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20.5 FoundationAnything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
I could begin each every review of a book by Elizabeth Strout with praising her prose. And what is it that makes it so wonderful? Perhaps I haven't the appropriate vocabulary. I highlighted not a single sentence, so I have nothing for "show and tell" and even if I did, out of context, I'm not sure a sentence or two would seem so praiseworthy. It appears effortless, though I'm fairly certain it must take a lot of work to make it seem so.
Her characterizations also appear effortless. These are simply real people on the page. In this book, they are the people that Lucy Barton left behind in Amgash, Illinois, but grown up and older now, as did Lucy. She went to school with some of them, and she was related to others. A couple of them were of her parent's generation. Lucy is not mentioned in each story, but, with one exception, there is the connection. For instance, in the first two stories, the people see Lucy's latest book - a memoir - on the shelves in the bookstore. In one story, Lucy, in Chicago for a book signing, returns to Amgash to see her brother and sister.
The inter-connectedness of the stories is not just that they all take place in and around Amgash. A story that feels as complete as a short story can be, may be followed up in another story by another character. Small towns have gossips, or a character remembers an earlier event that is the story of another.
This is another hit, but for some reason it feels as if it just barely crosses the my 5-star threshold. Even so, I cannot imagine what more I could have wanted from this.
+20 Task (1956)
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Review
Task Total = 35
Grand total = 825
20.5 FoundationsThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa SeeAuthor born in 1956
Review
I enjoyed reading this book. I learned about an ethnic minority I never heard about called the Akha who live in China. They have an interesting culture and way of life. Lin Yan is an Akha, part of an ethic hill tribe in China. The book starts out when she is ten years old and goes into her adulthood. She falls in love with a boy and gets married but he isn't what she thought. She had a baby with him out of wedlock which is taboo in their culture. She doesn't want to disgrace her people so she leaves her baby at an orphanage in a city three days away. When Lin Yan is released from her marriage, she goes out to establish a tea shop. Eventually she finds love again but she has never forgotten the baby she gave up.
The other part of the story is about her daughter Yan Yah. She is adopted by an American couple. Her American name is Haley. I like how Haley takes an interest in her Chinese roots and becomes interested in the origins of Chinese tea. It was a connection to her birth mother.
Task +20
Style + 10 Review
Book Total: 30
Grand Total: 205
15.9 AotDThe Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bảo Ninh
+15 Task (Giai Thurong Hoi Nha Van Viet Nam 1991)
+5 Oldies
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 815
10.3 English LanguageThe Just City by Jo Walton
+10 Task (born in UK)
+5 Combo 10.2
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 830
20.1 Lord of the RingsFramley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Mark Robarts is the central character of this 4th volume of the Barsetshire Chronicles. He is a young vicar who has made a few bad decisions which begin to haunt him. But as Robarts deals with his issues…. his sister is pursued by his friend, Lord Lufton…much to the chagrin of Lufton’s mother. Much of the storyline follows these two and the reader wonders if their romance will survive. Characters from earlier volumes make appearances…such as Doctor Thorne…and his niece who is now Lady Gresham. The heiress, Miss Dunstable, also returns and plays an important role as Trollope provides a somewhat humorous, tongue-in-cheek, vision of mid-19th century rural England. And what would the Chronicles be without Mrs. Proudie…the Bishop’s wife who likes to butt her nose in everywhere it is not wanted? (And the Bishop too…who is still controlled by his wife.) A lot of fun in the typical understated British fashion. Five stars.
