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WI 15-16 RwS Completed Tasks - Winter 15/16
20.9 - Winnie-The-PoohThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
This book has some very funny moments, especially at the beginning as the three friends plan their trip. It's the story of Harris, George and the narrator known only as J., to say nothing of the dog Montmorency, a belligerent fox terrier who adds to the fun. They hire a boat to navigate the Thames upstream from the edge of London to Oxford, and the book combines guidebook-style descriptions of the places they pass with accounts of their adventures and misadventures, plus a few rambling digressions.
It’s likely to appeal to anyone who likes P.G. Wodehouse, although here we have a different class of young man, living in boarding houses and working in lowly white-collar jobs in the city.
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2, 10.9, 10.10)
+10 review
+10 oldies (1889)
Task total: 55
Grand Total: 935
20.4 Elfriede JelinekRoseanna by Maj Sjöwall
As this was my first read by this author/series, I did not know what to expect. At first, the writing seemed simple and stilted, but I chalked that up to both the genre (do we really expect fine prose with crime/mystery?) and to the fact that it is translated. It wasn't too long before I adjusted to the cadence and it seemed to be perfect for what it portrays.
This seems more of a police procedural to me, though I'm far from any expert on the sub-divisions in this genre. Included are transcripts of witness examinations, and descriptions of who and how a surveillance was conducted, for instance. The crime was brutal. There is enough detail that little question of what happened is left to the reader's imagination without being either gory or bloody.
This is the first in the series, so there may be more information in this about Martin Beck and his cohorts than in the later installments. I thought these were better characterizations than I might have expected. It has to be a very rare mystery for me to award five stars and I won't make an exception for this. Still, it crosses the three-star threshold into four.
+20 Task (Sweden, Swedish)
+10 Combo (10.8, 10.9 - 3.80)
+10 Review
+ 5 Series (Martin Beck)
+ 5 Oldies (1965)
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 340
10.4 Valentines DayGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
(#7 on the list)
Well, I hardly know what to say about this book. I was worried initially that it might be a very slow moving + boring “must read” classic like North + South by E Gaskell. However, M Mitchell knew how to write a story that propels you along – even if you don’t really like the characters that much. This story is definitely an extremely well written epic (and sad) love story, and on that basis alone I rate it very highly (5). However, my enjoyment of the story was tempered by the racism (a lot of racism) and feeling that it is a very naive and blinkered retelling of the Civil War and The Reconstruction (which knocks rating points off to 4.5). Overall, I enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would, and am glad I read it.
10 task
10 oldie (1936)
25 jumbo
10 review
_____
55
Running total: 375
20.1-Grazia Deledda (1926)The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
approved in help thread
I'm impressed by the book. The story galloped forward even though it began by being about small things and family ties. The first person narrator was very effective, learning things that others had known, remembering things he'd forgotten. I had to remind myself a few times that he was only 10, but that was more because he was at least 16 and having gone through a lot by the time he was relating his story.
In some the tensions between the brothers could have happened anywhere, because the basic concerns were universal, but the deep belief in the prophecy of the madman that was the instigation was rooted in a culture that was tribal. It was interesting to see and feel the landscape made by an intersection of cultures and languages, even though that was only the backdrop and not the point of the book.
This story saddened me. It's an explanation, an exposition, on the trauma that occurred. I didn't feel either hope or depression at the very end. Just calm with an eye out for egrets.
+20 task
+10 review
+15 combo (10.9 - 3.84, 10.2 - No L, 20.8 - NYT list)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 965 after readerboard through 508 adjustments
20.8 - Best of 2015Descent by Tim Johnston
Review:
This book is being promoted as a literary thriller/mystery, which it definitely is. The writing is excellent and the characters seem like real people. I am reluctant to say much about the plot for fear of spoiling anything. In my opinion, even the synopsis on the book's page tells a little too much. All I'll say is that someone goes missing. The story is very suspenseful, but it didn't seem to read very fast, especially the first half. There is a lot of detail about the characters' lives, although it wasn't boring. One thing that drove me nuts and slowed me down was that frequently the author would use the pronouns "he" or "she" instead of using the character's name. It was confusing not knowing who was being referred to, and I kept having to go back and re-read once it became clear which character was involved. I've never really understood the use of that technique. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good suspenseful story, even though it is about a somber topic.
