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15.10 AotD Time TravelerAgatha Award Best First Novel (1988-1997)
The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
Won the award in 1997.
+15 Task
+100 Task Completion Time Traveler
Task Total: 115
Season Total: 760
Second Round: 15.1 AotD Time LeaperDifferent Awards (2001-2010)
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
National Book Award for Fiction in 2010
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
2010 - National Book Award for Fiction
2009 - Audie Award for Biography/Memoir
2008 - Independent Publisher's Book Award for Historical/Military Fiction
2007 - Edgar Award for Best Novel
2006 - Commonwealth's Writers Prize for Best First Book in SE Asia and Pacific
2005 - National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
2004 - Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction
2003 - Spur Award
2002 - Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story
2001 - RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
Second Round: 15.2 AotD Time LeaperDifferent Awards (2001-2010)
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Commonwealth's Writers Prize for Best First Book in SE Asia and Pacific in 2006
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
2010 - National Book Award for Fiction
2009 - Audie Award for Biography/Memoir
2008 - Independent Publisher's Book Award for Historical/Military Fiction
2007 - Edgar Award for Best Novel
2006 - Commonwealth's Writers Prize for Best First Book in SE Asia and Pacific
2005 - National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
2004 - Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction
2003 - Spur Award
2002 - Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story
2001 - RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
Second Round: 15.3 AotD Time LeaperDifferent Awards (2001-2010)
The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas
Spur Award in 2003
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
2010 - National Book Award for Fiction
2009 - Audie Award for Biography/Memoir
2008 - Independent Publisher's Book Award for Historical/Military Fiction
2007 - Edgar Award for Best Novel
2006 - Commonwealth's Writers Prize for Best First Book in SE Asia and Pacific
2005 - National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
2004 - Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction
2003 - Spur Award
2002 - Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story
2001 - RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
15.8 AotDThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Nebula Award Winner 2007
+15 task
Grand total: 935
10.4 International Question DayThe Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Rachel, the daughter of an African-American serviceman and a white Danish mother, had spent most of her early life on European military bases where she had never thought about her race. She survives a family tragedy where her mother and siblings die. Her alcoholic father is overseas and out of her life. Rachel gets sent to her paternal grandmother's house in Portland, Oregon. For the first time in her life Rachel must learn to "act black". But she does not fit in with her light brown skin and striking blue eyes.
The story is told from many points of view with flashbacks to the past. It's a coming of age story with an exploration of racial identity and racism. It's also a mystery about what actually happened on a ninth story roof to Rachel's mother and her three children--which is revealed in the final pages. Rachel cannot emotionally move on from that day on the roof. This is a well-written story that slowly reveals a troubled family, and the girl who is trying to survive. The story does not tie up in a neat bow, but there is a ray of hope.
+10 task
+10 review
Task total: 20
Grand total: 705
15.6 AotD (2nd Round)1928
1923-1932
Time Traveler
All Pultizers for Drama:
Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
task = 15
oldie=5
not a novel (play)= 5
task total= 25
grand total= 1295
From Post 731Deedee wrote: "Task 20.1 Lord of the Rings
English short stories writers
Ashenden (1928) by W. Somerset Maugham
Review: This book is a collection of 7 interlocked short stories. Ou..."
+10 Combo 10.3 and 20.9
From Post 748Beth wrote: "10.2 3, 4, or 5
The Blacksmith's Son by Michael G. Manning
Task total: 10
Grand total: 925"
+5 Combo 10.6
From Post 749Deedee wrote: "Task 10.10 Group Reads
The Gilded Hour (2015) by Sara Donati (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 741 pages)
Review: The Gilded Hour is a feel-good novel about two female ..."
+5 Combo 20.5
20.2 RebeccaThe Magus by John Fowles
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.3 English Language / 20.4 My Family and Other Animals / 20.6 My Name is Red
+5 Jumbo
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1380
20.10 Hesperus Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
+20 Task
+10 Non Western
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1410
20.7 #AWW2017 (Tien's Task)Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Review: Since this history was totally unknown to me, I "cheated" and read the afterward first to find out what actual history the author hung her story on. This is an interesting piece of history and Brooks does a very good job of telling her story. She incorporates the religious disagreements of the time, the widely different attitudes toward the "salvages" or Indians, how education of boys and girls was done (or not), the difficulty providing food, clothing and housing in the wilderness of the time and the drudgery of "keeping house".
