Denise’s Comments (group member since Dec 26, 2011)

Denise’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.6 Award

Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes

+20 task (1978 Grand Master Award, post 38)
+15 combo (10.4, 10.6, 10.7)
+10 oldies

Task total=45
Season total=205

20.6 Award

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley

+20 task (2016 Grand Master Award, msg 79)


Task total=20
Season total=160

Walter Mosley, 2016 Grand Master Award

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myste...

I am reading The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey now. It isn't a mystery (yet) but I've enjoyed it so far.

10.6 Pi Day

Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes

+10 task
+15 combo (10.3, 10.4, 10.7)
+ 5 series
+ 5 oldies (1969)

Task total=35
Season total=140

10.8 Gilmore Girls

Shane by Jack Schaefer

(YA assignment, 870 Lexile)

+10 task
+10 combo (10.7, 20.6 - 1986 Saddleman Award and 1975 WLA Distinguished Achievement Award - msg 58, task help thread)
+ 5 oldies (1949)

Task total=25
Season total=105

Jack Schaefer, 1986 Saddleman Award, which is now the Owen Wister Award, "an annual award from the Western Writers of America given to lifelong contributions to the field of Western literature."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wi...


Also 1975 Western Literature Association (WLA) Distinguished Achievement Award:

https://www.westernlit.org/wlas-disti...

That's how I saw it too, but thought I'd ask. It didn't look like a legitimate series. Thanks for checking.

I am reading Shane for this task. It is listed as part of the "Frontera Series" of Westerns:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/3459...

Will this atypical "series" work for the current RWS series tasks and styles, as it is not a single author series?

10.1 New Horizons

The Name Is Archer by Ross Macdonald

+10 task
+10 combo (10.4, 20.6 Grand Master Award-msg 56, task help thread)
+ 5 series (Lew Archer)
+ 5 oldies (1955)

Task total=30
Season total=80

Ross Macdonald, 1974 Grand Master Award

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery...

Thank you!

Percival Everett won https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos_Pas... in 2010.

From the prize website: http://www.longwood.edu/english/dos-p...

"Recipients of the prize are American creative writers who have produced a substantial body of significant publication that displays characteristics of John Dos Passos's writing: an intense and original exploration of specifically American themes, an experimental approach to form, and an interest in a wide range of human experiences."

Will that work for this task?

10.9 Quilting

The People Look Like Flowers at Last by Charles Bukowski

+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.7)

Task total=15
Season total=50

20.2 French

The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau

+20 task
+10 combo (10.4, 10.7)
+ 5 oldies (1968)

Task total=35
Season total=35

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award:

https://mysterywriters.org/about-mwa/...

which I found looking at

Dorothy B. Hughes, who fits both catego..."

Nice find! I think I could spend the whole season reading for this task alone.

It's lots of fun. Even when nothing turns up, I learn a lot.

Thank you.

One more Clark Howard question. The publication dates for the 28 stories in Clark Howard Collected Stories - 1960s range from 1961-1968. The dates are listed at the beginning of each story. Would this qualify for Oldies even though the publication date is 2013?

Clark Howard won the 2009 Derringer Award, "an annual award for Lifetime Achievement"

2nd paragraph:

https://shortmystery.blogspot.com/200...

Okay for this task?

You are so kind, thanks!