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15.6 AbBY, Chronological 1960-1964Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (1960)
+30 Task
Task total: 30
Season total: 725
10.9 9,10,11On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
This book is very simple stated. A small rule presented with plain language and then historical examples, many from the rise of Hitler but others that are more recent, that show how that rule or lesson has played out prior to the 2016 US presidential campaign. There are references to the campaign and actions that took place, but I don't believe Trump's name is mentioned in the meat of the book. I think the author tries to disassociate his message from any immediate emotions that a reader might have had at the time of publication. Some events that have occurred since the book was published have moved the US further away from being concerned about the lessons and some have moved it closer, but either way it's an easily digestible thought piece that is worth reading.
+10 task
+10 review
+5 combo (10.5)
Penguin audio book version - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Task total: 25
Grand total: 520
(including the +5 combo correction in post 248 on my 20.6 post)
10.5 Pet Day Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
+10 Task – published by Daw https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
+5 Combo 10.2
+5 oldies (published 1965)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 485
15.5 AbBY in order1926-1930
King's Blood Four by Sheri S. Tepper born 1929
Task total: 30
Grand total: 550
20.5 Singled OutGotham City Garage, Vol. 1 graphic novel trade paperback featuring Supergirl
Task total: 20
Grand total: 570
20.2 To Conquer HellThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
This is an impressive work of history written for a general audience. Wilkerson brought together emotionally engaging personal narratives, sociological background (research done in-era and afterward), and big-picture history, and she intertwined these pieces very elegantly. (In particular, since I read this book in scattered chunks, I really liked that she did SO MUCH sign-posting, so I always knew the who, when, and where. While I think other readers could be irritated by how much repetition and how many reminders Wilkerson incorporated into her text, I appreciated it greatly.)
I have an interest in the history and politics of racial relations in America, and despite knowing a lot about this era, I still had a lot to learn from this book. Particularly, I learned more than the obvious assumptions about migration and migration patterns during this extended period of time, and also some about the very specifics of it: I smiled when learning about migrants mishearing "Newark" as "New York" and getting off the train too early but deciding to stay. And I'd never fully comprehended the enormity of the Great Migration, especially considering how individually-focused and dynamic the process of this extensive population shift was: by the end, "nearly half of all black Americans--some forty-seven percent--would be living outside the South, compared to ten percent when the Migration began."
At the same time, I still think this would be a great read for people who have less of a background in this topic and who might be curious about how the black population of the United States migrated--how they made their choices of how to live and when to move--during the Jim Crow era and beyond. It'd also be of interest for people wondering about modern American cities and their evolution, particularly from a demographic standpoint. The way Wilkerson uses personal stories, incorporates primary sources and contemporary research, and draws out the themes is extremely engaging. I can see why this book is so lauded.
+20 Task -- approved in task post
+10 Combo (10.9 -- MIGRATION; 20.9)
+5 Jumbo
+15 Prizeworthy
+10 Review
Task Total: 60
Season Total: 240
20.1 War's EndMem by Bethany C. Morrow
After witnessing a gruesome car accident, nineteen-year-old Dolores undergoes an experimental procedure to have the memory of it surgically removed. The process of extracting the memory creates a "Mem": a physical duplicate of the person who experienced that memory. Mems are living, breathing beings who, though not completely sentient, are trapped within the extracted memory, reliving that memory for a limited period of time before expiration.
Except when Dolores extracts her memory, what's created is something unlike any of the Mems who came after: Dolores's Mem is completely sentient, an autonomous being who is basically a duplicate of Dolores broken off from the moment of extraction. This Mem becomes a darling of both science and society. She's able to live alone and start building something akin to a life; she dubs herself Elsie after a character in the film The Toll of the Sea (I wasn't familiar before the book, but it stars Anna May Wong and was a Madame Butterfly iteration).
And the story starts in 1925, when Elsie receives a summons from the research facility that originated her. She's being recalled.
Mem is a meditative novella about memory and loss. It's about loved ones and what they do to shelter each other, and how no one knows whether they're doing the right thing. Its set in 1920s Montreal, and Morrow's world-building is pretty wonderful (and gosh do I enjoy science fiction set in the past! especially non-steampunk!). Given the time period, I was a little surprised that (view spoiler), but I think the choice of time period was well-matched with the theme of women's autonomy, cascading consequences of wealth, and what destruction science was to wrought.
I had quibbles about things like mechanics (the inability of memory to be cut-and-dried extractable is certainly worked through and worked over in the text, but I still twinged about it) and whether the ending made character sense, but I really liked this on the emotional level and on the thematic level.
