Krista’s Comments (group member since Jul 24, 2010)

Krista’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

So an epigraph at the beginning of a chapter is okay? The book doesn't have to be mentioned as part of the novel narrative - text?

Sounds like that to me. Yay!

(I was envisioning much more stringent requirements.)

10.9 Tried and True
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
Average rating: 3.94, with 182,305 ratings

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4, 'Chimney')
Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 210

15.5 RG - Oceania/New Zealand
A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh (A, B)

+15 Task
+ 5 Pre-1990 (Publ 1934)
Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 195

Okey doke. By jove I think I've got it now. LOL

Thanks for the added info. I know it's posted in the FAQ section too. Sometimes it just takes awhile for all the various elements to sink in with me lately! :-)

Thanks for your patience.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "A book needs to be shelved only once as Assignment/YA/Juv at BPL for us to check the Lexile - and that could be for only 1 edition. All editions will be looked at the Lexile site and the highest ra..."

So if I'm understanding this conversation correctly, at least one edition was shelved as YA in BPL, which leads to a review of the Lexile score. The Lexile score is 750 so The Handmaid's Tale is still disqualified for Style points. (?)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Jenifer wrote: "I need to whine....I've just spent some about 15 minutes checking all the combo points that I could get with To Kill a Mockingbird and then remembered to check the Lexile score........"

Really only 750? That's amazing to me. I haven't read the book yet. (I had it penciled in for this season.) I thought it had very adult themes, and most of Atwood's other books have very complex writing. I wonder if this could be a mistake? Strange. Off to rethink my use of The Handmaid's Tale this season. Hrmpph!

(But I'm happy to have this info before I read the book.)

15.4 Middle East/Israel
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz (Israel: A, B & C) Published 2007

+15 Task
Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 175

15.3 European Union/Ireland
Mother Ireland: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien (Ireland: A & C)

+15 Task
+ 5 Non-Fiction (Memoir/Essays)
+ 5 Pre-1990 (Published 1976)
Task Total = 25

Grand Total = 160

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 125 Krista wrote: "20.6 Crime
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith

Category of Mystery>Crime on book's main page.

+20 Task
(I couldn't f..."

Hi Elizabeth: I just checked again. "Mystery > Crime" is shown third from the bottom of the Genre list for the book. Maybe that pesky genre appears and disappears for this book. :-)

Whew, sounds like it's passed now though. LOL Thanks!

10.8 Podcast Reading
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Lexile Score = 870

+10 Task Link to Podcast: http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...
+ 5 Prize Worthy - 2015 ALA Alex Award
Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 135

Sam wrote: "Krista, I'm reading that one right now and so far there have been a fair few classics mentioned. Off the top of my head, there's Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Gulliver's Travels, Jane Eyre (of cour..."

Hi Sam: Thanks for the update! I thought that there might be other books mentioned. I'll see if I can work this into the Spring Challenge. I know it fits Task 10.9, Tried and True at a minimum.

The Eyre Affair has been on my TBR shelf for a long time, and I can work it into the Spring Challenge. It sounds like it might have a lot of literary references.

Can anyone who has read the book tell me if other books (other than Jane Eyre) are mentioned in it?

Thanks!

Liz M wrote: "Cory Day wrote: "I was just basing it off of Goodreads and the author's website (http://www.lauraflorand.com/?page_id=...), which calls it a series. Since I've only read one of the books, I'm not s..."

Okay -- no worries! As I said in the 'Scrabble' help thread, I didn't realize how hard it might be to define a 7 letter word either. LOL

Liz M wrote: "Krista wrote: "So would ALL-GIRL count as a 7 letter word? Or 2 separate words? Sheesh, you'd think that this category would be a simple one to figure out. :-)

Thanks! -Krista"

I'll accept..."

Thanks Liz!

Deedee wrote: "Young adult novel Cloaked mentions a few classics books but I'll have to get it out of the library again to find the references.

