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Task 10.4 book with a color in the titleBlack Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
+10 Task
+10 Style:1. Combo (5 points): (#20.3 short stories, #20.7 feminist author)
+10 Style:3. Review (10 points):
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 330 + 30 = 360
Review: This is a collection of 11 stories, all written by Joyce Carol Oates, and all recently published elsewhere first. Eight of the stories features physical violence against a woman; and, all of the stories are depressing. (I’m wondering if these stories were all written after the death of her beloved husband – that would explain the depressed air they all had.) All of the stories are also well-written, with clever, poetical phrasing and realistic people. The lead story, “Black Dahlia & White Rose”, was the strongest of the collection. It was based on a real murder case in the 1950s (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Da... ) . I’d also recommend the ironical 6-page story “Hey Dad”. Overall, recommended for when you want to read depressing but well-written literary short fiction.
Isabell wrote: "20.10 Suicide Prevention DayMichael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist..."
Oooh, thanks for the review. I just bought this book at the Brooklyn Book Festival (publisher Melville House included it in their "the art of the novella" series). I'll have to bump it up the tbr list!
20.8 Veterans DaySophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Review:
I knew this was going to have a lot of philosophy in it. I expected to like the story and be bored by the philosophy. In fact it was the other way around: I was very interested in the way the development of philosophical thought was explained, especially how it intersected with religious thought ... and I hated the story.
I thought Sophie was an unconvincing 14/15-year-old: she sounded more like 10 most of the time. There was a Freudian daddy/daughter theme that I found very creepy, both in the early sections with Sophie sneaking off to meet her middle-aged philosophy teacher and in the relationship between Hilde and her father and the way that Hilde's mother is excluded from that.
This was very original in many ways but it wasn't for me. I would have preferred just to read the philosophy without all the twists and creepy bits.
+20 Task http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/j...
+10 Review
+ 5 Multiple (3rd book for this task)
+10 Combo (10.8 B; 20.7 Sophie has a conversation with her friend Joanna about a house they are exploring, and conversations with her mother about school and pets)
Task Total: 45 points
Grand Total: 535
20.8 - Kate S' Task - Veteran's Day, November 11thLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 - In celebration of Art Garfukel’s November 5th birthday, read one of the 1160 books
he has read)
+5 Oldies
+20 Jumbo
Total Task Points: 50
Grand Total: 160
20.5 – In honor of the lab experiment of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeMaster and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - In celebration of Art Garfukel’s November 5th birthday, read one of the 1160 books
he has read. 10.8 - Rosemary's Task - Lucky Sevens. 20.8 - Kate S' Task - Veteran's Day, November 11th)
+5 Oldies
Total Task Points: 40
Grand Total: 200
Task 20.8 "veteran" author, one that has published books for 20 or more years. Karen Robards
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/k...
Shameless by Karen Robards
+20 Task
+05 Style: 2. Multiple (5 points): Each time you repeat a task.
+10 Style:3. Review (10 points):
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 = 35
Grand Total: 360 + 35 = 395
Review: This was the perfect escapist romance novel! This frothy historical romance was set in England a few years after the Battle of Waterloo, and the principal male characters are all described as having fought in that battle. Elements that make this the perfect romance novel: The heroine, the youngest of three sisters, is “resolute rather than afraid”; the hero, tall & handsome, is a reformed bad boy aristocrat; features several PG-13 romantic scenes between the hero and heroine; mix in supportive sisters and disapproving aunts; and have it all driven by a plot involving peril from past associates of the hero (and also the heroine). I enjoyed it. Recommended for when you want to read a pure escapist romance novel.
Leigh wrote: "20.4 CarmillaThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
+20 task
+10 combos 10.3 and 20.6
+10 oldies (pub. 1890)
post total=40
grand total=95"
+5 Combo 10.2-Ireland
Christine wrote: "10.3 Art GarfunkelThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Review
This is one of those books that has been on the mental list for years. Every time I see the title or hear it mentioned I think "..."
