Anika’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2011)

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.4 Sansom and Carr

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

+20 Task, MPG "History" and "Crime"

Task total: 20
Season total: 670

20.5 Spanbauer

Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson

+20 Task
+5 Combo: 20.3

Task total: 25
Season total: 650

20.6 Toriyama

Ocultos by Laura Pérez

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 625

15.5 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

F. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR: both have "Historical Fiction" as a top-three MPG.

The Lady and the Highwayman by Sarah M. Eden

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 605

15.4 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

H. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.

The Liar's Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 585

And now that that sun has officially set:
Happy Hanukkah!

Tien wrote: "Oh I see, thank you!

I just like to make it more complicated for myself lol

Merry Christmas btw!"

I *totally* get making things harder for myself 😂

And Merry Christmas to you as well!

15.3 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

E. Read another book by the same author who wrote your BBR.

Persuasion by Jane Austen

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 570

Apple wrote: "I personally read it as only “a “ singular, but Anika might confirm?"

Yes! For this task you’re looking for ONE overlapping top 3 MPG—in the example you’ve presented you’re more than covered since “Mystery” and “Fiction” appear in the top 3 for both titles 🤗

10.9 Scandinavia

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

+10 Task, set 100% in Denmark
+25 Oldies, pub. 1601
+15 Combo: 10.6, 10.8, 20.3

Task total: 50
Season total: 555

15.2 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

J. Choose a RwS member who has also read your BBR, and read a book from that member's "favorites" shelf or that the member rated 5-stars: my BBR was read by Tien, who rated the following book 5-stars...

4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 505

15.1 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

A. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR: Elinor Dashwood => Elinor Carlisle.

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 490

Coralie wrote: "Would The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.work for the bird Dodo?"

We were on the fence with the acronym, but we have decided to allow it 🤗 Happy holidays!

20.3 Pascal and DeMille

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

+20 Task, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays including other writings
+25 Oldies, pub. 1602
+10 Combo: 10.6; 10.8

Task total: 55
Season total: 475

I adored Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Dominican Republic), The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach (Belarus), Melmoth by Sarah Perry (Czech Republic), and When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson (Iraq)--and, of course, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Ethiopia), but I'm guessing you may have already read that one.

10.6 Year of the Snake

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

+10 Task
+15 Combo: 10.1, "Classics" and "Fantasy"; 10.8; 20.3, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in addition to other writings
+25 Oldies, pub. 1611

Task total: 50
Season total: 420

15.10 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

A. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR: Clare Cassidy => Clare Mackay.

See Them Run by Marion Todd

+30 Task

Task total: 30
+100 BBR Finish
Season total: 370

15.9 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

C. Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR: both set in Sussex.

The Last Word by Elly Griffiths

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 240

15.8 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

G. Read another book published the same year as your BBR: both published in 2018.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 215

Coralie wrote: "Would The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.work for the bird Dodo?"

Still discussing this one...will get you a ruling soon!