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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

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15.6 Olympic Scavenger

Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin

Football - Option B - "Rico had been a big football fan..."

Task total: 15
Grand total: 820

And......the Subchallenge is live! Check it out.....https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

An example Scrabble plan:

15.1 - H2 - 4H - The Dragon Head of Hong Kong by Ian Hamilton
15.2 - O5 - Occupational surnames - Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
15.3 - G1 - Group Reads - The Trees by Percival Everett

HOG
WORD SCORE: 7

15.4 - J1 - Jumbo - The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
15.5 - O1 - 100-199 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
15.6 - K1 - Title word ends in K - Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
15.7 - E5 - EDI in title - The Gravedigger's Story by Ged Simmons

JOKE
WORD SCORE: 15

15.8 - Z1 - auth last name has a Z - Starter Villain by John Scalzi
15.9 - A3 - award winner - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
15.10 - X1 - title word begins with Ex - My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger

ZAX
WORD SCORE: 19

Total score: 41 for three words "hog" "joke" and "zax", +150 finisher bonus

15.5 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2

Taming the Tease by Golden Angel

Swim - Option A - characters swim in a pool several times

Task total: 15
Grand total: 805

This is an optional space for posting Scrabble plans.

Here's mine:

15.1 - H2 - 4H - The Dragon Head of Hong Kong by Ian Hamilton
15.2 - I1 - auth uses initials - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
15.3 - T6 - no T in author name - Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson

HIT
WORD SCORE: 6

15.4 - J1 - Jumbo - The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
15.5 - O1 - 100-199 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
15.6 - K1 - Title word ends in K - Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
15.7 - E1 - Auth name starts with E - This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

JOKE
WORD SCORE: 15

15.8 - Z1 - auth last name has a Z - Starter Villain by John Scalzi
15.9 - A3 - award winner - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
15.10 - P1 - Pseudonymous author - A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

ZAP
WORD SCORE: 12

Total score: 33 for three words "hit" "joke" and "zap", +150 finisher bonus

Coming soon

Scrabble, RwS Version

This Fall, we are going to play RwS Scrabble.

Find the available "tiles" here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

For tiles that link to a genre page or a listopia list (e.g., A1), you are limited to the first 200 books on the list (i.e., the first 4 pages on a genre page and the first 2 pages on a listopia list).

Each tile may only be used once. You may complete the challenge multiple times, but you may not reuse tiles.

TASKS:
Each task is a "tile" from the spreadsheet.
15.1 - A1 - Book 1
15.2 - N2 - Book 2
15.3 - D4 - Book 3
etc.
Each posted task scores 15 points.

In other words, for each book, you will choose one task. For example, if I choose task A1, I will read a book that has been shelved with the Genre Art (and is found on the first 4 pages of the genre list) or I will read a book from the top 200 of the Art & Artists in Fiction listopia. I will post the book and receive 15 points. I'll also have the letter "A" to use for words as described below.

WORDS:
Words are created by combining tiles (i.e., multiple books/tasks) to form words found in the official scrabble dictionary (https://scrabble.merriam.com/word-lists)

Your words must be a minimum of two tiles (as there are no single-lettered words in Scrabble). You can make as many or as few words as you like to fill your ten total tasks, but there can be no leftover tiles (For example: you could create five two-tile words; you could create a five-tile word, a three-tile word, and a two-tile word; what you could not do is create a four-tile word, three-tile word, two-tile word, and have a leftover single tile.)

FINISHER BONUS:
If you read 10 books and used all of your tiles to complete words, you are eligible for the following finisher bonuses:

Total word score 15 or less = +50 points
Total word score 16-30 = +100 points
Total word score 31+ = +150 points

Word scores are determined by adding up the points on each tile. So if you posted the A1, N2, D4 shown above, you could spell AND for 4 points. You would add up AND plus the words made from your other 7 tiles to get your Total word score.

Books do not need to be read in order. You may post your completed words when you post 15.10.

Scrabble

Sample Post

15.10 Scrabble

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

Tile: J1 - Jumbo
Letter points: 8

+15 Task

Task total = 15

Scrabble Finish:
Words:
Zap - 12
Joke - 15
Hit - 6

Word total: 33

+150 Scrabble finish bonus

Post total: 165
Season total = 415 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 250)

20.10 Zalphabetical (Joanna's task):
Read a book whose title contains at least three words that appear in reverse alphabetical order. For this task, all words count, including "The" or "An" or similar articles. You may use a two-word title if and only if the letters are consecutive.

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. Ex: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover; Cool Girl Summer by Amber Eve; The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom.

20.8 Fall Authors (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task):
The Fall months are the 9th, 10th, and 11th months of the year. Read any book whose author was born in a year ending in 9, 0, or 1.

20.7 Art:
"The rule of thirds" is used in composing visual images (designs, films, paintings, and photographs) to make them more pleasing to the human eye. Read a book that is one-third of a complete story (so: read a book that is part of a trilogy).

Please post questions or suggestions related to Task 20.7 here.

20.6 Literature:
Experts compile some "best of" book lists. Others are crowd-sourced. This season, read one of the top 400 "Best Books Ever" as selected by over 250,000 goodreads voters on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Please post comments or suggestions related to Task 20.6 here.

20.5 Speech and Debate:
The 2024 Big Questions resolution is "Resolved: Belief in the supernatural is incompatible with belief in science." Investigate this further by reading a book that either has MPG Science or one that features a supernatural element (ghosts, magic, etc.).

Please post questions or suggestions related to Task 20.5 here.

20.4 Home Economics:
Read a book that contains a recipe but is NOT a cookbook.

Please post questions or suggestions related to Task 20.4 here.

20.3 Chemistry:
Choose any four elements from the periodic table (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/peri...). Read a book by an author whose name includes all four elements. (Examples: STepHen KIng = S, Sulfur; Te, Tellurium; He, Helium; In, Indium; AgAtHA christie = Ag, Silver; At, Astatine, H, Hydrogen; Ac, Actinium). Note: only one of the four elements can have a one-letter abbreviation; for two-letter elements, the letters must be in order in the author's name.

Please post questions or suggestions related to Task 20.3 here.

20.2 Math:
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. Regardless of the circle's size, this ratio will always equal pi. In decimal form, the value of pi is approximately 3.14. Read a book whose title (not including subtitles) contains a three-letter word, a single-letter word, and a four-letter word. Other words are allowed and the designated words need not be in order in the title.

Please post questions or suggestions related to Task 20.2 here.

20.1 Back to School:
Time to head back to school. Read a book written by an author who is or has been a teacher or professor.

Please post questions or suggestions regarding Task 20.1 here.

10.10 Group Reads:
Read one of the following books OR any book by the author of one of these books recommended by fellow RwS readers:
Apple - Audition by Pip Adam
Marie - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Katy - The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Tawallah - The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
Norma - A Wicked Mercy by Bilinda P. Sheehan
Joanne - The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Joanna - Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Anika - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher