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

Connie ’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.9 State Your Name

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.2-GR authorized
+ 5 Prizeworthy (Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction 2017)

Task total: 20
Season total: 585

10.2 Goodreads Author

A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass

+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.8

Task total: 15
Season total: 565

20.2 T. Coraghessan Boyle

Eventide by Kent Haruf

+20 task
+ 5 combo 20.1-Winter birthday 2/24/43
+ 5 prizeworthy Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction

Task total: 30
Season total: 550

20.3 Isaac Asimov

Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan Hill

+20 task
+ 5 combo 20.1 Winter birthday 2/5/42
+10 aged

Task total: 35
Season total: 520

Susan Hill was born on 2/5/42

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

20.10 Over and Under

Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou

+20 task 4.13/646
+10 combo 10.7 Conjunctions, 10.9 State that Name-MA
+10 aged 4/4/28-5/28/14, died at age 86

Task total: 40
Season total: 485

10.3 Gerald Durrell

Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan

+10 task
+10 combo 20.10 (4.06/494), 10.8 new author
+ 5 prizeworthy (Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction)

Task total: 25
Season total: 440

20.4 Wilkie Collins

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

+20 task #48 on list
+10 combo 20.1-January birthday, 10.3-pub 1955
+ 5 prizeworthy Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere for Romans Etrangers 1957

Task total: 35
Season total: 415

10.2 Goodreads Author

The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

+10 task
+5 combo 10.8-New author

Task total: 15
Season total: 380

20.10 Over and Under

Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee

+20 task (3.96/511)
+15 combo 10.2-GR author, 10.8-New Author, 10.9-State your name IL=Illinois

Task total: 35
Season total: 365

Would The Queen's Secret by Victoria Lamb be OK? It's about Queen Elizabeth I.

My goal is to finish the RwS challenge. I would like to make a few more stops in the BtE sub-challenge, but there is no way I would be able to finish it.

I've been trying to decide which big book to read for the 700 page task, and have been leaning toward something light like Outlander.

10.5 2018 Amazon

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

+10 task
+15 combo 10.2-GR author, 10.4-New Year's Day, 10.8-New author

Task total: 25
Season total: 325

20.1 Birthday

Know It All Jazz: The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute by Dave Gelly

+20 task
+10 combo 10.7-Conjunctions, 10.8-New Author
+10 aged (1/28/38, age 80)

Task total: 40
Season total: 300

Dave Gelly has a January birthday.

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

10.7 Conjunctions

Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz by John Szwed

+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.8-New Authors
+10 aged (born 1936 per Wikipedia)

Task total: 25
Season total: 260

20.5 Nevil Shute

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

+20 task
+10 combo 10.2-GR author, 10.5-2018 Amazon

Task total: 30
Season total: 235

10.7 Conjunctions

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.8
+15 prizeworthy (Governor Gereral Literary Award 2005, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize 2006, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2005)

Task total: 30
Season total: 205

Thanks, Elizabeth. I couldn't find her birthday anywhere.

10.9 State Your Name

Someone by Alice McDermott

+10 task (MA=Massachusetts)

Task total: 10
Season total: 165