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10.3 Back to SchoolThe Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth (see his bio for educator info)
I enjoyed this well enough, but my expectations were high after reading Sacred Hunger by this author, and they were not met at all. I didn't have the sense of immersion in the story and the characters' lives that I did with Sacred Hunger.
Also, while the moral issues were just as much of an interesting thicket here, they just weren't faced as squarely and faithfully as in Sacred Hunger. It felt like we just scratched at the surface of the interplay between justice and mercy.
I did enjoy the comparison between Erasmus and Ashton, and the ways that they are similarly self-centered and non-humanist, despite one being a ruthless businessperson and the other a vocal abolitionist. I wanted more from Jane, the only one who sees through these two, and wanted better for her in the end.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Post total: 20
Season total: 320
Claimed to date:
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20.3 RatingsMr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Barrington Walker is a septuagenarian husband, father, and grandfather, born and bred in Antigua but living in London since his twenties. He's made money in property development, he's a heavy drinker with a positive attitude, and he knows his own mind and speaks it frequently. He's also gay, in a lifelong secret relationship with his best friend. But his charmed life is about to implode.
Barry is a cheeky character who can be charming and annoying at the same time. His blithe arrogance is wonderful to read, although I could completely understand how his wife Carmel and older daughter felt murderous at times. As well as his point of view, we have Carmel's inserted in a series of chapters going back to when they first met. This provides some much-needed balance because Barry treats her like a piece of the furniture most of the time. Evaristo was right not to let him have his own way for the whole narrative!
Non-linear: Barry's narrative is chronological in the present (2010-11), but Carmel's chapters take us back to 1960 and then every 10 years from there.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.4, 20.5)
+10 Review
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 500
Kate S wrote: "Anika wrote: "*My point tally is different from what is on the updated readerboard...according to my records I'm at 470 through post 300 while the readerboard reflects 460 through post 300...I can'..."THANK YOU! That's exactly it. I won't make that same mistake for my future posts, promise :-) Sorry about that!
Kim wrote: "Kate S wrote: "From Post 2274.0 stars - I first interacted with this..."
I'm having issues searching the list, they all come up. Sorry."
You can sort the group bookshelf by either title or author to check your specific book. See also spreadsheet linked in the description of the GR listopia. You can download the sheet and sort in any way you wish.
10.7 ServiceLady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko
After reading The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, I'd been curious to read other accounts of female soldiers in the Red Army...finally, three years later, I found a book to fill that desire.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko's memoir was at times nail-biting and fascinating--war stories from the unique perspective of a sniper; recounting her time in the U.S., Canada, and Britain and meeting the Roosevelts, Churchills, and Stalin--but in almost equal measure boring--the specific ballistics of each gun, the names of each member of the army hierarchy, and geographical details that mean nothing without pictures or a map to elucidate.
It is very interesting to hear this war story told by such a unique perspective: a woman, a member of the Communist Party, a Russian (she never referred to "World War Two": it was always "the Great War for the Fatherland" which highlighted the fact that their losses and their experience of the war was SOOOO different from the historical perspective with which I'm most familiar).
+10 Task
+10 Review
+10 Not-a-Novel
+15 Combo: 10.2: "Death"; 10.9: "Lady" Margaret Hall; 20.3: 4.18 average rating
Task total: 45
Season total: 525
10.6 Birthday (Tien's Task)The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
🍁 born 6 October 1976 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ewan) 🍁
+10 task
+ 5 combo (20.9 - "A flute of post-take-off champagne helped thaw her out..." ~ p. 10)
Task total: 15
Season total: 330
10.10 Group ReadsOld Filth by Jane Gardam
This is a very satisfying novel. It really can left as that!
Thanks to Elizabeth for bringing it to my (our) attention. Because of that I happened to notice in a 2nd hand bookstore this book and the sequel and, of course, bought!
Old Filth is not a particularly likeable character, but he is interesting and as the story passes you understand him better and warm to him (like his housekeeper does). The novel describes a group of people I knew nothing about (or even imagined) – ‘the Raj’s Orphans’. Reading a novel about them added a lot to my ‘reading life’ where I’ve read a fair amount of colonial/post-colonial novels. I can’t wait to move on to #2 in the trilogy! 4*
10 task
10 review
10 combo 20.4, 20.9*
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30
*pg 174: 'And bottoms up,' said Muriel, with the champagne. 'Here's to all of us'.
