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20.1 Riding the MetroAthenian Blues by Pol Koutsakis
set in Athens
Country Greece
Continent: Europe
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 45
20.2 Riding the MetroWomen Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur
set in Tehran
Country Iran
Continent: Asia
+20 Task
+5 before 1996 9pub 1989)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 70
20.4 Riding the MetroMeddling and Murder (Singaporean Mystery #4) by Ovidia Yu
Review
I loved Aunty Rosie Lee -so very like an aunty in all the way that she always feed you if not giving you unasked for advices. She's a very easily likeable character; somewhat like Miss Marple but more likeable than her, I think. Reading this series is always terrible because I'd be salivating at all the foods being cooked/eaten, aiyah!
In this instalment though, Nina wasn't as present as she was rather tied up and Inspector Salim was also rather inconspicuous so in a way, this isn't as usual where Aunty Lee investigates with her sidekick, Nina. She had to rely mostly on her own steam, however, despite missing the usual dynamics of the duo, Meddling and Murder is still a fantastic read for the Singaporean flavour and intricate mystery.
City: Singapore
Country: Singapore
Continent: Asia
+20 Task
+5 Review
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 145
20.1 Riding the MetroA Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
set in Kuala Lumpur
Country: Malaysia
Continent: Asia
I discovered this series by a posting from one of the other RwS members...and it seems promising. It's light...but well written.
Here, Inspector Singh, who is a detective for the Singapore police, is assigned to travel to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to monitor the case against a Singapore citizen (a super-model to boot) in the allegations that she murdered her husband...a citizen of Malaysia...who also converted to Islam soon before his death. The conversion means that an Islamic court will determine whether the three children of the marriage...should remain in the model's care (if she is released from custody.) An interesting plot...and educational to a degree about how such issues are dealt with in nations like Malaysia which have a mixed-religious heritage. I'll definitely be reading the next in the series.
Task=20
reviews=5
Task Total=25
Season Total=60
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20.1
20.1 Riding the MetroKingdom of Strangers by Zoë Ferraris
City: Jeddah
Country: Saudi Arabia
Continent: Asia
This is apparently the final installment in the series. Ferraris lived in Saudi Arabia at one time and her scathing opinion regarding the lack of rights of women comes through loud and clear. In fact, in the 2nd book, City of Veils, their plight seemed to be more the reason for the novel than the murder investigation. In this novel, there is more balance and I was happy to see that.
Katya Hijazi is a forensics specialist for the Jeddah police. Unmarried women are prohibited from holding such a position because they could come in contact with men to whom they are not related. Katya easily got around this prohibition by saying she is married. She lives in fear the department will find out she is single and that she will lose the job she loves. We know this from the first in the series, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded. Katya is a smart, intuitive, hard working woman and she would be an asset in any organization. Nayir Sharqi loves her. His characterization is more than that, but Katya is the star and the more fully-fleshed character. I like Ferraris' writing style.
While each novel could be a stand alone, I think it is better read in order. I will miss the opportunity to visit these characters again and again. This installment was my favorite of the three. I'm tempted to give it 5-stars, but I'll settle for a truly strong 4-stars.
+20 Task
+ 5 Review
Task total = 25
Season total = 45
15.2 TDoSSaga, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
Cory Day => Burke Burke
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 80
15.3 TDoSSaga, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan
Burke Burke => Lindsay
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 100
15.4 TDoSSaga, Vol. 4 by Brian K. Vaughan
Lindsay =>Sara Grace
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 120
15.5 TDoSSaga, Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan
Sara Grace => Lucien
+30 Task
Task total: 30
Season total: 150
20.2 RtMDisappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Set in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (pop. 180K)
Country: Russia
Continent: Asia
While looking for something to read to fill this task, I started browsing what was available online at my local library. I didn't know anything about this other than quickly browsing the description to see where it was set. When I saw it'd fit I downloaded it and immediately started listening, still never having taken a look at what the book was about at all. Based on the title and the cover, I assumed it had something to do with climate change/cli-fi of some sort. Nope, nope, nope. It starts with the abduction of two little girls. What?! I was not anticipating that kind of book at all and didn't know if I was quite in the market for something that dark.
Luckily, I gave it a second chapter: and realized that it was really a collection of short stories that are loosely connected to the missing girl situation.
The writing is fantastic, the construction of the book is on point (the order of the stories is like the perfect mix tape--each story perfectly situated to further both the story and the reader's emotional response), and I would read anything else by this author in a heartbeat. Definitely recommended.
