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

Coralie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.4 Hubert Selby
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert

+ 10 Task (published 1937)
+ 5 Jumbo (530 pages)
+ 10 Oldies

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1005

10.9 Next?
Hexed by Kevin Hearne

+ 10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 980

From the LGBT list Patrick White and Vita Sackville-West

20.6 John Buchan
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

+ 20 Task
+ 15 Combo (10.4, 10.6, 20.1)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1968)

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 970

20.8 J.D. Salinger
New Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit

+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
+ 10 Oldies (published 1904)

Post Total: 35
Season Total: 930

10.9 Next?
Dreadnought by Cherie Priest

+ 10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 895

20.2 Roald Dahl
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky

+ 20 Task (filmed as Stalker)
+ 5 Combo ( 10.4)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1972)
+ 10 Non-Western

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 885

10.8 PTSD
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

+ 10 Task
+ 10 Non-Western

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 845

How about Retreat from Love? If you ignore the original French title, retreat could be a verb in the imperative.

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky was made into a film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker...

10.4 Hubert Selby
Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper

+ 10 Task (published 1990)
+ 5 Combo ( 10.9)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1983)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 810

Don't apologise for taking so long to answer. I have been out and am only just back now. I guess I will have to go back to the drawing-board.

10.6 Literature Map
Valentine Pontifex by Robert Silverberg

+ 10 Task (on map of Gore Vidal)
+ 10 Combo (10.4, 10.9)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1983)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 790

My grandchildren love Where is the Green Sheep? which has a matching green sheep, but I don't know how available it is outside Australia.

It is Half the World.

Imaginary numbers may not exist but they are really, really useful.

The number I would like to use is 'half'. Is that acceptable?

My goals for 2017 (actually for Dec 2016-Nov 2017)

1. Read at least 50 books from series I have already started.
2. Read at least 10% books by non-Western authors.
3. Read at least 10% books by Australian authors.
4. Read another 10% (not counting 2) books translated into English.
5. Read at least 40% female and 40% male authors.

I have a couple of options depending on availability and shelving.

15.1 High
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth
27: 29: 35

15.2 Odd
The Red and the Black
11: 19: 21

15.3 Even
Jacob's Room
10: 18: 22

15.4 Black
Brilliance of the Moon
4: 6: 28

15.5 2nd Dozen
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
15: 20: 23

15.6 3rd dozen
The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power by Helen Garner
25: 30: 31

15.7 Column A
Norwood by Charles Portis
7: 13: 34

15.8 Column B
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
14: 26: 32

15.9 3rd Column (or 1st dozen or red)
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
3: 6: 9

15.10 Low - if meets mystery requirement in time
No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
1: 8 (needs 10 more): 17
OR
15.10 000
Roxana by Daniel Defoe

10.4 Hubert Selby
Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling

+ 10 Task (published 2003)
+ 5 Combo (10.9)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 765

I need eleven more people to shelve No Time for Goodbye as mystery.