Running total: 315
20.1 SeriallyThank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.5, 10.6 - Oct 15, 20.3-4.16 stars)
+10 pts - 1001 books
Task Total - 45 pts
20.6 AwardedThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo - (10.3 - Harvard on GRbio, 20.4 - back and forth through generations, 20.5 - 1958)
+10 - Non novel
+10 - Jumbo - (798 pages)
Task total - 55 pts
10.7 ServiceHere, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander Vindman
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (20.3 -4.57 stars, 10.4 - goes back at different points of his story to his childhood or his parents’ childhoods)
+10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total - 30 pts
10.4 Truth and ReconciliationBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
"Braiding Sweetgrass" is a remarkable book that melds indigenous wisdom with modern science. Author Robin Wall Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology in upstate New York, and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She starts her book with the Skywoman story of Creation with its message that we need to respect the earth, offer gratitude, and remember than future generations will inherit it.
Another indigenous story is that of the Three Sisters--corn, beans, and pumpkins--that provide the proper nutrients and sunlight that is needed when the three are planted together. The beans wind around the corn's strong stem while the pumpkin or squash vines travel over the ground, sheltering the soil, keeping the moisture in, and reducing the weeds. Rhizobium bacteria, housed in the bean roots, take nitrogen from the air and convert it to nitrogen fertilizer for the three plants. This is just one example of reciprocity in nature. Reciprocity and restoration of damaged land by humans is told in additional stories such as intelligent planting to restore clearcut land.
The book also emphasizes the Honorable Harvest, taking less than half of what you find in the wilderness, and leaving the rest to reproduce during the following year. We are warned away from the Windigo of greed, overconsumption, and pollution.
Kimmerer feels a strong bond with her ancestors. Her grandfather, Asa Wall, was sent to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. The school separated the indigenous children from their parents for years, cut off their braids, and punished them if they spoke in their native language. The author is taking lessons to learn the Potawatomi language, attends indigenous ceremonies, participates in workshops to learn native crafts such as basket weaving, and passes down indigenous wisdom to her daughters and students.
Kimmerer writes thoughtfully with beautiful lyrical prose as she looks at nature through the eyes of a botanist, an ecologist, and an indigenous person with a strong love of the land. Gratitude, reciprocity, and restoration are necessary to renew the earth.
+10 task (author is Potawatomi)
+25 combo 10.3 Back to School (Professor); 10.10 Group Read; 20.3 Ratings (4.56); 20.5 Boomer (born 1953); 20.6 Awarded (2 Awards)
+10 not a novel
+10 review
Task total: 55
Season total: 400
20.4 Non-linearThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
While it's mostly cronological, some parts are starting in the present, and then it goes back to the events that took place a few days before
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 - St Stephen’s house ; 20.3 - 4.48)
Task total = 30
Season total = 265
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15.3 11 lettersFuneral Diva by Pamela Sneed
+15 task
+5 not a novel (memoir/poetry)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 415
20.9 Anniversary Death in D Minor by Alexia Gordon
20 pts 20.9 Anniversary p. 88 The diamond sparkled against her crystal champagne flute.
5 pts 20.10 Musical Mystery
5 pts 10.2 Halloween
10 pts Review
Another installment in the Getsemene Brown mystery series. These are fun mysteries set in Ireland. Gethsemane is an African American classical musician who has found herself in a small Irish town where murder and crown abound. The premise is a bit unusual and there are enough red herrings to make the story interesting. But it still was not thar difficult to almost figure out the culprit or at least one of them. Light read and enjoyable.
Total task: 40 pts
Total Season: 380 pts.
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Task 20.9 Anniversary (Kate S's Task)Read a book in which the characters drink a glass of champagne. Please post a quote in the completed task thread when claiming this task.
p. 53: “’Perfect,’ she said, and poured the champagne slowly into the waiting glasses. ‘To us,’ Myra said, handing me a glass and clinking hers against mine. ‘To us,’ I said. I took a careful sip.”
