Apple’s Comments (group member since Aug 28, 2021)

Apple’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Woohoo! I can finish the series! Heavy season….

Oka, and then there is Three Body Problem. I see it has a fourth book by a different author, so I am guessing this is not now a trilogy?

It says same universe in the synopsis, not necessarily meaning same story

Yay! Looks like I am reading some bigger than normal books for me next season!

Is The Fifth Season part of a trilogy? The series page is confusing, because there are extra books without number.

Can I please lock in No Time Like the Past for romance? it is the last genre on the main page, and I am hoping it won't drop off.

A letter can be used as many times as there are tiles, yes? So, if there are 4 D's we can use 2 in a single word?

15.6 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3

Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems About Climate Change by Ben Okri


Option B, cycle- " ' ... cycle of creation and destruction that brought us to this point.'"

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1105

10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

15.5 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3

The Promise by Tony Birch

Option B, football = "Red came up with the idea of tucking the bottoms of our jeans into our football socks and wrapping electrical tape around them ..."

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1090

10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

When you live in the Southern hemisphere, and the 15th is nearly over , and you can't hold in the anticipation any longer .... At least I am pretty sure how I will spend my weekend!

I am so ready for new challenges, Summer has been fun, but I am getting antsy in my reading, and it is becoming too much like hard work to make things fit any more :(

10.2 Long jump

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Historical Fiction

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 1075

10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

15.4 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3

October Child by Linda Boström Knausgård

Option B, (horse) riding - "I concluded that riding was his domain. He wanted to ride his horse in peace."

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1065

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

15.3 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Option B, row - " ' Row like the blazes, lads!' Rob Anybody yelled."

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1050

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

15.2 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3

Baumgartner by Paul Auster

Option B, sail - " ... but there is an equal chance that she will sail eastward under balmy skies from the moment she starts out..."

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1035

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x2); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

15.1 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Option B, Swim - " She'd lived next to the ocean for her entire life, had learned to walk with salt on her lips and learned to swim before she could read."


Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1020

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

10.9 Javelin Throw

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 1005

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

10.5 400 metres

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 995

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

20.7 Opening Ceremonies

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie
E, United Kingdon

+30 task
+5 Before 1999

Post Total = 35
Season Total = 985

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;

15.10 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2

Shy by Max Porter

Option B, Basketball - " [The camera noses into the tv room, three huge sunken brown sofas, a mini basketball hoop on the back of the door..."

+15 task
+100 Finisher Bonus

Post Total = 115
Season Total = 950

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;

10.6 Hurdles

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Contemporary

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 835

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;

15.9 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Option A, horse-riding - " Fowler got his horse and rode a little behind me as I walked."

+15 task
+5 Before 1999

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 825

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x2); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6;