

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

+10 task
+5 combo (10.6 - ALA Alex Award in 2011)

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 515

10.7 New Year's Day

Blue Monday by Nicci French

+10 task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 500

15.5 CiV 2

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Bet: Third Dozen
Squares: 25, 26, 29

+35 Task

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 490

15.4 CiV 2

Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs

Bet: Column A
Squares: 1, 4, 34

+30 Task

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 455