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10.3 ConjunctionsAll of Us and Everything by Bridget Asher
I read this one because it's touted as being for fans of Nick Hornby, but upon completion I don't really see the correlation.
Augusta has always told her three daughters that their absent father is a spy and that's why they've never met him; they all just assume that she was a bit of a floozy and that they're all the result of random one night stands. The girls are now adults and out on their own, making right messes of their lives, when Hurricane Sandy hits and they all converge on their childhood home to help with clean up--but mostly because they really have nowhere else to go.
This was a total chick-lit beach read which is not normally my favorite, but it was entertaining enough and the writing wasn't awful.
+10 Task ("and")
+10 Review
+5 Combo: 10.4
Task total: 25
Season total: 135
20.4 Robert Penn WarrenThe Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
I am at a loss for words. Leave it to the man who brought us Our Town to leave me with a heart full to bursting.
It took me a second to get into this one...but once that bridge broke and you see the people falling and know that you're going to get their stories--ah! I was hooked!
Their stories are short (as is the book itself, weighing in at a measly 160 pages), but they pack a punch. The novel definitely felt constructed like a play, each act creating a distinct story that is yet connected to a larger whole and it also effected me the way a play does, leaving me with world-sized philosophical questions rather than questions about the mere characters. The end of this novel was very reminiscent of the final act in Our Town: the nature of love and death and life and the specificity of individual moments (which we so often take for granted) curls up in your lap like a secret-keeping cat for you to pet and consider and shed a few tears over until you have to push it off, stand up, and get to living again. 5 stars.
+20 Task (#115)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies (pub. 1927)
+10 Combo: 10.2: 21 letters; 10.5: pub. 1927
Task total: 50
Season total: 185
15.3 BlackjackAfter the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Diamond Ace 1 (75-199 pg)
Diamond J 10 (Asian-Japan)
Clubs J 10 (Title has J or K)
21
+15 task
+ 5 NAN/NF (short stories)
Task total: 20
Season total: 80
Connie wrote: "15.3 BlackjackAfter the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Diamond Ace 1 (75-199 pg)
Diamond J 10 (Asian-Japan)
Clubs J 10 (Title has J or K)
21
+15 task
+ 5 NAN/NF (short stor..."
Oops! That's what I get for watching TV and looking at RwS at the same time.
15.4 BlackjackThe Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
10 Spades (short stories)
2 Diamonds (author also published as Carmichael Smith, Anthony Beardon, Felix C Forrest)
7 clubs (originally published 1975)
+15 Task
+5 Not a Novel
+5 Published before 1995
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 135
20.3 - Theodore H WhiteYou Don't Want To Know by Lisa Jackson
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.8 - pg 68 - Cheryl offered her a cup of steaming herbal tea that smelled like ginger.)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 170
From Post 46Coralie wrote: "20.8 My cup of Tea
Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
Tea must have been mentioned about 100 times in this book.
p725 and when the tea had finished steeping, poured him a cup�..."
+5 Combo 20.6
15.3 BlackjackUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Queen of Clubs - LGBT main page genre
8 of Hearts - set in Nigeria 100%
Hand of 18
+15 task
+5 female author
Task total: 20
Grand total: 130
Hi Elizabeth and Kate - The readerboard has my up to post 50 total at 115 but I have it at 110 and do not see a correction post. What am I missing?
15.3 BlackjackThe Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen.
6 Diamonds 1st pub’d in �60s (1963)
2 Clubs 200-299 pp
9 Diamonds set 75% in a Commonwealth country (Canada)
Task + 15
1st pub'd before 1995 +5
Points for this Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 125
From post 85:Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.1 Edmund Morris
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Stacey Haney believed that by being a good person and working ha..."
Kathleen, this title appears to be investigative journalism as opposed to creative journalism. Was the reporting more objective, or was there more of a subjective focus?
From Post 71Norma wrote: "10.8 - Go to Jail
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill by John Cleland
+10 task
+5 Combo (20.8 - page 66 - she brought a very honourable gentleman to drink tea with me)
+20 oldi..."
+10 1001 books
From Posts 78 and 79Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.5 read a book set in Cleveland
"Little Fires Everywhere " by Celeste Ng
Task + 20
Total Points 20"
+5 Combo 20.8
From Post 83Ed wrote: "10.1 Thirst for More
In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
This is the sixth book I've read by Coetzee.
This novel has an unusual structure. Each passage...usua..."
