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20.1 Gothic AuthorsFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
This book is a collection of short stories, poems and fragments by Neil Gaiman. I like Gaiman’s work and his sensibility, so it is no surprise that I enjoyed this collection quite a bit. I listened to the audiobook, which was read by Gaiman and I feel this added a lot to the experience.
Generally, the short stories are well developed and interesting (and sometimes more ‘adult’ than many of his novels). I wasn’t as keen on the poems included, but that could be due to the format. Often I like to reread and mull over poetry. Most of the fragments were amusing. There is quite a long introduction included in the audio version that also was interesting because it gave some insight into his process. 4*
20 task
10 review
10 not a novel
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40
Running total: 295
15.1 - Reading Globally Setting: Brunei Darussalam
The Last Harem by George P. Saunders
Ebook only, approx 53k words
+15 task
+15 first visitor
Book total =30
Season total = 635
20.4 NighttimeArsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
+20 - task
+15 - Combo (10.3,10.5,10.8)
+10 - Oldies (1939)
+10 - Not a Novel (play)
Task Total - 55 pts
Season Total - 415 pts
10.10 Group ReadsSidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries #1) by James Runcie
Review
Well, I must say it’s another case of disappointment due to misplaced expectation… This book contained about half a dozen short mystery stories all featuring everyone’s friend, Canon Sidney Chambers. To begin with, I didn’t mind the character of Chambers as it really is useful when you’re somebody everyone welcomes & feels able to unburden oneself to however he kind of grate on me after a few stories. The stories were also (due to shortness) rather simple… The title (…the Shadow of Death) was rather ominous but there wasn’t particularly thrilling bits to the stories and do I dare to say that it feels a bit more like a cozy mystery (noting amateur detective despite main character being male). I’m not particularly enthralled to pursue this series further so we’ll see…
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.6)
+10 Review
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 370
15.7 Reading Globally (2nd Round)Setting: Kyrgyzstan
The White Steamship by Chingiz Aitmatov
Task=25
1st to Kyrgyzstan = 15
task total= 40
Season total: 720
15.5 Reading GloballyHaiti, North America
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
+15 Task
Grand Total = 105
15.3 Reading GloballyVietnam, Asia
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 165
10.5 GrandparentsA Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
Review:
This is book 4 of the Inspector Lynley mystery series and my favorite so far. The setting is chronologically earlier than the other 3 books, by several years, and explains a lot about the relationships of the main characters in this series.
I had a hard time getting into the other 3 books, I think primarily because I'm not a fan of Barbara Havers (Lynley's partner in the first 3 books, but just a footnote here, really). However, this book had me from the beginning and it never let go throughout. The solution behind the mystery wasn't immediately discernible and the killer wasn't predictable. The story also goes into Lynley's history, his childhood and his tumultuous relationship with both his mother and his brother.
Of all the characters, though, my new favorite is Lady Helen. I find her a fascinating personality and clear wit, and someone I find myself rooting for. I feel she was brushed aside a bit here, both as a character and both the two main male characters, but I find her much more interesting than Deborah, the woman over whom two men spent the book fawning over.
+10 task
+10 review
Task total: 20
Season total: 185
15.3 Reading GloballyThe Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Uganda
+15 task
+15 first to Uganda
Task Total =30
Grand Total = 165
10.2 Spy The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
I think it was last season that I listened to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and it didn't excite me. Spy thrillers have never ben high on my tbr list, but it fit a few goals for me so I read it. I think George Smiley was just too bland a character, kept his cards to himself and didn't invite the reader to really enjoy him.
Alec Leamas is a different kettle of fish altogether, although whether you are getting to know the real Leamas could be questioned.
There is certainly a lot more drama and emotion in this novel, perhaps why it is more engaging. Whilst there is an obvious good side and bad side the characters themselves are probably a bit more blurry when it comes to defining them as such. Their ideologies may be different, but the people they reveal themselves to be in word and action might make it a bit harder for one to feel more inclined to one side than the other.
I am willing to give le Carre another go after this, even though next on my hit list would seem to be back to George Smiley ...
+10 task
+10 review
+5 oldies
+5 combo (10.8)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 195
10.10 Group ReadMadame Verona Comes Down the Hill by Dimitri Verhulst
Set in a small village which features three hills, one of which Madame Verona lives upon, and all difficult to travel up and down, particularly for an old woman.
