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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.4 Evelyn Waugh

Four Plays for Dancers by W.B. Yeats

+20 Task
+20 Combo (20.1, 20.2, 20.5, 20.6)
+10 Not a novel (plays)
+5 Multiple
+10 Oldies

Task total: 65
Grand total: 1005

Let me recommend books from this series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/1708...

Not all relevant, but some good selections.

I'm thinking of Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson

I think I'm going to pull out a mega finish this season. I'm so excited. I've only managed that once before, way back in Spring 2011. I just have about 2 more hours of my final WotW audiobook to go. I might even finish one or two extras after that. We shall see.

Meanwhile, I've been having fun compiling different lists for different 5 year combinations.

Thanks so much for keeping this a lively and fun challenge.

15.9 Waters of the World

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

South China Sea: Hong Kong

+15 Task (Author born/setting)
+20 Bonus

Task total: 35
Grand total: 935

itpdx wrote: "Last summer we did TBR roulette. Just stumbled across my 10 book list of qualifiers. I read one for the challenge. I am now only getting to the second one off that list!"

And I still haven't read any! That season (summer 2015), I completed the subchallenge and not much else. Interesting.

Two possible lists, depending on what I can find in my house; all books that I already own:

1965 - Stoner by John Edward Williams
1970 - This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
1975 -
1980 - Sundiver by David Brin
1985 - Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
1990 - Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
1995 - Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
2000 - Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder
2005 - Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido by Heidi Raykeil
2010 - Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
2015 - Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman

OR

1966 - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1971 -
1976 - The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg
1981 - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
1986 - A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1991 - Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
1996 - Bound Feet & Western Dress by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
2001 - Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Anthony Bourdain
2006 - Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers by Amy Sutherland
2011 - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
2016 - Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

15.8 Waters of the World

Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda

Indian Ocean: South Africa

+15 Task (author born/nationality/setting)
+10 Bonus

Task total: 25
Grand total: 900

15.7 Waters of the World

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Adriatic Sea: Italy

+15 Task (author nationality/setting)
+10 Bonus

Task total: 25
Grand total: 875

20.5 R.K. Narayan

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

+20 Task (approved in help)
+5 Combo (20.6 - approved in help)
+5 Oldies (1982)
+15 Jumbo

Task total: 45
Grand total: 750

+100 RWS finish

Grand total: 850

In post 152, I posted The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats for 20.4.

In post 170, you pointed out that it qualified for 20.10.

I'd now like to move that one to 20.10.

Also, in post 652, I posted The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey for 20.5.

In post 690, you pointed out that it qualified for 20.4.

I'd now like to move that one to 20.4.

These moves shouldn't change any points.

10.3 Bailey Prize

The Bees by Laline Paull

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 705

10.1 Square Peg

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott

+10 Task
+10 Not a novel

Task total: 20
Grand total: 695

10.8 License to Write

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

+10 Task (professor)
+10 Not a novel (nonfiction)
+5 Multiple (see post 246)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 675

I'd like to move another book.

In post 277 (with a points correction at 314), I reported The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster for 10.8.
Lexile: 1000

I'd like to move that to:

15.6 Waters of the World

Pacific Ocean: US

+15 Task (born, nationality)
-20 (10.8 posting)

Task total: -5
Grand total: 650

15.5 Waters of the World

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Philippine Sea: Japan

+15 Task (Born, nationality, setting)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 655

Look at this list: http://bookriot.com/2016/05/02/100-mu...

15.4 Waters of the World

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

Ireland - A/B
Atlantic Ocean

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 640

I need to make a change to my Waters of the World.

In post 642, I posted One of Our Thursdays Is Missing for 15.3, UK, Atlantic Ocean.

I'd like to change that to 15.3, UK, North Sea.

20.7 David Bowie

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

+20 Task
+20 Combo (20.2, 10.2, 10.3, 10.8)
+5 Jumbo (582 pgs.)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 625

Kate S wrote: "From Post 653

Joanna wrote: "20.2 Graham Greene

John Sherman / Dhoya by W.B. Yeats

I am sorry, Joanna, but these two stories do not qualify as a collection of short stories for not a novel points. "

Then do they qualify for 10.5?