+5 Oldies
15.1 BlackjackConversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
�3 (3-word title)
�8 (author born in "I" country=Ireland)
♦Q (set +75% in Western European country=Ireland) = 21
+5 Female
Task total: 20, 3 cards used
Season total: 205
Kate S wrote: "From post 85:Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.1 Edmund Morris
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Stacey Haney believed th..."
“Subjective refers to personal perspectives, feelings, or opinions entering the decision making process. Objective refers to the elimination of subjective perspectives and a process that is purely based on hard facts.�
The book is about one woman’s experiences with fracking in her area. It is written in a way to elicit an emotional reaction from the reader including descriptions of the landscape, illnesses, desperation and depression.
The original task referred to Tom Wolfe and saturation reporting. This book fits that description perfectly.
15.3 BlackjackRiceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Club 3 - 334 pgs
Club 6 - Arnold
Diamond 9 - set in UK
+15 Task
+ 5 Before 1995 (1923)
Task total = 20
Season total = 100
2/4 owned (I bought this one, Ugh!)
20.8 My cup of TeaThe City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
p271 She ate the nut loaf � which did bring back powerful sense memories � and drank two more cups of the bitter tea
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.2
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 165
10.5 Sherlock HolmesPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
pub. 1904
980L
Review
On Re-read
According to GR, I first read this 9 years ago and I feel that I approached this novel with fresh eyes. Or maybe because I'm 9 years older and motherhood has completely set in that I feel very much for mothers & lost boys.
"It was then that Hook bit him.
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quiet helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest."
My thoughts of Peter also has changed... of course, he is a forever child. Not only does he keeps the same physically, his thoughts & emotions also do not develop for how can they mature when he forgets everything all the time?
I find the story to be so clever, the prose to be very engaging, and the world so magical but yet there were things the author said (outright or between lines) that are just so true of life. Such a lovely distraction on a cold rainy day.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 - 4.08 avg rating & 250K+ ratings)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies (pub. 1904)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 190
10.6 Richard AdamsFool Moon (The Dresden Files #2) by Jim Butcher
4.03 avg rating & 148,951 ratings
Review
Such rockin' fun read!
After things resolved in such explosive inferno in book 1, Harry Dresden, has lost the trust of his friend, Special Investigator Murphy. So thing have been rather quiet... dead quiet, in fact, that he's been forced on instant noodles diet. But, it didn't really mean that the bad guys have been quiet... Harry has just been left out of the loop. To get this sorted out though, they're going to need his help. Harry, being his usual self, kept certain things to himself, managed to stumble onto the truth, and of course, willing to ultimately sacrifice himself to save all.
I don't think I was particularly keen on book 1 but this book was so much better. It was action-packed and the mystery was good. I'm looking forward to finding out more about Harry's past & his newfound paranoia in the next book.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 210
20.6 Katherine Anne PorterScardown (Jenny Casey #2) by Elizabeth Bear
Review
When the author kills who you think is the wrong character...
Okay, maybe it's not the wrong character but I wanted someone else killed (err, did I just say that out loud!? I meant fictionally, okay...).
This is not my usual type of read but I was captivated by the first book (I read in ebook) that I went and bought the whole trilogy in paperback. It features an older woman, Jenny Casey, who turned 50 in book 1. She's a war hero but was so hurt that she was equipped with metal arms & other things and always needed pain meds to keep her going. Following book 1, there was nanotech discovered & developed which she was then given and now, she's pretty much pain free except when she's injured. This happened, of course, on a regular basis.
Scardown is a novel full of conspiracies as one country works against another but then, there are those within a country keen to stop each other due to different visions etc. Ultimately though, it is a the fate of the earth that hangs in a balance or rather, hanging by a thread which at the end in this novel pretty much snapped. Did I cry? Yes, yes, I did... I didn't need to read this particular incident in this current atmosphere but most of all, I wish for that nanotech because then, we'll be done with it all.
An intricately complex novel where author has brought a full complement of diverse characters from all different slices of life together in a world that is about to expire. What's your priority? Hanging on to power to the destruction of the world or embracing all to saving it?
+20 Task
+10 Review
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 240
15.7 BlackjackBooks Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay
Ace spades - 1st in series
10 clubs - 2012
20 task
5 female
______
25
Running total: 270
7 owned/10 tasks
15.3 BlackjackSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
Ace hearts 1 (pub date has two 1s - 1981)
Ace diamonds 11 (has 75-199 pgs - 90 pgs)
8 diamonds (orig pub date in the 80s (any century)
+15 Task
+ 5 Female
+ 5 Pre 1995
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 110
10.9 TrilogyFall of Giants by Ken Follett
This book dragged a lot more than the Kingsbridge series that I've read by Follett. Maybe I'm just more interested in the medieval setting than I was in the WWI. I listened to this as an audiobook (approximately 30 hours), and found the narrator engaging throughout. Still, if I'd read this book in print, I definitely would have skimmed some of the war descriptions, which I found increasingly tedious.
