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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

It seems like it'd be an obvious question, but I'm seeing strong arguments for both sides so I'm gonna ask:

I've just finished a book which is shelved over a thousand times as "Historical>Historical Fiction". Does that fit this task or does the shelving have to be the stand-alone "Historical Fiction" shelving?

20.2 T.C. Boyle

Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett

+20 Task
+10 Prizeworthy
+20 Combo (10.7: "and"; 10.9: PA=Pennsylvania; 20.1: Dec. 2, 1963; 20.3)

Task total: 50
Season total: 435

Kate wrote:

From Post 106

Anika wrote: "20.8 Appalachia

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery

+20 Task
+5 Prizeworthy
+15 Combo (10...."

+5 Prize

While I would love the extra 5 points you're trying to give me, I actually already claimed them in the original post (on the Goodreads page, it shows the book as having one award and only having been nominated for a second award)...

10.10 Group Reads

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

+10 Task
+10 Prizeworthy
+5 Combo (10.2)

Task total: 25
Season total: 385

10.7 Conjunctions

New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver

+10 Task
+10 Aged (born 1935)
+5 Prizeworthy
+10 Combo (10.3--pub. 1992; 10.9--MO=Missouri)

Task total: 35
Season total: 360

15.5 BtE2, Land and Sea

France: A, B, and C

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 325

15.4 BtE2, Land and Sea

Spain: A, B, and C

The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (990 Lexile)

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 300

10.6 MLK

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

+10 Task (#120 on the list)
+10 Canon
+10 Combo (10.9--DC=District of Columbia; 20.1--Feb. 7, 1812)

Task total: 30
Season total: 275

15.3 BtE2, Land and Sea

U.K.: A, B, and C

Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 245

15,2 BtE2, Land and Sea

Iceland, A and B

The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 215

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I'm here to report a first since I joined RwS. I will be traveling to Arizona tomorrow through late Tuesday to see family (including, of course, the baby). I am not expecting to have internet acces..."

Yay for you! Have a wonderful vacation. Arizona is always a good idea this time of year...especially when there's a baby to be seen :-)

20.8 Appalachia

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery

+20 Task
+5 Prizeworthy
+15 Combo (10.8; 10.9--MB=Manitoba; 20.7--Grandma Gatewood thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail solo THREE times, once in her 60s, twice in her 70s)

Task total: 40
Season total: 190

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "Can anyone see a place where A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell would fit? This is my carryover book from last season and if it’s also my sq..."

Perfect! Thank you, Elizabeth--you are the birthday magician!

Can anyone see a place where A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell would fit? This is my carryover book from last season and if it’s also my square peg I’ll be ecstatic!
10.2 not a GR author
10.3 pub 2015
10.4 2nd novel
10.5 not on the list
10.6 not on the list
10.7 no conjunctions in title
10.8 author on the list already
10.9 no combination of JCM works
10.10 not an option
20.1 **I can’t find her birth month anywhere—this is the only possible downfall I can see...
20.2 while she is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she’s not listed on the Wiki page
20.3 this is a novel
20.4 not on the list
20.5. insufficient number of “historical fiction” shelvings
20.6 not about wealthy class
20.7 not an adventure
20.8 set in NYC
20.9 400 pages
20.10 3.45/3,118

10.5 2018 Amazon

The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

+10 Task (#5 on the list)
+5 Combo (10.)

Task total: 15
Season total: 150

20.3 Isaac Asimov

What Now? by Ann Patchett

+20 Task (Patchett has written 7 novels)
+15 Combo (10.9--PA=Pennsylvania; 20.1--December 2, 1963; 20.2)

Task total: 35
Season total: 135

10.9 State Your Name

The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

+10 Task (MD=Maryland)
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.5, 10.8)

Task total: 25
Season total: 100

20.4 Wilkie Collins

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2; 10.3--pub. 1978; 20.5--shelved as "historical fiction" 632 times)
+5 Prizeworthy

Task total: 40
Season total: 75

15.1 BtE2, Land and Sea

Ireland: A, B, and C

A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 35

10.8 New Authors

The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.7)

Task total: 20
Season total: 20