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20.6 Dead SoulsTo Preserve by Mickey Zucker Reichert
+20 Task RR
+15 Combo 10.3, 10.5, 10.7
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1765
20.6 Dead SoulsTrafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer
+20 Task RR
+5 Combo 10.5
+5 Oldies (published 1979)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1795
10.6 JustineCirce by Madeline Miller
If you enjoyed The Song of Achilles, you're in for a treat!
This re-telling of the story of Circe was beautiful. I love Greek mythology but was only glancingly familiar with Circe and her story. This not only fleshed out the connections to the other stories we're all more familiar with (view spoiler), it was done in such a poetic, beautiful way that you don't realize you're being REtold a story. I never wanted it to end. I could read Miller's writing every day for years...I wish she had more out. If her future efforts hold up to this standard, she's well on her way to making my top ten favorite authors ever. She can take a goddess and make her relatable, humanize her, even make you feel empathy and compassion. She explains the inexplicable actions of the gods in such a way that it makes absolute sense.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task total: 20
Season total: 450
10.5 Green StoneDeath Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe
This book was written in verse (haiku, to be precise), with one syllable for each American soldier who died in Vietnam in the year of 1968 (so: 16,592 syllables/boys killed).
So, yeah, in case you didn't guess from that: this book is set in 1968 and deals with war--and not just the War.
Ashe is 17. His parents love him a lot--but love each other not at all. His home life is its own sort of war. His girlfriend's brother is a soldier and they haven't heard from him in a while. College is looming, but that is only a four year deferment...
This is told by a thoughtful, insightful teenager--a kid who not only contends with the usual awakenings which happen at this age, but also with the very real possibility of being sent to a jungle with a gun in the near future.
In the "Historical Note" at the end of the book, there is a link to a Life magazine article entitled "One Week's Dead." In addition to the photos and names of every soldier who died that week, it contains a letter from a soldier written shortly before he died--which Crowe uses as the last two stanzas of his book.
While this book is short in reading time (it took me about 45 minutes to complete), it is long in memory.
I HIGHLY recommend this one. To everyone.
+10 Task (931 ratings)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-novel
+ 5 Combo (10.7)
Task total: 35
Season total: 485
10.5 Green StoneThree Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History by Joe Navarro
Joe Navarro was an FBI agent assigned to assist on a routine interview: Rod Ramsay was acquainted with another soldier who had recently been arrested in Germany for espionage and they were sent to glean any additional information Rod might have for them. Joe notices Ramsay's cigarette slightly tremble every time a certain subject is raised. This one, tiny foible is grounds for Navarro to make continued interrogatory contact with Ramsay.
As the story continues, we find out that Ramsay has a photographic memory and the second highest ever recorded IQ in the military--and has been selling extremely sensitive secrets. More and more, the interviews feel like a high-stakes chess game and the winner holds the key to American security.
The fact that this is *real* is terrifying.
The way it is written...well, it's readable, but DAMN I do not like Agent Navarro. He's a jerk. The way he degrades people for doing their jobs in a conscientious manner--calling them out in an utterly juvenile fashion--yet expects everyone to give him a break because he's just trying to do his job...the hypocrisy is not lost on me. He was an absent father, a wretched husband, a self-centered partner, and an all-around douchebag. Thank you, Agent Navarro, for doing a great job protecting America--but, really, you don't need my thanks, as this entire book was a giant pat on your own back. 2.5*, and only because the history/material itself was fascinating.
+10 Task (295 ratings)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-novel
Task total: 30
Season total: 515
20.8 Silent SpringAlcestis by Euripides
Admetus, king of Thessaly, knows he will die soon. Luckily (?) for him, Apollo is his "friend" (he had been banished from Olympus to serve in a house on Earth for a year--Admetus's house had the honor of being his host). Apollo gets the Fates rip-roaring drunk and procures a favor from them: Admetus won't die if he can find someone to take his place--a life for a life.
Admetus asks his parents if one of them will give their life for his. I mean, come on, they're old and what parent wouldn't make that trade? Apparently: his parents, that's who. Finally, his wife, Alcestis, says she will die in his place.
As the house is in mourning, Hercules comes to town to seek shelter and rest after completing one of his Labors. Admetus acts as if it is merely a minor person from his household who has died and prepares to feast and entertain Hercules. Later, the hero finds out who has really passed away and decides to snatch her back from the underworld.
