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Okay, thanks, just making sure. And thanks for the tip about O68.
Okay, thank you.
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford won a Pulitzer in 1970. Can I read one of her smaller short story volumes, such as Bad Characters: Stories or Children Are Bored on Sunday, or do I need to read the full collected volume that won the Pulitzer?
20.9 Birthdays (Kate S's Task)Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco
+20 task ("And then she was gone, slipping into the mob around the table and gliding away with a plate of cake in her hand and--to the delight of the Claims Unit employees--a creamy blue smudge of frosting on her chin." pg. 137)
Task total=20
Season total=355
20.9 Birthdays (Kate S's Task)Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
+20 task ("Then we ate some cake and shared it with two forks" pg. 283)
Task total=20
Season total=335
Does Ayn Rand qualify?From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Ran...
"She became a permanent American resident in July 1929 and an American citizen on March 3, 1931."
20.8 Texas IndependenceMatecumbe by James A. Michener
Cake-"Don't take too long," Melissa giggled, feeling the effects of a day dominated by champagne, white wine, and wedding cake." pg.153
+20 task (died in Austin, Texas, 1997)
+15 combo (10.4, 10.9-two timelines, one from the past and one in the present-from GR description: "Focusing on the parallel lives of a woman and her mother, both divorced", 20.9)
Task total=35
Season total=315
Argh, that is what I meant, no idea why I used 10.4. Thanks.
10.2 Easter
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
+10 task
Task total=10
Season total=280
20.9 BirthdaysGwendy's Final Task by Stephen King
+20 task ("He sat in her small kitchen with her. They had coffee cake and milk, like old friends")
+10 combo (10.6-mentioned in GR description, 10.9-the book alternates between two distinct timelines, (view spoiler)
Task total=30
Season total=270
20.9 BirthdaysFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates
"Even as he speaks Mr. Kellogg has been devouring his dessert, a wedge of pineapple upside-down cake, he finishes his own piece and wordlessly accepts half of Mrs. Kellogg's, pushed discreetly to his place."
+20 task
+10 combo (10.4, 10.7-Margaret Atwood map)
+ 5 oldies (1993)
Task total=35
Season total=220
20.5 The Killer AngelsLong Way to Texas by Elmer Kelton
+20 task
+10 combo (10.4, 20.8)
+ 5 oldies (1976)
Task total=35
Season total=185
10.6 Space OutGreat Stories of Space Travel by Groff Conklin
+10 task
+10 combo (10.2, 10.4)
+ 5 oldies (1963)
Task total=25
Season total=150
10.1 PopularThis Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
+10 task (#38 on my 1989 list)
+ 5 oldies (1989)
Task total=15
Season total=125
20.9 BirthdaysThe Veiled One by Ruth Rendell
"Burden went off along Castle Street to have a cautionary word with a jeweller he suspected of being a fence. Then into a call box to phone his wife and say he might be late but not very late— say around eight-thirty. A cup of tea and a cake in the Queens Cafe and it was two minutes to six when he came back down Queen Street."
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.4)
+ 5 oldies (1988)
Task total=30
Season total=105
20.7 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThe Brothers Rico by Georges Simenon
+20 task
+ 5 oldies (1954)
Task total=25
Season total=75
