Connie ’s Comments (group member since Nov 11, 2013)

Connie ’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.6 Summertime

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

+10 task (Number is in year of author's birth - 1812)
+ 5 before 1998 (pub 1838)
+ 5 big (608 pages)

Task total: 20
Season total: 220

20.7 Favorites

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber

SP 14 20.5 Othello (protagonist is a member of a minority group)

Task total: 20
Season total: 200

20.6 Favorites

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

WI 13-14 20.10 Between the Wars (author born between 1866-1913)

+20 task (author born 1909)
+ 5 before 1998 (pub 1987)

Task total: 25
Season total: 180

10.2 Summertime

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

+10 task (Number of words in title)

Task total: 10
Season total: 155

20.5 Favorites

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

FA 2017 20.5 Old (Main story set 100 years or more before publication of book)

+20 task (set in 16th Century)

Task total: 20
Season total: 145

10.4 Summertime: Number of letters in a title word

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

+10 task (Canticle has 8 letters)
+ 5 before 1998 (published in 1959)

Task total: 15
Season total: 125

20.4 Favorites

Absolutely Positively Connecticut: More Stories from the Award-Winning WTNH-TV Series Now Seen on CPTV by Diane Smith

+20 task FA 22 20.9 ABCs (Author's initials appear in alphabetical order)

Task total: 20
Season total: 110

20.3 Favorites

Mink River by Brian Doyle

Rating of 4.17 stars

+20 task (FA 21 20.3 Ratings - average rating of 4.0 or higher)

Task total: 20
Season total: 90

10.1 Summertime

Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker

+10 task (Number of letters in author's first or last name)

Task total: 10
Season total: 70

10.5 Number of letters in setting

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

The setting is Positano.

Task total: 10 (8 letters)
Season total: 60

20.2 Favorites

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

+20 task (Spring 2016 20.1 William Shakespeare - Sonneteers List)
+ 5 before 1998 (1598)

Task total: 25
Season total: 50

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20.1 Favorites

Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers

+20 task (Winter 2016-2017 20.1 Carson McCullers - author died at age 50 or younger)
+ 5 before 1998 (1941)

Task total: 25
Season total: 25

20.1 Modernist

Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

+20 task (on Modernist list)
+20 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 20.3 POV (many points of view within 7 interconnected stories); 20.6 Award (Nobel Prize in 1949); 20.7 (Old Ben, an ancient bear representing nature and the wilderness)
+10 oldie (pub in 1942)

Task total: 50
Half-way finish of 20 point tasks: 50
Season total: 850

William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in 1949.

Old Ben is an important character in "The Bear" section of Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner. Faulkner describes Old Ben as "the big old bear with one trap-ruined foot that in an area almost a hundred miles square had earned for himself a name, a definite designation like a living man." He's a mythical bear representing the strength of nature, while the men are trying to dominate nature by killing him.

10.3 Discworld

The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr

+10 task (A Novel of the Civil War trilogy)
+ 5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
+10 series (second task claimed for this series)

Task total: 25
Season total: 750

20.3 POV

The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham

+20 task (POVs of Meg and Agatha)
+ 5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5

Task total: 25
Season total: 725

20.4 Sub-Continent

The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

+20 task (India)
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 20.3 POV (each of these 3 stories has at least 2 points of view)
+10 Non-Western (born in India)

Task total: 40
Season total:700

Good luck with your new job, chunwai! I hope you have more time to relax now.