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20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Games to Keep the Dark Away by Marcia Muller
Task=20
Combo= 10 (10.9-merlot; 20.4)
Oldie=5 (1984)
Task Total=35
Season Total=485
10.1; -----; -----; -----; 10.5; 10.6; -----; ----; ----; -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; -----; -----; -----; -----;
-----; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; -----; -----; -----; 20.9 (6x); -----;
10.9 Pub TriviaThe Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martínez
+10 Task shiraz: tHe oxfoRd murderS mArtIneZ
+10 Non-western
Task total: 20
Season total: 945
10.8 BirdsThe Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
Martin
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - pub 1992 ; 10.9 - T h e Good Fair ies of Ne w Y or k - whiskey ; 20.3 - the 2 fairies that are the central characters are women)
+5 Oldies (1992)
Task total = 30
Points total = 375
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x2) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 .... .... .... 20.9 (x2) 20.10
20.10 Family Days of Sugar and Spice by Loïc Clément
The graphic novel revolves around Eglantine the main character, her father who left her when she was little, her mother and her aunt.
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 395
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x2) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 .... .... .... 20.9 (x2) 20.10 (x2)
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Shelter Mountain. Robyn Carr. 4.8.21
Task: 20
Combo: 15 (10.9-cabernet; 20.10, 20.3)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 885
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); -----; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x4); 20.10(x4)
10.10 Group ReadsInto the Forest by Jean Hegland
+10 Task (Great recommendation, Marie!)
+10 Combo: 10.2, Jean; 10.3, pub. 1996
+5 Oldies
Task total: 25
Season total: 915
20.10 FamilyDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
20 pts 20.10 Family
5 pts. 10.3 nineties
5 pts 10.4 Spring
5 pts 10.9 Pub trivia absinthe
5 pts Oldies
Task total: 40 pts
Season total: 260 pts
10.1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10.9 ...
... ... ... 20.4 ... ... ... 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
B F G
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20.6 Achilles The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
+20 task
+20 combo (10.4, 20.3, 20.4, 20.9)
+5 oldies (1955)
+10 1001 books
Task Total: 55
Season Total: 205
15.1 Fabulous Firsts A Promised Land by Barack Obama
B-P
+15 Task
+5 Jumbo
+5 NF
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 230
If you haven't gotten to scoring this yet, I just asked in a later post to switch this to 10.2 instead of 10.9! Leaving this here for clarity! I also missed 5 combo points :) 10.9 Pub Trivia
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
+10 task (bourbon - b and o in chernobyl, u in untold, r in story, b in higginbotham, o in story, n in nuclear)
+5 jumbo (538 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 245
10.6 Sentence Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
+10 task
(no lexile)
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 255
10.1 EnjoyedKnight's Gambit by William Faulkner
+10 task (I read Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner in the winter)
+10 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia kahlua; 20.8 Queen of Short Fiction (5 short stories and a 111 page novella in this mystery/crime collection)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1949)
Task total: 25
Season total: 315
Task 20.2 Ann/eRead a book by an author who shares one of these names similar to Ann/e: Ann, Anne, Anna, Hannah, Nancy, Nanette, Anika (etc). This name can be in the first or middle position in an author's published name.
Meet Me at the Museum (2018) by Anne Youngson (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 272 pages)
+20 Task ('Anne')
+10 Combo (#10.2 (‘Anne’), #10.6 sentence)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 85 + 30 = 115
10.4 SpringGypsy by Carter Scholz
Pub 2015
+10 task
+5 combo 20.9 PM outspoken approved in help
Task total: 15
Grand total: 855
10.8 Birds (Kim's Task)The Redthroats by David Cale
Task=10
Combo= 5 (10.2)
Oldie=5 (1989)
Task Total=20
Season Total=505
10.1; -----; -----; -----; 10.5; 10.6; -----; 10.8; ----; -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; -----; -----; -----; -----;
-----; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; -----; -----; -----; 20.9 (6x); -----;
15.7 Fabulous Firsts, I-ZInheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 930
10.1 EnjoyedLast season I read Jazz by Toni Morrison
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
+10 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.2, 10.5, 20.1)
Task Total - 25 pts
20.6 AchillesThe Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
10.9 cabernet: ThE viNtnERs luCk elizABeth
20.3 author female, main character Sobran Jodeau male
20.10 involves 5 generations of the Jodeau family, plus other related families
+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.2, 10.3, 10.9, 20.3, 20.10)
Task total: 45
Season total: 990
10.9 Pub TriviaHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J.K. Rowling
asnbathe
Combo +10 (20.9, 10.5-mother)
Task +20
Grand Total: 170
10.3 NaughtyParable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
+10 Task (1998)
+5 Combo (10.9 - bourbon)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 395
10.2 Name The Little French Bistro. Nina George. 4.9.21
Task: 10
Combo: 5 (10.9-absinthe)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 900
10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); -----; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x4); 20.10(x4)
20.9 SeriesThe Moons of Barsk by Lawrence M. Schoen
+20 Task (ending makes it clear there is more to come)
+5 Combo (10.9 cabernet)
Task total = 25
Season Total=825
10.1 EnjoyedExit Strategy by Martha Wells
+10 task (I read Rogue Protocol by this author last season!)
