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

Deedee’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

OH ... one more list and I'm done for now ...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
There_Ought_to_be_a_Band
1,018 voters as of June 19, 2017

#7 The Sound and the Fury
#9 Midnight's Children

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Best Fantasy of the 2010s
as of June 19, 2017 -- 1,199 voters

#3 The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
#4 Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)
#5 Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)
#8 King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)
#9 Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Can_t_Wait_Sci_Fi_Fantasy_of_2016
2,034 voters as oj June 19, 2017

#4 The Wheel of Osheim (The Red Queen's War #3)

Here's a few on my TBR that have not yet been approved but which qualify: (Thanks for all your work Elizabeth (Alaska))

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Best_Time_Travel_Fiction
#2 Outlander
#8 Doomsday Book

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Best_of_Stephen_King
#4 Misery
#5 'Salem's Lot
#6 Pet Sematary

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
Best_Fantasy_Books_Under_the_Radar
#4 The Bone Doll's Twin

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Best_Books_About_Tudor_England
#5 Wolf Hall

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Goodreads_Picks_for_Tournament_of_Books_2017
#2 Dark Matter

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Mysteries_and_Thrillers_to_Read_in_a_Lifetime_Readers_Picks
#2 The Da Vinci Code

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
The_Best_Urban_Fantasy
#7 Dead Until Dark

Will this count as a "completed trilogy"? Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire series

The author Rod Duncan on his goodreads author page has said:

(question) Will there be a fourth (or more) book/s in "the Fall of the Gaslit Empire," sir? Very, VERY pleased with the first three.

(answer) I'm so glad you enjoyed the first three. Feedback like that makes the whole process worth it.

As for your question - I am presently writing a novel that follows on from where we left off at the end of The Custodian of Marvels. I think that will be presented as book 1 in a new trilogy rather than book 4 of the Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire.

Task 10.1 Instant Replay
10.2 3, 4, or 5 Read a book whose title has exactly 3, 4, or 5 words. Sub-titles can be counted or ignored.

The Charm School (1988) by Nelson DeMille
Most Popular Edition: Paperback, 816 pages

+10 Task
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: (1942-1992)
+15 Jumbo 800-899 Pages: 15 Points

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 15 = 30

Grand Total: 120 + 30 = 150

Note: 99% of book set in Russia

Task 20.3 Historical

Today “historical” is the last listed main page genre – possible it drifts off –

Buffalo Soldier (2017) by Maurice Broaddus

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.3 “buffalo”)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 95 + 25 = 120

Task 10.3 U's Have It
Read a book with a word in the title that has a U as the second letter or an author whose name has U as a second letter.

Murder in the Title: A Charles Paris Novel (Charles Paris #9) (1983) by Simon Brett

+10 Task
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: (1942-1992)

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 80 + 15 = 95

Karen Michele wrote: "How was the frozen deep?"

The Frozen Deep is one of Wilkie Collins's earlier books (I looked to see if it was the debut novel but it was not). Frozen Deep is very very Victorian and very very melodramatic.. (Also, the Scottish people are, well, different than normal people.) I can see why Collin's later novels (which are only one very instead of 2 - very Victorian and very melodramatic) are the ones that are remembered. Supposedly Charles Dickens was involved with the creation of the story (but I don't think Dickens wrote any of it). I'd say it was OK for a Victorian novel, and I'd also say it was a great choice for 20.7

I had posted The Frozen Deep for 20.8 last week but I've decided to move it to 20.7. I've posted the change over in the Completed Tasks thread.

20.7 Arctic Circle

Re: Post #0020 above:
I'd like to switch The Frozen Deep (1857) by Wilkie Collins from 20.8 Frosty June to the newly posted task 20.7 Arctic Circle. Then, 20.8 will be a +05 Combo, bringing my Grand Total as of this post to 80. :)

Task 10.2 No O
Read any book by an author whose name as published contains no letter O.

The Refugees (2017) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 65 + 10 = 75

Katy wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

#10 is To Say Nothing of the Dog"

on the same list:

#8 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Task 10.5 Always a Bridesmaid
Read any work which has been nominated for (short or longlisted, runnerup, etc.) at least one award, but has never won any award. Awards must appear in the awards section on the GR book page.

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays (2009) by Chinua Achebe [823.914]
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for NonFiction (2010)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.2 No O)
+10 Non-Western Author (Nigeria)

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 40 + 25 = 65

Task 20.8 Frosty June?

The Frozen Deep (1857) by Wilkie Collins

+20 Task (#20.8 Frosty)
+05 Combo (#20.3 historical)
+15 Oldies -151 to 250 years old: (1766-1865)

Task Total: 20 + 05 + 15 = 40

Grand Total: 00 + 40 = 40

The first book by Australian (female) author Kate Forsyth is The Witches of Eileanan. Here's a link to her bibliography:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6648

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Sawyer) :)

also
English
Riding

8 words for 20th century women:
Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede
The temptation of Jack Orkney and other stories by Doris Lessing
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (won Pulitzer prize)

10 words for 20th century women:
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

Task 15.10

Spur Award for Best Novel (1981)
(note: I'm going to be doing all Spur Award, sequentially, 1972-1981)

Eyes of the Hawk (1981) by Elmer Kelton

+15 Task
+05 Oldies (published before 1992)
+100 Time Traveler will read in chronological order (starting at either end)

Task Total: 15 + 05 +100 = 120

Grand Total: 885 + 120 = 1,005

Cooper's Creek has "historical" listed last on the main page -- can I have it confirmed now in case it slips off later? Thanks!

Task 20.6 My Name is Red
Read a book with 25,000-49,999 ratings with an average of 3.75 or higher.

Lock In (Lock In #1) (2014) by John Scalzi (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 336 pages)
Review:John Scalzi is an established science fiction writer who has won numerous awards for his writings (See: href=http://www.sfadb.com/John_Scalzi>List of John Scalzi’s Science Fiction Awards) Lock In is set in the “near future”. Our heroes are FBI agents based in Washington, D. C., investigating a mysterious death. The first half of the novel is a standard police procedural mystery novel with added science fiction elements. The second half reverses the emphasis, giving more emphasis on the science fiction elements and less emphasis on the police procedural plotline. The writing was clear and easy to follow. I gave the novel 3 stars – it was an OK novel, not as entertaining as Scalzi’s other novels that I’ve read (The Android's Dream and Old Man's War (military science fiction with a twist) and Redshirts (wherein Scalzi attempts meta-fiction)). John Scalzi is currently working on a stand-alone novel in the same universe as Lock In, due out sometime in 2018.

+20 Task
+10 Review

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 855 + 30 = 885