The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama - Our Scores

Dear RRs,

this round has now reached half way with a lovely evening hosted by Sara. Our lively discussion was inspired by gorgeous blue fairy lights, world music and fab food (and wine)...Two men were present as guests too...This topic is proving to be quite controversial...

By the way...
 

The Art of Happiness : Rampire Readers Scores 14/12/11

Rampire Reader	Theme	Unputdownableness	Style	Usefulness	FINAL SCORE
Anja	7	6	5	4	22/40
Monica	10	7	6	10	33/40
Raka	10	8	9	8	35/40
Sara	8	5	5	9	27/40

Dalai Lama - Why meditate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCRdM71j2E&feature=related

The Alchemist: Our Scores

Dear RRs,

apologies for the delay in posting these scores. It was great to discuss The Alchemist and issues that it triggered...

Greetings from Boston!

Monica

The Alchemist :  November 2011

Rampire Reader	Characters	Topic	Style	UPD* (plot)	Best Character	Worst Character	FINAL SCORE
Anja	4	5	6	7	Santiago	All female characters	22
Heather
Mira
Monica	8	10	8	8	Santiago	Englishman	34
Raka	7	7	7	6	The King	None	27
Sara	6	6	6	8	Santiago	The wind	26

The Secret Doctrine ....Lancashire, Piemonte and Gujarat...and scores

Dear RRs,

we had a remarkable session last night at Raka's who cooked a lovely vegetarian Chinese stir fry for us.
We discussed The Secret Doctrine as much as we could and then moved on to desserts from Lancashire and Piemonte and drank tea from Gujurat!!!! It was great to nibble and sip whilst Raka was enchating us with tales of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma....mainly of Vishnu's avatar as Krishna ;-)))!

However, we also adapted out categories to suit this philosophical scores better. Here we go:
  

The Secret Doctrine : Rampire Readers Scores 18/10/11

Rampire Reader	Theme	Unputdownableness	Style	Usefulness	FINAL SCORE
Anja
Heather
Mira
Monica	9	5	3	8	25/40
Raka	6	6	4	5	19/40
Sara	7	4	3	6	20/40

                 

Helena Blavatsky

In case you wanted to find out more about Helena Blavatsky and her secret doctrine...

http://www.blavatsky.net/

Our first non fictional read!!!

OUR TOP 5 READS SO FAR...

Considering our Global Average Scores so far, here is our TOP 5 so far:

1) What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe (Anja's choice) 37.4

2) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Heather's Coice)    31.8

3) The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (Sara's choice) 31.5

4) The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble (Anja's choice) 28.5

5) Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (Heather's coice) 28

ROUND 2: Our Global Scores....And the winner is...

FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen!!!!

Rampire Readers Round 2 : FAMILY

                            Characters/50     Topic/50      Style/50         Plot/50      Global  Score/200     Average  Score                                                                             

Where Angels Fear to Tread      37          32                37                     18 *                  124/200         24.8

Beloved                                            29          33               20                      10                       92/200         18.4

 Winter’s Bone* /40                    30           27               28                      26                     111/160        27.75                                                    

Freedom                                        41          41               41                       36                     159/200        31.8

The Children’s Book */40           31           33               22                      23                      99/160          24.75

The Peppered  Moth                   28            27             30                      29                      114/160        28.5

 Mira’s scores are missing for each book so  /50 for each category unless *= Heather scores also missing

The Peppered Moth: Final Scores

Many thanks Anja for hosting such a lovely evening last night! It was great to discuss in great depth The Peppered Moth and analise characters and themes.

Here are our Final Scores for The Peppered Moth:

Rampire Reader	Characters	Topic	Style	UPD* (plot)	Best Character	Worst Character	FINAL SCORE
Anja	8	7	8.5	8	Chrissie	Nick	31.5
Heather	/	/	/	/	/	/	/
Mira	/	/	/	/	/	/	/
Monica	7	7	6.5	7	Chrissie	Bessie	27.5
Raka	7	6	8	6	Faro	Seb	27
Sara	8	7	7	6	-	-	26

*UPD = Unputdownableness