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

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

From Post 196

Beth wrote: "20.6 The Stone Carvers

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2011 winner

I liked the writing. I hated the "ending" and when I went to read more about it online, ju..."

This actually won 2 awards, so it qualifies for 10 prizeworthy points.

From Post 581

Ed wrote: "10.5 Pet Day

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
this edition published by Penguin= https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9......"

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 574

June wrote: "20.2- To Conquer Hell

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

Task: 20
Combo:5 (20.1)
Post total: 25"

+5 Prizeworthy

From Post 564

Jenifer wrote: "10.1 Favorite Lists

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

+10 task (#24 on Best Books Ever, claimed in post 698
+15 prizeworthy
+5 oldie

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 575"

+5 Combo 10.9

From Post 550

June wrote: "20.5- Singled Out

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Nora Webster is a recent widow

Task total: 20
Combo: 5 (10.5- published by Penguin)

Post total: 25"

+5 Prizeworthy

From Post 543

Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 Real Place

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 9, 10, 11

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 725"

+5 Prize

From Post 542

Karen Michele wrote: "10.2 Next?

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

+10 Task: Book 3

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 710"

+5 Combo 20.7

From Post 533

Coralie wrote: "20.3 To Conquer Hell

War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich

+20 task
+10 Combo 10.9, 10.10
+5 Oldies (published 1985)
+10 Prizeworthy

Task Total: 45
Season..."

+10 Combo 10.2, 10.5

From Post 11

Ed wrote: "20.6 The Stone Carvers

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

As I was reading this novel, I began to realize it had some similarities with a book I recently fo..."

+10 Combo 20.7, 20.10

From post 532

Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.1 War's End

The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers, 4th in Charlie Chan mysteries, pub. 1929.

+20 Task
+10 Oldies
+5 Combo, 10.2

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 100"

+5 Combo 10.6

From Post 515

Coralie wrote: "20.3 Birds Without Wings

Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

+20 task
+ 5 Combo 10.5 (penguin)
+ 5 Oldie (published 1969)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1165"

+5 Combo 20.4

From Post 487

Jenifer wrote: "20.8 Autumn

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

+20 task
+15 oldies (pub in 1813)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 485"

This also works for 10.4 (for a total of +15 Combo)

From Post 483

June wrote: "20.7- A Month in the Country

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

using MPE- Penguin edition with 186 pages

Task: 20
Combo: 5- 10.5- Penguin
Oldies: 10 - pu..."

+5 Combo 10.2

From Post 482

June wrote: "10.6- Noir

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

Task: 10
Combo: 5(10.2- new series)
Oldie: 5 pts- published in 1992

Post total: 20"

+5 Prizeworthy

From Post 452

Valerie wrote: "20.8 Autumn

Death in the Dentist's Chair by Molly Thynne

This mystery is the group read for October in another GR group. I see my compatriots, including Elizabet..."

This should be +10 Oldies (not 5)
+5 Combo 20.1

Rosemary wrote: "The readerboard is showing me at 670, but I only make it 650 after the 5 points in post 422 are added. Have I gone wrong somewhere?"

I found it and fixed it. You will have 20 fewer points in the next Readerboard update.

From Post 431

Tien wrote: "10.7 Crazy Rich Asians...Or Not! (Tien's Task)
Wildcard (Warcross #2) by Marie Lu
author born in China, as per GR profile
YA with 810L

Review
[book:Warcross|361601..."

This does not appear to qualify for 10.2

From the FAQs:
"How many books make a series? Does it have to be at least three or does a single sequel count (a two-book series) ?
A series should include at least three books. Sometimes a story is complete in two volumes, and those we don't consider a series. If there are only two published books and it is clear the author plans to continue the story, those would be a series.

From Post 403

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.2 Next
Ill Met by Moonlight by Mercedes Lackey
2nd book in Doubled Edged series

Review
I am a big fan of Mercedes Lackey. This is the second book in a series called D..."

+5 Jumbo (for a total of 10) over 700 pages in MPE

From Post 402
Ann wrote: "10.1 Favorite List

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

#29 in the list from post 454 in summer challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1......"

Sorry, Ann the MPE of this book has too many pages for 20.7.

Highest Scoring Books

100 Points in PostNbr 712 - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding - 20.10 ( Combo 20, Jumbo 25, Oldies 20, Prize Worthy 05, Review )

95 Points in PostNbr 796 - Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson - 20.10 ( Combo 20, Jumbo 25, Oldies 20, Review )

90 Points in PostNbr 668 - The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil - 20.08 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 25, Oldies 10, Prize Worthy 10, Review )

85 Points in PostNbr 853 - The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys - 20.10 ( Combo 10, Jumbo 25, Oldies 20, Review )

80 Points in PostNbr 547 - The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope - 20.05 ( Combo 30, Jumbo 05, Oldies 15, Review )

80 Points in PostNbr 653 - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus - 20.09 ( Combo 20, Jumbo 10, Oldies 05, Prize Worthy 15, Review )

75 Points in PostNbr 425 - Middlemarch by George Eliot - 20.08 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 20, Oldies 10, Review )

75 Points in PostNbr 650 - Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - 20.08 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 15, Oldies 15, Review )

70 Points in PostNbr 77 - Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - 20.07 ( Combo 20, Oldies 05, Prize Worthy 15, Review )

70 Points in PostNbr 97 - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear - 20.01 ( Combo 25, Prize Worthy 15, Review )

70 Points in PostNbr 218 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor - 20.09 ( Combo 20, Oldies 05, Prize Worthy 15, Review )

70 Points in PostNbr 406 - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 20.08 ( Combo 10, Jumbo 15, Oldies 15, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 24 - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - 20.05 ( Combo 20, Oldies 05, Prize Worthy 10, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 28 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick - 20.10 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 05, Prize Worthy 15, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 70 - Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 20.07 ( Combo 20, Oldies 15, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 301 - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - 20.06 ( Combo 20, Prize Worthy 15, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 364 - Camilla by Fanny Burney - 20.08 ( Jumbo 20, Oldies 15, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 410 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 20.08 ( Combo 10, Jumbo 05, Oldies 15, Prize Worthy 05, Prize Worthy 10 )

65 Points in PostNbr 573 - War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich - 20.02 ( Combo 20, Oldies 05, Prize Worthy 10, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 648 - The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 20.08 ( Combo 15, Oldies 15, Prize Worthy 05, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 769 - The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon - 20.07 ( Combo 25, Oldies 10, Review )