task= 20
review=10
combo= 10 (10.3 & 10.7)
jumbo=5
canpn=10
task total= 55
grand total=1220
20.6 My Name is RedThe Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
This is the third book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. The first one, The Shadow of the Wind was wonderful and intriguing. The second, The Angel's Game, was good (as I remember), but sadly forgettable. When I started this one, I sort of remembered characters and events, but not enough to make it feel like the continuation of a story that had already begun--it felt like I was entering that world for the first time again. This one, though...I can't decide if I liked it (I *do* enjoy Zafon's writing a great deal--atmospheric, yet lighthearted at the exact right times) or hated it for the mere fact that it felt like a rip-off of The Count of Monte Cristo with snippets of Les Misérables and Great Expectations thrown in for good measure. There is still one more book to come in the series, which I will of course read--there are enough unanswered questions in this labyrinthine mystery that I want resolved...I just hope that it relies a little less on established literary escapades and returns to the glorious use of imagination that was evident in the first installment of this series!
+20 Task (3.96 avg. rating; 38,655 ratings)
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.2)
Task total: 35
Season total: 1090
10.6 Spring EquinoxThe Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya by Frances Osborne
Idina Sackville had a scandalous reputation in Great Britain and Kenya after being married and divorced five times starting in 1913. Her life caught the attention of her great-granddaughter, Frances Osborne, whose research led to this biography. Glamorous Idina's first husband was the rich, handsome cavalry officer Euan Wallace. The Great War and Wallace's philandering led to the demise of her first marriage, and she left her two young sons with Wallace as part of the divorce settlement.
Idina's second husband took her to Kenya where she became part of the Happy Valley set in the Highlands. A British lottery had been set up in Kenya where settlers could obtain free or inexpensive land for farming. This land was attractive to unemployed soldiers coming back from the Great War, and the later sons of aristocrats (since the first son had inherited the family estate). Idina loved Kenya, and worked hard with her husband and native laborers building a home and establishing a cattle farm. The parties in Happy Valley were notorious--long weekends filled with alcohol, drugs, and partner swapping.
As the book progresses, it seemed to be the same type of situation with each of her five husbands. Free-spirited Idina was looking for love and sexual adventure with countless lovers, but was abandoned again and again. Gossips were busy when one of Idina's former husbands, the Earl of Erroll, was murdered--possibly by a jealous husband. Idina died of cancer in 1955. It is thought that Nancy Mitford's "The Persuit of Love", and Michael Arlen's "The Green Hat" were inspired by her life.
Although Idina's life was well researched, I found myself tiring of reading about the endless parties and affairs by the middle of the book. I've read books by other Kenyan settlers such as Beryl Markham and Karen Blixen who had much more accomplished lives, and give more information about the contributions of the native people and the changes in Kenya during that era.
+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.3 (author born in London)
+10 review
Task total: 25
Grand total: 655
20.8 Yours, Mine, and Ours (Amanda's Task)Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.3 Donnington, UK)
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 425
AotD total: 15
Season Total: 440
15.4 AotD (2nd Round)1926
1923-1932
Time Traveler
All Pultizers for Drama:
Craig's Wife by George A. Kelly
task = 15
oldie=5
not a novel (play)= 5
task total= 25
grand total= 1245
15.7 AotD (FINALLY!! I can't believe how long I had to wait for this one to come from the library!)The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
+15 Task (Anthony Award for Best Novel, 2013)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1105
10.4 International Question DayThe 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 author is Australian but the book is actually set in Washington & Baltimore areas. Unfortunately, not a book that enchanted my heart… a horrible marriage between 2 people unwilling to work together, to compromise as life partners. A horrific pulling to and fro of the children between the parents. I didn’t like the wife/mother as she is a weakling however at least she seems to be who she is but the husband, all charms and goodness (or so it seems) but such a child (as was pointed out a number of times in the novel, unwilling to grow) and his made up words used throughout the novel nearly killed me. I & my husband, of course, have some made up words we use with the kids when they are tiny but NOT whole sentences and a full conversation of them. I knew as well that things will NOT end well though the ending wasn’t really what I expected. My inability to enjoy this book was probably made worse as I was also listening to an audiobook where the husband killed his wife (true crime!); she was leaving him after 2 decades of marriage to escape his controlling & rather violent nature. I say ‘NO’ to domestic violence!
