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

Connie ’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.3 Ratings Game

15,000-24,999 ratings

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell 23,546 ratings

Task total: 15
Season total: 380

Wonderful photos, Ed! It looks like a fascinating trip.

20.6 Characters

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg

+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.2 Jackson's Dilemma
+10 young (born 1982)
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 40
Season total: 365

10.3 Summer 2017

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.6 Characters

Task total: 15
Season total: 325

Thank you, Elizabeth.

Could I lock in Finding Dorothy? It now has 4987 ratings. It's moving up quickly with the anniversary of the Wizard of Oz movie. Thank you.

I like the 1001 idea too, and have an earlier version of Boxall's book.

20.8 Revisit a Friend

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center

I first read this author's work on 11/11/18

+20 task
+ 5 combo 20.6
+10 young--age 47 per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katheri...

Task total: 35
Season total: 310

10.1 Create Your Own Task

My task is to read books published in the last decade.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

+10 task
+10 young (born 1972 per GR author page)
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 25
Season total: 275

10.1 Design Your Own Task

My task was to read books published in the last decade.

Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige

+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.6 Characters
+10 young (born 1979) Her birth year is on her Amazon page
https://www.amazon.com/Harriet-Paige/...

Task total: 25
Season total: 250

My task is to read books that were published in the last decade (2010-2019). I'm starting with Man with a Seagull on His Head.

10.7 Summer Shorts

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (97 pages)

On the Bus With Rosa Parks by Rita Dove (96 pages)

Task total: 10
Season total: 225

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "There is lots of spam on GR, despite their best efforts to prevent/eliminate it."

It's certainly much better here compared with what I see on Facebook. I've got to give the moderators a lot of credit for catching things quickly on GR too.

FYI: A member called Readers Den was sending out the same message as Nate yesterday.

Thank you, Elizabeth. He and another member have plastered the same message over multiple threads in two of my other groups as well.

20.9 Apollo 11

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
It's a 5 star book!

+20 task
+20 combo 10.9 All Star, 20.1 Iris Murdoch, 20.6 Characters, 20.10 Historical

Task total: 40
Season total: 215

My favorites are:

1. Not-a-Novel--It encourages me to read nonfiction, short stories, plays, and poetry which I also enjoy.

2. Reviews--I enjoy reading other people's reviews, and writing them myself.

3. Multi--Sometimes there are one or two tasks that I really enjoy, or that fit into another challenge that I'm also working on.

Alternate--Prize-worthy--When it comes to prizes, I often enjoy the nominees more than the winners of the prizes. So styles/tasks that include nominees would work well for me.

(The styles I enjoy the least are aged and young. It does not add anything positive to my reading experience to have to spend time searching for a birthday of an author. Young authors often do not publish their birthday since they probably worry about identity theft. I always read a mix of older and young authors so having these styles does not change my reading plans.)

It's fun that you change the styles around every three months.

15.2 Ratings Game

10,000-14,999 ratings

The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis (10,420 ratings)

Task total: 15
Season total: 175

10.2 Jackson's Dilemma

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.3

Task total: 15
Season total: 160

20.6 Characters

The Missing by Tim Gautreaux

Task total: 20
Season total: 145