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

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

From Post 268

Nick wrote: "10.1 List Lovers

I read this book earlier in the year, but I just finished a re-read. It's that good.

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia nominee for best nove..."

+5 Combo 10.6

Top Scoring Books

85 Points in PostNbr 387 - Helen Vardon's Confession by R. Austin Freeman - 15.10

85 Points in PostNbr 638 - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy - 15.10

85 Points in PostNbr 650 - Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo - 15.10

85 Points in PostNbr 687 - The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson - 15.10

85 Points in PostNbr 702 - Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger - 15.10

85 Points in PostNbr 714 - The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul - 15.10

85 Points in PostNbr 820 - Being There by Jerzy Kosinski - 15.10

75 Points in PostNbr 310 - The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes - 15.09

75 Points in PostNbr 525 - The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain by Mark Twain - 20.10 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 25, Jumbo 10 )

75 Points in PostNbr 578 - The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - 15.09

75 Points in PostNbr 614 - Hideaway by Nora Roberts - 15.09

75 Points in PostNbr 644 - Jenny by Sigrid Undset - 15.09

75 Points in PostNbr 668 - Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - 15.09

75 Points in PostNbr 684 - Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett - 15.09

75 Points in PostNbr 788 - Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos - 15.09

70 Points in PostNbr 72 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 20.09 ( Aged, Canon, Jumbo 20, Lost in Translation )

70 Points in PostNbr 242 - Maigret by Georges Simenon - 20.09 ( Aged, Combo 30, Lost in Translation )

70 Points in PostNbr 458 - Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett - 20.09 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 20, Lost in Translation )

Most Strategic Reader
Updated through post 868

ScreenName - AverageBookScore
Rebekah - 60.5, for 11 Books
Owlette - 42.3, for 11 Books
Denise - 42.0, for 25 Books
Elizabeth (Alaska) - 40.7, for 34 Books
Lagullande - 40.0, for 21 Books
Anika - 36.4, for 42 Books
Valerie - 35.6, for 34 Books
Kristina Simon - 33.8, for 30 Books
Tien - 32.1, for 56 Books
Christine - 29.0, for 5 Books
Mary - 29.0, for 36 Books

requires a minimum of 5 books claimed

Karen Michele wrote: "I'd like to move a book from 10.5 Zane to

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom

All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner

+20 Task
+. 5 Combo: 10.5 Zane
+10 Aged

Change..."

done

From Post 249

Valerie wrote: "10.4 Vocation

Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan

10 task
5 combo 10.6
_____
15

Running total: 335"

+5 Combo 20.8

From Post 229

Sue wrote: "20.9 Madame Bovary

Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill

+20 task

Post total: 20
Season total: 100"

+10 Aged
+5 Combo 10.6

From Post 212

Norma wrote: "20.4 - Day of the Jackal

Indefensible by Pamela Callow

+20 task
+10 Combo (10.7 - Mys, Cul; 10.8)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 230"

+5 Jumbo (mpe is 502 p)

From Post 206

Tien wrote: "20.4 Day of the Jackal
The Mandarin Code (Harry Dunkley #2) by Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann


+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - Approx. 85+% set in Austral..."

+5 Combo 10.7

From Post 201

Coralie wrote: "10.10 Group Reads

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 – historical & cultural

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 295"

+10 Aged

From Post 199

Sue wrote: "20.5 Wheels

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

+10 Task
+10 Canon ( C. Democratic Age, Great Britain)

Post total: 20
Season total: 70"

+5 Jumbo
+5 Combo 10.6

From Post 195

Karen Michele wrote: "10.5 Zane

All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
+10 Task
+10 Aged

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 305"

+5 Combo 20.2

From Post 192

Bea wrote: "10.8 Singles

Toxin by Robin Cook

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 50"

+10 Aged

From Post 166

Coralie wrote: "10.7 Genre-Rich

Callander Square by Anne Perry

+10 Task
+10 Aged

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 260"

+5 Combo 20.2

From Post 158

Heather wrote: "10.2 The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous - 120pg.

+10 task
+10 LiT
+10 Canon

Task total: 30
Season total: 120

… ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.7 ; ... ; … ; …
… ; … ..."

+5 Ccombo 10.8

From Post 137

Christine wrote: "10.2 Short

Rizzio by Denise Mina

+10 task (MPE is 128 pages)

Tast Total = 10
Season Total =10"

+10 Combo 10.7, 10.8

From Post 133

Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 Location

Ireland

Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland

+10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 190"

+5 Combo 20.8

From Post 142

Karen Michele wrote: "10.2 Short

Byobu by Ida Vitale

+10 Task
+10 Aged
+10 Lost in Translation

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 260"

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 120

Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

+10 task
+10 combo 20.4, 20.7 (the setting on Goodreads says Cornwall 1820. I am guessing that someone tied the ..."

+5 Combo 20.5

From Post 49

June wrote: "10.5- Zane
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

Task: 10
Combo: 10 (20.8- TH; 20.4- MPG- thriller)

Post total: 20
Season total: 55"

+10 Aged

From Post 29

Connie wrote: "20.4 Dead Sea

Saints at the River by Ron Rash

Task total: 20
Season total: 20"

+5 Combo 20.8