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

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.3 She Writes

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.1 (Avory), 10.6 (403 pages), 10.9 (published 2019)
+10 Female

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 1010

10.10 Group reads

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

+10 Task
+30 Combo 10.1 (Rebekah), 10.5 (latest), 10.6 (464 pages), 10.8, 10.9 (published 2018), 20.3
+10 Female

Task Total: 50
Season Total: 965

20.7 Island Dreams

Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran

+20 Task (set in Ireland)
+10 Combo 10.2, 20.3
+10 Female

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 915

10.4 Genius

Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

+10 Task
+10 Combo 10.1 (Maksym Karpovets), 10.8

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 875

20.3 She Writes

Dead In The Water by Dana Stabenow

+20 Task
+10 Female
+ 5 Oldies (published 1993)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 855

20.6 Stand up for your rights

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

+20 Task
+20 Combo 10.2, 10.8, 10.9, 20.3
+10 Female

Task Total: 50
Season Total: 820

Set mostly in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo

15.9 CYOA-
C4 Author who has published in at least 3 forms

May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Graham Greene

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 770

15.8 CYOA-
C5 Author who worked as a journalist

The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 755

15.7 CYOA-
A1 Author’s first name consists of exactly four letters

The Confusion by Neal Stephenson

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 740

15.6 CYOA-
C1 Author I have not read before

The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 725

10.9 Play the Numbers

Closer to Home by Mercedes Lackey

+10 Task (published 2014
+10 Female)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 710

20.10 A Winning Decade

Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood by Marjorie M. Liu

+20 Task (Hugo winner 2018)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 690

20.2 Freedom Season

Panama by Thomas McGuane

+20 Task (set in Florida)
+10 Combo 10.8, 20.8
+5 Oldies (published 1978)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 670

20.4 Poet’s Non-Poetry

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.9,
+10 Female

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 635

15.5 CYOA-
B3 December birth date

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 600

15.4 CYOA-
B5 Born in Octoberfest country – United States

The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 585

15.3 CYOA-
C2 On Literature Map of Jane Austen

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 570

20.10 A Winning Decade

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

+20 Task (PEN/Faulkner 2017)
+15 Combo 10.5, 10.6, 10.9,
+10 Female

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 555

My brother-in-law teaches in Gippsland where the fires are really bad. He only got back to Melbourne for Christmas because they cancelled the last day of school. Now he is wondering if he will have a house and a school to go back to. He spent the New Year worrying about all his students.

10.7 Alphabet soup

The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam

+10 Task (G-T)
+10 Combo 10.9, 20.3
+10 Female

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 510