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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Can anyone find an age for Tamara Faith Berger?

I think she's about the right age for my list, but I can't find a year anywhere yet.

20.7 Penguin

New Grub Street by George Gissing

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.1 - 1891, 20.4)
+10 Canon

Task total: 40
Grand total: 540

20.2 Series

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Lexile: 970

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2, 10.4 - Weetzie, 10.7, 10.8 - Smart Bitches #107 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/po...
+5 Prize-worthy (Phoenix Award)

Task total: 45
Grand total: 500

20.2 Series

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - Kate S; 10.9; 10.8 - BOTNS #227 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2013/...)
+10 Prize-worthy (Ignotus; Locus)
+25 Jumbo (1100+ pgs. - 48 hours on audio)

Task total: 70
Grand total: 455

My list:


Slut Lullabies
The Dew Breaker
Gap Creek
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
The Monsters of Templeton
Poor People
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
A Fine and Private Place/The Last Unicorn
The Night Watch
The Golem's Eye

Deedee wrote: "Prior to this task being posted, I had voted on Bit Fat Books Worth the Effort. I won't add or delete any of my votes until Sept. 1."

Are we not supposed to vote on lists? I have almost always voted on lists that are linked in these tasks because I kind of love voting on lists. But I didn't realize it was prohibited.

Plan for birth years 1961-1980

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (pub. 2015, b. 1972)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (pub. 2014, b. 1979)

Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match by Amy Webb (pub. 2013, b. 1975)

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (pub. 2012, b. 1969)

Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory (pub. 2011, b. 1971)

Changes by Jim Butcher (pub. 2010, b. 1971)

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (pub. 2009, b. 1962)

Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone by Beth Lisick (pub. 2008, b. 1969)

First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde (pub. 2007, b. 1961)

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (pub. 2006, b. 1969)

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (pub. 2004, b. 1969)

10.10 Group Reads

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

+10 Task
+10 Prize Worthy (DSC; Paris Review)
+30 Combo (10.3 - Elizabeth, 10.9, 10.1, 10.6, 10.8, 10.4)

Task total: 50
Grand total: 385

From Post 495

Joanna wrote: "10.5 Nebula

Dune by Frank Herbert

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 BOTNS#128 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/......"

Sorry, Joanna, the Seiun appears to be crowd sourced and does not qualify for prize worthy

Actually, it seems to me that this is like the Hugo. From the Wikipedia: "Seiun" is the Japanese word for "nebula", but the award is not related to the American Nebula Award. It is not the Japanese "equivalent" to the Hugo Award, as the Hugo Award is open to works from anywhere in any language, but it is similar to the Hugo Award, which is presented by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, in that all of the members of the presenting convention are eligible to participate in the selection process.

10.5 Nebula

Dune by Frank Herbert

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 BOTNS#128 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/..., 10.9)
+15 Prize worthy (Nebula, Hugo, Seiun)
+5 Jumbo (604 pgs)

Task total: 40
Grand total: 335

20.10 Canonical

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.1, 10.2, 10.3 (Krista), 10.8 - BOTNS #52 http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/...)
+10 not a novel (short stories)

Task total: 50
Grand total: 295

I'd like to move Invisible Cities from Task 10.7 (post #195) to Task #20.4.

This is +10.

New points: 10
Grand total: 245

Too Much Happiness:

The Idiot
Alice in Wonderland
The Scarlet Letter
A Shropshire Lad
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Brothers Karamazov
The Mill on the Floss
The Wings of the Dove
The Magic Mountain
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Civilization on Trial
The Great Conspiracy Against Russia

From The Magician's Nephew:

Treasure Island

Wow, Kate. My posts have been a mess. Thanks for sorting everything out for me. I show my updated total at this point at 235.

20.9 Nameless

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.1, 10.9, 20.4)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 225

10.7 Weird

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.1, 10.3 (Liz M), 10.4, 10.9)
+10 Not a novel
+10 Canon

Task total: 50
Grand total: 190

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Continuing to work on adding prizes to Goodreads, I just came across Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe, which would have 2 prizes for prize worthy, but I post because her GR profile s..."

And I have read it and loved it. While it is short stories, they are interconnected and fit wonderfully together. You can see my review here.

From New Grub Street:

The Odyssey - "In a few minutes it occurred to him that it would be delightful to read a scrap of the 'Odyssey'; he went to the shelves on which were his classical books, took the desired volume, and opened it where Odysseus speaks to Nausicaa"

Oedipus Rex - "Let me have your Sophocles. . . . Now, I want to know how you scan this chorus in the 'Oedipus Rex.'"

Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Pliny's letters -- maybe Pliny's Letters or Selections from Pliny's Letters

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

20.4 Guardian

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

+20 Task
+35 Combo (10.2, 10.3 (Sam), 10.9, 20.1, 20.5, 20.7, 20.10)
+10 Canon
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 70
Grand total: 140