Jackie’s Comments (group member since Sep 22, 2019)

Jackie’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

20.4 Poet’s Non-poetry

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Task Points +20
Style Points: +20
Lost in Translation +10 (originally published in Italian)
Oldies+5 (published in 1957)
Jumbo +5 (675 pages)

Task Total: +40
Season Total: 210

20.8 Unification Season

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Task Points +20: First published in 1969

Combo points +5
10.4 Genius (#129 on the list)

Style Points
+10 Female
+5 Oldies (25-75 years old)

Task total- 40
Season total- 165

I just started Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. I know he wrote both poetry and novels but I don’t know which he was more commonly associated with. Would this work?

10.9 Play The Numbers

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Originally published in 1925 +10
Lost In Translation- originally published in German +10
Oldies (76-100 years old) +10

Task points +30
Season Total: 125

10.5 Debut Novel

There There by Tommy Orange

Combo +5
10.9- published in 2018

Task total- 15
Season Total- 90

Beth wrote: "15.2 C3 Veteran Author

Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni

Task total: 15
Grand total: 85

Jackie - that is a stunning quantity of points for one book. Wow."

That was pure luck! I read it for a local book club and figured I’d check to see how many tasks it qualified for, I wasn’t expecting it to tally up that much!

20.1 Decade +20

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
#328

Combo Points +45
10.1- Rated 5 stars by Tien
10.6- 479 pages
10.8- single word title
10.9- published 2017
10.10- Group Reads
20.3- Author- Min Jin Lee, Main Character- Sunja
20.5- 20th century Japan (spans 4 generations)
20.6- Discrimination against Koreans in Japan
20.7- Takes place mostly in Japan

Style Points
Female Author +10

Task Total: 75
Season Total: 75

20.5 Non-Linear

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Task +20
Combo +5 (10.1)

Task total +25
Grand Total 245

20.4 Boomer
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Task total- 20
Grand Total- 220

Jackie wrote: "10.8 Double O's

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murderby Charles Graeber

Task total: 10
Grand total: 190"

I forgot to add the Bonus points for “Not A Novel” task total should be 20, grand total should be 200.

10.8 Double O's

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murderby Charles Graeber

Task total: 10
Grand total: 190

20.3 Author

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

+20 Task
+ 20 Combo (10.1, 10.7, 20.4, 20.5)

Task total = 40

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 180

20.1 Inaugural

The Overstory by Richard Powers

+20 Task (nominated)
+ 10 Combo (10.3, 20.4)
+ 5 Jumbo (502 pgs)

Task total = 35

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 140

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Posts 234 & 235Jackie wrote: "Hello! I just discovered this group yesterday and am very excited to join in! The first book I finished as of September 1st-

10.10 Group Reads

[book:The Sellout|222..."

No worries Elizabeth, I think I meant to claim it for the Group Reads task since I don’t have a copy of any of the other books but I forgot that it wasn’t eligible for combo points when I made my post. So this brings my total down to 110, correct?

10.7 A E I O U (and sometimes Y!)

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg



+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel

Task total = 30
Season total= 115

20.7 Spec Fic

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Completed September 14th)


+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.1, 10.4, 10.7, 20.5)

Task total = 40
Fall 2019 Total= 85

Hello! I just discovered this group yesterday and am very excited to join in! The first book I finished as of September 1st-

10.10 Group Reads

The Sellout by Paul Beatty
(Finished September 10th)

+10 Task
+35 (Combo- 10.3, 10.4, 10.7, 20.1, 20.4, 20.5, 20.8)

Total- 45 Points
Grand Total- 45 Points