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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.2 Author Name

The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman

+10 Task (Gaiman = 6)
No Styles, Graphic Novel

Task total: 10
Season total: 1815
61/61 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

10.2 Author Name

The Wake by Neil Gaiman

+10 Task (Gaiman = 6)
No Styles, Graphic Novel

Task total: 10
Season total: 1805
60/60 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

For the numerical order bonus, does it have to be in ascending order (09, 18, 27, etc.) or can it be in consecutive descending order (90, 81, 72, etc.)?

20.9 Birthday

The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task, MPE 352 pages
No Styles, Graphic Novel

Task total: 20
Season total: 1795
59/59 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

20.7 Canada

The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery

+20 Task, author born in and book set in Canada, PEI
+10 Oldies (pub. 1911)

Task total: 30
+100 RwS Finish
Season total: 1775
58/58 Owned prior to 6/1 (Kindle)

And to Rosemary and Joanna: thank you so much for the info on the Christie book! You rock <3

10.2 Author Name

World's End by Neil Gaiman

+10 Task (Gaiman = 6)
No Styles, Graphic Novel

Task total: 10
Season total: 1655
57/57 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

20.9 Birthday

Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task, MPE 256 pages
No Styles, Graphic Novel

Task total: 20
Season total: 1645
56/56 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

Joanna wrote: "20.3 Middle East

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

+20 Task (Israel/Jordan setting)
+5 Multiple
+10 Oldies (1937)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 655"

I was going to use this book for another challenge I'm working on: about what percent is set in Israel and what percent in Jordan? Thank you!

30.1 Go for the Green

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko

+30 Task (100% in Ukraine)
+10 Jumbo (727 pages)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 45
Season total: 1625
55/55 Owned prior to 6/1 (Kindle Unlimited/Audible)

Books I'd like to lock in, just in case...

related to John Henry Days
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

related to The Intuitionist
The City We Became

related to Apex Hides the Hurt
The Book of V.

related to Sag Harbor
Weather

related to Zone One
Catherine House
The Companions

related to The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Relivings
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier

related to The Nickel Boys
American Dirt
Olive, Again
Disappearing Earth

Year of publication option:

2009:
Let the Great World Spin
This is Where I Leave You
A Reliable Wife

2018:
Educated
Where the Crawdads Sing
An American Marriage
The Immortalists
The Kiss Quotient

1927:
To the Lighthouse
Unnatural Death
The Gangs of New York

1936:
The A.B.C. Murders
Murder in the Cathedral

1945:
The Great Divorce
The Pursuit of Love
Cannery Row

1954:
Sweet Thursday
A Spy in the House of Love
100 Selected Poems

1963:
Joy in the Morning
Barefoot in the Park

1972:
Watership Down
No Name in the Street
Transparent Things
The Clock Winder

1981:
Cujo
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Door in the Hedge

1990:
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Get Shorty
Age of Iron

Author birth year option:

1809: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1818: Ivan Turganev, Emily Bronte/1918: Muriel Spark, Madeleine L'Engle
1927: Edward Abbey, Neil Simon, Erma Bombeck
1936: A.S. Byatt
1945: August Wilson
1954: Louise Erdrich
1963: Donna Tartt, Michael Chabon
1972: Maggie O'Farrell, N.K. Jemisin
1981: Karen Russell, NoViolet Bulawayo
1890: Agatha Christie, Karel Capek/1990: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

I’d like to move my book from message 512 from 10.2 to

20.2 Asia

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task, set 100% in Japan
No Styles, Graphic Novel

Task total: 20
which will increase my season total by 10 points to 1580

10.9 Hug a Tree

Persephone's Orchard by Molly Ringle

+10 (“orchard” okayed in task thread)

Task total: 10
Season total: 1570
54/54 Owned prior to 6/1 (Kindle)

20.6 Latin America

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

+20 Task (author born in and book set in Colombia)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1985)

Task total: 25
Season total: 1560
53/53 Owned prior to 6/1 (borrowed from sister before 6/1)

10.2 Author Name

Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman

+10 Task (Gaiman = 6)
No Styles, Graphic Novel

Task total: 10
Season total: 1535
52/52 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

10.5 Suffragettes

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

+10 Task (born 1897)
+10 Oldies (pub. 1938)

Task total: 20
Season total: 1525
51/51 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

20.8 Beatrix Potter

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+25 Oldies (pub. 1610)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 50
Season total: 1505
50/50 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

20.8 Beatrix Potter

Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+25 Oldies (pub. 1609)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 50
Season total: 1455
54/54 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)

30.1 Go for the Green

Euphoria by Lily King

+30 Task, ~70% Papua New Guinea
+5 Multiple

Task total: 35
Season total: 1405
53/53 Owned prior to 6/1 (apple books)

Ed! You were right, soooo good! "He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach"--ah, so beautiful and heart-rending! Though, reading that quote from the point of view of someone who hasn't read the book, it just sounds a little weird/creepy ;-)

20.8 Beatrix Potter

Richard III by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+25 Oldies (pub. 1593)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 50
Season total: 1370
52/52 Owned prior to 6/1 (personal library)