+5 Combo-10.02-Ireland
Ashley wrote: "20.4 - CarmillaThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
+20 task (LGBT author)
+10 combo (10.3 - Garfunkel, 20.6-ranked 4th, )
+10 oldies (pub. 1890)
Task Total: 40 points
Grand total: 55"
+5 Combo 10.2-Ireland
20.8 - Veteran AuthorThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Although this is the most accessible of Gertrude Stein's works, it is deceptively simple. It took quite a while to get used to the conversational style and the unique sentence structure and composition. But in the end, I enjoyed it. It was a fascinating, tantalizing glimpse of a brilliant author and her involvement with an astonishing movement in art and literature. Eventually, I enjoyed the rhythm of the language and the ironic tone. however, I wish that I had kept track of all the paintings mentioned int he first section, as apparently no one else has thought of compiling a companion web-page of all the works of art mentioned in the book. I also would love to try this as an audio book -- I think the writing would lend itself very well to that medium.
+20 task
+20 combo (20.4 - LGBT author, 20.7B - feminist author, 20.9 - National Author's Day, 10.2 - US)
+10 oldies (pub. 1933)
+10 review
+ 5 multiple
Task Total: 65 points
Grand total: 100 points
10.5 International Elderly Day (approved by Liz)Art History's History by Vernon Hyde Minor
A really good introduction to the analysis of art, this book breaks down the different methods of analyzation. Much like literary theory textbooks (for all those fellow past English majors) the different modes are much the same: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Marxism, Semiotics. However, while the methods are similar to literary analysis, the modes are applied very differently to an image rather than to words. In the chapter on Semiotics, for example, Minor does a good job of touching on the signified vs. the signifier but also delves into other art based methods of semiotic analysis like Pierce's definitions of the iconic, the symbolic, and the indexical signs. A good book to really get my brain primed for serious discussions of art.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 175
15.2 - 2nd book - letter BIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Published in 2000
+15 Task
Grand Total: 145 points
Silver wrote: "20.8 - Kate S' Task - Veteran's Day, November 11thThe Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
+20 Task Published from 1897-1948
+10 Oldies
Total Task Points: 30
Grand Total: 30"
+10 Combo 10.3 and 20.4
10.2 Oktoberfest - USCat's Tale: A Fairy Tale Retold by Bettie Sharpe
I really enjoyed Bettie Sharpe's take on the Cinderella tale in her shorter e-book Ember so I had to pick up this book which is her re-telling of Puss in Boots. Sharpe writes some pretty racy romance, that at times could make me blush, but her main characters are so full of fire and sharp wit that I can't help but love the stories she creates. Lady Catriona, i.e. Cat, says straight up that she is vain and shallow yet she is also clever, intelligent, and very beautiful. She gets cursed into cat form after using her beauty on the wrong magician and goes about trying to bring him down. Cat does this by finding the main character of the original fairy tale. The connection between the two of them as friends is fairly well-developed: he is trusting and positive while she is realistic and smart. This is all Cat's story though and she is a fun character to follow. An obsession with clothes, especially shoes, is just one of her fun quirks. As she states in the beginning: "Every grand plan begins with the right pair of shoes."
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 195
10.3 In celebration of Art Garfukel’s November 5th birthday, read one of the 1160 books he has readFaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.2 - Celebrate Oktoberfest)
+15 Oldies
+ 5 Multiple
Total Task Points: 35
Grand Total: 235
20.8 Kate S' Task - Veteran's DayFall of Giants by Ken Follett
Review
Fall of Giants an epic book for lovers of historical fiction. Gives a great all round picture of the causes, effects and aftermath of the World War I, along with a first class tale of ordinary humans caught in the chessboard of war. This the first book in the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett, and I believe the second book is available as well.
