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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Valerie wrote: "T J Klune knocks it out of the park again with In the Lives of Puppets.

My favorite character has to be Rambo - a roomba, who is hilarious, optimistic and brave ..."

Oh, cool. I really liked The House in the Cerulean Sea and have been listening to Under the Whispering Door. I've been reading these with my eleven year old.

Ok, I think I figured this out. I don't know why I found it so difficult to track through this one...

1. Exhalation = #5 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2. The Survival of Molly Southbourne = #20
Also, #626 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
3. Dark Age = #59
Also, #481 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4893
4. Caliban's War = #33
Also, #98 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/549
5. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever = #39
Also, #211 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
6. Bloodsucking Fiends = 79
Also, #600 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
7. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls = 45
Also, #174 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
8. Hamilton: The Revolution = 42
Also, #360 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
9. Exit West = 81
Also #171 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
10. Evvie Drake Starts Over = 50

20.7 Non-human

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

+20 Task (octopus)
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.3)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 740

For 10.5 - Will United States count as a six letter word for setting? Or is it 12?

10.8 Gilmore Girls

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

+10 Task
+10 Oldies (1928)
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.1)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 705

I've only read 3 lost books so far. But I usually don't finish lost until late in the year, if at all. I might read one or two more this month.

20.3 POV

The Anatomy of Jane by Amelia LeFay

+20 Task (told from alternating POV of three main characters)
+5 Combo (10.4)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 665

10.7 20th Century Bookend

The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier

+10 Task (b. 1907)
+10 Oldies (all originally published in the 1930s)
+5 Combo (20.3 - short stories from different perspectives)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 640

20.8 Real Fiction

The First Mrs. Rothschild by Sara Aharoni

+20 (all those Rothschilds)
+5 Combo (10.4)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 615

20.3 POV

Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin

+20 Task (short stories from different perspectives)
+10 Combo (10.4, 10.9 - Air)
+5 Oldies (1988)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 590

20.4 Subcontinent

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

+20 Task (Set in India)
+5 Oldies (1995)
+5 Jumbo (603pp)
+15 Combo (10.4, 20.3, 20.6 - see post 8 in thread)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 555

10.6 Pi Day

Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew D. Blechman

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 510

20.2 French

A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.6 - Nobel Prize - see help thread)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 500

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Joanna wrote: "I could have sworn it was 105 when I put it on the list. "

I think that is the edition the author has set as the default for the one that comes up first in search. (Which she has a ..."

Aha! That totally explains it. I didn't even know author's could do that. Anyway, I'm now reading A Girl's Story by the same author and quite enjoying it. I said when I finished the other book that I wanted to read more by this author, so now's a good chance to do so.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 391 Joanna wrote: "20.2 French

A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.6 - Nobel Prize - see help thread)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1988)

Task tota..."

Oh, shoot. I could have sworn it was 105 when I put it on the list. The book was great though...totally worth reading.

10.9 Quilting

Crows & Cards by Joseph Helgerson

+10 Task (Card)
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.10 - Zebulon)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 505

20.9 Nonfiction

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson

+20 Task (Century series)
+30 Combo (10.2 - Ma, 10.3 - Century Series, 10.4, 20.3 - various points of view band members, producers, etc., 20.6 - see help thread, 20.8 - Ma' Rainey is a real person)
+5 Series
+5 Oldies (pub. 1981)

Task total: 60
Grand total: 485

20.2 French

A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.6 - Nobel Prize - see help thread)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1988)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 425

10.10 Group Reads

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.4, 10.5 - SE, 20.3 - several different storylines with different narrators, 20.10 - Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, Zoey Roberts)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 390

10.5 Wimsey

Time's Echo by Rysa Walker

+10 Task
+5 Series (Chronos Files)
+5 Combo (10.3)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 360