This is essentially broken into three parts - Madame and her trip down the hill, her past life and love with Monsieur Potter, and the story of the town and inhabitants of Oucwegne itself. You often wonder why anyone would stay there, and perhaps more so Madame Verona in her old age. Like many small villages there is nothing to offer the young, especially young men, and in what the rest of the village believes to be Madame's loneliness.
The language is often poetic, and it is certainly a homage to the natural environment with a focus on the trees and forest of the area.
A quick little read with moments of sadness and of comedy that will not stretch or challenge the reader at any moment.
+10 task
+10 review
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 215
10.3 DecadeGaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
1935
I love Sayers, but when I read a Wimsey novel I want a lot more Wimsey than this one offered. Not that I don't like Harriet Vane, it's just that Wimsey is one of those delightful characters that once you have met them you want more of.
Set at Oxford it begins with Gaudy Night, which is basically a reunion dinner for past students. Due to her notoriety Vane is hesitant to go, but does and is from then on brought back into the fold of the university to investigate a series of nasty letters, of which she receives a couple herself, and some nastier incidents.
The backdrop to this and the psychological analysis of the other characters, and that of women in institutions and public roles, is Harriet's need to sort out once and for all her feelings for and the position of Wimsey in her life.
Unusual in the genre of mystery books, and from memory the only one in the Wimsey series, that does not feature a murder. People are in danger, and some do come close, but this does not make the perpetrator any less dangerous, although it may make the clues harder to come by as the true victim or focus of the violence and nastiness is hard to determine.
+10 Task
+10 review
+10 oldies
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 245
Ok on the Square Peg. That makes sense.
20.7 Single WordTaps by Willie Morris
In this Southern coming-of-age story, narrator Swayze Barksdale looks back to an important time in the small town of Fisk's Landing, Mississippi. It's 1951 during the Korean War when Swayze and his friend Arch are asked to play "Taps" at the graves of the fallen soldiers. Swayze's father had died six years earlier, and Luke from the VFW post assumes a big brother role--talking about life and death, teaching him poker, and helping out at the military funerals. Although the veterans were not perfect people, it was heartwarming to witness their sense of community and the steady support they offered each other. This is also the year when sixteen-year-old Swayze experiences first love with all its complications, the teamwork and commitment of playing varsity basketball, and sees the path to being a man.
The writing is as languid and lush as a hot summer afternoon in Mississippi. The author is a former editor of Harper's Magazine, and it's obvious that he loves language and unusual words. It did not bother me that the book was a slow read because I liked the main character, Swayze. Willie Morris based the setting on his hometown of Yazoo City, and he captures the small town feeling well. Morris' wife finished writing "Taps" after the author died in 1999, and the book was published posthumously in 2001.
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.8
+10 review
Task total: 35
Season total: 175
10.8 Double Letter NamesThe Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
+10 Task
+20 Jumbo (906 pages)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 295
15.5 Reading GloballySetting: France
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 580
15.9 RG. A-ZTaiwan
The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei by Chu Tien-hsin
+40 -Task
+15- first visitor
Task Total - 55 pts
Season Total - 470 puts
Task 10.4 Read a book shelved in the 800s (800-809.9) at the BPL.
> BPL 808.3
How to Read a Novel (2006) by John Sutherland (Hardcover, 263 pages) [808.3]
Review: This book is a collection of 28 essays that can loosely be described as “about novels”. The author begins with the reader – today there are thousands of readily available novels to read. Today’s readers’ problem? How to choose one of those novels. (He wrote this book before goodreads existed.) He goes through the pluses and minuses of each method of choosing a novel to read. Next up is a set of essays on the marketing of books, and how the marketing affects the readers’ choice of books. The next set of essays focus on factors that influence the readers’ enjoyment of a novel. Mr. Sutherland is very interested in references inside the text to contemporaneous world events outside the text and to other novels. Knowing what was going on in the world at the time the author was writing a novel can help today’s reader better understand the novel. He ends with a few essays on what I presume is his pet peeves in the literary world of 2006.
The author, John Sutherland, is a Professor of Modern English Literature; he writes book reviews for prestigious newpapers; and “was the committee chairman for the 2005 Man Booker Prize”. The writing style of the essays is easy to follow, and the essays are interesting to read (assuming that the reader is interested in the topic of the essay, like the one Mr. Sutherland calls “intertextuality”). I’d recommend this book for those interested in "books about books".