This play is strange on so many levels, I don't know where to begin. The whole parental situation; the fact that Admetus would let his wife take his place rather than manning up and accepting his own fate; Apollo giving this "boon" which seems more like something up Hermes's alley (the trickster-god aspect, as the boon seems like a good thing but is rather an agent of chaos); Admetus throwing a party and acting like it's not his wife that has just died...yes, it was odd to say the least, but a thought-provoking premise and I quite enjoyed the ride.
+20 Task (a play, written pre-1962)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-novel
+25 Oldies (written -438)
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.7--about the King and Queen of Thessaly)
Task total: 75
Season total: 590
15.1 RtDFeast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen by Hannah Howard, 2018
Task total: 15
Season total: 605
10.8 Double ContinentImprudence by Gail Carriger
Review:Imprudence follows Prudence and her friends on another adventure – this time to Egypt. It connects much more closely than the first book with the original Parasol Protectorate series, and I have to admit that much of me wanted to keep following Biffy than sticking with Rue and her crew. Still, it’s got the silly banter and whimsy that all of Carriger’s books have, and that’s really what keeps me coming back. The romance isn’t nearly as well developed as the original series either, but something tells me the next book might satisfy in that regard. Carriger is clearly more interested in another romance than in Rue’s.
+10 Task (set about half and half in Europe and Africa)
+15 Combo (20.1 – Rue’s best friends and crewmates Prim and Percy are twins, 20.6, 20.7 – Queen Victoria is a character in the first chapter and her decisions have a major impact on the rest of the novel)
+10 Review
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 815
20.10: My comfort zoneSilas Marner by George Eliot
George Eliot's story of Silas Marner feels like a fairy tale. Its the most gentle of stories. The story is simple and heartfelt and revealing any part of the story is almost giving away the entire story.
To me what was beautiful throughout is that humans don't need to feel dejected. Things happen and things do turn around. That was the message I got throughout. That said, the happenings in the story were a bit too conveniently "arranged" and would perhaps work easily in a story than in real life. Regardless it was a joy to read although I like reading longer novels.
A good 4 stars for this lovely book.
Task: +20
Combo: +5 (Night Watch)
Oldies: +15 (Pub. 1861)
Review: +10
Task Total = 50
Season Total = 670+50 = 720
15.8 Reading the DecadesThe Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
year: 81
+25 task
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1275
10.8 Double ContinentHer Father's Daughter by Alice Pung
+10 Task Asia & Oceania
+5 Combo 10.5
+10 Not-a-Novel
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1820
20.6 Dead Souls (Note post 581 has been corrected)Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
(Shakespeare)
Review
Sebastian and Viola are separated during a storm at sea, and while Viola has been told that her brother was tied to a mast and so could still be alive, Sebastian thinks his sister is dead.
Viola disguises herself as a eunuch and is employed by the duke who is in love with Olivia, who has told him she has no interest but mourns her dead brother. Viola is sent to pay suit for the duke in her guise as Cisario, and Olivia falls in love. Yes, a Shakepearean love triangle, for Viola loves the Duke. Combine the witty language and the clever double talk of Viola as Cisero with his and a rather nasty practical joke played on Malvolio convincing him that Olivia loves him, a few drunken scenes (the audiobook I listened to was replete with the occasional belch for good measure--not my sense of humour, but will suit others).
The audio cast was excellent and the play well directed, but as for the actual story, it is 4 stars for me.
+20 Task
+25 Oldie
+10 Review
+ 10 Not a Novel
+10 Combo,20.1 – twins Sebastian and Viola; 20.4 Link to Russian edition https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Task Total = 75
Season Total = 210
CORRECTION also 20.8 so Task Total 80 and Season total 215
Karin wrote: "20.6 Dead Souls (Note post 581 has been corrected)by William Shakespeare
(Shakespeare)
Review
Sebastian and Viola are separated during a storm at sea, and while Viola has been told ..."
Don't forget to link the book, please!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karin wrote: "20.6 Dead Souls (Note post 581 has been corrected)by William Shakespeare
(Shakespeare)
Review
Sebastian and Viola are separated during a storm at sea, and while Viola ..."
Done--that's what I get for cutting and pasting an old one into Word and editing there before putting it here to avoid the same mistakes as last time.
20.4 Night WatchThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft
‘The Case of Charles Dexter Ward’ is a gothic-style horror novella that I enjoyed more than Lovecraft’s better-known ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, which is more scifi/fantasy horror. Horror not being my favourite genre, it was hard for me to relate to either of them. ‘Charles Dexter Ward’ reminded me of ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ in both style and content, although the story isn’t the same. Here the young man Charles Ward becomes obsessed with an ancestor of evil repute to the extent that he is in an asylum when the story opens. The family doctor is called in by Ward’s father to investigate what happened to his son.
