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Rebekah wrote: "Connie wrote: "10.5 InfernoGateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
+10 task
+10 female author
Task total: 20
Season total: 20"
There is a combo with 10.6 as Moon is ..."
Thanks for noticing that "moon" is on the weather list, Rebekah.
15.1 Listopia tagMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: female friends
Task total: 15
Season total: 70
20.5 NemesisAs Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
+20 task (1918 influenza)
+ 5 combo 10.5 (pub 2018)
+10 female author
Task total: 35
Season total: 55
Your mother sounds like she was a delightful woman, Rebekah. Hold on to those wonderful memories. I'm sorry for your loss.
15.2 Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan#60 Asian-American Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
tag: asian-american
15.1 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
#98 Best Adult Female Friendship Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: female friends
15.5 Country Dark by Chris Offutt
# 153 2018 Mystery Thriller Horror https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: thriller
15.8 Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
#170 Favorite Magical Realism Novels https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: magical realism
15.9 The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
#221 Best Novels Set in 20th Century Britain https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: britain
15.3 Sourdough by Robin Sloan
#49 San Francisco Bay Area Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: bay area
15.4 The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
#560 Best Poetry Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
tag: poems
15.7 Personal History by Katharine Graham
#67 Memoirs by Women https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: autobiography
15.6 A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
#93 Anticipated Literary Reads for Readers of Color https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: multicultural
15.10 The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
# 3 Best Books to Become an Informed Voter https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: democracy
10.5 InfernoGateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
+10 task
+10 female author
Task total: 20
Season total: 20
Enjoy your gift card, Heather!
I usually make a list with twice as many books as I could ever read for the challenge since I enjoy the planning stage. I'm going to try to finish the Listopia subchallenge, and do part of the RwS challenge.10.1 An Argument Open to All: Reading "The Federalist" in the 21st Century by Sanford Levinson
10.2 Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson DONE
10.3 The Nix by Nathan Hill (LA Times)
or The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (James Tait Black Memorial)
10.4 Love the books on the "Stories for Book Lovers" list.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
10.5 So happy to have a task for recently published books since some of my book groups have chosen new books!
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris DONE
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray DONE
10.6 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
or Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
10.7 Night of Sorrows by Frances Sherwood (425 pg) DONE
10.8 K Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin DONE
or Cold Earth by Sarah Moss (Greenland)
or 10.8 R Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
10.9 Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg
10.10 Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag DONE
20.1 Circe by Madeline Miller
20.2 My Ántonia by Willa Cather (54 X)
20.3 Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
20.4 The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi DONE
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
20.5 As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner (1918 influenza) DONE
20.6 The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
20.7 I have three Australian books sitting on my bookshelves to pick from.
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
20.8 A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières (set in 1970s London) DONE
20.9 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
or The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
20.10 The Portrait by Iain Pears DONE
or Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe by Dawn Tripp
or The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Congratulations to your family, Elizabeth!
Thanks for getting back so quickly, Elizabeth.
Would Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow work for this task? It looks like it has gansters and racketeering in it.
Great photos, Ed! Have a wonderful vacation!
15.7 Page CountMurder at Mansfield Park byLynn Shepherd 363 pages
Task total: 15
Season total: 615
Thank you, moderators, for a wonderful winter season!
20.1 LifetimeBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks
+20 task (born 1953)
+ 5 combo 20.4 (Univ of East London)
Task total: 25
Season total: 600
20.4 Honorary Doctorate1776 by David McCullough
+20 task
+15 combo 20.1 (born 1933), 20.3, 10.9
+10 not a novel
Task total: 45
Season total: 575
Sebastian FaulksHonorary doctorate from University of East London:
https://www.britishcouncil.ru/en/non-...
20.1 LifetimeA Student's Guide to Robert Frost by Connie Ann Kirk
+20 task (born 1957)
YA so no styles
Task total: 20
Season total: 530
20.3 AgedWorld's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
+20 task (1931-2015)
+15 combo 20.1, 20.4 (Kenyon College), 20.10 (first person)
Task total: 35
Season total: 510
E.L. DoctorowHonorary doctorate from Kenyon College (third paragraph from the bottom):
http://www.kenyon.edu/middle-path/sto...
