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20.3 ChemistryThe (Other) You by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oat es
(CE-Cerium; Ca-calcium; AT-astatine; ES-Einsteinium)
+20 Task
+20 Combo:
10.6- “...near the end of October on a very dark starless night when the air smelled mildly of sulphur,...” pg. 225
10.7-Helicopters-OTHER
10.9-short stories
20.1 professor at Princeton as noted on GR author page
+5 Multiple
Task total=45
Season total=755
I wasn’t expecting that broad of an interpretation. So we can include our entire TBR??
A question for the mods: would we be limited to one bucket list? I voted for bucket list to make progress on the Mysteries Challenge, also my goal of reading all of Ruth Rendell (getting close), and as many of Joyce Carol Oates as possible (not going to live long enough to get to all of the JCO’s).
20.3 ChemistryZero-Sum by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oat es
+20 Task (CE-Cerium; Ca-calcium; AT-astatine; ES-Einsteinium)
+15 Combo
10.6- “His eyes glide over me like liquid mercury.” pg. 93
10.9-Short stories
20.1 professor at Princeton as noted on GR author page
+5 Multiple
Task total=40
Season total=710
20.3 ChemistryThe Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell
RU TH RE ND
Ruthenium, Thorium, Rhenium, Neodymium
+20 Task
+20 Combo:
10.5-seven letters in Rendell
10.6-"...strange abstracts in aluminum frames hung side by side with photographs of inner-city squalor...” pg. 179
20.8-born 1930
20.9-woods, Rendell
+5 Multiple
+5 Series
Task total=50
Season total=670
20.3 ChemistryHenry, Himself by Stewart O'Nan
S TE AR NA
Sulfur Tellurium Argon Sodium
+20 Task
+20 Combo:
10.6-"In place of titanium, he worked with white pine.” pg. 86
20.1-“… he taught at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart...
20.7-trilogy
20.8-born 1961 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart...)
+5 Multiple
+5 Series
Task total=50
Season total=620
20.1 Back to SchoolThe Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson
+20 Task msg. 46
+15 Combo:
10.5-7 letters in author's last name, Swanson
10.6-"...and a neon beer sign above its door.” pg. 183
20.2-the, girl, a
+5 Multiple
Task total=40
Season total=570
20.1 Back to SchoolI'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
+20 Task msg 48
+10 Combo:
10.6-"Its atmosphere is made up of nitrogen and carbon dioxide and it has an iron core.” pg. 34
20.8-born 1981, on Young spreadsheet
+10 Young
Task total=40
Season total=530
Iain Reid“I was arriving with some experience. The role of teacher wasn’t completely new. I’d taught a few workshops before, given talks and lectures. But this was going to be the most extensive teaching I’d ever done. To prepare I consulted friends and colleagues, both teachers and writers. I made outlines and picked reading material. I called my dad, an academic and teacher, and asked about pacing and timing.”
https://nationalpost.com/entertainmen...
Peter Swanson“Prior to being a full time writer I was a bookseller, a teacher, a bartender, a bookseller, and a blogger.“
https://civilianreader.com/2018/03/31...
20.3 ChemistryCrowded Lives: And Other Stories of Desperation and Danger by Clark Howard
CL AR K HO
Chlorine, Argon, Potassium, Holmium
+20 Task
+15 Combo:
10.6-ARSENIC-"Maybe they smell the arsenic on my hands, she thought." pg. 90
10.7- Helicopters-OTHER
10.9-Short Stories
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=40
Season total=490
Richard Ford“He obtained a teaching appointment at Bowdoin College during 2005 but kept the job for only one semester.[20] During 2008 Ford was an adjunct professor of the Oscar Wilde Centre with the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, teaching in the Masters programme in creative writing.[21] Starting December 29, 2010, Ford assumed the job of senior fiction professor at the University of Mississippi during the autumn of 2011, replacing Barry Hannah, who died during March 2010. During the autumn of 2012, he became the Emmanuel Roman and Barrie Sardoff Roman Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Writing at the Columbia University School of the Arts.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
Patrick Dacey"he teaches undergraduate creative writing classes at the College of William and Mary, but spends most of his time writing."
https://www.styleweekly.com/interview...
Stewart O'Nan“… he taught at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart...
20.3 ChemistryThis Other Eden by Paul Harding
P AU AR IN
+20 Task
+25 Combo:
10.5-7 letters in HARDING
10.6-COPPER-"Her eyes were the color of greening copper." pg. 29
10.7- Helicopters-OTHER
20.1-Msg. 33 task thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ha...
20.10-Zalphabetical
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=50
Season total=450
Marc Reisner“For a time, Reisner was a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California at Davis, lecturing on the relationship between urbanization and environmental concerns.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Re...
Paul Harding“ has taught writing at Harvard University and the University of Iowa.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ha...
20.3 ChemistryDon't Go to Sleep in the Dark by Celia Fremlin
CE LI a FR emli N
CE=Cerium LI=Lithium FR=Francium N=Nitrogen
+20 Task
+25 Combo:
10.5-7 letters in Fremlin
10.6-LEAD-"But tonight, somehow, the bicycle might have been made of lead..." pg. 19
10.7- Helicopters- SLEEP
10.9-short stories
20.5-supernatural as mentioned in GR description "She explores her familiar theme of strained mother-child relations, but she also delves into the supernatural realm..."
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=50
Season total=400