+20 Task -- set in 1925
+5 Combo (20.7 -- 184 pages)
+10 Review
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 275
15.7 AbBYDate Range 1940-1944, read chronologically
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
+30 Task (author born 1942)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 515
20.8 AutumnShe: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
Author was born and resident in the UK during his lifetime
This fantastical story was a good read but very much a product of its time in displaying white male British attitudes of superiority. The Africans are murderous and described in negative, animalistic ways, but ruled and civilized by a white woman, who is beautiful but terrifying, irreligious,and completely devoted to emotion, among a myriad of other more subtle examples. I have no reason to think it was criticizing these attitudes, just incorporating. The narration is the form of a long first person letter, telling of strange events, including the detail of a travelogue and the philosophical musings of an academic. The story flowed smoothly within the bounds of this style of writing with many moments of tension and resolution building up to the dramatic ending. I understand why it was popular in its time and why literary scholars have examined it since then. The Wikipedia article was interesting to read afterwards.
+20 task
+10 review
+10 age (1886)
+5 combo (10.5 penguin)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Task total: 45
Grand total: 615
20.6 The Stone CarversThe Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2008)
Review
I must admit to being stumped by this book. I’m not quite sure the point? It’s one of those books which felt nothing ever happened. The book span only a week though it switched back and forth and all around from his parents’ background (India), his childhood in Australia, his first marriage, his meeting & relationship with Nelly, and this week in which his dog went missing. Confusing much? It wasn’t particularly bad to tell the difference of time but the movements gave me a headache. I’m sure a lot of people found this novel illuminating but I can’t say I do so thank you, I’ve tried but it’s not for me.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - Sri Lanka as per GR)
+10 Prizeworthy
+10 Review
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 500
10.7 - JapanThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
+10 task
+5 combo (10.4 - on Next Best Book Club list)
+5 oldies (1989)
+5 prizeworthy (Man Booker Prize 1989)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 190
10.4 BookshelvesThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Lexile of 820
On 21st century literature shelf from oct 2012
This was an odd book with a strange idea, that a graveyard of ghosts and an honourable vampire might raise a boy to adulthood. It was magical, in that the boy could do some of what the ghosts could. It was episodic, with chapters being key points from Bod's growing up, each interesting by itself, but still with a building of tension and climactic portion as a whole work. I enjoyed it, as I do most of Gaiman's work. It was more straightforward than some of his other novels, but that is appropriate for the intended audience, and it leaves you with the melancholy but hopeful feeling that many coming of age novels do.
+10 task
+10 review
+5 combo (10.9)
+15 prize (Hugo, Locus, Cybils among others)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 655
Post 247 Ed wrote: "10.2 Real PlaceThe Marseille Caper by Peter Mayle
I listened to this book while in the car... and I usually have no problem living in the book while using innate s..."
As you note in your combo, the correct task number for Real Place is 10.3, so the combo score is just 5.
20.4 BirdsongHow to Be Brave by Louise Beech
With her military husband away in Afghanistan, Natalie finds herself dealing with the sudden onset of type 1 diabetes in her 9-year-old daughter Rose. Rose's insulin-affected mood swings make life very difficult until they discover the diary of Natalie's grandfather Colin, who spent weeks adrift at sea after his ship was torpedoed during World War II. Natalie begins telling Rose his story, and they both feel his presence guiding their lives.
This is a simple story, but it packs a big emotional punch. It's all based on the author's (and her grandfather's) real experience, which I think lends it extra pathos.
+20 Task (present day and 1943)
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 530
I've been gone for several seasons, but I'm excited to be back...20.1 War's End
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
820 Lexile
Review:
On the recommendation of someone upthread, I picked this up to read with my kids. We all really enjoyed it. The illustrations in the book were fantastic and kept the kids flipping pages right along with me. I learned after reading it that it's based in part on the story of a real filmmaker. I absolutely adored the idea of someone crawling through a train station's walls and tunnels to keep the clocks running -- this led to a long discussion about different ways that a clock can work (springs, batteries, etc.). The author clearly loved this story and his characters and the book was ultimately heartwarming and earnest.
+ 20 Task
+ 10 Review
+ 15 Prizeworthy (lots of prizes actually)
+ 10 Combo (10.9 - invention; 20.10)
+5 Jumbo (525 pages)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 60
20.2 To Conquer HellKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Review:
This book starts out slowly and builds to an amazing feat of historical research and writing. This was selected as the "One Read" by my local library (i.e., the book the library encourages everyone in the community to read and plans a month of activities around). I got to hear the author speak, to discuss this with my bookclub, and to talk to folks all over town who had read it.
