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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Post 214:
Bucket wrote: "20.1 Adaptation and Resilience

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Review: I really enjoyed this Scandinavian classic. Book 1 and Book 3 were great and it was a bit o..."

+5 Combo 10.4

Post 198:
Claire wrote: "20.1

Noem me bij jouw naam André Aciman 257 p. 4 april

Combo 20. 2. Literary awards + 5 points
Lambda Literary Award fo..."

+5 Combo - 20.9 - auth. b. in Egypt

Top 15 Scoring Books

80 Points in PostNbr 214 - Kristin Lavransdatter (Complete) by Sigrid Undset - 20.01 (Combo 15, Jumbo 25, Oldies 10, Review)
60 Points in PostNbr 344 - The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - 20.01 (Combo 05, Jumbo 10, Oldies 15, Review)
55 Points in PostNbr 97 - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - 20.06 (Combo 15, Oldies 10, Review)
55 Points in PostNbr 121 - Gallant Cause, The: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Mark Zuehlke - 20.03 (Combo 10, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review)
55 Points in PostNbr 212 - The Sheltering Desert by Henno Martin - 20.09b (Africa, Combo 05, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review)
55 Points in PostNbr 216 - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - 20.08 (Combo 15, Jumbo 10, Review)
55 Points in PostNbr 242 - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury - 20.01 (Combo 10, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review)
55 Points in PostNbr 457 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - 20.02 (Combo 15, Not A Novel, Review)
55 Points in PostNbr 458 - Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman by Mpho M'Atsepo Nthunya - 20.09a (Africa, Combo 05, Not A Novel, Oldies 05, Review)
50 Points in PostNbr 27 - Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon - 20.06 (Combo 10, Oldies 10, Review)
50 Points in PostNbr 127 - Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - 20.01 (Jumbo 15, Oldies 15)
50 Points in PostNbr 206 - Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led by Les Standiford - 20.03 (Combo 10, Not A Novel, Review)

Most Strategic Readers

Bucket - 37.7, for 15 Books
Connie - 34.0, for 26 Books
Kathleen (itpdx) - 33.0, for 10 Books
Valerie - 32.2, for 32 Books
Mary - 31.8, for 19 Books
Rosemary - 31.6, for 38 Books
Claire - 31.1, for 31 Books
Anika - 28.6, for 44 Books
Nick - 26.6, for 16 Books
Joanna - 25.7, for 34 Books
Karen Michele - 25.7, for 43 Books
Deedee - 24.6, for 13 Books
Joanne - 24.2, for 13 Books
Tien - 23.1, for 8 Books
Apple - 22.9, for 38 Books
Katy - 22.9, for 7 Books
Marie - 22.1, for 35 Books
Norma - 21.7, for 36 Books
Jayme - 21.2, for 12 Books

Group Reads Leaders
Based on percentage of not-a-novel points

Kathleen (itpdx) 4/7 (57.1%)
Nick 3/6 (50.0%)
Anika 11/24 (45.8%)
Bucket 5/11 (45.5%)
Apple 12/31 (38.7%)
Connie 5/16 (31.2%)
Joanne 2/9 (22.2%)
Mary 2/9 (22.2%)
Deedee 2/10 (20.0%)
Karen Michele 6/33 (18.2%)
Valerie 3/22 (13.6%)
Jayme 1/9 (11.1%)
Rosemary 3/28 (10.7%)
Claire 2/25 (8.0%)
Marie 1/25 (4.0%)

Post 99:
Anika wrote: "20.6 Reducing Emissions

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.6, half of the book takes place in a lab at the Stanford School of Medicine; 10...."

+5 Combo - 20.9 - author born in Africa

Post 97:
Connie (on semi-hiatus) wrote: "20.6 Reducing Emissions

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" captures the spirit of a rundown waterfront community in 1930s Monterey. The book's m..."

This is +15 Combo (10.4, 20.1, 20.8)

Post 121:
Valerie wrote: "20.3 Climate Policy

The Gallant Cause: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Mark Zuehlke

I found this book of ‘creative non-fiction’ about the Canadians..."

+5 Oldies (pub 1996)

Post 134:
Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.4 Climate Science

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

This is a tremendous book! It is a book about a story that is based on a book that travels from the past to..."

This is +5 Jumbo, not +10. The MPE has 626 pages, and +10 is for 700+ pages.

Post 129:
Deedee wrote: "Task 10.7 Singing Season (Karen Michele's task):
Read a book about music or a musician(s) or a book with any word related to music in the title.

Our hero is Kevin, an apprentice Bard. He plays th..."

+5 Oldies

Yes!

15.2 CYOA
Path: Sci/Fi-Fantasy --> Far Future

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

Task total: 15
Grand total: 30

15.1 CYOA
Path: Sci/Fi-Fantasy

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Task total: 15
Grand total: 15

Apple wrote: "Has anyone read Wonder Boys? It looks like it will fit, just want confirmation before I start ;)"

I haven't read it, but it does look like it will fit.

Joanne wrote: "Is Fantasy acceptable for this? Specifically The Will of the Many

"The Academy" that they speak on the Main Page is a school of higher education, what we would consider a college."

Yes, that fits.

All Spring tasks are now posted. Happy reading!

Welcome Kathleen! Glad to have you hear.

I really liked The Broken Earth Trilogy. I'm a Jemisin fan for sure. Have you read Parable of the Sower? I really liked that one and it's sequel.

And here is a full list of African countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

This is a list of the countries that are eligible for +5 bonus:

Benin
Burundi
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Comoros
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Gambia
Guinea
Lesotho
Mayotte
Namibia
Niger
Sao Tome and Principe
Swaziland
Western Sahara

Anika answered this for the mods: Scotch falls under the umbrella of "whiskey"--bourbon, rye, Irish whiskey, and Scotch are all different examples of "whiskey" so all will be accepted.