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

Denise’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!

Knock Three-One-Two by Fredric Brown

+20 task (3.84, 160 ratings)

Task total=20
Season total=660

The Lenient Beast by Fredric Brown

3.88, 139 ratings

Knock Three-One-Two by Fredric Brown

3.83, 159 ratings

20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!

His Name Was Death by Fredric Brown

+20 task (3.79, 226 ratings)

Task total=20
Season total=640

His Name Was Death by Fredric Brown

3.79, 226 ratings

10.6 Ninetieth (Rosemary's task)

Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson

+10 task (2019)

Task total=10
Season total=620

20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!

Hard City by Clark Howard

+20 task (4.3, 71 ratings)
+10 combo (10.6-1990, 10.9-“a large wooden bowl of fresh carrots, cucumber, garbanzo beans, lettuce, and tomatoes, all mixed with slices of Genoa hard salami and shredded mozzarella cheese”-specific cheese is named)
+5 jumbo

Task total=35
Season total=610

10.4 Fall Birthdays

The Removers: A Memoir by Andrew Meredith

+10 task

Task total=10
Season total=575

10.9 Cheese! (Marie's task)

The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories by John Fante

+10 task (A specific cheese is named—“He sold fancy things in his store, like Parmesan cheese, salami, and a special kind of fancy garlic.” at 65%)

Task total=10
Season total=565

10.5 Leo Tolstoy

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky

+10 task (MPG Food)
+10 combo (10.7, 10.9- "In 1928, Kraft put Velveeta cheese on the market." p.164 - a specific cheese is named, approved in task thread)

Task total=20
Season total=540 555
(Edited to correct for addition error on post 438)

Okay, thank you, Marie! I will use the Velveeta quote.

Would either "processed cheese" or "Velveeta cheese" count as a specific type of cheese?

15.9 Sweet Sixteen Bingo

Square B1-equal # letters in first and last names

Prison Noir by Joyce Carol Oates

+15 task

Post total=15
Season total=520

20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!

Here Comes a Candle by Fredric Brown

+20 task (3.75, 170 ratings)
+5 combo (10.6-1950)

Task total=25
Season total=505

20.8 A Touch of Magic (Anika's task)

On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle

+20 task (MPG Magical Realism)

+20 combo:
10.3 set in France- Paris, Bordeaux, and narrator's home in northern France
10.9 cheese-Narrator Tara Selter prepares breakfast for herself and her husband Thomas-it takes three pages until they eat: "I boiled eggs, made toast, mixed a batch of muesli, ...diced the apple...made coffee...made a pot of tea...I fetched butter, CHEESE (finally!), jam, honey, milk and piled all of this onto the tray, which was now full to the brim." Two pages later: "While we ate we tentatively addressed the question as to what had happened." At 30-31%
10.10 group read
20.6 all five vowels

+10 female
+5 prizeworthy (Nordic Council Literature Prize- 2022)

Task total=55
Season total=480

15.8 Sweet Sixteen Bingo

Square B3-author's latest book

Never Flinch by Stephen King

+15 task (pub. May 27, 2025)

Post total=15
Season total=440

20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!

Open All Night: New Poems by Charles Bukowski

+20 task (3.94, 785 ratings)

Task total=20
Season total=425

20.4 Uncommon Letter (Fall 2017)

The Library Fuzz MEGAPACK® by James Holding

+20 task (Fuzz)
+10 combo (10.8- library; 20.1- 3.86 average/108 ratings)

Task total=30
Season total=405

Rosemary wrote: "Yes, subtitles are normally included in a task like this unless specified otherwise."

Karen Michele wrote: "It's ok with me. Mods?"

Great, thank you both!

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky

Can “curious” be in the subtitle?