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15.1 Name of the Game A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
8B - Letter G - Author name has no letter G
17D- Letter E - Title has no letter E
7E - Letter N - New to you author.
11B - Letter T - Pub'd in the Teens - any century (2019)
Word: GENT
Total: 15
Season total: 695
15.7 - Name of the GameTrick or Treat by Kerry Greenwood
Square 12C - letter S - 4th in series
Square 2B - letter E - 2 plus "E's" in author name
Square 3B - letter A - set in country beginning with "A" - Australia
Word - SEA
+ 20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 305
15.8 - Name of the GameBlue Bird by Trish Finnegan
Square 11D - letter H - published 2020
Square 9B - letter I - set on island - UK
Square 10E - letter T - no "THE" in title
Word - HIT
+30 task
Task total: 30
Grand total: 335
15.2 Name of the GameTender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
12E - Letter H - Highly Rated: Read a book rated 5 stars by another RwS member (Lisa rated 5 stars)
3D- Letter E - A book with an 8 (or better) word title.
2B - Letter R - Ratings: 10K plus
3E - Letter E - "END" - the word! First, last or contained in a word or author's name
Word: HERE
Total: 15
Bonus - 5 Not a novel
Season total: 715
15.3 Name of the Game Return to Virgin River by Robyn Carr
16D - Letter L - An author's last or most recent novel (book)
D6 - Letter I - Author name has no letter I
14D - Letter T - Title words of To, Too, or Two
Word: LIT
Total: 15
Season Total: 730
15.4 Name of the GameMurder in the Mystery Suite by Ellery Adams
11C - Letter T- MPG: Thriller
2E - Letter R - Series name includes the letter R (Book Retreat Mysteries #1)
15C - Letter Y - One of author's names ends in Y
Word: TRY
Total: 15
Season Total: 745
15.5 Name of the GameMagic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
12D - Letter H- Hot off the press (pub'd 2020)
5E - Letter E- Double Trouble: Title or author name has consecutive letters that are the same
2C - Letter R - MPG: Romance
17E - Letter D - Novel has Eight or more named characters
Word: HERD
Total: 20
Season Total: 765
15.8 Name of the GameThe Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
Square 9E- Letter I- Set in Ireland
Square 15E-Letter L- MPG-LGBT
Square 16E-Letter E- Author born in Europe
Word: LIE
+30 Task
Season total: 225
15.5 Name of the GameNetwork Effect by Martha Wells
Square 8B - letter W – author’s last name begins W
Square 3D - letter A – MPG Adventure
Square 12C - letter S– #5 in series
Word = WAS
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 655
20.9 Nieces (Kate S's Task)The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
Charley Sutherland is a 26-year-old genius in the field of literary criticism. He is also a book "summoner" - he can pull characters and objects from books. Charley has a 30-year-old brother -Rob- a practicing defense lawyer with no summoning abilities. He has known of Charley's ability since childhood and the entire family tries to keep Charley's secret. The story begins with Uriah Heep (con man character from Dickens' David Copperfield) being accidentally summoned by Charley who phones Rob in the middle of the night for help.
I thought that the story was amazingly creative and had much action. The place - Wellington, New Zealand - was well-described and interesting. I loved David Copperfield, so that is why I decided to read this book--I'm not a regular reader of fantasy. The last 100 pages or so were confusing to me with partially developed or disappearing and reappearing worlds and fictional versus "real" characters; maybe the "new world" line would have been easy/routine for a regular reader of magical realism.
I liked the way the dialogue seemed to match the literary characters in style and wording and that the description provided enough detail that a reader would not need to have read the summoned character's home book. Most summoned characters were not from David Copperfield. Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, the Hound of the Baskervilles, Mr. Darcy (five of them), Heathcliff, Matilda Wormwood, Lancelot, the Artful Dodger, and Dorian Gray all make appearances, as does Charles Dickens. Lots of action and surprises and much history and development of the brothers' relationship. Recommended!
