Reading with Style discussion

10.3 Location

When All Is Said by Anne Griffin

Set 100% in Ireland (almost all in County Meath, just north of Dublin)

+10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 765

20.3 Frenchman's Creek

Cursed Pirate Girl: The Collected Edition, Volume One by Jeremy A. Bastian

+20 Task
No style points as graphic novel

Task total = 20

Season total = 540
… ; 10.2 (x4) ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; … ; 10.6 (x4) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; 20.10

20.9 Madame Bovary

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

+20 Task
+10 Lost in Translation (written in english, first language is french)

Task total = 30

Season total = 570
… ; 10.2 (x4) ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; … ; 10.6 (x4) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x3) ; 20.10

10.7 Genre-Rich

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (Genres: Historical, Mystery)

+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Jumbo (859 pages)
+5 Combo (10.6 – Word: TIME)

Post total: 40
Season total: 240

Claimed to date:
10.1(2x) - - 10.4 10.5 10.6(2x) 10.7(2x) - - -
15.1 15.2 - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -

20.6 Hidden Figures

Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

+20 task Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

Post total: 20
Season total: 315

20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)
Two for Sorrow (Josephine Tey #3) by Nicola Upson
author's initials, NU, found in, khirbat qUmraN

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - historical & mystery)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1,270

20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.9 - Gatsby)
+10 Canon

Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1,305

20.3 Frenchman’s Creek
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.6 - Watch, 20.7 - this book is about the lives of two brothers who were smugglers and Pirates, the eldest is Pierre circa 1770-1821 and youngest Jean 1780 - circa 1823. 20.9 - Laffite)
+10 pts -Aged (born 1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
+10 pts - Jumbo (756 pages)

Task Total - 55 pts

10.10 Group Reads

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.6, time = bEwIlderMenT; 10.8

Task total: 20
Season total: 805

10.9 Discovery

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

+10 Task
+10 Jumbo 767 pages

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1015

10.8 Singles

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

+10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 1025

20.7 John Adams

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

+20 Task (published 1791)
+15 Combo 10.2 (143 pages), 10.6 NYE (time, hour, minute), 20.9
+10 Aged (1706-1790)

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 365

20.1 Maid in Waiting

The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr

This is book #1 of his "A Novel of the Civil War" trilogy.

+20 task
+15 combo 10.6 NYE Countdown (watch); 20.2 The Keys of the Kingdom (1997, 1641 ratings); 20.8 Dead Sea (HB)
+10 aged (born 1946, 76 years old)

Task total: 45
Season total: 480

20.7 John Adams
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) by James Fenimore Cooper
Setting:1757

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5; 10.6 - time found in ThE MohIcans)

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1,335

10.1 List Lover (using Booker Prize Winners)

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
+10 task Booker Prize Award winner
+10 Lost in Translation ( French)
+5 Combo 10.2 short 144 pages

Post total 25
Season total: 340 ---370 after my posting errors... I think...lol

20.6 Hidden Figures

Day by Elie Wiesel

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.8, 20.1)
+10 Lost in Translation (from French)
+10 Aged

Task total: 55
Grand total: 280

15.9 CiV10

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 444 pages, pub 1913

P-Q-R/421-460, 821-860/1903-1917

+75 Task

Task total: 75
Season total: 880

10.3 Location

Snow by John Banville

+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.7 - mystery/cultural), 10.8, 20.4)
+10 Aged (1945-living)

Task total = 35

Season total = 1025

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

TIME = i sTIll drEaM about you

I Still Dream About You (2010) by Fannie Flagg (Hardcover, 315 pages)

+10 Task
+10 Aged (age 75 or greater)

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20

Grand Total: 400 + 20 = 420

10.1 List Lovers
Rubdown (Simone Kirsch #2) byu Leigh Redhead
Davitt Award (list)

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 - 100% Australia)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,350

15.6 CiV 10

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

+45 Task E-F, 221-260/621-660, 1978-1992

Post Total: 45
Season Total: 825

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom

The Diehard by Jean Potts

+20 Task
+10 Aged


Points this post: 30
RwS total: 175
CiV total: 550
Season Total: 725

.... .... .... .... .... 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 20.2 .... 20.4 .... .... .... 20.8 20.9 ....

20.3 Frenchman's Creek

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

+20 Task

YA; low Lexile; no style points

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 840

10.1 List Lovers


The Deep by Alma Katsu

+10 using the 2020 Bram Stoker nominees list (Novel) https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/u...
+5 Combo 10.7
+5 Combo 20.4
+5 Combo 20.8

According to the Readerboard my current point tally is 130

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 155

10.1 List Lovers


Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan

+10 using the 2020 Bram Stoker nominees list (Fiction Collection) https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/u...


Post Total: 10
Season Total: 165

10.1 List Lovers

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

+ 10 using the 2020 Bram Stoker nominees list (nonfiction)
https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/u...

