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

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

Post your completed tasks here. In order to help us better manage our score keeping: PLEASE ONLY POST ONE BOOK PER MESSAGE.

Please use the add book/author link for the book titles. When claiming combo points, tell how the book qualifies, and provide a link if requested in the task description.

If using an outside source to qualify a book for points or combo, please be sure to post in the appropriate task thread prior to posting in this thread.

Sample RwS Post

10.4 High Five Day

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

(insert 100+ word review here)
+10 Task
+10 Review
+ 5 Combo (10.6 Richard Adams - 700,000 + ratings, 4.25 avg rating)
+15 Oldies (pub'd 1844)
+25 Jumbo (1276 pgs
+10 1001

Post Total: 75
Season Total: 375 (assumes mid season with a previous season total of 300)

Read a book written by a woman in a language other than English.

Please post questions and recommendations for task 20.9 in this thread.

Read any book by one of these authors who are English crime fiction writers.

Please use this thread for discussion about task 20.10.

Richard Adams would be 100 this year. In honor of his Watership Down, read a book with over 100,000 ratings with an average rating over 3.75.

Please post any questions or recommendations about task 10.6 in this thread.

March 13-15 is Sherlock Holmes Weekend. Holmes first appeared in 1887 and continued in stories through 1927. Read any book published during Holmes "lifetime", 1887-1927.

Please post any discussion about task 10.5 in this thread.

Read a book with exactly 5 words in the title (subtitles may be counted or not as benefits the reader).

Please post questions or comments about task 10.4 in this thread.

Read a book whose title contains one (and one only) of these conjunctions: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet.

Please post any discussion about task 10.3 in this thread.

Read a book with more than 20 letters in the title.

Please post any questions or comments about task 10.2 in this thread.

Read any book by an author by whom you have already read at least 5 titles before March 1, 2020. You can repeat this task as often as you wish and you can read books by as many different authors who fulfill the task for you. This task cannot be used for combo.

Please post any questions or comments about task 10.1 in this thread.

Read one of these titles recommended by RwS Members

Elizabeth (Alaska): Small Island by Andrea Levy
Kate S: Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Ed: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Beth: Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Lagullande: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Christine: Mr. Flood's Last Resort by Jess Kidd
Anika: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
June:
Karen Michele: Human Acts by Han Kang
Kathleen (itpdx): Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
Penny: The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
Rachelccameron:
Rebekah: The Price of Paradise by Susana López Rubio
Rosemary: The Understory by Pamela Erens

This list will be updated during the next week or two.

From Post 825

Rosemary wrote: "20.3 She Writes

After the Party by Cressida Connolly

+20 Task (MC is female)
+15 Combo (10.5 latest https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/cr... 10.9 2018..."

+5 Combo 10.2

From Post 818

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.3 She Writes
When Calls the Heartby Janette Oke

Task +20
female author +10
Book Total: 30
Grand Total: 275"

+5 Oldies
+5 Combo 20.8

From Post 801

Lagullande wrote: "20.5 Sense of Place

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.1 Joanna, 10.7 W-J, 10.9 1962, 20.3, 20.8)
+10 Female
+5 Oldies (pub ..."

+5 Combo 20.7

From Post 609

Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "10.1 Five star
There There by Tommy Orange
Rated five stars by Karen Michele

+10 task
+10 combo (10.5, 10.9)
Task total: 20
Season total: 200"

+5 Combo 20.5

From Post 148

Jackie wrote: "10.5 Debut Novel

There There by Tommy Orange

Combo +5
10.9- published in 2018

Task total- 15
Season Total- 90"

+5 Combo 20.5

Polls for Spring 2020 are now available. Please vote soon!

Read one of the top 175 books from this list of this list of The Great American Novel.

Please post any questions or comments about task 20.4 in this thread.

Read a book written by one of these African American writers.

Please post any questions or comments about task 20.2 in this thread.

Read any book written by one of these American Short Story writers.

Please post any questions or comments about task 20.6 in this thread.

Read any winner of the Pulitzer for History, Biography, or General Nonfiction OR one of the winners of the National Book Award for Biography, Autobiography or Nonfiction. (You can choose from any of the Biography/Autobiography categories at the NBA site, some are overlapping.)

Goodreads link for Pulitzers

Goodreads link for NBA

Please post any questions or comments about task 20.1 in this thread.