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20.10 Uncommon LetterThe Rubber Band by Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe novels are just plain fun and I should read more of them. I'm glad I read the first in the series first, as Stout introduced his characters there, but I think the rest of the them can be read in pretty much any order. At least that is the premise I'm going to operate under.
Only Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin are more than caricatures. I will probably always picture them as the actors who played them in the TV series. Wolfe commands a wide network of operators. Though mostly we know only their names, I suspect if I were to read more of these closer together, I would find that they have different strengths, and maybe even a bit of personality. The characters who present the mystery are, surprisingly, somewhat better seen than those operatives. We don't always know what Wolfe is thinking, and we don't always have all of the clues to solve the mystery ourselves. I didn't care. These are told in the first person by Archie, so we always only know what Archie knows. The dynamic between Wolfe and Archie is just too good to fret over what I'll be told later.
The cadence of the prose isn't what I think of as pure noir, but I can't help thinking of it as having a tinge of noir. And it's funny, which isn't really noir at all, of course. If looks could kill, she would at least be a very sick woman. I thoroughly enjoyed this. The genre could never get more than 4 stars from me. This hovers at the line between 3- and 4-stars.
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies (pub'd 1936)
Task Total = 45
Season Total = 580
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 685 Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 DecadeDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (1937)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1565"
Hi Karen - this is on..."
Sorry - I forgot to check on it.
10.1 Square PegNever Sniff A Gift Fish by Patrick F. McManus
Patrick McManus is a contributor to "Field and Stream" and "Outdoor Life" magazines (in addition to several other things as well, but these are the most pertinent to give you an idea of the sort of things covered in this book). This would normally be of zero interest to me, but it was chosen for one of my book clubs here at home, so there you have it. I'm so glad it was chosen--it was an absolute delight to listen to this book! I found myself laughing out loud at his tongue-in-cheek humor, his sarcasm, his ability to laugh at himself and at fellow outdoors enthusiasts. Many of the essays in this book were autobiographical, and even when speaking of remarkably difficult times (like the year that his father moved the family to a bare-bones rustic cabin in the mountains of Idaho, which sounded AWFUL but he slathered it in humor so that you got the gist of it but never pitied him) you can't keep from laughing.
My favorite was when he and his friend bought a "mountain car" which was basically falling apart, had no front fender, missing a door, etc. (you get the picture) and named it after their favorite school teacher, Ms. Peabody. The hilarity that ensues as they are overheard speaking about the work that they need to do on "Ms. Peabody" was raucous. :'-D
Having grown up in Utah, I went fishing when I was younger, have camped my whole life, and have friends who are die-hard hunters, so many of these stories were familiar on at least some level so I guess I would be in the target audience for this one...though I think his brand of humor would be universally appealing. I recommend this to anyone looking for a quick, easy read and a good laugh--especially as an audiobook.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Oldies
Task total: 35
Season total: 1205
20.3 Ghost StoryGhostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
Sorry if this review is disjointed: I just finished the book and my head is swimming. IT WAS SO GOOD!******************
"There are haunted structures of all kinds: churches, hotels, toy stores. There are haunted bridges and haunted alleyways, haunted parks and haunted parking lots. But in the United States, the most common--the most primal--haunted place is a house. Home ownership has always been intertwined with the American dream; we have magnified this simple property decision in part because it represents safety and security. The haunted house is a violation of this comfort, the American dream gone horribly wrong."
On the surface, this book is Colin Dickey taking us on a ride across the country to find the places that make your hair stand on end, places where the veil between the living and the dead seems to be fraying. In fact, it is an exploration of the layers of history that cause unrest in the human mind--which I LOVED. I love that it wasn't just ghost stories, but a peeling away of the layers of history to help us see it in a new way, from the ugliness and inhumanity of the slave trade and the establishment of the KKK to the Spiritualism movement and how it became a springboard for the Women's Liberation movement to an indictment of the treatment of the mentally ill in asylums of old.
The author glancingly touches on several places/stories we're already familiar with: the House of Seven Gables, as made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne; the Winchester Mystery House; the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, which was the inspiration for the Overlook in The Shining; the Biltmore Hotel in Hollywood which is haunted by the Black Dahlia; the house made famous in "The Amityville Horror"; the haunted boat, the Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach, CA...but he doesn't focus on them for long, which I appreciated, as I was quite familiar with all of these stories.
