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20.5Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
Born 1948
Eh. There are some good nuggets in this book, but overall-eh. There’s a lot of wading through drama-stories and god-stuff, and the good nuggets get tossed in here and there. But for a newbie, the conversational tone and all the “do you see yourself in this” stories are probably good.
There are some parts I highlighted with my “lol no” red. Let go and let god is NEVER going to work for me, like eeeverrrrrr, even the “god-as-you-experience-it” or whatever.
And the chapter on communication made me laugh a little and wonder if my neurodiversity is what saved me from being more like my mother. With the “training” I got, I really should have been way worse, but I cannot be fake or indirect in my communication. When I see a red flag, I get the heeeellll away. I was always great with boundaries (outside my immediate fam) maybe because I did not really get non-fam’s NT style manipulations? Someone says “No, I’m Fiiiine” and ok, they’re fine.
Also? The author clearly is not ADHD in the slightest because the chapter on goals had me twitching. FOREVER TO-DO LIST FOR LIFE? No thank you…. Part of being kind to myself is forgetting I even read that anxiety provoking chapter.
For me this had some good bits but it really lacked in how to implement those good bits in a way I found helpful.
+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.3 - 4.12 at post)
+10 review
+10 not a novel
Task total = 45
Season total = 250
20.3 RatingsHumble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
20 pts 20.3 Ratings
5 pts 10.3 Back to School
10 pts Review
10 pts Not a Novel
All sorts of things can go wrong when math is misused, not checked or mistakes are made. Matt Parker describes a variety ofevents from humorous to disastrous that can be attributed to bad math. He has a great sense of humor and an ability to explain thar makes this an entertaining book. Unfortunately it is a little too long.
Several clever math inside jokes are used that are based on the stories toldin the book. The oddest is the pagination that counts down from 314 on what would be pg 1 to 0 at the end of the book (or almost). See chapter 1 for an explanation.
Total task: 45 pts
Total Season: 180 pts.
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15.7 - Counting on AuthorsExposed by Kristen Callihan
+15 task (15 letters)
Task total: 15 points
Season total: 15 points
15.3 - Counting on AuthorsLord of Chance by Erica Ridley
+15 task (11 letters)
Task total: 15 points
Season total: 30 points
15.1 - Counting on AuthorsConspirator by C.J. Cherryh
+15 task (9 letters)
Task total: 15 points
Season total: 45 points
15.4 - Counting on AuthorsAtlas of Poetic Botany by Francis Hallé
12 letters
+15 Task
+5 Not-A-Novel (Non-fiction)
Task total = 20
Season total = 165
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15.9 Counting on AuthorsThe Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
+15 Task (19 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 640
20.7 Exophonic A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo.
Previous Points: 125
Task Points: 20
Challenge Total: 145
20.9 Anniversary. Characters drink champagne.Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh. From Chapter 3 (Project Gutenberg):
"No one was quite soberwhen he left the dining-room; no one was quite drunk except Chatty Corner. This man of the wilds, despite his episcopal origin, succumbed to the advance of civilization, was led away and never seen again. Had he been competing for prestige, as Apthorpe thought he was, this would have been an hour of triumph for Guy. Instead the whole evening was one simple sublime delight.
In the ante-room there was an impromptu concert. Major Tickeridge gave an innocently obscene performance called 'The One-Armed Flautist', an old favourite in the Corps, new to Guy, a vast success with all. The silver goblets, which normally held beer, began to circulate brimming with champagne. Guy found himself talking religion with the chaplain."
Previous Points: 145
Task Points: 20
Style Points: 10.3 According to the Wiki page, Waugh “worked briefly as a schoolmaster” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_... and 10.7 = 10 Pts.
Challenge Total: 175
15.1 CoA, 9 lettersI'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
+15 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 25
Season total: 345
Post 190 Coralie wrote: "10.3 Service1636: The Ottoman Onslaught by Eric Flint
+10 Task
+10 Combo 20.3 rating 4.21, 20.5 born 1947
+ 5 Jumbo 592 pages
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 330"
I think you meant 10.7 Service for this and we'll score it there.
15.2 Counting on AuthorsThe Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1) by Helen Hoang
+15 Task (10 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 655
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 190 Coralie wrote: "10.3 Service1636: The Ottoman Onslaught by Eric Flint
+10 Task
+10 Combo 20.3 rating 4.21, 20.5 born 1947
+ 5 Jumbo 592 pages
Task Total:..."
Yes, that is what I meant.