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: non-fiction
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 10 +10 = 30
Grand Total: 180 + 30 = 210
15.4 Reading GloballyGermany, Europe
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Task points: 15
Challenge points: 60
15.5 Reading GloballySetting: Tanzania
Lioness by Katherine Scholes
+15 Task
+15 first to visit
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 325
15.8 Reading Globally (2nd Round)Setting: Romania
Nadirs by Herta Müller
Task=25
task total= 25
Season total: 745
10.7 Big WordsThe Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
Review: This is something that had a profound impact on women of my generation but the history of which I knew little. I had heard of Margaret Sanger but not Gregory Pincus, Katharine McCormick, or John Rock, the other three crusaders of the title. The book tells what each of these four brought to the development of the pill and why--what their motivations were. Eig does a wonderful job of storytelling. He incorporates little personal stories about these four that illustrate their humanity, quirks, failings, passion and persistence. Very readable and informative.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-novel
Task total: 30
Season Total 150
15.10 RG (a-z)Zambia
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by Dorothy Gilman
+40 pts-task
+15 pts- first visitor
Task Total - 55 pts
RG Alphabetical completion Bonus-100 pts
6 continents - 100 pts
Task Total -255 pts
Season Total - 725pts
From post 240Deedee wrote: "Task 20.5 Old
Read a book with a main story line set 100 years (or more) before publication.
Novel set in the 1890s and published in 2016.
The Essex Serpent (2016) by [author:Sara..."
+10 Combo 20.10 and 20.6 (we will accept a main character for clergy)
From Post 244Rosemary wrote: "20.7 Single Word
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
I really enjoyed this last book in Margaret Atwood's trilogy, but I didn't think it was quite up to the inventiveness o..."
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 248Coralie wrote: "20.1 Gothic Authors
11/22/63 by Stephen King
+20 Task
+15 Jumbo (849 pages)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 265"
+5 Combo 20.7 (no spaces, I am going to accept this for 1-word)
From Post 253Heather wrote: "10.1
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
10 task
5 not a novel
task total: 15
grand total: 40"
Stephen King is on the Gothic Author list, so this book works for 20.1. I have scored it as such and show your Square Peg is still available.
From Post 258Valerie wrote: "20.1 Gothic Authors
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
This book is a collection of short stories, poems and fragments by Neil Gaiman. I like ..."
+5 Combo 10.7 (ficTION)
20.1 Gothic Authors11/22/63 by Stephen King
When the owner of his local diner asks teacher Jake Epping to go back in time and prevent the assassination of President Kennedy, Jake is reluctant even after Al shows him how it’s possible. When he goes, it’s because he realizes he can also avert a violent family tragedy in the childhood of one of his adult students. But the past doesn’t want to be changed, so Jake’s tasks are not as simple as he expects.
I had no plans to read this book this season. However, I’ve seen so many good reviews (and loved ‘Quantum Leap’ on TV when young), so when I saw a cheap secondhand copy I grabbed it. When I brought it home, I thought I would just look at the first few pages. Ha! Two days flashed by in an instant, and I hadn’t even found a wormhole in the back of a diner.
+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.7 approved)
+10 review
+15 jumbo (849 pages)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 350
20.1 Gothic AuthorsDIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.5)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=35
Grand total=115
15.6 Reading GloballySetting: Korea, Democratic People's Republic (about 70%)
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim
+25 task (reading Z-A)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 375
Edited Sept 25th to correct score from 15 to 25 for 15.6
15.9 Reading Globally (2nd Round)Setting: United Arab Emirates
Dubai Tales by Mohammad al Murr
Task=40
First to UAE=15
task total= 55
Season total: 800
10.5 GrandparentsHonor Among Thieves by Elizabeth Boyce
An unusual historical romance involving rival resurrectionist gangs and surgeons in need of fresh bodies. The heroine falls into body-snatching out of necessity--as in, she witnesses her brother's grave being robbed, and she realizes if anyone should profit from his corpse, it should be the family he tortured and left in dire straits, not a bunch of strangers--and the hero is a surgeon who takes in stolen bodies. The two are attached to rival gangs, though they initially meet and develop a relationship completely in above-board society interactions.