Along with the true account of The World War I, you will read about five families, in Wales, Britain, Germany, Russia and America and how the war affected their lives. Peppered with real historical characters and interesting fictional ones, the book is an involving and engrossing story. It gives a good perspective into the suffrage and trade union movements, the politics of those times as well as the Bolsheviks rise to power in Russia.
I found the historical aspect very intriguing, as it also illustrates the development of the current political stances of some Nations as they stand today, specially the US. I look forward to the next book called Winter of the World which take up from where this book has left off.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 20.7 Bechdel Test. Lady Maud and Ethel talk about the Suffrage movement and the War, many times.
+20 Jumbo (most popular edition has 985 pages).
Task Total: 55
Grand Total: 450
ABC's15.1 1st Book - Letter A - The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
+15 Task
Task Total=15
Grand Total=150 pts
20.8 - Veteran's DayMore Baths, Less Talking by Nick Hornby
I love this series of books. Nick Hornby writes a book review column for Believer magazine and every two years they are collected and published. Mostly what I love is that every column starts with a list of books bought and books read. And of course, these two list never coincide exactly. He has a wonderfully fun & irreverent voice, for example, declaring that the benefit of writing a monthly column on what books he's read is that he cannot read long books because then the column would be a two-thousand word book report: "And as a consequence, there are all sorts of intimidating-looking eight-hundred-pagers that I feel completely justified in overlooking. I am ignoring them for your benefit, effectively..." In short, it's a fun way to find even more books for the ever-growing to-read list.
+20 task (published a book in 1992 and one in 2012)
+5 combo (20.3 - Dewey Decimal number is 824 H)
+5 multiple
+10 review
Task Total: 40 points
Grand Total: 140 points
Christine wrote: "Kate S wrote: "Christine wrote: "10.3 Art GarfunkelThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Review
This is one of those books that has been on the mental list for years. Every time I see the tit..."
You are right, you can only claim each country once. I will correct this at the next update.
20.3 Edgar Allen Poe's TalesThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6-gothic list)
+10 Oldies (1926)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 805
20.2 Rural SettingAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2-Canada, 10.4-green, 20.7-Anne and her friend Diana have multiple conversations about writing, school, and haunted woods, 20.8)
+10 Oldies (1908)
+5 Multiple
Post Total: 55
Season Total: 860
20.2 Wuthering HeightsI Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (Lexile 920)
Review: When I was growing up, my favorite book was Up a Road Slowly. It's an unusual choice for me - a slow, atmospheric coming of age novel with a not entirely likable protagonist - but I read it at least a dozen times and still reread parts. 'I Capture the Castle' reminded me of that favorite book in many of the best ways, but with a touch more humor and whimsy... and an ending that doesn't tie up quite as neatly into a bow.
Both the childhood me and the adult me really prefer things to be finished with a happy ending. But this is a chronicle of six months in the life of a seventeen year old girl, whose life is truly just beginning. It would really be unfair to tie up something that has barely started - and to get me to believe that, to persuade me it's okay to give up my pure happy ending - that's impressive.
Really, I should have known. This is Cassandra's story, and early in the novel she says something about a book's not being worthwhile if you never think of the characters after you've finished it. I expect I'll wonder what happened next to all of them: Cassandra and her sister Rose, who are each both selfish and kind, mature and childish; Stephen, who deserves more than he believes he's worthy of; Thomas, a child both looking for and pushing away his father's approval. Perhaps when I can't sleep I'll tell myself stories of their lives beyond the pages of the book, as Miss Marcy, the schoolteacher character within it, does.
+20 Task (#54 as of today)
+10 Combo (20.7 - passes Bechtel Test - Cassandra speaks with many of the women in her life about finances, clothing, books, etc.; 20.8 - Dodie Smith published her first play in 1931 and continued publishing until the 1980s)
+10 Review
+5 Oldies (published 1948)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 505
20.5 - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeThe Best Science Writing Online 2012, edited by Bora Zivkovic and Jennifer Ouellette.
