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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Moldova just turned green with Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks, in case it impacts anyone's reading plans :-)

Nick wrote: "Post 310:

The Clunies-Ross Cocos Chronicle by John C Clunies-Ross tells the history of the Cocos Islands by the current Clunies-Ross family member who still lives..."

Woo hoo! Look at us go!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 308:

The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud

Set 100% in Brunei Darussalam and turns that country green. This was a treasure that I never would have read h..."

Another one: done!

15.23 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St. Marie => Toronto

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

+15 Task, ToRonto

Task total: 15
Season total: 415

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 263

Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars

This takes place about 95% in Guyana and turns this country fro..."

Got it! ✅

15.22 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St. Marie

Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster by Andrew Leatherbarrow

+15 Task, sAuLt

Task total: 15
Season total: 400

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 224:

The Disobedient Wife by Annika Milisic-Stanley

With the exception of 3 pages, this takes place in Tajikistan and moves that country from blue to orange..."

Got it!

15.9 SU24 Olympic Scavenger

Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph by Yusra Mardini

SWIM OR SWIMMING Option A, read a book where a character engages in the sport: Both Yusra and Sarah, her sister, swim on multiple occasions including at the Olympics

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 385

15.8 SU24 Olympic Scavenger

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

WRESTLE OR WRESTLING Option B, find the exact word in the text: "They did entreat me to acquaint her of it; / But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick, / To wish him wrestle with affection, / And never to let Beatrice know of it."

+15 Tasks
+5 Old

Task total: 15
Season total: 370

You guys!!!! I am so amazed at this incredible progress on our group project! Go Team 👏

15.21 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth =>

The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes

+15 Task, city name contains all initials of author: DulutH

Task total: 15
Season total: 350

15.20 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year => Wordle => Six => Historical Fiction

Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James

+15 Task, MPG Historical Fiction

Task total: 15
+50 First Subchallenge Completion
Season total: 335

15.19 SP 25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year => Wordle => Six

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

+15 Task, read a book with a 6 in first pub. date: 1623
+5 Old

Task total: 20
Season total: 270

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika - see also Tien's Post 169! 👏

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Sweet! I've been travelling non-stop the past day and a half and unable to check in here...what a pleasant surprise to see that we've made progress on THREE countries in that time!

15.18 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year => Wordle

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

+15 Task, author's name = 5 letters

Task total: 15
Season total: 250

15.17 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year

77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists by Марічка Паплаускайте

+15 Task, number in title

Task total: 15
Season total: 235

15.16 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member

Mad King Robin by James Vella-Bardon

+15 Task, James Vella-Bardon is a goodreads author

Task total: 15
Season total: 220

15.15 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100=299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir

The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch

+15 Task, thE masqueRades Of spRINg

Task total: 15
Season total: 205

Apple wrote: "message 153: by Apple

Road No Good byBridget Isichei
is set 95% + in VANUATU

Vanuatu now green!"

Look at us go! I can't believe how quickly this Group Project is progressing--woo hoo!

Nick wrote: "I just read The Limits by Nell Freudenberger for the summer sub-challenge.

I think over 50% is in French Polynesia, though I have not counted words."

As long as over 50% page count was in French Polynesia, we're good! I've put it in the spreadsheet and that turns another country GREEN! Go team!