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

Cat’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.10 - First Person
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
told in 1st person (both sides)

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - MENON)

20.7 - It's Winter (or Summer?)
Somebody at the Door by Raymond Postgate
set in UK in Jan = winter in N hemisphere

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3 - lived 1896 - 1971 = 75)

20.6 - Literature Map
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.9 - SPARK; 20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4)

20.3 - Aged
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
lived 1890 - 1976 = 86

(assuming low lex)

+20 Task

20.1 - Lifetime
Vows and Honor by Mercedes Lackey
born 1950

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 - 140 shelvings)

10.9 - The Power of Five
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
YUVAL

+10 Task
+5 Combo (born 1976)
+10 Not a Novel (nonfiction history)
+10 LiT (approved - first pub in Hebrew)

10.8 - Fantasy!
Artemis by Andy Weir
75 shelvings

+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.1 - born 1972; 20.10 - 1st person narration)

10.7 - For Real
Uneasy Lies the Head by Jean Plaidy
Henry VIII is pretty famous, I reckon

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.4 - AKA Eleanor Alice Burford; 20.3 - lived 1906 - 1993 = 87)

10.6 - Keep it Short
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 - 153 shelvings; 20.1 - born 1976)
+10 Not a Novel (collection short stories, innit)

10.4 - AKA
Death of a Busybody by George Bellairs
pseudonym of Harold Blundell

+10 Task
+5 combo (20.3 - lived 1902 - 1982 = 80)

10.3 - Listopia Reigns!
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
#259 on list

low lexile
+10 Task

finally getting around to claiming my December books....

10.2 - It's All Relative
Old Man's War by John Scalzi

+10 Task
+10 combo (10.8 - 121 shelvings; 20.1 - born 1969)

how about a country's mindset changing?

Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain

this starts back in the dark ages (1980s) when homosexuality in UK was still in the closet (so to speak), with homophobia being the norm, and charts the change in popular opinion over the next decades, via popular culture shifts, ending with the full legal equality we have now. ?

how do we feel about using the zeitgeisty Cat Person for 15.1 ? 4k words / 15 pages? but e only....

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Cat wrote: "Can I add Sandhya Menon to the list, on the basis that (1) she's currently alive (2) she looks pretty spritely in the picture and (3) she doesn't look utterly precocio..."

It was a series of ANDs, not ORs!

How do you feel about The Sign of Four for this?
It opens with Sherlock taking cocaine, and ends the same way, but it's not a major plot point...

Can I add Sandhya Menon to the list, on the basis that (1) she's currently alive (2) she looks pretty spritely in the picture and (3) she doesn't look utterly precocious and is over 10?

Thanks!

Glad I could spread some holiday goodwill! :)

The Seychelles are African?!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Cat wrote: "I assume that the fact that the "original title" field is in Hebrew is enough to qualify Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for LiT points?"

Yes, that has been translated. That specific edition doesn't have an ISBN, but I have added the translators to the other paperback that I think is the same, other than page count..."

I just used the MPE! I'm actually listening to it at the moment (and very good it is too!)