20.5 BoomerThe Privilege of Peace by Tanya Huff
+20 Task born 1957
+10 Combo 10.7 MC is ex-marine, 20.3 rating 4.23
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 360
15.10 Counting on AuthorsBorderline by Janette Turner Hospital
+15 Task (21 letters)
+100 Completion
+50 All Female
Post Total: 165
Season Total: 820
20.2 Anti-heroThe Stranger. Albert Camus
#45 on The Best Antiheroes list
4.0 stars - I'm surprised I never read this book before, and I'm sure I will read it again. It seems like a book that you get more from each time you pick it up. Mersault was a very difficult character for me to relate to, he showed no emotion even when his mother died, and seemed very detached from the world. Mersault lives only in the present moment, and lacks empathy for others. In part, this leads to the jury being so bothered by his lack of remorse that he is given a death sentence. Mersault is a stranger, to himself and others, seeming to lack a basic level of humanity.
+20 - task
+10 - Review
+15 - combo (10.5, 10.6 (11/7/1913), 10.8 - Algeria)
+10 - 1001 list
Total task: 55
Total Season: 125 pts.
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20.1 SerialDune Messiah by Frank Herbert
It has been twenty five or so years since I last read this book. My Dad had the three in paperback, Dune, Messiah, Children. I loved Dune, kind of pushed though Messiah not really getting it, and was fascinated by Children.
The book makes much more sense in middle age - the theme of being swept away by the world moving around you seemed like a basic heroic "fate" in the first book, but here it has the echoes of disillusionment that I certainly didn't catch then, realizing that you are not the young hotshot and having to find a way to move on to a different phase of your life, with so much less clarity than that a young person often brings. Couched in other terms, of course, suited to a god-like Emperor.
I don't recall the politics making this much sense back then either. My understanding of impressions and images and people's motivations has evolved, and also my enjoyment in reading them. The storyt was a well done struggle, ending with some points of satisfaction, although also things that have gone badly. It will never be a favorite but I appreciate it more now and think it is more satisfying all together than it must have been spaced out when published serially.
+20 task
+10 review
+15 combo (10.7, 10.6, 10.5)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 300
Task 10.2 HalloweenIn honor of Halloween, read a book with a "death" word in the title.
“death word”: MURDER
For 10.3 Back to School Combo:
Goodreads biography says: has taught numerous courses at university and adult continuing education facilities including: general fiction, historical research, and mystery writing.
For 20.5 Boomer Combo:
G. A McKevett is pseudonym for Sonja Massie
===OK so goodreads won't allow me to put a link to an outside website that shows her birthday. If you were to do a google search on:
born sonja massie
The result would be:
Born: April 15, 1952
Hope that's enough to prove "boomer" birthday
Murder à la Mode (A Savannah Reid Mystery #10) (2005) by G.A. McKevett (female) (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 266 pages)
Review:This is #10 of the Savannah Reid Mystery Series. This year (2021) saw the publication of #26 of the series. I’ve been reading them out of order and have no difficulty with following the ongoing relationships between the recurring characters – Savannah’s romantic life, Savannah’s relationship with her grandma and Savannah’s relationship with her siblings. This installment has Savannah, a private detective in Southern California, take a vacation. Her friends have arranged for her to be on a reality TV show very similar to “The Bachelor”, wherein she will be one of several women competing to win a vacation with a handsome, eligible bachelor. Murder occurs, and Savannah is on the scene to figure out whodunit. I enjoy Savannah as a character – she’s unapologetically Southern, and unapologetically a plus-sized middle-aged woman. She has a strong moral compass, an appealing sense of humor, and a ton of common sense, all of which aids her in solving mysteries. Recommended for readers of light-hearted mysteries.
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.3 Back to School, #20.5 Boomer)
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 210 + 30 = 240
10.6 BirthdayAmericana by Don DeLillo (born Nov. 20, 1936)
I was expecting more of a road trip travelogue, but much of this was flashbacks. Lots of sex (not sexy sex), lots of male posturing, lots of the 1960s/70s attitude towards women, LGBT, Black people, etc.
It's well-written and has depth. The characters are well-rounded and interestingly flawed. The structure is complex and well done. I have no real complaints with DeLillo's style or execution. I just didn't find this very interesting and didn't take much away from it.
There's discussion of media, and the commercialization of the American dream. All this would have been very interesting back when this was published, but it has become less novel with age.
If you love DeLillo and his style, you should of course read this! Otherwise, might be one to skip.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo 20.9 (From page 187: “Amy was drinking the champagne punch. Nobody seemed drunk yet.”)
