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20.4 OthelloThe Circus Train by Amita Parikh
+20 Task (Fits because there's a secret: (view spoiler))
+5 Combo (20.9 - protagonist leaves circus to go to boarding school, then to medical school; adopted by new guardian)
+10 Female
Task total: 35
Grand total: 190
Ed wrote: "Would "Eaten" be considered a "general food-related word"?Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World by Cheuk Kwan"
We're going to say no to general non-nouns. So no to eat, eaten, hunger, bite, chew, etc.
Marie wrote: "Hello ! Do we remove articles from non-english titles as well ? (example: Le jour où j'ai voulu sauver la forêt - Le = The)"Yes, that's fine.
20.10 Boxing DayPoverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
(approved in help thread - book is an examination of how poverty is perpetuated, what poverty means in the United States, etc.)
+20 Task
+10 Not a novel
Task total: 30
Grand total: 155
20.2 Midsummer NightBitten by Kelley Armstrong
+10 Female
+5 Combo (20.4 - main character is a werewolf trying to live without her boyfriend knowing)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 105
20.1 ShakespeareRosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.6, 10.7 - Rosemary)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 70
15.2 Ticket to RideDallas
Peony in Love by Lisa See
(Oklahoma City --> Dallas --> ???)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 30
15.1 Ticket to RideOklahoma City
You Suck by Christopher Moore
(Oklahoma City --> ???)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
Circular Plan:Oklahoma City - Christopher Moore - You Suck
Dallas - Lisa See - Peony in Love
Houston - Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
New Orleans - Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet
Atlanta - Tade Thompson - Far from the Light of Heaven
Charleston - Ryka Aoki - Light from Uncommon Stars
Raleigh - Hank Green - A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Nashville - Nalo Hopkinson -Midnight Robber
Little Rock - Kelly Link - Stranger Things Happen
Oklahoma City - Christopher Moore - Bite Me
10.1 - Square Peg - Carrie Soto Is Back10.2 - Singular Mystery - A Killing for Christ
10.3 - India - East, West
10.4 - Leap Year - Don't Try This at Home, Rose/House (also 10.5 and 10.6)
10.5 - Jewish Writers - Winter Journal
10.6 - Winter bdays - AFTER LONG SILENCE
10.7 - Feasting - Poor Matza: Selected Stories of Avrom Reisen Translated From the Yiddish By Harvey Fink
10.8 - Fairytale of NY - The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
10.9 - Summer, not Winter - Nine Perfect Strangers
10.10 - Group Reads - The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
20.1 - Shakespeare - Rosemary and Rue
20.2 - Midsummer Night - Bitten
20.3 - Tempest - The Scar
20.4 - Othello -
20.5 - King John to Henry VIII - Mirror Mirror
20.6 - Sonnets -
20.7 - Wild Life - Junkyard Cats, The Butterfly Lampshade
20.8 - Anika's 50th - Heavy
20.9 - Joanna's Fresh Start - Uprooted
20.10 - Rosemary's Boxing Day - Poverty, by America
Joanne wrote: "If a book is listed on the main Wiki page as See also: Ex: Band of Brothers (disambiguation)-do the books on that link"Yes, they should because the title is still a reference to the same quote.
Joanne wrote: "In The General and Julia, Ulysses S. Grant moves into cabin to spend his last days writing his memoir. Although the book covers his life, from once he met his wife Julia, and then ..."Yes, that sounds like it works.
Bea wrote: "I see that one of the lists for books for this task is Israeli Novelists....
I am thinking that, since this task is about the writer, it doesn't matter that the book is non-fiction."
Yes, that's correct.
15.9 CoSThe Devil's Pool by George Sand
+15 Task - Canon (listed as The Haunted Pool on the Canon list)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 555
10.10 Group ReadsThe Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
There were moments where I found this book funny or moving. And there were some interesting tidbits about life in a small Indian village. But a lot of the book was so far-fetched that I couldn't quite get into it. And overall, the premise that these women are banding together to murder their annoying husbands felt too heavy for how lightly this was treated. I'm not sorry that I read this, but I'm not going to be pressing it into anyone else's hands. It seems like a book a book club might like--light enough for easy readers, enough substance to foster good discussion.
The narrator for the audiobook was excellent and kept the book moving for me during parts of the story that seemed to drag.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task total: 20
Grand total: 525
10.9 GeorgiaLost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
This book was not as good as some of this author's other books. I liked the characters and the setting well enough, but it never had the charm that made her other books such nice feel-good reads. There is magic in this book, but it didn't have the cleverness that made the magic cool in the other novels. I never quite believed the Alligator Man theme here and so found it distracting from getting to know the other characters instead of helping the book feel haunting or magic.
The narrator for the audiobook was also pretty flat. She did voices for the characters, but not all of them worked. She also had the disadvantage that the previous book I listened to was Tom Lake narrated by the amazing Meryl Streep. So, maybe the narrator for this one was normal and I was just missing Meryl.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task total: 20
Grand total: 505
So, I've done 6.5 of the 10pt tasks, 7 of the 15pt tasks, and 6.5 of the 20pt tasks...not very strategic reading order this time around.I think I'm going to try to finish the 10 point tasks next, then see if I get to the others.
