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

Deedee’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Task 15.04 Reading Globally

NORTH AMERICA
United States of America

Fits A, B and C

The Probable Future (2003) by Alice Hoffman

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 475 + 15 = 490

Task 15.03 Reading Globally

EUROPEAN UNION
United Kingdom

Fits A, B, and C.

The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit (2013) by Graham Joyce

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 460 + 15 = 475

Task 10.4 – Scrabble!

ORPHEUS

The Last Song of Orpheus (2010) by Robert Silverberg

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 450 + 10 = 460

Kazen wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Task 10.8 – Podcast

From Podcast Bookrageous Episode 76:

Get in Trouble (2015) by Kelly Link (Hardcover, 336 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 “Trouble”)
+10 Not-a-..."

+5 combo (10.2 - Girl Canon list)

Sorry if non-mods aren't supposed to point out combos, but I'm so excited I spotted one! :)..."

Wow, thanks!! I completely missed that combo! :0)

Task 10.8 – Podcast

From Podcast Bookrageous Episode 76:

Get in Trouble (2015) by Kelly Link (Hardcover, 336 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 “Trouble”)
+10 Not-a-novel: Short Stories

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 420 + 25 = 445

Task 10.6 - Women's Ed:
Read a book written by a woman who has earned a doctorate (not an honorary degree).

Mary Beard: Beard received an MA at Newnham and remained in Cambridge for her PhD.

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (2008) by Mary Beard

+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-Fiction
+05 Prizeworthy: Wolfson History Prize (2008)

Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 390 + 25 = 415

Task 20.5 - Germinal

This novel was on the list of BPL List Strikes and Lockouts -- Fiction< a>.

In Dubious Battle (1936) by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 355 pages)
This is a YA Assignment at BPL, with no Lexile. Task, but no styles.

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 370 + 20 = 390

Task 20.1 Zola
Read a book originally published during his lifetime: 1840-1902.

A Woman's Life (1883) by Guy de Maupassant

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.3 Elizabeth (Alaska)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 345 + 25 = 370

Task 15.02 Reading Globally

OCEANIA
Australia

Fits A, B, and C.

Beatle Meets Destiny (2009) by Gabrielle Williams
Lexile 840L

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 330 + 15 = 345

Karen Michele wrote: "Just sharing:

I just finished The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro and it is told by an unnamed narrator.

Another I have discovered, but haven't read is ..."


The Buried Giant just arrived at my local library :0) if it counts for 20.9 I'll move it to the top of my stack.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) by Karen Joy Fowler (Hardcover, 310 pages)

P. 34: “I went to my room and read for a while. I think I was reading The Mosquito Coast then.”

P. 72: “Then a caller who wanted to talk about a professor who was making his entire class read Dracula, even the Christians who thought it imperiled their souls.”

p. 79: “Still, when I first read Little Women, it seemed to me I’d loved Fern as much as Jo loved Amy if not as much as Jo loved Beth.”

p. 93: “The book is Mary Poppins and the chapter is the one in which an old woman breaks off her own fingers …”

p. 116: “I was upstairs, reading something or other – Bridge to Terabithia or Where the Red Fern Grows …..”

p. 160: “Harlow had just learned that the drama department would be putting on a gender-reversal version of Macbeth in the spring.”

Task 10.5 - Nebula

Nominated 2014 Best Novella

Yesterday's Kin (2014) by Nancy Kress

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 310 + 10 = 320

Task 10.5 - Nebula

Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013)

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) by Karen Joy Fowler

+10 Task (#10.5)
+15 Combo (#10.1 – (Fall 14) #0373, #10.3 Kate S.; #10.8 The Writer and the Critic: Episode 40 )

Task Total: 10 + 15 = 25

Grand Total: 285 + 25 = 310

11/22/63 (2011) by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 849 pages)

p. 308: “Have you read The Catcher in the Rye? Uh-oh, I thought.”

p. 319: “Also known as Lennie Small in George Amberson’s okay-for-high-school adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.”

p. 342: “I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed into bed, a line from the novel crossed my mind: ‘He had lost the habit of romance.’”

p. 492: “He spotted Lee’s paperback, sprang to the coffee table, and picked it up. ‘Atlas Shrugged?’”

p.644: “We read books sitting side by side on her couch, with her fan blowing back our hair – The Group for her, Jude the Obscure for me.”

p. 675: "Found myself listening to Sadie as she read to me, first Jude the Obscure, then Tess of the d'Urbervilles.”

Task 15.1 Reading Globally
ASIA (EASTERN) -- Japan

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013) by Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel (A and B Japan)

+ 15 task

Task Total : 15

Grand Total: 270 + 15 = 285

Task 10.9 – Tried & True
Average Rating at least 3.90 AND at least 100,000 ratings.
Stephen King

11/22/63 (2011) by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 849 pages)

+10 Task (#10.9)
+10 Combo (#10.3: SAM read Dec 22, 2011, #10.8 Books on the Nightstand #158 )
+15 Jumbo 800-899 Pages

Task Total: 10 + 10 + 15 = 35

Grand Total: 235 + 35 = 270

Task 10.4 – Scrabble!

CHASING

Chasing Ravens (2014) by Jessica E. Paige

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 215 + 10 = 225

From Post 171

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.6 - Women's Ed:

...
I'm sorry, Deedee, I don't see any evidence she has a doctorate.

OK, I've removed her points from the total.

Task 10.4 – Scrabble!

MISSING

Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints: A Brothers Grimm Mystery (A Brothers Grimm Mystery #1) (2014) by P.J. Brackston

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 220 + 10 = 230

Task 20.6 - Crime –

Read a book where “Crime” is listed as one of the genres on the book's page.

Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (Toby Peters #2) (1977) by Stuart M. Kaminsky

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 200 + 20 = 220