Reading with Style discussion

15.8 CiV 10
The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert

+65 Task E-F, 301-340/701-740, and 1873-1887

Post Total: 65
Season Total: 1,205

10.1 List Lovers

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

+10 Task:
+10 Combo: 10.6 NYE Countdown (Time) / 20.8 Dead Sea

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 640

10.8 Singles

Metamorphoses by Ovid

+10 Task
+10 Lost in Translation
+10 Canon
+10 Jumbo

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 680

20.6 Hidden Figures

John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

+20 Task
+. 5 Combo: 20.9 Madame Bovary

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 705

20.2 Keys to the Kingdom

Comes a Stranger by E.R. Punshon

+20 Task (pub'd 1938, 85 ratings)
+ 5 Combo (10.4 - and such a library!)
+10 Aged (1875-1950)

Task total = 35

Season total = 955

Task 20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom
Read a book with 5k or fewer ratings and published in the 20th century (1901-2000).

Angels on Toast (1940) by Dawn Powell (Paperback, 273 pages)

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 350 + 20 = 370

15.5 CiV 10

The Beast Within by Émile Zola

+35 Task V-W-X-Y-Z, 381-420/781-820, 1888-1902

Post Total: 35
Season Total: 740

10.1 List Lovers

All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor

+10 Task (using this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)

Task total: 10
Grand total: 200

15.7 CiV10

Misery by Stephen King, first pub. 1987, 370 pages

I-J-K/341-380, 781-820/1978-1992

+55 Task

Task total: 55
Season total: 675

15.8 Christmas in Vegas 10

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

E-F, 421-460/821-860, 1918-1932

65 task
____
65

Running total: 775

20.10 Pulp

The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen

+20 task
+15 combo 10.7 Genre-Rich (Mystery and Historical); 20.2 Keys to the Kingdom (2534 ratings, pub 1929); 20.4 Day of the Jackal (thriller)

Task total: 35
Season total: 415

20.7 John Adams
The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales #1) by James Fenimore Cooper
Setting:1740-1745

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5)
+10 Canon
+5 Jumbo (576p)

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,245

15.9 - CiV 10

Hideaway by Nora Roberts

{P-Q-R} {421-460/821-860} {2008-2022}

Post Total: 75
Season Total: 635

10.4 - Vocation

The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday by Kiley Dunbar

+10 task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 650

20.4 - Day of the Jackal

Murder on the Down Low by Pamela Samuels Young

+20 task
+5 Combo - 10.6 - hour

Task total: 25
Grand total: 675

20.4 - Day of the Jackal

Relative Malice by Marla Madison

+20 task
+5 Combo - 10.6 - time

Task total:25
Grand total: 700

15.6 CiV 10

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

+45 Task C-D, 421-460/821-860 pages (455), and 1888-1902

Post Total: 45
Season Total: 755

20.7 John Adams

Persuasion by Jane Austen

+20 Task, pub. 1817
+10 Canon
+10 Combo: 10.8, 20.5

Task total: 40
Season total: 715

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom

The Toys of Peace and Other Papers by Saki

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.8


Post Total: 25
Season Total: 975

20.2 Keys to the Kingdom
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend by Patrick Symmes

+20 task
+5 combo 10.6 HOUR
Task total: 25
Season total: 375

10.6 NYE Countdown

Watchers by Dean Koontz

+10 Task (watch)
+10 Aged (born 1945 - Wikipedia)
+10 Combo (10.7 - Mystery, Science Fiction, 20.4 - Thriller)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 110

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom

The Ghosts of Elkhorn by Kerry Newcomb

+20 Task (12 ratings, published 1982)
+5 Combo (20.8 - KN)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 135

15.8 CiV10

Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott, pub. 1878, 191 pages

A-B/181-220, 581-620/1873-1887

+65 Task

Task total: 65
Season total: 780

15.1 CiV 10

The Leavenworth Case byAnna Katharine Green

[G-H (G), 421-460/821-860pp (439p), pub 1873-1887 (1878)]

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 150

15.2 CiV 10

The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat

[L-M (M), 221-260/621-660pp (227p), pub 1888-1902 (1897)]

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 170

15.3 CiV 10

The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart

[P-R (R), 261-300/661-700pp (278p), pub 1918-1932 (1926)]

+25 Task

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 195

15.4 CiV 10

Lonesome Road by Patricia Wentworth

[V-Z (W), 181-220/581-620pp (214p), pub 1933-1947 (1939)]

+30 Task

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 225

15.5 CiV 10

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

[A-B (B), 141-180/541-580pp (145p), pub 1963-1977 (1972)]

This book is 800L on Lexile & Quantum Hub.

