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20.8 Fancy Meeting You Here (Anika's task)James by Percival Everett
+20 task (characters from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn appear, including Huck Finn, Jim, Judge Thatcher, and others)
+ 5 combo (10.4 born 1956)
Task total=25
Season total=90
Great, thank you.
Will a short story collection work for the Olympic Scavenger tasks if the sport occurs in only one story? Thanks.
20.5 Surprised!The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
+20 task (period in title)
+ 5 combo (20.7-British residents June and Princess Susan Hapsburg vacation in Florence, Italy for a week)
Task total=25
Season total=65
20.1 The National GalleryWish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
+20 Task (from GR summary, the sentence "Emily's son, who has quit his job and mortgaged his future to pursue his art," refers to MC Ken Maxwell who gave up a job at Merck to attempt a career as a professional photographer)
+15 Combo (10.5-YOU, 20.6-told through rotating POV's of all characters, including the dog, 20.7-the family makes a daytrip to Canada)
+5 Jumbo (528 pages)
Task total=40
Season total=40
(The only dud of the 12 O'Nan titles I've read)
20.7 The Wild LifeThe Under Dog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
+20 task
+10 female
+10 not-a-novel
+ 5 oldies
Task total=45
Season total=80
20.10 LettersThe Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years by Otto Penzler
The letter writer is Dragon. "When Cousin Dragon was about nine years old, he started in writing to Maurie, 'America's my dream, I need to come to America, I hate these commies over here'...and Maurie read these letters for about a decade."
+20 task
+ 5 multiple (post 629)
Task total = 25
Season total = 60
(I forgot to mention that this is a carryover book that I started in July and was at 47% when the Fall season began.)
20.10 LettersThe Final Case by David Guterson
The letter writer is Royal, the narrator's father. "Behind it was a photocopy of a letter my father had written three weeks before he died, in longhand, to the minister-in-chief of the Ministry of Woman's and Children's Affairs in Ethiopia."
Task total = 20
Season total = 20
20.5 FavoritesWait For the Wedding by Celia Fremlin
+20 task (WI 21-22) 20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom-5k or fewer ratings and published in the 20th century
+5 before 1998
Task total=25
Season total=430
20.4 FavoritesFaceless Killers by Henning Mankell
+20 task (WI 22-23) 20.10 Mystery-Any book with an MPG of mystery
+5 before 1998
Task total=25
Season total=405
20.3 FavoritesSomebody's Fool by Richard Russo
+20 task (Winter 2012/13) 20.4–Author was born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963)
Task total=20
Season total=380
I am going to be absolutely lost without this group. Not only will I miss everyone, I don't know where I will find great book recommendations in the future. But I totally understand the decision, and cannot thank Elizabeth and Kate enough for all they have done. All good things must end. Thank you Elizabeth and Kate.
20.2 FavoritesThe Golden Deed by Andrew Garve (1908-2001)
+20 task (Fall 2013) 20.2 Author alive between 1909 and 1922
+ 5 before 1998
Task total=25
Season total=360
*Starting second round*20.1 Favorites
The Blonde on the Street Corner by David Goodis
+20 task (Spring 2012) 20.5-originally published in the 1950s
+ 5 before 1998
Task total=25
Season total=335
20.10 FavoritesOn Writing by Charles Bukowski
+20 task (Fall 2014) 20.2 Birthplace-author born in Belgium, Ireland, Germany, or Switzerland
+100 finisher bonus, 10 tasks from 10 different seasons
Task total=20
Season total=310
20.9 FavoritesThe Bell Tolls for No One by Charles Bukowski
+20 task (WI 16-17) 20.6-title is a full sentence
Task total=20
Season total=190
