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

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Will Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary work for this task?

It is short stories, but I believe all the characters are animals.

10.7 Poet's Day

Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - Duffy)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 365

Bea wrote: "My Tentative plan:

A1 - North America: The Big Killing
A4 - Asia: The Skull Mantra
B1 - Pub 2004: Poison Study
B3 - Pub 1963: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
C5 - 371 pages: Escape the Night
D2 ..."

You've also got 5 used 3 times in this plan. Maybe consider switching one of them out for a book that is the right length for C3 or C6.

10.5 Smithsonian Day

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.1, 20.8)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 350

I'd like to move a book.

In Post #193, I posted Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems, 2004-2006 by Adrienne Rich as Task 10.7.

Instead, I'd like to move it to Task 10.10.

No style points as this turned out to have a YA-Assignment listing.

Grand total stays the same (currently 330).

Joanna's plan, subject to change:

A3, Europe [or D1, B1, C6, E1] The Amulet of Samarkand (800 lexile)
A5, Africa [or D1, B1, E6, C5] The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
B1, pub. 2001+ [or A1, D1, E1, C6] Small Favor
B2, pub. 1976-2000 [or A1, D4, C5] Postcards
C1, <125 pgs. She Stoops to Conquer
C6, 400-500 pgs. [or A1, D2, B2] Caucasia
D3, Male auth. 40-60 [or A3, B1, C4] Saturday
D4, Female auth. 40-60 [or A3, B2, C3] Mary Reilly
E5, nonfiction 000-499 [or D4, B2, C3] The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
F5, Trans., Spanish - [or A2, D3, B2, C4] Kiss of the Spider Woman
F6, Trans., Swedish - [or A3, D5, B1, E2] The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Second set:

A4, Setting Asia - The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Family's War Time Courage
A6, Setting Australia - The Slap
B3, pub. 1951-1975 - Under the Net
C2, 100-200 pgs. - The First Hurt: Stories
C5, 325-425 pgs. - The Lover
2 of D1, D2, F1, F2, B5 - TBD
E1, Sci-Fi - The Golem's Eye (800 lexile)
E4, Bio/Memoir - Red Azalea
F3, Trans., Japanese - Sputnik Sweetheart

I don't mean to be a pill, but on Double Star what I see under Call# is FIC H. Is there a different copy or different place to look?

Where on a page in BPL is the genre listed to see if something is a mystery or science fiction or romance or whatever? Is this based on shelf names under the Availability Details or is it based on subject headings or what?

How can you tell if BPL considers something a romance?

Will you accept The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini?

He was a sculptor and famous artist of his time, but also is known for his autobiography, etc.

10.8 Father's Day

Waterland by Graham Swift

+10 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1983)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 330

10.2 Visit the Neighbors

A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler

+10 Task (Stephen King group)
+10 Combo (20.6, 20.10 [Baltimore])

Task total: 20
Grand total: 315

20.10 World Series

Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

+20 Task (set in Chicago)
+5 Combo (10.4)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 295

20.7 Four Bagger

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Low lexile, no style

+20 Task (Book 2 in Giver Quartet)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 270

20.2 General Manager

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.5 - journalist; 20.9 - Canada)
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 35
Grand total: 250

10.3 Vacation Reading

River God by Wilbur A. Smith

+10 Task
+5 Combo - 20.7 (Book 1 of Ancient Egypt series of 4)
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 20
Grand total: 215

I missed the penicillin one as well.

20.8 Baseball Team

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

+20 Task (9 narrators plus loads of named characters)
+10 Jumbo (MPE has 761 pgs.)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 190

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 193 Joanna wrote: "Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems, 2004-2006 by Adrienne Rich

I'm sorry. One branch of BPL has this listed as YA assignment and there is no lexile. No style points.
"

Grr. It never even occurred to me to check that poetry book since it isn't directed at kids at all. Oh well.

10.6 Reading is Rewarding

Last Orders by Graham Swift

+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.6 [most pop. ed. 352 pp.], 20.8 [shifting perspectives between six characters, plus at least five more named characters I can think of immediately])

Task total: 20
Grand total: 165 160