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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Post 103
Nick wrote: "20.9 - haLLowEEn (Anika's task):
Find a book both a double consecutive consonant and double consecutive vowel in the author's name, title, or a combination of the two.

[book:The Difference: When ..."

You put 10.2 in your combo, but I think you meant 10.5. No change in score.

Post 93:
Norma wrote: "20.3 - Chemistry

Double Negative (A Jefferson Shaw Novel) by Robert Gregory Browne

+20 task - Be, Re, Yb, Ne
+5 series

Task total: 25
Grand total: 130"

For RwS, a series has to have at least 3 books, or be part of a two-book series where a third book is clearly planned. As far as I can tell, this book is part of a 2-book series.

-5 series points

Post 75
Bucket wrote: "10.5 Lucky Sevens

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

+10 Task (7 words in title)
+5 Combo (20.8 - Ijeoma Oluo was born in 1980 LINK: https://en.wikipe..."

+5 --> You posted +5 Young, but it's +10

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "It's OK. I'll change the score on my spreadsheet while you change my score on the database.

Can I assume the other question with the 100-150 points for a combo with 10.1 still stands?"

Yep! That didn't create the kind of headache that I hadn't realized I was inviting until I tried to input the task.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "10.1 Exception to the Rule

Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor

+10 Task (80 pgs)
+15 Combo (10.6: Her cigarette-lighter was round, like a polished gold coin. K..."

This is totally my fault for misleading you, but I'm changing my mind on combos if the book chosen has fewer than 100 pages. See here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

-15 points on this one, with my apologies

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "If I read a book that has fewer than 100 pages, can I claim combos?"

I'm going to change my ruling on this and say no. It's going to cause a headache in the database to do this and it isn't really a combo with the other task if your book doesn't have 100 pages. To be a true combo, a book has to be eligible to be posted to the other task. A book with less than 100 pages can't be.

Sorry for the reversal here!

Valerie wrote: "Laura Wood is listed on the University of Warwick as completing her PhD (in Literature) in 2016. Even if she dragged her education out, she is probably under 40 yo. In her author ..."

We will accept both of these.

Given how difficult it has turned out to be to find birthdates for younger authors, we have decided to allow this sort of guestimation for young style points. Please continue to post the basis for it here.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "If I read a book that has fewer than 100 pages, can I claim combos?

And, if I read a book between 100-150 pages for another task, can I claim 10.1 for combo?"

Yes to both.

Katy wrote: "Will Bo Seo qualify for the "Young" style (or the "Young" scrabble tile)? His birthdate isn't listed anywhere but in his book he describes being in 5th grade in 2005 and he won a ..."

We'll take that; we plan to record him as 1994 for the database.

Mary wrote: Recipes for sauces for boiled ostrich and a sauce for flamingo. Handily for the frugal cook, there is a note that the flamingo sauce also “serves for parrot”

I love this! I had no idea that people ate flamingo or parrot.

10.1 Exception to the Rule

Molly's Lips: Club Mephisto Retold by Annabel Joseph

+10 Task (122pp)
+15 Combo (10.6 iron - "He righted the hot iron and went over to her."; 10.7 - lips; 20.7 - confusingly, the series is labeled 1, 1.5, 2, but it's a three-book story)
+5 Series (Club Mephisto)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 30

Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway

+20 task MPG Science
+5 combo 10.6 “…the molten liqu..."

+10 Young (b. 1979)

Thank you, Joanna. I looked all..."

It's in his wiki history. I think he must have taken it down, but it still shows in the edit history. That's good enough for me.

Top Scoring Books:

