Coralie’s
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(group member since Feb 27, 2013)
Coralie’s
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15.9 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Rowing - Option A – The house party goes rowing on the lake.
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1565
20.9 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
(J) 2015-2024
Author born in USA
+35 Task
Task total = 35
Season total = 1550
15.8 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
Horse - Option B – from page 59 a single stone was scant protection from a charging horse
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (544 pages)
Task total = 20
Season total = 1515
15.7 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Golf - option B – from page 22 when she had won the Lady Captain’s Prize at the golf club in Enniscorthy
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1495
15.6 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
athletics Option B – from page 73 chilled out together in the bleachers in the athletics field
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1480
20.8 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Frog by Mo Yan
(I) 2003-2014
Author born in China
+30 Task
Task total = 30
Season total = 1465
15.5 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Penric and the Bandit by Lois McMaster Bujold
horse-riding Option A – they ride horses throughout the book
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1435
15.4 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire
hockey Option B – from Chapter 3 showing the hockey pennants and posters on the walls
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1420
15.3 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Scarlet by Scarlet
swimming Option A – a couple of the characters swim in the Seine after escaping from the sewers
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1405
15.2 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
cycling Option A – from page 156 Two days before his eighth birthday, Laurie rode his bike around a bend, directly into the path of a car.
+15 Task
+ 5 before 1999 (1948)
Task total = 20
Season total = 1390
15.1 Olympic Scavenger (Round 3) Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
tennis Option B – from page 143 gave me a hefty shove with a palm the size of a tennis racket.
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1370
20.7 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Little Jewel: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
(H) 1990-2002
Author born in France
+30 Task
Task total = 30
Season total = 1355
15.10 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2) A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
football Option B – from chapter 24 Phil kicked it like a flabby football and it hit the wall
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Finisher bonus 100
Season total = 1325
20.6 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery
(B) 1910-1923
Author born in Canada
+25 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (pub 1919)
Task total = 30
Season total = 1210
20.5 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(A) 1896-1909
Author born in the USSR
+25 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (pub 1899)
Task total = 30
Season total = 1180
20.4 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
(G) 1977-1989
Author born in the Netherlands
+20 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (pub 1982)
Task total = 25
Season total = 1150
20.3 Opening Ceremonies (Round 2)Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
(F) 1964-1976
Author born in the UK
+20 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (pub 1976)
Task total = 25
Season total = 1125
10.6 HurdlesWhite Sand, Volume 2 by Brandon Sanderson
+10 Task (fantasy)
Task total = 10
Finisher bonus = 100
Season total = 1100
I hope my addition is better this time.
10.2 Long JumpRestless in the Grave by Dana Stabenow
+10 Task (mystery)
Task total = 10
Season total = 990
15.9 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2) The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
horse-riding Option B – throughout the book most of the characters travel by horseback
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 1020