+10 task
+10 Canon
+10 Review
+10 combos (10.2, 20.7)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 885
10.1 Square PegPerempuan Patah Hati yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi by Eka Kurniawan
review
A collection of a very diverse short stories which started with a girl going on a blind date with a man to a rock that is forever patiently waiting for revenge. My favourite is the titled story (Broken-hearted Girl Found Love Again Through Dreams) because of course, despite the very sad start ends with a rather sweet hope. Despite the rather light-hearted start (the blind date story), the stories near the end got dark and grim though sometimes I wasn’t sure whether I should laugh or cry. For example, the story from the rock’s perspective that started with its being used to drown (murder) a girl. It was very indignant from being used in such nefarious deeds as her death is its deed; like its being defamed but due its inability to move, it held an abiding hope of revenge on the murderer but the ending was both victorious yet decidedly unsatisfactory.
This book was only published in 2015 however with the author’s rising international fame, I hope there will be an English translation soon for those who do not read Bahasa Indonesia to read.
+10 task
+10 Non-Western
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 915
15.10 AotDTime Traveller | 1 Award
Silent Death: The Killing Of Julie Ramage by Karen Kissane
Winner of Davitt Award for True Crime 2007
+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel
+100 Completion
Task Total: 120
Grand Total: 1,035
Task 20.1 Lord of the RingsEnglish short stories writers
Ashenden (1928) by W. Somerset Maugham
Review: This book is a collection of 7 interlocked short stories. Our protagonist is Ashenden. He is a debonair, cosmopolitan, sophisticaed British spy stationed abroad during World War I. In the Preface, Maugham writes: (The stories) are founded on experiences of my own during that war. (He hastens to add all the stories are fiction.) Each story ends with a twist. Twenty-first century readers would note that the stories are also racist – when it comes to intelligence and morality, British are the best, other Europeans are second-rate, and individuals who are non-European are a distant third. (Maugham’s contemporary readers probably just nodded their heads and said, yeah, so? That’s the way the world is!) Recommended for fans of espionage fiction and for literary-fiction readers who can overlook the British-is-best attitude.
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.7 Waymarking Dead Poet Society)
+10 Review
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 = 35
Grand Total: 700 + 35 = 735
10.9 A Wrinkle in TimeDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.6 - 35,398 Ratings, 4.03)
+5 Jumbo (578 pages)
Task total = 25
Points total = 75
20.9 Doctors DayThe Duel by Anton Chekhov
I remembered enjoying a collection of Chekhov short stories. I see I rated it only 3 stars, but I remember enjoying them more than that. The edition of The Duel I read is part of a Complete Works and was translated by Constance Garnett. I have read other works she has translated and will always look for them. Because I don't read Russian, I cannot attest to their accuracy, but I have also come to realize thru her that not all Russian authors are alike, so I suspect she is not just writing their stories in her own style.
It was tough sledding for at least half of this and that because I kept expecting a duel. I mean, that's the title! There is a duel, but Chekhov has to lay the groundwork. Laevsky has been living with Nadyezhda for two years. She is the wife of another man. Laevsky finds his enthusiasm for her dwindling.
Perhaps many of us can point to an event in our younger years that turned the course of our life. For me, the event that had me leaving California and moving to Alaska changed more than just my location. For Laevsky, it is the duel that turns his life in a different direction.
This is still only 3-stars. I am hoping to read more Chekhov, but I'm likely to stick to his short stories.
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.10)
+10 Non-Western
+10 Review
Task Total = 45
Grand Total = 870
15.8 AotDBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, 990 Lexile
+15 Task (National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2014)
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
Season total: 1125
20.6 My name is redDragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
I enjoyed this book, particularly since I just recently (re)dipped into the Pern series (for another task this season). This is a book that could/would completely hit home with a teenage girl, and still is enjoyable to an older woman. I liked the main character (Menolly) and found the glimpse into the society she lived in interesting.
