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

Deedee’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Meir Shalev is "a columnist for the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth" but it appears that his primary occupation is novelist. Would he count as a journalist for 20.5? Thanks

10.4 U's Have it!

Summer

Without a Summer (Glamourist Histories #3) (2013) by Mary Robinette Kowal (Hardcover, 368 pages)

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 185 + 10 = 195

I was looking over the books I've read this challenge that I didn't think would fit anywhere .... then .... I found two that fit! Yeah!
10.4 U's Have it!

Summer

The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History (2013) by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman (Hardcover, 338 pages)

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 175 + 10 = 185

Just realized -- I have more combo points for post #423

Troy Chimneys (1953) by Margaret Kennedy

+05 Combo (#20.3 published 1867-1955)

Grand Total: 170 + 05 = 175

10.6 Reading is Rewarding: The James Black Tait Prize

1953 Fiction Winner:

Troy Chimneys (1953) by Margaret Kennedy

+10 Task
+05 Oldies (5 points (1938-1988) )

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 155 + 15 = 170

10.2 Go visit the neighbors
Read a book found on the group bookshelves of the Books Stephen King Recommends group

Dispatch (2005) by Bentley Little

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 145 + 10 = 155

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Does ice work? Thanks"

Example? (I doubt it will work, but I'd hate to say no out of hand.)"

I know it's a stretch of the category, but, ice can be defined as a frozen "body of water".

(I'm reading Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice. The "wheel of ice" in the title is the ice in Saturn's rings.)

Does ice work? Thanks

10.1 Sub-Sandwich Read a book that one of our members read in last summer's sub-challenge, TDoS

#164 on the list

Rules of Civility (2011) by Amor Towles

+10 Task
+05 Combo: (10.4 U’s: Rules)

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 130 + 15 = 145

10.4 U's Have it!

Dust

Drawing In the Dust (2009) by Zoe Klein

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 120 + 10 = 130

10.6 Reading is Rewarding: The James Black Tait Prize

1956 Fiction Winner:

The Towers of Trebizond (1956) by Rose Macaulay

+10 Task
+05 Oldies (5 points (1938-1988) )

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 105 + 15 = 120

10.4 U's Have it!

Outback

The Outback Stars (The Outback Stars #1) (2007) by Sandra McDonald

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 95 + 10 = 105

20.10 World Series

Set entirely in Boston:

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 75 + 20 = 95

20.3 Cy Young Award is named for pitching great Cy Young (1867-1955). Read a book published in Cy Young's lifetime.

An Episode of Sparrows (1955) by Rumer Godden (Paperback, 248 pages)

+20 Task
+05 Combo (10.4 “U” -- Rumer)
+05 Oldies (5 points (1938-1988) )

Task Total: 20 + 05 + 05 = 30

Grand Total: 45 + 30 = 75

I have my total as 15, the readerboard says 20, I gained the extra 5 points for my first book from a combo with 20.10 (New York setting) (or so I assume). Now for my second book:

20.10 World Series

Set almost entirely in New York City:

Any Place I Hang My Hat (2004) by Susan Isaacs

+20 Task
+05 Combo (10.4 “U” -- Susan)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 20 + 25 = 45

Lynn Abbey - Emma Merrigan
Daniel Abraham - Long Price Quartet
John Barnes - Giraut
Stephen Baxter - Destiny's Children
Stephen Baxter - Manifold
Stephen Baxter - Time's Tapestry
Elizabeth Bear - Promethean Age
Carol Berg - The Bridge of D'Arnath
Jay Caselberg - Jack Stein Series
Sarah Caudwell - Hilary Tamar
C.J. Cherryh - Morgaine Saga
Dawn Cook - Truth
John Crowley - The Aegypt Cycle
Sara Douglass - The Troy Game
Kate Elliott - Jaran
Michael Flynn - Firestar
Diana Pharaoh Francis - Crosspointe Chronicles
Ariana Franklin - Mistress of the Art of Death
Mary Gentle - The Book of Ash
Anna Godbersen - Luxe
Michael Gregorio - Hanno Stiffeniis (4 novels published 2006-2010, with no indication of a #5 novel)
Barbara Hambly - Windrose Chronicles
Barbara Hambly - Winterlands
Barbara Hambly - James Asher
Thomas Harlan - Oath of Empire
Charlaine Harris - Harper Connelly
Erin Hart - Nora Gavin (4 published novels in series)
Robin Hobb - Rain Wild Chronicles
Cecelia Holland - Soul Thief
Ian Irvine - The View from the Mirror
J.V. Jones - Sword of Shadows
Greg Keyes - Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone
Greg Keyes - Age of Unreason
Durrell, Lawrence - The Alexandria Quartet
Gregory Maguire - The Wicked Years
Wil McCarthy - The Queendom of Sol
Anton Strout - Simon Canderous (4 novels published 2008-2011, with no indication of a #5 novel)

10.4 U's Have it!

Queen

The Player on the Other Side (Ellery Queen Detective #28) (1963) by Ellery Queen
Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1964)

+10 Task
+05 Oldies (5 points (1938-1988) )

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 00 + 15 = 15

Karen GHHS wrote: "Bea wrote: "OK, convinced. Changed my vote."

Hooray!"

Convinced me too, changed my vote. I think the "u"s win!

Task 15.6 - 20th Century—Chronologician

1973 All Under Heaven (1973) by Pearl S. Buck

Task=15
Bonus=10

Task total=25

Grand Total: 600 + 25 = 625

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Task 10.6 Murder not mystery
This book was shelved as "murder" 21 times (as of today), but is not located in the Mystery section at BPL

Sharp Objects (2006) by Gillian Flynn
Edgar..."

Wow, I would never have filed Sharp Objects under YA! Anyways:

Grand Total: 595 – 15 = 580

Task 10.8 - Rosemary's task - Spell it out:
Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found consecutively (forwards or backwards) in the words "March April May":

Star Island (2010) by Carl Hiaasen
Review: This novel is a comedic look at America’s celebrity culture. The premise: a talent-free thin blonde female “singer” is a drug-and-alcohol mess. She also makes a lot of money with her albums (think: lip-synching), and thereby the people near her have an incentive to keep her earning money. Her parents have hired a look-alike actress to portray the “singer” at public events when the “singer” is too wasted to attend herself. This is played for laughs, and the ending is appropriate to a comedic novel. The setting is south Florida, an area that the author knows well. The author additionally adds humorous events unrelated to the main novel. Overall, an easy to follow, somewhat wacky, humorous novel – the perfect “beach read”.

+10 Task
+10 Style:3. Review (10 points)

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20

Grand Total: 580 + 20 = 600