Why Can't I Be You (2013) by Allison Larkin (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 297 pages)
Review: This novel is advertised as a chick-lit rom-com. The premise certainly fits: a 30 year old woman, Jenny, hours after being dumped by her long term boyfriend (she had expected a proposal of marriage not a breakup), is mistaken for a woman named Jessie. Rather than say, “no, I’m Jenny”, she decides to assume the identity of Jessie. I expected a fluffy novel full of hijinks, mistaken identity, and a hot romance. Nope. Instead, the author is focused on Jenny’s emotionally wrenching backstory, and on Jenny’s journey from pretending to be “Jessie” to making real and lasting changes in her own “Jenny” life. This journey is described rather well and is more believable than in most novels of this type. However, why market this as a fluffy rom-com? It would succeed as a mostly serious contemporary novel. Recommended as a serious novel read.
+20 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 320 + 30 = 350
I would like to change the book I posted for Task 15.7 in Post 343, if that is allowed.Corrected post:
15.7 Counting on Authors
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship by Charles Bukowski
+15 Task (15 letters)
+ 5 Not-a-novel (journal entries)
Increase Season total +5 to 180
20.4 Non-linearBreathe by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 Task (skips around from the present to the past, and to the future before it even happens)
+ 5 Combo (10.3-in GR bio)
Task total=25
Season total=205
(I previously had this title posted to 15.7 in Post 343)
20.5 BoomerOne Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
+20 Task (born 1950)
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.7 Both brothers serve in WWII, 20.3 4.05)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Points this post: 45
RwS total: 100
CoA total: -
Season Total: 100
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10.4 - author is CherokeeRobopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Robopocalypse is not at all what I was expecting out of a ‘robot uprising’ story. It starts off as Five Nights at Freddy’s and ends up as The Terminator. Craziness. But I really do like the ‘you made your bed, now lie in it’ aspect – it’s one that people often miss in crazy AI stories, even though it’s pretty low hanging fruit. I mean, it’s the entire plot of Age of Ultron – Man creates Machine to protect it, Machine realizes Man is its’ own worst enemy, Machine attempts to destroy Man. But Robopocolypse is a chronicle of *how* we went from *one* hyperintelligent self-aware AI who realized that Man had possibly created his own destruction to the end of the New War, as they called it. Very smart, well written modern sci-fi.
+10 task
+10 review
+10 combo (10.7 - it's the chronicle of a WAR, there are multiple military characters, 20.4 - it starts at the end of the war, then jumps back to *before* the war started)
Task total: 30
Season total: 250
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20.5 BoomerThe White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 by Mark Thompson
I had problems with this, but so did the author, I think. My problems mostly related to the fact that the Italians in charge were names unfamiliar to me. It took some time for me to mostly recognize them. I say mostly, because I think I never did quite figure them all out and their status in the government. Also, the included maps were somewhat blurry on my old Kindle and they didn't display an area of Italy with which I was familiar. A Google search put things right for me. Finally, this is textbook nonfiction rather than creative nonfiction. I suppose that fits the material presented, but I would have appreciated a more narrative style.
Ok, enough of *my* problems. I don't know why the author seemed to have such problems. The text is poorly organized for one thing. It opens with the unification of Italy in 1866 for background. I was glad of this for it gave me some perspective. Italy had actually been a country for fewer than 50 years when WWI broke out. So why oh why did the author choose the Appendix in which to give more detail and clarity regarding the 1866 unification? Italy entered the war against Austria-Hungary *because* of the agreements post-unification, information which, in my opinion, was more valuable at the beginning rather than the end.
As if the 1866 at both the beginning and the end weren't enough disorganization, the individual chapters themselves mostly failed in linearality. Oh, yes, one chapter follows neatly from the previous, that I'll give him. But within each the chapter time was scattered. It might start in 1916, but 'oh wait a minute, I need to tell you that which I forgot to say about 1915'. Sometimes the author would actually come out and say, "but more about that in a later chapter." This disjointedness made for hard reading.
