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

Deedee’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Task 10.4 - Double Trouble: Read a book by an author whose surname has a double letter.

Jeff VanderMeer
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2934
Birthplace: Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthdate: 7 July 1968

Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1) (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 195 pages)

+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.7 born 7 July 1968; #10.9 pub. 2014)
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 720 + 25 = 745

Task 20.9 Father’s Day
Read a book that takes place primarily during the years 1904-1954 (more than 75%).

The Unfinished Clue (1934) by Georgette Heyer (Paperback, 321 pages)
First published in 1934; characters in the novel refer to the end of the Great War (meaning World War I), automobiles and telephones; so 100% of book occurs sometime between the end of World War I and the publication date of 1934.

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.7 born August 16, 1902)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 695 + 25 = 720

Task 15.8 Author to Author

15.8 Ivan Turgenev

Rudin (1856) by Ivan Turgenev; translated by Richard Freeborn (Paperback, 192 pages)


+30 Task

Task Total: 30

Grand Total: 665 + 30 = 695

Task 15.7 Author to Author

15.7 Honoré de Balzac

Pere Goriot (1834) by Honoré de Balzac; translated by Ellen Marriage (Paperback, 352 pages)
Lexile: 1180L

+25 Task

Task Total: 25

Grand Total: 630 + 25 = 655

Task 10.7 - author born in one of the "Summer months" -- June, July, or August

Author: Victoria Schwab
http://veschwab.wordpress.com/about/bio/
Birthday: 7.7.87

The Archived (The Archived #1) (2013) by Victoria Schwab (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 328 pages)
Young Adult – Low Lexile

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 620 + 10 = 630

Here's my beginning list: (subject to frequent changes :0) )

1919-1920
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) by John Reed Lexile 1140L
This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Lexile 1070L

1921-1922
My Universities (1922) by Maxim Gorky
Crome Yellow (1921) by Aldous Huxley
One of Ours (1922) by Willa Cather

1923-1924
The Dream: A Novel (1924) by H.G. Wells
A Son at the Front (1923) by Edith Wharton

1925-1926
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser Lexile 1240L
The Charwoman's Shadow (1926) by Lord Dunsany
Arrowsmith (1925) by Sinclair Lewis Lexile 1160L
Chaka (1925) by Thomas Mofolo
Topper (1926) by Thorne Smith

1927-1928
Point Counter Point (1928) by Aldous Huxley
The Trumpeter of Krakow (1928) by Eric P. Kelly Lexile 1200L
Decline and Fall (1928) by Evelyn Waugh

1929-1930
The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen
East Wind: West Wind (1929) by Pearl S. Buck
The 42nd Parallel (The U.S.A. Trilogy #1) (1930) by John Dos Passos
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner Lexile 870L
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) by Robert Graves
Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) by W. Somerset Maugham
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon
Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey #6) (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers

1931-1932
Saraband (1931) by Eliot Bliss
To the North (1932) by Elizabeth Bowen
Nineteen Nineteen (The U.S.A. Trilogy #2) (1932) by John Dos Passos
Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
Devil's Cub (1932) by Georgette Heyer
Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley Lexile 870L

1933-1934
The Mother (1933) by Pearl S. Buck
The Convenient Marriage (1934) by Georgette Heyer
Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton Lexile 1060L
Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O'Hara
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) by Gertrude Stein
A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh

1935-1936
Untouchable (1935) by Mulk Raj Anand
The Big Money (The U.S.A. Trilogy #3) (1936) by John Dos Passos
Jamaica Inn (1935) by Daphne du Maurier Lexile 1070L

1937-1938
A Blunt Instrument (1938) by Georgette Heyer
Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell
Scoop (1937) by Evelyn Waugh

1939-1940
Flotsam: A Novel of World War II (1939) by Erich Maria Remarque

Task 10.08 -- The 17th Century (1601-1700)

Read a biography of Daniel Defoe (b.1660 – d.1731)

Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures (1998) by Richard West

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 610 + 10 = 620

Task 10.02 Highly Rated

Rated 5*s by:
Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars
Eowyn rated it 5 of 5 stars
Max Karpovets rated it 5 of 5 stars
Meg rated it 5 of 5 stars
Aubrey Danielle rated it 5 of 5 stars
Rusty Nugent rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle #2) (1970) by Ursula K. Le Guin

