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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Post 390:
Coralie wrote: "20.5 Speech and Debate

The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch

+20 task (magic)
+5 Combo [20.3 Be-Na-Ar-O]
+5 series
+5 Multiple

Post total = 35
Season tot..."

+5 Combo 10.6

Post 410:
Rosemary wrote: "20.6 Literature

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Combos:
10.6: "And you might try crossing her palm with silver in convincing denominations."
20.3: Be Ta I..."

+5 Jumbo

Post 401:
Norma wrote: "20.3 - Chemistry

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

+20 task - O, Be, Ga, Br
+5 Combo - 20.1 - Back to School - taught at Leith Academy
+5 repeat
+15 series

Task t..."

+5 Jumbo

Post 396:
Tawallah wrote: "10.9 - Keep It Short
The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

Task: 10
Post : 10
Season : 20"

+10 Young

Post 360:
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...
When Among Crows (2024) by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 166 pages)"

+10 Young

Post 383:
Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "20.2 Math Pi
Read a book with a 3 letter, 1 letter and 4 letter word in the title
Best I Never Hadby Jeannie Choe

Task +20
Young +10
Grand total: 190"

Jayme, I can't find a birth year or anything to confirm this author as Young. Do you know when she was born or something else we can use to estimate her age? In other cases, we've used something like an award given to authors under age 30 or winning a high school tournament. But I don't see anything for this author.

Deedee wrote: "Would James Alan Gardner count? His bio says:
Gardner is also an educator and technical writer. His book Learning UNIX is used as a textbook in some Canadian universities.
Note that it doesn't explicitly say that HE teaches.

I don't think this works unless you find somewhere that he actually teaches in some capacity.

Also, for Greg Bear, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Bear, it says:
"At the university, he was a teaching assistant to Elizabeth Chater in her course on science fiction writing, and in later years her friend."
Which sounds like he was a teaching assistant, which is teaching????"

Yes, that will work.

Mary wrote: "Will acting as a tutor (as in 19th c upper class England) work? Or does it need to be in an educational institution?

E M Forster

He then sought a post in Germany, to learn the l..."

Yes, that will work.

10.6 Elementary

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

+10 Task ("My family is the gold.")
+10 Combo (20.3 - Es, S, Am, Ne; 20.9 - oo/ss)
+10 Young

Task total: 30
Grand total: 285

Post 365:
Coralie wrote: "20.10 Zalphabetical

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

+20 task
+10 Combo [10.6 like channels of MERCURY, 20.7]
+5 series
+5 Multiple

Post total = 40
Season..."

+5 Jumbo

Post 80:
Apple wrote: "10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (Tien's task):

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

+10 task
+5 series
+5 multiple
+10 combo (10.6 - "... larger than a saucepan..."

+5 Combo 20.1

Owlette wrote: "For supernatural, if the protagonist is imagining that creepy things are happening, but in reality they are not, does that count? The book is Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen."

No, I don't think that fits here.

Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "Lena Andrews is an Associate Research Professor at University of Maryland. https://spp.umd.edu/our-community/fac...
I don’t know enough about academia to know..."

Yes, we will accept any type of professor or teacher.

20.2 Math

How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe

+20 Task (How/a/King)
+5 Combo (20.5 - demon)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 255

10.7 Helicopters

The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

+10 Task (Three)
+25 Combo:
--10.5 - pub. 1987,
--10.6 - "It looked like silver, but the reddish tint at the edge suggested it was really made of some baser metal.",
--20.1 - "In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine.",
--20.3 - S/Te/He/In,
--20.5 - The Gunslinger is a supernatural character
+5 Series (Dark Tower)

Task total: 40
Grand total: 230

Post 175
Norma wrote: "20.3 - Chemistry

Their Lost Souls by Roger Stelljes

+20 task - Og, Er, Te, Es
+5 Combo - 10.7 - Helicopters - Their
+5 Repeat
+5 Series

Task total: 35
Grand tot..."

-5 Series -- you already posted this series to Task 20.3 in Post 158. Would you like to move it to 10.7 and get +10 series points?

Marie --

You posted the three books from the Erika Johansen trilogy:
Post 22 - Task 20.7 +5 series
Post 41 - Task 20.5 +10 series
Post 108 - posted to Task 20.7 again -- you can't get series points again if you post to the same task. Would you like to move The Fate of the Tearling to 10.6 instead? Then you'd still get the +15 series points.

Post 297
Ed wrote: "20.1 Back to School:

Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs

Author is a professor of anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Task=20
Combo= 10- (10.5 (1997..."

-5 Combo -- 10.8 can't be used for combos

Post 295 -
Tien wrote: "20.4 Home Economics:
Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey by Felicity Cloake

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5 - British; 20.3 - Fe - Iron, Li - Lithium, C -..."

-5 Combo 10.5 --> 10.5 requires 7 words in the title/subtitle, or a 7-letter author last name, or a 7 in the end of the publication year

Post 292
Connie wrote: "10.10 Group Read

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

For 10.6 Page 118: "Greg held up one of his gold medals."

+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader

Tas..."

+5 Combo 20.3