Complaints aside, I learned things, which was the object of my reading this title. My consult to Google about maps had me notice that Italy is more than a boot with Sicily at its toe. Ignoring the boot, Italy looks more like a stalk of cauliflower or broccoli. No, the author didn't say that, it's just my observation. The war takes place up in the head of the cauliflower. This area was (and still is?) multi-ethnic. The Italians wanted to recover that which they thought lost in 1866. This was the reason for joining the Allies and making war against Austria-Hungary and Germany with whom they had had an alliance pre-war. Italy had an ax to grind and the war on the western front gave them an excuse. Of course, the Allies were happy that Austria-Hungary would have to prosecute a war on multiple fronts.
This was the only title I had come across that deals with this aspect of WWI. Thompson, almost in passing, mentions other titles and authors I now want to explore. For this alone, The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 was worth the time sink. The more I learn and explore about this war is valuable to me. Unfortunately, this title is worth just 3-stars, and I might even be being slightly generous at that.
+20 Task (1959)
+10 Review
+20 Combo (10.3, 10.7, 10.8, 20.4)
+10 Not a Novel
Task total = 60
Season total = 175
10.10Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
I have been listening to a video course on Mesoamerican history lately, so it was pretty cool to identify some of the cultural flavor used in the worldbuilding for this fantasy. It definitely feels like a rich world that makes sense and needs no background knowledge other than what is provided. Prejudices, sense of hierarchy, etc are referenced effectively without painful explanation.
The author's writing is solid and compelling, and I am interested in the fates of all of the four main characters - the Crow clan prince/guard, the Sun Priest(ess), the sailor (mermaid), and the embodied Crow god, called to possess a mortal form by sacrifice.
The narrative switched back and forth in point of view, like such books often do, and even with the chapter breaks and date reminders, I found it a bit more jarring than I sometimes do. But it was still a very effective way to tell the story.
I will likely read the next book in the trilogy.
+10 Task
+20 Combo: 10.4 Truth and Reconciliation / 20.3 Ratings / 20.4 Non-linear / 20.6 ALA Alex Award (2021), Ignyte Award for Best Adult Novel (2021)
+10 review
Task total: 40
Grand total: 455
10.9 OxfordBrave New World by Aldous Huxley (Target word: New)
Missed this one in high school somehow...
This is a problematic text (especially the stereotypes of indigenous people) and dystopia isn't really my thing. I'm also not sure why it's such an important read for high schoolers -- I think 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 are better choices for that.
BUT I quite enjoyed this. The imperfections of the main characters (Bernard, John, Lenina) as they wrestle with the constraints of society and with their own conditioning. The subtle stirrings of Lenina and the way that Bernard is suddenly content with society when he feels like less of a misfit are especially interesting.
I didn't dig deep into cultural references (I'm not reading for school, woohoo!) but I very much enjoyed the Shakespeare, and the semi-culminating philosophical conversation John has with Mustapha Mond.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+10 1001 Books
+5 Combo 10.5 Classics (shelved 20,632 times)
Post total: 35
Season total: 355
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20.3 RatingsSaga, Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan
Graphic novel, no styles
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 520
20.3 RatingsSaga, Vol. 6 by Brian K. Vaughan
Graphic novel, no styles
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 540
20.4 - Non-linearPeople We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
🍁bounces between present day and past trips that Poppy and Alex have taken 🍁
+20 task
+10 combo [20.3 - 4.13; 20.9 - "Wow," Alex says, accepting two flutes of champagne from the faux statue's tray. ~ 08:37:13 mark in audiobook]
Task total: 30
Season total: 360
20.3 RatingsMurder in a Scottish Shire (A Scottish Shire Mystery #1) by Traci Hall
avg. 4.11
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 - murder)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,120
20.6 AwardedRing Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
+20 Task (Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, British Fantasy)
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.3 rating 4.10)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 690
20.5 - birthday 9/1/64Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
+20 task
+10 combo (20.3-4.27 stars, 20.6 - Hugo, Locus awards)
Task total: 30
Season total: 280
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20.10Dies Irae by B.V. Lawson
The detective, Scott Drayco, is an interesting, multi-layered character with a concert pianist past, processing of assorted emotional traumas, an independent moral code, and a well-depicted mind and thought process. He has depth that feel natural. He is called in on this one from previous connections and because the beginning of the mystery involves a murder with a musical code tied in. The story overall evolves effectively, with investigative digressions that end up all spiralling toward the answer. I had read the first one in the series a bit ago, and enjoyed fit. I didn't need to have done so, or read the 2nd one, which I have not, to enjoy this mystery. It stands alone well and was a satisfying read.
