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20.6 AwardedBlindsight by Peter Watts
+20 Task Grand Prix del’Imaginaire for Traduction, Seiun Award for best Translated Long Story
+15 Combo 20.3 rating 4.01, 20.4, 20.5 born 1958
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 305
10.8 MediterraneanThe Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
+10 Task set in Turkey
+10 Combo 20.5 born 1964, 20.9 p205 Standing by the entrance with a glass of champagne in one hand and a pair of kid gloves in the other was Stanislaw Palewski, the Polish ambassador.
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 270
20.3 RatingsLove & Sleep by John Crowley
+20 Task rating 4.06
+5 Combo 10.3 teaches at Yale University
+5 Jumbo 502 pages
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 250
20.9 AnniversaryDeath in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood
+20 Task p315 The members of the household gathered, and each accepted a glass of champagne
+10 Combo 10.2 – death, 20.5 born 1954 (from group spreadsheet)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 200
10.5 ClassicsThe Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
+10 Task shelved 106 times
+5 Combo 20.9 p51…the King, in the course of his researches into a bottle of champagne…
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 170
10.4 Truth and ReconciliationThat Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
+10 Task
+20 Combo 10.2, 10.3, 20.5, 20.6 – 8 awards!
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 155
10.3 Back to schoolAct of Faith by Kelly Gardiner
No Lexile
+10 Task (teaches at La Trobe University)
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 125
10.9 OxfordOur Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff
+10 Task (new)
+ 10 Combo 10.3 (teaches at Stanford), 20.3 (rating 4.15)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 115
20.3 RatingsKilling Grounds by Dana Stabenow
+20 Task (rating 4.16)
+10 Combo 10.2, 20.5 (born 1961)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 85
20.5 BoomerThe Serpent Sea by Martha Wells
+20 Task (born 1964)
+ 5 Combo 20.3 (rating 4.08)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 55
20.3 RatingsThe Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty
+20 Task (rating 4.51)
+10 Jumbo (766 pages)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 30
Would deadman and mourning work?
10.9 Page Count 450-499A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
496 pages
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 2375
10.5 Page Count 250-299Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
251 pages
+10 Task
+5 before 1996 (published 1989)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 2365
20.10 Riding the MetroThe Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
set in Lima
Country Peru
Continent: South America
+35 Task
+5 Before 1996 (published 1962)
Post Total: 40
finisher bonus 100
10 different countries 50
5 continents 100
Season Total: 2350
20.9 Riding the MetroThe Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
set in Kabul
Country Afghanistan
Continent: Asia
+25 Task
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 2060
20.8 Riding the MetroThe Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz
set in Cairo
Country Egypt
Continent: Asia
+25 Task
+5 before 1996 (published 1983)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 2035
I would like to lock in the following ratings4.01 for
Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip
Blindsight by Peter Watts
4.02 for
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves
Someone to Wed by Mary Balogh
The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar
