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

Apple’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Message 412: Apple wrote: "10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

+10 task

Post Total =10
Season Total = 525

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4;..."

Can I please move post 412 to:

15.2 Listopia
Popsugar 2021 #34 - A Book About a Social Justice Issue #5
[ATY 2022] Historical Fiction #19
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

New Post Total = 15
New Season Total = 675

10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 15.1;15.2;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

Message 410:Apple wrote: "10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)

Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
Set in SYDNEY

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 5..."

Can I please move post 410 to :

15.1 Listopia

Popsugar 2021 #34 - A Book About a Social Justice Issue #248
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Amnesty by Aravind Adiga


New Post Total = 15
New Season Total = 660

10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 15.1;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "You posted this option in your Post 410. Did you mean to also post a finisher's bonus in that post? You cannot repeat an option before completing all of them."

Urgh! I missed that part in the task listing. What is your recommendation, because this impacts multiple posts :(

EDIT: Problem Solved! Not how I planned to spend the morning, and I had just decided not to do the 15 point challenge. Oh well, looks like the rest of the morning is going to be spent making new plans ...

10.10. Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored.

Gilgamesh by Joan London

+10 task
+100 finisher bonus

Post Total = 110
Season Total = 675

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task
20.5 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2014

+20 task

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 565

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

10.6. Number is in year of Author birth

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Born 1969

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 545

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

10.7. Number is in original pub date

Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton
First Published 2006

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 535

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

+10 task

Post Total =10
Season Total = 525

10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)

Braised Pork by An Yu
Set in BEIJING

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 515


10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)

Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
Set in SYDNEY

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 505

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task
20.4 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Hugo Award for Best Novel 2015

+20 task

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 495

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

I went to the library and ”accidentally” picked up two books not in my planning, then had to find a place for my RL Book Club book, so have had to make a second 10 point plan- oh no, tragedy! 🤣🤣

I should get through the current 20 point plan, have to decided between Disturbing and Post-Colonial for my 3rd plan, as I don’t think I can manage both. Should finish the second 10 point plan, and will hopefully start the 15 point plan by the end of this month, so I might not finish, but I will give it a shot.

My brother’s work keep changing the date of their move, so I have had to reconcile myself to the fact that I will still drive him for the rest of this season, but will get 2 hours extra audiobook time a day from next season, so look out! 🤣🤣

20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task
20.3 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Costa Book Award for Novel 2015

+20 task

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 475

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3(x2); 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task
20.2 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Costa Book Award for Novel 2013

+20 task
+5 Big (531 pages)

Post Total = 25
Season Total = 455

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task
20.1 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Costa Book Award for First Novel 2017

+20 task

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 430

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

10.8. Number is in MPE page count

A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
385 pages

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 410

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10

20.10 Fall 2021: 20.2 Anti-hero
In honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, read a book from one of these anti-hero lists. Best Anti-heroes in Books (Top 150)
The Best Anti-heroes (Top 150)

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.

#10 on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)

+20 task
+5 Before 1998
+Bonus 100 points: 10 tasks from 10 different seasons

Post Total = 125
Season Total = 400

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9

20.9 Winter 20-21: 20.5 Africa
In honor of Chinua Achebe, read one of the top 225 books from the list Africa (fiction and nonfiction).

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

# 13 on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)

+20 task
+5 Before 1998

Post Total = 25
Season Total = 275

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; ...

10.6. Number is in year of Author birth

Seduced by Moonlight by Laurell K. Hamilton
Born 1963

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 250

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...

10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name

A Caress of Twilight by Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell has 7 letters

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 240

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...