+20 task
+10 review
+5 combo (20.3)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 490
20.2 Anti-HeroBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#92 on The Best AntiHeros List
+20 pts - task
+30 pts - Combo(10.3- taught at Harvard and City College of New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vo... ;under “Later Career and Life”, 10.5, 10.6 - Nov 11 in book mentions this is Veterans Day and his birthday, 10.7 - US Army during WWII; the above link shows him in uniform, 20.3 - 4.07 stars today, 20.4)
+10 pts - 1001 books
Task Total - 60 pts
Rebekah wrote: "20.2 Anti-HeroBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#92 on The Best AntiHeros List
+20 pts - task
+30 pts - Combo(10.3- taught at Harvard and City College of Ne..."
10.7 is for a character in the book. Has one of the characters served in the military?
I am going to replace 15.3 Counting on Authors
11 letters
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water byVylar Kaftan
Taking away "Her Silhouette" will leave me with 235 pts.
I will replace the 15.3 that I took away with15.3 Counting on Authors
11 letters
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
Task Points: 15
Not-a-novel (nonfiction essays): 5
Season Total: 255
10.7 - Master Sargent Reed BeckhamExtinction Horizon by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Extinction Horizon… Whee! It’s Michael Crichton meets World War Z! Military techno-thriller about us trying to use a horrible experimental serum to treat a horrible disease that goes horribly wrong. Yeah, that’s a lot of horrible. Basically, it’s one of those ‘people do *everything* they aren’t supposed to do in order for the zombies to happen’ kind of stories – the failsafes fail, the super safe bio-isolation chambers leak, the PPE gets torn, the impenetrable locks don’t stay locked when the power goes out, somebody has an itchy trigger finger, and so on and so forth. Nobody can catch a break. It’s entertaining but the ‘everything goes wrong’ story gets a little tiresome after a while. Still, it’s kinda fun if you like zombies and stuff and want something a little different.
+10 task
+10 review
+5 combo (10.2 - extinction)
Task total: 25
Season total: 305
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I am going for the all books 1st published before 1996 in the Counting on Authors. So I will replace15.9 Counting on Authors
18-19 letters
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
Taking 15.9 away will leave me with 240 pts.
I will replace15.9 Counting on Authors
18-19 letters
with
Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Task Points: 15
Season Total: 255
15.5 Counting on Authors13 letters
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Task Points: 15
Season Total: 270
20.3 RatingsHeartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
Graphic novel, no styles
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 560
20.3 RatingsHeartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
Graphic novel, no styles
I'm on a graphic novel binge!!
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 580
20.3 RatingsThe Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
+20 Task (rating 4.48)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 710
10.4 Truth and Reconciliation (Valerie's Task)Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
+10 Task (low lexile)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 500
20.3 RatingsAssembly by Natasha Brown
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.9 Anniversary (p67 Kindle - He holds up an open bottle of champagne with a roguish grin.)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 525
20.5 BoomerThe Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3 - avg. 4.30)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1,155
b>20.5 BoomerJolene by Mercedes Lackey
+20 Task (born 1950)
+5 Combo (20.3 rating 4.15)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 735
10.1 TBRThe Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
+10 task
Season total = 275
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20.5 BoomerHow to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons by Barbara Kingsolver
Born 1955
+20 task
+10 not a novel
Task total: 30
Grand total: 520
From Post 292Tien wrote: "20.3 Ratings
2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson & Candice Fox
avg. 4.57
Review
Truth to tell, I haven't been reading much of James Patters..."
+5 Combo 20.5
From Post 328June wrote: "10.6- Birthday
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Birthday : October 1, 1946
Task: 10
Not a novel: 10
1001 Bookshelf: 10
Combo 20 ( 10.7, 20.6, 20.4, 20.3)
Post..."
+5 Combo 20.5
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Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Not YA on BPL
+15 Task (13 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,105