Deedee’s Comments (group member since Aug 04, 2010)

Deedee’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Task 20.2 Track of the Cat
Read a book shelved as western by at least 50 readers.

Karen Memory (Karen Memory #1) (2015) by Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 346 pages)

+20 Task
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 395 + 30 = 425

The next novel of Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List, will be published September 11, 2018. Her birthday is "1985" See: fantasticfiction.com Rebecca Serle (I'm thinking of this book as a starting point :) )

Task 15.8

Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories (1844) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

List:
Best Gothic Books Of All TIme

74th out of 588 books — 2,571 voters — as of August 27, 2018

Tags: gothic

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 380 + 15 = 395

Task 15.7

Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1) (2013) by Kevin Kwan

List:
What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2017

726th out of 1,602 books — 209 voters as of August 26, 2018

Tags: born-in-1980s

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 365 + 15 = 380

Task 10.5 Inferno
Read a book hot off the presses: originally published in 2017 or 2018.

The Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline (Paperback, 231 pages)
American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best Young Adult Book (Honor Book) (2018)
Winner Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général (2017)
CBC Canada Reads Nominee (2018)
Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature (2017)

Yes, all those prizes for this Young Adult novel—but no Lexile score

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 350 + 10 = 360

Task 10.2 July – National Black Family Month

Everfair (2016) by Nisi Shawl (Hardcover, 381 pages)
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2017)
James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2016)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.4 Debut Novel)
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 325 + 25 = 350

Task 20.7 Ambassador
Read a book by an author born in a country entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.

Author was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

The Book of Not (Nervous Conditions #2) (2006) by Tsitsi Dangarembga

+20 Task
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 295 + 30 = 325

Task 15.6

Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone (2012) by Stefan Kiesbye

List:

Eye Catching Titles

84th out of 262 books — 207 voters as of August 7, 2018

Tags:

titles

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 280 + 15 = 295

Task 10.5 Inferno
Read a book hot off the presses: originally published in 2017 or 2018.

Good Trouble: Stories (2018) by Joseph O'Neill

+10 Task
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 265 + 15 = 280

Task 20.8 Summer Nights

A Partisan's Daughter (2008) by Louis de Bernières
(set in 1970s London)

+20 task
+10 combos 10.8K (London), 10.9 (initials E B)

Task total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 235 + 30 = 265

Task 10.8K Big City, Small Country (Karen Michele's Task)
Read a book set in one of the 30 biggest cities in the world

Book set in New York City

My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) by Ottessa Moshfegh (Hardcover, 289 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.5 pub. 2018)
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 210 + 25 = 235

Task 10.10 Group Reads

Ghachar Ghochar (2013) by Vivek Shanbhag translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur

+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.8K (Bangalore/Bengaluru #25 on list) / 10.9 Emily Bronte)

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 190 + 20 = 210

Task 15.5

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror (2018) by Mallory Ortberg

List:

Most Anticipated Releases No YA


132nd out of 420 books — 631 voters as of July 20, 2018

Tag:

cant-wait

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 175 + 15 = 190

Task 15.4

The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co. #1) (2003) by Tom Holt

List:

Humorous Paranormal Books


305th out of 1,254 books — 1,951 voters as of July 16, 2018

Tag:

humorous-romance

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 160 + 15 = 175

Found this on the Goodreads Awards page: The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Saw this and thought y'all would be interested: Book Riot article on Creative NonFiction

Task 20.9 Tom Wolfe (Kate S's Task)
Read a work of creative non-fiction, focused on an external subject (i.e. not an autobiography).

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 (2015) by James Shapiro (Hardcover, 384 pages) [822.33]

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.3 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2015))

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 135 + 25 = 160

Kate S wrote: "From Post 288

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.7 Not Quite Jumbo (Coralie's Task)
Read a book that has between 400 and 499 pages.

Time Shards (Time Shards #1) (2018) by Dana Fredsti (Goodreads Author) ..."

For our purposes, we only use the first listed author on GoodReads, so +10 for Female Author. ."

I wondered about that as this book was written by a husband & wife team

Task 10.9 Emily Bronte (Rosemary's Task)

The Characters Of Love (1996) by Susie Boyt (Hardcover, 234 pages)

+10 Task
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20

Grand Total: 105 + 20 = 125

Task 15.3

Three Day Road (2005) by Joseph Boyden (Hardcover, 354 pages)

List:
Lists linked to the MPE version, here:
Three Day Road

World War One Literature

19th out of 200 books — 331 voters as of July 06, 2018

Tag: great-war

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 90 + 15 = 105