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FA 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Fall 2014
10.4 9, 10, 11 Letter WordThe Wicked Wallflower by Maya Rodale
Review: I’m taking a break from work right now, and I thought that would mean I’d get all kinds of reading done. For whatever reason, I’m finding it harder to concentrate on much more than graphic novels and romances. Oh well! This is the first in the series that continues with Wallflower Gone Wild, which I just read. I didn’t like this one as much, probably because a good portion of the tension stems from something between a love triangle and a cheating type story – not my favorite plot line. The premise is cute – a group of wallflowers desperate to marry within 3 months hatch a plan to try to get Emma’s long-time beaux to propose – by putting an engagement announcement in the paper saying Emma is engaged to a duke. Wackiness ensues, including the best part – a trip to said duke’s aunt’s house for a contest that will determine who inherits her fortune. Aunt Agatha is by far my favorite character, and it was worth reading the book to read her interactions with her nephew and Emma. All in all it’s a fine book but I preferred the sequel.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 550
10.4 9, 10, 11 Letter WordThe Bad Boy Billionaire's Wicked Arrangement by Maya Rodale
Review: The premise of this is cute – termed book 1.5 in the Bad Boys and Wallflowers Series, it’s a modern-day version of the story I just read, The Wicked Wallflower. In fact, the main character is writing a historical romance based on her experiences. Unfortunately, it’s short and undeveloped and only part of a single story. Apparently the other two segments, related to the other two historicals, complete the story of Duke and Jane. I’m not sure I’ll be reading them.
It’s a decent premise – Jane meets a guy at a party, the guy turns out to be a billionaire, and Jane’s friend announces an engagement between the two on Facebook to try to cure Jane’s heartache. Duke goes along with the charade because it’ll help him look more respectable in the eyes of the venture capitalists he’s courting. The two of them fall in lust, if not yet love. Unfortunately, nothing is fully developed, to the point where Duke tells Jane he’s told her things no one else knows – including the readers of the book. It’s a good example of telling rather than showing. Also, there are numerous references to pop culture and contemporary technology – that already feel dated. As a librarian, 28-year-old Jane wouldn’t be as clueless about basic things like Facebook as she is portrayed – or maybe her being fired from her previous job was warranted.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 570
10.1 Square PegBefore I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
Review: The novel is about Christine, or more precisely, about Christine's life, or even more precisely, about Christine rediscovering her life each day. Since about 22 years she is suffering from a severe case of amnesia. She is not only having troubles remembering events since her tragic accident, but not able to form new long term memories either. Which means that each morning, she can't remember the last day, or the previous 22 years. Christine is living with her husband Ben, who reminds her each day that they are married - but there are things he is not telling her. He might have his reasons, but can Christine really trust him? And does she trust Dr. Nash, who rings her indicating that they are secretely meeting behind Ben's back to treat her illness?
It is a splendid book and for a change I liked the first person narrator from the start, although she dislikes herself a bit at times, and doubts herself. Which is understandable given her unsatisfying condition. It is a thrilling and engaging story.
+10 task
+10 review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 55
I have a question regarding my readerboard score. I see that I have 55 points. My last post #403, I claimed style points for review for my book "Blue Bloods". I looked up the lexile score since it was a YA book and the Lexile score is 820. I was wondering if I didn't get the review points because it was YA and it didn't have a high enough lexile score or if it is an oversight. I was just curious.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I have a question regarding my readerboard score. I see that I have 55 points. My last post #403, I claimed style points for review for my book "Blue Bloods". I looked up the lexile score since it ..."I'm sorry, Jayme - we *did* make a mistake. It will be fixed the next time we post to the Readerboard.
No problem. I checked with the Brooklyn library site and they have Blue Bloods listed as fiction. Just fyi.
Task 10.7 - Honored Authors Read a book by an author who has a literary award named after them. Please provide a link to the award.
http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3193
http://www.imcpl.org/about/news/2011/...
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library’s Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Award for Literature was established in 2007 for Indianapolis' favorite son author whose innovative writing style broke new ground in fiction and influenced both the literary world and mainstream America.
