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

Connie ’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.27 SU 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

WI 2021-22 20.5 Wheels

Read one of these British novels (on Wiki list) adapted into television shows.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1886)

Task total: 20
Season total: 620

15.26 SU 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

WI 2024-25 20.10 The ___ of ___

Read a book with a title that takes the form of The Something of Something.

Task total: 15
Season total: 600

15.20 FA 2015 Travel the United States

Read 10 books, each set in a different US state.

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell

Set in IL.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1937)

Task total: 20
Second finisher bonus: 100
Season total: 585

15.25 SU 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

SP 2024 20.4 The Fighting Temeraire

Read a book on the list of books about boats.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1719)

Task total: 20
Season total: 465

15.19 FA 2015 Travel the United States

Read 10 books with each set in a different state.

Evergreen by Rebecca Rasmussen

Set in MN.

Task total: 15
Season total: 445

Planning:

O1 - Single word title that contains at least 10 letters
Persuasion by Jane Austen
✓ 15.2 O2 - Author with a six letter last name
Cane by Jean Toomer
O3 - Set at least 51% in the tropics
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré (Nigeria)
O4 - No E in title or author name
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
✓ 15.4 O5 - Alliterative title
Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams


B1 - Equal number of letters in first and last names
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
✓ 15.5 I1 - Title and subtitle do not contain the word "The"
Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney
✓ 15.3 N1 - Winner or finalist of Neustadt International Prize
Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
✓ 15.1 G1 - Author's 1st, 6th, or 16th book
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
O1 - Single word title that contains at least 10 letters
Playground by Richard Powers

Extra:
B3 - Author's last or latest book
The Names by Florence Knapp
B4 - Title starts and ends with same letter
Tilt by Emma Pattee

15.24 SU 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes

FA 2022 20.9 ABCs
Read a book where the author's initials appear in alphabetical order.

Task total: 15
Season total: 430

15.23 FU 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

WI 2021-22 20.9 Madame Bovary

Read a book with a surname in the title.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1972)

Task total: 20
Season total: 415

15.22 SU 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

The World of Apples by John Cheever

WI 2022-23 20.8 Short

Read a book of short stories.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1973)

Task total: 20
Season total: 395

Start of third subchallenge
15.21 SU 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons. State the season and the task.

SP 2024 20.1 The National Gallery
Read a book about a piece of art, an art collection, or which has a visual artist as a main character.

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams

A main character, William Coughlan, was a painter.

Task total: 15
Season total:375

15.10 Scrabble FA 24

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

1 point tile I4 - Illness
Book is on the Illness list on the first page - 39X mentioned

For Sub-challenge Completion, Scrabble forms the following words for 34 points:
QUIZ - 22 points
IT - 2 points
CAKE - 10 points

+15 task
+50 first sub-challenge completion

Post total: 65
Season total: 360

15.18 FA 2015 Travel the United States

Read 10 books, each set in a different US state.

The Brigadier and the Golf Widow by John Cheever

Set in NY.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1964)

Task total: 20
Season total: 295

I would like to edit post # 337 to:

15.8 Scrabble FA 2024

1 point tile A6 - Author Last Name Has No A

Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (1993 pub)

Task total: 20
Season total: 255

I also made an edit note on post # 337. Thank you.

15.9 Scrabble FA 2024

3 point tile C2 - MPG Classic

Perestroika by Tony Kushner

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1993)

Task total: 20
Season total: 275

15.8 Scrabble FA 2024

1 point tile I4 - Illness

Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

The play is about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (published in 1993)

Task total: 20
Season total: 255

I would like to edit this to:
15.8 Scrabble FA 2024
1 point tile A6 - Author Last Name Has No A

I forgot that the illness book needed to be from the genre list.
The points should be the same. I also left an edit note on post #367 in case you already counted the points. Thank you.

15.17 FA 2015 Travel the United States

Read 10 books, each set in a different US state.

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

Set in CA.

+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1954)

Task total: 20
Season total: 235

15.7 FA 24 Scrabble

1 point U1 - Published in the 10s in any century

Emma by Jane Austen

Published in 1815

+15 task
+ 5 old

Task total: 20
Season total: 215

Valerie, I recently put Elly Griffiths new book on my TBR too, and hope to read it in the fall. I've been reading so many Victorian and Regency classics this year that I would like to see how she handles time travel to Victorian times.

15.16 FA 2015 Travel the United States

Read 10 books, each set in a different US state.

The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison

Set in WA.

Task total: 15
Season total: 195

15.6 FA 24 Scrabble

10 point Tile Z1 - Author Last Name Has a Z

Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

Task total: 15
Season total: 180