Post total: 25
Season total: 175
Claimed to date:
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20.5 BoomerNot Dead Yet: The Memoir by Phil Collins
I hate grocery shopping with my husband. Why? Because the second we enter the store he begins his Phil Collins Rant: "I don't care how quick we make this trip, I know I'm going to hear Phil Collins. Phil Collins is the voice of shopping. He is ubiquitous, I don't care what store it is--convenience store, grocery, sporting goods--I know I'm gonna hear Collins and I HATE PHIL COLLINS." You get the gist. I always roll my eyes a little at him...and then "You'll Be in My Heart" or "Sussudio" starts playing and I have to admit he's right.
I, however, do not hate Phil Collins. I grew up in the '80s and remember long hours, waiting by my boombox with the radio playing waiting to hear (and record...oh the messy cassettes I made) "Take a Look at Me Now," "In the Air Tonight," or "Separate Lives." Years later when I started listening to This American Life, the episode where he helps Starlee Kine write a torch song became a favorite to which I've listened tens of times. He seems like a nice guy. He seems down to earth.
Listening to this book, narrated by the author, reinforces that idea...but also reveals that he is a fallible, messy mess. So: he's human, just like the rest of us.
I enjoyed hearing his stories of the music industry, of how he totally fan-boy-ed out when he met George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, and Robert Plant (to name only a few of the many people he ended up working with).
+20 Task (born 1951)
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-Novel
+15 Combo: 10.2, "Dead"; 20.3, 4.04 average rating; 20.9 "We get on the plane. 'Glass of champagne, Monsieur Collins?' 'Yeah, all right.'"
Task total: 55
Season total: 400
10.6 BirthdayLa Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
low lexile, no styles
10 task
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10
Running total: 190
20.3 RatingsNighthawk's Wing by Charles Fergus
20 pts 20.3 Ratings
10 pts Review
Second installment of a mystery series set in 1830s Pennsylvania. It is hard to remember that at this time western Pennsylvania was the frontier. Gideon Stoltz is a young sheriff who must solve a gruesome murder within a community that seens to be hokdi g secrets. The culture if the period is interestingly described and the mystery is constructed to make it difficult to figure out who the guilty person is. Tensions between the Pennsylvania Dutch and English settlers underlie the interpersonal relationships and the challenges of living in a society where medical expertise is limited are highlighted in the relationship between Gideon and his wife. This is a compelling series that I recommend
Total task: 30 pts
Total Season: 210 pts.
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10.1 TBRA Shelter of Others by Charles Dodd White
"Lavada rose to the iron dark and stepped barefoot across the cabin floor, paused and placed her hand to the door to test the wind's new ache, to know it as her own. Touch told her she would need Mason's coat. It hung on a tail next to the mantel. She took it in her hands and slipped her thin arms through the sleeves, wore the wight of her man for a moment before she drew on his blistered boots and stepped into another day that lacked him."
I read this first paragraph of the book three times before moving on. Charles Dodd White tells us so much about Lavada Laws and her situation in one lyrical paragraph. The next 216 pages were written just as beautifully.
Mason Laws has been released from two years in prison for a drug conviction. His father, Sam, has been cared for by Lavada during Mason's time away from his North Carolina home. Sam is suffering from dementia, and thinks of Lavada as his daughter. Lavada feels close to Sam, although he is a challenge, escaping into the wilderness when his mind shows the greatest loss of mental acuity.
Mason needs to be on his own for a while after his prison term is finished. He camps out in the woods in a tiny cabin until he falls into a job at a run-down convenience store. Mason is a complicated character, emotionally hurt by a motherless childhood, but capable of showing tenderness to an old dog and compassion to a crippled elderly man.
A deputy in the sheriff's office, Cody Gibbs, served in the war in Iraq. He enjoys inflicting pain, and is more damaged than most of the criminals he pursues. His cruel actions have a domino effect, setting off a chain of actions by unstable or emotionally hurt people, and intensified by the treacherous conditions in the wilderness.
I love the title of this novel, "A Shelter of Others." The novel includes characters who missed the childhood feeling of home and developed haunting psychological issues. There are also instances where caring people created their own family with those who were not their blood relatives, sheltering them with their love.
One could find a quotable sentence on almost every page of this novel. Readers of literary fiction or Southern noir are sure to enjoy the poetic writing of Charles Dodd White.
+10 task (added to TBR in 2014)
+20 combo 10.3 Back to School (Associate Professor of English); 10.7 Service (Cody Gibbs was a soldier in Iraq); 20.3 Ratings (4.29); 20.4 Non-Linear (flashbacks to childhoods, etc)
+10 review
Task total: 40
Season total: 315
20.5 BoomerFlaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
I went into this not expecting it to be literally about Gustave Flaubert and a parrot, but it is. Or anyway it's about Flaubert, and there is a parrot - in fact, several. The narrator of this novel, the widowed doctor Geoffrey Braithwaite, is investigating the life of Flaubert, and so we have a kind of literary biography at second hand.
