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20.10 InterconnectedGreat House by Nicole Krauss
Review: Over more than 60 years writers have sat to write at a large desk with many drawers of different sizes. One drawer is locked. The story comes to us from different first person perspectives, intertwined. But each story is one of regret and missed opportunities to communicate. Can we ever know someone else even when that someone is truly loved and has been in our life for decades? Is the desk a brooding presence or a symbol to others of the withdrawal into an internal life where others cannot follow? The intriguing puzzle of where the desk has been is matched with the haunting losses that the characters have experienced.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 combo 10.3
Task total : 35
Grand Total: 320
20.9 Authors with Three NamesUnder the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Low Lexile
Task Total : 20
Grand Total : 890
Thank you Anika for the review and recommendation, I really enjoyed this one - the art analysis and history, the mystery, the building of the relationships within the story, all just wonderful. The resolution surprised me, and I didn't see it coming.
10.4 DictionaryMinimum of Two by Tim Winton
I did check this at BPL, but it's not listed! This is often on Year 12 reading lists, in fact, it was on MY Year 12 reading list, but somehow I never got around to it.
I really enjoyed it, and have come to quite enjoy Tim Winton, and have really enjoyed all of the audiobooks of his works that I have listened to.
Half the 14 stories in this collection are about Jerra Nilsam, his wife and their son. The last story is actually about the birth of their son, and is quite horrific ( I had an easy childbirth, and when I hear a story like this is always makes me thankful ). It did make me wonder how teachers deal with this story in class.
One of the stories revisits characters from his novel Shallows, that I had read previously, which was nice, and another story about a couple dealing with the aftermath of rape also had me wondering how it would work in a classroom.
The people in Winton's stories are always very real, ordinary people, and nothing very extraordinary happens to them, but I think that almost everyone who reads them can relate to them on one level or another.
+10 task
+10 review
+10 Not A Novel (short stories)
+10 combo ( 10.3, 10.9 - post 300)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 930
20.6 - RatingsEleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
349,733 ratings
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 155
15.7 Travel the US (Land Cruiser)Oklahoma
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
15 task
10 bonus
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25
Running total 305
Amanda wrote: "20.9 Authors with Three NamesUnder the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Low Lexile
Task Total : 20
Grand Total : 890
Thank you Anika for the review and recommendat..."
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Amanda! :-)
10.7 LibravoxThe Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Review
This is the predecessor to the children’s show Land of the Lost that I enjoyed as a child and may also have been an inspiration for Crichton’s own Jurassic Park series. Our hero and narrator is an Irish born man living in England by the name of Malone. He is a semi-pro rugby player and love has driven him to seek a death defying adventure to prove himself to his ladylove. Teaming up with the eccentric and ego centric Professor Challenger, he becomes convinced there is a lost world full of pre-historic creatures discovered in South America as the Professor claims. The Scientific world holds that Challenger is a liar and a charlatan, compared. Malone teams up with the skeptic scientist, Professor Summerlee and Lord John Roxton who is a military man and adventurer and lastly Professor Challenger himself. They do find this lost world but to their misfortune become entrapped there for some time during which they face death from many a grotesque enemy, including ape-men, the “missing link”.
The fast pace, the innocence, the characterizations of the principals makes this a fun, easy read that is also enjoyable for the family. One thing I couldn’t help think that in the adventure stories of today as compared with this one, is it all turns out well, with all four arriving safely home. Today’s literature would most likely have on struggling survivor if any at all. Why have we become so bleak while we live in a world more comfortable than when this book was written?
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Review
+15 pts - Combo (10.8,10.9- approved author, 20.2 - died in 1930, 20.9)
+10 pts - Oldies (1912)
Task Total - 50 pts
Grand Total - 755 pts
20.2 InnocenceThe Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle Riley
+20 Task (published 1996, died 2010)
+5 Combo (20.9)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 905
Task 10.6 Reunification-Read a book originally written in German or by an author born in Germany.
The Weekend: A Novel (2008) by Bernhard Schlink; translated by Shaun Whiteside (Hardcover, 216 pages)
+10 Task (#10.6 German)
+05 Combo (#10.3 Dictionary)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 405 + 15 = 420
10.4 - Math1984 by George Orwell
+10 task
+20 combo (10.2 - Agatha Christie; 10.9 - Six Degrees: 20.6 - Ratings; 20.2 - Innocence)
+5 oldies (published in 1949)
task total: 35
grand total: 185
15.8 Travel the US (Land Cruiser)Colorado
Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
15 task
10 bonus
___
25
Running total: 330
20.2 InnocenceAn Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope
With this, Trollope shows his versatility. The GR description tells much of the plot line, bordering on a spoiler because the full revelation of the conflict doesn't come until past the halfway point. Fred Neville has made two promises in complete contradiction of each other. It is impossible for him to keep both of them and breaking either of them will compromise his honor.
