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Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 7
The Circle by Dave Eggers3 pts, BoTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 10
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau3 pts, Other (over 600 pages), read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Les Enfants Terribles (aka The Holy Terrors) by Jean Cocteau
1 pt, TBR Takedown book 1, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 14
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary1 pt, Keyword challenge month 1, read and reviewed (word: heaven)
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 15
Watchmen by Alan Moore2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
3 pts, BoTM, read, discussed, and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 20
Martin Eden by Jack London1 pt, TBR Takedown book 2, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 21
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy1 pt, Keyword challenge month 2, read and reviewed (word: hand)
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 22
England Made Me by Graham Greene3 pts, BoTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 25
10:04 by Ben Lerner2 pts, TBR Takedown book 3, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 27
Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec2 pts Keyword Challenge book 3, read and reviewed (word: story)
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 29
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 31
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 33
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe3 pts, BOTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 36
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow2 pts, Keyword challenge book 4, "rain"
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
2 pts, TBR Takedown book 4
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 40
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 42
Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 44
Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado3 pts, BoTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
3 pts, Keyword Challenge book 5, "the"
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 50
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, 23 May 253 pts, TBR Takedown book 5, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 53
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi3 pts, TBR Takedown book 6, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
3 pts, Keyword challenge book 6, "Life"
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 61
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous4 pts, TBR Takedown book 7, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 65
The Waves by Virginia Woolf2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 67
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante3 pts, BoTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 70
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Kristel wrote: "You've spent 32 points this year."Oh thank you Kristel, I never thought about how much I'm spending! I will subtract them.
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
4 pts, Keyword challenge, book 7, "angel"
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 74 - 32 = 42
Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet4 pts, Keyword challenge book 8, "devil"
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 46
Voting for October BoTM-5 points
YTD = 41
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I'm so confused LOL ... next year I will study how other people do this and copy someone ;)The End of the Story by Lydia Davis, 21 Aug 25
3 pts, BoTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 77...?
Grimus by Salman Rushdie4 pts, TBR Takedown book 8, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 81
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos5 pts, TBR Takedown book 9, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 86
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore5 pts, Keyword challenge book 9 ("world"), read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 91
Mod
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić5 points, TBR Takedown book 10, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
3 points, BoTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
3 points, BoTM, read, discussed and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1 point bonus for reading both BoTMs this month
YTD = 103 points, used 38 points, no points used yet in Oct
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 105 points
Used 38 points +4 in Oct = 42 points used
Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson5 points, Keyword Challenge book 10 (mistress), read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 110 points
-42 points used
The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo2 pts, Other, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 112 points
-42 points used
Like Life by Lorrie Moore5 pts, Keyword challenge book 11, "life"
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 117 points
-42 points used
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Géza Gárdonyi5 pts, TBR Takedown book 11, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 122 points
-42 points used
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih5 pts, TBR Takedown book 12, read and reviewed
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 127 pts
-46 points used including 4 in November
Erewhon by Samuel Butler2 pts, Other (272 pages)
Review thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
YTD = 129 points
-46 points used
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