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

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

From Post 319

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "20.6 Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862): Edith Newbold Jones was born into such wealth and privilege that her family inspired the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses." Read a book abou..."

+10 Aged
+5 Combo 10.9

From Post 318

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "20.4 Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins (Jan 8, 1824): Read a book in the top 300 of the list Best Crime Mystery Books.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
[bookcover:Perfume: The Story of a M..."

+10 Prize
+5 Combo 10.3

From Post 317

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "20.3 Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was a prolific author. While well-known as a novelist, "he has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry..."

+5 Combo 10.2

From Post 316

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

Read a book by an author whose initials in any order can be either the two-letter postal abbreviation for a U.S. State/Territory or Canadian Province. Examples:..."

+5 Combo 10.2

From Post 315

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "10.5 2018 Amazon

Read any book on the Amazon Editor's Choice Best 100 Books of 2018.


Circe
12/13
#21-40 section

Task total: 10
Season total: 60"

+5 Prize, +10 Combo 10.2, 20.5

From Post 314

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "10.4 New Year's Day

Read an author's debut novel. An author may have previously published non-fiction and/or short fiction. To qualify for this task, the book in question must be the author's firs..."

+15 Combo 10.2, 10.8, 20.2

From Post 313

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "10.3 Gerald Durrell

Read a book first published during Gerald Durrell's lifetime (1925-1995).

The Killing Game

12/18
Pub 1999

Task total: 10
Seaso..."

+10 Aged

From Post 289

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.2 Goodreads Authorized
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
Task +10
Grand Total: 55"

+10 Aged

Top Scoring Books

85 Points in PostNbr 347 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - 20.09 ( Combo 25, Jumbo 25, Prize Worthy 15 )

80 Points in PostNbr 615 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - 20.06 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 15, Jumbo 25 )

75 Points in PostNbr 743 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - 20.05 ( Combo 20, Jumbo 25, Prize Worthy 10 )

70 Points in PostNbr 427 - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - 20.09 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 25, Prize Worthy 10 )

70 Points in PostNbr 682 - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - 20.09 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 25, Prize Worthy 10 )

70 Points in PostNbr 766 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King - 20.09 ( Combo 20, Jumbo 15, Prize Worthy 15 )

70 Points in PostNbr 956 - Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens - 20.09 ( Canon, Combo 20, Jumbo 15, Prize Worthy 05 )

65 Points in PostNbr 525 - The Captive & the Fugitive by Marcel Proust - 20.09 ( Canon, Combo 15, Jumbo 20 )

65 Points in PostNbr 742 - Beloved by Toni Morrison - 20.05 ( Aged, Combo 20, Prize Worthy 15 )

65 Points in PostNbr 907 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - 20.09 ( Combo 20, Jumbo 15, Prize Worthy 10 )

60 Points in PostNbr 568 - Anathem by Neal Stephenson - 20.07 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 20, Prize Worthy 05 )

60 Points in PostNbr 957 - When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman - 20.09 ( Combo 25, Jumbo 10 )

55 Points in PostNbr 44 - I, Claudius by Robert Graves - 20.06 ( Aged, Combo 10, Prize Worthy 15 )

55 Points in PostNbr 83 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 20.04 ( Canon, Combo 15, Jumbo 05, Prize Worthy 05 )

55 Points in PostNbr 114 - World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow - 20.01 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 10, Prize Worthy 05 )

55 Points in PostNbr 135 - Justine by Lawrence Durrell - 20.01 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 10, Prize Worthy 05 )

55 Points in PostNbr 432 - She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb - 20.08 ( Combo 20, Prize Worthy 15 )

55 Points in PostNbr 472 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 20.01 ( Combo 10, Jumbo 10, Prize Worthy 15 )

55 Points in PostNbr 475 - Coronado: Knight of the Pueblos and Plains by Herbert Eugene Bolton - 20.07 ( Aged, Combo 15, Jumbo 05, Prize Worthy 05 )

55 Points in PostNbr 492 - Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar - 20.05 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 10, Prize Worthy 05 )

55 Points in PostNbr 553 - The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron - 20.09 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 15, Prize Worthy 05 )

55 Points in PostNbr 723 - The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby - 20.07 ( Aged, Combo 25 )

Most Strategic Reader
Through Post 977

Beth - 58.0, for 5 Books
Joanna - 44.2, for 6 Books
Owlette - 38.7, for 15 Books
Anika - 36.1, for 33 Books
Elizabeth (Alaska) - 36.1, for 23 Books
April - 32.5, for 18 Books
Don (The Book Guy) - 32.5, for 10 Books
Valerie - 31.4, for 28 Books
Rebekah - 30.7, for 42 Books
Ed - 30.3, for 31 Books
Lagullande - 30.1, for 34 Books

NOTE: Requires a 5-book minimum.

From Post 279

Penny wrote: " 10.2 Goodreads Authorized

Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan

Total post: 10 points
Season Total: 105 points"

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 275

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "10.8 New Authors (Coralie's Task)

Read a book by an author who is not on the RwS authors list as updated in November 2018.

Left To Die

12/8
AUTHOR: ..."

+5 Combo 10.2

From post 271

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "10.2 Goodreads Authorized

Read a book written by a goodreads author. Hint: on your My Books page, goodreads authors have an asterisk* after their name.

Icebound
[bookcover:Icebound|..."

Welcome Abbie. This book also qualifies for 10.3: +5 Combo.

From Post 254

Bea wrote: "10.3 Gerald Durrell

A Red Death by Walter Mosley

+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.1 - January, 20.4 - #723)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 35"

Sorry, Bea, only the top 300 on the list qualify for task 20.4.

From Post 252

Coralie wrote: "20.5 Nevil shute

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.2, 20.6

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 510"

+5 Combo 10.9

From Post 249

Rebekah wrote: "10.9 State your Name
The American Claimant by Mark Twain (Montana)

+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (20.6,20.7)
+10 pts - aged (1835 - 1910)

Task Total - 30 pts
Season ..."

The aspects of Grand Adventure are not readily evident in the book description or the handful of reviews I read, can you expand on how this book fits?

Mary wrote: "Kate S wrote: "From Post 152

But I think the total was right. I still have 45 points for this task -- correct?"

Actually, no. I show a total of 35 for this book; there is only one award listed on the book page for this title. I believe the other awards listed on the wiki page are for the performance of the play, not the book.

From Post 231

Connie wrote: "20.8 Appalachia

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

+10 task
+5 combo 20.10

Task total: 25
Season total: 130"

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 211

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.6 MLK

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South (1968) by Anne Moody (Paperback, 424 pages) [921/Biography..."

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 202

Ed wrote: "10.4 New Year's Day

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

task=10
combo=5 (10.3)
prizeworthy=5
task total=20
grand total= 155"

+5 Combo 10.6