Trollope has certainly given us plenty of characters who have done wrong. I can't recall him ever giving us a character who had no wiggle room to do what is right. This is a short novel, but the last 75 pages are filled with tension. He had painted himself in a corner - how would he get himself out?
I think you will want to be devoted to Trollope to spend even the short time needed to read this one, but I certainly don't regret my time with it.
+20 Task (pub 1879, d. 1882)
+ 5 Combo (10.9, post 85)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies
Task Total = 45
Grand total = 355
+10
10.3 DictionaryControl Point by Myke Cole
Review: This is another book I was reading primarily because the author will be at an event I’m attending, but it had also gotten great reviews from people I respect (and mediocre but relatively neutral ones from others). I ended up on the low side of mediocre in my response to it – I never fully engaged with the characters, and barely engaged with the story. The worldbuilding is interesting, but I wasn’t a fan of the point of view – mostly because it was relatively haphazard and hard to pin down. I might be sensitive to it, but like North of Beautiful, I wasn’t in love with the characterization of body type (use a different word from chubby to describe adolescent girls, maybe?). If you like military jargon, it might be your thing, but I’ll pass on the sequel (even though I’ve heard it’s better than this one).
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 – pending approval from post 397)
+10 Review
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 875
20.8 DAR (1770-1790)The Black Angel by Barbara Samuel
Review: This historical romance was fine to fill in the gaps between slightly heavier books, and my main problem with it wasn’t the author’s fault (my Kindle edition ended at 78%, with filler for the remaining 22%, making the ending feel incredibly rushed). I also was influenced by a negative review I glanced at before reading it, criticizing the book’s references to The Three Musketeers when it’s supposed to be set 16 years before Dumas was even born. I wouldn’t have cared or probably even noticed without that review. Regardless, the book had the makings of something great – a heroine who fought against the double standards of her time (and ours); interesting racial, social, and religious issues that were investigated; and a fun family with plenty of sequel bait. Sadly, it fell a little short in actually developing the main characters and many of the social issues, and there’s only one sequel, so I must not be alone in my indifference.
+20 Task (set 1786)
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 905
15.1 – TtUS Land Cruiser (Round 2)No Such Thing by A.M. Arthur
Set entirely in Delaware
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 920
10.5 October AwardsThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Review: This is my kind of book – a mix of social history, real people’s stories, and the affects of place on both of those things. It’s timely in the most infuriating way – the story of how black citizens of this country have been held back in manners many of us fail to consider continues to be written, and didn’t end when the Great Migration petered out. I got to the point where I couldn’t read parts of it right before bed, since it kept making me mad. Isabel Wilkerson did a good job chronicling the reasons behind the mass exodus of blacks from the south, the [not always entirely better] circumstances they encountered in the north, and every once in a while ties it back to what’s still going on today. If one managed to sit and read the entire 600+ pages straight through, some of it might have gotten repetitive, but I appreciated the occasional reminders of things that had been mentioned chapters before. I’m going to pair this with another book in my collection that focuses on the Great Migration in Pittsburgh.
+10 Task (2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize runner-up)
+5 Jumbo (622 pages)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 955
10.9 Six Degrees of Kevin BaconRelish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
+10 Task (pending approval – post 405)
Graphic Novel – no styles
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 965
10.7 LibrivoxAnthem by Ayn Rand
+10 Task (shelved 5 times as Librivox
+10 Oldies (published 1918)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 945
20.8 DARHow to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne by Jonathan Beckman
+20 task
+5 combo (20.7 Microhistory)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 370
10.3 DictionaryAll Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry (Lexile 820)
Review: I’m starting to wear out on these young adult novels I’m reading for an event I’m attending next week, to the point where I might forego the last one I have on my bedside table. This one was well written, at least in the definition that descriptive prose makes something well written, but it was less than satisfying in its story. There were hints of greatness – it’s evocative and dark and slightly off-kilter but not so much that I felt lost – but it still felt flat to me. This would probably be termed “literary YA” by some, adding “magical realism” to the description if more were needed, but I’m afraid I mostly found it boring and overwrought.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 985
20.5 HistoryMichigan: A Bicentennial History by Bruce Catton
Review: I picked this up at a used bookstore in Traverse City when I was on vacation in September, both wanting to read a little more about the history of the state I was visiting and also realizing it’d fit the challenge. Written in 1976, it’s part of a series of books written about the history of each state to celebrate the bicentennial. The introduction mentions that each author was asked to highlight the most important parts of their state’s history as they saw it, rather than to provide a comprehensive history. I’ve become used to a different type of history book, one that focuses more on the people and less on an overview, so it was not my favorite. The last chapter, however, almost made up for what I felt was a lack-luster beginning – I just wish Catton had expanded on it. His overall thesis is one of Michigan’s inhabitants viewing it as an inexhaustible land of plenty, which he ties at the end into the story of Detroit, which was already showing signs of the shell of its former self it has become in the 21st century. It makes me want to read a book I’ve had on my shelves for years and haven’t gotten around to – Detroit: an American Autopsy – so maybe I’ll find a place for that in next season’s challenge.
