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10.4 Series (Ed's Task)Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
+10 task
+10 combo (20.1; 20.10 - first published 2011)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 565
10.3 9, 10, 11A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
+10 task
+5 oldie (first published 1982)
+5 selfie
+20 combo (20.1; 20.2; 20.5; 20.6)
Post Total = 40
Season Total = 545
15.8 EotP ReduxPostcards by Annie Proulx
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1993
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (first published 1991)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 505
15.7 EotP ReduxThe Ballad Of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Recipient of Golden Pen Award, 1998
+15 task
+5 Oldies (first published 1960)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 485
from post 330 20.4 Saramago
Candide by Voltaire
+20 task
+20 oldies
+10 Lost in Translation
+5 Combo (20.8 - the task that just keeps dishing up surprises! - "and put before them four tureens of soup, each garnished with two parakeets" )
Post Total = 55
Season Total = 460
I forgot my own post re stamps, and hadn't added to my spreadsheet, ooops!
+5 combo 20.5
Total now 465
20.4 SaramagoCandide by Voltaire
+20 task
+20 oldies
+10 Lost in Translation
+5 Combo (20.8 - the task that just keeps dishing up surprises! - "and put before them four tureens of soup, each garnished with two parakeets" )
Post Total = 55
Season Total = 460
from Post 28610.10 Group Reads
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
+10 task
+10 combos (10.4; 20.10 - first published 2011)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 350
adding +5 combo 20.1, I just remembered Constable Peter Grant is mixed race, with his mother from Sierra Leone.
Season Total now 405
20.1 JemisinSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
+20 task
+30 combo(10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 20.8 - "Daddy is propped up on pillows when I walk into the bedroom, a bowl of chicken noodle soup on a pot holder before me," ; 20.9; 20.10 - first published 2011)
Post Total = 50
Season Total = 400
10.10 Group ReadsRivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
+10 task
+10 combos (10.4; 20.10 - first published 2011)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 350
10.2 OctoberfestThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Born in the US
+10 task
+ 20 combo (10.3; 10.9 - New York and Los Angeles; 20.6; 20.10 - first published in 2005)
Post Total = 30
Season Total = 330
20.8 Soup's On! (Owlette's Task)Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
(When the translator discusses how important food is in Vietnam in the introduction you just know you are going to get soup!)
"She had also made my favourite dish, a pork-filet soup with lily buds."
+20 Task
+10 Lost in Translation
+15 combo (10.2; 20.1; 20.10 - first published in 1988)
+5 oldies
Post Total = 50
Season Total = 300
10.8 House (Ann's Task)Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
+10 task
+ 5 oldies (first published in 1980)
+ 20 combo (10.2; 20.2; 20.8 - 3 mentions of soup including "She would switch on the radio and hum domestically while she heated our soup and toasted our sandwiches."; 20.9)
Post Total = 35
Season Total =250
20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task)The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
+20 task
+ 5 oldies (first published 1950)
+10 combo (20.2; 20.5)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 215
I just saw Hilary Mantel has passed.
20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) TaskThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
+20 task (first published 2011
+ 10 c0mbo (10.3; 20.6)
Post Total = 30
Season Total = 180
10.5 Autumn Colors (Rosemary's Task)Blue Nights by Joan Didion
+10 task
+ 20 combo (10.2; 10.3; 10.9 (New York and Los Angeles); 20.10 (2011))
Post Total = 30
Season Total =150
15.6 EotP ReduxFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Oregon Book Award Winner for Fiction 1997
+15 task
+5 before 1997 (first published 1996)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 120
15.5 EotP ReduxAmsterdam by Ian McEwan
International Dublin Literary Award Nominee 2000
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 100
15.4 EotP ReduxThe Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Princess of Asturias Award 2001
+15 task
+5 before 1997 (first published 1988)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 85