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 331 pages)
Review:This is a collection of 25 of Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories, originally published in a diverse selection of magazines 1950-1968. A few were first published in Science Fiction magazines like Galaxy. Most were first published in “mainstream” magazines like Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Most of the stories are mainstream 1950s stories about life in the American middle class. A couple of stories from the early 1950s predict the changes in the 1960s (drugs, sexual morality), although I’m not sure that was his intention. Missing is the Slaughterhouse-Five style black humor. Recommended for fans of Vonnegut and for those who enjoy 1950s literature.
+10 Task (#10.7)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: (1939-1989)
+10 Not-a-Novel: short story collections
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 +10 = 35
Grand Total: 480 + 35 = 515
15.10 - 1935/6Odd John by Olaf Stapledon
+10 task
+15 bonus
task total: 25
+100 sightseer bonus
grand total: 945
20.5 - subcategory revolutionaries on wiki1985 by Anthony Burgess
+20 task
+10 combo (20.9-1917, 20.6- 503 ratings)
+5 oldies (1978)
+10 not a novel (dialogues, essays, and a novella)
task total: 45
grand total: 990
20.8 - set in TurkeyThe Dervish House by Ian McDonald
+20 task
task total: 20
Megafinish bonus: 200
grand total: 1210
Heather wrote: "task total: 25+100 sightseer bonus"
Woohoo! Congrats on the finish.
But shouldn't you have been getting +15 task points for each book (+15 bonus for the later ones), rather than +10?
Tony wrote: "Heather wrote: "task total: 25+100 sightseer bonus"
Woohoo! Congrats on the finish.
But shouldn't you have been getting +15 task points for each book (+15 bonus for the later ones), rather than..."
if that's the case, I've shorted myself 50 points. Mods?
Heather wrote: "Tony wrote: "Heather wrote: "task total: 25+100 sightseer bonus"
Woohoo! Congrats on the finish.
But shouldn't you have been getting +15 task points for each book (+15 bonus for the later ones)...
if that's the case, I've shorted myself 50 points. Mods? "
Check the readerboard! The database automatically gives you the correct points for tasks, including bonuses in the case of BtW. It also gives you the correct points for styles, except for reviews which have to be hand-monitored. Some combos also must be hand-monitored, like for the underrated and 9,10,11 tasks.
10.8 Comfort ReadDiplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
+10 task (I gave 5 stars to A Civil Campaign)
+5 Combo (10.4 - diplomatic)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 355
20.2 - Birthplace: Sweetness #9 by Stephan Eirik Clark
I absolutely loved most of Sweetness #9. I’ve been on a healthy eating campaign lately so the message rang true and upped my commitment to my new food lifestyle. The writing is often funny and the time period and age of the main character matched up well with my own adulthood. Later in the book there were a few tangential story lines that didn’t quite fit for me, but overall I thought it was a great debut. I think Clark’s characterizations of the children in the story are excellent. Because I am close to a number of people with depression, I found his insight helpful and accurate and was most impressed by those parts of the book that dealt with struggles with that issue. I will be looking forward to more books by Clark and will be interested to see how he matures as a writer after this mostly solid debut.
+20 Task: Author born in Germany
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 - 9, 10, 11 (sweetness)
+10 Review
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 985
10.8 - Comfort ReadNocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
+10.8 task (I previously rated The Remains of the Day 5 stars)
+5 combo (10.4 - 9, 10, 11 "Nocturnes")
+10 not a novel (short story collection)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 90
20.3 - Thieves and Mysteries: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, 940 Lexile
When I started The Lies of Locke Lamora, I felt like I was watching a scene right out of Oliver Twist. Locke is initiated into a band of thieves that has similarities to Fagin and his gang. It is soon revealed, though, that Locke is not going to be an innocent Oliver character and it isn’t going to be a Dickens storyline. I didn’t like this book as much as most reviewers. I’m not sure why, but I suspect it was partly that I listened to the audio book and I sometimes lost the thread of the story. I also felt that although the methods of death and the lies Lamora told changed, the basic plot ideas were repeated. The writing was good and the descriptions certainly brought the many sinister characters and situations to life, so I still rated the book 4 stars. If you enjoy continual conflicts and adventures, this book will probably be more your cup of tea than it was mine.
