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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.10 BtE2, Land and Sea

Finland: A, B, and C

The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna

+30 Task

Task total: 30

+100 Finisher Bonus
+200 MegaFinish

Season total: 1395

Congrats on that finish, Tien! Ending with War and Peace was a straight up baller move ;-)

15.9 BtE2, Land and Air

Sweden: A, B, and C

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (870 Lexile)

+30 Task

Task total: 30
Season total: 1065

20.5 Nevil Shute

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

+20 Task (shelved as "Historical Fiction" by 5,642 readers)
+10 Prizeworthy
+25 Jumbo (MPE 1037 pages)
+20 Combo (10.3: pub. 1936; 10.4; 20.6; 20.9)

Task total: 75
RwS Finish: 100
Season total: 1035

15.8 BtE2, Land and Sea

Denmark: A, B, and C

The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking

+30 Task

Task total: 30
Season total: 860

15.7 BtE2, Land and Sea

Germany, A and B

The Lion's Courtship by Annelie Wendeberg

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 830

15.6 BtE2, Land and Sea

Switzerland, A and B

The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 805

20.10 Over and Under

The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates

+20 Task (3.83 avg/602 ratings)
+10 Aged (80 years old)
+10 Combo (10.9: CO=Colorado; 20.3)

Task total: 40
Season total: 780

Rebekah wrote: "Anika wrote: "20.7 Charles Darwin

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

+20 Task (about a 9-year-old girl who gets lost off the Appalachian Trail and ends up walking from Mai..."

Does she still stay in the mountains near the Appalachian trail? If so, I think that would count for 20.8"

While she begins her hike (with her mother and brother) on the Trail, she gets lost quite early on and never reconnects to it as far as the reader knows. She is woefully lost in the woods and it never states how close to the actual Trail she ends up being during her journey.
We read this for my book club this month and I was so excited for combo points when I read the synopsis, but upon reading the book it (sadly) didn't fit that task.

Thanks for keeping your eyes open for me, though, Rebekah! It was very "Great British Baking Show" of you (I so hope you get that allusion). ;-)

20.7 Charles Darwin

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

+20 Task (about a 9-year-old girl who gets lost off the Appalachian Trail and ends up walking from Maine to New Hampshire before she is found)
+10 Combo (10.2; 10.9: KS=Kansas)

Task total: 30
Season total: 740

20.6 Edith Wharton

A Lady in the Smoke: A Victorian Mystery by Karen Odden

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2; 10.4; 10.8; 10.9: OK=Oklahoma)

Task total: 40
Season total: 710

Would A Lady in the Smoke: A Victorian Mystery work? It’s about Lady Elizabeth Fraser, daughter of an earl and member of the landed gentry in Victorian England who has fallen for a man of lesser social stature following the harrowing event of a train crash.

I don’t know if I’m muddling this task with the royal one from last season and that’s why I’m finding it so difficult to discern....She’s titled, lives on her ancestral estate, is definitely upper crust—is that enough to qualify her and this book?

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "Would Every Heart a Doorway work for this? It looks like characters go to different worlds by going through different doors and reading other group members' reviews it..."

That makes total sense—thank you :-)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 539 Anika wrote: "10.2 Goodreads Authorized

Setting Free the Kites by Alex George

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8, 10.9: GA=Georgia)

Task total: 20
Season total: 640..."


Elizabeth! You are the found-points miracle worker! Thank you :-D

Would Every Heart a Doorway work for this? It looks like characters go to different worlds by going through different doors and reading other group members' reviews it seems like it might...

10.4 New Year's Day

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

+10 Task
+10 Prizeworthy
+5 Combo, 20.1 born 16 January 1980

Task total: 25
Season total: 665

10.2 Goodreads Authorized

Setting Free the Kites by Alex George

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8, 10.9: GA=Georgia)

Task total: 20
Season total: 640

10.3 Gerald Durrell

Westward by Amy Clampitt

+10 Task (pub. 1990)
+10 Canon
+15 Combo (10.8; 10.9: CA=California; 20.10: 3.96 avg., 23 ratings)

Task total: 35
Season total: 620

Valerie wrote: "20.9 Long Nights, Long Books

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

20 task
25 jumbo
15 prize
25 combo 10.4, 10.7, 10.9, 20.5, 20.7
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85

Running total: 455"

I love that you read this, too! Wasn't it so good!?

Also: I love that you found points that I completely missed!
Mods, can I please have +5 added for the 20.5 Combo on this one that I missed? (I posted this book at post #347.)

20.1 Winter Birthdays

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

+20 Task (23 December 1963)
+10 Jumbo (MPE 771 pages)
+15 Prizeworthy
+10 Combo (20.7(view spoiler)[after his father dies Theo smuggles his dog onto a Greyhound from Las Vegas to New York; later in the the book, he is spirited away from New York to the Netherlands to attempt to retrieve "his" painting--both travel and adventure were there in abundance (hide spoiler)]; 20.9)

Task total: 55
Season total: 580

10.1 Square Peg

A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 525