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

Denise’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.5 - originally published in the 1950s.

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth

+20 task published in 1959
+5 combo (20.4 - made into a movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,...
+10 Not-a-novel (one novella and five short stories)

Task total=35
Grand total=215

I thought Christmas in Vegas looked like fun, but I had just found this group and wasn't ready to jump in. I'm curious as to how it worked out, but I realize it's probably too soon to repeat it.

20.10 It's academic

The Heather Blazingby Colm Tóibín

+20 task (Princeton University and the University of Manchester) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_Toibin

Task total=20
Grand total=180

10.9 Please Sir, I want some more"
Indignation by Philip Roth

(I didn't participate in the Winter Challenge; this is my first. But last December, January and February I read Roth's The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, and The Prague Orgy.)

Task total=10
Grand total=160

20.4 - In honor of El Ateneo bookstore

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

+20 task (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1376451/)

Task total=20
Grand total=150

20.1 - In honor of The Tattered Cover
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

+20 task (http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collect... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portnoy%...)
+10 combo (10.5 - Rooting for the Bad Guy and 20.4 - In honor of El Ateneo bookstore http://www.imdb.com/search/title?sort...
+10 Canon

Task total=40
Grand total=130

20.9 - Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task - It's epidemic

Nemesis by Philip Roth

Task total=20
Grand total=90

10.7 Reading is Awarding
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

+10 Task (Winner 1998 Pulitzer, Fiction)

Task total=10
Grand total=70

20.9 - Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task - It's epidemic
Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain

+20 Task
+ 5 combo (10.3 - Girls’ Names)
+10 Not-a-Novel (Dewey number 614.5 BOU)

Task total=35

Grand total=60

20.4 El Ateneo

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

+20 task http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308383/
+5 combo (10.7, won 2001 Pen/Faulkner)

Task total = 25
Grand total = 25

(My first post--please point out anything I'm doing wrong.)