+20 Task: #2 on Thieves list
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1015
15.9 - BtW - Constant Traveler 1935-1936Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan, regular fiction at BPL, 1935
+15 Task
+15 Bonus
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1045
Congrats on your Mega Finish, Heather! You'll get your RwS finish points too!
Heather, that's a great finish--- congrats!
10.4 — 9,10,11The 6th Extinction by James Rollins
Review: ★☆
This was a very weak entry in the series, missing most of what made the earlier books a notch up from the standard conspiracy-thriller fare. Granted, even at their best, they're still just trashy fun, firmly in Michael Crichton-meets-Dan Brown territory, but they're still usually fun. This one wasn't. The plot was much too simplistic, whilst also straying too far beyond even the normal levels of suspension-of-disbelief required; the villain was lifted from the Bond-movie reject pile; and the interplay with a historic mystery that pretty much defines the entire series was largely missing: beyond the rather weak “Why did Darwin take twenty years to publish The Origin of Species” angle, much more really should have been made of the oddities of historic maps of Antarctica. In an end-note Rollins hints that this book is introducing some big changes for the future of the series, which is somewhat worrying. I'd much prefer this to be a "can be safely skipped" entry, rather than a key turning-point…
+10 Task ('Extinction')
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1780
20.6 UnderratedThe Debacle by Émile Zola
Zola was an admirer of Balzac and wanted to write a similar collection of novels as La Comédie humaine of his hero, but he was unable to quite see how to do it. When the Second Empire of Napoleon III fell in 1870-71, Zola was able to finally formulate his plan. He began with the coup d'etat in 1848 with his The Fortune of the Rougons and wrote through to the collapse of the Empire with La Débâcle. Yes, there is one more in the series, Le Docteur Pascal - I don't expect the drama, but rather a "wrapping up."
One of Zola's strengths (and he had many!) was his ability to portray a scene of multitudes. As Cecil B. DeMille did in film, Zola did with his pen. continued
+20 Task (469 ratings)
+10 Review
+10 Oldie (pub 892)
+ 5 Jumbo (512 pgs)
Task total = 45
Grand total = 410
20.9 - War BabiesThe Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice 10/16/14
Anne Rice was born in 1941.
Review:
After reading Interview with the Vampire, I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue with this series. That book was okay, but after all the hype and the Brad Pitt/ Tom Cruise movie, it didn’t meet my expectations. However, a few friends said the later books were better, so I decided to take a chance.
I loved The Vampire Lestat! Now I get why Anne Rice has such a following. This one held my interest throughout. The language was beautiful. The story content follows two lines, the tale of the Vampire Lestat and that of the origin of all Vampires. I hated to see it end, and I already have a library hold on the next volume of the series.
+20 task
+10 combos (10.2 (top 100), 10.9 approved here by Karen Michele)
+10 review
+5 oldies (1985)
Task total: 45
BtW total: 15
RwS total: 485
Grand Total: 500
Task 15.1-- Constant Traveler - 1919-1920:This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback, 268 pages)
+15 Task
Grand Total: 515 + 15 = 530
20.10 Higher EdThe Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Review: Steven Johnson did a great job of taking an unpleasant topic and making it interesting and manageable. The book is primarily about one man (John Snow) and his quest to discover how cholera spreads and then convince everyone else that the prevailing wisdom of the time is wrong. Today, it’s hard to believe people, including medical experts, believed that “miasma” spread disease, rather than contaminated water, etc., but it took a LONG time to shift the tide. It’s interesting to me how they could have been so right and so wrong at the same time – the conditions in which people, especially the poor, lived in London in the 19th century were horrific and partially contributed to the spread of disease, but not for the reasons they thought. I did want a little more of the urban planning focus Johnson brings some of in the conclusion, but that’s because the “cities” part of the title is what interested me in the beginning. Also, I suggest not trying to read Regency romance novels set in London while reading this book – it loses some of the, um, romance thinking about the gross sanitation in the city.