+20 Task (Pulitzer Prize for History – 1954)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Review
+5 Oldies (pub. 1976)
+10 Combo (10.9 – post 246, 20.2 – died 1978)
Task Total: 55
Grand Total: 1040
20.10 InterconnectedSide Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Review:
James Marsters is a masterful reader for these stories (and for the whole series). I love listening to him. He struggled more with these stories because two of them are first person narrations by Thomas (Harry's half-brother) and Murphy (Harry's police officer lady friend). Still, the collection added some nice depth to the Dresden universe. The story told by Thomas in particular allowed Butcher to give more background on vampire society and projects than he can with the first-person Dresden books. Also, the short story format allows Harry to be his jokey sarcastic self without having to carry a whole book. I think Butcher had fun with some of these stories and I enjoyed the prefaces that explained why the story was written and where it first appeared. Perfect reading to get in the mood for Halloween. I'm looking forward to continuing this series.
+20 Task
+10 Not a novel (stories)
+5 Combo (10.9 - post 214)
+10 Review
Task total: 45
Grand total: 220
15.1 - TtUS - Land CruiserNew Hampshire
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Review:
Maybe this book was unfairly tainted by the way that I got it. A coworker heard me say that I had read something else by this author and brought the book in for me to read. I kind of hate when this happens because then I feel like I have to read the book even if I don't really want to. In any event, I liked learning about Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), but otherwise found the book to be a complete soap opera. I didn't really connect with the characters and find the Picoult format pretty pushy--Look! An ethical dilemma! Affecting all these people! OMG OMG OMG!!!
The ending in particular was annoying and unnecessary, but really it just topped off an overly dramatic and after-school-special type story. And the way the jurors were picked is either entirely fabricated or New Hampshire has super-wacky voir dire procedures.
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 235
15.2 - TtUS - Land CruiserMassachusetts
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Review:
A wonderful history of Martha's Vineyard native who makes his way to Harvard and back. I wanted to read this over the summer when I was heading to Martha's Vineyard, but didn't quite get to it then. I loved the lead female character here--Bethia should perhaps have merited title character status as the book was as much her story as Caleb's. Brooks is an impressive writer and handles passages in the style of the time as deftly as she does inner monologue of people of the time. I don't love all of her work, but always admire the writing. Highly recommended to readers of any type of historical fiction.
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 250
10.2 Agatha ChristieTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Review:
I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never read this classic before. I was intimidated by the dialect and could never quite get into it. How did anyone give me a degree in women's studies without first insisting that I read this?
I actually listened to the audiobook, which is fabulous for getting the sound of the dialogue and speech patterns. I normally listen to audiobooks at a speeded up rate, but this one I didn't speed because the dialogue was fast and entertaining without any need for increased speed.
It's frankly unbelievable that this book was published in the 1930s. It resonates today as if written by a modern author.
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.9)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies (1937)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 290
20.6 RatingsIf I Stay by Gayle Forman
Review:
This book made me cry, but nonetheless disappointed me. The idea is a great premise--a girl in a coma after a motor vehicle accident that killed the rest of her family and her consciousness/soul is thinking over whether to go on living. But the all-in-the-head consciousness never quite reached true emotion for me. There was very little risk taking or vulnerability with the character. Her friendships and her romance were all a bit too neat and tidily perfect. Her dead parents were just the coolest folks around. She was herself a likely Julliard bound cellist. Maybe teens wouldn't mind this, but I don't think it crosses over to an adult audience.
