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

Apple’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.3 POV

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

+20 task
+ 5 jumbo
+10 series
+15 combo (10.3, 20.5, 20.10 - Alexander Zalachenko

Post Total = 50
Season Total = 2090

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x5); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x4); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x3); 20.6(x3); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x3); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10

10.4 3, 4, 5

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

+10 task
+10 non-western
+5 oldies

Post Total = 25
Season Total = 2040

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x5); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x3); 20.6(x3); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x3); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10

15.10 Growing Genres
Science Fiction

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1818

+15 task
+100 finish bonus, reverse chronological order
+200 mega finish

Post Total =315
Season Total = 2015

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x3); 20.6(x3); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x3); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10

20.5 Female

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

+20 task
+5 series
+10 combo (10.3; 20.3)

Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1700

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x3); 20.6(x3); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x3); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9

20.7 Non-human

Machines like Me by Ian McEwan

+20 task
+20 combo (10.4; 10.5; 20.6 - approved; 20.10 - Maxfield Black, Miranda's father)

Post Total = 40
Season Total = 1665

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6(x3); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x3); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9

20.6 Award

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Jerusalem Prize 2009 Approved in thread

+20 task
+10 non-western
+5 combo (10.4)

Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1625

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6(x3); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9

Ooops! Sorry! That's Okay, I just need to update my notes ;)

Yes, since I am doing that one task for a plan, I will use a different author for each of the 10 posts, so I will need to post the originating author for each task. Which is fine, because it looks like all the people I had chosen using one author are going to crossover anyway, I just need to change the source ;) Thanks!

Hmmm, I have had nothing for 6 hours via phone or macbook

Is anyone else not getting notifications? :(

With Summer 2012 20.4 Literature Map task : Go to Literature Map and type in an author whose work you read this spring (March, April, May). Read a book by another author who comes up on the literature map. While you can repeat this task as many times as you like, you must continue to use the first literature map that you created. Additionally, you must select a different author to read each time you repeat this task. State the author you used to create your Literature Map when claiming points. Can I use the one author, or should I chose different authors, as per the original post? And, if I can use one author, then can it include the originating author?

I am having too much fun planning, I have one 20 point plan covering 20.1-20.10 through various seasons, but I think I have 8 single task plans I have also made.
(I missed the second page of archives initially, so had to go back for more!)

I am not going to post all of the plans here, just register my tasks, because I think I have some questions:

Summer 2015 20.5 - Post-Colonial: In honor of Jean Rhys’ 125th birth anniversary, read a book shelved as " Post Colonial " at least 3 times. From this list https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Also Summer 2015, 20.3 - Post-modern: In honor of Saul Bellow’s 100th birth anniversary and Bharati Mukherjee’s 75th birthday and read any work by one of these Post-modern Writers . From this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Winter 2013-14 20.5 - Disturbing: In honor of Last Exit To Brooklyn, read a book shelved at least five times as "disturbing" . From this list https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Spring 2021 20.1 Prize: A Spell of Winter was the inaugural winner of the Bailey's/Orange/Women's Prize for fiction 25 years ago. In honor of this anniversary, read any book that has won or been nominated for this prize (under any name). All Orange Prize winners or nominees from this list https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/...

Winter 2019-2020 20.10 A Winning Decade: Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019. Using Costa, Hugo and Pulitzer prizes

Spring 2018 20.3 Sanctuary: The authors of Sanctuary and Sanctuary each won the Pulitzer Prize in the fiction/novel category. Read a book by any author who has won in the novel or fiction category of the Pulitzer Prize. This is the list of winners we will be using https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Spring 2022 20.6 The Color Purple: In honor of the 1983 winner, read one of the top 100 BBBC most inspiring novels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_lis....

Summer 2012 20.4 - Literature Map (Fall 2010, 10.2):
Go to Literature Map and type in an author whose work you read this spring (March, April, May). Read a book by another author who comes up on the literature map. While you can repeat this task as many times as you like, you must continue to use the first literature map that you created. Additionally, you must select a different author to read each time you repeat this task. State the author you used to create your Literature Map when claiming points. https://www.literature-map.com/

But I have just planned a plan with 20.1- 20.10!!! 🤣🤣 I just thought it would be a good way to work through different seasons 😊

Well, I was expecting to wake to the sub challenge today, not 3 of them! Very excited!

Can't see that Haruki Murakami has been added to the list, Jerusalem Prize, 2009

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusal...

20.5 Female

A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton

(posted in thread, based on rule 1st book in series is on the list.)

+20 task
+5 series
+10 combo (10.4, 20.7 - approved in thread)
+50 halfway bonus - 2nd time completing 20 point tasks

Post Total = 85
Season Total = 1590

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6(x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9

Thanks Elizabeth. There are at least 7 of them, and generally there are 2 to 90% of the story, so I feel it counts.

A Kiss of Shadows is the first book in the Merry Gentry series, of which A Shiver of Light isthe 9th book, and appears on the list at #230.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/4041...

Will A Shiver of Light work here? The lead character, Merry, is part human, part sidhe (the fairy people of Irish folklore), part brownie, and potentially a goddess. Pretty much all the other main characters, the fathers of her children/lovers are either full sidhe, or part sidhe with mixed other fae.

And what determines a main character, is it just the lead character, or ones central to the story, or appearing a certain % of the story?

15.9 Growing Genres
Science Fiction

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
1897

+15 task

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1505

10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6(x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9