+20 Task (http://www.k-state.edu/ksbn/)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-Novel
+15 Combo (10.4, 10.5 - #38 on list, 20.1 – shelved 21 times as 19th century)
Task Total: 55
Grand Total: 625
10.6 Short StuffMagic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Review: This book continues my difficulties getting into short stories. I don’t believe it’s that I don’t “get” them – but it’s possible I’m not willing to try to “get” them. Kelly Link is well-regarded all over the place as a master short story writer, and the blend of reality and fantasy is something that should appeal to me. Unfortunately, every time I moved on to another story I’d pretty much forget the previous one. They all just left me hanging. That being said, Link is clever – she has interesting ideas and funny sentences all over the place. She even manages to pull in pop culture references without making them feel like they’re already dated. I appreciate her skill, but don’t love the stories.
+10 Task (O. Henry Award – 2013)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.7)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 665
10.8 Comfort ReadSacrifice by Brigid Kemmerer
+10 Task ( I rated Secret 5 stars )
Low Lexile – no styles
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 675
15.2 – BtW – Constant TravelerCaptain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (pub. 1922)
+15 Task
+15 Bonus
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 705
10.4 - 9, 10, 11:Garlic And Sapphires: the secret life of a food critic by Ruth Reichl
+10 task ("Sapphires" has 9 letters)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 110
20.1 - 19th CenturyThe Turn of the Screw by Henry James 10/18/14
This book was shelved 120 times as 19th Century.
Review:
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is listed as one of the 50 Scariest Novels, has been made into movies regarded as among the scariest ever, and this short novel has stayed popular since its initial publication in 1898. I’m sorry to say it just didn’t resonate with me. The writing was good, but the story was slow and predictable. The introduction led the reader to anticipate some really interesting goings-on were to follow, but the tale did not live up to the expectations. The redeeming grace was that the reading took very little time and the book gathered 50 points for this season’s Reading with Style Challenge!
+20 task
+10 combos (10.2 - 50 scariest & scary movies, 20.4 - on the lnked list)
+10 review
+10 oldies (1898)
Task total: 50
BtW total: 15
RwS total: 535
Grand Total: 550
20.2 - BirthplaceThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Lexile 940 10/18/14
C. S. Lewis was born in Ireland.
Review:
I had to read a book with an animal on the cover for a task in another Goodreads group and chose The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Though the book was published before I was born and I was an avid reader as a child, I had never heard of this one until my own children and I watched the movie. I believe the girls read the book, but until now I had not. What a lovely story it is! The children find a secret passage to a mystical land with talking animals, a wicked witch, and even Santa Claus. I’m just sorry I had not read this many years ago.
+20 task
+10 review
+5 oldies (1950)
Task total: 35
BtW total: 15
RwS total: 570
Grand Total: 585
20.6 — UnderratedSmoke by Donald E. Westlake
Review: ★★★☆
A big tobacco firm, eager to find a suitable distraction in non-smoking-related cancers, has been quietly funding some melanoma research. It has developed some potions that have been vaguely plausible with mice, albeit turning them rather translucent, but they're not quite sure how to find human subjects… until Freddy Noon, a low-level petty thief, in Dortmunder-esque mould, happens to break into their lab. Some hi-jinks and mix-ups later, Noon finds himself not merely translucent, but entirely invisible. This certainly widens the field of opportunity for a thief, but Noon isn't thinking quite so big as the tobacco company guys, who very much like the idea of him helping them out by listening in on competitor strategy sessions, jury deliberations, closed congressional hearings, etc… if only they can find him again.
Cue a classic caper, with Noon on the run from multiple parties at the same time, whilst also trying to work out how to regain his visibility as the fun wears off and the problems set in. It's not up with Westlake's best work, but it's certainly a pleasant enough way to while away a few hours.