+10 Task
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 595 + 15 = 610

Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press

Prince of Fools (The Red Queen’s War #1) (2014) by Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 355 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 580 + 15 = 595

Task 15.6 Author to Author

15.6 Georges Bernanos

Mouchette (1937) by Georges Bernanos (Paperback, 156 pages)

+25 Task

Task Total: 25

Grand Total: 545 + 25 = 570

Task 15.5 Author to Author

15.5 Georges Simenon

Tropic Moon (1933) by Georges Simenon

+25 Task

Task Total: 25

Grand Total: 520 + 25 = 545

Task 20.2 - Jailed
-Read a book written by an author who was imprisoned at some point in their life. Please provide a link when posting a book for this task.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_D...
In the section: Pamphleteering and prison
“After his three days in the pillory, Defoe went into Newgate Prison. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, brokered his release in exchange for Defoe's co-operation as an intelligence agent for the Tories.”

Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe (Paperback, 254 pages)
+20 Task (#20.2 jailed)
+20 Combo (#10.2 (highly rated), #10.8 (17th Century), #20.5 (Financial fiction), #20.6 (unfinished -- #164))
+10 Canon

Task Total: 20 + 20 + 10 = 50

Grand Total: 470 + 50 = 520


Combos:
10.2 Highly-rated:
Kama rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shin rated it 5 of 5 stars
Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars
Bill rated it 5 of 5 stars
Satenik rated it 5 of 5 stars
Ricky D. Gonzalez rated it 5 of 5 stars
Marlene Slade rated it 5 of 5 stars
Madhubrata Bhattacharya rated it 5 of 5 stars
Zaduzbina rated it 5 of 5 stars
Rahnuma Siddika rated it 5 of 5 stars
Isaac rated it 5 of 5 stars
Indhira rated it 5 of 5 stars
Trisha rated it 5 of 5 stars
Rita rated it 5 of 5 stars

10.8 - The 17th Century (1601-1700)
The first sentence: “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of good family, tho’ not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.” The rest of the book follows the next 50+ years, ending before 1700.

20.5 - Financial Fiction:
The Financial Fiction Genre
From the Chaucer to the Victorian and Edwardian Eras

20.6 - Unfinished:
On July 25, 2014 it was #164 on the list

Task 10.2 Highly rated

Shreya Pamulapati rated it 5 of 5 stars
Ian Jones rated it 5 of 5 stars
Jae rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Martian (2012) by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 369 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 455 + 15 = 470

Task 20.8 - Great Outdoors –
Read a book shelved at least 15 times as nature.
July 16, 2014: Page 2: (shelved 27 times as nature)

Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind (2003) by David Quammen (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 513 pages)

+20 Task (#20.8)
+10 Combo (#10.3 born Feb. 1948; #10.4 double letter)
+05 Jumbo 500-699 Pages

Task Total: 20 + 10 + 05 = 35

Grand Total: 420 + 35 = 455

Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press

Landline (2014) by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 308 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 double “ll”)
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 05 = 20

Grand Total: 400 + 20 = 420

Task 15.4 Author to Author

Camara Laye

The Radiance of the King (1954) by Camara Laye (Paperback, 279 pages)

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 380 + 20 = 400

Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press
Read an earlier book from a series that has a new installment out in 2014. For this option, please also post a link to the series book published/to be published in 2014.

Installment out in 2014:
He Drank, and Saw the Spider (Eddie LaCrosse #5)
Published January 14th 2014 by Tor Books

Combo 10.3 Baby Boomer
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?9...
Birthplace: Gibson, Tennessee, USA
Birthdate: 3 February 1963


Book Read:
The Sword-Edged Blonde (Eddie LaCrosse #1) (2007) by Alex Bledsoe (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 310 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.3 born 1963)
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05+ 05 = 20

Grand Total: 360 + 20 = 380

Task 10.2 Highly rated

I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson (Mass Market Paperback, 161 pages)

Scythe rated it 5 of 5 stars
Nikki rated it 5 of 5 stars
And others

+10 Task
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 345 + 15 = 360

Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press
Catch up on recent releases by reading a book published in 2013 or 2014

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) by Claire North (Hardcover, 405 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Multiple

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 330 + 15 = 345

Task 15.3 Author to Author

Ousmane Sembène

God's Bits of Wood (1960) by Ousmane Sembène; (translated by Francis Price) (Paperback, 248 pages)

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 310 + 20 = 330