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

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

Read a book shelved by at least 50 readers as true-crime.

Please post any discussion about task 20.9 in this thread.

Read a book entering the public domain this year by reading a book first published in 1923. For ideas see: Most Popular Books published in 1923.

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

Read a book which does not qualify for any other 10- or 20-point task. This task may only be completed once during the Spring Challenge.

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

Example:

General Winfield Scott would allow you to read any of the following books/authors:

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

The applicable names are:

Lincoln
Davis
Scott
McDowell
McClellan
Halleck
Grant
Sherman
Burnside
Hooker
Meade
Hancock
Kearney
Sheridan
Sedgwick
Buford
Chamberlain
Custer
Butler
McPherson
Barlow
Johnston
Johnson
Lee
Jackson
Longstreet
Hill
Stuart
Beauregard
Hood
Gordon
Forrest
Bragg
Early

Read a book by an author whose first, middle or last name matches the surname of one of the generals of either army or their commander -in-chiefs on this list. See additional information in the help thread.

Please use this thread to discuss task 10.5.

Polls for the Spring Challenge have been posted. There are three of them. Make sure you vote before end of day on February 27.

From Post 848

Bea wrote: "20.7 Charles Darwin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

+20 Task (approved in thread, post #83)
+10 Canon

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 315"

+10 Aged
+ Combo 10.9

From Post 847

Bea wrote: "20.6 Edith Wharton

Secret Letters by Leah Scheier

+20 Task (approved in thread, post #29)
+5 Combo (10.2)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 285"

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 846

Bea wrote: "20.5 Nevil Shute

The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor

+20 Task (historical fiction 616x)
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.4)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 260"

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 844

Bea wrote: "20.2 T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

+20 Task (mentioned in GR bio)
+5 Combo (10.2)
+5 Prizeworthy (Edward Lewis Wallant Award 2010)
+5 J..."

+5 Jumbo (758 pages in MPE)
+5 Combo 20.9

From Post 841

Bea wrote: "10.9 State Your Name (Anika's Task)

A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 110"

+10 Aged

From Post 839

Bea wrote: "10.5 2018 Amazon

Educated by Tara Westover

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.2)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 80"

+5 Prize
+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 836

Coralie wrote: "10.6 MLK

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.9 GA
+10 Prizeworthy
+5 Jumbo

Post Total: 30
RWS finish: 100
Season Total: 1505"

+5 Combo 20.7

From Post 835

Rebekah wrote: "20.8 Appalachia
The Front Porch Prophet by Raymond L. Atkins

+20 pts -Task
+. 5 pts - Combo (10.9 - Arkansas)

Task total - 25 pts
Season Total - 1450"

+5 Prize
+10 Combo 10.4, 10.8

From Post 828

Kätlin wrote: "10.8 New Authors:

The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol

+10 task
+10 combo (10.2 Goodreads authorized, 10.4 New Year's Day - book approved on the task he..."

+5 Combo 10.9

From Post 825

Rebekah wrote: "10.1 Square Peg
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter

+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - aged

Task total - 30 pts
RwS complete Bonus - 100
Mega Finish Bonus - 200..."

Congrats!
And +5 Prize

From Post 824

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.5 2018 Amazon
Read any book on the Amazon Editor's Choice Best 100 Books of 2018.

There There (2018) by Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 294 pa..."

+5 Combo 20.1

From Post 815

Valerie wrote: "20.10 Over and Under

The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký

20 task
10 combo 10.3, 10.8
5 jumbo
5 prize
______
40

Running total: 725"

+10 Aged

From Post 804

Deedee wrote: "Task 20.4 Wilkie Collins
Read a book in the top 300 of the list Best Crime Mystery Books

As of February 13, 2019: #32 on list

A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes #1) (1887) by [aut..."

+5 Combo 10.9

From Post 791

Tien wrote: "20.6 Edith Wharton
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 - and; 20.9)
+10 Canon
+10 Aged (died aged 82)
+25 Jumbo

+100 RwS Finish
+200 Mega Finish

..."

Congrats! And +5 Combo 20.5