I had no knowledge of this piece of history (or really anything particular to do with the Osage Nation) before reading this book. The book tells the story of the calculated, planned, and horrific murders of many Osage for their oil fortunes. The Osage Nation had the foresight to reserve the mineral rights under their reservation to the tribe, so when oil was found in Oklahoma, the tribe became quite wealthy. White folks preyed on them, going as far as marrying for the purpose of murder.
Everyone should read this book. Very important that these stories be told and an impressive research project by the author, who was also super likeable in a nerdy New Yorker way.
+ 20 Task
+ 10 Review
+ 15 Prizeworthy (Anthony for Best Critical/Nonfiction, Edgar for Best Fact Crime, Spur Award for Best Western Historical Nonfiction)
+ 15 Combo (10.5 - Penguin Audio here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... 20.1 - set in 1920s; 20.10)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 120
20.10 Fall EquinoxBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Review:
A really wonderful audiobook read by the author (who made a living as a comedian, so he has the timing down perfectly). Definitely a perfect way to experience these stories; it absolutely felt like I was just hanging out with the author at a cocktail party as he told me little stories from his childhood. But the stories are still heartfelt; he isn't just looking for comedy here.
He could also have called this book Ode to My Mother because much of the book centers around her willingness to ignore rules and push ahead with what she wanted to do. The author tells his own stories without bitterness or blame--the rules just were what they were and he's just giving the reader a peak into his lived experiences.
Recommended if you even sort of like memoirs or if you like watching Trevor Noah's comedy or TV appearances.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+ 5 Combo (10.5 - Bantam here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...)
+ 10 Prizeworthy (NAACP Image Award; Thurber Prize)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 165
10.7 AsiansThe Five Nations by Rudyard Kipling born in India
+10 task
+10 age (pub 1903)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 675
10.7 AsiansThe Years Between by Rudyard Kipling born in India
+10 task
+10 age (pub 1919)
Task Total: 20
Grand total: 695
AbBY 15.2-Reverse Chronological Order1975-1979
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
1975-1979 (author born 1979)
task = 20
task total=20
Grand total= 305
15.7 AbBY, Chronological 1965-1969Landing by Emma Donoghue (1969)
+30 Task
Task total: 30
Season total: 755
20.8 AutumnDeath in the Dentist's Chair by Molly Thynne
In the first chapter or two, I thought "Uh oh, this doesn't look promising." It did get better, though not enough better for me to rave about it. The mystery is the best of it, but after a bit only the motive was mysterious.
The writing is adequate, but just barely. The best I might say about it is that it isn't awful. One doesn't usually turn to mysteries for the purpose of good characterization, so there is no disappointment that this doesn't provide any. Having not read the first in the series, it's quite possible that all needed backstory is in the first. I'm simply not interested enough to go read it.
Few mystery series can be top tier, though there might be a much larger number as second tier. For some people, this might make the third tier, though I'm not ready to place a big bet on that. Unfortunately, for me, it doesn't even fill an unread slot in my quest to read a book in each year of the 20th Century authored by a woman, as 1932 has already been filled. This sits in the bottom 10% of my 3-star pile.
+20 Task (born/citizen UK, pub'd 1932)
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.1)
+10 Oldies
Task Total = 50
Season total = 235
20.10 Fall EquinoxMiss Julia Rocks the Cradle by Ann B. Ross
I'm enjoying the Miss Julia series, but I wouldn't call them mysteries as many people seem to do. This one does have an actual dead body in it, which is mysterious for a few hours when Lloyd comes home from school to say his teacher found one (dead body, that is) in her woodshed. However, its identity and cause of death are established in no time. Still, Miss Julia has good reason to snoop around woodsheds and catch Thurlow Jones up to something. And meanwhile, somebody has been forging her signature on cheques.
Most of this was great, but the ending left something to be desired. Some of the plot had been carried over from the last book, so maybe some loose ends have been left for the next one?
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.5 Penguin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
+10 Review
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 570
10.2 Next? The Harsh Cry of the Heron by Lian Hearn
Lexile 960
+10 Task
+10 Jumbo (744 pages)
+ 5 Prizeworthy
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 570
20.2 to conquer hellThe Big Dig by Dan McNichol
This book was a history of Boston's biggest traffic project, which had many other biggest and first moments related to its construction. I had no idea that many of the things discussed were even possible, like basically moving a pre-constructed tunnel piece into the earth underneath a subway line (slowly) or grouting soft earth to strengthen it. It covered why the Big Dig was needed, the politics of funding it and choosing plans, and many of the engineering technical aspects needed. It was enjoyable to read, the photos were helpful in increasing understanding, and I'd be happy to read more books about construction projects if they were like this.
