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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.1 5-star Reads

Sappho by Sappho

+10 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.8)
+25 Oldies

Task total: 65
Grand total: 1095

I'd like to move a book from Post 78.

I posted A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers for 10.1.

I'd like to move that to 20.3, please.

+10 for the move
Grand total: 1030

Speaking of Death Comes for the Archbishop, I just finished this and it definitely fits here.

Here is one link that specifies it; there were several others as well -
https://mppl.org/check_it_out/book-di...

10.10 Group Reads

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

+10 Task
+10 Female
+5 Oldies (1987)
+20 Combo (10.1 - Miriam 5*, 20.3, 20.7 - England, 20.8 - 1987)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 1020

10.5 Debut

Marta Oulie by Sigrid Undset

+10 Task (debut)
+10 Oldies (1907)
+10 Female
+10 LiT
+10 Combo (10.1 - Anika 5*, 20.3)

Task total: 50
Grand total: 975

I'm on track to finish the RWS tasks. I haven't done any of the CYOA, so may not get to those at all, especially since it looks like I have a shot at the most strategic reader.

I've been tearing through books these past couple of months, which is great because I felt like I had something of a slump last year.

10.8 Single Word Title

Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Lexile: 710

+10 Task
+10 Female
+5 Jumbo (525 pp.)
+30 Combo (10.1 - Jenifer 5*, 10.2, 10.7 I-V, 10.9 - 2012, 20.1, 20.3)

Task total: 55
Grand total: 925

20.5 Sense of Place

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

+20 Task
+10 Female
+45 Combo (10.1 - Tien 5*, 10.6 - 489pp., 10.8, 10.9 - 2017, 10.10, 20.1, 20.3, 20.6, 20.7 - Japan)

Task total: 75
Grand total: 865

20.8 Unification Season

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

+20 Task (1982)
+10 Female
+10 L-i-T (from Spanish)
+5 Oldies (1982)
+30 Combo (10.1 - Erin (NY) 5*, 10.5 - debut, 10.6 - 448 pp., 10.9 - 1982, 20.3, 20.6)

Task total: 75
Grand total: 790

I'd like to move another book...

From Post 142, I posted A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell for 20.8.

I'd like to move that to 20.7, please.

No change in points...

Season total: 715

10.6 Not Quite Jumbo

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler

+10 Task (400 pp.)
+10 Female
+25 Combo (10.1 - Sally 5*, 10.2, 10.5 - most recent, 10.9 - 2018, 20.3)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 715

20.3 She Writes

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

+20 Task
+10 Female
+15 Combo (10.1 - Foxy Grandma 5*, 10.2, 10.9 - 2019)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 670

From Post 154:

I'd like to move Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg

I originally put it in 20.3. I'd like to move it to 20.4.

This doesn't change my points...

Grand total: 625

20.2 Freedom Season

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson

+20 Task (Mississippi)
+10 Female
+20 Combo (10.2, 10.9- 2012, 20.3, 20.5 - see thread)

Task total: 50
Grand total: 625

20.9 The Season of Shorter Days

The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories (edited) by Emma Donoghue

+20 Task
+10 Female (editor and all authors = female)
+10 combo (20.3, 20.6)
+5 Jumbo (624 pp)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 575

20.10 A Winning Decade

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

+20 Task (2014 PEN/Faulkner)
+10 Female
+25 Combo (10.1 - Miriam 5*, 10.9 - 2013, 10.10, 20.1, 20.3)

Task total: 55
Grand total: 530

10.3 Revolution

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Lexile: 840

+10 Task
+10 Female
+25 Combo (10.1 - Tien 5*, 10.2, 10.5 - debut, 20.3, 20.5 - see help thread)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 475

10.7 Alphabet Soup

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

+10 Task (A-N)
+10 Female
+45 Combo (10.1 - Katy 5*, 10.2, 10.6 - 477 pp., 10.8, 10.9 - 2013, 10.10, 20.1, 20.3, 20.6)

Task total: 65
Grand total: 430

20.3 She Writes

Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 LiT
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9 - 2014, 20.4)

Task total: 55
Grand total: 365

20.8 Unification Season

A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell

+20 Task (1977)
+10 Female
+5 Oldies (1977)
+20 Combo (10.1 - Denise, 10.2 - A, 20.3, 20.7 - England)

Task total: 55
Grand total: 305