Deedee’s Comments (group member since Aug 04, 2010)

Deedee’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

Task 15.14 Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s

4th book: Letter N

Automatic Noodle (2025) by Annalee Newitz

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 280 + 15 = 295

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Goodness! I don't think we've ever had a 3-way tie before."

I haven't voted yet but I decline to be the deciding vote amongst the three :)

Or, maybe, y'all should lobby me! LOFL! (don't, just kidding)

Task 15.25 Fall 2021 How to Play Counting on Authors

Author name has 13 letters
JENNI
FERCL
OSE

Marrying the Ketchups (2022) by Jennifer Close (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 310 pages)

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 265 + 15 = 280

Task 15.13 Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s

3rd book: Letter M

Lost (2001) by Gregory Maguire (Hardback 352 pages)

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 250 + 15 = 265

Task 15.28 Fall 2021 How to Play Counting on Authors
Author name 16-17 Letters

Author name has 16 letters
ALIS
ONFA
IBRO
THER

The Catch (2022) by Alison Fairbrother (Hardback 279 pages)

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 235 + 15 = 250

Task 15.10 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

HOCKEY
Option B

How Did You Get This Number: Essays (2010) by Sloane Crosley (Hardback 274 pages) [814.6]

p. 100: “We are quick to highlight our own ignorance, blurting out things like ‘I don’t know how to place ice HOCKEY!’ when someone casually points to a pond.”

+15 Task
+50 points for your first sub-challenge completion

Task Total: 15 + 50 = 65

Grand Total: 170 + 65 = 235

Task 15.09 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

DIVING
Option B

A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #1) (2013) by Marie Brennan

p. 294: “I swiftly weighed the likely outcome if I were on his back, and flung myself from the saddle, DIVING for cover.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 155 + 15 = 170

Task 15.12 Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s

2nd book: Letter L

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) (2013) by Ann Leckie (Paperback 386 pages)

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 140 + 15 = 155

Task 15.08 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

ROWING
Option B
Quoting Charles Babbage’s Autobiography:
p. 105:
“I was very fond of boating, not of the more manual labour of ROWING, but the more intellectual art of sailing.”

Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age (2013) by James Essinger [510.92]

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 125 + 15 = 140

Apple wrote: "It's halfway through Subchallenge Summer, how is everyone going?

Am I the only person in the group who reaches this point and no longer wants to read any of the books they chose at the start, and is now looking at how they can change it all up? It happens every season!"

LOL I'm the same way! Probably why I rarely complete all the tasks.

This time around, I'll complete one of the sub-challenges. I just posted book #7 for the subchallenge, and I'm almost finished with book #8.

Task 15.07 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

HORSE
Option B

p. 127: “A few of my students – the loners and the misfits, the ones without a gang of friends to HORSE around with in the hall – were already at their desks, and more started trickling in by twos and threes, nodding at me as they entered but seldom answering my ‘Good morning’.”

Three Days in June (2025) by Anne Tyler

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 110 + 15 = 125

Task 15.06 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

BOXING
Option B

Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron (Jane Austen Mysteries #10) (2010) by Stephanie Barron (Paperback 339 pages)

p. 76: “His was a raddled and dissipated face, much cragged and lined; he was famous for his patronage of the Fancy – the sport of BOXING – for his military service during the late war in the American colonies; and for his general lack of sense.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 95 + 15 = 110

Task 15.05 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

TENNIS
Option A
Chapter 9, p. 58-63: The retirement community where Augusta Stern lives hosts an annual Tennis Tournament for the Seniors. p. 59: “They do it every year, as soon as the U. S. Open is over.” The community’s tennis pro is the umpire. p. 60: “For the next forty-five minutes, the quartet of seniors ran and lunged as if they were teenagers. As the two sides traded winning shots, the games stretched on interminably.”

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern (2024) by Lynda Cohen Loigman (Hardback 313 pages)

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 80 + 15 = 95

Task 15.04 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

SAILING
Option B

Trouble on the Books (Castle Bookshop Mystery #1) (2019) by Essie Lang (Hardback 329 pages)

p. 14: “Terry’s Boat Lines had agreed to put on an extra SAILING of their smaller boat, which was used to get the various staffers and volunteers to the island, an hour early.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 65 + 15 = 80

Joanna wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Whoops! I'm doing 2 sub-challenges and I've been numbering both of them 15.1, 15.2, etc. How do y'all want me to fix it???"

Can you please give the post numbers that should go with ..."

Post #0114 Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s
Should be 15.11 instead of 15.01
I've only posted one book for Sub Challenge Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s so it is only that one post that needs to be renumbered.

Sorry for the mixup!

Whoops! I'm doing 2 sub-challenges and I've been numbering both of them 15.1, 15.2, etc. How do y'all want me to fix it???

Task 15.3 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

WRESTLING
Option B

How to Tail a Cat (The Cats and Curios Mystery #4) (2012) by Rebecca M. Hale (Paperback 298 pages)

p. 274: “She had at first refused to participate in Monty’s ill-conceived rescue operation, but the prospect of at least nominally complying with her uncle’s parting request – combined with the potential spectacle of her gangly-legged neighbor WRESTLING a live alligator – had proved too tempting to resist.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 50 + 15 = 65

Task 15.2 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

GOLF
Option B

The Factory (2010) by Hiroko Oyamada (female); translated from Japanese by David Boyd

p. 60: “As a rule, the people sitting in chairs at the islands are quiet, but everyone joins the conversation when something like GOLF comes up.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 35 + 15 = 50

Task 15.1 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

BASKETBALL
Option B

The Strange Case of Jane O. (2025) by Karen Thompson Walker (Hardback 278 pages)

p. 173: “A group of kids raced by, BASKETBALLS in their arms.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 20 + 15 = 35

Task 15.01 Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s

1st book: Letter K

Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling

+15 Task
+05 Old (Published in 1901

Task Total: 15 + 05 = 20

Grand Total: 00 + 20 = 20