Joy’s Comments (group member since Dec 09, 2012)

Joy’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Joy wrote: "Can you please let me know whether or not Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened is considered a ..."

Great - thank you!

10.8 - BINGO!

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

+10 Task (HyperBole and a Half: Unfortunate SituatIoNs, Flawed CopinG Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened)
+5 Combo (10.6 - Beginnings/Endings: author debut)
+10 Not-a-Novel (nonfiction)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 180

10.5 - Goodreads authorized

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 - Beginnings/Endings: author debut)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 155

10.8 - BINGO! (title: OranGe is the New Black: My Year In a Women's Prison)

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

+10 Task
+5 Combo: 10.6 - Beginnings/Endings (first book by author)
+10 Not-a-Novel (nonfiction)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 140

10.6 - Beginnings/Endings (first published book as author)

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

+10 Task
+5 Combo: 10.5 - Goodreads authorized
+10 Not-a-Novel (nonfiction)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 115

Can you please let me know whether or not Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened is considered a graphic novel (and therefore not eligible for style points).

Thank you!

10.6 - Beginnings/Endings (most recently published book)

Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris by Ann Mah

+10 Task
+5 Combo: 10.5 - Goodreads authorized
+10 Not-a-Novel (nonfiction)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 90

10.5 - Goodreads authorized

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

+10 Task
+5 Combo: 10.6 - Beginnings/Endings (first book by author)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 65

20.7 - Group Reads Redux (2012/09/01-2012/11/30)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand


+20 Task
+5 Combo: 10.6 - Beginnings/Endings (Unbroken is Laura Hillenbrand's most recent book, published in 2010)
+10 Not-a-Novel (nonfiction)

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 50

10.10 - Group Reads

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

+10 Task
+5 Combo: 10.4 - Chinese New Year (dog)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15

20.4 Mansfield Park

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (#32)

+20 Task
+10 Review

Task total = 30
Grand total = 30

Your new library is lovely! I really like the lighted shelves and how the shelves aren't very high so you can see over them. Enjoy!

20.7 - Notable

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

+20 task (2010)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 170

20.6 The Winter of Our Discontent: Poetic Title

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

+20 task (#94)
+10 combo (20.4: b. 1946 and 20.7: 2011)

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 150

20.7 Notable

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

+20 task (2012)
+5 combo (10.2: "Her")
+10 style (Not-a-Novel: short stories)

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 120

10.1 Year in Review

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

+10 task (Summer 2012 by Anika in post #516)
+10 style (Not a Novel: memoir)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 85

20.7 Notable (2012)

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

+20 task
+5 combo (20.4: b. 1948)

Task total: 25
Grand Total: 65

20.7 - Notable (2012)

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

+20 task
+5 combo (20.4: b. 1958)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 40

10.9 Not a Random Penguin

Heft: A Novel by Liz Moore
Published by W. W. Norton & Company

+10 task
+5 combo (10.7 Buy Nothing Christmas: published January 2012, borrowed from library)

Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 15

Hello everyone! My name is Joy and I am from Arizona, but recently moved to the Chicago area. I just finished my M.A. in Library Science (literally two days ago) so I am looking forward to reading more for pleasure, and thought this would be a good way to try something new. I am excited to join this group and try out the various challenges.