Cory Day’s
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Karen Michele wrote: "Here is my list of authors that stumped me:Paolo Bacigalupi...
How about this?
1) Paulo Bacigalupi wrote [book].
2) Paulo Bacigalupi had a story published with Orson Scott Card in Brave New Worlds.
3) Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Game.
4) Harrison Ford was in the movie Ender's Game.
5) Harrison Ford was in Random Hearts (1999) with Steve Altes.
6) Steve Altes was in Hollow Man (2000) with Kevin Bacon.
(If that works, so would anyone else in that anthology...)
Ok, I think I've got mine. 1) Willa Cather wrote books (including The Professor's House, which I'm reading)
2) Willa Cather also wrote O Pioneers!
3) Jessica Lange was in the movie version of O Pioneers! (1992)
4) Jessica Lange was in Masked And Anonymous with Ed Harris
5) Ed Harris was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon
Bea wrote: "I am planning on reading The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. I think it qualifies.Book Riot has ..."
I was just about to say something about the Book Riot challenge! It has been quite contentious but interesting nevertheless.
I'm not sure what I'm going to read for this time around, but for Book Riot I read Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History. I never checked for confirmation, but I think it fits kind of both the "pop culture" definition and the more academic one. It was very specifically focused on the disaster, but also talked about where it fit within social history as a whole and had a good history of the town as well.
20.1 Celebration!The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn
Review: I always forget how much I love Julia Quinn until I pick up one of her books. This is the first in a new-to-me series, and it was just what I needed. The heroine, Miranda, has been in love with Turner since she was 10 and he was 19, but it’s not until his unfaithful, awful wife dies that he comes back into her life as an adult. The romance itself was predictable and might have stood a little more emotional impact, but I love the “best friend’s big brother now sees me as something more” trope. Miranda reminded me a lot of myself, which is something I love in a romance novel heroine – it makes it even easier to fall into the story.
+20 Task (published 2007)
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 30
10.2 - SubtitlesMs. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 1145
Krista wrote: "Cory Day wrote: "10.7 - Multi-CenturyHistory of the People of Trinidad & Tobago by Eric Williams
+10 Task (spans from prior to the 15th century through the 1960s)..."
Thanks! I didn't think I'd finish that one, but I finally got through it!
10.7 - Multi-CenturyHistory of the People of Trinidad & Tobago by Eric Williams
+10 Task (spans from prior to the 15th century through the 1960s)
+10 Non-Western (Trinidad and Tobago)
+5 Oldies (1962)
Task Total: 25
Completion Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 200
Grand Total: 1135
15.2 – 10-20 – Time Traveler (Round 2)The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 800
20.9 - Novel LivesAlice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
+20 Task (about Alice Liddell – the supposed inspiration for Alice in Wonderland)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 775
15.1 – 10-20 – Time Traveler (Round 2)Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 755
20.10 Books in BooksThe Charioteer by Mary Renault
+20 Task (referenced in The Dark Horse – see message 57 in thread)
+5 Oldies (published 1953)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 740
10.2 - SubtitlesPrimates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani
+10 Task
Graphic Novel – no styles
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 715
10.6 - WILLADorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-novel
+5 Jumbo (560 pages)
+5 Combo (10.2)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 705
Ed wrote: "I hope any science fiction, dystopian and fantasy categories provide alternatives for those of us who dislike those genres. Perhaps any book by an author who has a book that otherwise qualifies."There are a lot of tasks that tend to push some of our boundaries, so I wouldn't hold my breath. It's nice to be expansive though, and I'm often pretty surprised at how much I enjoy books from genres I'm not a huge fan of.
10.5 - June SolsticeThe Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas
+10 Task (Thomas born in China)
+5 Combo (romance, Thomas is of Chinese descent)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 655
15.9 – 10-20 – Time Traveler Lucien's Fall by Barbara Samuel
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Completion Bonus: 100
Grand Total: 640
15.9 – 10-20 – Time Traveler Archangel by Sharon Shinn
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 515
15.8 – 10-20 – Time Traveler Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 490