I did not particularly like Brooks sprinkling words and phrases of the time in with mainly decidedly 21st century vocabulary and phrasing.
+20 Task
+5 combo 20.6
+10 Review
Task total: 35
Season total: 365
From Post 731Deedee wrote: "Task 20.1 Lord of the Rings
English short stories writers
Ashenden (1928) by W. Somerset Maugham
Review: This book is a collection of 7 interlocked short stories. Ou..."
+10 Canon (considered part of his short stories)
From Post 728Tien wrote: "10.4 International Question Day
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
review
This Aussie classic has been on my tbr forever! It’s Aussie in the sense that the ..."
+5 Jumbo
10.5 CircusThe Orphan's Taleby Pam Jenoff
Shelves 7 times as Circus 5/11/17 on page 2
Task +10
Style +15 (Combo 10.2 (3,4,5), Review
Book Total: 25
Grand Total: 220
20.3 EvictedInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Perhaps I lived under a rock, but it has only been in the last couple of years that I even heard of this courageous woman. I learned so much in this autobiography. Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia and lived through that bloody civil war. She lived for a time in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Each time she changed countries, the school was taught in a language she didn't speak - Arabic, Swahili, English. That experience helped her to develop a great facility for language, though she never became familiar with numbers.
I learned bits of history from this that had been blips on my radar screen if at all. She saw was the beginning and rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and saw the growth of Islamic Fundamentalism. She also saw people move from the countryside into cities - people who had never seen nor sat on chairs, did not understand how modern plumbing worked. And she is not some old woman that this should have happened so long ago - she was born in Mogadishu in November 1969.
Given the title of this book, I expected to also learn about Islam. I did. She was relatively young when she began to question why males were treated as so superior to females.
A Muslim girl does not make her own decisions or seek control. She is trained to be docile. If you are a Muslim girl, you disappear, until there is almost no you inside you. In Islam, becoming an individual is not a necessary development; many people, especially women, never develop a clear individual will. You submit: that is the literal meaning of the word islam: submission. The goal is to become quiet inside, so that you never raise your eyes, not even inside your mind.Still she wanted to be a good Muslim, to follow the rules laid down by Allah in the Quran. It didn't work for her. She eventually became a Dutch citizen and a member of that country's Parliament. She spoke out and fought for the rights of girls and women, particularly Muslim girls and women. It is a compelling read.
+20 Task
+10 Review
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 900
@Elizabeth,I loved this book.
Task 10.8 AnthologyThe Variable Man and Other Stories (1957) by Philip K. Dick (Paperback, 255 pages)
Review: This book is a collection of 5 stories (1 novella (1953), 4 novelettes(1953-1956)), all written by Philip K. Dick, all published first in Science Fiction magazines in the 1953-1956 timeframe. One of the stories, “Minority Report”, was the basis of a 10-episode television series in 2015 (see: IMDB: Minority Report .) The stories reflect standard 1950s science fiction tropes: nuclear war, machines running amok, mutated humans, and, of course, time travel. Four of the five stories are “military science fiction”. The other one (“Minority Report”) features policemen chasing criminals. The writing style is clear and straight-forward. Ideas are more important than people. There is sexism, but a lesser amount than in other 1950s science fiction. Recommended for fans of ‘Golden Age’ Science Fiction.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 795 + 20 = 815
15.7 AotD (2nd Round)1929
1923-1932
Time Traveler
All Pultizers for Drama:
Street Scene by Elmer Rice
task = 15
oldie=5
not a novel (play)= 5
task total= 25
grand total= 1320
10.6 EquinoxThe Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
The cover of this edition has a line from Philip Roth: "spendidly comic and unladylike". My sense of humor seems at variance with many, but I did find many amusing lines. The unladylike is spot on. There is no real sex in these, but the situations are obvious. I was shocked. Not because of so much sexual activity which involved pre-marital sex, free-sex, and outright adultery, but because this little volume was first published in 1956 in the United States. This was a time when a girl was sent off to her "aunt" for an extended stay and the pregnancy never referred to. Sex outside of marriage simply did not happen. Oh. Well, if there were unwanted pregnancies, then maybe people were having sex and authors like Paley could write about it. But definitely unladylike.
My favorite story was the first, Goodbye and Good Luck, where a young girl gets a job as a ticket seller at a Jewish theater and then is wooed off her feet by an older actor. The Pale Pink Roast was another I enjoyed, wherein a woman is abandoned by her husband but, with pluck and charm, manages to supplement her welfare check due to the weekly attentions from the married son of a neighbor. In The Loudest Voice, Jewish schoolchildren are cast as the stars in the Christmas play.