I learned of new locations such as the Lemp House in St. Louis, built by the founder of Falstaff beer (the most popular beer in its day) whose patriarch and progeny all committed suicide--in fact, there's a board game named for the mansion and you lose if you draw a bullet card, a gun card, and land on a suicide space :-/ ; I learned of other haunted Hollywood hotels that are frequented by such famous ghosts as Marilyn Monroe, Rudolph Valentino, Elvis Presley, Gary Cooper, and Clark Gable; Thomas Jefferson still reportedly walks the grounds of Monticello; Aaron Burr and his daughter, Theodosia, are to be found in Battery Park in lower Manhattan. There are stories of prostitutes in the Wild West; of brutally mistreated slaves in New Orleans and in Richmond, VA; of soldiers wandering the battlefield where they'd died years ago.
This book is a look at us: our history, our humanity, our curiosity, and sometimes our ugliness.
I loved the amount of research that went into this book, the connections he made between the places he was discussing and the way that history interacted with them. I love that he made so many references to other authors and books to add to the richness of this story, such as Dickens, King, Poe, Hawthorne, and Bradbury. I love that he really analyzed what it means to be "haunted" and helped me see it from a different perspective.
I've always loved a good ghost story, had a few ghostly experiences of my own, and am always anxious to hear other people's experiences with the paranormal, but after reading this passage it made me see even this seemingly-harmless past-time in a different light: "What was once a person's unbearable loss is now someone else's 'strange noises and voices,' a reminder of how quickly a personal tragedy can be molded, in the hands of strangers, into folklore, taking on a life of its own."
If you like little-known history with a side of spooky, you're gonna love this as much as I did!
(Sorry that was so long...I just reeeeeally liked it and wanted to say so much...if it makes you feel any better, I actually deleted about half of what I was going to write :-D)
+20 Task (shelved as "ghost-stories" 16 times)
+10 Review
+10 Non-Fiction
+5 Combo (20.2)
Task total: 45
Season total: 1250
20.7 Single Word (Lagullande's task)Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
I had learned of this book while browsing GR for something set in Japan. This book was less than 200 pages and the preview pages were intriguing, so I borrowed it from the library. The book contains two novellas: Kitchen and Moonlight Shadow. Both concern grief in young women, mainly. About five pages into Kitchen, I was taken back to my teen years when Redbook magazine contained an insert with a fiction story every month. I devoured those stories and these novellas were like the Redbook stories--characters, romance, quick, enjoyable reading. Kitchen was a little quirky and had some gaps or maybe I missed something. I also wondered if things got changed in the translation from Japanese to English, like English references to Joan of Arc, Disneyland, carrot cake.
Like some other reviewers, I thought Moonlight Shadow was the more gripping story of the two. I had to finish it as soon as I started it, because of the mysterious female character by the bridge. The descriptions of grief, grieving (e.g., "epicenter of death") will strike a chord with anyone who has been there, I think. She must have experienced strong grief to be able to describe it so well. I had a strong craving for hot tea while reading this book; making/drinking tea was mentioned many times; also, noodles.
I thought this book may have been shelved as ghost story because of the Moonlight Shadow novella, but I didn't see that it was.
Kitchen story: 3 stars
Moonlight Shadow story (prizewinner): 4 stars
According to the Afterword, "Moonlight Shadow" is music by Mike Oldfield.
+20 Task (one-word title)
+5 Oldie (1988)
+10 Review
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+35 this post
+100: running total for the season
20.9 SatireThe Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
*Thanks for writing a review on this, Valerie! I never would have found it otherwise and I quite enjoyed it.
Mr and Mrs Ransom have been burgled and the first thing they talk about is whether the correct term would be "burgled" or "robbed."
Everything was taken and I mean EVERYTHING. Not the everything one would normally mean: cash, electronics, jewelry and furs. Everything. The chairs and sofas, the rugs, the bed and all the linens, the half-used bottle of hair dye, the toilet paper, the oven and the casserole that had been cooking inside it. Everything. They don't own cell phones, and all of their wired telephones have been removed--with the wire cut down to the wall. Mr Ransome must venture out in his opera clothes (which is where they were when the burglary occurred, Cosi fan tutte, or rather, Cosi, as Mrs Ransome has learned is "the way" to refer to the opera) but not until he has used the restroom--and the program from Cosi as toilet paper since, yes, EVERYTHING was taken.
This story is about so much: what makes a home a home? how do our possessions define us? what are we missing when we continue to go about our daily routine without actually *seeing* what else is around us? what could we be missing out on by staying in our ruts? what makes a marriage?
I quite enjoyed this short book and was somewhat shocked/heartbroken by its ending...but also somewhat hopeful about it as well.