+20 Task (shelved by 76 users as Books about books)
+10 Combo 10.4 ("U") and 10.5 (Charley and Charles Dickens are authors)
+10 Review
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 255
10.8 Lunar (Tien's Task)The New Year, 2021 will be The Year of the Ox.
Read a book first published in a year of the Ox: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021.
Foucault (1985) by José Guilherme Merquior
Task Points = 10
Combo = 5 (10.3 1st name begins with J)
Total Task Points = 15
Season Total = 480
20.3 Post-ModernTracks by Louise Erdrich
Set between 1912-1924 in North Dakota, "Tracks" is chronologically the earliest novel in the "Love Medicine" series about some Anishinaabe families. They are caught between the traditions of the indigenous people and the white culture. The book has two narrators--Nanapush, a tribal elder, and Pauline, a mixed-breed orphan whose accounts of events are unreliable. The book opens with tribal numbers being diminished by influenza and consumption, spread by soldiers returning home from World War I.
The Anishinaabe traditionally lived off the plants, fish, and wildlife from their land. but they could not afford the high government taxes on the land. Some land was sold to loggers in order to survive, but clear cutting the trees drove away the wildlife. Hunger, especially during the winter, was a terrible problem.
The tribe was used to trading goods and cooperating as a group before white culture moved in. Later, each family had to use money and try individually to hold on to their plot of land. Eventually, most of the land was sold to the government or lumber companies.
Religion plays a large role in the book. Fleur is a vigorous woman with strong ties to her tribal roots, and spirits in the woods and lake. Fleur is also a skilled hunter, forager, and herbalist. Pauline, in contrast, rejects her native American roots and embraces Christianity. She joins a convent but spends her time in self-flagellation instead of doing good deeds. She exhibits signs of madness as she fights with the Devil, and causes conflict within the tribe.
Author Louise Erdrich weaves together family stories, indigenous traditions, tribal conflicts, and the influence of white culture. There are interesting, quirky characters that will show up again in her "Love Medicine" series of books.
+20 task
+10 review
Task total: 30
Season total: 285
Post 369 Marie wrote: "20.4 ScienceEinstein : Le fantastique voyage d’une souris dans l’espace-temps by Torben Kuhlmann
+20 Task
No style as it is a children's book
Task total = 20
P..."
Thank you for your honesty about its being a children's book. But, good news! Our rule is about its being shelved as such at the Brooklyn Public Library and they don't have this title. That means all styles allowed. I have added it to 10.4 Valentines for the 5-point combo. If you see it also fits somewhere else let us know.
Post 371 Ed wrote: "10.2 ChristmasFor Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
This book is the 8th volume in the James Bond series.... which I had not expected to like....but did. This book is diff..."
Sorry, Ed. This doesn't work for 10.3 which is for an author's first name beginning with D, J, F.
15.2The Nine Lives of Christmasby Sheila Roberts
square 7C-Goodreads author-G
square 2D-8 or better word title-E
square 8D-wildcard- L
word: LEG
Task +15
Grand Total: 95
15.3 Name of the GameOne of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
Square 1C - Letter R - MPG Romance
Square 16E - Letter E - Novel has 8 or more named characters
Square 5D - Letter I - Author name has no letter I
Square 6D - Letter N - Title has a number
Word: REIN
+15 task
Grand Total: 185 pts
15.6 The Name of the GameHow to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Square 12B - letter S = <199 pgs (192 pgs)
Square 6B - letter N = not a novel
Square 8D - letter A = wild card
Square 13D - letter T = title has 'to'
Square 11D - letter H = hot of the press (2020)
word = SNATH
20 task
5 not a novel
____
25
Running total: 480
10.4 Valentine'sThe Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker
I'm glad I read this play although I can't say that I enjoyed it very much. This is a romantic comedic Elizabethan play published in 1599. I'm glad I read it as a historical piece but it is so bogged down in ancient slang and wordplay, that I could not enjoy it as I'm sure it was intended. Thankfully, the edition I read was chock full of footnotes to explain things...like "laced mutton" was a double entendre referring to prostitutes. Many other cryptic references were left unexplained. One character's speech was either Dutch or a Dutch-inspired English accent....I couldn't tell...and his passages went unknown to me. Nevertheless, the premise of the play was that a father objected to the character who his daughter wished to marry creating much subterfuge. The character Firk says everything with a sexual double entendre...and I'm sure if I understood, it would be hilarious. Unfortunately I didn't understand until I read the Wikipedia synopsis.