+20 task https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
+ 5 combo (10.7)
+10 review
+10 oldies (1941)
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 1320
10.2 Ravioli (Italy)The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Review: I read this in high school, and have seen it at least once or twice since then, but for whatever reason it still surprised me a little. It’s a great story, in spite of its problematic elements. Shylock as a character is unsettling at best, given all the comments about his being a Jew, but he’s also so horrible that it’s kind of hard to worry too much about him. It’s a product of its time, and I wish that part weren’t there, but there are some elements that really do feel fresh and modern. I wouldn’t call it feminist, but its depiction of women isn’t as bad as it could be, and for a tragedy the story is almost whimsical. I stand by the five stars I gave it years ago.
+10 Task (set about half in Venice and half in a fictional Italian town)
+20 Combo (10.9 – historical/culture - Italy, 20.6, 20.8)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+25 Oldies (1596)
+0 Jumbo
+10 Review
Task Total: 70
Grand Total: 885
15.2 – Reading the DecadesThe Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
+15 Task (pub. 38)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 900
From Post 564Deedee wrote: "Task 10.8 Double Continent (Coralie's Task)
Read a book set (at least 20% each) in more than one continent. For the purpose of this task, we will use this list to determine continents for each loca..."
+5 combo 20.4
From post 570Valerie wrote: "20.7 The Red Queen
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
The greater majority of the time that I was reading this novel, I felt it was ‘ok’ but I didn’t feel like it re..."
+5 Combo 20.4
Bryony wrote: "In message 88 I claimed Heart of Darkness for task 10.8. Please could I change this to task 10.4. I had already claimed combo style points for 10.4 so I think my points total for the ..."
Got it. Thank you for including your original post number.
Task 10.1 Square PegA River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (2000) by Masaji Ishikawa; translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (non-fiction)
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 570 + 20 = 590
10.5 Green StoneDandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble by Catriona McPherson
+10 Task -- 56 ratings
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 795
15.7 Reading the DecadesA River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
+25 Task -- published in '00
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 820
20.9 Jumbo Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley
583 pages
+20 Task
+5 Jumbo (583 pages)
Task total = 25
Points total = 280
20.6 - Dead SoulsGallows View by Peter Robinson
Non consecutive N's
+20 task
+5 Oldie
Task total: 25
Grand total: 645
20.4 Night WatchMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Class and poverty in post WWII Naples. Family and neighborhood tensions. Coming of age of as a girl in a rapidly changing, patriarchal and violent society. Elena Ferrante presents us with so much to consider in this novel. The story is told by Elena Greco, as she and her good friend Lina Cerullo navigate the neighborhood and school. Both girls are bright and intellectually curious and, at times, compete and, at times, collaborate. Elena's family elects to support her (with the aid of a teacher) in continuing her education. Lina's family does not continue her education. The novel traces their different trajectories through Lina's marriage at age 16-1/2.
The book is well written. I think some is lost in translation and the foreignness of the setting for me.
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2 author born in Italy, book set in Italy, 20.2 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cul..., 10.9 cultural, historical)
+10 review
Task total: 45
Season total: 470
10.9 Double Trouble (Karen Michele's Task)A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
+10 Task (Cultural 26, Historical 24)
+5 Combo (10.5 858 ratings )
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 380
RtD total: -
Season Total: 380
20.4 Night WatchThe Only Story by Julian Barnes
+20 Task (Одна история)
+5 Combo (10.5 approved in help thread )
Points this post: 25
RwS total: 405
RtD total: -
Season Total: 405
10.9 Double Trouble (Karen Michele's Task)The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
+10 Task (97 Contemporary, 81 Cultural)
Points this post: 10
RwS total: 415
RtD total: -
Season Total: 415
10.9 Double Trouble (Karen Michele's Task)The Gathering by Anne Enright
+10 Task (150 Cultural, 68 Contemporary)
Points this post: 10
RwS total: 425
RtD total: -
Season Total: 425
15.1 Reading the DecadesI Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
+15 Task (published 17)
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 425
RtD total: 15
Season Total: 440
15.9 Reading the DecadesThe Music of Chance by Paul Auster
year: 90
+40 task
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1360
20.10 My Comfort ZoneCousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac
This starts off strongly, just as I might expect with Balzac. While this is in his duet he called "Poor Relations", we learn almost immediately that Cousin Pons did not suffer what you and I might call poverty. He was cash poor, perhaps, but had become a collector of small items of art, and those had appreciated immensely.