It's a quick read (I couldn't sleep last night and read it in hopes of falling asleep and before I knew it, I'd finished it!) and the writing is marvelous.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.8)
Task total: 35
Season total: 1285
Anika wrote: "20.9 SatireThe Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
*Thanks for writing a review on this, Valerie! I never would have found it otherwise and I quite enjoyed it.
..."
Great! I'm glad you liked it and that I could help find a book for you! When a RwS season has review points I always seem to end up adding A LOT of books to the TBR shelf.....
20.3 - Ghost StoryThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
shelved 109 times as ghost-stories
pub 1959
A scientist sets out to investigate a haunted house. He cold-mails some people to join him (‘cos that’s a sensible, scientific way of recruiting researchers), telling them very little except that they basically will get free board for three months. As you can imagine, the two people who take him up are not the most well-balanced in the box, and being thrust into a spooky house with a spooky retainer (serving double-purpose as comic interlude) doesn’t help their sanity.
Cue some creepiness from the house (which is legit creepy) and excessive over-wroughtness from repressed sexuality & jealousy in the random recruits and you end up with a marvellously gothic horror tale.
Things knock in the night; mysterious words appear on walls; sinister cold spots are found; and nerves reach snapping point.
After three days of the four researchers being alone, the scientist’s wife pops up for a visit, with a hearty strapping man-of-very-little-brains in tow. The scientist’s wife is brilliant: a no-nonsense believer, on her own hunt for a haunting, but oblivious in her sensible tweeds (I might’ve made the tweeds up) to the atmosphere.
The ending is rapid, and completely in line with the chill-factor throughout the book.
A deserved entry on the classic horror pantheon.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.1, 20.2)
+5 Oldie
+10 Review
Post total = 45
Season total = 1480
Task 20.6 - ClergyThe Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
Rev Ray Schiller is an MC - the main antagonist
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5, 10.8)
Post total = 30
Season Total =1510
Task 20.10 - Uncommon LetterDeep Six by Clive Cussler
535pages
pub 1984
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8)
+5 Oldie
+5 Jumbo
Post total = 35
Season total = 1545
Task 10.3 - DecadeThe Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh
pub 1931
+10 Task
+10 Oldie
Post total = 20
Season total = 1565
Task 10.3 - DecadeO, These Men, These Men by Angela Thirkell
pub 1935
+10 Task
+10 Oldie
+5 Combo (10.8)
Post total = 25
Season total = 1590
Task 20.7 - Single WordSpellslinger by Sebastien de Castell
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8)
Season total = 1615
Task 10.8 - Double Letter NamesKnight's Shadow by Sebastien de Castell
606pages
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo
Season total = 1630
10.7 Big Words (Tien's task)The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
I’m not sure why I liked this short science fiction novel. I’m not sure what I just read. Was it the diary of a madman? Is it some type of parallel existence? Is it merely a fiction of the main character or the deliberate creation of Morel? Can one’s life be edited like a film? Is the story about eternal love or the eternal imagery of love? I am usually completely frustrated when presented with such murky circumstances in a book. Yet, here, somehow it works. I am still completely confused… but I feel like I just read a good transcript of an episode of the Twilight Zone. I felt there was a connection to Haruki Murakami’s "1Q84”. Anyway, if I’m giving three stars to a science fiction novella, sci-fi fans may love this one. My copy came with a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges who was a big fan.
task=10
review=10
combo=5 (10.3-1940)
oldie=10 (1940)
task total=35
grand total=1895
20.5The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two
Piers Paul Read
Task 20
Combo 10.2 +5
Review +10
Nonfiction +10
Post total 45
season total 245
the dreyfus affair. I read this nonfiction book after having read the historical fiction book "An Officer and a Spy". I wanted to learn more about the time period in France and how close to facts the novel was. This book filled in the details of the contemporary history of anti- Semitism in France which helped me better understand the political situation. This recitation of the facts made Georges Pickard not quite the hero he was portrayed as in "An Officer and a Spy" - it appears he was only one cog in the machine tht eventully proeved Dreyfus's innocence.
20.5The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation
Jon M. Sweeney
Task 20
Combo 10.8, 20.6, 20.10 +15
Review +10
Non fiction +10
Post total 55
season total 300
pope who quit. This very readable book about Pope Celestine V who reigned for just 15 weeks in the 13th century makes me want to learn more about the time period (my mark of a good book is one that makes me thirst for more information on the subject!) I am not Catholic, so much of what I learned about the papacy may not be new news for Catholics, but the weaving in of history, Biblical quotes, Dante and other contemporary writers and philosophers really broadened my understanding of the time period.This book was reviewed by Father James Martin, who wrote Jesus: A pilgrimage, a book about finding Jesus in a trip to Israel. Both writers make history and the Bible more accessible.