Task=10
Review=10
Task Total=20
Grand Total= 370
....; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ....; ....; 10.7; ....; .....; 10.10
15.1; 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5; 15.6
....; 20.2; 20.3 ; .....; .....; .....; .....; 20.8; .....; .....
15.6 The Name of the GameThe House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
12B - Letter H - MPG: Historical Fiction
17E - Letter E - Author born in Europe (France)
8C - Letter G - Goodreads Author
Word: HEG (n. a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.)
Total: 20
Season Total: 785
10.6 NotableThe Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Intense. Amazing. Fantastic writing. It’s always a shame I can’t leave a review of 4 words. In the first third or so of this book I found it so intense I had to stop, jump up and wander around the house a little just to clear my head. ‘It’s ok, I’m still in boring old Fonthill.’ Then I was able to buckle down.
This is tagged as a sci-fi, dystopia. Which it is, but it’s also so much more. It’s about memory, memories, human relationships. The story takes place in an isolated (Japanese?) island where extreme totalitarianism reigns. Things disappear and people quite quickly forget they even existed. The premise is subtle of course, because in reality we do forget things that we haven’t seen in twenty or more years.
I would definitely recommend this book; and would go as far as recommending it to those who don’t normally think of sci-fi as their thing. 5*
10 task
10 review
10 LiT
5 combo 10.5
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35
Running total: 515
15.3 Name of the GameMaking Art a Practice: How to Be the Artist You Are by Cat Bennett
15 pts 15.3 Name of the Game
5 pts Not a Novel
D E4 Double Trouble: Title or author name has consecutive letters that are the same
E D2 A book with an 8 (or better) word title.
N B6 Not a Novel
Y E14 Title Words: You, Your, You're, Yore
Word: Deny
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 295 pts
10.1 ... 10.3 10.4 ... ... ... 10.8 ... ...
... 20.2 20.3 20.4 ... ... ... ... ... ...
15.1. 15.2 15.3 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 - Four Letter Word (NoG)
From Post 357Beth wrote: "10.6 NYT Noteable
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
#2 on 2016 list
This was a really good book and I see why it got so many awards. The playing with rea..."
+5 Combo 10.4
From Post 377Rebekah wrote: "10.7 La Nina
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Review
Five Days at Memorial
This book is another perspective on the ..."
+5 Combo 10.6
From Post 384Katy wrote: "10.3 Winter
Knife by Jo Nesbø
I got back into the Harry Hole series recently and once I read #11 (which was crazy!) I was eager to get onto this one. Harry Hole i..."
+5 Jumbo
15.4 Name of the GameRound 2
The Exphoria Code (Brigitte Sharp #1) by [author:Antony Johnston
Square 1E - letter R - "R" in series name
Square 3C - letter A - author born in Aug
Square 14D - letter Y - MPG: Mystery
Word: RAY
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 920
20.3 PostmodernThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Task Points = 20
Combo = 5 (10.3 1st name begins with J)
Total Task Points = 25
Season Total = 505
10.7 La Nina (Valerie's Task)It is a 'La Nina' year, and predictions are for lots of wintery weather here in Eastern Canada.
