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

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

From Post 320

Bryony wrote: "20.7 - P.I.

Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

My review

The Cormoran Strike series is one of my favourite contemporary mystery series and this latest instalment ..."

+10 Review

From Post 313

Deedee wrote: "Task 20.6 Civil War
Read any work set at least 51% during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

This book is divided into 5 sections: 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865.

[book:Lincoln's Spies: Their S..."

+5 Combo 10.2

From Post 278

Anika wrote: "10.5 Monster Redux

All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

Aficionados of Inspector Gamache rejoice! This newest installment is a triumph! I was a bit leery, seein..."

+5 Combo 20.2

From Post 271

Joanna wrote: "10.10 Group Reads

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

This never quite came together for me. Perhaps it was the audio format rather than reading the words. There were beautifu..."

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 269

Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.5 Wine
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

This is one of my husband's favorite books and I had never read it. I found an old, abridged, paperback on his shel..."

+10 Combo 20.3, 20.9
+25 Jumbo

From Post 254

Deedee wrote: "Task 20.2 Journalist
Read any book by an author who has earned a living as a journalist.

Libby Copeland is a journalist.

[book:The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Re..."

+5 Combo 10.2

Top Scoring Books

105 Points in PostNbr 620 - Making of the Popes 1978, The: The Politics of Intrigue in the Vatican by Andrew M. Greeley - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 30, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review )

105 Points in PostNbr 862 - Island at the Edge of the World: South Georgian Odyssey by Stephen Venables - 30.01 ( Combo 20, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review, White Project Bonus )

105 Points in PostNbr 908 - Popol Vuh by Anonymous - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 10, Not A Novel, Oldies 25, Review )

100 Points in PostNbr 343 - Sao Tome And Principe: From Plantation Colony To Microstate by Tony Hodges - 30.01 ( Combo 15, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review, White Project Bonus )

100 Points in PostNbr 851 - The Island of South Georgia by Robert K. Headland - 30.01 ( Combo 15, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review, White Project Bonus )

95 Points in PostNbr 506 - Guinea Bissau: From Liberation Struggle To Independent Statehood by Carlos Lopes - 30.01 ( Combo 10, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review, White Project Bonus )

95 Points in PostNbr 668 - New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency by Michael Spencer - 30.01 ( Combo 10, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review, White Project Bonus )

90 Points in PostNbr 139 - San Marino, the History in Miniature: The Very Small History by Pierluigi Taddei - 30.01 ( Combo 10, Not A Novel, Review, White Project Bonus )

90 Points in PostNbr 532 - Vatican Diaries, The: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Power, Personalities, and Politics by John Thavis - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 20, Not A Novel, Review )

90 Points in PostNbr 853 - Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens - 20.02 ( Combo 20, Jumbo 25, Oldies 15, Review )

90 Points in PostNbr 874 - Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling by Julian Rubinstein - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 20, Not A Novel, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 229 - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 15, Oldies 10, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 269 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - 20.05 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 25, Oldies 15, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 438 - Melmoth by Sarah Perry - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 25, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 500 - Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate by Anne Ostby - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 25, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 503 - Melmoth by Sarah Perry - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 25, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 581 - Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 15, Not A Novel, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 847 - Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 15, Not A Novel, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 852 - Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce - 30.01 ( Combo 15, Review, White Project Bonus )

85 Points in PostNbr 938 - Murder and Baklava by Blake Pierce - 30.01 ( Blue Project Bonus, Combo 25, Review )

Most Strategic Reader
Through Post 955

Ed - 96.0, for 5 Books
Anika - 64.0, for 34 Books
Owlette - 55.0, for 7 Books
Valerie - 47.7, for 42 Books
Kathleen (itpdx) - 47.6, for 17 Books
Connie - 45.9, for 32 Books
Elizabeth (Alaska) - 44.1, for 27 Books
Denise - 43.3, for 27 Books
Mary - 42.3, for 35 Books
Bryony - 41.2, for 8 Books
Katy - 41.0, for 26 Books

(requires a 5 book minimum)

From Post 236

Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "10.4 Pilgrim

The Purgatorio Dante Alighieri published 1316

The Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri is the second of his 3 extended poems about hell and heaven. Last summe..."

+5 Combo 10.2 PAD

From Post 210

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.3 Prolific
Mary, Maryby James Patterson
Total: 20
Grand Total:60"

+10 Combo 10.4, 20.3

From Post 168

Norma wrote: "10.7 - NonFiction

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen

+10 task (true crime)
+10 Combo (10.2 -..."

+10 Not a Novel

From Post 183

Valerie wrote: "30.1 Go for the Green

Death by Proposal by Jaden Skye

100% Aruba

This is another entry in the Caribbean mystery novellas by Jaden Skye. This time Cindy (the recu..."

+5 Combo 20.3

From Post 167

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.7 Non-Fiction (Ed's Task)
Read a Non-Fiction book that is NOT a biography, autobiography or memoir.

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It (2020) by [author:Robert B. Rei..."

+10 Combo 10.2 and 20.10

From Post 149

Connie wrote: "20.2 Journalist

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth by Kate Greene

Kate Greene, a science journalist and physicist, and five o..."

+5 Combo 10.7

From Post 147

Ann wrote: "10.4 Pilgrim

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

Hilarious. If you have read any of The Bloggess, you already know this. I was..."

Sorry, this does not qualify for 20.5 as it is not a novel.

From post 146

Coralie wrote: "20.2 Journalist

The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

+20 Task
+20 Combo 10.2 TCITYDAP=>CITY, 10.9 yellow, 20.3, 20.5 (After a few sips of wine..."

+5 Jumbo

From Post 137

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.2 Scrabble
All Together Deadby Charlaine Harris
CHAT

Review
Sookie is more involved with the vampire community even though she isn't dating her vampire boyfriend a..."

+5 Combo 20.3

From Post 127

Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 Single

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 50"

+5 Combo 20.2

From Post 125

Karen Michele wrote: "10.2 Scrabble!

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano

+10 Task: FOTTOMTEP FOOT

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 25"

+10 Not a Novel (short stories)
+5 Combo 10.7

From Post 90

Ann wrote: "10.8 Jetsetters
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
(The very definition of jet-setting; she was on her 3rd passport by the end. First 3 I th..."

Sorry, Ann, this title doesn't qualify for 20.5. 20.5 requires a novel.