I'll start keeping a list for current/future reads.
..."

Hi Deedee:

Thanks for the recommendation for Among Others. It looks like a ton of books are referenced, and it won a bunch of prizes. It's nice to see that it fits this season's task 10.5 w/the Nebula Award. I just might read it for that task so that I'll have a wide range of books to choose from during the Summer challenge.

Here are the actual references that I've come across while reading books for the Spring Challenge:

1. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust today, Flavia references: (I checked out the printed version of the book so I could add page references.)
Cymbeline (Book's Epigraph)
Nicholas Nickleby (pg 52)
Love's Labour's Lost (pg 64)
King Lear (pg 83)
Hard Times (pg 89)
the following were all mentioned on page 343
Anne of Green Gables
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Heidi
Little Women
A Girl of the Limberlost
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales

2. In Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz: (Page 25) reference to Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

3. In A Man Lay Dead pg 35 Nigel Bathgate is reading Joseph Conrad's Suspense

4. In A Taint In The Blood pg 16 (Large Print edition) Johnny is reading Pilgrimage: The Book of the People by Zenna Henderson
Pg 300, Kate is finishing Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke
and starting Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

5. In Nowhere to Be Found (Kindle Location 149) the unnamed narrator's sister is likened to the character, Tyltyl in The Blue Bird in Maurice Maeterlinck

6. In Among Others (Books I'm interested in only)
pg 19, Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery
pg 23 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (Lexile = 940)
pg 23 Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey (Pern #2)
pg 27 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
pg 27 Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
pg 29 Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
pg 34 The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
pg 40 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
pg 41 Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (Pern #1)
pg 47 Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber #1)
pg 47 The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber #2)
pg 75 The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
pg 92 Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
pg 105 Dragonsong and Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
pg 110 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
pg 114 Dune by Frank Herbert and City by Clifford D. Simak
pg 117 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
pg 132 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea #1)
pg 215 Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
pg 219 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
pg 240 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
pg 248 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (4.16 rating)
pg 248 Citizen of the Galaxy Robert A. Heinlein (3.95 rating Lexile 820)
pg 259 This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
pg 275 Pavane by Keith Roberts
pg 275 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
pg 279 Gate of Ivrel by C.J. Cherryh


6. From Work Song by Ivan Doig (Listened in audiobook format)
Disc 2 of 8 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Disc 7 of 8 Track 12, all the following books by Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin, Germinal, J'Accuse! Emile Zola et l'Affaire Dreyfus, Nana

7. From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (listened to in audiobook format)
Audio disc 1 and 2 - Mr Betteredge's favorite book which he references MANY times is -- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

8. From The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
pg 11 (book is referenced many times) Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
pg 190 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
pg 205 The Taming of the Shrew
pg 206 Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens


9. From The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (Completed: 6/9/15)
Treasure Island, p22
A Midsummer Night's Dream, p39
Lord of the Flies, p64
The Last of the Mohicans, p138
Gulliver's Travels, p138
The Call of the Wild, p324

10. From Urn Burial (Listened to CD Audiobook)
Chapter Epigraphs - Urne Burial (also known as)Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus
Disc 3 - Bleak House by Charles Dickens

11. From Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (listened to in audiobook)
Disc 2 Track 7 - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

12. From Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Read Spring Challenge)
A Midsummer Night's Dream Referenced throughout the book as one of the plays the troupe routinely performs.

Okay --- so it's getting tougher. :-)

15.2 Reading Globally - Africa/Nigeria
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
Author born in Nigeria and book set in Nigeria
Published 1976

+15 Task
+ 5 Bonus - Published before 1990
Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 120

20.6 Crime
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith

Category of Mystery>Crime on book's main page.

+20 Task
(I couldn't find any other bonus point qualifications. Boo-hoo!)

Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 100

20.3 Paris
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico

What a funny little light read from the 1,001 Books to Read list. I gave it 4 stars.

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3 - Read by Kate S)
Task Total = 25

Grand Total = 80