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

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.9 PnM2 E2

Ten by Andrej Longo

+30 Task (number in title)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 285

15.8 PnM2 F6

The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson

+20 Task (author’s name begins T)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 255

15.7 PnM2 C3

The King's Gold by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

+20 Task (1st person narrator)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 235

15.6 PnM2 A4

Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog by Boris Akunin

+20 Task (set in Russia)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 215

20.8 Periodic Table

The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

+20 Task (Sn=Tin)
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.7 AEIUY, 20.7)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 195

Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts. I am really hoping that these things come in threes (but just this time) and that this will be the last for a while.

20.4 Boomer

Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan

+20 Task (born 1961)
+5 Combo (20.8 Germanium)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 160

I am extra glad that you are all right Don.

I am having a terrible year. After losing my sister early in the year and my aunt a few months ago, my mother died suddenly (and very messily) yesterday morning. Her fistula (for dialysis) burst when she was in the shower and Dad couldn't stop the bleeding.

15.5 PnM2 D6

Double Vision by Pat Barker

+20 Task (contemporary)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 135

20.2 Wolf Hall

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.4, 20.5, 20.7)
+20 Jumbo (927 pgs)

Task Total: 55
Season Total: 115

15.4 PnM2 F1

Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

+20 Task (name begins with A)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 60

15.3 PnM2 B2

Silence by Shūsaku Endō

+20 Task (published 1966)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 45

15.2 PnM2 E3

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

+20 Task (title full sentence)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 30

15.1 PnM2 A5

The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo

+20 Task (set in Nigeria)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15

Does Storm of Steel work for this task even though it is about a different war?

Would Daemon work for an alternative spelling of demon?

15.4 RG
2nd round

15,000 to 24,999 ratings

Breath by Tim Winton

+15 Task (15,442 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1975

15.3 RG
2nd round

1,000 – 4,999 ratings

The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak

+15 Task (2332 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1960

15.2 RG
2nd round

250-999 ratings

The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe

+15 Task (275 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1945

15.1 RG
2nd round

fewer than 250 ratings

The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver by Chan Koonchung

+15 Task (127 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1930