Task #1: A book published posthumously

[Caleb]

Deborah wrote: "Barbara wrote: "I read Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston, published this year. Hurston died in 1960."

Its on my list to read also, what did you th..."

I read it a few weeks ago. I thought it was definitely worth reading. Might be better as an audiobook, as the dialogue is a bit challenging.

[Caleb]

I really enjoyed Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? - really wonderful collection of stories...

[Sarah]

Jessica wrote: "I read A Long Fatal Love Chase for this one. I really enjoyed it! Definitely a departure from LIttle Women or Eight Cousins."
I remember when that was released in the 90s. I was obsessed with it!

[Karen]

I read The Opposite of Loneliness for this one, and while it was emotional and heartwrenching, I highly recommend it! I wrote about it on my blog if you want to check it out.

[Mandy]

Just finished "When Breath Becomes Air" - heartbreaking and beautiful

[Heather]

I read A Confederacy of Dunces.

[Allie]

I completed this one by accident! Turns out the play Long Day's Journey Into Night was published three years after the playwright died. (I didn't much care for it, though.)

[Emma]

I just finished The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White for my posthumously-published task. It was good- though I would caveat it's the last in the Once & Future King series, so it probably doesn't make much sense without reading those books first.

[Harper]

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

[Amber]

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Hands down my favorite Austen novel.

[Sheri]

I realized that The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- was published a couple months after the author's death, so I am counting that. It was a fantastic read!

[Deborah]

Just finished Olive Ann Burns incomplete sequel to Cold Sassy Tree, Leaving Cold Sassy Tree that was published posthumously. Will that count for this challenge even though it was not finished

[Patty]

Deborah wrote: "Just finished Olive Ann Burns incomplete sequel to Cold Sassy Tree, Leaving Cold Sassy Tree that was published posthumously. Will that count for this challenge even though it was not finished"

I think that sounds perfect.

[Dixie]

I read Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy for this challenge. It certainly wasn't cheerful in any way, but it was a very interesting read, and based on a real person.

[Dixie]

Teresa wrote: "Oh, The Master and the Margarita is on my list too."

One of my top five favorite books of all time.

[Atlanta]

I didn’t know a confederacy of dunces was published post humously !

[Bonnie G.]

Atlanta wrote: "I didn’t know a confederacy of dunces was published post humously !"

Toole killed himself when he was 30 after every publisher had rejected it. He destroyed the manuscript but his mother found the carbon. She made it her life's work to get it published.

[Atlanta]

Good to know, as I’m currently doing the great American read, and that book is on it,

[Bonnie G.]

Atlanta wrote: "Good to know, as I’m currently doing the great American read, and that book is on it,"

It is fantastic! Hope you enjoy. Also, good to see a fellow Atlantan here (I have been working in Fargo 2 years but moving back home next month.)

[Atlanta]

Haha that’s my name

[Beth]

If I can get through the whole challenge without double-dipping, I plan to pick up The Shepherd's Crown, which I originally couldn't bear to read so soon after Terry Pratchett's passing. After three years, though, I think I'm finally ready.

If I have to double-dip, I'll mark down I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, which I'm also using for my true crime book.

[Tracy]

I read This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl by Esther Earl, a young girl who wrote about her experiences with fatal cancer and then her pictures, letters and journal entires were published by her family. A sweet and sad book. She can actually be found on youtube, and that was heartbreaking for me, to see her alive and speaking knowing that she had not survived her battle. She was terribly young and innocent.

[Britany]

Finished by Michelle McNamara

I'll never think about a shoeprint the same way again...

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Malvina]

Britany wrote: "Finished by Michelle McNamara

I'll never think about a shoeprint the same ..."

I also read it for this challenge. I was creeped out for days after finishing it. The level of pre-meditation that his crimes had was absolutely horrifying.

[Britany]

Yes! I was super creeped out-- kept checking for footprints outside my house.

[Ashley]

I’m reading Little Saint by Hannah Greene. It’s part art history, part travelogue, published posthumously. The writer, is really just a humble and sensitive soul who travels to a small town in France on several occasions and lives there for a season with her husband - getting to know the local townspeople and discussing the mystical reliquary of Saint Foy (Saint faith), virgin & martyr who lived in the 3rd century, and how this town is cobbled by generations of steady-paced, sturdy individuals who have an enduring love for God and for their Little Saint. The writer’s accounts are scholarly, acutely observant, and imbued with humor and grace.

[Courtney]

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara !!!!!

[Megan]

I read An Autobiography by Agatha Christie for this prompt, which is my final one for this challenge.

[Octavia]

I read Ariel by Sylvia Plath for this one, and really enjoyed it.

[Britany]

Finished by Jane Austen

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...