+20 task (on NPR list)
+15 combo (10.2; 10.9 - 3.65 rating; 20.1)
+10 review
Task total=45
Grand total=465
20.3 Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
Review:
Miss Jane Pittman is a spunky survivor, a strong black woman over 100 years old. She narrates the story of her life from her days as a slave, after emancipation, and during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In a Missouri Review interview in 1999, Ernest J. Gaines said that he grew up on a plantation in Louisiana around his handicapped aunt and other older people who visited her. Jane is a fictional character based on the kinds of experiences those people might have gone through, using their vocabulary and the dialects he could remember from his childhood. He also used slave narratives in researching her story.
The role of the strong black man also comes through in the book. Jane's husband, Joe Pittman, proves his manhood by breaking the toughest horses. Jane acts as a mother figure to both Ned and Jimmy, strong men who take huge personal risks in protesting against the discrimination of blacks.
As a slave Jane never learned to read and write, so the premise is that a teacher is taping her oral narrative. Jane is spirited and witty in spite of having faced many challenges and losing people she loved. The author is a master of dialogue with a warm conversational style. The reader feels like they are spending an afternoon in Louisiana talking with the wonderful Miss Jane Pittman.
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.2 Noel)
+10 review
+10 oldie (pub 1971)
Task total: 45
Grand total:335
15.3 - both born 1950'sThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
+15 task
task total: 15
grand total: 375
20.9 - published in 1924We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2, 10.8 - Russian Confederation, 10.9 - 3.96)
+10 oldies
task total: 45
grand total: 420
15.4 - both written in 2010'sTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
+15 task
task total: 15
grand total: 435
20.3 Toni MorrisonDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is quickly finding a place on my list of authors I'm always happy to read. It's hard to believe that this is a debut novel because the characters are so well-drawn and the book is overall so polished. While it's not without flaws, I was completely absorbed by these characters and have a reader's crush on Easy Rawlins. Unlike most noir detectives, I can totally see why the women around Easy are falling over themselves to be with him. I think I liked Leonid McGill (from The Long Fall) slightly more than Easy Rawlins, but maybe what I really liked was the more recent Manhattan setting compared to the 1948 Los Angeles setting here.
My local library sadly doesn't have these books on the shelf, but I was able to get it from the state library system. I'm sure these would be great as audiobooks as well, so maybe I'll turn to audible for the next in the series.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.9 - 3.92; 20.1)
+5 Series
+5 Oldies (pub. 1990)
Task total: 50
Grand total: 455
20.4 Cheri and The Last of Cheri by Colette
+20 task
+10 combo (20.9 - 1926, 10.9 - 3.9)
+10 oldies
task total: 40
grand total: 475
10.2 No L, No LThe Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
I can't put my finger on why I'm enjoying this trilogy as much as I am. I don't normally go in for spy novels and Russian intrigue and secret police and the like. But I've fallen for these characters and found the plot gripping and interesting. This book faces head on the question of atonement and whether persecutors who have committed atrocities in the name of a state should have the opportunity for repentance and forgiveness. The book manages to look at these questions from different perspectives without slipping into moralizing or straying from the thriller plot complete with violence, kidnapping, revenge and prison riots. I'm definitely interested in reading the third in the series.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+10 Series (see post 345)
+15 Combo (10.9 - 3.77, 20.1 - approved in help, 20.6)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 500
20.8 Best of 2015Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
An emotional, raw, powerful book that evades clear categorization or description. It's poetry, raw emotion, prose, criticism, art. I found that I had to take breaks from reading because the book was so provocative. It made real for me the power of micro aggression in a way that I knew but hadn't felt. The book is both personal and general, meditating on Rankine's own experiences as well as news stories and current events. The descriptions of Serena Williams were particularly powerful.
The only weak point in the book is Part VI, which provides scripts from certain multi-media pieces. But without the rest of the multimedia component, the scripts didn't stand alone.
+20 Task
+10 Review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 530
Task 20.3-Toni Morrison (1993)-Read a book from the Charleston Syllabus.
The House Behind the Cedars (1900) by Charles W. Chesnutt (Paperback, 256 pages)
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.9 Realistic Ratings)
+10 Oldies -76 to 150 years old: (1866-1940)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 = 35
Grand Total: 225 + 35 = 260
From Post 381Amanda wrote: "10.10 Group Read
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
It's 11pm NYE here, and my daughter is insisting that we stay up. It was 39C today, and both of these things have con..."
+5 Combo 10.2
From Post 473Beth wrote: "10.9 Realistic RatingsAnnihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Weird. Weird atmosphere. Weirdly compelling. I felt like I just had to keep reading as the biologist explored..."
