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Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "May Sarton is fantastic...I love her poetry and read The Fur Person which was delightful (and short). Turns out she has written quite a few novels and n..."I’m so glad you loved it too and that you have such a beautiful memory attached to it! I think I may reread it for this task, as we just inherited a stray and I keep thinking of snippets from that book as she’s been settling into our home.
May Sarton is fantastic...I love her poetry and read her novel, The Fur Person, which was delightful (and short). Turns out she has written quite a few novels and non-fiction as well as her prolific poetic works.
15.10 PnM2, Round 3Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
+30 Task, B3
Task total: 30
+100 Completion Bonus
Season total: 2480
Thanks for another wonderful season!
15.7 PnM2, Round 3My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher (Lexile 880)
+20 Task, C2 (narrator is 10)
Task total: 20
Season total: 2300
No worries about the repeated read--for some odd reason, when I started re-reading it, I thought I'd read it for last season and it wasn't until I went to post it that I realized it was this season. Since I haven't ever done a re-read that immediately, I'd never given a thought to there being a rule about it. I'll see if I can manage to eke out a finish in the next couple of days with an added book!My real question is: I found a book in verse (Out of the Dust) that is listed as Juv Fic at BPL, but since it's verse it's got an NP rating on Lexile. Can I use it for PnM2?
15.6 PnM2, Round 3The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
(Side note: I read this back in September and claimed it for 20.4...I just finished reading it again to make sure that it was as good as I remembered to suggest it for my IRL book club--it was that good, so I'll be claiming it a third time when I read it *again* sometime in the next few month for that book club)
+20 Task, D6 "Contemporary"
Task total: 20
Season total: 2280
15.5 PnM2, Round 3The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
+20 Task, E1
Task total: 20
Season total: 2260
15.3 PnM2, Round 3The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
+15 Task, F6
Task total: 15
Season total: 2225
20.8 Periodic TableThe Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
I so much wanted to like this book: a treasure hunt, a bookshop and the quirky people you would expect to find there, a family secret--all things I would normally adore.
This, however, fell flat for me. The weak love story was annoyingly distracting; the book-based treasure hunt was irksome in that the girl who is figuring it out is inexplicably unfamiliar with books that are part of the modern lexicon (even if you haven't read them, you're familiar with them and their plot line from seeing movies/hearing references/encountering them in other references); I had figured out the family secret within the first couple of chapters so when the "big reveal" happens I just sighed and whispered, "DUH."
Perhaps I'm being too hard on it because I have read so many exceptional books this season. And it's the author's debut novel so some growing pains are to be expected. I give it 2.75 stars, rounded up to 3.
+20 Task (Am=Americium)
+10 Review
+20 Combo (10.2: shelved "books about books" by 191 readers; 10.7-A, Y, E, O; 10.8; 20.5)
Task total: 50
Season total: 2180
15.10 PnM2, Round 2The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
+30 Task, B5
+100 Completion Bonus
Task total: 130
Season total: 2130
15.9 PnM, Round 2A Pocketful of Crows by Joanne M. Harris
+30 Task, F3
Task total: 30
Season total: 2000
15.8 PnM2, Round 2City of Thieves by David Benioff
+20 Task, A4 (set in Russia)
Task total: 20
Season total: 1970
15.6 PnM2, Round 2I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
+20 Task, C1
Task total: 20
Season total: 1930
