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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Joanna wrote: "Can I read House of Skin: Prize-Winning Stories? This doesn't seem to have a print edition, but Amazon says the print length is 120 pages: https://www.amazon.com/HOUSE..."

Can I use it for 10.2?

Can I read House of Skin: Prize-Winning Stories? This doesn't seem to have a print edition, but Amazon says the print length is 120 pages: https://www.amazon.com/HOUSE-PRIZE-WI...

Connie -- I saw Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History on your potentials list, and I just wanted to point out that Galveston doesn't have a population of 100,000.

Current Plan

Africa
Woman at Point Zero - Cairo, Egypt

North America
Monster - New York, US
The Favorite Game - Montreal, Canada

Oceania
Zac and Mia - Perth, Australia

Asia
Convenience Store Woman - Tokyo, Japan
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Beijing, China

Europe
The Gathering - Dublin, Ireland
Unwanted - Stockholm, Sweden
Soulless - London, England
The Black Book - Edinburgh, Scotland

15.10 Fabulous Firsts

You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day

F-Y

+20 Task
+5 Not a novel

Task total: 25

+100 Finisher

Grand total: 1030

20.9 Series

Status by J.A. Huss

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 905

20.8 Queen of Short Fiction

Dangerous Women by Otto Penzler (editor)

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 - Otto, 10.4 - 2005, 10.9- merlot)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 875

15.9 Fabulous Firsts

The Privileges by Jonathan Dee

J-P

Task total: 20
Grand total: 840

What about a book that has a fantasy element layered onto a real city? Like Rivers of London is set in London, but there's a magical realm layered on top. Or Akata Witch, set in Aba, Nigeria but there's a magical world happening that's invisible to non-magical eyes.

ETA: Nevermind. I think you answered this above regarding Un Lun Dun

15.8 Fabulous Firsts

Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle
Lexile: 840

K-V

Task total: 15
Grand total: 820

20.7 Real Person

Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory

+20 Task (full of real people)
+10 Combo (20.3, 20.10)
+5 Jumbo (516pp)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 805

10.5 Mother

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lexile: 1150

+10 Task
+5 Oldies (1968)
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9 - kahlua, 20.9)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 775

15.7 Fabulous Firsts

A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo

A-X

Task total: 15
Grand total: 740

20.1 Prize

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 725

20.4 Crime

Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9 - cabernet, 20.9)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 700

20.9 Series

Block by J.A. Huss

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 665

20.9 Series

Knight & Stay by Kitty French

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 635

20.9 Series

The Art of Submission by Ella Dominguez

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 610

20.5 Balkans

The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.4, 20.9)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 580

20.2 Ann/e

Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey
Lexile: 940

+20 Task
+5 Oldies (1971)
+20 Combo (10.2, 10.5, 20.3, 20.9)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 550