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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Here you go, Norma! There are a few mysteries on there, including a Stuart Woods, though that might be a reread for you.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/......"

Could you add tabs to that with the other page counts from the database? I'm finding looking up page counts really laborious.

Birth years:

09 - Eudora Welty, Edgar Allen Poe, Wallace Stegner
18 - Muriel Spark, Philip José Farmer
27 - Robert Ludlum, Mary Higgins Clark, Gunter Grass, Elizabeth Peters
36 - Tom Robbins, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt, Marge Piercy, A B Yehoshua
45 - Dean Koontz, August Wilson, Connie Willis, Katherine Dunn
54 - Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Gaitskill, Emma Bull, Louise Erdrich, Gregory Maguire
63 - Laurell K. Hamilton, Ann Patchett, Alice Sebold, Donna Tartt, Scott Westerfeld (lexiles too low), Michael Chabon, Jacqueline Woodson
72 - N.K. Jemisin, China Miéville, Joe Hill
81 - Karen Russell, Fredrik Backman, Maggie Stiefvater
90 - Julia Armfield, Agatha Christie

Page Numbers:
09: Cloud Atlas, The Family Fang, A Lion Among Men - wrong in list; now 312pp, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
18: Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, The Killing Moon, The Thing Around Your Neck
27: The Andromeda Strain, Fair Play, The Farm, Poison Study
36: Tete Blanche, Bellman & Black, Brown Girl Dreaming, The Buried Giant, Flight Behavior, War for the Oaks, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
45: Heavy: An American Memoir, Homeland and Other Stories, Parable of the Sower
54: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, Dreams of Joy
63: Self-Help, Jesus Land: A Memoir, The Drawing of the Three
72: More Than This, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, The Name of the Wind, Netherland, Tipping the Velvet
81: Stories of Your Life and Others, The True Deceiver, Tulip Fever, Zombie
90: The Queen's Fool, The Constant Princess

20.3 Middle East

The Cat by Edeet Ravel

+20 Task (author b. Israel)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 490

10.6 Postal

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

+10 Task (AB)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 15
Grand total: 470

20.9 Birthday

Little Voices by Vanessa Lillie

+20 Task (325pp)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 25
Grand total: 455

Hah. Mine is buy $15, get $4. Also in the fine print: the credit expires at the end of the offer period. Actual email says credit expires in 30 days.

20.6 Latin America

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

+20 Task (b. Chile)
+15 Jumbo (898 pp)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 430

20.5 Russia

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

+20 Task (b. Russia)
+5 Oldies (1951)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 395

10.10 Group Reads

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 370

20.10 Over/Under

Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart

+20 Task (approved in thread)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 25
Grand total: 360

10.2 Author Name

Island of Legends by Lisa McMann
Lexile: 770

+10 Task
+5 Multiple

Task total: 15
Grand total: 335

20.7 Canada

The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment

+20 Task (author born in Canada)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 320

20.8 Beatrix Potter

Strip Jack by Ian Rankin

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+5 Oldies (1992)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 300

10.3 One at a time, please

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
Lexile: 850

Task total: 10
Grand total: 270

10.2 Author Name

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta

+10 Task
+5 Multiple

Task total: 15 (replacing Island of Fire that was moved, so no multiple here) -- multiple removed from Post 271 per Post 440 below


Task total: 15
Grand total: 260

I've decided to rearrange my plan a bit, so sorry for making these changes:

Post 150 - Island of Fire by Lisa McMann

--> I'm moving this from 10.2 to 10.7 - no change in points

Post 136 - Witness in Death by J.D. Robb

--> I'm moving this from 10.3 to 10.4 - no change in points

Total: 250

10.9 Hug a Tree

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 250

20.9 Birthday

The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Lexile: 850

+20 Task (625pp)
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 25
Grand total: 240

20.1 Africa

The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson

+20 Task (set in fantasy/future Nigeria)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 215

10.2 Author Name

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

+10 Task (Chambers - 8 letters)
+5 Multiple

Task total: 15
Grand total: 195