Cat’s Comments (group member since Aug 02, 2017)

Cat’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.10 - Debut!
A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
(states in BTB blurb that this is her debut)

pub 1979
928pages

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+5 Oldie
+20 Jumbo
+10 Combo (10.3; 20.3)

Book total = 60

Season total = 1895

20.2 - Canadian Women
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

pub 1991

+20 Task
+5 Oldie

Book total = 25

Season total = 1835

10.1 - Instant Replay

using "author born in UK/SA/NZ" task
2 claimed so far (#829; #1068)

The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

+10 Task
+5 Multiple

Book total = 15

Season total = 1810

10.1 - Instant Replay

using "author born in UK/SA/NZ" task
1 claimed so far (#829)

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

+10 Task
+5 Multiple

Book total = 15

Season total = 1795

20.1 - Popular Lists
My Ántonia by Willa Cather

in the canon
pub 1918
list approved: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Oldie
+15 Combo (10.2; 20.3; 20.4)

Book total = 50

Season total = 1780

20.1 - Popular Lists
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

list approval: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Malala is Pakistani (and the book is set in Pakistan)

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Non-Western

Book total = 35

Season total = 1730 (I discovered I'd lost track of some points, hence the jump from post 1058. though I am looking forward to Kate's official readerboard update to double check! - welcome back Kate, btw :) )

not an actual question for the mods, but a wail of pain: why are so many of my TBR global books so damn long??!

10.3 - Us Have it
Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings by Jane Austen

pub 1793
512 pages

+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+5 Combo 10.2
+5 Jumbo (512 pages)
+15 Oldie

Book total: 40

Season total = 1675

I don't think anyone has time enough to untangle them!

I'm not quite sure what to do about this one....

I am reading Love and Freindship which is 512 pages, complete collection of the juvenilia; with historical MPG. But it's listed here with other collections which include L&F and varying subsections of the juvenilia, leading to the MPE being less than 90 pages.

Thoughts on what I should do?

ETA: ok... oddly I found the copy with another string of them (Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings), with an MPE of 100+pages. but no MPG historical.
So I can use it for a 10 point task, with some inward grrrrs at oddities of the GR database. but panic over.

10.7 - Marked Name
A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin

Pub 1954

+10 Task
+ 5 Oldie
+ 5 Combo 10.2

Book total 20

Season total 1635

on the off chance, can I have My Ántonia by Willa Cather approved off : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Thanks!

awwww shucks! I do OK, but circumstances are making me look better than I am - starting in the last month, and using all the valid books I read in June & July made a nice dent! - all the male ACG are held back, from being completed earlier in the season. :)

can I confirm I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai is #3 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

15.5 - ACG #2
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

male author

+15 total

season total = 1615

15.4 - ACG #2
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Gil North

male author

+15 total

season total = 1600

15.3 - ACG #2
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

male author

+15 task

season total = 1585

15.2 - ACG #2
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

male author

+15 task

season total = 1570

15.1 - ACG #2
Us by David Nicholls

male author

+15 task

season total = 1555

15.8 - ACG
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

female author

+15 task
+50 finish in any order
+100 finish with single gender

book total = 165

season total = 1540