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10.2 Noel NoelSir Thursday by Garth Nix
Lexile 980
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.9 – 3.94)
+5 Series
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 800
10.3 Science Fiction DayDarkness on his Bones by Barbara Hambly
+10 task (#112)
+5 Series
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 780
20.2 Sigrid UndsetPrince of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman
+20 task (set 1194)
+5 Combo (10.2 Noel Noel)
+5 Series
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 765
10.9 Realistic RatingsThe Shattered Vine byLaura Anne Gilman
+10 task (rating 3.61)
+5 Series
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 735
20.8 Best of 2015God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
+20 task (NYT notable)
+5 Combo (10.9 rating 3.71)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 710
10.4 Valentine's DayGirl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
+10 task (#69 on list)
+5 Combo (10.9 rating 3.82)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 685
15.7 – DominoesSummer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
+15 task- published same decade
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 670
20.6 Svetlana AlexievichNotes on the Cuff and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.9 rating 3.63)
+5 oldies (first published 1978)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 645
I'm on target but I'll be away for most of February so I have to get ahead before we go.
10.1 Design Your Own TaskBook written by an author who died in 2015.
White as Snow by Tanith Lee
+10 task (died May 24)
+10 Combo (10.3 #101, 10.9 rating 3.72)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 615
15.6 – DominoesLabyrinth by Kate Mosse
+15 task- same first name
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 595
10.2 Noel NoelDust by Hugh Howey
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.3 #123)
+5 Series
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 570
10.5 Favorite AuthorsThe Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
+10 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.9)
+10 Series (previous 10.7)
+5 Oldies (published 1941)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 545
20.7 FeminismThe Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
+20 task (#253 on list)
+5 Combo (10.9 rating 3.75)
+ 15 Oldies (published 1860)
+5 Jumbo (579 pages)
Task total: 45
Grand Total: 510
20.2 Sigrid UndsetThe Wolf Hunt by Gillian Bradshaw
+20 task (takes place at the end of the eleventh century)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 465
20.1 Grazia DeleddaPariss by Edward Rutherfurd
This book follows a group of families in Paris mostly from 1875 to the 1968 epilogue with chapters interspersed showing their histories back to 1261. By the end of the book I was getting the impression that there were only half a dozen families in Paris as no matter what the century, they kept on bumping into each other. Through the different families the reader learns of the various social structures within the society. I found some of the chapters finished with a bit of a jolt, and then the next chapter had skipped years and was on to another story. I did enjoy the book, particularly the chapters set in the end of the 19th century, the setting of another two books I have recently finished.
+20 task (https://thebookloversboudoir.wordpres...)
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.9 rating 3.89)
+10 Review
+15 Jumbo (809 pages)
Task total: 55
Grand Total: 445
20.9 Winnie the PoohWinter Holiday byArthur Ransome
+20 task (published 1933)
+10 Oldies
+5 Series (Swallows and Amazons)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 390
10.3 Science Fiction DayOff Armageddon Reef by David Weber
+10 task (#132)
+5 Combo (10.2 Noel Noel)
+5 Jumbo (605 pages)
+5 Series
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 355
15.5 – DominoesRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Lexile 1160
+15 task- both born USA
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 330
We just go to bed at the regular hour, then when I hear the fireworks I get up and watch them from the bedroom, while my husband sleeps through all the noise.Happy New Year.
