Anika’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2011)

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.3 Decathlon, Shot Put

A Paris Affair by Tatiana de Rosnay, 2.81 avg rating

+10 Task

Task total: 10
+100 Finisher Bonus
Season total: 350

10.1 Decathlon, 100 Metres

Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey by A.J. Jacobs, MPE 160 pages

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 240

10.10 Decathlon, 1500 Meters

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham, MPE 538 pages

+10 Task
+5 Big

Task total: 15
Season total: 230

15.9 Olympic Scavenger

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

Option B: wrestle or wrestling

"Or: they'd been swimming together, they'd been wrestling in the water and things got out of hand?"

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 215

10.9 Decathlon, Javelin Throw

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

+10 Task
+5 Pub'd 1999

Task total: 15
Season total: 200

10.6 Decathlon, Hurdles

Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper, MPG Nonfiction

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 185

10.2 Decathlon, Long Jump

The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell, MPG Thriller

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 175

Joanne wrote: "Anika-did my read for the Solomon Islands not work for some reason? No big deal, just curious"

I don't know why it didn't come up in my search of the Spring Completed Tasks when I searched for "30.1" entries! So bizarre. I have updated it to reflect your turning Solomon Islands green! Thank you so much for bringing that to my attention! :-)

Valerie wrote: "How did we do overall this spring with our spreadsheet?"

We turned TEN countries green (Bouvet Island, Uruguay, Timor-Leste, Cayman Islands, Fiji, Bahamas, Azerbaijan, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico, Solomon Islands) and FOUR countries orange (Lithuania, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Luxembourg, and French Polynesia)! Go team!

10.5 Decathalon, 400 Metres

Table for Two by Amor Towles, 464 pages

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 165

10.4 Decathalon, High Jump

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller, 4.36 avg rating

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 155

15.8 Olympic Scavenger

Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at Happy Hour by Ross Mathews

Option B: athletic or athletics

"I respected American Pie actress Shannon right away because I could tell she was smart, an animal activist, and clearly the best player in the game: athletic, aggressive, and cut-throat."

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 145

Linda wrote: "10.9 Decathlon
Javelin Throw

How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling by Jane Wilson-Howarth

+10 Task

Running Total: 60"

This book and task were claimed in Post 161...did you mean to post a different book?

10.8 Pole Vault

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths, Edgar Award for Best Novel 2020

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 130

15.7 Olympic Scavenger

Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge

Option A: swim or swimming

When their tiny plane crashes between Tahiti and the Marquesas, Barry swims to land. While living on their desert island, Barry and Sophie swim a lot. Not much else to do on a desert island...

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 120

15.6 Olympic Scavenger

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

Option B: football

"...after years of jeering at football and all the football means, here I was on an empty Caribbean beach, running these silly pass patterns with all the zeal of a regular sandlot fanatic."

+15 Task
+5, pub. 1998

Task total: 20
Season total: 105

15.5 Olympic Scavenger

The Girl from the Island by Lorna Cook

Option B: golf or golfing

"'Playing golf today, what are you doing?'"

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 85

15.4 Olympic Scavenger

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Option B: dive or diving

"I waded out into the lake, its rocky shoreline pricking at my feet every few steps until I was far enough to dive under."

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 70

10.7 Decathlon, Discus Throw

The Daring Girls of Guernsey by Gayle Callen

+10 Task, Daring

Task total: 10
Season total: 55

15.3 Olympic Scavenger

Circe by Madeline Miller

Option A: sailing
Circe lives on Aeaea, an island, so everyone who visits her comes by boat. At one point, she herself sails to Minos to assist her sister in birthing the Minotaur.

Task total: 15
Season total: 45