I did enjoy most of this but wasn't wowed by it as I see some of my friends were. I found it hard to care about Braithwaite, and it didn’t awaken in me any pressing wish to read or reread Flaubert’s work - but I did often wish I was rereading Pale Fire instead, especially as Barnes frequently mentions Nabokov. 3 stars.
20.4 Non-linear: jumps back and forth in the events of Flaubert's life, and also Braithwaite's, about 100 years later.
20.6 Awarded: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize & Metų verstinė knyga
+20 Task (1946)
+15 Combo (10.8 France, 20.4, 20.6)
+10 Review
+10 1001 Books
Task Total: 55
Season Total: 245
10.3 Back to SchoolThe Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Peter Singer. 9.22.21
4.0 stars - I first interacted with this author when I was an academic librarian, and an article he had written (years ago) was featured in our institutional repository. I tweeted it, and to my surprise, he saw and retweeted it. Hundreds of people saw and downloaded that article that day. When I spoke to him about it, I found him to be a generous and gracious person. It's no surprise to me that this book was available as a free download, and that the subject matter was helping others.
+10 - task
+10 - Review
+10 - combo (20.2, 20.5 - 7.6.1946)
+10 - Not a novel
+10 - 1001 list
Total task: 50
Total Season: 175 pts.
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From Post 180Tien wrote: "10.8 Mediterranean (Coralie's Task)
Champagne: A secret history by Robert Walters
100% in France
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.9 - "After his compulsory year in the army, he compl..."
+10 Not-a-Novel
From Post 182Beth wrote: "20.4 no n-linear
The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager
This was a really interesting riff on Hansel and Gretel with many interconnections between sto..."
+5 Combo 10.3
From Post 183Kristina Simon wrote: "20.7 - Exophonic
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.5 - Classics, 3,183 users)
+10 not a novel (play)
Task total: 35
Season total: 150"
+5 Combo 20.2
20.5 BoomerWhispers Under Ground (Rivers of London #3) by Ben Aaronovitch
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3 - avg. 4.15)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 855
10.6 BirthdayLa Tendresse Des Crocodiles by Fred Bernard
Born Sept 1, 1969
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 175
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10.2 HalloweenDeath at La Fenice by Donna Leon
I now have another series to add to my spreadsheet of series. This was a great start to the Commissario Brunetti series. I enjoyed everything about it. The mystery was complex and interesting. The characters were well drawn, and it seems that the continuing characters have the potential to become more interesting over the course of the series. This instalment was about a murder of the Conductor at La Fenice, during the run of an opera. So, of course there was a great deal of music mentioned and musicians and singers involved in the mystery. The most fun part was the setting – Venice. I think you could enjoy this series even if you haven’t been to Venice; but Leon writes of it with an insiders knowledge, so if you have been there you gain even more enjoyment. 4*
10 task
10 review
15 combo 10.3, 10.8, 20.10
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35
Running total: 240
Post 227 Kim wrote: "10.3 Back to SchoolThe Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Peter Singer. 9.22.21
4.0 stars - I first interacted with this author when I was an acade..."
I think you meant the combo for 20.3, not 20.2.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 227 Kim wrote: "10.3 Back to SchoolThe Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Peter Singer. 9.22.21
4.0 stars - I first interacted with this autho..."
Lol- yes, I believe you're right
15.7 Counting on AuthorsThe Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
+15 Task (15 letters)
Challenge total: 115
20.8 - Gothic (Denise's Task)The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
🍁 p. 1 of all 3 lists 🍁
+20 Task
+15 Combo [10.5; 20.1; 20.3]
+10 1001
Task total: 45
Season total: 215
20.3 RatingsThe 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Low Lexile
+20 Task rating 4.02
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 380
10.3 Back to School Long Bright River by Liz Moore
This was an interesting read! It was a well-written, contemplative mystery - heavier on the contemplation than the mystery. Mickey, a Philly cop, is on the job but also worried about her sister, who is an on-again off-again drug user on the same streets Mickey patrols. Meanwhile, girls like Mickey's sister are turning up dead. So there is definitely a mystery aspect, but a lot of it is around the relationships Mickey has and the ways that her personal history shapes her present beliefs. As a side note, I also enjoyed the way her role as a single mother played into the story - unlike a lot of mystery novels where the crime-solver's family life seems to just be on hold for the duration of the mystery, Mickey's childcare struggles were ever-present -- in a way that made the book feel different, fresh, and real.
