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

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

This challenge includes the 9th, 10th and 11th months of the year. Read a book with a 9-, 10-, or 11-letter word in the title.

Please post questions/suggestions about task 10.9 in this thread.

As we drove from the Puget Sound to Montana in door to door smoke this year for the first time ever and dealt with a fire close by the cabin we rent, I couldn’t help thinking about climate change. Read a book about climate change. If it is not clear from the book synopsis on the GR page, please include a sentence or two about how the book qualifies in the appropriate help thread.

Please post any questions or appropriate clarifying remarks in this thread.

10.7 Crazy Rich Asians...Or Not! (Tien's Task)

Read a book originally published in English written by an author born in one of these Asian countries.

Please post questions/suggestions about task 10.7 in this thread.

In 1725 Italian Antonio Lucio Vivaldi published 12 new concerti (concertos in English) including the most famous of all classical seasonal music, The Four Seasons. Others, including Hadyn, Tchaikovski and Vaughan Williams have written seasonal music that include the fall.

Read any book published between 1678-1958 (Vivaldi's birth to Vaughan William's death), by an author born in and a resident of one of the countries of these composers: Italy, Germany, Austria, Russia or Great Britain.

Please post any questions/suggestions about task 20.8 in this thread.

We are working to clear up the language for this task, please be patient.

Rebekah wrote: "I was trying to look back to the very first challenge in this group, but looks like we lost all our history prior to August 2010"

Prior to the Fall 2010 season, this challenge was part of another group: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group....

The titles are coming in! If you see your name listed above, but did not receive a message from me, my apologies. Please send me your Group Read nomination anyhow. :)

Valerie wrote: "I see my score on the readerboard as of post 850 is 695. It should be 700. I suspect the +5 for a repeat wasn't added to your scoring program (from post 824).

Thanks!"

This appears to be a calculation error. In Post 674, you had a running total of 640. In post Post 750, you claimed 20 points but added 25 to your total. Between those two posts, I don't show any corrections.

Sample AbBY Post

15.2 AbBY
Date Range 1976-1980

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

+15 Task (author born 1977)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 235 (assumes mid-season, with a previous total of 220).

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 Post

10.1 Favorite Lists

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

< insert 100+ word review here >

+10 Task (#1154 on Best Books Ever; claimed in post 511 of summer season)
+10 Combo (10.5 Penguin Edition, 20.10 all vowels in title)
+10 Review
+ 5 Oldies (pub 1993)
+25 Jumbo (1474 pgs)

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 235 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 190)

This season, my nephew will be realizing a life-long goal of starting for the Arkansas Razorbacks (football). In honor of his accomplishment, read one of the top 300 books from the Best Southern Literature list.

Please post questions/suggestions about task 20.9 in this thread.

Fall Equinox contains all 5 vowels. Read any book whose title contains all of the letters A-E-I-O-U. The book may have a subtitle, but all of the letters should be in the title.

Please post any questions/suggestions about task 20.10 in this thread.

Read one of these books recommended by other RwS readers.

Elizabeth (Alaska): History of the Rain by Niall Williams
Kate: The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Ed: Rain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor
Anika: Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright
Megan: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Ann: Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente
Rosemary: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Valerie: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Lalitha: War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
Owlette: Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle
Connie: The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
Rebekah: An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan

Please post any questions about 10.10 in this thread.

In honor of Halloween, read a book written by one of these 100 mostly noir authors.

Please post suggestions and questions about task 10.6 in this thread.

Sept 9 is National Pet Memorial Month. Read a book that has at least one edition published by a publishing house that has the name of an animal in its name...such as Penguin, Black Dog, Graywolf, etc. Please include a link to both the MPE and the applicable edition.

Please post any questions about task 10.5 in this thread.

Read any book off of one of these two groups' bookshelves:

21st Century Literature AND The Next Best Book Club

Please post questions/suggestions about task 10.4 in this thread

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World: Read any book that has a real place in the title.

Please post questions about task 10.3 in this thread.

Start a new series or read the next book in a series you are reading. (Book must be labeled as part of a series on GoodReads and must be have at least 3 books).

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

Read a book from a favorite listopia - yours or that of another member. Using the list of listopias claimed during the Listopia Tag sub-challenge from the Summer 2018 season, select a list and read any book listed. Members may post their favorite list from the Summer season in the help thread if they wish. Please post a link to the appropriate LT claim when posting. A list of posts will be included in post 2 of the help thread. You may complete this task 3 times. This task cannot be used for combo.

Please use this thread for questions and posting your favorite Listopias from the summer season.

From Post 813

Tien wrote: "20.6 Winter's Tale
Regina's Song by David Eddings & Leigh Eddings

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - 424 pages)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female ?

Post Total: 40
Season Tota..."

Sorry, Tien, as we only use the first listed author, this will not work for the Female style.