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Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 994 Rebekah wrote: "20.2 Innocence4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
(pub. 1957 death 1976)
Review
Also published under the title, [book:What Mrs. McGillic..."
ok I will fix it
15.2 - TtUS Flight-seerProdigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
set in Kentucky
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 1275
20.1 CelebrationBlood Boundby Patricia Briggs
Published 2007
Review
This is the second book in the series. Mercedes Thompson works as a mechanic. She is also a shapeshifter known as a walker. She turns into a coyote. She is also friends with a vampire named Stefan and she hangs out with werewolves. In fact, the Alpha of the local pack has declared her his mate. There is a big problem. There is a vampire who is also a sorcerer in the area and he is creating violence in the area. When her good friend Stefan goes missing, she is called in to help the vampire queen with this problem. Adam, the Alpha leader of the local werewolf pack also needs her help. Can she catch this rogue vampire and survive? I guess you will have to find out.
Task +20
Style+ 10 Review
Book Total 30
Grand Total: 365
From Post 969Valerie wrote: "20.3 Difficult
(read the "Heart of Darkness" #9 on the list)
Heart of Darkness: And Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
20 task
10 oldie
5 libravox 6x
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35
Running total..."
+5 Combo 10.9
From Post 990Bea wrote: "20.8 DAR
John Adams by David McCullough
Review:
I am intimidated by huge books. This book at over 700 pages seemed very daunting to me, so I tackled it with a buddy..."
+5 Combo 10.9
Coralie wrote: "15.2 - TtUS Flight-seerProdigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
set in Kentucky
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 1275"
loved this book!
10.9 Six Degrees of Kevin BaconAvenue of Mysteries by John Irving
+10 task (post 29)
Task total=10
Final season grand total=1050
Tien wrote: "20.6-RatingsJane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
>1M ratings
Review
This is the second time I’ve read (or rather, listen) to Jane Eyre and I think I’ve enjoyed it more than bef..."
+10 Combo 10.9 and 20.3
Norma wrote: "Moving Target by J.A. Jance
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 540"
What task is this for?
From Post 990Bea wrote: "20.8 DAR
John Adams by David McCullough
Review:
I am intimidated by huge books. This book at over 700 pages seemed very daunting to me, so I tackled it with a buddy..."
+10 Not a Novel
10.3 Dictionary, sorry about that, key board issues, updated postKate S wrote: "Norma wrote: "
Moving Target by J.A. Jance
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 540"
What task is this for?"
Kate S wrote: "From Post 990Bea wrote: "20.8 DAR
John Adams by David McCullough
Review:
I am intimidated by huge books. This book at over 700 pages seemed very daunting to me, s..."
Thanks for the extra points, Kate.
20.7 MicrohistoryMaking Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30 by Peter Gottlieb
Review: I’m glad I read this in the same few months as The Warmth of Other Suns, because the two books deal with the same issue from different perspectives. This one takes more of a micro level approach, looking at a specific time period within the larger Great Migration and only in one city. It’s also much more academic and drier in tone – lots of reciting statistics and less about specific people. Still, any investigation of a subject like this reminds me how far we’ve come but also how far we have to come – and how the legacy of experience can inform generations to come.
+20 Task
+5 Oldies (1987)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 1915
20.9 Three NamesMothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Review: I really shouldn’t have finished this book, since within the first couple of stories I 1) determined it wasn’t a set of interconnected stories, 2) I wasn’t going to finish either challenge twice as I had hoped, and 3) it is definitely a book that is just not for me. I tend to dislike certain types of ‘literary fiction’ and have a lot of trouble with most of the short story collections I’ve read. But then, in investigating whether or not these were all set in the same town, I watched an interview with the author and some of the things she said about how she writes about difficult things because that basically is all she feels is valuable, and how some types of books are mere escapism – things I really disagree with when applied in broad general strokes. From then on, the collection just grated on my nerves, although interestingly enough the last story was kind of charming in its more direct style and lack of a depressing ending.
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Review
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 1955
That's it for me - I wasn't able to squeeze in that last Shakespeare, so I hope we hit the Oldies goal no matter what!
That's it for the Fall! Thank you all for a wonderful season. See you in Winter.
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The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
Lexile 1090
This was a hard book to get into but an equally hard one to put down. I have been away traveling in Asia for the past week and a half (hence the lack of posting, as well as the sudden completion of a ton of books - 24 hours of flying time will do that to you!) and I started this on an airplane. That was probably not the best move, at least not at the end of a flight, since it is a little hard to get into. Octavian, a slave being brought up in the "College of Lucidity" is treated as a subject of rotating psychological observations and lessons. As times grow tougher, the purposes of teaching Octavian take a turn for the worse. The story fascinated me because I think that the issue of slavery during the Revolutionary War era is really interesting, and how it was and was not addressed, and the book immediately made me want to run out and get some nonfiction to find out what was and wasn't true. (I started reading Revolutionary Summer, too, which was a great pairing, but don't know if I'll finish it tonight!)
+20 task (set in Revolutionary-era Boston...features Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775)
+10 review
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 845