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15.5 Page Count As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
+15 task (259 pages)
+100 completion!
+50 all living authors
Task Total: 165
Season Total: 775
20.1 LifetimeThe Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
+20 task
+5 Combo 10.2 Relative
+5 Combo 20.9 Addiction
Task Total: 30 pts
Grand Total: 260 pts
15.1 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
MPE 30pgs - approved in thread
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling MPE 109 pgs lexile 1230
+15 Task
Grand Total: 275 pts
20.6 Lit MapThere Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.2 Relative
+5 Combo 10.6 Keep it Short
+5 Combo 10.8 Fantasy
+5 Combo 20.1 Lifetime - born 1938
+5 Combo 20.3 Aged - aged 80 years
+10 LIT
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 65 pts
Grand Total: 340 pts
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 809 Marie wrote: "20.1 LifetimeBorn around 1966 according to this article
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (non-fiction)
Task total = 30
Points total = 130/b>"
Hi Marie - we'll need a book for t..."
Oops sorry ! here is my post again, with the book this time :)
20.1 Lifetime
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Born around 1966 according to this article
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (non-fiction)
Task total = 30
Points total = 130
30.1 Holiday Bonus! The Prospector by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Takes place in Mauritius (except a small part in France)
+30 Task
+20 Combo (20.1 - 1940 ; 20.3 - 77 years old)
Task total = 50
Points total = 180/b>
20.3 AgedHaunted: Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 task
+15 combo (10.6; 20.1; 20.4)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=45
Grand total=1505
20.4 DoctorateThe Life and Loves of a He Devil by Graham Norton
+20 task (approved in help thread)
+5 Combo (20.1 born 1963)
Points this post: 25
RwS total: 945
PC total: 45
Season Total: 990
Thank you, Mods, for all your help and hard work this season. As always, it was a lot of fun.
20.3 AgedSins of the Fathers by Ruth Rendell
+20 task
+10 combo (20.1; 20.4)
Task total=30
Grand total=1535
15.9 Page Count - 2nd roundMain Street by Sinclair Lewis
454 pages
pub. 1920
+15 Task
+100 Completion
+100 published before 1950
Post Total: 215
Season Total: 1,630
20.1 LifetimeThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (1964)
+20 task
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Total: 20
Season total: 140
Post 1073 Marina wrote: "(In case you check and can't find this among my books - it's because it's part of this book: The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Volume 3, which I'm currently reading but have already finished said novel. I hope this is allowed) "We don't check your shelves, the honor system works here. However you access a title is fine.
Post 1097Rebekah wrote: "20.1 LifetimeThe Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul (b. 1947)
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combos (10.2, 10.4, 10.5, 20.8-starts lif..."
I don't see this as having won one of the specific awards for 10.5, but it qualifies for both 10.9 and 20.1, so you come out ahead on the combos.
10.9 The power of fiveCurling for Dummies by Bob Weeks
10 task
5 combo 20.1 (the google search gives April 16, 1960 as his bday - from his twitter profile??, but wikipedia doesn't show this...)
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15
Final total: 1590
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "20.1 LifetimeThe Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul (b. 1947)
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combos (10.2, 10.4, 10.5,..."
No when I first got it, that's what I planned to use it for, but only about the first the part about her childhood which is about a third. Then she flies to Europe on a scholarship and the rest is about her life there until the very end of the book when she burns out and flies home. I was so disappointed about the points! Now I'm finishing up one about Algiers to get those Holiday points!
I still have till MN Eastern Time to post my books and get credit, right? I've even hired a baby sitter for my grandson today and have either been keeping my eyes on a book or one in my ears since last night except for some brief sleeping time. : )
Rebekah wrote: "I still have till MN Eastern Time to post my books and get credit, right?"Yes - midnight Eastern!
20.2 ScottishCurriculum Vitae: Autobiography by Muriel Spark
+20 pts - Task
+25 pts - Combo (10.9, 20.1,20.3,20.4,20.6)
+10 pts - Not Novel
Task Total - 55 pts
Season Total - 445
30.1 Holiday Bonus!Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar
+30 pts - Task
+40 pts - Combo (10.2,10.4,10.5, 10.6,10.9, 20.1,20.3, 20.4)
+10 pts - Not Novel
+10 pts - LiT
Task Total - 90 pts
Season Total - 535
20.10 First Person (Elizabeth (Alaska))Foe by J.M. Coetzee
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime / 20.3 Aged / 20.4 Doctorate
(+ 5 10.7 For Real - Daniel DeFoe?)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 45 or 50
Season Total: 2135 or 2140
20.7 Winter/Summer (Karin's Task)The Christmas Joy Ride by Melody Carlson
+20 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 You can see from her photo and book publication dates she fits, but here is the link to her birthdate (1956) on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_...
Task total = 25
Season Total - 535
20.1 LifetimeThe Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley
You can see from his bio and that he's still alive he fits, but here is the wikipedia link to show he's born in 1938 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Br...
+20 Task
+5 combo 20.3 born in 1938 so over 57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Br...
Task total = 25
Season Total - 560
20.10 First PersonDash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
+20 Task (fiction told in the first person by alternating narrators)
+15 Combo (10.9 "David"; 20.1 authors born in 1968 and 1972; 20.7--entirely set between the week before Christmas and New Years in New York)
Task total: 35
Season total: 1825
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This will be my last post for the season, too. Thanks so much to the mods for a fantastic season and for all of their hard work!!
30.1 Holiday Bonus!The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia by Andrew Harding
+30 task (set more than 51% in Somalia)
+5 combo (20.1 - http://www.andrew-harding.com/about/#bio - he began his journalism career in 1991 so that puts him in the right age range)
+10 not a novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 810
Thanks for another great season, moderators!
15.7 Page CountMurder at Mansfield Park byLynn Shepherd 363 pages
Task total: 15
Season total: 615
Thank you, moderators, for a wonderful winter season!
Congratulations to all players this season. A special note is taken of those who achieved personal high scores or completion goals!On to Spring!
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Murder at Mansfield Park (other topics)The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia (other topics)
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade by Kevin Brockmeier
+15 Task (208 pages)
Season Total: 610