Coralie’s Comments (group member since Feb 27, 2013)

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.9 Name of the Game

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Square 4B - letter D – Debut novel
Square 8D - letter O – Wild Card
Square 15D - letter L– Author’s latest novel
Square 15E – letter L – MPG: LGBT
Word = DOLL

+30 Task

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 305

10.5 Author

A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector

+10 Task
+5 combo (10.4)
+10 Lost in Translation

Task total = 25
Season Total: 275

15.8 Name of the Game

The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal

Square 12E - letter S – MPG Science fiction
Square 11D - letter H – Hot off the press – published 2020
Square 14C - letter Y– Author’s first name ends in Y
Word = SHY

+30 Task

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 245

15.7 Name of the Game

Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer

Square 4D - letter D – Dead in title
Square 5D - letter I – Author’s name has no I
Square 7C - letter G– Goodreads author
Word = DIG

+20 Task

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 215

20.2 Jazz

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon

+20 Task
+10 combo (10.4, 20.10)
+10 Lost in Translation

Task total = 40
Season Total: 190

10.3 Winter

The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut

+10 Task

Task total = 10
Season Total: 150

10.10.7 La Nina

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley

+10 Task (The constant electrical storms play a major role in the story, also the fog and the snow – it was all weather!)

Task total = 10
Season Total: 140

15.6 Name of the Game

The Humans by Matt Haig

Square 13C - letter T – Title The plus
Square 11C - letter H – Author’s last name begins with H
Square 16B - letter E– Author born in Europe (UK)
Word = THE

+20 Task

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 130

15.5 Name of the Game

The Price of Blood and Honor by Elizabeth Willey

Square 8B - letter W – Author last name begins with W
Square 2B - letter E – Author’s published name has 2 or more E’s
Square 4E - letter D– Title and author name have two consecutive letters that are the same
Word = WED

+20 Task

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 110

15.4 Name of the Game

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Square 8E - letter W – Winner of Goodreads Choice Award
Square 16D - letter E – Title has no letter E
Square 10E - letter T – Title has no ‘The’
Word = WET

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 90

10.4 Valentine’s

Shattered by Kevin Hearne

+10 Task

Task total = 10
Season Total: 75

15.3 Name of the Game

The Family Trade by Charles Stross

Square 1E - letter R – Series (the merchant princes) name includes the letter R
Square 3D - letter A – MPG Adventure
Square 7B - letter G – Author name has no G
Word = RAG

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 65

15.2 Name of the Game

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Square 16E - letter E – Novel has eight or more named characters
Square 6E - letter N – New to me author
Square 4C - letter D – MPG Dystopia
Word = END

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 50

15.1 Name of the Game

Daphnis and Chloe by Longus

Square 10D - letter T – Translated. Not originally pub’d in English
Square 9B - letter I – set on an island
Square 13E - letter T – Title includes the name of a character
Word = TIT

+15 Task
+5 Before 1996

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 35

10.6 Notable

A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert

+10 Task (2017)
+5 Combo (10.4)

Task total = 15
Season Total: 15

15.9 Power of Nine

The Infernal Battalion by Django Wexler

+15 Task (born 1981)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 520

10.9 Autumn Leaves

The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley

+10 Task (golden)
+10 Combo (10.2 TGTOTDAB->GOAT, 10.4)

Task total = 20
Season Total: 505

20.3 Prolific

Seeker by Jack McDevitt

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.5)

Task total = 30
Season Total: 485

10.7 Non-fiction

An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton

+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 AIHOTHJW->THAW, 10.4, 20.3)
+10 Not a Novel
+ 5 Jumbo (576 pages)

Task total = 40
Season Total: 455

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 265 Coralie wrote: "10.4 Pilgrim

The Pastoral Symphony by André Gide

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.2 TPSAG->GASP
+10 Oldies (published 1911)

Task total = 25
Season Tot..."

I read it in English in a book called Great Short Novels of the World which I found when clearing out my parents' apartment. It was published in 1935 and it says about the Gide:
The translation, by Thurston Macauley, used here, is from the edition published by the Nouvelle Revue francaise Paris; copyright, 1921. The story appears here for thefirst time in English, by permission of the author and publisher.
If you feel that it does not meet the page requirements for RwS I won't feel too upset. I don't aim my reading at getting the best score I can. I just read what I want for various reasons.