Read a book where weather plays a major role. (examples: The Dry, Mother of Storms, Winter Study, The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet, etc)
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak by Andy Hall -- (weather related climbing disaster)
Task Points: 10
Season Points So Far: 515
15.5 Name of the GameBattle Ground by Jim Butcher
Square 11D - Letter H - pub 2020
Square 16E - Letter E - 8+ named characters
Square 1E - Letter R - Series R
Word: HER
Task total: 20
Grand total: 315
Post 417 Rachel wrote: "15.3 Name of the GameOne of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
Square 1C - Letter R - MPG Romance
Square 16E - Letter E - Novel has 8 or more named characters
Squar..."
Rachel, I'm so sorry. This is shelved as YA Fiction at BPL and has a Lexile score of 740. It does not qualify for Name of the Game.
10.2 ChristmasSchindler's List by Thomas Keneally
This is the unlikely but (lightly fictionalized) true story of the German factory-owner Oskar Schindler who saved the lives of over 1,000 Polish Jewish people during the holocaust, not by hiding them or smuggling them out of the country, but by employing them in plain sight in his factories even if they were too weak to work, and wining, dining and bribing SS officers so that they weren't shipped out to Auschwitz along with all the other Jewish inhabitants of Krakow (or in the case of one group of women, getting them out of Auschwitz after they'd been transported in). It's a terrible story because of what happened to all of those he couldn't save - there are parts where it seems like one long catalogue of murders and beatings and starvation - but the risks Schindler and his workers took, and his and their success against the odds, are jawdropping.
I saw the movie when it came out in the 90s but I'd never read the book. Obviously it is far from cheerful and perhaps a strange choice of audiobook for cold, dark, virus-ridden January days, but it seemed to fit.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+10 Prizeworthy x 2
Task total: 35
Season Total: 445
20.2 JazzInformation Received by E.R. Punshon
Rich Sir Christopher Clarke is shot dead in his billiard room, while the safe in his study lies open and empty. PC Bobby Owen, on duty at the gate, inveigles himself off the beat and into the CID’s investigation.
This is the first in the Bobby Owen series of mysteries by E R Punshon, who had a sudden hit with it after churning out other genre fiction in the past. Dorothy Sayers gave it a rave review, and from the introduction to this edition it sounds like Punshon and his publishers were amazed – so am I. It’s enjoyable, but (view spoiler) there were few surprises. But there was more atmosphere and characterization to it than in some lesser-known Golden Age mysteries.
+20 Task (published 1933 and set at that time)
+10 Review
Task total: 30
Season Total: 475
15.5 Name of the GameRound 2
Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It by D.B.C. Pierre
Square 7B - letter G - no "G" in author's name
Square 2B - letter E - author's name has 2 E's
Square 6B - letter N - Not-a-Novel
Square 2D - letter E - 9-word title
Word: GENE
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 940
20.10 Grand MasterThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Christie is always a comfort read for me. After ‘The Memory Police’ I needed something lighter and fun. Somehow, I didn’t have this novel in my collection until recently so I haven’t read and reread it repeatedly, which made it fresh.
This is Christie’s debut novel. It is also Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings debut – oh, and Inspector Japp (whose name is Jimmy! who knew?). It is set during WW1, Hastings has been invalided out (and is invited to stay with friends at Styles) and Poirot is part of a group of Belgian refugees billeted in the village where Styles is located.
A death occurs at Styles and Poirot is asked to investigate. This is where the fun begins – we are introduced to Hastings and his open and innocent countenance, his jumping to conclusions, and his fatal attraction to beautiful women. Poirot is quite lively here, gadding about more than he does in future novels. However, he is still Poirot – charming, quick on the uptake, playing his cards close to his chest, and supremely confident in his abilities.
I thought Christie laid the mystery (mysteries) out well, and she made the characters interesting. It is well worth reading if you like Golden Age mysteries and an impressive debut. 4.5*
20 task
10 review
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30
Running total: 545
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 371 Ed wrote: "10.2 ChristmasFor Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
This book is the 8th volume in the James Bond series.... which I had not expected to like....but di..."
ok....I should have caught that. I'll switch it to The Name of the Game below.