+20 Task (401,524)
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 325
15.4 - TtUS Land CruiserEnemy Women by Paulette Jiles
set in Missouri
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 1025
10.9 Six Degrees of Kevin BaconThe Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
+10 Task: Approved Author Post #16
Grand Total: 1035
15.4 TtUS--Land CruiserElsie: Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916 by Barbara Anne Waite, Arizona (more than 90%)
Task = 15
Bonus = 10
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 905
15.5 TtUS--Land CruiserThe World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne Utah (~65%)
Task = 15
Bonus = 10
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 930
20.2 InnocenceOdd John by Olaf Stapledon
+20 Task (published 1935, died 1950)
+10 Oldies (published 1935)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 975
Rebekah wrote: "10.7 LibravoxThe Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Review
This is the predecessor to the children’s show Land of the Lost that I enjoyed as a child and may also have bee..."
+5 Combo 10.8
Claire wrote: "10.4 - Math1984 by George Orwell
+10 task
+10 combo (10.2 - Agatha Christie; 20.6 - Ratings)
+5 oldies (published in 1949)
task total: 25
grand total: 175"
+10 Combo 10.9 and 20.2
Cory Day wrote: "10.5 October AwardsThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Review: This is my kind of book – a mix of social his..."
+5 Combo 20.7
Amanda wrote: "10.4 DictionaryMinimum of Two by Tim Winton
I did check this at BPL, but it's not listed! This is often on Year 12 reading lists, in fact, it was on MY Year 12 rea..."
+5 Oldies (1987)
15.6 TtUS--Land CruiserThe Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon
Arizona
+15 Task
+10 bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 345
10.1 AuthorMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (new author for me)
Review:
"My Brilliant Friend" is the first book in the Neopolitan series about the friendship between the narrator Elena and her friend Lila. It is set in the 1950s in a working class neighborhood where violence is rampant. People fear the Camorra who had operated a black market during the war, and still wield power. Violence is used to defend the honor of family members and friends. In the patriarchal society of Naples, men beat their wives and children to settle domestic disputes. The mother-daughter relationships of both girls are strained.
The friendship between the two childhood friends is also competitive. They sometimes offer each other support and love, but each girl has moments of jealousy. Lila especially can be sharp and hurtful. The two girls are intelligent, but the wild, creative, brighter Lila is not allowed to attend middle school because her parents refuse to spend the money. Lila must spend her time working at her father's shoe repair shop, but she learns by borrowing books at the library.
Although a strong bond remains between them, their paths diverge in adolescence. Education may offer Elena a way out of the neighborhood. Will Lila--who is exceptionally beautiful as well as intelligent--be happy in a traditional life where the men are dominant? Ambition and early feminism run through the novel, suggesting that both young women want more from life than the roles of the neighborhood women.
The author, Elena Ferrante, writes in earthy, emotional prose. In addition to the coming-of-age and the neighborhood dramas, the book touches on social class and the patriarchal society in post-war Italy. The book ends with Elena and Lila as sixteen-year-olds with very different prospects ahead. There are three more books in Ferrante's Neopolitan quartet that I look forward to reading.
+10 task
+10 review
Task total: 20
Grand total: 430
10.9 Six DegreesForeign Affairs by Alison Lurie
+10 Task (post 378)
+5 Oldies (1984)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 730
20.10 InterconnectedChestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.9-post 377)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 760
20.9 Authors with Three NamesTales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 790
10.9 Six DegreesGuilt by Association by Marcia Clark
+10 Task (post 365)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 800
20.10 InterconnectedFord County by John Grisham
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
+5 Combo 10.9-post 44
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 835
10.7 LibrivoxDracula by Bram Stoker
I've been in the mood for something to read to get me in the mood for Halloween that also fit the Librivox challenge (I'd been having a hard time finding a book I want to read on that list). When I saw Amanda's review of the audio version of Dracula with a full cast starring Alan Cumming and Tim Curry, I knew I had to find it!
I've read Dracula before, back in high school when I had a slight obsession with all things vampire. I also remember the disappointment at watching the 1992 Coppola film which had the audacity to call itself "Bram Stoker's Dracula" despite taking copious liberties with the text.
Apparently, in the intervening years, I'd forgotten what those "liberties" had been and had been waiting for us to find out the connection between the Count and Mina. As written in the book, "“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker." My memory is terrible, apparently, so it was nice to revisit this classic, to be reminded of the story as put down by the author and not as reinvented by Hollywood!
