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10.5 NovellasBuddha Boy by Kathe Koja
+10 Task (128 pgs.)
+5 Combo (10.7 - Koja)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 240
15.2 WotWThe Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
Yellow Sea: China
+15 Task (author born/nationality)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 225
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 204 Joanna wrote: "20.4 Evelyn WaughThe Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats
Interestingly, WorldCat has this also classified as biography. Since I allowed their classifications from the beginning, we'll certainly be glad to add it there. "
I never would have thought to check that. I wouldn't classify it as a biography, but I'll take the combo since it fits. Thanks for noticing that for me.
20.8 A Nod to Tristram ShandyThe Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Lexile: 890
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Aar...Ben Aaronovitch has written short stories, novels, and graphic novels. Also TV scripts.
One of my book clubs just selected Midnight Riot, so I'm glad to have a spot for it.
20.4 Evelyn WaughThe Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats
+20 Task (d. 1939)
+10 Not-a-novel (short stories/fairy tales)
+10 Oldies (pub. 1893)
+20 Combo (20.1, 20.2, 20.5, 20.6)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 180
This book was the January selection for one of my real life book clubs. I had read it a long time ago, but was really happy to revisit it last season. I listened to the audiobook and found that it translated very well to that format, as is often true of books with a first-person narrator.
20.6 The Bronte SistersThe Hour Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the Pot of Broth: Being Plays for an Irish Theatre by W.B. Yeats
Note: The first listed edition has no page count. I read the second listed edition, which had 113 pages.
+20 Task (approved in help)
+10 Not-a-novel (plays)
+10 Oldies (published 1904)
+20 Combo (20.1, 20.2, 20.4 - d. 1939, 20.5 - approved in help)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 155
How about Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott?I haven't been able to spot anywhere else it fits, but maybe I'm missing something...
10.7 4 Letter NamesPacking for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-novel (nonfiction)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 95
20.1 William ShakespeareThe Wind Among the Reeds by W.B. Yeats
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-novel (poems, mostly)
+10 Oldies (1899)
+20 Combo (20.2, 20.4 - d. 1939, 20.5 - approved in help, 20.6 - approved in help)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 75
15.1 Waters of the WorldThe Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
Baltic Sea: Finland (author born/nationality)
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
Stephen King:After leaving the university, King earned a certificate to teach high school but, unable to find a teaching post immediately, initially supplemented his laboring wage by selling short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier. Many of these early stories have been republished in the collection Night Shift. In 1971, King married Tabitha Spruce, a fellow student at the University of Maine whom he had met at the University's Fogler Library after one of Professor Hatlen's workshops.[18] That fall, King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...
10.2 No L, No LAgent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
Review:
An enjoyable conclusion to the trilogy. I missed Raisa from this book as she was one of my favorite characters in the first two books. It was good to get more back story on their marriage and first meeting, but she wasn't present in most of the book. Still, seeing Leo out of Russia and traveling to Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States was a welcome change from the bleak Soviet setting of the previous two books. Overall, the book was more sad that I had hoped for characters that I'd really come to like over the past two books. Reading all of these books within a few months kept all of the stories fresh in my mind and made the trilogy feel like a coherent work rather than separate parts.
I don't recommend this as a standalone book. Read Child 44. If you like it, continue the trilogy. If not, don't read this one.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+15 Series
+10 Combo (20.1, 10.9)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 1045
Thanks for another great season!
What about Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith?This is the third in a trilogy about a Soviet secret police officer. In this third book, much of the book is in Russia, but there is also a delegation of Russian students who goes to NYC for a concert and a portion of the book where the hero of the story is assigned to the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.
I'd say the book is still "about the Soviet experience"
Me too! I like options and variety.I have a hard time telling what is YA at BPL. Could someone better at this than me take a look at Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie? I know Christies have been mixed in the past.
Thanks.
10.4 Valentine's DayBel Canto by Ann Patchett
Review:
I should have a shelf for epilogues that have no place being a part of a book. I loved the characters. I loved the melodrama -- the operatic scope of this novel. Of course it wasn't realistic, but it didn't have to be. The mixing of the characters, the Stockholm syndrome of the hostages, the practically Utopian society that developed -- all of it was acceptable because the characters felt alive. I even accepted the real ending.
But the epilogue was almost enough to wreck the book. I hated it so much, I dredged up the old list (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...) just so I could vote for this one.
Still, I loved everything about the book other than the weird epilogue enough that I ended up giving the book five stars anyway. The narrator for the audiobook gave an excellent performance.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.9 - 3.91; 20.1)
Task total: 30
RWS Finish: +100
Grand total: 1000
Maybe too much of a reach:The sister of W.B. Yeats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
Yeats wrote and created the artwork for "Elementary Brush-Work Studies" (published in 1900), an educational book that teaches young children the technique of painting flowers and plants using her simple method.
http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Brus...