15.7 Name of the GameFor Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
A- 3D- Adventure
R- 1B- >11,000 rtatings
Y- 14E- "Your"
E- 16B - Born in UK
Word = "RYE"
Task=20
NaN=5 (short stories)
<1996=5
Task Total=30
Grand Total= 310
....; ....; 10.3; ....;....; ....; 10.7; ....; .....; 10.10
15.1; 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5; 15.6; 15.7
....; 20.2; .....; .....; .....; .....; .....; 20.8; .....; .....;
10.1 Square PegLettice and Lovage: A Comedy by Peter Shaffer
This was a quick, easy and pleasurable play to read. Lettice Douffet is a tour guide in a fairly unremarkable Georgian-style home in England when she gets fired by Lotte because she keeps embellishing the history. Lotte visits Lettice to assist her in finding a new job.... but in the process gets drawn into Lettice's imagination and play-acting. Harmless enough until...well, until something happens to potentially expose their strange private behaviors. When staged, Maggie Smith originally played the role of Lettice....and I can imagine that she dryly played it for all it was worth...and I imagine many laughs were earned. Four stars.
Task=10
Review=10
Task Total=20
Grand Total= 330
10.1; ....; 10.3; ....;....; ....; 10.7; ....; .....; 10.10
15.1; 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5; 15.6; 15.7
....; 20.2; .....; .....; .....; .....; .....; 20.8; .....; .....;
15.9 Name of the GameThose Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith
Square 8C - Letter W - "who" in title
Square 11C - Letter H - author name begins with H
Square 14B - Letter Y - set in Italy
Word = WHY
+30 Task
+ 5 B4 1996 (pub'd 1967)
Task total = 35
Season total = 400
20.6 CaribbeanCrossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé
This story takes place entirely on the island of Guadeloupe. It is the kind of book where multiple voices and perspectives are presented around a single event, in this case the funeral of Sancher. And the perspectives reveal much about the dead man,each other, and the community in which they live.
It did not particularly excite me. It was easy enough to read with the characters being distinct and contradicting each other, as people do. They spanned a variety of economic classes, skin colors, ages and genders. Minimal dialect and non-English words were used, with footnotes where needed. It was a window into another culture, which was reasonably interesting.
I did end up disappointed to never find out about what was going on with Sancher, but it was clear that the removal of objective truth, and the interior truth of the dead man, was a significant part of the point.
+20 task
+10 review
+5 combo 10.4
Task total: 35
Grand total: 595
Corrected- missed +10 translated
Total 605
10.9 The Fifth Season (Ann's Task)The Shadowed Sun (Dreamblood #2) by N.K. Jemisin
Review
The description of this second book is basically a giveaway of the ending for book 1. And in a way, since there is a second book, the ending of this one wasn't that surprising either.
10 years have passed since the end of book 1 and in this sequel, different protagonists take the stage. A prince in exile and a woman Sharer-Apprentice (which was not heard of) found themselves thrown together to save their home physically and psychically.
I felt that I had to drag myself through reading this novel; there isn't any particular thing that I didn't like. It's just that I didn't find it interesting enough. It is definitely not as intriguing as The Broken Earth trilogy.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - S for Shadowed)
+10 Review
+5 Prize-worthy (Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) for Best Fantasy Novel (2012))
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 970
20.2 JazzThe Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude
+20 Task (From Chapter 1 "On July 20th, 193-, a Saturday....)
+10 Combo (10.3 J, 10.4 S)
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 160
NoTG total: -
Season Total: 160
.... .... 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 .... .... 10.10
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.... 20.2 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 20.10
10.4 ValentineSeven by Farzana Doctor
I am officially a Farzana Doctor fangirl. Earlier this year, I read All Inclusive, which couldn't be more different from this book. In Seven, we meet a New York family about to travel to India for an extended stay (a professional trip for the husband, and a break between jobs for the wife, plus a chance for their seven year old to experience the ancestral homeland and meet the extended family). The book explores the intersection of traditions with changing values, female genital mutilation and its impact on the community and the women, and notions of identity. This is a powerful read and I highly recommend it.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.3)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 340
15.6 Name of the GameJudgment in Death by J.D. Robb
Square 4D - Letter D - death
Square 5E - Letter I - two initials
Square 10E - Letter T - no "the" in title
Square 12E - Letter S - sci fi
Word = DITS
Task total: 20
Grand total: 360
15.10 Name of the GameUntouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
D - 4 b (His first novel, Untouchable, published in 1935, is a chilling exposé of the lives of India's untouchable caste. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulk_Ra...)