However, I thought her father and mother were harsh and one-dimensional. McCaffrey kind of hits you over the head with their conservatism. I have always been a fan of McCaffrey’s fantasies, although reading them now (at my present age) I wonder why she felt the need to make gender roles so traditional. That is the main source of conflict in this book (for Menolly). I also would have liked the ending to be a bit more padded out, rather than being an obvious lead in to the next book in the series. It was still fun to revisit with this book though.
20 task
10 review
____
30
Running total: 680
10.7 Dead Poets' SocietyThe Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
A whole Jeeves & Wooster novel is a treat, especially when it's as good as this one. Many secondary characters reappear as Bertie gets himself into an even more complex mess than usual.
Gussie Fink-Nottle previously saved Bertie's bacon by becoming engaged to the soppy Madeline Bassett, but Madeline still believes Bertie is waiting in the wings, desperate for a chance to marry her if things go wrong with Gussie. So when the couple's happiness is threatened by Gussie being arrested for wading in a fountain just when he's due to visit a houseful of aunts to convince Madeline's godmother that he's worthy of her hand, Bertie is roped in to impersonate Gussie. High jinks ensue, from which Jeeves is required to rescue not only Bertie but a whole host of his lovelorn friends.
+10 task - just posted in task thread today
+10 combo (10.2, 10.3)
+10 review
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 755
10.1 Square PegAgent TATE: The Wartime Story of Harry Williamson by Tommy Jonason and Simon Olsson
I don't have any way to judge the accuracy of the information here, but it was an entertaining book with enough detail to be very useful for something I was researching. The agent codenamed Tate was not one of the "star" double agents of the war, but worked the longest and most reliably, sending disinformation to Germany at the instigation of the British from his arrival in England by parachute in the autumn of 1940 until the end of the war.
The first part of the book was most interesting for me, detailing his training in Germany, his arrival and immediate capture, his interrogation and "turning" to work for the British, and the conditions he then lived under (although living in an ordinary house, he was under constant guard until the end of the war, and every communication was checked or dictated by MI5).
It gave me a new perspective on the Blitz, the V1 "Doodlebug" rockets, and other aspects of life in England in the war, from the point of view of military intelligence instead of the women and evacuees who appear most often in fiction.
NOTE: I haven't found out much about the authors, but the book was originally written in Swedish so I have no reason to think they would be either UK-born or US-born or non-western. So I think this qualifies as a square peg.
+10 task
+10 review
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 775
15.5 AotD (2nd Round)1927
1923-1932
Time Traveler
All Pultizers for Drama:
In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green
task = 15
oldie=5
not a novel (play)= 5
task total= 25
grand total= 1270
20.6 My Name is RedA Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
about 28,000 ratings, average 4.34
+20 task
+5 length
+5 combo (10.2)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 780
20.6 My Name is RedThe Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
+20 Task (26,437 ratings, avg 3.91)
+5 Combo 10.2
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 855
20.6 My Name is RedThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 -- born in UK)
+5 combo (10.7-- Dead Poet's Society, thread post 21)
+5 combo (20.10 Hesperus)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 815
20.5 FoundationNo True Way: All New Tales of Valdemar ed by with story by Mercedes Lackey
+20 task
+10 combo (10.3, 10.8)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 845
20.6 My Name is RedThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Task total: 20
Grand total: 865
20.6 My Name Is RedLilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
When author Martha Hall Kelly toured the beautiful lilac and rose gardens at the Bellamy-Ferriday House in Connecticut, she had no idea that she would also learn about one of the most gruesome medical experiments designed by the Nazis. Caroline Ferriday came from a philanthropic family with connections to New York high society. She volunteered at the French consulate with a special interest in helping French orphans during the war. After World War II Caroline raised money and obtained medical help for a group of Polish women, survivors of Ravensbruck, a forced labor camp for women.
