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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.10 The________of________

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

+20 Task
+5 Combo: 10.4, "Crows"

Task total: 1230

10.10 Group Reads

James by Percival Everett

+10 Task, thanks for the recommendation, Mary!
+5 Combo: 20.3, despite the outdated info in his GR bio, he has published more than 20 books

Task total: 15
Season total: 1205

15.10 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

G. Read another book published the same year as your BBR: both first published 1811

Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

+30 Task

Task total: 30
+100 Finisher Bonus
Season total: 1190

10.5 New Year, New Date

We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

+10 Task, pub. 2015
+5 Combo: 20.2, Letty talks to her mother about her kids and the household and a recipe for Christmas tamales

Task total: 15
Season total: 1060

20.2 O'Brien

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

+20 Task: the MC, Martha Ballard, is a midwife and talks multiple women through the process of childbirth
+5 Combo: 20.4, "Historical Fiction" and "Mystery"

Task total: 25
Season total: 1045

20.4 Sansom and Carr

The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke

+20 Task, MPGs of "Mystery" and "History"
+5 Combo, 20.10

Task total: 25
Season total: 1010

20.1 Auster and Munro

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

+20 Task, on attached spreadsheet
+5 Combo: 20.2, she has many conversations with other women (including essayist Rebecca Solnit) about climate change, the political landscape, and religion among other things, none of which had to do with a man/romantic interest

Task total: 25
Season total: 985

10.1 Stylish Sci-Fi

From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury

+10 Task, has MPG of "Classics" and "Fantasy"
+10 Aged, lived to 91
+10 Combo: 10.2, one story takes place entirely on the Orient Express; 20.3, I stopped counting at 20 and there was still a looong list after I hit that number

Task total: 30
Season total: 960

Tien wrote: "Cinderwich by Cherie Priest

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 - to cut it short 2 females searching for another missing female; 20.3 )

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 570"

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20.6 Toriyama

Medea by Blandine Le Callet

+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.8, GN retelling of the play by Euripides; 20.2, Medea is taught medicine (and poisoning) by the crones in Colchis, has many conversations with Pelias's daughters--including an entire scene where she teaches them the art of "resurrection", and ends her life on a deserted island with only her female servants to talk to (none of which was about men)

Task total: 30
Season total: 930

20.5 Spanbauer

Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 900

Saeed Jones

In his Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Award winning memoir, How We Fight For Our Lives, "Jones...tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South."

15.9 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

D. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR: set during the Regency Period.

The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet's Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Paynter

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 880

10.4 Penguin Awareness Day

The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer

+10 Task
+5 Oldies, pub. 1993
+10 Aged, b. 1945
+5 Combo: 20.4, “Mystery, “Historical Fiction,” “Historical Mystery,” and “Crime” are all top MPGs

Task total: 30
Season total: 855

10.7 Verity

The Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith (710 Lexile)

+10 Task
+10 Combo: 20.2: December and Stella Rosa talk about their respective parents and home lives; 20.10

Task total: 20
Season total: 825

15.8 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

C. Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR: set +51% in Devon.

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie

+25 Task

Task total: 25
Season total: 805

15.7 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

B. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR: John Willoughby => Tim, Barnaby A, Barnaby B, and Jane Willoughby

The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry (790 Lexile)

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 780

15.6 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I. Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in: originally written in English; 15.6 selection originally written in Japanese.

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 760

10.10 Group Reads

Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino

+10 Task (written by author of Beautyland)
+15 Combo: 10.2: The Bride takes the train from NYC to the wedding venue on Long Island; 10.4; 20.2: The Bride and Simone talk about their mother and childhood among other things

Task total: 25
Season total: 740

10.8 Theater

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

+10 Task
+25 Oldies, pub. 1598
+10 Combo: 10.6, 20.3

Task total: 45
Season total: 715