I - 5 b (post #128 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
G - 7 d (Guardian List #572)
DIG
+45 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - pub in 1935
+100 pts - Completion Bonus
+100 pts - Bonus for 3 or more 4 letter words ( post #297 HERD, #298 HILT, #301 NAIL, #302 NEST)
Task total - 250 pts
Season Total - 630
15.6 Name of the GameRound 2
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
Square 12E - letter S - MPG: Science Fiction
Square 11D - letter H - Pub'd 2020
Square 2C - letter E - Ex- in title (Extravagant)
Square 15D - letter L - author's most recent novel
Square 15E - letter L - MPG: LGBT
Word: SHELL
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 990
10.4 Valentine'sSelected Short Stories by William Faulkner
During the early 20th Century, William Faulkner wrote some wonderful short stories about the South. "A Rose for Emily," a gothic story about a recluse in a changing Southern town, is one of Faulkner's best. "Barn Burning" shows a boy who has to decide whether to follow his conscience or remain loyal to his family while knowing that his father is an arsonist. "Dry September" is an especially well-written story about racial prejudice. Be aware that Faulkner does use the language of that era regarding African-Americans, but he is showing the injustice toward them.
Faulkner also writes stories about wars and their aftermath--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. "Two Soldiers" is narrated by a young boy who wanted to follow his brother into the army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. "Mountain Victory" is set just after the Civil War ended.
Faulkner's short stories are a good introduction to this Southern author. Some feature characters that also have roles in his Yoknapatawpha County novels. Most of the stories in this collection were previously published in the Saturday Evening Post, Scribners, or American Mercury so this is a high quality collection.
+10 task
+10 review
Task total: 20
Season total: 305
20.2 JazzMurder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher #20) by Kerry Greenwood
1929
Review
Phryne Fisher is at it again. Solving murders, joining in revelries, encountering gorgeous men, and this time, a little bit of matchmaking. Well, the matchmaking sounds like a lot of work because the guy was a little more than clueless. Well-tensioned plot with unguessable ending (not even for our intrepid detective), Murder & Mendelssohn is a lovely romp through Melbourne streets.
Note: I feel that Jack Robinson is so different from the first time that we encounter him in Cocaine Blues though... and he's definitely NOT the Jack Robinson of the tv series. I'm a little thrown by this...
+20 Task
+10 Review
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1,020
15.7Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
Square 11B - H - mpg historical fiction
Square 16C - E - published in eighties - 1980
Square 9E - I - set in Ireland
Square 4E - D - author has double letters in name
Word - HIDE
First four letter word
+20 task
+5 age
Task total: 25
Grand total: 630
15.8 Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter
Square 10B - T - published in teens
Square 2D - E - more than 8 words in title
Square 9D - I - eye in title
Square 15D - L - most recent book by author
Word - TILE
2nd 4 letter word
+30 task
+5 not a novel
Task total: 35
Grand total: 665
15.8 Name of the GameRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Square 10C - letter T - MPG Thriller
Square 11C - letter H - author first or last name begins with H
Square 14D - letter Y - MPG Mystery
Word = THY
+30 Task
+ 5 Pre-1996 (1929)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 510
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Zero Day by David Baldacci
Square 1B - letter R - +10k rating (67,988)
Square 3C - letter A - born in August (August 5)
Square 7B - letter G - no "G" in author name
Word - RAG
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 285