+5 Series
From Post 474Beth wrote: "20.2-Sigrid Undset (1928)-King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Henry IV reigned at the end of the middle ages - 1399-1413
This may qualify for series points. Goodreads lists it that way. But it seems odd to me to consider it as such.
"
For ease of score keeping, we are going to count this as the series as noted on GoodReads.
+5 Series
10.9 Realistic RatingsExpensive People by Joyce Carol Oates
+10 Task (3.70 avg rating)
+5 Oldies (1968)
+0 Series (already claimed for this task)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 375
15.5 Book DominoesSeven Gothic Tales by Karen Blixen
+15 Task (same decade of birth as 15.4)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 390
10.10 Group ReadThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9, 20.9)
+10 Oldies
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 425
10.9 Realistic RatingsA Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods
+10 Task (3.95 avg rating)
+5 Series
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 440
10.8 Arctic CircleWhen the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
+10 Task (Norway)
+10 Combo (10.9-3.75 avg rating; 20.6)
+5 Series
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 465
15.7 Book DominoesThe Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
Same death decade as previous author (see message 11 in Domino plan thread)
25 task
_____
25
Running total: 400
20.9 Read a book published during author A.A. Milne's lifetime (1882-1956) (1952)Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
+20 (20.9-Winnie the Pooh)
+5 combo (10.2 No L)
+5 combo (10.3 Sci-fi Day)
+5 combo (10.8 Winter Solstice, Asimov was born in what is now Russia)
+10 Review
+5 oldies (1952)
+10 series, book 2
Task total: 60
Grand Total for Winter: 120
"The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more."
This is the immutable theme of this 2nd installment of the Foundation trilogy. My take on Foundation was less glowing than many reviewers. I had hoped that this and the 3rd installment would improve my view of the initial and the trilogy as a whole. I suppose, that happened, but not to the degree of making the whole thing a notable event in my reading.
The writing is notably more mature and the story better developed. While there was still a bit of choppiness in transition, there was more descriptive language which helped the reader wrap their heads around the vast expanse being covered in this epic. I still found myself wanting to care more though. I was interested primarily, after discovering the theme noted above, as to how it was going to be accomplished. I am not sure, perhaps to be clarified in the 3rd installment, whether or not Asimov is a champion or decrier of the Individual...of if I am attempting to read too lofty a consequence into his writing.
The plot has at least coalesced a bit since the first book, and the writing/story is much smoother (hence the maturity). While overall a positive, I found myself actually desiring more consistence out of the author...it was almost like readying a completely different author's work. Perhaps I want for too much...I liken it to an album of rock music...I love it when artists grow and change, but I want the ALBUM, the opus in classical terms to have consistency.
I have committed to reading the 3rd book right away (and have already started)...I don't know that this will be my favorite series, but I think in the end I am glad to have read it.
10.3 - #2The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
+10 task
+5 combo (10.9 - 3.78)
+5 oldies
task total: 20
grand total: 495
10.2 Noel, NoelA Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
+10 Task
+ 5 Series (3 books planned)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 720
10.9 Realistic Ratings (Cory Day's Task)-Another Day by David Levithan
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 730
20.4-Elfriede Jelinek (2004)Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
+20 Task: German
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Realistic Ratings
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 755
20.6 Svetlana Alexievich (2015) - Soviet experienceThe Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig (Lexile 940)
Review: The Endless Steppe tells a World War II story that isn’t told often. Esther Hautzig and her family, Jews living in Vilna, Poland, were exiled to Siberia when the Soviet Union was in charge of their city. In this fictionalized account, she tells the story of the five years that were spent in the bleakest part of Russia that she nevertheless came to love. All in all, the deportation actually saved her from greater horrors, since most of her extended family perished in the Holocaust when Germany took over Poland. The book itself is less interesting than the historical context, and I was surprised at its 940 Lexile score, but I probably would’ve loved it as a kid.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.9 – 3.95)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1968)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 515
10.4 Love StoriesFlowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
Review: Flowers from the Storm is a historical romance novel, but it is really more a story of a man’s fight to recover from an (at the time) unknown brain injury. Kinsale has said she wrote him as having a brain aneurysm and intentionally made him left-handed because I guess it can be easier to recover the speech parts of the brain for lefties. The heroine, Maddy, is a Quaker, which I personally found the least interesting part of the story. It added her own religious questions as roadblocks to their relationship, and took over the end of the story in a way that distracted from many of the other real issues. Regardless, it’s a wonderful study of how awful it must have been to have a mental or brain illness in the 19th century – the parts set in the asylum were truly harrowing.
