Tobey’s Comments (group member since Nov 02, 2010)

Tobey’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

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10.1 Square Peg - The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts
+10 Task

20.4 Literature Map - F Paul Wilson

Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
+20 Task

Task Total=30
Grand Total=55

Louise wrote: "15.1 TDoS

Pawn of Prophecy, 5-star ratings by Ceraphina & Tobey.

+15 Task (First book)

Grand total - 25 pts"

Louise, how did you like it?

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10.8 Pick A Pulitzer - The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman

I didn't know what to expect when I started this novel but I was pleasantly surprised by it. It's not so much a novel but a series of vignettes about the settlers of Blackwell, Massachusetts and how legends are born and the truth is set free. Enjoyable.

+10 Task (fits all three criteria, I believe)

Task Total=10
Grand Total=25

Louise wrote: "Tobey wrote: "I feel so left out, I'm not in anybody's chain...sniff, sniff. :-)

Anyways, here's my book chain. I've yet to complete a sub-challenge but hope to do so this time around.

1. The Co..."

Squee!!! Yay. It doesn't take much to make me happy! :-)

I see I have to change mine as The Book Thief is YA and cannot be used. Crap. Luckily, it's the last book in my chain.

Rachelccameron wrote: "That sounds vile! I hate figs haha"

Agreed, yuck but hey, whatever works for points! :-)

Somebody else posted a google doc specific to the summer challenge and I saved it but can only open it in google docs, I cannot edit it (and am not a google docs expert). c veeh where are you? Is that your GR name or just your google name? Help!! Otherwise, I've been using Elizabeth's spreadsheet too.

@Deedee - LOL! No worries. I highly recommend The Eight as well as those others you mentioned. I don't even know how many books I have as 5 stars, I should go look...

Ten Degrees of Separation

15.1 - 1st book 5 stars by Miss GP & Xiri

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

+15 Task

Task Total=15
Grand Total=15

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "@Tobey I LOVED The Night Circus and Three To Get Deadly. :)"

That's why your name is up there!! :-) Looking forward to reading both of them.

I feel so left out, I'm not in anybody's chain...sniff, sniff. :-)

Anyways, here's my book chain. I've yet to complete a sub-challenge but hope to do so this time around.

1. The Color of Magic - Miss GP & Xiri
2. The Time Machine - Xiri & Deedee
3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Deedee & Christine
4. The Distant Hours - Christine & Lisa Sokol
5. Three to Get Deadly - Lisa Sokol & jayme(the ghost reader)
6. The Night Circus - Jayme(the ghost reader) & Marie
7. Lost in a Good Book - Marie & Rebekah
8. The Lace Reader - Rebekah & Stacie Morrell
9. Living Dead in Dallas - Stacie Morrell & Gaijinmama
10. The Book Thief - Gaijinmama

Although not released yet, this looks like it would fit this task nicely: the unlikely pilgramage of harold fry

Note: this would get combo points for 10.5

Someone asked earlier in this thread about The Passage and I'm wondering if it works for this task or not since I haven't read it and can't say?

11/22/63 also has combo point potential for 20.9.

So would The Road work? The travel is on foot but they are definitely on a journey.

Hello, I'm Tobey and hail from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada! I've been a member of this group for about 1 year or so maybe and I've been an avid reader since I taught myself to read at the age of 4.

I'm a library assistant in a document delivery department of a local University and I'm married with 2 kids, 1 dog and 1 cat. Always looking forward to new challenges with this group!

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10.9 Please Sir... - The Fall by Guillermo del Toro

This third installment in this vampiric trilogy was a very satisfying ending to a very enjoyable series. While the action is definitely not as fast paced as the first book, there is a lot of background and history that gives the reader a good sense of why the Master is what he is and how he came to be. I was fascinated and appalled all at the same time. If you like end of the world type books or vampire books, I believe you would enjoy this series. All the adults in my family read it and all enjoyed it – highly recommended.

+10 Task
+10 Review

Task Total=20

10.9 Please Sir... - The Search by Nora Roberts

Since becoming a Nora Roberts fan, I’ve seen this book and left it alone because I knew it would bring out the emotion in me. I wasn’t wrong but it wasn’t all that I thought it would be. I thought I had the ending pegged right from the get go but I didn’t. I’ll admit that while it was an easy read, I didn’t fall in love with the male lead like I normally do. He didn’t totally do it for me. It was an enjoyable read none the less and gave me a totally new appreciation for my own canine friend.

+10 Task
+10 Review

Task Total=20
Grand Total=310

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10.5 Rooting for the Bad Guy - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (listed on at least two of the posted lists)

This book was magically fun and engaging but not what I would call extroardinary but I can certainly see why this series would appeal to a very wide audience. I laughed out loud at some of the antics in it and was reminded a few times of a “blast ended skrewt”. I think there could be some more development of the characters and maybe there is as the series goes on. You do get a pretty good idea of what kind of “kid” Artemis Fowl is in this first book of the series but I’m not sure that I’m going to run out to read the next one.

+10 Task
Review does not count for style points as this book does not have a high enough Lexile score

Task Total=10
Grand Total=270

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20.2 True Colors - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

This book took me a long time to read. I find there are books you like reading even though you don’t know the real “story” behind what you are reading and then there are Atwood’s books that are like that but I find them to be an effort in frustration. Through most of the book, I’m sort of screaming in my head “why the hell is he here???” and of course it’s not until close to the end of the book that you find out why. While I understand the reasoning for structuring the story this way, it left me mostly unfulfilled in a story that had a fascinating and frighteningly scary plot that I could have loved but just didn’t.

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.9,10.3)
+10 Review

Task Total=40
Grand Total=260

I concur with the love of the Literature Map tasks! That one has always been a lot of fun.

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10.1 Square Peg - Hex and the City by Simon R. Green

This fourth installment in Simon Green’s Nightside series has probably been my favorite so far. I really liked a few of the characters in this one and their interplay with each other and while I enjoy the Nightside books, there’s some part of me that hasn’t been totally grabbed in like others have and I can’t put my finger on why. They are short books and fairly quick reads, for the most part but it takes me longer to read then it should. It could simply be that there is so much to grasp about the Nightside world and it’s hard to take in but at least Hex and the City gave me a few answers to some burning questions.

+10 Task
+10 Review

Task Total=20
Grand Total=220