Review: Admittedly, I might be a bit biased in favor of this book, as I have a piece in it (!!) But bias aside, this is a truly great collection of science writing, and I feel honored to be in the company of these amazing writers. Everyone will have their own preferences, but my particular favorite pieces (other than my own, of course!) were (1) Kate Clancy’s piece on menstruation, (2) Greg Gbur’s fascinating description of the sometimes-unpredictable nature of science, (3) Christie Wilcox’s takedown of uninformed science reporting in the media, (4) Matthew Hartings’ awesome explanation of why “gin and tonics” can taste so different from gin and tonic water consumed separately, and (5) Andrea Kuszewski’s piece on how chessboxing (yes, chess + boxing) can be used to train emotion regulation and curb problematic behaviors like bullying (a piece that I fully intend to assign in my Intro Social Psych class during the aggression section!)
But really, all of the pieces are phenomenal. One of the amazing things about the blog format is that the pieces – even the long-form ones – are short enough to be easily digestible. I tend to find some of the hard sciences to be difficult to grasp, but there were a number of great pieces in here on chemistry, physics, and math that I found really intuitive and interesting.
Overall, I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in learning some really interesting stuff about all different kinds of science!
+20 Task (book is on order at the BPL, so it hasn't been assigned a Dewey Decimal number yet, but at every other library including my own it is "500 Bes" - hopefully this is OK!)
+10 Review
Post Total: 30
Grand Total: 270
10.8 Lucky Sevens-
by Qui Xialonng (published 2007)Task Points: 10
Style 20(10.4-red, 10.9 to be continued-4th in series, review)
Review
I tried to like this book. It started out well. I liked the main character of Chief Inspector Chen. He reminded me of Agatha Christie's Poroit. I thought he was a good cop and cared about the cases with an excellent reputation. I like the ancient Chinese stories that come up throughout the book. What I didn't like was the plot. It was way too slow. There is no suspense to it. It is just rather boring. I found the setting interesting for it is set in Shanhai.
Book total: 30
Grand Total:75
20.5 Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeA Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Review
I had to take this book slowly but still had trouble keeping my mind from exploding. Trying to grasp the concepts of space and time, eternity, what is the beginning and what was before the beginning , time as dimension, astronomical distances were put in what is probably to Sir Stephen Hawking would be in quite simple terms, still played havoc with my brain. I had to keep going back and re-reading parts and saying, “whaaaaattttt?”. However a lot of interesting if mind-boggling items crept in and stayed. One that I was astonished to find out is that a clock closer to the ground runs slower than a clock high on a tower. Twins born at near the same time moved to different altitudes, sea level and the high sierras, the one in the mountains would become older than the other! Of course by itsy-bitsy increments but I’m now wondering if we all went underground, would we be younger longer? I know moving at light speed for years would make those years non-existent if you wouldn’t mind traveling forever and could tolerate the speed force. Interesting but I’ll still have to go back and re=read this book several times to swallow all this controversial information. I will say the book is dated as it was written in the 1980’s and since then Hawking has turned around a few of the concepts he thought of originally but it still contains a lot of scientific data for us lay people to wet our feet in beginning quantum physics.
+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.3, Art Garfunkel's list,10.8- Stephen has 7 letters, 20.8 author has been writing books for over twenty years.This book was published in 1988 and he wrote more technical books for academia prior to that. I believe his last book was written in 2007?)
+10 pts - Review
Task Total - 45 pts
Grand Total - 260 pts
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.8 Lucky Sevens- by Qui Xialonng (published 2007)Task Points: 10
Style 20(10.4-red, 10.9 to be continued-4th in series, review)
Review
I tried to like thi..."
Jayme, This review is only 88 words long. You'll need to add another sentence or two to earn the review points.
Know Your ABCs sample post:15.3 - 3rd book - letter C
Gold by Chris Cleave
Published 2012
I liked this way more than I was expecting to. The characters were not necessarily super likable, but were definitely interesting!