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 175

10.9 Discovery (Bea's Task via Tien)

I have been on a journey, since my husband died, with finding who I am. I have discovered several interests and hobbies: camping, photography, birding, gardening, stargazing, genealogy, shooting, and reading. Read a non-fiction book reflecting an interest in your life. This task cannot be claimed for combo.

Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum

I am interested in politics (and also in emotions).

+ 10
+ 10 Aged (author turns 75 this year)
+ 5 Combo 10.6 letters TIME in title
+ 5 Combo 20.8

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 205

Post 651 Valerie wrote: "20.9 Madame Bovary

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

20 task
10 LiT
10 combo 10.2, 10.7
_____
40


Running total: 890"

Author is shown as Kleist, Heinrich von and so works for 20.8

20.4 Day of the Jackal

The Engagement by Georges Simenon

+20 task
+15 combo (10.2, 10.7-mystery & cultural, 20.2)
+10 LiT-French
+10 aged (1903–1989)

Task total=55
Season total=900

20.4 - Day of the Jackal

Iced Malice by Marla Madison

+20 task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 720

20.10 - Pulp

52 Pickup by Elmore Leonard

+20 task
+10 Combo (10.5, 20.4)
+10 aged (1925-2013)

Task total: 40
Grand total: 760

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 651 Valerie wrote: "20.9 Madame Bovary

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

20 task
10 LiT
10 combo 10.2, 10.7
_____
40


Running total: 890"

Author is shown..."


Oh, ok! Thanks, Elizabeth.

15.9 CiV 10
Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett

+75 Task A-B, 141-180/541-580, and 1903-1917

Post Total: 75
Season Total: 1,425

Post 667 Joanna wrote: "20.6 Hidden Figures

Day by Elie Wiesel

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.8, 20.1)
+10 Lost in Translation (from French)
+10 Aged

Task total: 55
Grand total: 280"

Joanna, I feel terrible about this. This title is a YA Assignment at BPL and has a Lexile of 520. Task, but no styles.

http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary....

10.9 Discovery

Talking about Detective Fiction by P.D. James

+10 Task (goodness knows, I read so much of the genre!)
+ 5 Combo (10.6 Clock)
+10 Aged (1920-2014)

Task total = 25

Season total = 1050

15.10 CiV 10
The Beach of Falesá by Robert Louis Stevenson

+85 Task S-T-U, 101-140/501-540, and 1888-1902
+100 Completion

Post Total: 185
Season Total: 1,610

10.5 Zane

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

+10 Task
+5 Combo: 10.6: watch = WiTh CHArley

Task total: 15
RwS Finish: 100
Season total: 995

20.10 - Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

+20 Task
+15 Combo [10.6 - time; 20.4; 20.5]
+10 Aged [1890 - 1976 (86)]

Post Total: 45
Season Total: 885

10.9 Discovery

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
(Non-fiction book informing my personal and professional anti-racism work)

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 – Word: TIME)

Post total: 15
Season total: 255

Claimed to date:
10.1(2x) - - 10.4 10.5 10.6(2x) 10.7(2x) – 10.9 -
15.1 15.2 - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 667 Joanna wrote: "20.6 Hidden Figures

Day by Elie Wiesel

Joanna, I feel terrible about this. This title is a YA Assignment at BPL and has a Lexile of 520. Task, but no styles..."

Boo! YA Assignment is the worst. I always forget to check that.

20.10 Pulp

Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2, 20.5 as Mapp and Lucia Series)

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 795

20.8 Dead Sea

Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.2

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1050

20.1 Maid in Waiting
The Armored Saint by Myke Cole

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.6

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1075

10.4 Vocation

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

+10 Task set in the New York Public Library
+5 Combo 10.7 Historical & Mystery

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1090

20.9 Madame Bovary

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc

+20 Task
+10 LiT
+10 Aged, 1864-1941= 77
+15 Combo: 10.6, time = gEntleMan ThIef; 10.7, mystery and cultural; 20.4

Task total: 55
Season total: 1050

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

The Echo Wife (2021) by Sarah Gailey

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.7 – MPG of ‘science fiction’ and ‘mystery’)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 420 + 25 = 445

20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

+20 Task
+20 Combo 10.6 (hour), 20.4, 20.5, 20.9
+10 Aged

Task Total: 50
Season Total: 415

10.3 Location

The Likeness by Tana French

+10 task
+10 combos 20.4, 10.7
Task total: 20

Season total: 420

15.5 Christmas in Vegas 10

The Right Sort by Edward Kennard

35 pts 15.5 Christmas in Vegas 10

I-J-K 461-500/861-900 1873-1887

Task total. 35 pts
Total Season: 880 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 15.5 … … … …

20.8 - Dead Sea (Ed's Task)

Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht
❄️ author's initials (RK) found in KHIRBAT ❄️

+20 Task
+20 Combo {10.6 - time; 10.7 - historical/mystery; 20.4; 20.9 - Kelly}

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 925