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10.2 3, 4, 5

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

+10 Task
Season Total: 1800

10.10 Group Read

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

task = 10
non-Western= 10
combo= 15 (10.2; 10.3; 20.6)

Task total: 35

RwS finish bonus: 100

Grand total: 1160

and my last book for the season :)
I'm really glad this came available from the library in time or I might have passed it by. It was an amazing window to another world.

20.3 Evicted

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

Of course I knew the story of Malala -- who doesn't, at this point? -- and I often talk about it with students. But I had not actually (shamefully!) read the book. Despite knowing the events that took place, it was a quick, fascinating, engaging read. I appreciated the historical background, learning how the Taliban came to such power in Pakistan, and about the Swat Valley. I had no idea until reading this book that Swat (where Malala is from) had such a different history and governance structure from Pakistan, and how that impacted the Taliban's rise. This definitely feels like a book everyone should read!

+20 task (shelved as current events 31 times)
+10 combo (10.2, 10.4)
+10 review
+10 nonwestern

Task Total: 50

Grand Total: 725

20.2 Rebecca

Still Life by Louise Penny

A few of my friends have been bugging me to read this for a while now, and I'm so glad I finally got to it. In some ways, this might feel like a quiet, small story -- it's set in a tiny village in Quebec, full of gently odd souls, lovely bakeries, homey B&Bs, and so forth. Inspector Gamache is a break from the "tortured soul detective" trope and is a thoughtful, lovely man. It's just so NICE. And yet, there's a murder, and a pretty cruel one. And there are snakes, and abuse, and secrets, and long, long pasts. By the end, my heart was pounding and while I had a few ideas about the solution to the case, I didn't care -- I was ready to read wherever Louise Penny took me.

+20 task (#184 on list)
+10 review

Task Total: 30

RWS finish bonus: 100 (I am so excited -- this is my first RWS finish!)

Grand Total: 855

Yay! Congrats, Katy! It's very exciting :)

Congratulations to all! I'm traveling to Oregon tomorrow, so I'm looking toward next season now :)

Bea wrote: "20.8 Amanda's Task: Yours, Mine, and Ours

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

+ 20 Task
+ 10 Combo (10.2, 10.7 - ..."

+10 Non-Western

ETA: +5 Combo 10.6

20.9 National Doctor's Day

The Duel by Anton Chekhov

"The Duel" is a morality tale about how a person's life can be turned around. Lawvsky and Nadyezhda, his mistress who is married to another man, have moved together to the hot Caucasus. Laevsky is lazy, barely does his government job, and spends his time gambling and drinking. He has grown tired of Nadyezhda and is thinking of leaving her. She is bored, has run up debts, and spends her time flirting with other men.

Three men eat dinner together every day--the physician Sanoylenko, the deacon, and the biologist Von Koren. The cold-blooded Von Koren believes in social Darwinism and thinks that lazy, immoral people like Laevsky don't deserve to live. One day, arguments lead to Von Koren challenging Laevsky to a duel.

The story is slow moving, but Chekhov has created some memorable characters who are all flawed in some way. The novella is about living, and life-changing events. "In search of the truth, people make two steps forward and one step back. Sufferings, mistakes, and the tedium of life throw them back, but the thirst for truth and a stubborn will drive them on and on."

+20 task
+10 combo 20.10, 10.2
+10 Non-Western (Russian)
+10 review

Task total: 50
Grand total: 930

From Post 899

Karin wrote: "Hesperus

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Review This sets forth the adventures of Pickwick and some of his comrades from the Pickwick Club during a time of tr..."

+5 Combo 20.1

10.2 3, 4 or 5

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.3

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1405

10.2 3, 4 or 5

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart

+10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 1415

From post 892

Sam wrote: "20.2 - Rebecca

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

There's a reason that Agatha Christie is regarded as the Queen of Crime, and this is a prime example! The su..."