15.713 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Mitchell Zuckoff
Libya
Africa
post total 25
season total 350
15.9Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
Don Van Ryn
post total 40
season total 415
20.7 Single Word (Lagullande's task)Aya by Marguerite Abouet
takes place entirely in Cote D'Ivoire
task =20
grand total= 1915
Post 740 Ed wrote: "20.7 Single Word (Lagullande's task)Aya by Marguerite Abouet
takes place entirely in Cote D'Ivoire
task =20
grand total= 1915"
+15 for first to Cote D'Ivoire
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 740 Ed wrote: "20.7 Single Word (Lagullande's task)Aya by Marguerite Abouet
takes place entirely in Cote D'Ivoire
task =20
grand total= 1915"
+15 for first ..."
I thought the 15 bonus points were just for the 15 point tasks? And besides, this is a graphic novel...so, it wouldn't qualify for style points, would it?
Ed wrote: "I thought the 15 bonus points were just for the 15 point tasks? And besides, this is a graphic novel...so, it wouldn't qualify for style points, would it? "Oops, you're right. Serves me right for reading posts so early in the morning and before breakfast!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ed wrote: "I thought the 15 bonus points were just for the 15 point tasks? And besides, this is a graphic novel...so, it wouldn't qualify for style points, would it? "Oops, you're right. Serves m..."
LOL.... happens to me all the time!
20.1 Gothic AuthorsThe Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.5 Charles)
+ 15 Oldies (1st pub 1848)
Points this post: 40
RwS total: 160
RG total: -
Season Total: 160
10.8 Double LetterThe Joy of Half a Cookie: Using Mindfulness to Lose Weight and End the Struggle with Food by Jean Kristeller
Yet another diet book, although this one is actually a non-diet book. Jean Kristeller has run a mindfulness-based eating program that takes participants step by step to developing more awareness of what they are eating, how hungry they are, etc. The book takes the same path, starting with meditation, ultra-mindful eating (which thank goodness you don’t have to do at every meal), eating small amounts of “forbidden” foods, and figuring out what you really want to eat, until at the end we should become normal eaters, naturally losing weight. I didn’t have the required 10 weeks since it was a library book, but I did the first few steps and it does seem to help.
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.5 Jean)
+10 review
+10 not a novel
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 935
From post 692June wrote: "10.6- Governor-General Award
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood found on page 13
Task: 10
Combo: 10 (10.8, 20.1)
Post total: 20"
+5 Jumbo
From Post 710Ed wrote: "10.8 Double Letter Names (Cat's task)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
One starts to read this book feeling a bit superio..."
+5 Combo 10.7
15.8 - Reading GloballySetting: Peru
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
+25 Task
Season total = 1665
15.9 - Reading GloballySetting: Tanzania
My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
+40 Task
Season total = 1705
10.10 Group ReadsMrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
This is a set of 37 inter-related stories which are more like sketches. Many of the stories don’t have a climax and resolution….merely an explanation of a certain set of circumstances or observations. The stories are inter-related…but not in a lineal manner. The sketches depict a young family…with the Mom, Mrs. Miniver, being the focal point. All of the stories, save one, are set in England soon after World War I has begun. The one exception has Mrs. Miniver visiting family in Switzerland.
The story I liked the most was simple (as they all are) but, related how Mrs. Miniver and her family helped an elderly couple harvest their hops crop. I knew/know so little about hops other than that they are used to make beer…that I appreciated learning a bit through this little slice of life. (I had not known that hops were also edible as a vegetable! Prepared like asparagus according to Wikipedia.)
Other stories have the family visiting relatives in Scotland or welcoming displaced children into their home, choosing a doll for the daughter, etc. Although I read a lot of classic English works, I found myself looking up several British turns of phrase. One story, even explained “Doing a Mole” which was a re-visit to a place of one’s youth. Mrs. Miniver visits the seaside cottage that she and her family used to frequent. She finds a way to inspect inside the house and then checks to see if the cubbyhole where she had hid a coin so many years ago is still there….the cubbyhole was…but the coin was not.
I very much appreciated Struthers writing and had hoped to read something more substantive from her…but, alas, she does not appear to have written any novels. 4 stars.
