Joanna’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2010)

Joanna’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

The final Summer Readerboard is now posted. Sorry for the slight delay in closing out the season!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "B1: Neustadt International Prize winners and nominees

Do pseudonyms work for this? John Banville was a nominee in 2012, but he also writes under the name of Benjamin Black

Yes, but please give the matching name in your post.

For example:

A Death In Summer by Benjamin Black
Note: Benjamin Black is a pen name for John Banville

Here's my tentative plan, pending decisions about other tasks.

B1 - equal letters first and last name
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
B2 - 51% not in US/Canada/UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ
The Morgue Keeper by Ruyan Meng
B3 - Author's latest book
North Woods by Daniel Mason
B4 - Title starts/ends same letter
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
B5 - 1 and 6 in publication year
Rocked by Livia Grant
B1 - equal letters first and last name
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
I2 - set 200+ years before publication date
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
N3 - free
(TBD)
G4 - four word title
Because They Wanted To: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
O5 - alliterative title
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

15.24 SU 18 Listopia Tags

The Blank:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
Tag - title
Book - #126

The Husbands by Chandler Baker

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 375

15.23 SU 18 Listopia Tags

Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2025: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Tag - science-fiction
Book - #8

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 360

15.22 SU 18 Listopia Tags

What Women Born in the 1970s have Read 2025:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Tag - 1970s-women
Book - #2

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 345

15.21 SU 18 Listopia Tags

Booktube Recommends 2022: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Tag - Recommended
Book - #22

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 330

15.20 FA 19 Pick N Mix 2

A1 - Set in the USA

The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson

+15 Task
+50 Finisher bonus

Post total: 65
Grand total: 315

15.7 SU 24 Decathlon

Task 10.8 Pole Vault
Winner of certain awards

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

+15 Task (won the Hugo in 2019)

Post total: 15
Grand total: 250

15.19 FA 19 Pick N Mix 2

D6 - literary fiction

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Grand total: 235

15.18 FA 19 Pick N Mix 2

C4 - Third person narrator

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

+15 Task
+5 Old

Post total: 20
Grand total: 220

15.17 FA 19 Pick N Mix 2

B2 - published 1951-2000

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

+15 Task (pub 1998)
+5 Old

Post total: 20
Grand total: 200

15.16 FA 19 Pick N Mix 2

B1 - published 2001 or later

Mean Moms by Emma Rosenblum

+15 Task (pub 2025)

Post total: 15
Grand total: 180

Deedee, me too!

I've been working on two subchallenges, but may not quite finish either one. I've read 6 (plus two in progress) for one and 7 (plus one in progress) for the other. Not a very efficient way to go about it...

15.6 SU 24 Decathlon

Task 10.2 Long Jump
Thriller<==>Nonfiction

The Lake Escape by Jamie Day

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Grand total: 165

15.15 FA 19 Pick N Mix 2

D4 - Nonfiction

I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays by Maris Kreizman

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Grand total: 150

15.14 FA 19 Pick N Mix 2

F6 - Author name T-Z

No Body No Crime by Tess Sharpe

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Grand total: 135

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 Subchallenge 2?

Happy Independence Day to our American members!

15.5 SU 24 Decathlon

Task 10.9 Javelin Throw
Author initials in JAVELIN THROW

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Grand total: 120