Kasia, a young member of the Resistance in Poland, was arrested and sent to Ravensbruck with her sister, her mother, and some friends. Kasia felt tremendous guilt that the SS officers had followed her to her family and friends. Dr Herta Oberhauser, a new surgeon, was assigned the task of carrying out the sulfonamide experiments on healthy Polish women. To simulate a war wound, one leg would be mutilated by breaking bones, tearing muscles, and adding various bacterial cultures, glass, wood chips, and dirt. The women developed gangrene, but only some victims were treated with the sulfa drugs. The women were called Lapins (French for Rabbits) since they were treated like lab animals and hopped around when it was painful to put weight on their wounded leg. Many died from these horrific, painful experiments. The surviving Rabbits often had to hide when the camp officials were choosing disabled prisoners for the gas chamber. It was amazing how often other women would put themselves at risk to help the weaker prisoners. Kasia and her sister were partially based on real sisters at Ravensbruck, and Dr Hera Oberhauser was a real Nazi doctor.
Caroline Ferriday's story merges with Kasia's story after the war when Caroline is asked to help the Rabbits recover. Herta's story is continued in a limited way. Reading about the cruelty at the Nazi concentration camp was not easy. But it was heartwarming that so many people reached out to help after the Rabbit's plight was publicized by the "Saturday Review". This book is well-researched with strong characters, and is highly recommended.
+20 task (4.29 rating/38 K)
+10 review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 685
10.2 3, 4, or 5Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity by Edward Tenner
+10 task
+10 combo (10.4, 10.6)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 900
Task 10.10 Group ReadsThe Gilded Hour (2015) by Sara Donati (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 741 pages)
Review: The Gilded Hour is a feel-good novel about two female physicians in 1880s New York City and the Italian orphans they adopt. The two women and their beaus have a marked 21st Century sensibility when it comes to gender roles, women working outside the home, religion and premarital relations. I enjoyed the first half, which was focused on our two heroines overcoming obstacles, finding romance, and providing for the Italian orphans. The second half sets up a small group of male villains and (view spoiler). (Don’t worry, 21st Century morality prevails.) The author afterward explains that one of the “male villains” was an actual person (Anthony Comstock) who behaved as described in the novel. (That is, the novel’s Mr. Comstock interacted with our fictional characters the same way the historical Mr. Comstock interacted with real live humans in the 1880s, according to historical documents.) I’ve read on the author’s website that she’s written a sequel, to be published in 2017 or 2018. Overall, I enjoyed this escape from reality, and I’m planning to read the sequel whenever it published.
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.2)
+10 Review
+10 Jumbo 700-799 Pages
Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 + 10 = 35
Grand Total: 735 + 35 = 770
Post 704 Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "10.2 3, 4, or 5With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life by Henri J.M. Nouwen
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 270"
I'm sorry, Don. The MPE for this title is listed at just 96 pages and doesn't qualify for points.
Post 717 Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.5 FoundationsThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa SeeAuthor born in 1956
Review
I enjoyed reading this book. I learned about an ethnic minority I never heard a..."
I'm sorry, Jayme. Lisa See was born in Paris, France. This task requires a US birth. Have you used your square peg?
I didn't realize it had to be an author born in the US. My square peg is open so I can move it to that.
10.2 3, 4, or 5The Glass of Time by Michael Cox
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.3 English Language
+ 5 Jumbo
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1295
10.2 3, 4, or 5The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1315
10.7 Dead Poet's Society (Ed's Task)Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.3 English Language
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 1340
10.7 Dead Poet's SocietyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
I recently happened upon a list of "400 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime"--a silly list, many of which I'd already read, some of which I though were absurd to be on that list, some I'd been meaning to read and hadn't gotten around to yet, and some that have been sitting in a mental blind spot since I know basically what they're about without having actually read them. Animal Farm was one of those books. I was never required to read it in school and never sought it out on my own. Until now.