+15 Task
Grand Total: 160 points
RwS Task20.3 – In honor of Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
I enjoy linked stories forming a cohesive whole, and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is the classic of the form. It took me awhile to get engaged in the stories. I don't know if this was because I was listening on audio and my mind drifted, or because the stories themselves became more intense. I think it might have been the latter and might have been purposeful on the author's part as he took us beyond the surface of the town and its people. I found the stories about religion interesting and thought of the small town where my husband grew up when listening to them. The teacher story really made me squirm! I enjoyed the book, but just enough for 4 stars.
+20 Task: linked stories
+10 Review
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Oldies (1919)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 505
Task 20.4 In honor of Carmilla. Tell it to the Beesby Fiona Shaw
Review
Tell it to the Bees is an average book, nothing great or gripping in it. It has both good moments and sad ones. It takes a fairly long time to get rolling and sort of cruises to the finish, which was no big surprise either. It’s a nice enough story and once it gathers some momentum it’s easy to follow the emotions, motivations and actions of the characters.
It’s an easy read and I liked the little boy Charlie a lot. He is busy and involved in his little boy world of simple pleasures and activities even as his comfortable existence starts falling apart due to the breakup of his parents’ marriage. The father is a real creep, and that is evident from the beginning of the book, the rest of the characters are just ok and so is the book.
+20 Task (narration switches between characters, including the two women who are in love. Maybe the author is LGBT but couldn't confirm it)
+10 Review
+5 Combo 20.7 Meets the 3 criteria of the Bechdel Test
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 485
Task 10.3 In celebration of Art Garfukels Birthday Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Review
Meh!! I had been seeing this book among the “Must Read Books” list’s for a long time and finally decided to give it a go. Seriously? Classic? Must read? This book? Hmmmm … (the sea gull was tripping, I tell you, tripping!!!)
Well I don’t get it, like I don’t get many of the highly praised and lauded books, I’m sure there are some essential cells missing from my brain which do not comprehend greatness, which others can get effortlessly.
Thankfully this was a small book, so I’m not totally lamenting waste of time. It’s a self-help book, I tend to get irritated by self help books anyway. Maybe this book has helped some people, but I’m not “gull-ible” enough to fall for it!!! (heheheh get it? Gull ible ;)
+10 Task
+10 Review
+5 Veterans Day. Has written for more than 20 years.
+5 Oldies. First published in 1970
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 515
20.7 7th book - 2008-GThe Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
+30 Task
Grand Total = 185
my review
10.7 Monsterfest IVSoulless: The Manga, Vol. 1 by Gail Carriger
+10 Task
No Style Points as it is a graphic novel
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 205
10.8 Lucky Sevens-
by Qui Xialonng (published 2007)Task Points: 10
Style 15(10.4-red, review)
Review
I tried to like this book. It started out well. I liked the main character of Chief Inspector Chen. He reminded me of Agatha Christie's Poroit. I thought he was a good cop and cared about the cases with an excellent reputation. I like the ancient Chinese stories that come up throughout the book. What I didn't like was the plot. It was way too slow. There is no suspense to it. It is just rather boring. I found the setting interesting for it is set in Shanhai. I also didn't like this book because all the female characters didn't have that big of parts and they kinda fell out of the backdrop.
Book total:25
Grand Total:70
10.2 - OktoberfestEmerald City by Jennifer Egan
USA
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.3 - short stories)
Task total = 15
Grand Total = 170
10.8 Lucky Sevens
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
+10 task
+10 combo (10.5, main character is 115, 20.1 Locus award winner 2004)
task total 20
Total points 105
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
+10 task
+10 combo (10.5, main character is 115, 20.1 Locus award winner 2004)
task total 20
Total points 105
20.1 Frankenstein
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Guardian 2000
+20 task
+5 combo (10.4 fall colors)
Task total 25
Total points 160
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Guardian 2000
+20 task
+5 combo (10.4 fall colors)
Task total 25
Total points 160
20.4 – Carmilla (repeat)In One Person by John Irving
+20 Task (LGBT narrator)
+10 Combo (10.5 Narrator states on first page of book, "I'm now in my late sixties, almost seventy"; 20.8 Irving has been publishing since 1968)
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=35
Grand total=405
D wrote: "20.4 – Carmilla (repeat)+20 Task (LGBT narrator)
+10 Combo (10.5 Narrator states on first page of book, "I'm now in my late sixties, almost seventy"; 20.8 Irving has been publishing since 1968)
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Which book did you read for this?
