Joanna’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2010)

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Post 748:
Karen Michele wrote: "20.3 Chemistry:

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

+20 Task: NAOmi ALdERman - Na, Sodium; O, Oxygen; Al, Aluminum; Er, erbium
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 25
Season Total: ..."

+10 Young

Post 695:
Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "20.3 chemistry
Lost Dogs and Lonely Heartsby Lucy Dillon
lUCy dillON

Task+20
Combo-10.6- "she saw flecks of gold on his arms".
p 22
Multiple +5
Grand total:365"

+10 Young

Post 684:
Deedee wrote: "Task 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):
Read a book that mentions an element from the periodic table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...). Provide a quote that mentions the element..."

+10 Young

Post 715:
Bucket wrote: "20.10 Zalphabetical

Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz

+20 Task
+ 15 Combo (10.5 - Mahfouz = 7 letters; 20.7 - book 2 in The Cairo Trilogy; 20.8 Mahfouz was born in 1..."

+5 Series

Post 743:
Anika wrote: "10.1 Exception to the Rule

Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limon

+10 Task, MPE 96 pages
+5 Combo: 10.6, "...in the gold madrone world I came into."

Task total: 15
Seas..."

This counts for the task, but because the MPE has 96 pages, it does not qualify for combo points.

Post 704:
Nick wrote: "20.6 Literature. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, p. 1, # 42

Task Points: 20
Combo: + 10 10.2 (#4 on the Gothic Fiction list) 20.3 Chemistry

H = Hydrogen 1
NE = Neon 1..."

+5 Combo 10.5 - author name 7 letters

Post 701:
Marie wrote: "10.10 Group Reads

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - “a broad valley where the gold showed like yellow butter across the bottom of the washin..."

+5 Combo - 10.5 - author name 7 letters

Post 670:
Bucket wrote: "20.9 haLLowEEn

The Keep by Jennifer Egan

+20 Task (2 E’s in Keep, 2 N’s in Jennifer)
+ 10 Combo (10.4 - pub’d in 2006, the year I graduated from college; 20.3 - JenNiF..."

Sorry, 10.4 can't be used as a combo.
-5 pts from this post.

Yes to plurals, possessives, and the word bird. No to other forms of the word like Jaywalking with the Irish or Swallowdale.

Broken Book Report

Sample Post

15.5 BBR
BBR book = Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Task E - same author - Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

+20 Task

Task total = 20
Grand total = 110 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 90)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Sorry, another question.

Will short stories published as a collection posthumously count toward the 20 books? I can see 2 sides to this.

We will accept one collection of posthumously published short stories as a book. If an author's stories are collected multiple times posthumously, it still only counts as one book.

EDIT: I could also ask about translations, too, where the ..."

Books where the author is the translator do not count for this task. Only original works.

For this task, it'll only be considered YA if Brooklyn Public Library has it listed as YA. So if it's a foreign language graphic novel that BPL doesn't carry, we won't class it as YA for this task.

Norma wrote: "Make money:
Will you accept silver here?"

Polls will close Nov. 30. It does not currently look like "make money" is going to win, but if there's a turnaround and it does, silver will be fine.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "To understand this fully, can the women talk about a man in other than a romantic way? I will probably use this only for combo, but I'm wondering if they can say a man is a good father, or lawyer, ..."

Generally, no, there has to be a conversation that is not about a man. But in the case of a murder suspect, that might qualify if the conversation is really about solving the murder or what the next steps are or something similar.

The point here is to look at whether women are portrayed only for their relationship to men or whether they are given inner lives that don't revolve around the men around them. So if two women are talking just about their male boss, it won't work. But if they are talking more broadly about work/work conditions, that can pass.

For example:
Woman 1: "The boss is such a jerk."
Woman 2: "Yeah, and I hate the stupid ties he wears."
Woman 1: "Not to mention his ratty shoes."
-->FAIL - they're talking about a man

Woman 1: "The boss is such a jerk."
Woman 2: "We've really been putting in a lot of hours lately, and no one seems to notice."
Woman 1: "Yeah, maybe we should just start leaving at 5pm on the dot every day and see what happens."
-->PASS - they're talking about work

Woman 1: "I think this serial killer is a man."
Woman 2: "Yeah, statistically speaking, they usually are."
Woman 1: "Well, I guess we should pull the list of suspects from the computer database."
-->PASS - they're talking about solving the crime

Does that help?

15.9 Scrabble

A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

P1 - Pseudonymous author

Task total: 15 (she aslo writes as Mira Grant)
Grand total: 645

15.8 Scrabble

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

E1 - Auth name starts with E

Task total: 15
Grand total: 630

Yes, we will also accept graphic non-fiction or memoirs.

The lexile rule will apply. If you read a YA graphic novel without a lexile, then it won't qualify for style points. If you read an adult genre graphic novel, the rule about graphic novels will not apply and you can get style points for combos, non-western, aged, oldies, and jumbo.

Note that if you post a graphic novel to a task other than 20.7, it will not qualify for style points.

Yes, we'll accept the total under all different names.

Yes, all of those work.