Really, Follett is at his best when he's writing about class distinctions and relationships between star-crossed lovers. He's adequately good at geopolitical intrigue. But he's pretty lousy at action scenes.
I may read the next book in the trilogy at some point, but I'm not rushing out to find it. I could easily wait five years before starting it.
+10 Task (first in trilogy)
+20 Jumbo (985pp)
+10 Review
+15 Combo (10.6 - 247k ratings, 4.29 stars; 10.8 - character imprisoned for treason; 20.8 - lots of tea, including "Mam was making tea." p. 4)
Task total: 55
Grand total: 55
20.8 The Twisted Ones by T. KingfisherP 150 (of ebook) “I took a drink of tea. It was too hot and it burned the roof of my mouth but it was tea and tea was good and I was in a world where there was tea, not in a world where there were monsters in the woods.�
Review: This was scary.
I’ve read plenty of horror books, and even though I’m a terrible baby, few books really freak me out. This did.
The situation itself isn’t what did me in... it’s the almost nonchalant narration. Well, THAT happened. The stages of panic, from initial charge though the exhausted sure-whatever-maybe-this-is-how-I-die made it feel more real.
This was a lot more about the slow burn of creep than BIG SCARE, which is way worse.
Ugh, the effigies gave me nightmares. Effective visuals.... ugh.
In the afterword, the author says this is a response to Lovecraft’s response to The White People. And while I’ve never read the TWP and I’m not a Lovecraft fan, I think that’s why I liked this book so much. I appreciated the literary criticism, and the acknowledgement of how these narratives can lose a reader with asking them to suspend too much disbelief. Supernatural nasties I can buy, but photographic memories of traumatic events? Mmmmmmm.
Normally I would go read the inspiration right away.... but... maybe not for a bit. There are woodpeckers in my area and I don’t want to stay freaked out.
Task : 20
Review: 10
Task total: 30
Season total: 60 (see post 128, change total for post 99)
15.2 BlackjackTalking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
�2 (title/subtitle has the word "to," "too," or "two"="to")
�4 (yours, mine, and ours="We")
�5 (min page genre: any science=Psychology, Sociology)
â™ K (title has a word ending in "ing"="Talking")=21
+5 Not-a-Novel
+20 Task
Task total: 20, 7 cards used
Season total: 225
Change to post 99:Ann wrote: "20.8 My Cup of TeaThe Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
P.84 Once Claire had briefed the others on the existence of the Codex Gigas, the danger of the r..."
I’m going to move this to 10.4, so my total would be as follows:
Task: 10
Combo (10.2, 20.8) 10
Review 10
Task total: 30
Season total for post 99: 30
10.2 LettersThe Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
How can you be reeling after such a short novel? Ian McEwan is such a good writer that even the most ordinary sentence (in another writer’s hands) flows and adds to overall feeling of the book. He has a real depth of understanding, observation, and feeling for the real relationships men and women have which is why his books are a pleasure to read. I’m a fan of McEwan’s and so I knew this would not be a straight-forward story about a couple’s holiday in Venice. That said, I didn’t expect what unfolded. The writing is lovely and the story is complex (and unexpected!). I guess that is what makes him such a great writer in my opinion. 4.5*
10 task
10 review
10 1001 book
5 oldie
_______
35
Running total: 305
8 owned/11 tasks
20.8 My cup of TeaThe Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
p25 Another bitter tea was handed to her, and this time she drank it, not knowing how long it would be before she could have a drink at home.
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.2, 10.4
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 195
20.9 Women in TranslationAn Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
This is a fun - repeat FUN! - collection of short stories from mystery writer Helene Tursten. They aren't mystery stories, though. But what kind of "no good" could an elderly lady be up to in stories by a mystery writer!?! Five wonderful stories.
Maud's father died years ago, nearly bankrupt except for a large apartment building. The building was sold with the requirement that an apartment be made available for free to his widow and 2 daughters for as long as they lived. It never occurred to anyone that Maud would still be living there close to 70 years later.
Maud is a problem solver. These are personal problems, not social problems. Her solutions are fun to read about, though I don't think you'd want her for your neighbor. One of the stories includes her series character Inspector Irene Huss, and another includes both Huss and another series character, Embla Nyström. I like the way Tursten writes, so I might be looking at one of those in the future.