+20 task (292 ratings)
+10 review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1810
20.6 — UnderratedSix Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction by Luis Alberto Urrea
I chose Luis Alberto Urrea’s Six Kinds of Sky because I rated The Hummingbird’s Daughter 5 stars and because I love short stories. I was not disappointed and I have just added most of his other books to my TBR. I enjoyed the touch of magical realism and the multiple points of view and voices woven throughout the stories. The last three were my favorites. That may be because they are the freshest in my memory, though, because all of the stories were excellent. They were emotional and poignant and moved me to the core. I loved this line from “A Day in the Life”: “Our lives are gone.” “No, viejo, our lives are here.” She puts her hand on his chest. “Our lives are here,no?” Although many of the stories were filled with sadness, Urrea threaded a lot of humor throughout the stories as well. His “Afterward” was also worth reading. I don’t often feel that way about afterwards, but this one brought out the reason we read and listen to story and why we are grateful to those who can write them in both short and long form successfully as Urrea has done.
+20 Task: 2002, 96 ratings
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 - 9, 10, 11 (collection)
+10 Review
+10 Not a Novel (Short Stories)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 1090
20.6 — UnderratedWork Happy: What Great Bosses Know by Jill Geisler
Review: ★★☆
If the title hadn't over-sold this book so much, I might have given it a better rating. It's not a particularly bad book, per se, and anyone who followed its advice would almost certainly become a better boss. I'm just not convinced that they'd become a great one. The treatment of many of the areas is remarkably shallow, and in most cases has been covered much better elsewhere. So, for example, whilst it's certainly welcome to see the book take a strong stance that good managers need to adjust their style to different employees' personalities, there is very little nuance to this, cleaving solely to high level distinctions along the four main axes of the MBTI (introverts/extraverts, intuitors/sensors, thinkers/feelers, planners/plungers), with nothing on any interplay between these — an area Jerry Weinberg handles much better [… more]
+20 task (129 ratings)
+10 not-a-novel (non fiction)
+10 review
Task total: 40
Grand total: 1850
15.2 - BtW - Constant TravelerCaptain Blood by Rafael Sabatini pub. 1922
10/19/14
+15 task
+15 bonus
Task total: 30
BtW total: 45
RwS total: 570
Grand Total: 615
10.1 Square PegSkin Game by Jim Butcher
Review:"We had already been standing on some fairly shifty moral ground, and it was getting muckier as we went forward." The Dresden Files pit good against evil but it is not always clear which is what. Harry often has to make choices in very grey areas. And sometimes good people get hurt and even die. In this episode, because of previous commitments, Harry is helping an evil being steal the Holy Grail from Hades with a group of beings with unknown loyalties. It is another action packed story where trust and faith are tested and Harry and his friends come through but what they accomplish isn't clear. Stay tuned for the next book! +
+10 Task (Karen Michelle ruled that it does not fit the mythology task)
+10 Review
Task total: 20
Grand total: 385
15.7 BtW - Constant TravelerAll Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
+15 task
+15 bonus
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 850 points
BtW 15.1 Constant traveller The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (1920)
+15 task
Task total 15
Grand total 445
15.2 BtW Constant travellerThe Mystery of the Hidden Room byMarion Harvey (1922)
+15 task
+15 bonus
Task total 30
Grand total 475
15.3 - BtW - Constant TravelerThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham pub. 1924 10/19/14
+15 task
+15 bonus
Task total: 30
BtW total: 75
RwS total: 570
Grand Total: 645
Task 10.1 - Square PegAnother America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It (2013) by James Ciment (Hardcover, 320 pages)
Review:This is a popular history book about Liberia. African Americans - those born free, those freed from slavery, and those who were mulattos or mixed African & European ancestory – sailed from the United States of America to West Africa. The first ship left in 1820. There they settled, often over the objections of the local tribes. Their goal: become a successful nation, like America or Canada or France, located in West Africa and ruled by individuals of 1/8th or more African ancestory. Alas, the Liberian experiement failed. (The author goes into dismaying detail about just how it failed.) Bribery, embezzlement, corruption, massive public debt and an oppressive class system (modeled on the antebellum South, with American-born mulattoes and their descendents at the top) all contributed to making Liberia a failed African nation. The revolution in 1980 of the natives against the elites resulted in a breakdown of all the supports of a modern nation (like rule of law). The recent news reports indicate that, if anything, conditions in Liberia have deteriorated since the book was published in 2013. Overall impression: Depressing but True.
