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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.2 AtA:

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 145

15.1 AtA:

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 125

10.9 Hot off the Press

Glory in Death by J.D. Robb

+10 Task (#38(!) in the series published 2014 Concealed in Death)
+15 Combo (10.2 - Jackie; 10.3 - b. 1950; 10.4 - bb)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 110

10.7 Summer Celebrations

Dust by Hugh Howey

+10 Task (http://www.hughhowey.com/a-birthdaypa...)
+10 Combo (10.2 - Beckie Tomlin; 10.9 - pub. 2013)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 85

10.1 Instant Replay

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

+10 Task (won the National Book Critics Nonfiction Prize)
+20 Combo (10.2 - itpdx; 10.3 - b. 1964; 10.4 - oo; 10.7 - August)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 65

20.6 Unfinished

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett

+20 Task (#163 when I checked)
+15 Combo (10.2 - 5-star Ravyn, 10.3 - b. 1948, 10.4 - double TT)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 35

Can pair Inside: Life Behind Bars in America with Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing?

The first is written by an inmate and is my planned read for 20.2. The second is the story of a reporter who became a prison guard. They aren't set in the same prison (or even the same state), but they are both contemporary US men's prisons.

Tanya wrote: "The Goldfinch is a long one, but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this one. I'm glad it won an award."

The narration was awesome. I wasn't in love with the book, but the narrator did a great job.

20.7 Local Talent

Words Under the Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

+20 Task (b. in St. Louis - I live in Missouri)
+10 Not-a-novel (poetry)
+5 Combo (20.8 - words)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 700

I think that's probably it. We'll see if I finish the other book I'm reading.

20.8 Spring Fling

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

Task total: 20
Grand total: 665

20.8 Spring Fling

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington

+20 Task (Third)
+10 Not-a-novel (nonfiction)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 645

20.10 I Love NYC

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

+20 Task (NYRB: http://www.nybooks.com/books/browse/a...)
+5 Oldies (1954)

Task total: 25

+100 RWS finish

Grand total: 615

20.6 Tempest

Saturday by Ian McEwan

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 490

Heather wrote: "10.7

Shift by Hugh Howey (Silo #2)

+10 task
+10 jumbo (608 pages)

task total: 20
grand total: 1455"

Oh...if Shift is on the 10.7 list, I'd like to claim an extra +5 to my post 405 where I claimed it for 20.8. Also, Heather should get +5 for combo with 20.8.

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Lexile: 920

+20 Task (1860-1937)
+5 Combo (10.4)
+10 Oldies (1911)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 470

I'd like to move a book.

In Post #217, I posted A Midsummer Night's Dream to task 20.1.

I'd like to move that to 10.2.

Move total: -10
Grand total: 435

10.3 Romeo and Juliet

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

+10 Task
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 15
Grand total: 445

Starting with C.S. Lewis

15.1 Diana Wynne Jones
15.2 Patricia C. Wrede
15.3 Garth Nix
15.4 Clive Barker
15.5 China Miéville
15.6 Hannu Rajaniemi
15.7 Charles Stross
15.8 John Scalzi
15.9 Paolo Bacigalupi
15.10 Connie Willis

All of these are new to me, though several are ones that I've been meaning to get to.

20.9 Battle of the Wilderness

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 430

One of the authors that keeps coming up on my lists is Ellen Datlow. Looking at her, it appears she's really an editor.

Can she be used for this?