+20 task
+10 review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 725
Task 10.4 BookshelvesRead any book off of one of these two groups' bookshelves:
21st Century Literature AND The Next Best Book Club
Book found on bookshelf of The Next Best Book Club
News of the World (2016) by Paulette Jiles
Review: News of the World is set in Texas during the year 1870. The central plot of the novel revolves around Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, aged 71, and a 10 year old girl named Johanna. Captain Kidd is hired by an African-American Texas ranger to transport Johanna 400 miles south to San Antonio, and there reunite her with her aunt and uncle. Johanna was captured by the Kiowa tribe when she was 6 years old (her parents and sister were killed by them), and raised as a Kiowa tribe member from age 6-10. She identifies completely with the Kiowa, and has even forgotten her native language. The novel traces her journey from Kiowa to white American society. Captain Kidd, a widower who raised daughters, relates to Johanna as a protective grandfather towards his grandchild. Captain Kidd makes his living by travelling from town to town, and giving readings in each town from the newspapers he has gathered during his visits to Texas cities like Dallas or San Antonio. (Hence the book’s title: News of the World.) Overall, this was a soothing, heartwarming tale. Recommended.
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.10 Valerie's choice)
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25
Grand Total: 130 + 25 = 155
10.4 BookshelvesAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Review
Such beautiful writing! I’m not sure how to describe it but it’s definitely the writing that’s pulled me along through this book. It is just so full of wonder; the beauty of the world, the strength of people, and in contradiction, the ugliness of people. How such juxtaposition exists!? I was reading this together with a colleague and she admitted that she’d have given up very early on if I wasn’t reading with her. It’s a very slow moving book and rather difficult to get into; too many switching between time periods and perspectives. We both agree that nothing appears to ever happen but it’s the writing that draws us on. The ending, I find, is realistic and whilst I’m not unhappy, I am a tad unsatisfied.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 - Penguin ed)
+15 Prizeworthy
+10 Review
+5 Jumbo (531 pages)
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 545
From Post 228Valerie wrote: "20.1 War's end
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
This is the first ‘Tommy and Tuppence’ novel that Christie wrote, and her second published novel. I’ve always e..."
+5 Combo 10.2
From Post 231Tien wrote: "20.5 Singled Out
Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu
YA - 810L
Review
I’m in love!! I love this world so much! It’s glittery colourful shiny façade which hid, of co..."
+5 Combo 10.2
From post 239Rosemary wrote: "20.7 A Month in the Country
Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs
Graphic novel, no styles
+20 Task (104 pp)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 470"
Sorry, Rosemary, as a work of non-fiction this does not work for 20.7.
Kate S wrote: "From post 239Rosemary wrote: "20.7 A Month in the Country
Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs
Sorry, Rosemary, as a work of non-fiction this does not work for 20.7."
Oops. OK, I don't think it fits anywhere else, so I'll just scrub it out.
Total is now 550.
20.10 Fall Equinox (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
Review
I never got into the No 1 Ladies Dectective Agency. All the hype sort of put me off but one day I’ll give it a go. This book title though intrigued me. Some titles you just can’t let go. It also seems to be a light fluffy sort of reading which it turned out to be. It started rather slow & boring so you really have to just keep going until it got to where things go wrong. Unfortunately, while it could have been funny, it felt like a very elaborate prank instead of something that can easily go wrong. I also expected it to go a certain way but it didn’t at all and nothing else seems to go wrong much. So, it wasn’t really the comedy I expected it to be. I enjoyed the setting and I loved the lesson learnt. Life is not all about sexual attraction and be damned all. Happiness could have been sitting right under your nose but if you don’t look, you won’t find.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - bulldozer)
+10 Review
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 585
20.1- War's EndThree Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Set in 1919
Task: 20
Combo- 5 (10.5- published by Penguin)MPE: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
Prizeworthy: 15 pts
Post total: 40
10.2 Next? Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar #2) by Harlan Coben
Review
I can’t even remember when I read the first Myron Bolitar book. It mustn’t have been that impressive if I didn’t follow it up right away. Drop Shot is a fairly easy read. Mystery is a favourite of mine but rarely was I ever surprised and I get really frustrated when something’s so clear to me but not to the protagonist which was this case here. There was obviously something missing and therefore, the matter was clear to me. On the other hand, Myron Bolitar was rather funny though sometimes, it’s a bit over the top annoying. I did, however, discover that I prefer his partner in crime, Win, despite his errr psychotic tendency, so I think I’d read the next book just for him.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 - albatros in Polish which is Albatross in English)
+10 Review
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 610
20.5 Singled OutIce by Annelie Wendeberg
The final installment of this trilogy did not disappoint! It was white-knuckle tense, surprisingly tender, shockingly graphic (including an extremely disturbing rape scene, so beware if you choose to read), and utterly heartbreaking (I ugly cried (view spoiler). Micka has the key to bring down the BSA (the fundamentalist faction who is attempting to take out the rest of the human race), now she just has to traverse the tundra and cross an ocean to reach the control tower at the top of the world. I’m so glad I happened upon this author and don’t think I ever would have found her if not for the Cli Fi task (so, thank you, Karen Michele!). Bonus! I just went to the book page to rate it and noticed that a fourth book is in the works!