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (533 pages)
+10 Review
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 540
15.4 - DominoesForever And A Day by Mary McBride
(from Tonight & Forever by Brenda Jackson – both published 1995)
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 555
10.2 Noel NoelDust by Hugh Howey
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.3 #123)
+5 Series
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 570
15.6 – DominoesLabyrinth by Kate Mosse
+15 task- same first name
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 595
Joanna wrote: "10.2 No L, No LThe Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
I can't put my finger on why I'm enjoying this trilogy as much as I am. I don't normally go in for spy novels and..."
I've only read the first book, Joanna, and I thought it's more of a 'drama' sort of books rather than espionage etc.
10.1 Design Your Own Task: Write a task for yourself! Read a book in Bahasa Indonesia
Supernova: Kesatria, Puteri, dan Bintang Jatuh (Supernova #1) by Dewi 'Dee' Lestari
Review
This feels weird... writing a review in English when I’ve read the book in Bahasa Indonesia... This book has also been translated to English, Supernova: The Knight, The Princess, and the Falling Star (Supernova #1).
I have had this book sitting on my shelf for nearly 3 years and have to admit that I couldn’t quite remember the premise of the book when I started reading early this week. Noting the ‘top shelves’ on Goodreads included ‘fantasy’ and ‘science-fiction’, I expected something along that line of genre but... it’s not! I guess there is a bit of a fantasy touch to it but it isn’t ‘fantasy’ as we think of the genre. I’d classify this to be closer to magical realism than fantasy.
The opening of the novel was surprising; set 10 years prior where our 2 main protagonists met and in crossing boundaries and prejudices, fell in love. Oh, did I mention that they’re gay? This fact alone, noting minority of minorities in Indonesia, is a surprising choice of the author (as it is also bantered about in the novel). They made a pact that in 10 years’ time, they will collaborate in writing a single masterpiece. Dimas is a writer whilst Rueben is a scientist so their literature masterpiece will be primarily written by Dimas with Rueben’s input in the background.
The novel progressed with alternate chapters which then became alternate perspectives within chapters between the Creators (Dimas & Reuben) and the Created (The Knight, The Princess, and the Falling Star). Therefore, this is a story within a story type of novel where there is a blur in the end of what’s what. Their masterpiece is to be a retelling of a fairy tale (The Knight, The Princess, and the Falling Star) in contemporary setting but with a twist (the fairy tale did not end with HEA) however, the ending also took the Creators by surprise...
I have really enjoyed this alternate perspectives especially getting ‘in’ on the writers’ writing process. I understand each writer will have own ways of expressing / searching for their creative juices but this was still an exciting part of the novel for me. I really liked the banters between the couple who have understood each other very well, are very much in love, and comfortable in their skin in being able to banter about their existence as minority (being homosexual). Their masterpiece as it was, I only really liked because I felt involved in the creation of it; of witnessing the masterpiece being breathed into life.
On the other hand, Reuben’s inputs almost always have something to do with some scientific theories. There are so very many of them (I didn’t count but there were too much for me) and as I’m not of scientific mind (plus my deteriorating Bahasa Indonesia), I found these very very difficult to understand. I may have done slightly better in English but I doubt it.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - 3.80 avg)
+10 Review
+5 Series
Post total: 30 points
Total points: 745 points
20.2-Sigrid Undset (1928)The Silver Falcon (Das kupferne Zeichen #2) by Katia Fox
set in 12th - 13th century
review
In The Copper Sign (Das kupferne Zeichen #1), we had Ellenwore, a very ambitious girl who wanted to be the best swordsmith in England. In The Silver Falcon, we follow William, Ellenwore’s son, born with a clubfoot but just as ambitious as his mother though his ambition lies in a different direction, the best falcon master in the country. Being a boy in Medieval England did not spare him any sufferings though they may differ from what his mother suffered, they were just as heartbreaking. He, however, is his mother’s son, a deep love for his craft and hard work combined with confidence in his skill, he strove against society’s stigma of his disability and class to gain his most precious dreams. Just like the first book, there were distressing moments but thankfully, it wasn’t too graphic though not avoided so a fairly realistic for the Middle Ages so somewhat palatable. There is a rather interesting theme of homosexuality and since the book is set in Medieval England, a rather limited perspective.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 - 3.96 avg; 20.4 -author splits her time between Germany & France (reference) & book originally written in German)
+10 Review
+10 Series (book 1 claimed for task 20.4 in post 425)
+5 Jumbo (526 pages)
Post total: 55 points
Total points: 800 points
20.7 Feminism (Louise Bro's Task)The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
#24 on list
review
I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting myself into with this audiobook. Let me give you my background: I’m Asian, grew up in Asia with very traditional Asian parents... We do not talk about private parts much less of sex! However, this book is not about sex per se but really about women knowing our bodies and not being ashamed of any part of it. I have to confess on not being able to connect on most parts of the book except the last chapter about birth (yes, probably because I’ve been through it, twice!). Unfortunately, I also did not like her voice / reading so I may have done better reading rather than listening.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - 3.85 avg)
+10 Review
Post total: 35 points
Total points: 835 points
15.8 Book DominoesThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants By Ann Brashares
Same citizenship (US) as 15.7 (see message 11 in Domino plan thread)