The book embraces the morbid and the graphic, though I did think the balance it struck in finding humor and unexpected light & goodness was more successful than not. It made me feel all the gratitude for medical science and the history of medical science, and the protagonists were both interesting and dynamic. The opening pages of the book should be an indicator of whether it's too dark for a given reader--the heroine's despicable brother is dying violently of syphilis, and he's assaulting and harassing everyone he can on the way out (his caretaking sister included), and then she learns firsthand of the debts she'll be expected to pay--but there is A LOT to also specifically warn about along the way, including threatened assault, assault, murder, attempted rape, torture, misogyny, racism. Lorna also has what are described as something like panic attacks that I thought were described in pretty harrowing ways. There was too much villain POV for me (granted, my preference in romance novels is zero villain POV), especially because the villain was one-dimensional and goes around literally kicking urchins out of his way and being sexist and racist. There was also some tedious typical romance novel conventions (the hero's gang of five friends who've given themselves a silly group name--the Honorables--and are closer than brothers and naturally will all be falling in love in the succeeding books) that bugged me precisely because there was otherwise a lot of unconventionality to this novel. But I did appreciate that the hero and the heroine operated in interesting moral territory, and that they forged their connection--and found interesting solutions to their challenges--because they bridged different worlds and communities--society, city, country, medical, and criminal.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.5 Old -- set in 1816, published in 2014)
+10 Review
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 235
20.1 Gothic AuthorsAngel Fire; Poems by Joyce Carol Oates
and
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.5)
+10 not a novel
+ 5 oldies
Task total=40
Grand total=155
20.7 Single Word (Lagullande's task)Mayhem (Dr. Thomas Bond #1) by Sarah Pinborough
Review
Firstly, it’s a cover crush, I just love that cover! And mysteries being one (of 2) of my go-to reads, it wasn’t a hard sell. I enjoyed the setting of Victorian London (though I’m questioning on this young lady going to Bath with her sick fiancé as no chaperone was mentioned??? It’s not right…). I love the dark atmosphere the author has successfully created; I could literally feel the crowded dank dirty smelly dark East London streets the characters prowled through. I feel however that the supernatural creature was rather underdeveloped though I think it has something to do with a second book as a follow up.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.5 - pub. 2013 & set in 19th century, 1888)
+10 Review
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 405
Task 15.1 Reading GloballySetting: Australia (Oceania)
The Strays (2014) by Emily Bitto
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 210 + 15 = 225
15.1 Reading GloballySetting: Australia (Oceania)
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
+15 task
Task total: 15
Season total: 165
15.7 Reading GloballySetting: India, Asia
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
+25 task (reading Z-A)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 400
20.1 Gothic authorsFrom a Buick 8 by Stephen King
Sad to say, this is one of the most boring books I've read lately. It's the fourth book I read by Stephen King, and I was definitely expecting more. I loved The Stand and The Shining, while I didn't much care for Carrie, but that's probably just because I was too young when I read it. This book was recommended to me by a regular reader of my blog, so I thought it would be good, since the reader was supposed to know my tastes by then. Nope. I didn't find it full of horror and I didn't find it suspensful. The last 50 pages or so weren't bad, quite thrilling in fact, but that's certainly not enough to make up for the first 300. I thought this might have read better as a short story of no more than 100 pages. I found it incredibly repetitive and wordy. The same kind of stuff keeps happening throughout the novel - now, I understand that the Buick is a strange object, not really a car at all but rather something like a door to another dimension. That's all right. But I didn't need for that to be repeated time and time again. I didn't need to see the same (or at least, similar) things happen again and again. That's just plain boring. This novel was just not for me, but this doesn't mean I won't keep reading King's books.
+20 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 80
10.1 Square PegMedea and Other Plays by Euripides
Review
It’s not that there were no passages I liked, but for the most part I am not a fan of Greek tragedies. It seems to all be based on murder and revenge, including family. At least now I can say I’ve actually read all of Electra (and I did like her peasant husband—he was probably the best, most noble person of all the characters in all four plays. It helps that he didn’t kill anyone, but there was more to it than that).
Medea plots to kill her husband’s new bride as well as her sons to seek revenge for him leaving her after she saved his life prior to their marriage. I just can’t get past the “kill my sons to get back at my husband part” enough to find anything to like in her. Hecabe has two halves, more or less, and since the point is that revenge can be worse than the original crime it’s hard to enjoy. Electra is the best of the three, and I’m not sure why they are suddenly so guilty for killing their mother (the sister of Helen) who killed their father if revenge by death is supposed to be good. I get why they’d regret it afterward, of course. Then the last one in this book, Heracles, is fairly boring overall although naturally death and violence come up in it.
