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

Denise’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

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20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween by Richard Chizmar

Soup quote: "I eat a lot of Lisa's Texas chili" pg. 408

+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.8)
+ 5 jumbo

Task total=30
Season total=290

This is a carryover book from last fall, if that is acceptable.

20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

The Last Chairlift by John Irving

Soup quote: "Colonel Zimmermann gripped the handles of the soup pot with a pair of pot holders. Elmira was ladling out the soup." location 40%

+20 task
+15 combo (10.2, 10.3, 20.8)
+ 5 selfie
+20 jumbo (912 pgs.)

Task total=60
Season total=260

20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

The Confessional by Georges Simenon

Soup quote: "In the evening she didn't come down to dinner either, and just had a bowl of vegetable soup in her own room." pg. 125

+20 task
+15 combo (20.5, 20.8, 20.9)
+10 LiT
+ 5 oldies (1966)

Task total=50
Season total=200

20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task)

Dark Passage by David Goodis

+20 task
+15 combo (10.2, 10.5-Dark Venetian Red, 20.8 "There was beef broth, there was the tan cream of a vegetable-beef stew, there was a butterscotch pudding thinned down to liquid." And eaten through a glass straw, yikes. Chapter 12, page 130)
+10 oldies (1946)

Task total=45
Season total=150

20.2 King

The Amulet by Michael McDowell

+20 task (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...)
+10 combo (10.2, 20.8 preparation of "certain soups that were best made with the head of a pig" Chapter 48)
+ 5 oldies (1979)

Task total=35
Season total=105

20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith

+20 task (1966)
+10 combo (10.2, 20.8-in a horrifying short story, a mother makes a terrapin stew for her young son)

Task total=30
Season total=65

20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

+20 task (2022)
+10 combo (10.2, 10.3)
+ 5 jumbo (608 pages)

Task total=35
Season total=35

Claiming first bingo - posts 160, 449, 450, 451, 501:

Bingo=50
Season total=110

B 4
I  26
N 31
G 60
O 75

10.5 G60 - Book published in the '60s

Bird in a Cage by Frédéric Dard

Task=10 (1961)
Oldie=5

Task total=15
Season total=60

B 4
I 26
N 31
G 60
O 75

10.4 O75 - 75 Years: Author is Aged

The Judge's House by Georges Simenon (1903-1989)

Task=10
Oldie=5

Task total=15
Season total=45

B 4
I 26
N 31
G
O 75

10.3 N31 - New to Me Author

The Latecomer by Dimitri Verhulst

Task total=10
Season total=30

B 4
I 26
N 31
G
O

10.2 B4 - Before: Historical Fiction

Old School by Tobias Wolff

(Historical Fiction 114 MPG shelvings)

Task total=10
Season total=20

B 4
I 26
N
G
O

10.1 I26 - International

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten

Currently featured on GR International page, third row https://www.goodreads.com/genres/inte...

Task total=10
Season total=10

B
I 26
N
G
O

20.7 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

An Air That Kills by Margaret Millar

+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.2)
+ 5 oldies (1957)

Task total=30
Season total=425

Five enthusiastic stars

20.7 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand

+20 task (approved in msg. 64 of task thread)
+10 combo (10.4, 20.10-based on contemporary event-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
+10 oldies (1936)

Task total=40
Season total=395

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Okay, thanks, just making sure. And thanks for the tip about O68.

For B8, a question about pseudonyms. Will Ruth Rendell's Barbara Vine books count for "Barbara"?

Okay, thank you.