+10 task (her GR bio describes her as teaching at Temple Univ.)
+10 combo (20.3 - rating 4.06, 20.4 - moves between past and present throughout book)
+10 review
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 30
20.8 Gothic (Denise's Task)The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5; 10.6)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 885
20.5 BoomerThe Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
I was eagerly awaiting the release of #17 in this series - I didn't get into Louise Penny until the last few years, so I never had to wait before, I could just plow through the first 16! So it was pretty exciting to await the new release. I typically listen to these as audiobooks and just love being immersed into the world of Three Pines - despite all the murders, seems like a wonderful place to be! In this installment, COVID has come to the village, and is now in the past - but very much impacts the events of the book. A statistics professor is in the line of fire due to her extreme views, and these views are personal to everyone, perhaps especially Gamache's team. I enjoyed the mystery but also really enjoyed hearing about how the villagers made it through COVID - obviously Penny wrote this when it seemed like COVID was going away (sigh) so the reality now diverges from the story, but it almost felt like seeing old friends again after quarantine to have the villagers emerging from their houses. I don't want to say too much about the mystery because it really will spoil it, but it was well worth reading.
+20 task (author born in 1958)
+5 combo (20.3 - avg rating 4.44)
+10 review
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 65
10.3 Back to SchoolThe Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
music teacher as per GR profile
Review
The lesson I learnt is that NOT to rely on the 'genres' as noted on book page... Because it sets certain expectations which I fear this book did not meet in the crime & horror side of things. The book description notes that it its "Part boys' own adventure story, part small-town comedy and part horrifying thriller,..." in which I totally agree with the first 2 but that last, I completely disagree with.
Set in a small town called Klynham in New Zealand, The Scarecrow is told from the point of view of a teenage boy, Edward [Neddy] Poindexter, as he wrote of this dark history of his town. It features a horrific murder which in turn haunted his family. The main bulk of the novel, however, is truly about his life & his family which were fascinating in its own way.
I struggled get into this story mainly because I struggled with the language and also, I was a little bit weirded out with this lifestyle and perhaps, how these boys think and talk. But I got used to the language and I really had to acknowledge my own very sheltered and citified life so who am I to say that this wasn't the way it was in a small town in New Zealand or somewhere just as remote?
While the characters were rather dynamic, I guess I was just disappointed that the crime/horror (which were my main interest point) were not prominent enough. The rating in this case in merely a my disappointment over unmet expectations. There were funny bits though which got me laughing out loud so I really had to give it some good points!
+10 Task
+10 Review
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 905
20.5 BoomerSouth of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
+20 Task
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 925
20.5 Boomer"What's Your Favorite Song?": The Life, Family and Music of George and Emma Kelly by G. Ross Kelly
+20 pts - author born April 26, 1946 at location 437 in Kindle book
+10 pts - Combo (10.7- USAF location 1456, 20.3)
+10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total - 40 pts
15.6 - Counting on AuthorsH is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
14 letters
+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel (non-fiction)
Task total = 20
Season total = 195
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20.3 RatingsThe Night in Question by Tobias Wolff
+20 Task (4.18 rating)
+15 Combo (10.3-in GR bio, 10.7-approved in msg.18 in task help thread, 20.9 "He had a theatrical conception of the event, which seemed to include the two of them toasting him with champagne while he did whatever he meant to do."
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total=45
Season total=120
20.3 RatingsDie, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen
+20 Task - Rated 4.02
Graphic Novel = no styles
Grand Total: 100 pts
20.7 ExophonicInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
20 pts 20.7 Exophonic
5 pts 20.9 Anniversary p. 153. Sunil, an anesthesiologist, walked in, spooning food from his paper plate into his mouth. “ Do you have any more champagne?”
5 pts 20.6 Awarded
5 pts 20.3 Ratings
5 pts 10.3 Backto school
10 pts Review
10 pts Not a Novel. Short stories
Excellent collection of short stories setinthe United States and India. All of the main characters are Indian or Indian Americans and are tryingto findwhere they fit in their own relationships and within society as a whole. Very insightful descriptions of situations that reqired a change of perspective or reaching beyond the known. My favorite was the last story “The Third and Final Continent” in which a man makes a series of decisions about his life and making it the bestit can be. It is a love story of a sort but also a story of self discovery.
Total task: 60 pts
Total Season: 270 pts.
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+20 Task
+10 Combo: 20.5 Boomer / 20.9 Anniversary (p85 ...All night! Days even! The food and the champagne.)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 335