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20.4 CrimeSeduction in Death by J.D. Robb
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9 - cabernet, 20.9)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 700
From Post 661Tien wrote: "10.5 Mother
The Shadows in the Street (Simon Serrailler #5) by Susan Hill
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.2 - HILL; 20.3; 20.4; 20.9)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1989)
Post Total: 35
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I show a publication date of 2010, so no oldies for this title.
From Post 664Katy wrote: "10.5 Mother
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
+10 task
+10 combo (20.4, 20.9)
+10 oldies (pub 1922)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 345"
+5 Combo 20.3
From Post 665Katy wrote: "20.2. Ann/e
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
+20 task
+20 combo (10.3 pub 1999, 10.8, 20.4, 20.9)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 385"
+5 Jumbo
From Post 685Coralie wrote: "20.8 Queen of Short Fiction
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir edited by Gary Phillips
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 cabernet)
Task total = 25
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+5 Combo 10.2
From Post 686Heather wrote: "10.1 Gray: Part II by Lou Cadle
+10 task
Task total: 10
Season total: 10"
+10 Combo 10.4, 20.9
From Post 687Heather wrote: "10.2 Lock In by John Scalzi
+ 10 task
Task total: 10
Season total: 20"
+5 Combo 20.9
From Post 688Heather wrote: "10.3 Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
+ 10 task
+ 15 jumbo
Task total: 25
Season total: 45"
+5 Combo 10.9
20.4 CrimeAn Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell
+20 task
+35 combo (10.2, 10.4, 10.5, 10.8, 10.9 vodka - An Unkindness of Ravens, 20.3, 20.9)
+ 5 oldies (1985)
Task total=60
Grand total: 1435
With thanks to Denise for a high scoring book. I would have never read it otherwise and it just kept unfolding. Good read.
Task 10.02 NameABSINTHE
ruTHErford, Adam – a BrIef hiStory of everyoNe who ever lived
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes (2016) by Adam Rutherford [611]
+10 Task (author: ADAM)
+05 Combo (#10.9 ABSINTHE)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 265 + 15 = 280
20.4 CrimeBaltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.3, pub 1997; 10.9 Merlot: baLTiMORE; 20.9
Task total: 35
Season total: 1470
10.10 Group ReadsThanks for recommending this one Elizabeth. Hardy is one of my favorite authors. I enjoyed reading this and I already turned on two other friends to it.
Winter by Christopher Nicholson
Task=10
Combo= 10 (20.3; 20.7)
Task Total=20
Season Total=695
10.1; 10.2; -----; -----; 10.5; 10.6; -----; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; -----; -----;
-----; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; -----; 20.7; -----; 20.9 (9x); -----;
10.10 Group ReadsTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.9 Amaretto: TRAnscendEnT kingdOM yAa gyasi, 20.1, 20.10)
+10 Non-western
Points this post: 35
RwS total: 395
Fan1sts total: -
Season Total: 395
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 10.9 10.10
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... 20.2 20.3 20.4 .... .... .... 20.8 20.9 20.10
20.6 AchillesGiovanni's Room by James Baldwin
+20 task
+10 combo (10.4 - 1956, 10.9 - riesling)
+10 1001
+ 5 oldies
Task total = 45
Season total = 470
10.9 Pub Trivia (Anika's Task)Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández
+10 Task: Shiraz: SlAsH claudIa heRnandeZ
+10 Non Western (El Salvador)
Post Total=20
Season Total=890
10.10 Group ReadsA Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (lambic)
Post Total=15
Season Total=905
20.1 PrizeHow the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (amaretto)
+10 Non Western (Barbados)
Post Total=35
Season Total=940
15.10 Fabulous FirstsL-T
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
+20 Task
+ 5 Not a Novel
Task total = 25
+100 Completion Bonus
Season total = 595
20.10 Family (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (vodka)
+ 5 Jumbo
Post Total=30
Correction= 10
Season Total=980
10.4 SpringKitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.2 ; 10.9 - chardonnay : Kit ch e n/b> s o/b> f the great midwest, J. Ryan/b> Str ad/b> al ; 20.3 - each chapter is following the POV of one character, most of the being women ; 20.10 - separated parents, daughter, uncle and aunt, cousins)
Task total = 30
Points total = 560
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... 10.4 .... 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x4) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 .... 20.9 (x2) 20.10 (x2)
20.2 Ann/eRun by Ann Patchett
+20 task
+15 combo 10.6 Sentence; 20.3 Opposites (most of the main characters are men); 20.10 Family (lots of family--adoptive family, birth family, an uncle, flashback going back four generations)
Task total: 35
Season total: 525
10.9 Pub TriviaArizona Politicians: The Noble and the Notorious by James W. Johnson
10 pts 10.9 Pub Trivia shiraz
Task total: 10 pts
Season total: 330 pts
10.1 10.2 ... ... ... 10.6 ... ... 10.9 ...
... ... ... 20.4 ... ... ... 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 ... ... ... ... ... ...
