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

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.8 Beatrix Potter

Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+15 Oldies (published 1814)

Task total = 40
Season Total: 1110

10.3 One at a time, please

The Core by Peter V. Brett

+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 jumbo (781 pages)
Task total = 25
Season Total: 1070

10.4 P.D. James

The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman

+10 Task
+5 Multiple
Task total = 15
Season Total: 1045

10.2 Author Name

The Warlock's Curse by M.K. Hobson

+10 Task
+5 Multiple
Task total = 15
Season Total: 1030

I am working my way through the short stories in this series. Could I read Snakes and Ladders (43 p), Broken Paper Hearts (14p), The Star of New Mexico (13p), The Way Home (34p), The Lay of the Land (32p) and Target Practice (32p)?

20.10 Over/Under

The Watercress Girl and Other Stories by H.E. Bates

+20 Task (4.11/9)
+5 Oldies (published 1959)
+5 Multiple
Task total = 30
Season Total: 1015

As we are in lockdown and the libraries are closed, I am going with a hodgepodge of books I have on hand.

09. UFO in Her Eyes pub 2009
18. Grey Sister pub 2018
27. The Man Who Loved Children 527 pages
36. Duplicate Death 336 pages
45. Carmen pub 1845
54. To the End of the Land born 1954
63. Future Home of the Living God 263 pages
72. The Mandelbaum Gate 272 pages
81. The Infernal Battalion born 1981
90. The Secret Pilgrim pub 1990

20.10 Over/Under

Spoils of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

+20 Task (4.18/132)
+5 Multiple

Task total = 35
Season Total: 985

10.8 The Big 4=0?

The Widow's House by Daniel Abraham

+10 Task (published 2014)
+5 Multiple
Task total = 15
Season Total: 960

10.3 One at a Time Please

This Is Shyness by Leanne Hall

+10 Task
+5 Multiple
Task total = 15
Season Total: 945

10.3 One at a Time Please

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss

+10 Task
+10 Jumbo (720 pages)
+5 Multiple
Task total = 25
Season Total: 930

20.8 Beatrix Potter

Reginald by Saki, Fiction, Classic, Literary, Short Stories by Saki

+20 Task
+10 Oldies
+5 Multiple
Task total = 35
Season Total: 905

10.7 Ed’s Task

The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld

+10 Task
+5 Multiple
Task total = 15
Season Total: 870

10.6 Postal

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
+10 Task (AR)
+5 Jumbo (694 pages)
+5 Multiple

Task total = 20
Season Total: 855

10.9 Hug a Tree

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

+10 Task (golden apple tree)

Task total = 10
RwS finish: 100
Season Total: 835

10.2 Author Name

Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny

+10 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1985)
+5 Multiple

Task total = 20
Season Total: 725

30.1 Go for the Green

Youma by Lafcadio Hearn

+30 Task (set in Martinique)
+10 Oldies (published 1890)

Task total = 40
Season Total: 705

10.10 Group Reads

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

+10 Task

Task total = 10
Season Total: 665

10.6 Postal

A Christmas Gathering by Anne Perry

+10 Task (PA)
+5 Multiple

Task total = 15
Season Total: 655

20.4 France

All Our Worldly Goods by Irène Némirovsky

+20 Task (set in France)
+5 Oldies (published 1947)
+5 Multiple

Task total = 30
Season Total: 640