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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what fits here.

What about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo? The book is written in the first person with the journalist telling her story of interviewing Evelyn Hugo, the film star. Then there are pieces where we're seeing Evelyn's life, along with news articles and descriptions of photos at the time. Different story pieces eventually connect up.

It feels like maybe this fits, since it's using flashbacks to give the historical story, but maybe it doesn't because the journalist is learning these story pieces in real/chronological time.

Help?

20.6 Characters

The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
lexile 800

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2, 10.3, 10.8, 20.5)
+5 Multiple
+5 Jumbo
+10 Young

Task total: 60
Grand total: 1300

10.3 Summer 2017

Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger

low lexile

+10 Task

Task total: 10

+100 RWS finish
+200 Megafinish

Grand total: 1235

10.1 Design Your Own:
Book related to parenting

Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers by Linda Perlstein

+10 Task
+10 Young (b. 1971)
+5 Combo (20.6)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 925

Read a book related to parenting.

20.3 A Severed Head

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.1)
+5 oldies (1966)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 900

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote:
I just listed a bunch of books I wanted to read, and I actually started with a book that has a number in the title. Most books fit in several categories, so then it was just a matter of making decisions."

This is what I did as well. I made a list of about 12-15 books that I wanted to read, then figured out which categories they each fit, then started sorting until I got to a list of 10 that matched up all the factors.

10.10 Group Reads

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

+10 Task
+10 Young
+5 Combo (20.6)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 865

15.10 RG

10,000 - 14,999

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder

+30 Task
+5 Nonfiction

Task total: 35

+100 finisher bonus

Grand total: 840

10.8 Series

Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb

+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.3, 20.1, 20.6)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 705

Tentative plan:

F2 The Causal Angel
F4 Three Women
C3 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
D5 Gateway to the Moon
D1 Black Leopard, Red Wolf
A3 Gnomon OR Queenie
E4 American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
E6 The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks OR Queenie
A1 OR B1 Practically anything...(including Queenie)
B2 Plain Jane

Revised plan:
A1 Brief Cases
A3 Gnomon
C2 The Knife of Never Letting Go
C3 The Enchanted
D4 Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
D5 Gateway to the Moon
E2 Three Women
E6 American Paradox: The Conflict Of Thought And Action
F4 Black Leopard, Red Wolf
F5 Monsters of Men

If a dystopian novel is set in "future Britain" will that count for Europe as setting? Thinking about Gnomon.

Subchallenges:

Fall 2011 - Back to School
Summer 2016 - Bingo (Team challenge)
Winter 2016/17 - Christmas in Vegas-Roulette

Tasks:
Any short story task -- I want to read more of these, but need a little push
The task that linked books mentioned in other books
Tasks that relate to books someone else read (group reads/group reads redux, 10.9 this season, sub-sandwich, 5* ratings, etc.)

20.7 Shakespeare

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

+20 Task (Taming of the Shrew)
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.8, 20.6)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 680

20.5 London

Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8, 20.6)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 645

15.9 RG

250,000 or more ratings

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

+30 Task
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 35
Grand total: 615

15.8 RG

1,000 - 4,999

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 580

15.7 RG

75,000 - 99,999

Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 560

10.6 Lifetime Achievement

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

+10 Task
+15 Combo (20.1 - 1987; 20.2; 20.4)
+5 oldies (1987)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 540

20.4 The Black Prince

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 - pub. 1983)
+5 Oldies (1983)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 510