I'm a slow reader and even so this was about a 3-hour read. As short as it is, it's still a full 4-stars. Such fun! (Did I say that already?)
+20 Task (Swedish)
+10 Review
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
Task Total = 35
Season total = 135
2 owned/5 read
15.4 BlackjackLonging by Mary Balogh
Spade K 10 (ing)
Spade 7 (7 letters)
17
+15 task
+ 5 female
+ 5 pub 1994
Task total: 25
Season total: 105
10.4 High Five DayThe Beauty of the Wolf by Wray Delaney
Review
I was rather excited to listen to this audiobook because Beauty & The Beast is one of my favourites fairy tales. It was quite a long one though with 12+ hours and unfortunately, this is not one I particularly enjoyed.
The setting is Medieval England with a slight nod to William Shakespeare slyly inserted into the story. It began rather promisingly with a witch and subsequently, a curse. And about 2 hours later, I was tempted to quit because I found it hard to distinguish between the 3 POV's voices. But I persevered even if I was continually considering to DNF. The main reason being that I felt it to be rather crude. I don't mind sensual books but I just find the words chosen to describe genitalia and the sexual acts to be on the crude side.
I believe this could have been an interesting historical fiction and with magic involved, it could've been something I loved especially since it's supposed to be a retelling of Beauty and the Beast with gender swap. However, because I kept thinking that I should DNF, I felt that this book was also overlong and could be edited to a couple of hours' shorter.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 260
10.3 Conjunctions,,
The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures by Robert Bly
+10 task
+5 oldies ( pub 1995 )
+5 combo (10.2)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 150
Task 15.1 BlackjackThe Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Albino's Treasure (The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) (2015) by Stuart Douglas (Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author) (Paperback, 245 pages)
+10 = 10 of hearts (history/historical fiction set 100 or more years before orig pub year) (published 2015, story set in 1896)
+10 = Queen of diamonds (set (75%) in any Western European country) (set entirely in England)
Sum Total = 20
Task Points:
+15
Grand Total: 40 + 15 = 55
15.1 BlackjackDetroit by Lisa D'Amour
15 pts Blackjack
6 of Clubs author first, middle or last name is exactly 6 letters
long
Ace of Diamonds. has 75-199 pgs
5 pts Not a Novel
5 pts Female
Task total: 25 pts
Season total: 85 pts
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15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
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15.4 BlackjackMy Gun Is Quick by Mickey Spillane
Queen of Hearts title has a Q
Four clubs mystery genre
Five spades 1st pub’d in 1950s (1950)
Task + 15
Pub'd before 1995 + 5
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 145
15.7 BlackjackPeople Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith
Jack Clubs (Knock)
3 Clubs (352 pgs)
4 Clubs (Mystery and Thriller MPG)
+20 task
+ Â 5 female
+ Â 5 pub. 1995 or earlier (1983)
Task total=30
Season total=175
20.2 August WilsonThe Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
This is an excellent read. My knowledge about the Underground Railroad which "conducted" slaves in America to freedom is/was limited. This novel gives keen insight into some of the lives involved with a failing Virginia tobacco plantation. A blurb at the end informs the reader that at least some of the characters are based on real people. Amongst those real people are Harriet Tubman, But, the focus of the story is Hiram....who is the slave son of the plantation owner. Hiram has the gift of a remarkable memory...which presents both challenges and opportunities as he is drafted to assist the Underground Railroad.
The only qualms I have with the novel is with the magical realism portions. Even though the author uses that element in a judicious way... something gnaws at me that the subject is so serious and real that reality would not only suffice but convey more sobriety to the reader. BUT.... I also know that the magical realism reminds us how important memory is. Near the end of the story, Hiram states that Forgetting is death. I won't be forgetting this glimpse of slave life.
4 1/2 stars
Task=20
Review=10
Combo= 5 (20.8*)
*p.207- “After supper, we took coffee and tea in the back salon.�
p.328-“An hour later, they returned and we served tea."
Task Total=35
Grand Total=285
Tasks Completed=7
10.1 (40); 10.3 (30)
15.1 (25)
20.2 (35); 20.4 (60) ; 20.6 (45); 20.10 (50)
Blackjack15.1
Comfort & Joyby Kristin Hannah
3 of spades 3 word title, 7 of Spades-7 letter word in title Comfort,
10 of hearts- publication date in the 10's-2015
+5 Female author
Blackjack Total: 20
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 55
20.8 My Cup of TeaThe Dutch House by Ann Patchett
I had a friend ask me what this book was about and all I could come up with in answer was: it's about a house and some of the people who once lived in it. That answer is precisely what it's about, but so insufficient to convey the wonder of this novel. It's part fairy tale (complete with an evil stepmother), part character study, part family drama, and entirely beautifully wrought.
