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10.10 Group ReadGod Help the Child by Toni Morrison
+10 task
+ 5 combo (20.3 post-modern author)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 435
15.4 Time LeaperA Country Called Home by Kim Barnes
Born 1958
Published 2008
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 420
15.3 Time LeaperThe Silent Land by Graham Joyce
Born 1954
Published 2010
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 405
20.3 Post-modernClose Range by Annie Proulx
+20 task
+10 not a novel (short stories)
+ 5 combo (10.7 multi-century 1886-1999)
Task total: 35
Grand total:390
20.4 The SouthA Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
+20 task (set in Georgia)
+ 5 combo (10.2 subtitle)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1978)
+10 not a novel (non-fiction, memoir)
Task total: 40
Grand total:355
10.6 WILLAAlice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas
This was a WILLA nominee for Historical Fiction in 2001.
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 315
20.9 Novel LivesThe Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman
The narrator is Marguerite Gachet, the daughter of Dr Gachet, Vincent van Gogh's physician.
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 305
10.7 MulticenturyThe Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
17th Century to 2008. (Part of the book is a manuscript about historical lore.)
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 285
10.4 TBR RouletteThe Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
+10 task
+5 oldie (pub 1978)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 275
15.2 Time LeaperEast Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul
Published 2006
Born 1963
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total:260
20.3 Post-modernColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
+ 20 task
+ 10 non-Western (Japanese)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 245
10.5 June SolsticeSky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
+10 task (Author was born in China)
+15 combos (10.2 subtitle, 10.9 genre romance, 20.9 character is a real person Shu Wen)
+10 non-western (Chinese author)
Note: This book is called fiction on its copyright page, even though some GR readers have called it nonfiction. It's historical fiction. The copyright page and preface are viewable on the Barnes and Noble website if you need to see them. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/sample/...
Task total: 35
Grand total: 215
20.10 Books in BooksGift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This book was mentioned in the novel The Aviator's Wife.
+20 task
+10 not-a-novel (nonfiction, essays)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1955)
Task total: 35
Grand total:180
10.8 Summertime HeatFire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
+10 task (fire)
+ 5 combo (10.2 subtitles)
+10 not a novel(non-fiction)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 145
10.4 TBR RouletteThe White Tower by Dorothy Johnston
This book is on my random list (message #41).
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 120
20.9 Novel LivesThe Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
This book is about Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 110
From The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin:The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
10.2 SubtitleTracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.6 (born 9/9/50, published 1980 at age 30)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1980)
+10 not-a-novel (non-fiction)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 90
20.6 Under 31Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Caldwell was born in 1903, and the book was published in 1932 when he was 29 years old.
+20 task
+ 5 combo 20.4 (set in Georgia)
+10 oldie (pub 1932)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 60