If, however, you like Greek tragedies, you may well like this one.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+10 Not a Novel
+25 Oldie
Task Total= 55
Season Total = 115
EDITED same day as posted because I forgot about "Not a Novel"
15.5 Reading GloballySetting: Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton
+15 Task
+15 first visitor to Falkland Islands
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 435
20.2 The HouseGrief Cottage by Gail Godwin
Eleven-year-old Marcus is orphaned when his mother dies in a car accident, and his great-aunt Charlotte is appointed his guardian. Charlotte is a reclusive artist who lives in a beach cottage on a South Carolina island. Marcus is curious, exceptionally intelligent, and willing to help out around the house so he will not wear out his welcome. Charlotte shuts herself up painting in her studio all day, fueled with bottles of red wine, so Marcus has a lot of time on his hands for exploring the beach.
Hurricane Hazel roared through the South Carolina coast in 1954. Three family members staying at the old cottage at the end of the beach vanished during the storm. The cottage soon fell into disrepair, and the beach people called it "Grief Cottage". When Marcus explores the property, he feels a strange connection and thinks he sees the ghost of the boy who had been swept away by the hurricane fifty years earlier. One wonders if Marcus is more emotionally available to the paranormal since he is overcome with grief and other losses. He stops by the "Grief Cottage" every day to try to make another connection to the ghost boy. Marcus devotes his summer to learning more about the history of the abandoned house and the hurricane victims.
This is much more than a ghost story since there are many other interesting, complex characters that offer friendship to Marcus. Some of the supporting characters are also dealing with their own deep emotional issues that are slowly revealed. The story is about loss, grief, love, and making connections. Readers who like character-driven literary fiction will find this to be an especially rewarding story.
+20 task
+10 review
Task total: 30
Season total: 205
20.7 - Single WordSunshine by Robin McKinley
I love this book so. much.
The good:
- As much as I love vampires they have been done (and overdone) poorly in the years since Twilight. McKinley builds a believable, gritty world that includes them. They don't sparkle or do anything weird. In fact humans don't know too much about them because anyone who interacts with a vampire ends up dead.
- The first person perspective is used to perfection. Our narrator Sunshine has a defined voice that rambles, but is exact in that rambleyness. She makes me smile and she fleshes out the story in a way that should feel like an info dump but it anything but.
There are always cats around Charlie's, but they are usually refugees seeking asylum from the local rat population, and rather desperately friendly.
- Sunshine goes through a lot of traumatic experiences and her psychological experience feels right on. I never questioned or doubted her inner life.
It was easier, saying I didn't remember. I walled it all out, including everybody's insistent, well-meaning concern. And it turned out to be easy - a little too easy - to burst into tears if anyone tried to go on asking me questions. Some people are mean drunks: I'm a mean weeper.
- The plot kept me riveted and pages flew by. Instead of many small chapters the book is split into only four parts... so I devoured it in four gulps. Yum.
The not-so-good:
- In one or two places the awesome rambleyness becomes only so-so rambleyness.
- That's pretty much it.
Vampire and urban fantasy fans, you've found a home.
+20 task
+10 review
Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 45 points
10.1 Square pegOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
I came across Snyder's 20 Lessons Facebook post soon after the election of Donald Trump and immediately saved it. The lessons are simple - believe in truth, be wary of paramilitaries, take responsibility for the face of the world - but we need to hear and be reminded of them. Authoritarianism has a way of sneaking up on you and Snyder is determined not to let that happen.
This book is those twenty lessons, fleshed out. Sorta. Historical examples are added and context is hinted at, but I would like a more detailed explanation of what has gone before. While the book clocks in at 120 pages it's thanks to the formatting more than anything. I would have finished it in one sitting if not interrupted (silly work).
If you haven't seen the viral post On Tyranny is a great introduction to how power is taken away from the people. If you're looking for a deeper explanation you may want to tackle Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism instead.
+10 task
+10 review
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 75 points
10.8 - Double Letter NamesAmerican Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
I went into this book blind, knowing nothing about the Accomack fires, and Hesse is a surefooted and well-spoken guide. She spent months living on the Eastern Shore and it shows in the way she paints the community and pulls us into the crime. While the culprit is pointed out early on the whydunit aspects kept me reading - what would drive someone to do this? What does it mean when you'll do literally anything for someone?
The reporting and particulars of the case are handled exceptionally well, with the crimes, apprehension, interrogation, and court aspects carrying equal weight. However, I was hoping that Hesse would spend more time digging into the social and economic trends that led to Ammomack's fall in the first place. Many factors are briefly touched on - the importance of the railroad, the rise of chicken farming - but it never gets to the point of an overarching theme.
Even though I was hoping for more thematic heft American Fire is a fascinating look at what happens when you find an arsonist in your midst.
+10 task
+10 review
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 105 points
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+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 105