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

Anika’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.9 PC2

The Circle by Dave Eggers, 493 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 1380

15.1 PC2

Congratulations, By the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness by George Saunders, 64 pages, and Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, 44 pages

+15 Task (both living authors)

Task total: 15
Season total: 1365

20.1 Lifetime

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 "Man")
+10 Not-a-Novel

Task total: 35
Season total: 1350

Lagullande wrote: "Ed wrote: "I don't think a double-Mega is possible because one is only permitted to complete the 10.1 task once. ."

Of course. You're right, Ed. Maybe that restriction should be removed if it is t..."

I'm kinda bummed about the 10.1 restriction--it would have been fun to try for a double-Mega! Ah well...I'll just focus on the Page Count sub-challenge for a while :-)

15.5 PC2

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris, 275 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 1315

Thanks for all the congrats, everyone! I'm blushing up a storm over here...though:

Is it bad to admit that somehow in my head I got mixed up and thought that the season ended at the end of January rather than the end of February so I thought I was just squeaking in under the wire?
(I wish there was a way to use emojis here, because I'd put in a long line of laughing-so-hard-I'm-crying faces...)

15.4 PC2

It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright, 240 pages

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1300

15.6 PC2

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan, 328 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 1285

15.9 PC

One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern, 469 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15

+100 Completion Bonus
+50 All Living Authors
+200 Mega Finish

Season total: 1270

20.4 Doctorate

The History Boys by Alan Bennett

+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (play)
+10 Combo (20.1--b. 1934; 20.3--83-years-old)

Task total: 40
+100 RwS Finish
Season total: 905

10.5 In Translation

Electrico W by Hervé Le Tellier

+10 Task (won the 2013 French-American Foundation Translation Prize)
+10 L-i-T (originally written in French)
+10 Combo (10.9, "Herve"; 20.1, b. 1957)

Task total: 30
Season total: 765

15.10 PC

Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, 571 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 735

20.6 Literature Map

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8--shelved 282 times as "fantasy"; 10.9 "Hamid"; 20.1--born 1971)

Task total: 35
Season total: 720

20.3 Aged

Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems by Mary Oliver

+20 Task (author is 82-years-old)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Combo (20.1--born 1935; 20.4--approved in thread)

Task total: 40
Season total: 685

20.2 Scottish

The Bachelors by Muriel Spark

+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.9, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4, 20.6)

Task total: 45
Season total: 645

15.3 PC

Do Not Find Me by Kathleen Novak, 184 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 600

15.4 PC

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Finding Love Beyond Words by Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, 240 pages

+15 Task (by living authors)

Task total: 15
Season total: 585

15.2 PC

Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma by David Boyle, 112 pages (MPE is the kindle version; paperback is 107, so still fits the requirement)

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 570

15.8 PC

My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella, 448 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 555

15.7 PC

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden, 362 pages

+15 Task (by a living author)

Task total: 15
Season total: 540

10.10 Group Read

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman

+10 Task (Thanks for choosing this one, Denise! Loved it)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Jumbo (522 pages)
+15 Combo (10.8--shelved as "fantasy" 26 times; 20.1--born 1960; 20.4--approved in thread)

(I wasn't sure if it would qualify for 10.6 since they're more essays than short stories, so took the cautious route)

Task total: 40
Season total: 525

Owlette wrote: "20.1 Lifetime

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Overdrive audiobook edition)

+20 Task
+25 combo: 10.9, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.6

Task Total: 45
Season Tot..."

How did you like the audiobook for this one? I've been considering getting it on Audible...