+35 Task

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 260

15.6 CiV 10

Sweet Grass: Lives of Contemporary Native Women of the Northeast by Mildred Noble

[N-O (N), 101-140/501-540pp (110p), pub 1993-2007 (1997)]


+45 Task

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 305

Task 10.6 NYE Countdown
Read a book in which all of the letters of one of the following words can be found in the title (including sub-titles):
Time, Clock, Watch, Hour, Minute, Second

WATCH = the CAT WHo saved books

The Cat Who Saved Books (2017) by Sōsuke Natsukawa; translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 198 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 set in bookstore)
+10 Lost in Translation

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 375 + 25 = 400

20.5 Wheels

Read one of these British novels adapted into television shows.
(The Cadfael Chronicles)
The Leper of Saint Giles. Ellis Peters

+20 task
+15 combo (10.7 [historical fiction/mystery], 20.1, 20.4)
+100 Finish
Task Total: 135

Season Total: 550

10.1;10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9;10.10
20.1;20.2;20.3;20.4;20.5;20.6;20.7;20.8;20.9;20.10

From Post 522

Sue wrote: "20.2 Keys of the Kingdom

Sleeping Dogs byThomas Perry

+20 task >5k ratings pub 1992
+10 aged Thomas Perry 1947

post total:30
season total: 265"

+5 Combo 20.4

From Post 523

Connie wrote: "10.2 Short

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lexile 940

Task total: 10
Season total: 335"

+5 combo 20.5

From Post 531

Deedee wrote: "Task 20.4 Day of the Jackal
Read a book with a main page genre of "thriller".

The Minders (2020) by John Marrs (Paperback, 402 pages)

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.7 MP..."

+5 Combo 10.6

From Post 582

Sue wrote: "20.3 Frenchman's Creek
Djibouti by Elmore Leonard

+20 task pirates

post total: 20
season total 285"

+10 Combo 10.5, 10.8

From Post 584Anika wrote: "20.3 Frenchman's Creek

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 440"

+5 Combo 20.2

15.10 CiV10

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

+85 Task N-O , 181-220/581-620, and 1903-1917
+100 CiV10 Completion


Points this post: 185
RwS total: 125
CiV total: 550
Season Total: 675

.... .... .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 15.10
20.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... 20.8 20.9 ....

20.1 Maid in Waiting

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

+20 Task: The African Trilogy #3
+10 Canon
+10 Aged

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 780

20.1 Maid in Waiting

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

+20 Task (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2)
+15 Combo 20.5, 20.8 (AT), 10.6 (watch)
+10 Canon

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 320

20.4 Day of the Jackal

The Push by Ashley Audrain

+20 task
+5 combo 20.8
Task total: 25

Season total: 400

20.1 Maid in Waiting

The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson

+20 Task (3rd in trilogy)
+5 Combo (10.6 - Science fiction/cultural)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 225

15.4 Christmas in Vegas 10

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

30 pts 15.4 Christmas in Vegas 10

V-W-X-Y-Z 141-180/541-580 2008-2022

Task total. 30 pts
Total Season: 845 pts

10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 … 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 10.10
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 … 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 … … … … …

15.9 Christmas in Vegas 10

Jenny by Sigrid Undset

S-T-U, 301-340/701-740, 1903-1917


75 task
____
75

Running total: 850

20.4 Day of the Jackal

The White Van by Patrick Hoffman

+20 Task


Points this post: 20
RwS total: 145
CiV total: 550
Season Total: 695

.... .... .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 15.10
20.1 .... .... 20.4 .... .... .... 20.8 20.9 ....

10.6 NYE Countdown

Something to Remember You By: A Perilous Romance by Gene Wilder

+10 Task TIME
+10 Aged

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 995

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom

The Rules of the Game by Georges Simenon

+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.6-HOUR)
+10 LiT-French
+10 aged (1903–1989)

Task total=45
Season total=845

20.3 Frenchman's Creek

The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

+20 task (MC becomes a pirate, and commands others)
+ 5 Combo (20.2, 1915 & 3400 ratings)
+10 Aged (1875-1950 - just makes it!)

Task total = 35

Season total = 990

10.4 Vocation

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.8 Dead Sea (MB)

Task total: 15
Season total: 435

15.10 - CiV 10

Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø

{N-O} {341-380/741-780} {1993-2007}

+85 Task
+100 CiV 10 Complete

Post Total: 185
Season Total: 820

20.9 Madame Bovary

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

20 task
10 LiT
10 combo 10.2, 10.7
_____
40


Running total: 890