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

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

From Post 497

Bea wrote: "20.10 Mystery

Frill Kill by Laura Childs

+20 Task

Task Points: 20
Season Points: 620"

+5 Combo 20.410.4

From Post 493

Bea wrote: "20.10 Mystery

The Balloon Man by Charlotte MacLeod

+20 Task (MPG = Mystery)
+10 Combo (20.7 Rating = 731, 10.8)

Task Points: 30
Season Points: 525"

+10 Aged

From Post 492

Bea wrote: "10.9 Covid 19 Hits (Rebekah's Task)

A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

+10 Task (Fantasy 2021)
+5 Combo (20.7 - Ratings 447,569)

Task Points: 15
Season P..."

+10 Jumbo

From Post 487

Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 Covid 19 Hits (Rebekah's Task)

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

+10 Task: Best Fiction 2022

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 295"

+5 Combo 20.7

From Post 479

Bea wrote: "20.10 Mystery

Under the Skin by Vicki Lane

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.7 - 192 ratings)

Task Points: 25
Season Points: 300"

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 472

Bea wrote: "10.1 Series

The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith

+10 Task (#9)

Task Points: 10
Season Points: 175"

+10 Aged

From Post 460

Anika wrote: "10.1 Series

Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

+10, War of the Roses series (of which I‘ve read the final part in a previous season)
+10 Canon
+5 Combo, 10.4

Task..."

+5 Combo 20.2

From Post 435

Valerie wrote: "10.3 Police

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

This series is so good, which probably why there are so many holds on the ebooks. Luckily, I started this with Hoopla s..."

+5 Combo 20.10

From Post 421

Tawallah wrote: "10.1 Series
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

Task: 10
Post total: 10

Season total: 165"

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 416

Rebekah wrote: "20.10 Mystery
The Singing Stones by Phyllis A. Whitney

+20 pts - task
+ 5 pts - combo(10.8)
+10 pts - aged (another author that lived to 104!)
+200 pts - mega finish ..."

Congrats.
You should also score a halfway finisher for you 20-point tasks.

From Post 112

Bea wrote: "10.8 The Threes (Rosemary's Task)

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

+10 Task (Title = 3 words starting with "the")
+10 Combo (10.4 - 11 letters, 20.10 MPG - Mystery)
..."

+5 Combo 20.1

Top Scoring Books

75 Points in PostNbr 623 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 20.07 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 05, Jumbo 20, Review )

70 Points in PostNbr 455 - The Recognitions by William Gaddis - 20.03 ( Aged, Canon, Jumbo 20, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 678 - A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin - 10.07 ( Aged, Combo 10, Jumbo 25, Review )

65 Points in PostNbr 785 - The Blind Side by Patricia Wentworth - 20.01 ( Aged, Combo 25, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 72 - The Dark Garden by E.R. Punshon - 20.10 ( Aged, Combo 20, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 286 - Robert the Bruce Trilogy by Nigel Tranter - 20.02 ( Aged, Combo 05, Jumbo 25 )

60 Points in PostNbr 688 - Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger - 20.08 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 10, Review )

60 Points in PostNbr 1027 - Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford - 20.01 ( Canon, Combo 05, Jumbo 15, Review )

55 Points in PostNbr 34 - White Noise by Don DeLillo - 20.07 ( Aged, Canon, Combo 05, Review )

55 Points in PostNbr 336 - Stardust by Joseph Kanon - 20.06 ( Aged, Combo 10, Jumbo 05, Review )

55 Points in PostNbr 622 - The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush - 20.07 ( Aged, Combo 15, Review )

55 Points in PostNbr 698 - An Anthology of Modern Malaysian Chinese Stories by Ly Singko - 20.04 ( Aged, Combo 15, Review )

55 Points in PostNbr 702 - Wife to Mr. Milton by Robert Graves - 20.09 ( Aged, Combo 15, Review )

55 Points in PostNbr 757 - Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 20.02 ( Combo 25, Review )

55 Points in PostNbr 1011 - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 20.07 ( Canon, Jumbo 15, Review )

Most Strategic Reader
Through Post 1081

Owlette - 48.3, for 9 Books
Ed - 38.6, for 7 Books
Elizabeth (Alaska) - 37.8, for 23 Books
Rosemary - 35.4, for 55 Books
Mary - 34.5, for 33 Books
chunwui - 34.2, for 18 Books
Connie - 32.3, for 24 Books
Joanna - 31.8, for 34 Books
Kathleen (itpdx) - 31.7, for 21 Books
Denise - 31.6, for 28 Books
Anika - 31.5, for 62 Books
Valerie - 31.5, for 31 Books
Rebekah - 30.7, for 75 Books
Arlene - 30.5, for 10 Books
Joanne - 29.8, for 30 Books
Ann - 29.4, for 8 Books
Bucket - 28.7, for 15 Books
Nick - 28.3, for 12 Books
Tien - 27.8, for 46 Books
Deedee - 27.6, for 21 Books
Lagullande - 26.4, for 21 Books
Rachel - 26.2, for 13 Books
Nancy - 25.8, for 13 Books
Jayme - 25.4, for 13 Books
Coralie - 24.7, for 33 Books
Karen Michele - 24.7, for 33 Books
Bea - 24.6, for 55 Books
Katy - 24.6, for 13 Books
Apple - 24.3, for 55 Books
Norma - 23.6, for 32 Books
Tawallah - 21.8, for 17 Books
Marie - 21.1, for 31 Books


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From Post 393

Apple wrote: "20.8 Short (Connie's Task)

The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions by Kerry Greenwood

+20 task
+5 combo (10.10)

Post Total = 25
Season Total = 460"

Not a big thing, but we have this scored as combo with 20.10 (assuming 10.10 is a typo).

From post 372

Marie wrote: "10.2 Pronouns

L'Année où je suis devenue ado by Nora Dåsnes

Litteraly "The year I became a teenager"

+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel

Task total = 10

..."

In an attempt to maintain consistency this season, we are not accepting untranslated titles for 10.2. However, this title works for 20.7 and we have scored it as such.

From Post 359

Anika wrote: "20.2 Biography?

King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+10 Canon

Task total: 30
Season total: 785

**Side note: I've NEVER heard this play referred to as..."

We do carry this as Henry IV, Part 1, so +5 Combo 10.4

From Post 353

Joanna wrote: "20.6 Industry

Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind by Gavin Edwards

This was a strange book. I'm not sure how it came to be..."

+10 Aged

From Post 337

Nancy wrote: " 10.5 Journey

The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson

This is a quiet read about two women taking a narrowboat down the canals of England for an older woman who i..."

I don't have birth information for this author. Can you provide a link?

From Post 300

Apple wrote: "10.9 Covid 19 Hits (Rebekah's Task)

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 370"

+5 Combo 20.7

From Post 282

Tawallah wrote: "20.5 - Books

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Combo:5- 20.10,

Post total: 25
Season total: 95"

+5 Jumbo