25 task
_______
25
Running total: 425
15.2 Book DominoesHeat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (born same decade as 15.1- 1928 & 1927)
task +15
grand total = 575
10.1 Design Your Own TaskBook written by an author who died in 2015.
White as Snow by Tanith Lee
+10 task (died May 24)
+10 Combo (10.3 #101, 10.9 rating 3.72)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 615
10.9 Realistic ratingsThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Review:
Rachel is living a lie, commuting by train every day to a nonexistent job so her flatmate won't know she's been fired. The train often stops in front of the home of " a perfect, golden couple" sitting on their rooftop terrace. One morning Rachel notices something shocking when the train makes its stop. The next day the perfect blond woman is reported missing.
The main characters are unreliable narrators, women with low self-esteem, cheating spouses, and compulsive liars. Memories are just a little out of reach after heavy drinking. This psychological thriller has lots of twists and turns, and is a quick page turner.
+10 task (rating of 3.84)
+ 5 combo (20.8 NPR list)
+10 review
Task total: 25
Grand total: 360
Tien wrote: "Joanna wrote: "10.2 No L, No LThe Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
I've only read the first book, Joanna, and I thought it's more of a 'drama' sort of books rather than espionage etc. "
That's a fair comment. It's not really espionage as much as secret police and government machinations. But still pretty far afield from something that would have normally attracted my interest. Maybe this is a sign that I should read more political thriller type books.
Post 518 Connie wrote: "20.3 Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
Review:
Miss Jane Pittman is a spunky survivor, a strong black woman over 100 years old. ..."
I'm sorry, Connie. This is shelves as YA Assignment at BPL and has a Lexile of 710. Task, but no styles.
Tien wrote: "20.7 Feminism (Louise Bro's Task)The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
#24 on list
review
I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting myself into with this audiobook. Let me..."
I'm sorry, Tien. This is shelved as YA Assignment at BPL and has no Lexile. Task, but no styles.
Post 551Valerie wrote: "15.8 Book DominoesThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants By Ann Brashares
Same citizenship (US) as 15.7 (see message 11 in Domino plan thread)
25 task
_______
25
Run..."
I'm sorry, Valerie. This is YA at BPL and has a Lexile of 600. It does not qualify for Dominoes.
20.6 Svetlana AlexievichNotes on the Cuff and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.9 rating 3.63)
+5 oldies (first published 1978)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 645
Task 20.8 Best of 2015: Read a book from NPR Concierge.
Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal #1) (2015) by Zen Cho (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 371 pages)
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.2 “No L”, #10.9 Realistic Ratings)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 260 + 30 = 290
From Post 515Valerie wrote: "10.4 Valentines Day
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
(#7 on the list)
Well, I hardly know what to say about this book. I was worried initially that it might be..."
+10 Combo (20.7, 20.9)
10.1 Design Your Own TaskThe Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
Review:
Although it is a short novel, "The Pecan Man" is a gem to be remembered. Ora Beckworth, a widow in central Florida, hires a homeless black man to weed her garden and mow her lawn. He's called the Pecan Man by the neighbors. The police arrest him for murdering a man near his makeshift home in the woods, but Ora feels that he's innocent.
Ora narrates her story about living in a 1970s Southern town, her friendship with the housekeeper Blanche and her family, race relations, and justice. The book explores secrets, lies, and moral gray areas. The story also shows there are lots of ways of caring, sharing, and being a family.
This is a self-published debut novel that has been getting a lot of buzz. I'll be looking forward to Cassie Dandridge Selleck's next work.
+10 task (Published in the 21st Century 2012)
+10 review
Task total: 20
Grand total: 355
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Louise Bro wrote: "20.7 Feminism
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(#7 on the list)
Review:
Reading “Pride and Prejudice” is slightly weird: I was so sure that I’d already read it, becaus..."
+5 Combo 20.1-Austen was approved for all books in the Help Thread