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-fiction
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 530 + 30 = 560
20.9 War BabiesOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Review:
During the Stalin regime, people were sentenced to hard labor for the flimsiest reasons. I wondered why the author focused on just one single day in a grim labor camp since the prisoners usually had long imprisonments of eight to twenty years. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is in his eighth year of a ten year sentence. Conditions are horrible with inadequate food, warm clothes, and heat in frigid conditions. But he cannot think of the future because his prison term could be extended if the authorities brought him up on another charge. Shukhov can only think about the present--how can he survive for one more day?
Shukhov is a hard-working mason and carpenter who sometimes gets an extra bread ration for his good work. He tries to savor every bite of bread and spoonful of soup since there are no other pleasures in life. To keep his feet warm he pads his boots with rags. He knows how to work the system, taking on extra little jobs, like mending clothes or holding someone's place in line, in exchange for a cigarette or a few bites of bread. With the guards, it's important to fly under the radar because an argument might land him in a freezing cell--and almost certain death from hypothermia, pneumonia, or tuberculosis. So Shukhov lives in the present.
"There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail....Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days....The three extra days were for leap years."
The author had been imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for criticizing Joseph Stalin in letters to friends. Solzhenitsyn based this book on his experiences at a labor camp in Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan. Premier Khrushchev, who denounced the excesses and abuses of Stalin, allowed the publication of the book in 1962. Recommended.
+20 task (born 1918)
+10 review
+ 5 oldie (pub 1962)
+10 combo (10.4-10 letters-Denisovich; 10.7)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 445
Task 20.2 - Birthplace: Read a book by an author born in Belgium, Ireland, Germany, or Switzerland.
Willem Elsschot
Born: in Antwerp, Belgium : On: May 07, 1882
Three Novels: Soft Soap , The Leg , Will O' the Wisp (1946) by Willem Elsschot (Hardcover, 253 pages)
Review: This book contains a short novel Soft Soap (pub. 1924) , a novella The Leg (pub. 1936), and a novelette Will O' the Wisp (pub. 1946). All three stories star the same man, Laarmans, and are focused on his various moneymaking schemes in his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. In Soft Soap his moneymaking schemes are legal – barely – but unethical. The Leg is set 5 years later, with our main two characters having ethical qualms over their activities. Will O' the Wisp, first published after World War II in 1946, sees our hero Laarmans leaving behind cynicism and embracing his inner feelings of empathy for his fellow human beings and using his talents for a good cause rather than for personal gain.
I read most of this book in waiting rooms and I found it a pleasant and undemanding way to pass the time.
+20 Task (Birthplace: Belgium)
+05 Combo (#20.6 underrated)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: (1939-1989)
+10 Not-a-Novel: (one novel + 2 novellas)
+10 Review
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 05 + 10 = 40
Grand Total: 560 + 40 = 600
20.6 - 49 ratingsThe Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
+20 task
+10 not a novel ("poetry")
+5 combo (10.4 - anthology, important, celebrities)
task total: 35
grand total: 1245
10.4Romans Were Known For Their Aquaducks: And Other Gems of Wit & Wisdom in Western Civilization by Brian E. Strayer
+10 task
+10 not a novel
task total: 20
grand total: 1265
20.9 - War BabiesFugitive by Phillip Margolin
+20 task
+5 Combo (20.6 Underrated)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 245
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Girl Genius, vol 11: Agatha Heterodyne and the Hammerless Bell by Phil Foglio
+20 Task (pub. 2012, 345 ratings)
Graphic Novel, no styles
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 530