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

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.4 Page Count

Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore


+15 Task (212 pages)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 465

20.1 Lifetime

Scraps of Heaven by Arnold Zable

+20 Task born 1947
+5 Combo 10.9

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 450

15.1 Page Count

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (64 pages)
AND
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (64 pages)

+15 Task (64+64=128)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 425

10.3 Listopia reigns

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

+10 Task
+20 Combo 10.8, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4
+10 Lost in Translation

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 410

10.9 The Power of Five

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

+10 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1962

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 370

20.1 Lifetime

A Study in Sable by Mercedes Lackey

+20 Task born 1950
+5 Combo 10.8

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 355

10.8 Fantasy

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

+10 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1966

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 330

20.5 Meta-fiction

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe

+20 Task
+20 Combo 10.8, 10.9, 20.1, 20.3

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 315

20.6 Literature Map

Life Form by Amélie Nothomb

+20 Task
+10 Combo 20.1, 20.10
+10 Lost in Translation

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 275

20.10 First Person

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley

+20 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1980

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 235

20.7 It’s Winter (or Summer?)

Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

+20 Task (set in England in winter)
+15 Combo 10.7 (the Duke of Wellington), 10.8, 20.1

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 210

20.9 Addiction

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson


+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.6, 10.9, 20.1
+10 Not a Novel

Task Total: 50
Season Total: 180

All these short stories were about addiction.

I plan to read one of the following from The Philosopher Kings
Of Noble Family
Crosstalk
Too Like the Lightning
The Affinities

20.1 Lifetime

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress

+20 Task (born 1948)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 130

I have just finished reading Victory of Eagles in which Lord Wellesley/the Duke of Wellington makes frequent appearances. Would the fact that he is discussing tactics for fighting with dragons make his appearances sufficiently fictionalized?

20.4 Doctorate

The Crazed by Ha Jin

+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.4, 20.1, 20.10
Real name Jin Xuefei, born 1956

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 110

20.8 Organization

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

+20 Task
+ 10 Combo 10.8, 20.1 (born 1972)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 75

20.3 Aged

The Public Image by Muriel Spark

+20 Task (1918-2006)
+ 25 Combo 10.9, 20.1, 20.2, 20.4, 20.6

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 45

10.3 Decade

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

+10 Task (published 1931)
+5 Combo 10.8
+10 Oldies

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1110

20.5 Old

Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal

+20 Task (set in 1817)
+10 Combo 10.5, 10.8

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1085