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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.4 Book Lover's Day

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

+10 Task (#123 on the list)
+10 Female
+5 Jumbo (579 pages)
+10 Combo (10.9; 20.4)

Task total: 35
Season total: 560

Anika wrote: "20.9 Tom Wolfe

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.5–pub. 2017; 20.5)

Task..."

Kidding! Just realized I actually wanted to claim this one for 20.5! Please swap it for me on the official spreadsheet. Sorry and thank you!

20.9 Tom Wolfe

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.5–pub. 2017; 20.5)

Task total: 40
Season total: 525

20.4 The Piano Teacher

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

+20 Task
+10 Female
+5 Combo—10.8K, set in NYC

Task total: 35
Season total: 485

15.6 Listopia Tag

The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (Lexile 870)

+15 Task (using this Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2..., and the tag "dystopia-only"

Task total: 15
Season total: 450

15.5 Listopia Tag

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

+15 Task (from this Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1..., using the tag "feminist")
+5 Not-a-novel

Task total: 20
Season total: 435

10.6 Cloud Atlas

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

+10 Task ("Moon")
+15 Combo (10.5--pub. 2017; 10.10; 20.9)

Task total: 25
Season total: 415

15.4 Listopia Tag

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

+15 Task (from this Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1..., using the tag "mystery")

Task total: 15
Season total: 390

15.3 Listopia Tag

The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go by Amy E. Reichert

+15 Task (from this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... , using the tag "releases")

Task total: 15
Season total: 375

15.2 Listopia Tag

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

+15 Task (from this Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... using the tag "politics"
+5 Not-a-Novel

Task total: 20
Season total: 360

20.6 Winter's Tale

Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.7--434 pages; 20.7--author born in New Zealand)

Task total: 40
Season total: 340

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "Would The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett work for this task? From the jacket copy: "Suddenly, a well-meaning art restoration project turns into a frightening s..."

No worries, I'll use it for the Listopia Tag subchallenge instead :-)

But just to be on the safe side, can I get an approval for the third book in the series, The Calder Game? This one looks like it's about an Alexander Calder sculpture that disappears...

Would The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett work for this task? From the jacket copy: "Suddenly, a well-meaning art restoration project turns into a frightening search for ghosts, hidden treasure, and a coded message left behind by [Frank Lloyd] Wright. In this tangled web where life and art intermingle with death and danger, can the kids pursue justice and escape with their lives?"
If it's anything like the first in this series (Chasing Vermeer), it will not only include and focus on the art of the titular person (in this case, Frank Lloyd Wright--neither a painter nor a sculptor, but still one can argue an "artist" whose work is even featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art!), but ties in other works of art/artists as well...

15.1 Listopia Tag

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

found on this listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... using the tag "1970s-women"

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 300

10.1 Possession

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie N. Holmberg

+10 Task (in my possession since Nov 2017)
+10 Female
+5 Combo (10.9)

Task total: 25
Season total: 285

20.2 Track of the Cat

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

+20 Task (shelved as "Western" 237 times)
+10 Female

Task total: 30
Season total: 260

10.5 Inferno

A Marriage in Dog Years: A Memoir by Nancy Balbirer

+10 Task (pub. 2018)
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.8K--New York; 10.9)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 35
Season total: 230

10.5 Inferno

The Wish Granter by C.J. Redwine (900 Lexile)

+10 Task (pub. 2017)
+10 Female
+5 Combo (10.7)

Task total: 25
Season total: 195

10.9 Emily Bronte

The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice by Rebecca Musser

+10 Task
+10 Female

Task total: 20
Season total: 170

10.3 Awards

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

+10 Task
+10 Female
+5 Combo (20.4)

Task total: 25
Season total: 150