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1. Jeff Lindsay wrote the Dexter books 2. Jeff Lindsay received writing credit on the Dexter TV series.
3. Michael C. Hall starred in the Dexter TV series.
4. Michael C. Hall and Kyra Sedgwick were in Kill Your Darlings
5. Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon were in Loverboy.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "A casualty in my TtUS Itinerary. I planned Ella Minnow Pea for South Carolina. Both the GR listing and the Wikipedia listing say it is so. But I can read. Nollop is its own country and..."I'm glad you mentioned this, Elizabeth! I am also in Georgia right now, and planning to move to Tennessee next - but when I saw you were reading Ella Minnow Pea, I considered changing my plan to include SC. Glad I saw your note first!
10.3 DictionaryDead Scared by Sharon Bolton
This is number 2 in the Lacey Flint series -- and if you like mysteries that are engrossing and a bit scary, you should absolutely pick up this series. I raced through the first in the series, Now You See Me, and started this one immediately. This was can't-put-it-down, wish-my-commute-was-longer kind of reading. I read a lot of mysteries, and this is one of the best I've read. In this installment, Detective Lacey Flint is sent undercover to Cambridge to see if she can find out what's happening with a string of suicides among the student body. Sharon Bolton does a great job making you invest in her characters and believe in her plot. She's also great at surprise - in both books in the series so far, I've been shocked by at least one element of the solution. Without being a horror writer, she also does a great job creating a terrifying mood -- it's the kind of scenario where you catch yourself looking around as you board a train, wondering who's on the platform with you, and then realize that the creeped-out feeling you're tingling with was entirely in the book.
+10 task
+10 review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 140
In post 178 I claimed a task and later was able to get a Six Degrees connection for Mark Binelli - can I add the 5 combo points?
D wrote: "Mark BinelliKaty, here's another try in case the first isn't approved:
Kid Cannabis (2014) was based on a 2005 Rolling Stone article written by Mark Binelli:
Kid Ca..."
Thanks, D!
I don't know if this would work...whether the first link is too weak!Mark Binelli published an interview with Michael Moore here
Michael Moore and Tim Robbins were both in "The Party's Over"
Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon were both in "Mystic River"
What do you think?
20.7 Microhistory Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli
In my job right now I do a lot of travel, especially in the summers, and at one point I had the goal to read a book set in or about every place I visited. Some of my locations posed a challenge (rural CT!) and I began to run out of steam on the goal - but I'm happy I returned to my plan for my trip to the Detroit area this summer. I'd never been to Michigan before, and all I really knew of Detroit was that things were pretty bad there - I could recall images of closed up factories, burnt out houses, and snippets of news reports about failed infrastructure. Reading this book (and visiting Detroit!) helped me appreciate the city in a whole new light. Mark Binelli, who grew up in Detroit and returned as an adult, writes lovingly about the city as a unique location with a fascinating history and a quirky character, and also uses the recent experiences of Detroit as a way to examine larger trends in how the American economy has changed in recent years. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a down-to-earth tone in their nonfiction writing or wants to get a deeper picture of a city that is often featured on the news.
+20 task
+10 review
+10 not a novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 115
10.1 AuthorsAfter Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa by Katherine S. Newman and Ariane De Lannoy
I've been continuing my post-trip readathon on South Africa - this was a book that actually caught my eye in the great Tattered Cover bookstore a few weeks before my trip, but didn't get read until I returned. This is a fascinating study of how the past twenty years have been for the generation that grew up in a changing South Africa. The book profiles 7 people of different racial groups and classes that all experienced apartheid as young children, and matured as apartheid ended. Some of the insights are expected - like that class divisions (influencing educational attainment, housing security, etc) are, if anything, more prominent now since strict racial segregation has eased. It's heartening to read the success stories of some of the young people. However, the depressing realities of sharp economic inequality, still linked in many ways to race, remind me of the situation here in the US, and in other countries. The book is a well-researched academic study that reads beautifully - you want to keep turning pages. I finished the book in a thoughtful frame of mind, eager to learn more.
+10 task
+10 review
+10 not a novel
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 75
10.9 Six Degrees of Kevin BaconInvictus by John Carlin
I recently returned from a long-awaited trip to South Africa, and it was unbelievable. As someone interested in South Africa, AND a former rugby player, this book seems tailor-made for me. However, there's a lot to recommend it even if you don't fall into those two categories. On one level, this is a story about the 1995 South African rugby world cup champions - not favored to win, so a nice underdog story. On another level, it's the story of how really difficult the transition away from apartheid was. Carlin does a really nice job weaving together those two stories, showing how Nelson Mandela skillfully used rugby as a vehicle to help bring factions in the country together, and showing how the rugby players, often very apolitical in their ordinary lives, came to understand their role as ambassadors and leaders in a new nation. The story is well told, full of action, and Carlin does a great job making you feel like you know the key players. (And the movie's pretty good too!)
+10 task (post 237)
+ 10 review
+10 not-a-novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 30
I think this would work -- Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis -- and looks really interesting. Would it in fact work?
Ok, how about...1. Kevin Bacon was in X-Men: First Class with James McAvoy
2. James McAvoy was in Wanted with Morgan Freeman
3. Morgan Freeman was in Invictus, the movie version of Invictus by John Carlin - so that book and any others by Carlin should work.
Hope I got that right! :)
If you like mysteries, Nevada Barr writes great mysteries set in different national parks. Though the series has the same central character and a few continuing storylines, the books can stand alone so you can read out of order. Lots of different states represented! :)
10.6 WILLAFull-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World by Linda Peavy
+10 task (Won 2009 WILLA for Scholarly Nonfiction)
+5 combo (10.2)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 715
10.1 Square PegBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
+10 task
+10 not a novel (memoir/essay)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 690
15.10 10-20 Time Traveler Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
born 1966, published 2002
+15 task
+10 bonus
+100 completion bonus
Task Total: 125
Grand Total: 670
20.3 Post-ModernThe Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories by Connie Willis
+20 task
+5 combo (10.2 - not sure if this would count! Let me know if you think it doesn't!)
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 535
20.5 Post-ColonialPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
+20 task (shelved post-colonial 6 times)
+10 combo (10.9 - listed on genre page as historical fiction, author and main characters are both people of color; 20.6 - published 2003, author born in 1977 so she was 26 when the book was published)
+10 non-Western
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 500
