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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.7 Real Person

The Misses Brontë's Establishment by Amy Wolf

+20 Task, Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell were main characters
+15 Combo: 10.2: Wolf; 10.4: pub 2015; 10.9 Baileys: EStABLIshment amY

Task total: 35
Season total: 530

20.3 Opposites

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

+20 Task, all of the main characters are women
+10 Non-Western, born and lives in Japan
+10 Combo: 10.4, pub 2015; 10.9 Kahlua: coLd KAwAgUcHi

Task total: 40
Season total: 495

10.10 Group Reads

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

+10 Task
+5 Combo, 20.9

Task total: 15
Season total: 455

15.2 Fabulous Firsts, T-H

The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 440

15.1 Fabulous Firsts

Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas, Y-C

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 425

20.1 Prize

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

+20 Task, Women's Prize Nominee 2015
+30 Combo: 10.2; 10.4, pub. 2015; 10.5; 20.2; 20.3: Junior, Red, and Denny are main characters, most of the book is told from their POV; 20.10

Task total: 50
Season total: 410

10.1 Enjoyed

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

+10 Task (read The Midnight Library last season)
+15 Combo: 10.2; 10.4, pub. 2015; 10.9 riesling: REaSoNs aLIve haIG

Task total: 25
Season total: 360

20.6 Achilles

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

+20 Task (#49 on Best Gay Fiction list)
+10 1001 Books
+5 Oldies (1955)
+25 Combo (10.4; 10.9 riesling: taLeNted RIplEy hiGhSmIth; 20.3; 20.4; 20.9)

Task total: 60
Season total: 335

10.7 Codebreakers

House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella by W. Len

+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.9 cabernet: sEcRETs A BletChley leN; 20.7, Alan Turing is a main character

Task total: 20
Season total: 275

10.4 Spring

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

+10 Task (pub. 1975)
+10 Non-Western (Egypt)
+10 1001 Books
+5 Oldies
+10 Combo: 10.9 wOMan aT zERo nawaL ; 20.7

Task total: 45
Season total: 255

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yes. That looks like such a good book!"

It really was...I can absolutely see why it’s on the 1001 list.

I just realized Woman at Point Zero is about a real person...would like to get it approved here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman... (explanation can be found in “background “ subsection)

20.5 Balkans

Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella

+20 Task, set in Greece
+20 Combo: 10.4, pub. 2015; 10.9 Merlot: hELen Of spaRTa aMalia; 20.6, #30 on Greek/Roman list; 20.9

Task total: 40
Season total: 210

10.5 Mother

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
by Maggie O'Farrell

+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.6 (approved in thread), 10.9 Riesling: I am, I am seveNteen bRuShEs maGgie o'farrelL

Task total: 20
Season total: 170

10.8 Birds

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.9 Baileys: thE two Lives of lYdiA Bird joSie sIlver

Task total: 15
Season total: 150

10.2 Name

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

+10 Task (Berg)
+15 Combo: 10.9 Shiraz: tHe StoRy of Arthur elIZabeth, 20.3, 20.9

Task total: 25
Season total: 135

10.6 Sentence

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel

+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9 amaretto: i’d RaThEr be reAding the delights And dileMmas Of The reading life, 20.2)

Task total: 25
Season total: 110

10.1 Enjoyed
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
10.2 Name
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
10.3 Naughty
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto
10.4 Spring
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
10.5 Mother
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
10.6 Sentence
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
10.7 Codebreakers
House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella by W. Len
10.8 Birds
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
10.9 Pub Trivia
The Serbs Choose War by Ruth Mitchell
10.10 Group Reads
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
15.1 Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas
15.2 Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
15.3 Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita
15.4 The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
15.5 My Early Life, 1874-1904 by Winston S. Churchill
15.6 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
15.7 The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones
15.8 Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
15.9 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
15.10 The Postmortal by Drew Magary
20.1 Prize
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
20.2 Ann/e

20.3 Opposites
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
20.4 Crime
The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
20.5 Balkans
Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella
20.6 Achilles
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
20.7 Real Person
The Misses Brontë's Establishment by Amy Wolf
20.8 Queen of Short Fiction
Crime Never Pays by Clare West
20.9 Series
The Absolution by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
20.10 Family

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "Would I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death work..."I Am" is a complete sentence in and of itself and the commas would indicate it's just being uttered thrice..."

Yay! Thank you :-)

Would I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death work..."I Am" is a complete sentence in and of itself and the commas would indicate it's just being uttered thrice...at least to my understanding :-/