Kate S’s Comments (group member since Sep 13, 2010)

Kate S’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

From Post 538

Sue wrote: "20.1 Pulitzer

The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

+20 task pub date 1911
+5 combo 10.4 given name

post total: 25
season total: 380"

+5 Jumbo
+10 Oldies

From Post 492

Jayme wrote: "10.4 Name
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modernby Lilian Jackson Braun
Bruan
Task +10
Grand total: 225"

scored as 20.9

+5 Oldies

From Post 451

Sue wrote: "20.8 Texas Independence

A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris

+20 task (author from Texas)

Post total: 20
Season total: 300"

+5 Oldies

From Post 441

Ed wrote: "15.5 Southern Africa- Swaziland

When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn

Set in Swaziland when it was still a British protectorate, this novel focuses on two girls s..."

Sorry, Ed, I show this author as Australian, so she does not qualify for Non-Western

From Post 432

Kim wrote: "20.5 The Killer Angels (Civil Wars)

When Christ and His Saints Slept. Sharon Kay Penman

4.5/5.0 - I have read several books about the later Plantagenets, this is the f..."

+10 Jumbo
+5 Oldies

From Post 418

Sue wrote: "15.1 North Africa ( Egypt)

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

+15 task ( what a pleasure to find a new series!! )

Post total: 15
Season total: 280"

+5 Oldies

From Post 269

Coralie wrote: "20.2 Prize

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.7

Task total = 25
Season Total: 440"

+5 Combo 10.9

Top Scoring Books

100 Points in PostNbr 461 - Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an - 20.04 ( Combo 10, Jumbo 25, Non-Western, Oldies 25, Review )

80 Points in PostNbr 319 - Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by Mamadou Kouyate - 15.02 ( Non-Western, Oldies 25, Project Bonus, Review )

80 Points in PostNbr 720 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - 20.08 ( Combo 25, Jumbo 20, Oldies 05, Review )

70 Points in PostNbr 105 - Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - 20.01 ( Combo 10, Jumbo 15, Oldies 15, Review )

70 Points in PostNbr 912 - The Book of Dede Korkut by Anonymous - 15.06 ( Oldies 25, Project Bonus, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 485 - Ali and Nino by Kurban Said - 15.10 ( Non-Western, Oldies 10, Project Bonus, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 17 - Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn - 15.09 ( Non-Western, Oldies 05, Project Bonus, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 53 - Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol by Okot p'Bitek - 15.04 ( Non-Western, Oldies 05, Project Bonus, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 108 - Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama - 15.09 ( Non-Western, Oldies 05, Project Bonus, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 160 - Mother Earth by Chingiz Aitmatov - 15.06 ( Non-Western, Oldies 05, Project Bonus, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 235 - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - 20.01 ( Combo 15, Non-Western, Oldies 15 )

60 Points in PostNbr 268 - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - 20.06 ( Combo 25, Oldies 05, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 401 - Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin by Raouf Mama - 15.02 ( Non-Western, Oldies 05, Project Bonus, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 493 - The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas - 20.01 ( Combo 05, Jumbo 10, Oldies 15, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 534 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson - 20.02 ( Combo 20, Oldies 10, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 671 - Hearing Your Story: Songs of History & Life for Sand Roses by Nabile Fares - 15.01 ( Non-Western, Oldies 05, Project Bonus, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 736 - A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe - 20.04 ( Jumbo 10, Oldies 20, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 776 - Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy - 20.05 ( Combo 10, Non-Western, Oldies 10, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 904 - Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky - 20.07 ( Combo 20, Non-Western, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 924 - Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi - 15.03 ( Non-Western, Oldies 05, Project Bonus, Review )

Most Strategic Reader
Through Post 933

Owlette - 56.8, for 11 Books
Ed - 46.1, for 31 Books
Elizabeth (Alaska) - 45.8, for 25 Books
Mary - 43.0, for 33 Books
Anika - 41.4, for 33 Books
Beth - 39.0, for 5 Books
Joanna - 38.0, for 37 Books
Rebekah - 38.0, for 51 Books
Bucket - 37.5, for 18 Books
Valerie - 37.0, for 32 Books
Kathleen (itpdx) - 36.8, for 17 Books
Tien - 36.1, for 31 Books
Rosemary - 35.1, for 58 Books
Connie - 34.3, for 22 Books
Kim - 34.1, for 11 Books
Nick - 34.0, for 10 Books
Coralie - 32.6, for 39 Books
Ann - 31.7, for 15 Books
Katy - 31.5, for 20 Books
Karen Michele - 30.2, for 43 Books
Lagullande - 29.2, for 12 Books
Deedee - 26.3, for 19 Books
Bea - 26.1, for 9 Books
Tawallah - 25.0, for 12 Books
Jayme (the ghost reader) - 24.3, for 15 Books
Sue - 23.9, for 35 Books
Denise - 23.6, for 18 Books
Norma - 23.1, for 44 Books
Marie - 22.0, for 32 Books
Kristina Simon - 19.2, for 6 Books


Requires a 5-book minimum

From Post 380

Sue wrote: "15.10 West Asia (Turkey)

Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin

+15 task

Post total: 15
Season total: 265"

+10 Non Western

From Post 374

Tien wrote: "15.5 Southern Africa
Lesotho

She Plays with the Darkness by Zakes Mda

+15 Task
+20 Project Bonus

Post Total: 35
Season Total: 415"

+10 Non Western

From Post 369

Norma wrote: "10.4 - Name

Bone Rattle by Marc Cameron

+10 task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 300"

+10 Combo 20.3, 20.8

From Post 368

Norma wrote: "20.3 - Our Town

Stone Cross by Marc Cameron

+20 task
+5 Combo 10.4

Task total: 25
Grand total: 290"

+5 Combo 20.8

Mary wrote: "Oops — I think I was too excited about the 2 “S” es. Could you doublecheck the readerboard? I have a total of 395 vs the readerboard total of 405.."

I show an addition error between post 258 and 259. 258 had a running total of 280, 259 had a book score of 50.

280+50=330, you only claimed 320. I hope that lines us back up. :)

From Post 348

Coralie wrote: "20.9 Birthdays

The Singing Of The Dead by Dana Stabenow

+20 Task Chapter 2. There was caribou sausage, smoked fish, moose steaks, deer stew, blood stew, mulligan ste..."

+5 Combo 20.3

From Post 347

Rebekah wrote: " 20.6 The Color Purple
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

+20 pts -Task
+10 pts - Oldies ( 1919)
Task Total - 20 ptsw"

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 341

Connie wrote: "20.9 Birthday

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

Pg 359 "The young crow cocked his head, beady black eye looking first at the cake and then at her face, ba..."

+5 Jumbo

Ann wrote: "10.1
Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner

FYI Trek fans, Spiner was born in Texas so you can listen to this for 20.8 (def do the audiobook)

If I had read this rather than..."

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 331

Norma wrote: "20.3 - Our Town

Open Carry by Marc Cameron

+20 task
+5 Combo - 10.4

Task total: 25
Grand total: 240"

+5 Combo 20.8

From Post 319

Ed wrote: "15.2 Western Africa-Mali
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by Mamadou Kouyaté

The history of Mali's founding is found in the oral traditions of it's "griots"- historian..."

+25 Oldies