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

Apple’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Good, because I had already moved Their Eyes Were Watching God to my shelf ;)

I am presuming "their" as well as "theirs"?

I read and likes Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf previously, and The Master is already on my dedicated season shelf of books.

Planning on knocking some more off my Joan Didion reading:

Democracy
Salvador and
South and West: From a Notebook

should all work, leaving
A Book of Common Prayer
Let Me Tell You What I Mean and
Where I Was From

for other tasks.

Thanks, pretty sure I own all except the Ishiguro, bury so far my reading of him has shown him to always be a good choice

Will these work:

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Parrot and Olivier in America
The Road
The Buried Giant

20.1 JemisinRivers of London: Body Work by Ben Aaronovitch

+20 task

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 1595

So after all this discussion I added Libby to my apps and have 17 books for next season, not including 65 Agatha Christie, of which I am sure there are many I haven’t read. Would be better if I wasn’t driving my brother to and from work, which really eats in to my listening time.

Normally I use BorrowBox for my audiobooks.

20.1 Jemisin

One Hundred Days by Alice Pung

Karuna is of mixed race, her father being Australian and her mother Filipino-Chinese.

+20 task
+5 combo (10.2)

Task Total = 25
Season Total = 1575

Post 819 Apple wrote: "20.3 Vonnegut

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

+20 task
+5 oldies (first published 1990)
+10 combo (10.2; 20.10)
+200 Mega Finish

Post Total = 235
Season Total ..."

+50 halfway bonus for 20 point task completion
Season Total = 1550

Woohoo! Thanks!

So you get a halfway bonus on completion of both 10 and 20 point tasks, or just for one?

Wondering if I get another 50pts ;)

The Girls in the Picture will work, for this and biographical fiction. I think I came across Frances Marion via a podcast on women's history.

20.3 Vonnegut

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

+20 task
+5 oldies (first published 1990)
+10 combo (10.2; 20.10)
+200 Mega Finish

Post Total = 235
Season Total = 1500

20.1 Jemisin

Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin

+20 task
+10 combo (10.3; 20.2)

Post Total = 30
Season Total = 1265

15.10 EotP Redux

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

National Book Award for Fiction 1993

+15 task
+5 published before 1997 (first published 1993)
+50 all awards within 10 year period (1993-2002)
+100 completion bonus

Post Total = 170
Season Total = 1235

I think there is a lot of crossover potential between this and biography. When I finish my coffee(and last book to complete the challenge, I will post one that will work that I read a couple of years ago.

And there are so many on those film lists I recognise from our shelves! Of course, the ones that sparked my interest we probably don’t have….

Fiction, as well as non-fiction?

I am trying to convince my husband to join, and 95% of his books are film books, so hoping this helps twist that arm further ;)

Last year I read 7 books, so I set my goal for 36. I think I am currently at 70, mostly thanks to RwS, and Mary’s suggestion of Rivers or London for Group Reads 😉

20.5 Faulkner

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

+20 task
+10 combo (10.2; 20.8 - It was bread and an indeterminate soup.On Monday'sthey often mixed up the leftovers and added some onions ... "The soup" she said" It's like mouldy dishwater, I'm not eating it." )

Post Total = 30
Season Total = 1065

Not a question for help, but has anyone else noticed how often the first and last letter is the same? I swear it is occurring in my owned books more than should be statistically possible!