I still love the set up of the novel (I've always liked novels that are a compendium of letters, diary entries, logs, etc.). Though I don't love Stoker's treatment of women (Mina is bright and quick to understanding, but she's smart "like a man"...) and the didactic religious quality of so many of the aspects of the book were a little heavy-handed---but I also realize that those opinions all stem from being a modern reader. I can only imagine how scandalous, horrific, and intriguing this book would have been to readers over a hundred years ago. I think my favorite part of this book is that it really is a horror book...these days, with sparkly, "vegetarian" vampires and benevolent werewolves (thank you, Stephenie Meyer, though she's not the only culprit) the line between monsters and angels has been blurred. Stoker's Dracula is most definitely and unequivocally a monster.
And that's just what I wanted. A monster tale for Halloween.
Thank you again, Amanda, for the review you wrote! I never would have known about that audio version otherwise and it was a fantastic listen.
+10 Task (shelved as Librivox 11 times)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies, 1897
+25 Combo
-10.8, #4 on the list
-10.9, post 26
-20.2, pub 1897 died 1912
-20.3, #80 on list
-20.6, 521,852 ratings
Task Total = 55
Grand Total = 985
Anika wrote: "10.7 LibrivoxDracula by Bram Stoker
I've been in the mood for something to read to get me in the mood for Halloween that also fit the Librivox challenge (I'd been havi..."
Glad you also enjoyed it ! After finally reading / listening to the story I can see that the Coppola version probably came closer to the text than any other Dracula film we have watched ( my 9yo is a horror movie buff, so we have watched some of the old Universal films, and the Hammer version with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - both actors that she adores! However, Halloween viewing here was a strictly Vincent Price affair;) ).
20.8 - DARLafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
I'm not a big audiobook person but the chances of my listening to one go up if it's:
a - nonfiction
b - funny
c - read by the author
d - ...who is a contributor to This American Life
It might be the narrowest of genres but it rarely fails. ;) I hope to break out of this rut soon but until then I'll indulge in Vowell's delightful history about Lafayette's time in America.
This is the first audiobook I've listened to using my e-library's Overdrive app. Lesson learned - hit the bookmark button whenever there's something interesting. I enjoyed so many parts of this book that I just can't recall now. :/
Let's stick with what I do remember - Lafayette is awesome. He came over to the not yet United States at the tender age of 19, leaving behind his wife, baby daughter (eep) and angry parents because he wanted to be part of the American Revolution. By using his charm (as well as paying his own way) he became an important officer in General Washington's army, leading forces in several key battles. Along the way he made many friends and quite the name for himself, so much so that when he visited the US 40 years later he spent 16 months traveling the country, attending some kind of dinner or ceremony in his honor every day. Every. Day. That Lafayette Street or Lafayette Park or Lafayetteville near you? It was probably named then.
Vowell does a wonderful job weaving this story in her signature relatable style. While the narrative focuses on the years of the American Revolution we also join Vowell as she visits historical sites and muses how the state of US politics hasn't changed that much over the past two hundred years.
The audiobook is spiced up with people you probably know in cameo appearances as the founding fathers and Lafayette himself. I do wish they got a second female voice actor, though - apparently only one guy could do a decent french accent, so he was used for female french voices as well. Distracting to say the least.
Vowell fans will feel right at home and gobble Lafayette up. You can start here if you're unfamiliar with her work but I still think Assassination Vacation is the best entry point.
+20 task
+10 review
+10 Not-a-novel
+5 combo (10.9 - post 234)
Task total: 45 points
Grand total: 250 points
15.4 TTUS Land CruiserThe Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
MISSOURI
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 330
20.2 InnocenceMrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist by Dorothy Gilman
Published 1997, Gilman died in 2012
On my re-reading Mrs. Pollifax books kick, I realized that I hadn't actually read this one in the first place, so I was looking forward to a fresh read. It definitely delivered in one sense - new setting, new problems, new characters. On the other hand, I was reminded of both the pleasures and disappointments of formula books. It's nice sometimes to just read a pattern - you know what kind of thing is coming, you can predict, nothing totally shocks you, and you're just enjoying the writing and being taken along for the ride. However, I definitely felt like I had read this before, though I hadn't. In this installment, Mrs. Pollifax accompanies her old friend Farrell to Jordan to rendezvous with someone and pick up a manuscript of an imprisoned, then murdered, dissident Iraqi writer. Unsurprisingly, she meets someone along the way who isn't what he seems to be and uses karate and wits to do more than her mission suggested. Formula, but a fun formula.
+20 task
+10 review
Task Total: 30
Grand total: 360
15.6 TtUS--Land CruiserOur Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, Colorado (100%)
Task = 15
Bonus = 10
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 1010
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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
+20 Task
+5 Jumbo (603 pages MPE)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 715