I admit there were a couple of stories that wandered far from quirky and all the way to bizarre. These failed to interest me. Paley writes in a breezy manner that corresponds to her stories. She gets the voice right for the characters that inhabit her stories. Thoroughly enjoyable, but due to a couple of misses, I'm giving this just 4 stars.
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Canon
+10 Review
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 935
10.2 3,4,or 5The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Review
A couple goes to a party next door and leaves their baby at home. When they return from the party, the baby is gone. Even though, the couple have checked on the baby every half hour, someone has taken her while they were at the party. That is how the first chapter opens. Now I read this and thought what kind of parents leave their baby at home while they go to a party. The party was next door but still. They had a babysitter but she had cancelled. They call the police and even put up a reward. Then you find out the parents have secrets. The husband is having an affair with the neighbor who had the party. The wife has postpartum depression. There are many unanswered questions. All the mother wants is her baby back. On a separate note, I have no idea what is on the cover of the book. I been trying to figure it out.
Task +10
Style + 10 Review
Book Total: 20
Grand Total:240
20.2 RebeccaThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" is Agatha Christie's first published novel. It is set in a country house in Essex, England during World War I. The narrator, Arthur Hastings, is on sick leave from the military when he is invited to spend some time at Styles, the Cavendish manor, by an old school chum. Emily Cavendish, the widowed stepmother of John and Lawrence Cavendish, has recently remarried. Her new husband, Alfred Inglethorp, is a younger man that the family regards as a fortune hunter. In the middle of the night the family and servants at Styles are awakened by Emily who is dying. Poisoning is suspected so Hastings asks his friend Hercule Poirot to aid in the investigation of Emily's death. Many of the residents at Styles could benefit by Emily's death.
The reader is told the clues mostly through the conversations between Hastings and Poirot. Poirot has a fantastic mind and years of experience investigating crimes, so he leaves Hastings in the dust (much like Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson). The culprit is not obvious so it was entertaining to see Poirot in action. Poirot is a wonderful character, and it was fun to see where it all started. While it was not my favorite Agatha Christie mystery, it was impressive for a first novel.
+20 task
+15 combo 10.2, 10.3, 10.7
+10 review
Task total: 45
Grand total: 750
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.2 3,4,or 5The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Review
A couple goes to a party next door and leaves their baby at home. When they return from the party, the ba..."
Jayme, you wanted to know what was on the cover of the book. It's a woman's face in a black shadow or silhouette, surrounded by blond hair in the light. I had to stare at it for a minute, then the face stood out.
Task 10.2 3, 4, or 5North to Yesterday (Texas Tradition (1967) by Robert Flynn (Hardcover, 338 pages)
Review: Native born Texan Robert Flynn is an author and a professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. This is one of his novels set in Texas and populated by Texans. The novel was printed in 1967, which was after 40 years of novels and film about the heroic, romantic cowboys of the West. Flynn does something new and different in this novel – he writes about incompetent, misfit cowboys (can you say “anti-hero”) doing a cattle drive. The humor comes from comparing the heroic version of a cattle drive to the experiences of our gang of cowboys. The ending was depressing.
The novel was clearly written and easy to follow. It probably seemed more edgy and ground-breaking and modern when it was first printed in 1967 than it is now, after decades of novels and films about anti-heroes. Recommended for those interested in another view of the Western novel.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 815 + 20 = 835
20.2 RebeccaThe Children of Men by P.D. James
+20 Task (#177 on list)
+10 Combo 10.2, 10.3
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 885
10.6 Spring equinoxA Most Novel Revenge by Ashley Weaver
This is the third instalment in the Amory + Milo Ames mystery series. Weaver has a real talent for writing an ‘English cozy mystery” even though she is a young American author. I galloped through this quickly, and enjoyed it.
My few quibbles are: there should have been further development of the main characters (from the first 2 books), and the secondary characters were mostly forgettable. I also thought Amory should have grasped some of the clues faster than she did (although, I didn’t figure out ‘whodunnit”). Nonetheless, it was amusing to visit with the upper crust as they entertain or bump each other off, as the case may be….. 3.5*
10 task
10 review
5 combo 10.2
______
25
Running total: 705
20.1 Lord of the RingsThe Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Josiah Crawley, impoverished Vicar of Hogglestock, has been accused of stealing a cheque (or check – see discussion in the socializing (or socialising) thread!). Everybody is sure that such a right-minded man couldn’t have done it deliberately. But what if he himself couldn’t remember how the cheque came into his possession?
