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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.39 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal

3 of spades: 3-word title
7 of diamonds: title starts with an "S" (you can disregard opening articles)
K of diamonds: set at least 75% in Central America, South America, or the Caribbean: set 95% in Puerto Rico =
20 point hand

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 765

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 469:

Off-White by Astrid H. Roemer

This book is set about 75% in Suriname and turns this country green.

I'll note also that both of the books I read for Su..."

Got it! (Sorry that took a minute, I've been away from my computer since Thursday)
And I'm so happy to hear they've been 5-star reads! I've read a fair amount of stinkers for this challenge, but the good ones are so memorable that I don't mind suffering through the stinkers to find the gold ;-)

SU 19 Ratings Game

Read 10 books by 10 different authors based on the number of ratings on GoodReads. Your books will be chosen using the following breakdown of ratings:

250,000 or more ratings: Macbeth, All Good People Here, Malibu Rising
100,000 - 249,999: Ask Again, Yes, 201,954
75,000 - 99,999: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, 95,020
25,000 - 74,999: Call Us What We Carry, 25,738
15,000 - 24,999: Bear, 17,240
10,000 - 14,999: Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, 14,428
5,000 - 9,999: Scorched Grace, 8,910
1,000 - 4,999: People Change, 1,643
250 - 999: A Town with Half the Lights On, 623
fewer than 250 ratings: The Kiwi Sisters' Camino de Santiago, 6

Putting this here so I don't lose it and also to document current ratings.

15.38 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

7 of clubs: original published date '70s of any century: 1976
10 of diamonds: series has 10+ titles: this was the 12th installment of Miss Marple =
17 point hand

+15 Task
+5 Old

Task total: 20
Season total: 750

15.37 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

The Witch’s Lens by Luanne G. Smith

10 of hearts: historical fic set at least 100 years before first pub. date: set during WWI and while it didn't have exact setting dates it was definitely before the end of the war, in 1918; first published in 2023
A of spades: first in a series: first in The Order of the Seven Stars series =
20 point hand

Task total: 15
Season total: 730

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 354

Zama by Antonio di Benedetto

Set 100% in Paraguay and this turns that country green.

(And if it weren't for that green, I probably would have chucked it. 😠)"

OMG I'm so glad you finished Paraguay! There was a book I was reading for it and it was *killing* me--now I can DNF it with a clear conscience LOL

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 405:

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie


This takes place entirely in Nicaragua and turns that country green."

Sweet! (I knew this one sounded familiar! I read this back in 2022 and forgot to post about it in the Group Challenge thread *face palm*). Another country turned green! Nice reading!!

15.29 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little Rock => Oklahoma City => Kansas City => Omaha

Goodbye, Paris by Anstey Harris

+15 Task omAHa

Task total: 15
Season total: 715

15.28 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little Rock => Oklahoma City => Kansas City

The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

+15 Task, kanSas City

Task total: 15
Season total: 700

15.27 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little Rock => Oklahoma City

Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin

+15 Task, oklahoMa City

Task total: 15
Season total: 685

15.26 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little Rock

Fox & I by Catherine Raven

+15 Task, RoCk

Task total: 15
Season total: 670

15.36 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

Richard II by William Shakespeare

J of hearts: top 150 on anti-heroes list: #128 ON LIST
Q of spades: book about royalty: RICHARD II was king of England from 1377-1399 =
20 point hand

+15 Task
+5 Old

Task total: 20
Season total: 655

15.35 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

The Collectors by A.S. King (790 Lexile)

10 of spades: short stories or essays: SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Q of clubs: LGBT in genre section of book page: #9 of 10 MPG on book page =
20 point hand

Task total: 15
Season total: 635

15.25 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville

The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour

+15 Task, naShVille

Task total: 15
Season total: 620

15.24 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh

Bad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay

+15 Task, pittsburGH

Task total: 15
Season total: 605

15.34 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

8 of spades: author born in a country starting with "I": IRAN
Ace of diamonds: 75-199 pages: 100 PAGES =
19 point hand

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 590

15.33 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen Rubin

2 of clubs: has 200-299 pages: 272 pages
5 of clubs: MPG of science: PSYCHOLOGY (was cleared in original thread for this task)
K of spades: has a title word ending in -ing: "EXPLORING" =
17 point hand

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 575

15.32 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary

9 of spades: Book published in a year ending in 9: 2019
10 of clubs: Original published date is in the 10s: 2019 =
19 point hand

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 560

15.31 SP20 Blackjack

To make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.

Sunrises to Santiago: Searching for Purpose on the Camino de Santiago by Gabriel Schirm

4 of clubs: main page genre: adventure, western, mystery, thriller: ADVENTURE
6 of clubs: author first, middle or last name is exactly 6-letters long: SCHIRM
Q of diamonds: set (75%) in any Western European country: 98% in SPAIN=
20 point hand

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 545

15.10 SU24 Olympic Scavenger

TENNIS, Option A: Read a book where a character engages in the activity.

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks

+15 Task, the author plays the entire Moldovan National Football Team at tennis

Task total: 15
+100 Second sub completion
Season total: 530