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

Connie ’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.10 Group Read

The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain

Delightful group read choice, Ed!

Task total: 10
Season total: 405

20.3 Opposites

Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia merlot

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 395

15.1 Fabulous Firsts

Morning Tide by Neil M. Gunn

M-N

Task total: 15
Season total: 370

I'm concentrating on the RwS challenge, but doubt if I'll have time to read most of my sub-challenge books. Maybe I'll get to those books in the summer.

Congratulations to the early Mega-Finishers!

10.7 Codebreaker

In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen

+10 task
+15 combo 10.2 Name; 10.9 Pub Trivia baileys; 20.10 Family (3 generations of Lord Westerham's family which includes 5 daughters and a grandson)

Task total: 25
Season total: 355
Season total:

10.9 Pub Trivia

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders

+10 task vodka
+ 5 jumbo 512 pages

Task total: 15
Season total: 330

10.1 Enjoyed

Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner

+10 task (I read Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner in the winter)
+10 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia kahlua; 20.8 Queen of Short Fiction (5 short stories and a 111 page novella in this mystery/crime collection)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1949)

Task total: 25
Season total: 315

10.4 Spring

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

+10 task (pub 1925)
+ 5 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia shiraz
+10 1001 list
+10 oldie 1925

Task total: 35
Season total: 290

10.6 Sentence

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan

+10 task
+10 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia chardonnay; 20.10 Family (4 generations of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's family)

Task total: 20
Season total: 255

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Connie wrote: "I want to check that this title is a sentence. Thanks.

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures"

Yes."

Thanks, Elizabeth.

I want to check that this title is a sentence. Thanks.

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

Another great author that just died is Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and many more books.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/26/981592...

20.5 Balkins

Girl at War by Sara Nović

+20 task (set in Croatia)
+10 combo 10.2 Name; 10.4 Spring (pub 2015)

Task total: 30
Season total: 230

20.8 Queen of Short Fiction

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

+20 task (123 pages)
+10 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia chardonnay; 20.9 Series
+10 oldie (pub1887)

Task total: 40
Season total: 200

20.1 Prize

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.5 Mother
+10 1001 book
+10 Non-Western (Nigeria)

Task total: 45
Season total: 160

20.3 Opposites

The Dry by Jane Harper

+20 task
+15 combo 10.3 Name; 20.4 Crime; 20.9 Series

Task total: 35
Season total: 115

20.9 Series

The Transatlantic Book Club by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

+20 task (#5 of series)
+10 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia-cabernet; 20.10 Family 3 generations

Task total: 30
Season total: 80

10.2 Name

Educated by Tara Westover

+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.10 Family

Task total: 15
Season total: 50

I love the books on my list too. If I had five or six months, I might get to them all :-)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 26 Connie wrote: "20.10 Family Saga

A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry

+20 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1966)

Task total: 25
Season total: 25"

You can spell Cabernet with..."

Thanks for finding the extra points, Elizabeth!