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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Sample Path:

15.1 - Science Fiction/Fantasy - Babel by R.F. Kuang - MPG Fantasy

15.2 - Far Future - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

15.3 - Cat - The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

15.4 - Persian - Guapa by Saleem Haddad

15.5 - Tabouleh - The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

15.6 - Mythology - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

15.7 - Noun - An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges

15.8 - Pseudonym - Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire (also publishes as Mira Grant)

15.9 - <5k ratings - The Dragon Head of Hong Kong by Ian Hamilton

15.10 - Thriller - The Ninja Daughter by Tori Eldridge

This is the place to post your path in case you want to post books out of order.

Here is a place for questions about the Choose Your Own Adventure subchallenge for Spring 2025.

This Spring, it's Choose Your Own Adventure, RwS version.

To play, go to https://gettingwed.wixsite.com/mysite. On each page, you'll face a choice. The option you pick is your book for that task. Feel free to page through all the tasks to plan out your route or to leave it to fate and pick your next book one at a time.

Books for the tasks may be completed in any order, but if you are going to post out of order, you must post your complete plan in advance.

Scoring:
Tasks are worth 15 points each.

Finisher bonus:
100 points for each 10-book path completed.

Repetition:
You can play CYOA 3 times, but you must start at a different starting point each time.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "For the color task, do white and black count? How about plurals, possessives or hyphenations? (I don't have examples for this latter.)"

Yes, white and black will count, and plurals are fine. We will not count combined words (e.g., blacksmith).

Polls for Spring season are posted!

Polls for Spring season are posted!

Post 232:
Rosemary wrote: "10.1 Stylish Sci-Fi

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

+10 Task (Literary Fiction and Science Fiction)

Post total = 10
Season total = 355"

+5 Combo 20.8 (auth. b. 1975)

Post 27:
Connie (on semi-hiatus) wrote: "10.1 Stylish Sci-Fi

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Literary Fiction and Science Fiction

Task total: 10
Season total: 35"

+5 Combo - 20.8 (auth b. 1975)

Post 495:
Joanne wrote: "10.2 Holiday Travel

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

Set in before and during WWII, trains are the only means of long-distance transportation. Many characters ..."

The MPE has 758 pages. +5 more jumbo points!

Post 499:
Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Arrow's Flightby Mercedes Lackey
author has wrote 20+ books

Task +20
+10 Aged
book total: 30
Grand Total: 310"

+5 Oldies

Post 412:
Tien wrote: "10.3 Poll 2: New Year's Resolutions
Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper
https://www.dymocks.com.au/top-101

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 )

Post Total: 15
Season Total:..."

+50 Halfway finish - 10pt tasks

Post 501:
Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.8 International Women’s Year
The Fraud by Zadie Smith

+20 task born 1975
+5 combo 10.2 characters often commute into London by train
+5 combo 20.1
+5 combo 20.2 th..."

I don't see Zadie Smith on the 20.5 list and don't immediately see any indication that she is an LGBTQ+ author. Do you have a link?

15.9 BBR

BBR book: Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

D - Same time period - both set contemporary time

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Task total: 25
Grand total: 690

10.3 New Year's Resolution

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.2)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 665

20.5 Tom Spanbauer

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

+20 Task
+15 Combo - 10.6, 20.2, 20.3

Task total: 30
Grand total: 650

Post 345:
Karen Michele wrote: "20.10 The _____ of _____

The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
20 Point Finish: 50
Post Total: 70
Grand total: 720"

+5 Combo 20.5

Post 474:
Nick wrote: "20.1 Paul Auster and Alice Munro

Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo, an author on the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature list.

+ 20 Task Points
+ 5 Combo -- 20.3 A..."

+10 Aged (b. 1951)

10.5 New Year, New Date

Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

+10 Task (pub. 1592)
+10 Aged (lived to age 75)
+25 Oldies
+10 Non-Western
+10 Combo (10.1 - Classics/Fantasy; 10.8)

Task total: 65
Grand total: 615

Post 420:
Valerie wrote: "10.7 Verity

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

10 task
5 combo 20.7 (MC has a cat 'El Chorizo' who is his connection to his deceased father and his only friend)
_____
15
..."

+10 Combo - 10.10, 20.3