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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

In Post 20, Norma wrote: "10.1 - Rewind

Nothing Left by Scott Blade

+10 task
+5 combo points missed post 9 - Combo - 10.9 - Anniversaries - page number ends in 0, 330

Task total: 15
Grand..."

I don't think you're right about the missed combo. The kindle edition shows 330 pages, but the MPE is the paperback edition (we take the most popular print edition if there is one), which has 328 pages.

-5 pts

In Post 19, Joanne wrote: "20. 6 Fruit Dish, Bottle and Violin

A novel with at least 3 different characters' points of view.


Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

Zoey, Mac, Charlotte, Ol..."

You don't mention a cat in your review, but I'm guessing one of these characters has one?

In Post 17, Mary wrote: "30.1. Go for the Green Redux

Bouvet

BOUVETOYA, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN-- RESULTS FROM THE NORWEGIAN ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS 1976/77 and 1978/79 -- by [author:Norsk Polarinsti..."

+10 Lost in Translation

In Post 4, Ed wrote: "20.10 World of Crime (Rosemary's task)

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

This book is set in Laos right after the Communists have taken power. The lead characte..."

Based on the clarifications for 20.7, the combo for this one is not allowed. The doctor's training would have been longer than the short travel that the task creator intended for this task.

-5 pts

Jenifer wrote: "Using this definition: (A conspiracy is two or more people working together for a secret or criminal scheme or plan.)

Would this book work? [book:The Resistance - the French Fight Against the Nazi..."

Yes, that works.

15.1 HDYGG

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Flowers:
braiDIng sweetgrAss: iNdigenoUS wisdom, scientific knowledge and THe teachings of plants - DIANTHUS +5
brAIding sweetgrass: inDigenous wisdom, scientiFic knowLeDge and the teachings OF plants - DAFFODIL +5
bRaidiNG swEetgrass: Indigenous wisDom, scientific knowledge And the teachings of plAnts - GARDENIA +5
braiding sweEtgrass: indigenous wISdoM, sCientific knowledge and the TeAchings of pLants - CLEMATIS +5
braiding sweetgRass: indIgenous wisdom, ScIentific knowledge and the teachings of plants - IRIS

Herbs (391pp):
3 - RUE
9 - CHAMOMILE
1 - HORSERADISH

8 plants this post
8 total plants

+15 Task
+20 Flower bonus

Task total: 35
Grand total: 35

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Interesting lists.

As posted in the 10.3 thread, I already had The Three-Body Problem pencilled in for 20.5. It's a library book, but it's looking more and more attractive for the ..."

I really liked that trilogy. The books are pretty complicated/high concept and are just fascinating. Also, I found them to be exquisitely foreign--some of the ideas and solutions to problems struck me as completely different from anything a westerner would have proposed.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Still wondering about secret versus criminal."

I think secrets that are something like a spy ring or war construction work -- these are a group of people essentially plotting/working together to undermine a government. Whether it's criminal sort of depends on your perspective. Certainly, the government being spied on would call it treason.

Secrets that are really mundane, like teen gossip where a person is working with a friend to steal someone else's boyfriend, probably doesn't rise to the level of conspiracy. Similarly, secrets that are basically fun, like planning a surprise party, don't qualify.

I'm planning to read something by Taylor Jenkins Reid, probably Malibu Rising. Most of her books have reappearing or overlapping characters...

20.9 Fresh Start

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

+20 Task (main character has to move house several times because of personal and relationship reasons)
+10 Female
+5 Oldies (1998)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 440

10.10 Group Reads

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu

+10 Task
+10 Not-a-novel

Task total: 20
Grand total: 405

10.1 Square Peg

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

+10 Task
+10 Female

Task total: 20
Grand total: 385

10.3 India

East, West by Salman Rushdie

+10 Task (auth. b. in India)
+5 Combo (10.8 - pub. 1994)
+10 Not-a-novel (short stories)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1994)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 365

20.8 Anika's 50th birthday

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

+20 Task
+10 Not a novel

Task total: 30
Grand total: 335

20.7 Wild Life

Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

+20 Task (Eagles)
+10 Female
+5 Combo 10.5

Task total: 35
Grand total: 305

20.9 Fresh Start

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

+20 Task (The main character gets to try living a plethora of different possible lives/jobs/places through the magic library)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 270

10.6 Winter Birthdays

Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter

+10 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.7)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 250

20.9 Fresh Start

Fueling His Hunger by Sparrow Beckett

+20 Task (Heroine takes over as CEO of father's company after he dies....after implausibly never really having worked before)
+10 Female (this author is actually two women writing together under one name, but since both are women, I think it fits)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 220

Marie wrote: "Hello ! I've picked-up Light Boxes and saw it's Poetry MPG - it's not standard poetry, i would have considered more fairy tale or fable, but i guess poetry can be pretty free form, s..."

Amazon lists this as Light Boxes: A Novel, so I'm going to say no to this one unless when you read it, you find that it's more interconnected poems than fable or novel.

Apple wrote: "Apple wrote: "Can a collection of short stories qualify? Not all stories are new starts in Happy Stories, Mostly, but it includes a boy who moves to begin university and whose life changes through ..."

For short stories, all the stories should fit a task for them to count for the task. This is obviously easier for an author based task and harder for a more subject oriented task.