+5 combo (20.9 - continuing a series)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 270
20.1 Prize A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
+20 task
+15 combo (10.3 - pub 1997, 10.9 - bourbon, 20.4)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 305
15.8 Fabulous Firsts, W-DWhen: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction
Task total: 20
Season total: 950
10.3 NaughtyInto the Forest. Jean Hegland. 4.10.21 Published in 1996
I read this probably 20 years ago and although I'm a different person, living in a different world, I enjoyed it as much this time, as last.
Task: 10
Combo: 15 (10.2, 10.10, 20.10)
Oldie: 5
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 930
10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x4); 20.10(x4)
15.5 Fab FirstsThe Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
E - S
+15 task
+5 nonfiction
+5 jumbo
Task total: 25
Season total: 200
10.9 Pub TriviaThe Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
+10 task vodka
+ 5 jumbo 512 pages
Task total: 15
Season total: 330
20.5 BalkansYes, I'm still in the Balkans.....
The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
>51% in Montenegro! Who knew Nero Wolfe left his house!! :)
20 task
5 oldie
15 combo 10.4, 10.9 cabernet, 20.9
____
40
Running total: 635
Task 15.04 Fabulous FirstsThe Haunting of H. G. Wells (2020) by Robert Masello
H – R
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 115 + 15 = 130
20.4 CrimeThe Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
+20 task
+15 combo (10.4, 10.9 cabernet - BluNdEREr pATriCia, 20.3 female author/male POV Walter Stackhouse)
+ 5 oldies (1954)
Task total=40
Season total=310
20.9 SeriesThe Science of Herself by Karen Joy Fowler
Task total: 20 pm outspoken approved in help
Grand total: 875
20.9 SeriesThe School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
+20 task
+ 5 combo 20.3 - written by a man, nearly all from pov of two girls
Task total: 25
Grand total: 900
9From Post 492 Coralie wrote: "20.6 Achilles491Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
+20 Task #147 on Best Gay fiction
+10 Combo (10.9 Kahlua, 10.2)
+5 Oldies (published 1976)
+10 Non-Western
Task..."
+10 1001 books
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 Cabernet: max CArrados ERNEsT Bramah, 20.8)
+10 Oldies (pub 1914)
Points this post: 40
RwS total: 360
Fan1sts total: -
Season Total: 360
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 10.9 ....
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... 20.2 20.3 20.4 .... .... .... 20.8 20.9 20.10
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
Task=20
Combo= 5 (10.2)
Task Total=25
Season Total=530
10.1; -----; -----; -----; 10.5; 10.6; -----; 10.8; ----; -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; -----; -----; -----; -----;
-----; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; -----; -----; -----; 20.9 (7x); -----;
15.6 Fabulous FirstsThe Midwife's Apprentice.Karen Cushman. 4.11.21
T-K
The Lexile on this is 1150
Task: 15
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 945
10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x4); 20.10(x4)
20.10 FamilyNobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
Mostly in the voice of her grandmother, the author tells four generations worth of their family history
+20 task
+5 Combo 10.9 - absinthe - NoBody ... THIS ... bEss kAlb
+5 combo 10.6
+5 combo 10.2
Task total: 35
RWScompletion: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Grand total: 1235
Beth wrote: "20.10 FamilyNobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
Mostly in the voice of her grandmother, the author tells four generations..."
Well done, Beth! ...... and fast, too!
Beth wrote: "RWScompletion: 100Mega Finish: 200"
Congratulations! Well done! (and before halfway!)
10.7 CodebreakerIn Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
+10 task
+15 combo 10.2 Name; 10.9 Pub Trivia baileys; 20.10 Family (3 generations of Lord Westerham's family which includes 5 daughters and a grandson)
Task total: 25
Season total: 355
Season total:
20.1 PrizeThe Dutch House by Ann Patchett
+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.2, 20.3, 20.10)
Task total = 35
Season Total=870
20.7 Real PersonGirl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
As mention on the resume GR page, and the wikipedia page for Constance Kopp
+20 Task
+30 Combo (10.4 - 2015 ; 10.6 ; 10.9 - riesling : Girls wa i t s with gu n , Amy St e wart ; 20.4 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 - 3 generations, see wikipedia page above but there's a bit of spoilers)
Task total = 50
Points total = 445
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x2) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 .... 20.7 .... 20.9 (x2) 20.10 (x2)
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+5 Not Fiction
Task total: 20
Season total: 890