His family, already desperately poor, is brought to the brink of destitution by the scandal. One of his daughters was on the point of becoming engaged. It looks like that match will fall through. Other people in the county of Barset are affected in a knock-on way, but that’s the main plot of this 800-page book. Yet it’s lively and entertaining all the way through.
I think this is the first time I’ve really appreciated Trollope. I loved this, and would be happy to read more.
+20 task
+10 review
+15 combo (10.2, 10.3, 10.7)
+10 canon
+15 jumbo
Task Total: 70
Season Total: 845
10.2 3, 4, or 5The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
I loved Major Pettigrew's Last Stand so was excited to finally get a chance to read this, the second novel by Helen Simonson.
As with Pettigrew, it took me a while to get into the book but once I did I was hooked. This one is set the summer before England enters WWI. Following the passing of her father, Beatrice Nash travels to Rye, a delightful town on the English coast filled with colorful characters, on the promise of a job teaching Latin. She is championed by the Foreign Minister's wife, Agatha Kent, while the mayor's wife has decided that it is unseemly for a woman to have the job and puts her own nephew forward for it. Thus begins the summer of 1914...
In other reviews, I saw comparisons to Jane Austen and to Downton Abbey--the subtle humor and ribbing at the customs of polite society (Austen) and the telling of both the high and low born (Downton) would uphold those comparisons. In other reviews, I also saw criticism for the length of the novel. People thought large chunks of it should have been edited out. I disagree. I feel like the slowness in the first half of the novel contributed to the feel of a relaxed, genteel, conventional country life, complete with the daily dramas inherent in small towns that so vividly contrasted with the last part of the novel that has us in a gritty and broken France with a few of the soldiers from Rye. I'm glad I listened to this one--I was crying so hard for the last hour and a half, reading would have been an impossibility through the tears.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.3; author born in England)
Task total: 25
Season total: 1210
20.7 #AWW2017 (Tien's Task) Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Valentine's Day 1900. The young women from an Australian college go for an outing at Hanging Rock. When its time to return, 4 are missing. A true mystery with many clues moving the story in one direction and another. But does it? I finished this novel dissatisfied...and without able to put my finger on why. I liked the writing. I liked the unconventional workings of a mystery story. I did find it difficult to keep some of the students distinct in my mind...but, in the end, I don't think that mattered much. The headmistress is a memorable character. It seems I should have enjoyed this more...but giving it just three stars.
task= 20
review= 10
combo= 5 (10.2)
RwS finish= 100
Mega-finish= 200
task total=335
grand total= 1655
15.9 AotDAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
+15 Task (Audie Award for Fiction, 2015)
+5 Jumbo
Task total: 20
Season total: 1230
15.10 AotDOne by Sarah Crossan, 890 Lexile
(@Tien--I saw this one on your blog and decided to read it...OMG! SO GOOD! I cried soooo hard....)
+15 Task (Carnegie Medal, 2016)
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
+100 Time Traveler
+200 Mega Finish
Season total: 1550
Anika wrote: "+100 Time Traveler
+200 Mega Finishi..."
Well done!
10.6 Spring EquinoxThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
+10 task
+15 combo (10.2, 10.7, 20.10)
+10 canon
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 880
10.2 3,4, or 5The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion
After twenty-two years apart Adam Sharp gets an e-mail from a former lover. Their flirty e-mails become a regular thing so he's constantly thinking about his lost love. Two decades earlier, Adam had been an IT consultant in Australia playing a few tunes on the piano in a neighborhood bar. Angelina, a beautiful actress, joined him singing at the piano. That was the start of a three month affair before Adam had to fly away to the next consulting job.
Now Adam is living in his native England with his partner Claire in a comfortable relationship that has lost its sizzle. Angelina and her husband invite Adam to a week in France at their country home. Adam might have a second chance at love with Angelina, but there are Angelina's children to consider. The second part of the book did not seem very realistic, but there were some interesting thoughts about childhood, choices, commitment, marriage, personality traits, and lifestyles.
