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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Ed wrote: "Hi everyone.... I hope everyone is doing well. (I'll have to catch up on this board.)
I haven't been checking in for quite a while.... have had a lot going on..... but I thought I'd say hi and pat ..."

Long time, no see! Welcome back 🤗
And a huge kudos on the Proust finish—that is a monumental accomplishment…it took me forever to get through just Swann’s Way.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "20.8 International Women's Year

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo 20.10

Task total = 25

Season total = 940

NOTE: This takes place in Sierra Leone, and turns that country green."

Woo hoo!!

20.1: House of Odysseus, Demon Copperhead

20.2: An American Marriage

20.3:

20.4: A Children's Bible

20.5: Transcendent Kingdom, Land of Milk and Honey

20.6: The Vanishing Half

Joanne wrote: "Joanna, your sample path shows Fantasy, so I am assuming the MPG Does NOT have to be Sci-Fi/Fantasy, it can be either, is that correct?"

That is correct :-) It can be either Sci-Fi or Fantasy

Connie (on semi-hiatus) wrote: "Anika, I'm so impressed with your great CYOA! Thanks for all your effort. I love the international photos. It looks fun to plan the books we will read!"

Yay!! I hope it proves to be a fun challenge—it was a lot of fun to create 🤗

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "15.4 on the Mystery trail:

Let's grab one: will you take a book from your IRL bookshelf or your virtual TBR shelf?

Is my IRL bookshelf the physical books I own and my virtual TBR shelf the digita..."

IRL = books you own physically
TBR = digital list of books you want to read (such as your Goodreads “Want to Read” list or your Libby Wish List) but do not yet have (so something you’d get from the library or acquire after the start of the challenge)

20.8 International Women's Day

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

+20 Task, Women's Prize nominee 2024
+20 Combo: 10.2: Carmel takes a train from Dublin to Dun Laoghaire; 10.4, "Wren"; 10.6, snAkE; 20.2, Imelda and Carmel talk about their childhood and youth and family business after the death of their mother

Task total: 40
Season total: 1515

15.6 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

F. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR: both share "Fiction" in their top 3 MPGs.

Glamorous Notions by Megan Chance

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 1475

10.3 New Year's Resolution

Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Rosita Arvigo

+10 Task, my NYR is to work towards completion of the group Countries of the World challenge, this one was set 100% in Belize, turning that country green
+10 Aged, currently 83-years-old

Task total: 20
Season total: 1455

20.7 Best Friends Forever

Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan

+20 Task, Marley was protector (notably when a neighbor girl was stabbed and John was assisting her, Marley stood guard), actor (though the movie went straight to video), and loyal best friend (though, admittedly, a bit of a handful).
+5 Combo: 10.5, pub. 2005

Task total: 25
Season total: 1435

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika, Apple - and others?

Central African Republic: Co-Wives, Co-Widows

This would turn that country green. If the mods give me an excuse to pick it up, I would. It's short and m..."

Oooh! I was able to get this one through Everand and if I have time might read it for 10.3...

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "my NYR is to work towards completion of the group Countries of the World challenge, this one was set >50% in Lithuania which turned that country green :-)"

Hooray!"

Thanks, Elizabeth :-) Even though it's slow-going, I am determined to chip away at what's left on that challenge!

15.5 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

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

Girls with Bright Futures by Tracy Dobmeier

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 1410

15.4 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

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: Angelbis gave both Broken for You and Romeo and Juliet five stars.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1390

15.3 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

B. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR: Wanda Schultz => Philip Schultz.

My Dyslexia BY Philip Schultz

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1375

20.4 Sansom and Carr

The World of Lore: Dreadful Places by Aaron Mahnke

+20 Task, "Mystery" and "History" are top MPGs
+5 Combo: 20.10

Task total: 25
Season total: 1360

15.2 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

A. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR: Cassandra Hauptmann => Cassandra (from mythology) is the sole character in the first story of this collection.

Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1335

15.1 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

D. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR: both set late '90s/early '00s.

A Great Marriage by Frances Mayes

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1320

10.3 New Year's Resolutions

Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone

+10 Task, my NYR is to work towards completion of the group Countries of the World challenge, this one was set >50% in Lithuania which turned that country green :-)
+15 Combo: 10.1, "Fantasy" and "Literary Fiction"; 10.5, pub. 2015; 20.2, Prudence talks about birds with her colleague, Whitney

Task total: 25
+50 Halfway Finish
Season total: 1305

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Asking for combo: Does the word have to refer to a bird? I’m reading The Lost Language of Cranes, and it turns out the refence is not to cranes, the birds, but to cranes, construction..."

Crane is a bird and the word is in the title, so you're good!