65 Points in PostNbr 230 - Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker - 20.03 ( Combo 30, Multiple, Young )
65 Points in PostNbr 438 - Six andf a Half Deadly Sins by Colin Cotterill - 20.02 ( Combo 20, Series 25 )
65 Points in PostNbr 685 - Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon - 20.08 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 15, Young )
60 Points in PostNbr 249 - The Foundlings by Nathan Dylan Goodwin - 20.03 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 10, Young )
60 Points in PostNbr 272 - Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler - 20.07 ( Combo 20, Multiple, Series 05, Young )
60 Points in PostNbr 339 - A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire - 20.03 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 10, Young )
60 Points in PostNbr 460 - Cloud Howe by Lewis Grassic Gibbon - 20.03 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 10, Young )
60 Points in PostNbr 655 - Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon - 20.09 ( Combo 10, Multiple, Series 25 )
60 Points in PostNbr 697 - A Cold Day for a Murder by Dana Stabenow - 20.02 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 20 )
60 Points in PostNbr 752 - Prose and Cons by Amanda Flower - 20.05 ( Combo 20, Multiple, Series 05, Young )
55 Points in PostNbr 41 - The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen - 20.05 ( Combo 10, Jumbo 05, Series 10, Young )
55 Points in PostNbr 126 - Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon - 20.07 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 05, Young )
55 Points in PostNbr 179 - A Power Unbound by Freya Marske - 20.05 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 15 )
55 Points in PostNbr 293 - Slash and Burn by Colin Cotterill - 20.05 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 15 )
55 Points in PostNbr 362 - A Little of What You Fancy by H.E. Bates - 20.02 ( Combo 10, Series 25 )
55 Points in PostNbr 368 - The Woman Who Wouldn't Die by Colin Cotterill - 10.04 ( Combo 20, Multiple, Series 20 )
55 Points in PostNbr 472 - Under a Dark Moon by Stella Riley - 20.09 ( Combo 20, Multiple, Series 10 )
55 Points in PostNbr 485 - The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves - 20.07 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 15 )
55 Points in PostNbr 531 - The Montesoro Legacy by Stella Riley - 20.07 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 15 )
55 Points in PostNbr 535 - The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith - 20.01 ( Combo 05, Jumbo 25, Multiple )
55 Points in PostNbr 586 - Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher - 10.10 ( Combo 10, Multiple, Series 20, Young )
55 Points in PostNbr 623 - Not the Ones Dead by Dana Stabenow - 20.08 ( Combo 15, Multiple, Series 15 )
55 Points in PostNbr 634 - A Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato - 20.04 ( Combo 25, Young )
55 Points in PostNbr 660 - Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen - 20.08 ( Combo 15, Jumbo 05, Multiple, Young )
55 Points in PostNbr 722 - The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling - 20.07 ( Combo 20, Series 05, Young )

Most Strategic Reader:

Owlette - 44.1, for 11 Books
Coralie - 42.9, for 52 Books
Denise - 42.1, for 19 Books
Elizabeth (Alaska) - 40.2, for 28 Books
Mary - 34.5, for 30 Books
Anika - 32.6, for 27 Books
Kathleen (itpdx) - 32.1, for 14 Books
Norma - 32.0, for 38 Books
Valerie - 31.9, for 35 Books
Karen Michele - 31.4, for 49 Books
Rosemary - 30.5, for 22 Books
Bucket - 29.8, for 21 Books
Connie - 29.2, for 31 Books
Linda - 29.1, for 11 Books

Group Reads Leaders:

Owlette 6/11 (54.5%)
Joanna 5/15 (33.3%)
Bucket 3/10 (30.0%)
Joanne 4/15 (26.7%)
Karen Michele 10/39 (25.6%)
Deedee 3/12 (25.0%)
Coralie 10/41 (24.4%)
Apple 12/53 (22.6%)
Kathleen (itpdx) 3/14 (21.4%)
Marie 6/29 (20.7%)
Valerie 5/25 (20.0%)
Anika 3/17 (17.6%)
Elizabeth (Alaska) 4/28 (14.3%)
Tien 2/15 (13.3%)
Tawallah 1/9 (11.1%)
Denise 2/19 (10.5%)
Mary 2/20 (10.0%)
Rosemary 2/21 (9.5%)
Jayme 1/11 (9.1%)
Katy 1/11 (9.1%)
Nick 1/13 (7.7%)
Connie 1/20 (5.0%)

Readerboard - Final

Coralie - 2280*^
Apple - 2260*^&
Karen Michele - 1840*^&
Valerie - 1365*^&
Norma - 1215
Connie - 1205*^&
Elizabeth (Alaska) - 1175*
Mary - 1035^
Tien - 1010^
Marie - 1005*
Anika - 880^
Denise - 800
Rosemary - 720*
Joanna - 645
Bucket - 625^
Deedee - 575
Owlette - 485
Joanne - 475
Kathleen (itpdx) - 450
Katy - 415
Jayme - 375
Nick - 375*
Linda - 320^
Tawallah - 205
Shannon SA - 75
Ed - 55

* Halfway Finisher
^ Scrabble Finisher
& Mega Finisher

In Post 46 -
Joanne wrote: " 10.6

Elementary My Dear Reader

The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang

"We whispered about ponds, the width of lakes in whose depth swam gold and silver fish"
..."

Young = 10 points
+5 Series
Points for this post = 25
Total score up to this post = 40

In Post 33 -
Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.5 Speech and Debate

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway

+20 task MPG Science
+5 combo 10.6 “…the molten liqu..."

+10 Young (b. 1979)

In Post 30:
Valerie wrote: "15.2 Scrabble

Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith

Tile E8: series with >8 instalments
(1 pt)

15 task
_____
15

Running total: 55"

I show your total as of this post as 60:
Post 5 - 15
Post 17 - 30
Post 30 - 15

In Post 25 -
Apple wrote: "10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (Tien's task):

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

+10 task
+5 series
+15 combo (10.5 - Richard; 10.6 - "That was t..."

10.5 requires the author's last name to have 7 letters.

-5pts