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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.3 Opposites

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+25 Oldies
+15 Combo: 10.3: pub. 1599; 10.4; 10.9 whiskey: You WillIam sHaKESpeare

Task total: 60
Season total: 1935

20.5 Balkans

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

+20 Task, set in Greece
+25 Oldies
+20 Combo: 10.3, pub. 1594; 10.4; 10.9 whiskey: comEdY WillIam SHaKespeare; 20.3

Task total: 65
Season total: 1875

20.3 Opposites

The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+25 Oldies
+ 15 Combo: 10.3, pub. 1597; 10.4; 10.9, whiskey: merrY WIlliam SHaKEspeare

Task total: 60
Season total: 1810

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "Isn't As You Like It a complete sentence?
I'm struggling: it has a noun, verb, and even an object...it's the "as" that's throwing me...
(I keep thinking of [book:The Prin..."

Thank you for that explanation! That makes complete sense.

20.7 Real Person

Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant

+20 Task
+5 Jumbo, 596 pages
+15 Combo: 10.9, bourbon: BlOOd BeaUty saRah duNant; 20.3, writes from the points of view of Pope Alexander VI and Cesare Borgia in addition to several other male characters; 20.10 Pope Alexander--Lucrezia Borgia--Rodrigo of Aragon

Task total: 40
Season total: 1750

Isn't As You Like It a complete sentence?
I'm struggling: it has a noun, verb, and even an object...it's the "as" that's throwing me...
(I keep thinking of The Princess Bride, when Wesley reiterates, "As you wish," and I feel like "As you like it" is Shakespeare-speak for the same sentiment. 🤣)

15.9 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, I-V

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 1705

15.8 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, O-K

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1685

15.7 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, E-R

Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War by Ray Lambert

+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction (memoir)

Task total: 20
Season total: 1670

15.6 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, G-Z

Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith

+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction (short stories)

Task total: 20
Season total: 1650

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "I saw in the Completed Posts thread that One of Us Is Lying was grandfathered in re: Lexile.
Does that only apply to receiving Style points or could I use it in the su..."

Yay! Thank you so much for the clarification!

I saw in the Completed Posts thread that One of Us Is Lying was grandfathered in re: Lexile.
Does that only apply to receiving Style points or could I use it in the subchallenge despite its below-800 Lexile rating?

20.9 Series

Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman

+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.3, pub 1998; 10.9, absinthe: BuTcHErS lIppmAN; 20.4

Task total: 35
Season total: 1630

15.5 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, B-P

The Beautiful Ones by Prince

+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction

Task total: 20
Season total: 1595

15.4 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, W-L

When No One Is Watching by Linathi Makanda

+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction (Poetry)

Task total: 20
Season total: 1575

15.3 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, N-M

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell

+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction

Task total: 20
Season total: 1555

15.2 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, S-D

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction (short stories)

Task total: 20
Season total: 1535

15.1 Fabulous Firsts Round 2, T-A

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1515

20.4 Crime

Charm City by Laura Lippman

+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.3, pub. 1997; 20.9

Task total: 30
Season total: 1500

20.4 Crime

Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman

+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.3, pub 1997; 10.9 Merlot: baLTiMORE; 20.9

Task total: 35
Season total: 1470