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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Would this be enough to qualify Circling the Sun for Sense of Place: "McLain is able to give readers a sense of colonial Kenya in the early 20th century that goes well-beyond facts and figures, and instead makes you feel like it might actually be right around the corner, within your grasp." (from this article)?

20.3 She Writes

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

+20 Task
+10 Female
+20 Combo (10.1: 5* from Susan; 10.5: most recent; 10.9: pub. 2019; 20.6: discrimination based on color, which was blue! And this is historical fiction! It's fascinating)

Task total: 50
Season total: 2055

20.3 She Writes

Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 LiT
+5 Oldies (pub. 1954)
+10 Combo (10.1: 5* from ilona; 10.5: author's first published novel)

Task total: 55
Season total: 2005

20.9 Season of Shorter Days

Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns by Beata Grant

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Lost-in-Translation
+5 Combo, 20.3

Task total: 45
Season total: 1950

10.2 Anniversary

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (662 pages)
+5 Combo 10.1: 5* from Deedee and several other Reading with Stylers

Task total: 20
Season total: 1905

10.5 Debut

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

+10 Task (most recent)
+10 Female
+15 Combo (10.1: 5* from Alexis Noffke; 10.2; 10.9: pub 2019)

Task total: 35
Season total: 1885 (reflects +5 found for The Fur Person)

For the MPG science, will "Psychology" work or are you looking more at the physical sciences?

what?! this is AMAZING!! yay, mods!!! now to get planning... (and, yes, I did just write all over a deck of cards to make the planning easier)

Major re-think considering local library closure:

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles:
♠A (1st in series), ♥6 (title has "X"); ♥J (#81 anti-heroes) = 17
Not-a-Novel, pre-1995

The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion:
♥3 (3rd in a series), ♣ 3 (300-399 pages), ♣6 (author first name=6 letters), ♠9 (pub. date ends in 9) = 21

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
♦A (75-199 pages), ♦6 (orig. pub. date in '60s), ♦K (set +75% in Caribbean) = 17
Female, pre-1995

Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry:
♣A (one hit wonder), ♠7 (7-letter word in title), ♥10 (historical fiction +100 years from date of pub) = 21
Female

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames:
♥4 (400-499 pages), ♦7 (title begins with "S"), ♣8 (title+subtitle=8 words) = 19
Female

Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane:
♦9 (75% in Commonwealth country), ♣10 (pub. date in '10s of any century) = 19
Female

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney:
♠3 (3-word title), ♠8 (author born in "I" country), ♦Q (set +75% in Western European country) = 21
Female

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell:
♠2 (title/subtitle has the word "to," "too," or "two"), ♦4 (yours, mine, and ours), ♣5 (min page genre: any science), ♠K (title has a word ending in "ing")=21
Not-a-Novel

The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas
♣J (title has "J" or "K"), ♠J (name can be shortened to "Jack") = 20
Not-a-Novel

Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera:
♦9 (Commonwealth country), ♦J (set +75% in an Asian country) = 19
Female

The Hidden Light of Objects by Mai Al-Nakib:
♠10 (short stories), ♦J (set +75% in an Asian country) = 20
Female, Not-a-Novel

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick:
♥5 (set +75% in US), ♦6 (orig pub in '60s), ♣K ("castle" in title) = 21
pre-1995

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver:
♦8 (pub. '80s), ♥K (author's name contains "king") = 18
Female, pre-1995

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig:
♣9 (title starts with "N"), ♣10 (orig pub date '10s) = 19
Not-a-Novel

The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West:
♣2 (200-299 pages), ♠7 (title has a 7-letter word), ♠10 (short stories or essays) = 19
Not-a-Novel, Female

20.7 Island Dreams

Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II by Wil S. Hylton (+75% set on different South Pacific islands, with +50% set on Palau, for the Group Project)

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2; 10.5; 10.9: pub. 2013)

Task total: 40
Season total: 1845

Can it be an anthology of poetry? I’m reading Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns for a challenge in another group and was hoping it’d work for this task...

Rebekah wrote: "I still would like to do some kind of linking sub challenge whether by words in the title or by author’s name, and it could be going to a different title word each time, or all 10 titles share a wo..."

I love this idea! Takes me back to junior high: my best friend and i played a game where we had to link as many celebrity names as possible (Babe Ruth/Ruth Bader Ginsberg/Allen Ginsberg/Woody Allen/Woody Harrelson...) We should have been paying attention in history class at the time, but we found this far more intellectually stimulating :-D

20.6 Stand Up for Your Rights

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

+20 Task
+10 Female
+15 Oldies (pub. 1861)
+25 Combo (10.1: 5* from Rebekah; 10.2; 10.5; 20.2: set 81% in North Carolina; 20.3)

Task total: 70
Season total: 1805

20.5 Sense of Place

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

+20 Task
+10 Female
+5 Oldies (pub. 1987)
+30 Combo (10.1: 5* from Jayme (the ghostreader), Bea, and others; 10.6: 416 pages; 20.2: set in Alabama and Georgia; 20.3; 20.6; 20.8)

Task total: 65
+100 RwS Finish
+200 MegaFinish

Season total: 1735

I'm so glad you read this one, Owlette: I was having the worst time trying to find a book to fit this task and then I saw you'd posted this and it fit and I forgot how much I absolutely adore this story! I'm still feeling all of the feels after reading it again :-)

20.3 She Writes

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

+20 Task
+10 Female
+15 Combo (10.3; 10.9: pub. 2014; 20.6: gender-based and economic discrimination played a large role in this one)

Task total: 45
Season total: 1370

Coralie wrote: "10.3 Revolution

The Master of Liversedge by Alice Chetwynd Ley

RwS Finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Season Total: 1500 "

Congrats on your Mega Finish!

10.6 Not Quite Jumbo

The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner

+10 Task (464 pages)
+10 Female
+25 Combo (10.2: "Sisters"; 10.5--most recently published book; 10.9: pub. 2018; 20.3; 20.6: discrimination based on religion)

Task total: 45
Season total: 1325

Set in Moldova for Group Project :-)

20.3 She Writes

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.1: 5* from Amanda, Leigh, and Ismaa Khan; 10.9: pub. 2019)

Task total: 40
Season total: 1280

10.4 Genius

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

+10 Task (#217 on the list)
+15 Combo (10.1: 5* from Devin Murphy and others; 10.9: pub. 2012; 20.1: #369 on the list)

Task total: 25
Season total: 1240

20.9 Season of Shorter Days

Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers by Natalie Eve Garrett

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.2; 10.9–pub. 2019)

Task total: 40
Season total: 1215

10.3 Revolution

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

+10 Task
+10 Female
+5 Jumbo
+15 Oldies (pub. 1855)
+20 Combo (10.1: 5* from Tien and Joanna; 10.2; 20.3; 20.7)

Task total: 60
Season total: 1175