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

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.9 Birthday

Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire

+20 Task (352 pages)

Task total = 20
Season Total: 180

10.2 Author Name

Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C.J. Cherryh

+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+5 Oldies (published 1983)

Task total = 20
Season Total: 160

10.2 Author Name

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple

Task total = 15
Season Total: 140

10.4 P. D. James

The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

+10 Task

Task total = 10
Season Total: 125

10.3 One at a Time

Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn

+10 Task

Task total = 10
Season Total: 115

10.7 Ed’s Task

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

+10 Task (begins E)
+ 5 Multiple

Task total = 15
Season Total: 105

10.6 Postal

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

+10 Task (MI)
+ 5 Multiple

Task total = 15
Season Total: 90

10.2 Author Name

One Night for Love by Mary Balogh

+10 Task (Balogh – 6 letters)

Task total = 10
Season Total: 75

10.6 Postal

Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson

+10 Task (KS)

Task total = 10
Season Total: 65

10.5 Suffragettes

Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie

+10 Task (born 1890)
+10 Oldies (published 1937)

Task total = 20
Season Total: 55

20.8 Beatrix Potter

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

+20 Task (MC Gideon)

Task total = 20
Season Total: 35

10.7 Ed’s Task

This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman

+10 Task (ends is E)
+ 5 Jumbo (564 pages)

Task total = 15
Season Total: 15

I have heard that the difference between fantasy and magical realism is that in fantasy the magic has rules, but in magical realism it just happens. This could have something to do with why people who love fantasy don't always enjoy magical realism.

15.7 Blackjack (Round 2)

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

10 Hearts (set in middle ages)
Jack Diamonds (set in Russia)

+20 Task
+ 5 Female

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 880

15.6 Blackjack (Round 2)

Serpent's Reach by C.J. Cherryh

7 Diamonds (title begins S)
8 Diamonds (originally published 1980)
2 Clubs (has 287 pages)

+20 Task
+ 5 Female
+ 5 Oldies

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 855

15.5 Blackjack (Round 2)

Polaris by Jack McDevitt

7 Spades (Polaris has 7 letters)
Jack spades (author’s name Jack)

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 825

15.4 Blackjack (Round 2)

Play With Fire by Dana Stabenow

3 Spades (3 word title)
5 Hearts (set in US state – Alaska)
10 diamonds (series has more than 10 titles)

+15 Task
+5 Female
+5 Oldies (published 1995)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 820

15.3 Blackjack (Round 2)

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

9 spades (published 2019)
9 diamonds (set in Commonwealth country – Australia)

+15 Task
+5 Female

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 795

15.2 Blackjack (Round 2)

Cadenza by Stella Riley

3 Clubs (has 391 pages)
6 clubs (Stella has 6 letters)
10 clubs (published 2018)

+15 Task
+5 Female

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 775

15.1 Blackjack (Round 2)

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

9 Hearts (published in 19th century – 1853)
Queen Diamonds (set in Western Europe – UK)

+15 Task
+5 Female
+5 Oldies (published 1853)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 755