ETA: Thanks! (And it looks like a good one.)
Task 20.6 Read a book from the top 100 Gothic Novels#23 on list as of September 29, 2012
Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics)(1817) by Jane Austen
+20 Task
+05 Style:1. Combo (5 points): (20.7 feminist author list)
+10 Style:3. Review (10 points):
+15 Style:4. Oldies (5 to 25 points): -151 to 250 years old: 15 points (1762-1861)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 + 15 = 50
Grand Total: 395 + 50 = 445
Review: This was Jane Austen’s first written novel, although it was published post-humously. The majority of the book was making fun of silly teenaged girls who take as a guide to life the Gothic novels that were popular at the time. The last third of the novel changes focus to more conventional Jane Austen concerns (characters navigating the marriage mart). Well-written, as always, and reading this novel is a pleasant way to pass the time. I would recommend her other novels (especially Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility) unless you were planning to read ALL of Austen’s novels. (I’ve read all of Austen’s completed novels now except for Emma.)
20.4 CarmillaSprakeloos by Tom Lanoye
Review: Lanoye writes a book about his mother, who lost her ability to speak after a stroke. Since he likes to talk quite a bit about himself, it ends up being more about him than about her, but nevermind. He knows what he's doing with language, and he's fighting the memory of his mother's speechlessness with a torent of words that's hard to resist, and manages to resurrect her as amateur actor extraordinaire and matriarch par excellence. It is a lovely and funny tribute to a strong woman, with greatness as well as shortcomings, who influenced the lives of many people in small ways and the life of her son in a big way.
Task: 20 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category...)
Combo: 10
20.8 (first book published in 1985, still writing), 20.9 (memoir)
Review: 10
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 70
15.4 - 4th book - Letter DLoon Lake by E.L. Doctorow (pub 1980) - Know your ABCs
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 525
20.7 Feminist AuthorAdam Bede by George Eliot
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.3, 20.8
+15 Oldies (1859)
+5 Jumbo (624 pages)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 910
20.8 Veteran AuthorsHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3)
+5 Multiple
+10 Oldies (1899)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 950
20.9 National Author's DayChapters from My Autobiography 1906-1907 by Mark Twain
Review:
Gradually I seem to be developing a liking for (auto)biographies/memoirs. Previously I always avoided those because I feared that they would bore me too easily. With Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain, I’ve read four autobiographies in the recent past. This book and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley certainly convinced me how much fun autobiographies can be.
Mark Twain has a way of presenting the facts in a funny way. I especially liked how he frequently cited from his daughter Susi’s biography of him. Those thow narrations (Twain’s own dictation and Susi’s biography of him) are combined to give a unique picture of the author.
Once again I listened to the free audiobook from LibriVox, read by John Greenman. He knows how to give Twain his due and I think I wouldn’t have liked the book so much had I not listened to this narration. This is the second book by Mark Twain read by John Greenman I’ve enjoyed (the first was Twain’s retelling of the story of Joan of Arc) and Greenman has become my “voice of Twain” by now. He has done other Twain books as well and I’ll be certain to listen to those as well.
+ 20 Task
+ 10 Oldies (pub. 1906)
+ 10 Review
+ 10 Combo (10.5: Twain was 70 when the publication of this began; 20.8: pulished books for 34 years)
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 540
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he has read.
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 - Kate S' Task - Veteran's Day, November 11th)
+10 Oldies
Total Task Points: 25
Grand Total: 65