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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.9 Pub Trivia

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Lexile: 990

+10 Task = riesling

Task total: 10
Grand total: 505

10.1 Enjoyed

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

+10 Task (read other Murderbot books by this author last season)
+10 Combo (10.9 - merlot; 20.9)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 495

20.10 Family

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

+20 Task (includes various families, including parents, sister's family, cousins, grandparents)
+10 1001 list
+20 Combo (10.5, 10.9 - kahlua, 20.3, 20.1)

Task total: 50
Grand total: 475

15.6 Fabulous Firsts

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

I-W

Task total: 15
Grand total: 425

15.5 Fabulous Firsts

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

C-Q

Task total: 15
Grand total: 410

10.3 Naughty

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

+10 Task (1998)
+5 Combo (10.9 - bourbon)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 395

Can we read two stories that aren't published together or do they have to be published in one book? I'm looking at Interlude in Death (88 pages) and The Adventure of the Sealed Room (14 pages).

20.9 Series

Knight & Play by Kitty French

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 380

20.9 Series

Home by J.A. Huss

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 355

10.7 Codebreakers

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

+10 Task
+10 1001 list
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.3 - 1999, 10.9 - merlot)
+25 Jumbo (1152 pages)

Task total: 60
Grand total: 325

10.4 Spring

The Queen by Tiffany Reisz

+10 Task (2015)
+5 Combo (20.9)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 265

15.4 Fabulous Firsts

D-O

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson

+15 Task
+5 Not a novel

Task total: 20
Grand total: 250

Is anyone else having trouble with the "add book/author" search? For the past several days, it's been telling me that search isn't available when I try to search by book title. I can search by author, but then I have to scroll through dozens of books to find the right one.

15.3 Fabulous Firsts

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Task total: 15
Grand total: 230

10.8 Birds

Another Way by Anna Martin

+10 Task
+15 Combo (20.2, 20.3, 20.9)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 210

15.2 Fabulous Firsts

The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

M-N

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 185

Bryony wrote: "The longlist for the Women’s Prize was just announced. As if I didn’t already have too many books to choose from for task, now I have at least half a dozen more I want to read!"

Me too! There are some really interesting choices in the longlist. A couple were already on my radar, but there were several I hadn't heard of.

20.3 Opposites

Profile by J.A. Huss

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.9)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 165

20.9 Series

Like by J.A. Huss

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 135

10.6 Sentence

Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - reisling)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 105