I'm shaking as I type this...that was such an uncomfortable book to read! Uncomfortable because it made me feel claustrophobic and powerless and it felt all too familiar in this current political climate. I realize that it was written as a thinly-veiled criticism of Communism, but there were so many scenes that were terrifyingly reminiscent of our current administration that I couldn't help but feel rattled.
Squealer, the P.R. pig who is busy reframing and reinventing the "reality" of events on behalf of Napoleon, sounds scarily like Sean Spicer. Despite the fact that the animals on the farm are working themselves to death on less and less food, "Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better" convince them that things aren't as bad as when Jones (their former human master) was on the farm.
And don't get me started on Napoleon! Changing the wording of the Seven Commandments to his own advantage without telling anyone and acting as if that's the way it always was, telling the animals that things they had seen with their own eyes was a lie, creating drama and fear to cover up his errors (as when he sells the wood to the neighboring farmer and is swindled with forged banknotes) sounds so much like another pig-on-two-feet that I'm at a loss for words.
I wish I had read this book sooner in my life--I think it wouldn't have effected me as much or as detrimentally. But. I am glad to have read it.
+10 Task (http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM...)
+5 Combo (10.6)
+10 Review
Task total: 25
Season total: 1150
Post 741 Beth wrote: "20.6 My Name is RedThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 -- born in UK)
+5 combo (10.7-- Dead Poet's Society, thread post 21)
+..."
This has too many ratings for 20.6. We'll score it for 20.10 unless we hear differently from you.
10.6 Spring EquinoxA Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Review: This is my kind of history. Ulrich takes on a diary that was carefully handed down by a family of women healers. The diary was a record of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine late in the 18th and early 19th century. Ulrich helps us understand what it says about daily life in what was then a frontier community. She brings to light subjects such as the practice of midwifery, the female economy, how religious practice worked and evolved during this time period in New England, the uneasy relations between female midwives and male doctors, family relationships, sexual relationships, court proceedings, the health of women and children at this time, use of herbs, etc.
Since I am always asking the question what daily life was like while Presidents ruled, Congress debated and armies marched, this was fascinating.
I struggled reading the diary entries included because of unusual spelling and many similar names but Ulrich does an excellent job making sense of them and filling in the background to understand their significance.
+10 Task
+5 combo 10.2
+10 Review
Task total: 25
Season Total: 330
20.6 My Name is RedTroublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
I was curious about this book not so much for the Hollywood aspect (Remini is an actress, best known for her role in the sit-com, "King of Queens"), but for the insiders view of Scientology. I don't know much about that "religion"--most of what I've heard seems absolutely unbelievable--so I was curious to hear a long-time practitioner's view of what makes it appealing. Still after reading this, I don't understand the appeal...and am appalled at the church's treatment of its members, from forcing people into insane amounts of debt in order to make substantial contributions to the church to allegations of physical abuse by the leaders, I was floored to learn that the aspects that I thought were urban legend are not only true but are really just the tip of the iceberg.
I was reading Animal Farm concurrently, and it was crazy how similar the corrupt leadership described in Remini's book aligned with the terrifying construct depicted in Orwell.
While I've never exactly been a fan of the actress herself, I applaud her courage and honestly.
+20 Task (3.98 avg. rating, 29,399 ratings)
+5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Review
Task total: 35
Season total: 1185
15.8 AotD Time TravelerAgatha Award Best First Novel (1988-1997)
The Body In The Transept by Jeanne M. Dams
Won the award in 1995.
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
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Spur Award for Best Nonfiction (1980)
(note: I'm going to be doing all Spur Award, sequentially, 1972-1981)
The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes (1980) by Stan Hoig [970.0049]
+15 Task
+05 Not-a-Novel
+05 Oldies (published before 1992)
Task Total: 15 + 05 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 675 + 25 = 700