The Government sent Sylvain Pons to Rome to make a great musician of himself; and in Rome Sylvain Pons acquired a taste for the antique and works of art. He became an admirable judge of those masterpieces of the brain and hand which are summed up by the useful neologism “bric-a-brac;” and when the child of Euterpe returned to Paris somewhere about the year 1810, it was in the character of a rabid collector, loaded with pictures, statuettes, frames, wood-carving, ivories, enamels, porcelains, and the like. He had sunk the greater part of his patrimony, not so much in the purchases themselves as on the expenses of transit; and every penny inherited from his mother had been spent in the course of a three-years’ travel in Italy after the residence in Rome came to an end. He had seen Venice, Milan, Florence, Bologna, and Naples leisurely, as he wished to see them, as a dreamer of dreams, and a philosopher; careless of the future, for an artist looks to his talent for support as the fille de joie counts upon her beauty.Despite the interest in the early going, this descended into somewhat of a slog, before returning to a more interesting novel. I had a hard time staying with it for a bit and actually stopped to read a couple of mysteries. This ended up being exactly the right strategy. Was it truly a slog or was I just not in the right frame of mind for Balzac? In any case, I seemed to have stopped in just the right place, for when I came back to it, I found it interesting again.
I often expect Balzac to have a somewhat surprising ending and one with a decided bit of irony. I cannot imagine what he was thinking here, because he foretold where we could expect this to go. One might easily expect skulduggery with an older single man who is discovered to have accumulated a fortune in art. We are not surprised, then, when conspiracies abound. There are conflicting conspiracies - who will win out? There was one small piece that I did not anticipate but Balzac wraps things up so quickly that we are not allowed to feel the full thrust of the irony.
This is just a high 3-stars for me. I had certainly hoped for more.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 - 955 ratings)
+10 Review
+15 Oldies (pub 1847)
Task Total = 50
Season total = 830
20.2 The Blazing World When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
With the Handmaid's Tale TV series so popular, I'd heard quite a bit about this novel as a Handmaid's Tale-like retelling of The Scarlet Letter, which is actually a very good description of the book, I think. I enjoyed the story and I also enjoyed the references to The Scarlet Letter. Some reviewers have said that the beginning is much stronger than the ending, and that the rapid pace of events toward the end made it less enjoyable and less believable. I think Hillary Jordan's writing is excellent and that carried me through parts that otherwise might have seemed less believable, and I felt okay about the rapid-fire sequence of events towards the end. I definitely did not want to put the book down once I got past the first 15% or so, and to me that signals a good read!
+20 task (discussed in help thread, on this list: https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/...)
+5 combo (10.7)
+10 review
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 325
20.5 The Queen's Necklace The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
I think someone else in this group has said it, but I am so regretful I didn't discover Wilkie Collins until so recently! We read so much Dickens in school; I wish Wilkie Collins got as much love! (But thanks to this group, I did eventually find him). As a mystery fan, it's fun to see the progression of mystery writing from Collins on, and I've thoroughly enjoyed both The Woman in White and this one. In The Moonstone, the story centers on the stolen Indian jewel, the moonstone, which is brought to England and ends up with the family at the center of the story. It's stolen again, and detection and intrigue ensue. The descriptions of the Indians in England to chase the jewel are pretty cringe-worthy but not the worst, and I definitely liked reading some of the narrators better than others, but I found the story and Collins' style engaging. Well worth a read!
+20 task
+20 combo (10.9 - mystery 1771x, historical 84x; 20.4, 20.9, 20.10)
+10 Oldies (pub. 1868)
+5 Jumbo (528 pages)
+10 Review
Task Total: 65
Season Total: 390
20.10 My Comfort ZoneLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
I love Oscar Wilde something fierce...he has been at the top of my favorites list since high school. I haven't revisited his stories in quite a while and this was a fun reminder of his sharp wit and wicked humor. The collection I had included "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" (his crime being a murder which he is told he will commit by someone who read his palm--so he sets out to commit a murder so he can be done with it and get on with his life. It is laugh-out-loud funny and quite cinematic...his skills as a playwright are on full display in this story), "The Canterville Ghost" (the funniest ghost story you will ever read! I was listening to it while cooking dinner and my husband heard it from the front room and couldn't stop laughing...the ghost is absolutely scandalized by and terrified of the American family who has moved into his haunt), "The Sphinx Without a Secret," and "The Model Millionaire" (which were fine, but not nearly as good as the first two--probably because they were considerably shorter). The collection also contained "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Remarkable Rocket," "The Happy Prince," and "The Devoted Friend." All of these are considered fairy tales, but I find them to be so much more. His writing is exquisite and his capacity to understand and convey love, sacrifice, waste, selfishness, and foolishness is unparalleled. 5*
+20 Task (pub. 1891, author born in Ireland)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-novel (short stories)
+5 Combo (20.8)
+10 Oldies
Task total: 55
Season total: 660
Task 15.6 Reading the DecadesYear: 1961
A Severed Head (1961) by Iris Murdoch
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 590 + 25 = 615
10.4The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
+10 task
+10 combo (10.7 - J.D., 20.4)
+5 oldies (1951)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 790
15.8 Reading the DecadesDawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber, Fiction, Classics, Literary by Edna Ferber
+25 Task -- published in '11
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 845
20.4 Night WatchHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Russian edition
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 ; 10.9 - 411 contemporary; 696 mystery)
Task total = 30
Points total = 310
20.5 The Queen's NecklaceAccordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
This book documents the life of a simple green button accordion.
