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

Connie ’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.2 French

A Summer with Montaigne: On the Art of Living Well by Antoine Compagnon

This book was translated from French to English by Tina Kover. It is part of a ten book nonfiction French series of essays about French authors. The series title is Un été avec (A summer with).

+20 task
+15 combo I0.3 Discworld; 10.4 3,4,5; 20.9 Non-fiction
+ 5 series

Task total: 40
Season total: 325

Maybe it's because Colson Whitehead has written in so many genres. He's young, but he keeps remaking himself. He spoke at an author's luncheon in my city, and he's very intelligent with a wicked sense of humor!

10.5 Wimsey

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

+10 task
+5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5

Task total: 15
Season total: 285

20.7 Non-human

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

+20 task
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 20.3 POV (Tova, Marcellus, and Cameron)

Task total: 30
Season total: 270

20.9 Non-Fiction

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson

+20 task (plays approved in help thread)
+5 combo 10.2 Albright Sisters (Ma approved in help thread comment 9)
+5 combo 10.3 Discworld (The Century Cycle)
+5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
+5 combo 20.3 POV (views of white manager and producer, and various African-Americans)
+5 combo 20.6 Award (Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award, approved in comment 111 in help thread)
+5 combo 20.8 Real Fiction (Hist Fiction listed, Ma Rainey was a real person mentioned in description)
+5 series
+5 oldie (1981)

Task total: 60
Season total: 235

Thanks, Elizabeth.

Can I use the word "Ma" from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom? She and her husband were called Ma and Pa Rainey. She was the "Mother of the Blues."

". . . adopted the professional name Ma Rainey after marrying William "Pa" Rainey (1904), with whom she performed a comedy-and-dance routine throughout the South. . ."

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/en...

From August Wilson's Goodreads Bio:

"In 2005, August Wilson received the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award."

10.4 3, 4, 5

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.3 POV (Narrator Theo, Diary of Alicia)

Task total: 15
Season total: 175

20.10 Uncommon Letter

Maureen by Rachel Joyce

+20 task (character Queenie)
+ 5 series (Harold Fry #3)

Task total: 25
Season total: 160

20.5 Female

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

+20 task (#68 on list)
+ 5 combo 20.3 POV (Points of view of Evelyn, Ninny, and other characters plus several newsletters)

Task total: 25
Season total: 135

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Connie wrote: "Fannie Flagg won the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Alabama Writer in 2012. Can this be used?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_..."

Sorry, this doesn't ..."

OK. Thanks for checking, Elizabeth.

Fannie Flagg won the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Alabama Writer in 2012. Can this be used?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_...

Tennessee Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Inductees must have had a career in American theater of at least 25 years, and five Broadway credits. Can I use this award?

20.10 Uncommon Letter

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

+20 task
+ 5 series

Task total: 25
Season total: 110

20.3 POV

Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel of the Heroic Women Who Served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps During World War I by Jennifer Chiaverini

+20 task (story is told in alternating chapters of Grace, Marie, and Valerie)
+5 combo 20.8 Real Fiction (In the GR book description, General Pershing who has a significant role, and Grace Bankers who was an actual operator for the Signal Corps and kept a wartime diary)

Task total: 25
Season total: 85

15.1 Growing Genres

Still Life by Louise Penny

+15 task 2005 Mystery

Task total: 15
Season total: 50

Thanks, Elizabeth.

Elmer Kelton won several western lifetime achievement awards.

https://www.elmerkelton.net/about-elm...

Barbara Kingsolver won the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2011. Can we use this award?

www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/jacket...