A B F G
Q U V W
20.5 BalkansHelena. Evelyn Waugh
Task: 20
Combo: 15 (10.4 - 1950, 20.3, 20.7)
Oldie - 5
Post Total: 40
RwS Finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Season Total: 1685
10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x5); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9;15.10;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3(x5); 20.4(x3); 20.5;20.6; 20.7; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x5); 20.10(x4)
10.5 MotherHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.3 - pub 1998
+5 Combo 10.9 - LAMBIC
+5 Combo 20.3 Opposites - Female Author, Male Character
+5 Combo 20.9 Series
Task Total: 30pts
Grand Total: 430pts
15.7 Fab FirstsThe Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West Ed. Tony Hillerman
B - T
+ 15 task
+5 not a novel
+5 jumbo
Task total: 25
Season total: 260
20.9 - SeriesThe Secret Sister by Brenda Novak
+20 task
+5 Combo - 10.9 - vodka - the secret sister brenDa nOVAK
Task total: 25
Grand total: 735
20.9 - SeriesThe Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak
+20 task
+5 Combo - 10.9 - vodka - the secret sister brenDa nOVAK
Task total: 25
Grand total: 760
10.2 - NameSay You Love Me by Willow Rose
+10 task
+10 Combo (20.4, 20.9)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 780
20.4 - CrimeMurder Notes by Lisa Renee Jones
+20 task
+15 Combo - 10.2, 20.9, 10.9 - merlot - MurdER nOTes Lisa renee jones
Task total: 35
Grand total: 815
20.4 - CrimeMurder Girl by Lisa Renee Jones
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.9)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 845
20.4 CrimeYou Belong To Me. Mary Higgins Clark. 4.18.21
Task: 20
Combo: 30 (20.10, 20.3, 10.9 - kahlua, 10.6, 10.3-1998, 10.2 - Mary)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 1735
10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x5); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9;15.10;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3(x5); 20.4(x4); 20.5;20.6; 20.7; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x5); 20.10(x4)
20.4 CrimeNaked in Death. J.D. Robb. 4.28.21 Published in 1995
Task: 20
Combo: 20 (10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 20.9)
Oldie 1995: 5
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 1780
10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x5); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9;15.10;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3(x5); 20.4(x5); 20.5;20.6; 20.7; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x5); 20.10(x4)
20.3 OppositesPeau de Mille Bêtes by Stephane Fert
Author is male, main character is female
+20 Task
(no style, graphic novel)
Task total = 20
Points total = 580
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... 10.4 .... 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x4) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 (x2) 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 .... 20.9 (x2) 20.10 (x2)
20.10 FamilyThe Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
+20 task (four generations--narrator is Bonaparte O'Coonassa, he lives with his mother and grandfather Old-Grey-Fellow, and he fathers a son)
+ 5 combo (10.9 merlot - the poor MOuTh fLann o'bRiEn)
+10 1001 Books
+10 oldies (1941)
Task total=45
Season total=415
10.3 NaughtyMaybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin pub. 1992
Task=10
Combo= 10 (10.9-"absinthe"; 20.3)
Oldie=5 (1992)
Task Total=25
Season Total=720
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; -----; 10.5; 10.6; -----; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; -----; -----;
-----; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; -----; 20.7; -----; 20.9 (9x); -----;
10.2 NameTablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East ed by Reza Aslan
+5 combo 10.9 - shiraz - ReZA aSlan ... tHe .... mIddle
+5 jumbo 688 pages
Task total: 20
Grand total: 1455
20.1 PrizeFugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
+20 Task (1997)
+25 Combo (10.2 Anne, 10.3 1996, 20.2 Anne, 20.3, 20.5 Greece)
+10 1001 Books
+5 Oldies (1996)
Points this post: 60
RwS total: 455
Fan1sts total: -
Season Total: 455
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 10.9 10.10
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 .... .... .... 20.8 20.9 20.10
10.7 CodebreakingMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.8 Bird's Name - Robin
+5 Combo 10.9 Pub Trivia - Bourbon
Task Total: 20 pts
Grand Total: 450 pts
20.9 SeriesArtificial Condition by Martha Wells
+20 Task - #2 In Series
+5 Combo 10.9 Pub Trivia - MERLOT
Task Total: 25 pts
Grand Total: 475 pts
From Post 707Rosemary wrote: "20.9 Series
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
10.9 amaretto ThE shApe Of wATeR caMilleri
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.9)
Task total: 30
Season total: 1350"
+5 Oldies
From Post 711Rosemary wrote: "20.3 Opposite
Fire Watch by Connie Willis
+20 Task (several of the stories have a male protagonist)
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+ 5 Oldies (1985)
Task total: 30
Season total: 1380"
+5 Combo 10.5
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+10 task
+20 combo (10.6 - approved in thread, 20.3 - female author, male protagonist (Inspector Alleyn), 20.4 - ~1.8M entries for crime, 20.9 - read Death in a White Tie a season or two ago)
+10 oldies (1935)
Task total: 40
Season total: 190