Task=10
Review=10
Not-a-novel=10
combo=5 (10.3-1939)
oldie=10 (1939)
task total= 45
grand total= 1965
10.8 Double LetterAmerican Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
A very interesting take on US history leading to understanding of today's political climate. Woodard traces the influence of various groups and their settlement patterns in North America. He seems to come to the conclusion that our value systems are so deep-seated, immutable and different that the way forward will be a fracturing of the three countries that make up most of North America and reformation into nations that are more alike internally. It is interesting to trace the "nations" of my parents and grandparents.
+10 task
+5 combo 10.7
+10 review
+10 not a novel
Task total: 35
Season total: 230
20.7 Single WordThornyhold by Mary Stewart
This is a gentle, gothic-if-you-squint story about a lonely young woman inheriting a house from her witchy cousin, and how she explores the house and the lives of her neighbors and her own magical heritage. There's not much to it, but it's enjoyable for all the lovely house details (oh, an Aga and a country kitchen and the pigeons in the attic and the bramble and the making of jellies and the herb garden and all the old books) and just getting to spend time with Gilly, who I found a believable mix of practical and dreamy.
It was also kind of fun to have a baby blanket version of a gothic. Thornyhold features some standard gothic elements: unworldly girl meets a house she has an immediate, down-to-her-soul connection with; the housekeeper-ish character shouldn't be trusted!; a little danger and intrigue ensue (content warning for animal abuse / dog spoilers (view spoiler)); the history of the house is very witchy, and the house has been built with specifications to ward off black magic and to facilitate secrets, etc. It's a bit of fun, and it's not presented darkly: there's always a safety net underneath, namely the faith in the magic that holds Gilly and Thornyhold secure. The connection forged between Gilly and the house is never confrontational, as it often is in gothics, but it's one just as strong as Gilly's relationships with the man she eventually marries and the boy who becomes her stepson.
My own enjoyment was limited by just how silly the Agnes plot was, and how grating the details of it were to a reader who doesn't buy into the fuzzy harmlessness of it ((view spoiler)). But as a sweet-but-thin read, the book was fine, and it cleanly hits the target of being comforting without being saccharine--a very difficult balance to maintain!
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.5 Grandparents, 20.1 Gothic Authors, 20.2 The House)
+10 Review
+5 Oldies (published 1988)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 440
20.10 Uncommon LetterReunited with Her Surgeon Prince by Marion Lennox
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 Double Letter Names)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 465
15.7 Reading GloballySetting: Nigeria
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 490
20.10 Uncommon LetterDynamite Doc or Christmas Dad? by Marion Lennox
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 Double Letter Names)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 515
15.8 Reading GloballySetting: Peru
Winner Takes All by Cheryl Harper
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 540
15.9 Reading GloballySetting: United States
Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 580
15.4 RGSisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman
Setting: US
+15
Season total: 245
Post 725 Cat wrote: "20.3 - Ghost StoryThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
shelved 109 times as ghost-stories
pub 1959
A scientist sets out to investigate a haunted house. He c..."
Just a note, in case you keep track of such things. Jackson isn't on the list for 20.1, but this book is on the 10.4 list. So, points are the same, just fall on different tasks.
Post 750 Cat wrote: "15.9 - Reading GloballySetting: Tanzania
My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
+40 Task
Season total = 1705"
I'm very sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this book is shelved as Juv Biog at BPL, and there is no Lexile. It does not qualify for Reading Globally. You can salvage some points because Goodall qualifies for 10.8.
10.9 Origins of Modern Genres The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
One of the things this group has prompted me to do is to finally dig into all the Sherlock Holmes collections, slowly but surely -- and I'm so grateful for tasks that set me up for this! This collection wasn't my absolute favorite, but it had some great stories in it, and of course has one of the most famous stories, the confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty. Some of the highlights for me were the Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (just good solid storytelling!) and the Adventure of the Naval Treaty (lots of tricky solving to be done). Despite having no interest in horse racing, I also liked the first story in the collection because it's the origin of the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time" line. All in all, another satisfying Holmes collection.
+10 task (1894, mystery)
+5 combo (20.1)
+10 review
+10 not a novel (stories)
+10 oldies
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 740
Task 10.8 - Double Letter NamesMy Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
no lex - no styles
Season total = 1675
15.10 Reading GloballySetting: Zimbabwe
The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
+40 Task
+100 Alphabetical Completion
+100 Completion of 6 Continents
Task Total: 240
Season Total: 820
15.5 Reading GloballyMiramar by Naguib Mahfouz
Setting: 100% Egypt (Africa)
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 395
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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (1937)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1565"
Hi Karen - this is one of Christie's that is YA at BPL and Lexile is 660. Task, but no styles.