Although it was not as humorous as "The Rosie Project", Adam had a dry, self-deprecating sense of humor. Music, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s, plays a big role in the story and the lyrics often show the feelings of the characters. The situation and the lyrics get the emotional idea across so there is no need to be familiar with the songs. There is a playlist at the end of the book. This is a book where I enjoyed the music and the cute romance in the first half, but felt that the second half had some kinky, surprising moments that didn't seem to fit with the beginning of the book. Adam seemed more like a man going through a midlife crisis than someone who was really emotionally committed to either woman.
+10 task
+10 review
Task total: 20
Grand total: 770
20.6 My name is redThe Lost City of Z by David Grann
47,394 Ratings
Task +20
Combo + 5 (10.6)
Task Total 25
Season Total: 140
10.2 3, 4, or 5The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Review: Solnit has written a powerful and clear modern feminist manifesto. She takes on the interviewer whose author interview focuses on her choice not to have children. Would you follow that line of questions with a male author? She explains silence-who is silenced and how and what the repercussions are. Her essay on rape culture is the clearest explanation that I have read or heard. I thoroughly enjoyed her take on writers projecting back to prehistory what women's roles are based on middle class American family structure in the 50's and 60's. And how they totally discount the work that "someone" must have done to feed, clothe and shelter the group.
I read this as a library book and will now go out and buy a copy because there are some many sentences and paragraphs that I want to have to read again.
+10 task
+10 review
Task total: 20
Season total: 385
10.2 3, 4, or 5The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (545 pages)
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 440
AotD total: 15
Season Total: 455
15.8 AotD (2nd Round)1930
1923-1932
Time Traveler
All Pultizers for Drama:
The Green Pastures: A Fable by Marc Connelly
task = 15
oldie=5
not a novel (play)= 5
task total= 25
grand total= 1680
10.3 English CountriesThe First of July by Elizabeth Speller
The First of July 1916, was the first day of the Battle of the Somme. This was a huge offensive wherein the Allies (mostly British and French in this one) attempted to finally turn the tide against Germany. That first day - one day only - the Allied casualties were enormous: 20,000 British and 7000 French died that day in that one battle. In Speller's prologue, she tells of a camerman making a movie in the silence. That silence was the prelude to the British setting off mines in the tunnels dug beneath the Germans. Film of the explosion has been preserved and is available at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPGrr... The Battle of the Somme continued until mid-November of that year, but the book is really The First of July.
The book itself begins in July 1913. This first section is 4 chapters, each telling us of one main character, his background and circumstances: Jean-Baptiste, a poor, young Frenchman; Frank, from Devonshire, now living in London; Benedict, an organist in Gloucester; Harry, a successful businessman, a Londoner now living in New York. The next section is a year later and over the course of the next two years we follow the lives of these four men.
When they disembarked in Dover the customs officer told them, in some agitation, that Germany had declared war on France. The country whose great and beautiful capital Harry had strolled in just a day earlier, the country that lay so few miles to the south, that was visible across the Channel on a clear day, was under attack. He thought of the tense clerk at the hotel desk, the affable waiters who had served them in Nice, the carrier who had borne them to Calais, and the young workman, hardly more than a boy, who had told them of mobilization, and he wondered how quickly they would be scooped up into a war France could never win.On the back cover of the edition I read are a couple of review quotes that indicate this is a mystery or a whodunit. What? This is nothing of the sort. There is no mystery here, other than the usual wanting to know what becomes of the characters. Isn't that what reading is about?
This is excellent characterization, where we come to know these four through the events of their lives. My favorite was the one on the page in front of me. The men are real people with challenges, friends and family. This is also excellent historical fiction, well-researched, with enough plot to keep the novel moving. The prose is a bit better than just good enough. I'll look forward to another by this author.
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Review
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 960
15.10 AotDWild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
+15 Task (NCR book award 1992)
+5 Not-a-Novel
+5 Jumbo (562 pages)
+5 Oldies (published 1991
Post Total: 30
Time Traveller completion: 100
Season Total: 1015
20.1 Lord of the RingsThe Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.2, 10.3
Post Total: 30
RwS finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Season Total: 1345
10.2 3, 4, or 5Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle by Katie Coyle (Lexile 820)
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1565
15.4 AotDSay You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
+15 task 2010 Paris Book Festival for Compilation/Anthology
+5 not-a-novel (short stories)
Task total: 20
Season total: 405
10.2 - 3, 4, or 5Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede
Lexile 720
+ 10 Task
Task Total: 10
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Agatha Award Best First Novel (1988-1997)
Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George
Won the award in 1996.
+15 Task
Task Total: 15