A stunning symmetry to the characters (children and parents specifically) unfolds in the last half of the novel which would have come across as trite in the hands of a less-elegant author. Patchett has the greatest timing: knows the precise moment to conceal or reveal, when to elaborate on a topic and when a succinct sentence/paragraph/chapter will have the greatest impact. She creates the most stunning art with her words, this book (my sixth by her) is no exception.
+20 Task (at the 7% mark in the ebook: "...our mother was sitting in the kitchen drinking tea with Sandy and Jocelyn.")
+10 Review
Task total: 30
Season total: 255
10.3 ConjunctionsRead a book whose title contains one (and one only) of these conjunctions: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet.
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 155
Post 123 Valerie wrote: "15.7 BlackjackBooks Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay
20 task
5 female
______
25
Running total: 270
7 owned/10 tasks"
Which cards are you using for this?
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 123 Valerie wrote: "15.7 BlackjackBooks Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay
20 task
5 female
______
25
Running total: 270
7 owned/10 tasks"
Which cards are ..."
Oh my goodness.... sorry for the lapse. I've added them to my post.
20.2 August WilsonThe Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
What an extremely strange book this is. The other Walter Mosley book I've read was Devil in a Blue Dress, which is more of a straightforward mystery novel. This book starts from an unusual premise--a white man shows up at the home of a black man and offers the black man a large sum of money to imprison the white man in the basement. The characters interact and talk to each other as the book explores power dynamics, race, philosophy, and the way of the world. The writing is sharp and the book flows along. Even as I disliked the characters most of the time, I couldn't look away from this one. I definitely want to read more Mosley.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.8 - ""Charles made me some tea." p.88)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 95
15.4 BlackjackHidden in Crime ed by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
4 of Clubs - main page genre mystery
3 of Clubs - 308 pages
10 of Diamonds - series has 10 or more titles - this is #16
Total of 17
+5 female
+5 not a novel
Task total: 25
Grand total: 175
20.8 - My Cup of TeaFresh Tea by Sheila Horgan
+20 task - Kindle location 1740 - I grabbed my cup of tea and headed out to the backyard.
+10 post 71 missed claiming 1001 books
Task total: 30
Grand total: 200
20.8 - My Cup of TeaCraving Tea by Sheila Horgan.
+20 task - kindle location 2430 - I just came down to get a cup of tea
Task total: 20
Grand total:220
20.7 Annie Dillard Salvador by Joan Didion
This short book is an account of Joan Didion's trip to El Salvador during the Civil Wars in the Summer of 1982. The author attempts to make heads or tails of the many sides of the conflicts. She seeks truth....but truth is very elusive. No one can be trusted. She meets with the President who reveals honestly why he can't answer questions honestly. Can't piss anyone off. Recriminations are daily....and often, nobody can tell who were the victims or the aggressors. No place is safe. Murders recently took place in the hotel the author stays at. She also meets with the US Ambassador...and is again met with Cold War gobbledygook. The stated mission of the Ambassador is to just bring peace...but everyone suspects that the US supports the right-wingers. Such carnage, such waste and no cause other than ambition.
I visited San Salvador 6 or 7 years ago. More than 30 years after Didion's visit. Still.....visitors were warned not to go out at night. Security guards with automatic weapons were everywhere...especially in the tourist zone. I visited the Cathedral where the archbishop was murdered....as well as the sobering memorial to all those killed and "disappeared". Even though I witnessed these places.... I don't think I really appreciated the terror that was experienced by people there.
A good but chilling read. Four stars.
Task=20
Review=10
Combo= 5 (10.7; )
Oldie= 5 (1982)
Task Total=35
+5 for post 83
Grand Total=325
Tasks Completed=8
10.1 (45); 10.3 (30)
15.1 (25)
20.2 (35); 20.4 (60) ; 20.6 (45); 20.7 (35); 20.10 (50)
15.8 BlackjackNew Orleans Noir by Julie Smith
 3 Spades (3-word title)
 5 Hearts (100% Louisiana)
 9 Clubs (New)
+30 task
+ Â 5 female
+ Â 5 not-a-novel (short stories)
Task total=40
Season total=215
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
Ace of Hearts (2011)
King of Hearts (King) =21 (2 cards)
+15 task
+5 NAN
Task total: 20
Season total: 115