+20 Task (main character is single, twice widowed—never married during the book, she is a soldier on a quest so has no household but is absolutely independent)
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.8)
Task total: 40
Season total: 795
20.7 A Month in the countryA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
I didn’t really know what to expect of this novella (I have to admit the description sounded a bit boring), and now I can say I’m glad I had no expectations. This book is lovely. It is wistful, and poetic and genuine (in the best sense of that word, not the earnest sense). There is also humor; and a great deal of insight into the lives of rural villagers (in post WW1 England). This is a novella about the small moments that make a life/lives. It is about awakening to life, or in this instance re-awakening, when you are young and the weather is glorious. 4*
20 task
10 review
5 oldie
5 prize
10 combo (10.5 - Penguin; 20.8)
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50
(corrected) Running total: 310
Valerie wrote: "20.7 A Month in the countryA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
I didn’t really know what to expect of this novella (I have to admit the description sounded a bit bori..."
Valerie, if you keep track of such things, this doesn't fit 20.8 because it was pub'd in 1980 (too late), but it does fit 20.1 as being set 1919-1938. Same book score.
10.6 Noir Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
+10 Task
+10 Combo 10.2, 10.5 (published by Roc)
+5 Jumbo (517 pages)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 595
20.10 Fall EquinoxLocking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Review:
A compelling book that complicates the mass incarceration narrative. This book is an excellent companion to The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness to provide additional context and history for how we've ended up with the criminal justice system that we have.
Forman does an excellent job of threading his own stories and experiences through the policy arguments and history here to make this not only informative, but full of heart. Forman worked as a public defender and saw the effects of the harsh incarceration rates directly through his work. He also meticulously research the political context for how the laws came to be, who supported them, and how the combination of individually-rational decisions can lead to an unjust system.
I'm really glad to have read this one and recommend it highly. The reader for the audiobook does an excellent job.
+ 20 Task
+ 10 Review
+ 5 Prizeworthy (Pulitzer)
+5 Combo (10.9 - Punishment)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 205
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Valerie wrote: "20.7 A Month in the countryA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
I didn’t really know what to expect of this novella (I have to admit the description so..."
Yes, Thank you - I do actually keep track on my spreadsheet!
10.8 Cli Fi (Karen Michele's Task)The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
+10 Task: climate change is not stated, but massive flooding has happened in London causing the evacuation.
+10 Combo: 20.5 Singled Out (the main character's husband leaves her on her own at shelters with a new baby for most of the book.) / 20.7 A Month in the Country: 160 pages
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 305
20.5 Singled OutThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
+20 Task: Single mom
+10 Combo: 10.2 Next? / 10.5 Pet Day La niña perdida (Penguin)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 335
20.5 Singled OutWhiskey When We're Dry by
John Larison
+20 Task: A young girl (17 approved in help thread) takes off after her brother while dressed as a boy in the Old West
+ 5 Combo: 10.5 Pet Day Whiskey When We're Dry (Penguin)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 360
20.5 Singled OutBritt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
+20 Task: Britt-Marie has left her husband because he has committed adultery
+ 5 Combo: Combo: 10.9 9, 10, 11
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 385
20.7 A Month in the CountryA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.5 Pet Day (Penguin) A Month in the Country / 20.1 War's End / 20.10 Fall Equinox
+ 5 Prizeworthy
+ 5 Oldies (1980)
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 430
20.8 Autumn (Karin's Task)Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+20 Task: Russia / 1849
+15 Combo: 10.5 Pet Day Netochka Nezvanova (Penguin) / 10.9 9, 10, 11 / 20.7 A Month in the Country
+15 Oldies (1849)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 480
15.7 - AbBYDate Range 1956 - 1960
Memory Man by David Baldacci
+30 (author born 1960)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 340
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Date Range 1965-69
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
+20 Task (born 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Do... )
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 500