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

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.10 Fall Equinox

Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

+20 task
+20 Combo 10.2, 10.5 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...), 10.6, 20.5
+ 5 Jumbo (504 pages)

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 1345

10.2 Next?

The Sixth Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

+10 task
+10 Oldies (publishes 1937)

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1300

20.1 War’s End

Rickshaw Boy by Lao She

+20 task
+10 Oldies (publishes 1937)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1290

Rosemary wrote: "20.3 Birds without Wings

Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager in his fifties, meets his Aunt Augusta for the first time since he ..."

I agree with Rosemary. I will accept points for combo with 20.5 but it is not in two time periods. Are you confusing it with Around the World with Auntie Mame which has a somewhat similar theme but is looking back into the past?

10.2 Next?

Kingyo Used Books, Vol. 2 by Seimu Yoshizaki

+10 task

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1260

Singled Out

The Shadow Throne by Django Wexler

+20 task (two of the three main characters are single women)
+10 Combo 10.2, 10.5 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
+5 Jumbo (512 pages)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1245

20.3 To Conquer Hell

War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich

+20 task
+10 Combo 10.9, 10.10
+5 Oldies (published 1985)
+10 Prizeworthy

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 1210

I would like to move a book. In post #305 I claimed Chalice for 10.5. I would like to move it to 20.5.

20.5 Singled Out

Chalice by Robin McKinley

+20 task (Female main character lives alone and runs a small business while also holding an important government position)
+ 5 Combo 10.5

Task Total: 25 less 10 points previously claimed
Season Total: 1165

20.3 Birds Without Wings

Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

+20 task
+ 5 Combo 10.5 (penguin)
+ 5 Oldie (published 1969)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1165

10.9 9, 10, 11

Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds

+10 task
+ 5 Jumbo

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 1135

20.6 The Stone Carvers

Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn

+20 task
+ 5 Combo 10.2
+ 5 Prizeworthy

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1120

10.4 Bookshelves

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

+10 task (on 21st century Literature’s bookshelf)
+ 10 Combo 10.9, 20.7
+ 5 Prizeworthy

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1090

20.9 Arkansas

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

+20 task
+ 5 oldies (published 1987)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1065

15.10 AbBY
Date Range 1955-1959, read chronologically

White Light by Mark O'Flynn

+60 Task (author born 1958)

Post Total: 60
Finisher Bonus: 100
Season Total: 1040

10.1 Favorite Lists

The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

+10 Task using https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
from post #454 (#67 on list)


Task Total: 10
Season Total: 880

20.7 A Month in the Country

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.2

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 870

10.2 Next?

What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 840

10.8 Cli Fi

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

+10 Task The earth’s climate is catastrophically changed when a meteor hits.
+10 combo 10.2, 10.9

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 830

20.6 The Stone Carvers

The Dog by Joseph O'Neill

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 810

15.9 AbBY
Date Range 1950-1954, read chronologically

A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières

+45 Task (author born 1954)

Post Total: 45
Season Total: 790