It was made in Sicily in the 1800s and made its way to the U.S. when its owner emigrated. (view spoiler)
The accordion continues its journey around the U.S., making its way to Maine, Chicago, Montana, and Mississippi, where it meets its demise.
I love how the accordion is the perfect instrument to slide in and out of these different immigrant populations: Italian, German, French-Canadian, Polish, Mexican, Creole...I can conjure in my mind exactly the style of music unique to each of these groups that could only be played by an accordion. I love how she uses it to highlight the immigrant story.
It almost seems like the accordion becomes a curse to each person who possesses it, but I think that it has to be that way to keep the story progressing. It may sound like a depressing book from the spoilers; rather, it shows the full spectrum of life: the joy and despair, the triumph and sorrow.
Proulx's writing is incredibly descriptive, the characters she creates are so real it seems she's describing actual acquaintances, and I adore how she injects humor into even the grimmest circumstances. I quite enjoyed this.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+10 Combo (20.3: won Pulitzer in 1994 for The Shipping News; 20.4: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...)
Task total: 40
Season total: 700
10.4 Book RiotThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 20.3 Sanctuary /20.4 Night Watch
+10 Oldies (1904)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1115
20.9 Jumbo (Kate S's Task)Drood by Dan Simmons
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.9 Double Trouble / 20.1 The Double (Wilkie Collins has a doppelgänger) / 20.4 Night Watch / 20.6 Dead Souls
+10 Jumbo (775)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 1165
10.9 Double Trouble (Karen Michele's Task)The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1175
20.7 The Red QueenThe Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
For a Victorian novel, this was an amazingly quick and easy read! Rudolf Rassendyll is the younger son of a British earl. Somewhere in the family history, one of the ladies had a dalliance with a king of Ruritania, leaving a streak of red hair and derring-do which has come out in our Rudolf.
At a loose end, he goes to have a look at Ruritania, where he proves to be the double of the kidnapped king. He takes the king’s place to prevent the king’s dastardly half-brother from grabbing the crown and the king’s fiancee, and I can’t tell more of the story without spoilers. But you can probably guess who wins. Even so, it’s a lot of fun to read!
+20 task: important characters include a king, a duke, and a princess
+10 combo (20.1 a story of mistaken identity, 20.10)
+10 review
+10 oldies (1894)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 1410
20.7 The Red QueenThe Henchmen of Zenda by K.J. Charles
This is a retelling of The Prisoner of Zenda from the point of view of one of the hired henchmen of the dastardly duke who imprisons the king of Ruritania. The king is then impersonated by an Englishman who is the king's double. So, like the original, it fits tasks 20.1 and 20.7.
Jasper Detchard is an adventurer hired by a shady Ruritanian duke who plans to overthrow his brother the king and take the throne for himself. But while Detchard swears fealty to the duke, his real allegiance lies elsewhere.
I read The Prisoner of Zenda and then this in one day--they're both light and fun reads. It was worth reading the original first, I think. You appreciate how clever K.J. Charles has been in turning the old story on its head. But fans of K.J. Charles will enjoy this one without reading Hope's classic too.
+20 task: important characters include a king, a duke, and a princess
+15 combo (10.5, 10.7, 20.1 a story of mistaken identity)
+10 review
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 1455
From Post 638Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.9 Jumbo
Ordeal of the Union, Vol 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-52 by Allan Nevins pub. 1947, 593 pages, 24 ratings.
+20 Task
+10 Not a novel
+5 Oldies
+5 Com..."
+5 Jumbo
From Post 623Karin wrote: "20.6 Dead Souls (Note post 581 has been corrected)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
(Shakespeare)
Review
Sebastian and Viola are separated during a storm at sea, and w..."
+5 Combo 20.8
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