Sorry, Sam, this is shelved as YA/Assignment at the BPL and has a lexile score below 800. Task points, but no styles.

20.10 Hesperus

The Venice Train by Georges Simenon

Justin Calmar meets a man on the train running from Venice to Paris. The stranger asks Justin to do him a favor since he has to meet a plane. A key....a briefcase full of cash....a dead body...anxiety takes over his life. Although Justin is an innocent man, he has to live his life like a criminal with something to hide. He makes up stories, he drinks to relieve the stress, he feels like everyone is watching his every move. His family and coworkers wonder if he's ill, or exhausted, or having an affair. I loved this psychological mystery, and will be looking for another book by this prolific author.

+20 task
+10 combo 10.2, 10.6
+10 review

Task total: 40
Grand total: 970

10.2 3, 4, or 5

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

+10 Task

Points this post: 10
RwS total: 450
AotD total: 45
Season Total: 495

20.2 Rebecca

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

#33 on Best Crime and Mystery list

+ 20 Task
+ 5 (Combo - 10.6)

Task Points: 25

Season Total: 1120

20.8 Yours, Mine, Ours

The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh

+20 task
+10 combos (10.2, 10.3)

Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 300

M.R. Carey10.2 3, 4 or 5

The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

+10 task
+5 combo (10.3)

Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 315

15.3 AOTD

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

(Audie Award for Literary Fiction 2014)

+15 task
+ 5 Jumbo

Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 335

20.9 National Doctor's Day

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

+ 20 task
+25 combos ( 10.2,10.3, 10.7, 20.2, 20.10)

Task Toal = 45
Grand Total = 380

Post 914 Tien wrote: "

+100 RsW Finish
+200 Mega Finish"

Well done!

Thank you, Elizabeth :)

10.5 Circus

Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts

"Made in the USA" is a story of how two children who need a family find a home in an unlikely place. Fifteen-year-old Lutie and eleven-year-old Fate live in South Dakota with their father's ex-girlfriend, Floy. Their mother had died when they were young, and their alcoholic father had skipped town, heading for Las Vegas. Floy has a heart attack and dies, leaving the kids without a family. They don't want to be sent into the state foster care system, so they head for Vegas in Floy's old car to look for their father with underage Lutie behind the wheel.

There are predators on the lookout for homeless kids, and Lutie makes some bad decisions. A man with a good heart helps them, and brings them to stay with his large extended family. Lutie and Fate see that home is the place where you are loved.

I've read newspaper reports about kids that have been homeless or living in cars, and Lutie's and Fate's experiences seem very real. The story drew me in more than I expected, although the ending seemed almost too wonderful to be believable.

+10 task (circus listed 5X)
+ 5 combo 10.2
+10 review

Task total: 25
RWS Finish: 100
Grand total: 1095

20.7 - #AWW2017

Letters to the End of Love - Yvette Walker

I don't even know where to begin with this book. I'm speechless. This book is gorgeous beyond words. It's heartbreaking and uplifting and beautiful and cruel and perfect and so, so fantastically flawed all in one. I didn't know I could feel so many emotions over the course of so few pages, but Yvette Walker has turned me into a weeping mess of a human being; after finishing the last chapter, I just sat and cried over the sheer beauty of this little book.

All three of the couples featured in this book are wonderful. They're so human and real that I couldn't help feeling drawn into their relationships, feeling their pain and their love. While I completely adored all three stories, John and David's was the one that really hit me, the one that will stick with me in the months and years to come. John's pain and devotion are expressed so genuinely, so beautifully, that I felt my heart break just a little each time I read one of his letters.

Walker's writing is flawless. She knows exactly which words to string together to form some of the most devastating, wonderful, beautiful writing I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I'm so glad that I happened upon this book and took a chance with it, because it truly is a masterpiece.

+20 task
+10 review
+5 combo (10.6)

Post total: 35
Grand total: 570

Congratulations to all for a wonderful season! On to summer!