+20 Task
+5 Review
Task total: 25
Season total: 175
10.1 Page Count 75-150Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kundera (48 pages, pub 1963)
AND
The Inner Room by Robert Aickman (51 pages, pub 1968)
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
What a waste of an intriguing title. A man and an older woman who were involved in the past meet by coincidence years later, after the woman has been married and widowed. They have a long discussion about the past, and there is much philosophizing. Repeatedly we hear how much "disgust" the man feels with the physical changes to the woman's body. But when they are alone in his bachelor apartment, his "disgust" does not stop him from being all over her, repeatedly saying "don't fight me". How romantic. This new-to-me author is not for me.
The Inner Room
In this story a woman named Lene recounts a very strange tale. For her birthday in 1921, her not-so-well-off parents allowed her to choose a gift from a junk shop. She chose an unattractive doll house which repelled everyone else, even the store owner. More and more weird things are discovered once she gets the doll house home. (I just don't want to say more. Many of the GR reader reviews contain spoilers. I'm happy that I read the story first.)
The characterization is very good, especially given the limitations of a short story. I particularly enjoyed Lene's German-born mother and her eccentric younger brother Constantin. The creepy story eventually turned quite frightening. I did guess where the story was headed, but not what would happen when it got there. Thoroughly enjoyable, and I now have a new author to explore further.
+10 Task (99 pages)
+5 Review
+5 Before 1996 (both published before 1996)
Post Total=20
Season Total=20
Page Count10.6 The Oathboundby Mercedes Lackey
302 pp
Review
This book is about two women: Kethry who is a sorceress and Tarma who is a warrior. They hired themselves out as mercanaries to earn money. Kethry finds a sword that is magical and sentient. It pulls Kethry in the direction she must go to help women sometimes at any cost. The two main characters are also bound to each other in a promise to rebuild Tarma's clan and make it strong again.
Task +10
Review +5
Grand Total: 25
15.1 - TDoSAn Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
Rated 5* by Christin & Cindy AL
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
15.2Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Given 5 stars by Rick-Founder.... And Coralie
The book was speculative fiction centering around cloning letting humanity as a species survive after an environmental collapse (and subsequent war) that rendered them infertile. But the idea was also a showcase for exploring what it meant to be human, which seems to be separateness, at least in part, love, but not overwhelmingly so, and the facing of adversity. There was a lot of loss in this book, as it followed the stories of a number of individuals, but it ended on a hopeful note. I enjoyed it.
+20 task
+5 pub 1976
+5 review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 95
20.3 Riding the MetroNext Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
set in Havana
Country: Cuba
Continent: South America
+20 Task
10.3 150-199 pagesPortraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors by George W. Bush
I borrowed this book from the library when I saw it out of curiosity as much as anything else. I had seen Bush’s interviews whenit was first published seversl years ago and wanted to see what type of artist he was. I was actually quite surprised. The portraits seem to convey rhe personality of the subject. Even more surprising was the quality of the writing and the degree of empathy shown.
10 pts. 10.3 150-199 pages
5 pts Review
Total task: 15 pts
Total Season: 50 pts.
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10.1 Page Count 75-150Quill Me Now by Jordan Castillo Price, 82 pages
The start of a gay-romance-with-magic novella series. Bubbly Dixon Penn's family are all Scriveners, who can cast spells when their words are united with the painting of a Seer. Dixon is the only one to have failed the initiation and so is deemed to have no spellcrafting talent. When he enters a competition run by a greetings card company, he is warned off by a strange but attractive Russian called Yuri. This is a promising start to a fluffy series, good for comfort reading.
and
All That Glitters by Jordan Castillo Price, 20 pages
A short story numbered 1.5 in the ABCs of Spellcraft series. Dixon and Yuri have fun with some glitter, then it's time for Yuri to meet the parents. Not much happens here, but it was refreshing to have magical families viewed as a lower rather than an upper class, living in poor conditions and eating bizarre combinations of fast food. Green beans with crushed Doritos sounds strangely tempting, but can “aerosol cheese” possibly be a thing?
+10 Task (total 102 pages)
+5 Review
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
20.1 Riding the MetroFalling Man by Don DeLillo
set approx 90% in New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Set on and after 9/11, this book impressed me with the way that it conveys the shock of the attacks on the Twin Towers through a numbed writing style. Keith Neudecker has escaped the North Tower with some injuries and makes his way not to his own home but to the apartment of his estranged wife and son, carrying a briefcase that doesn't belong to him.
At the same time, his wife is haunted by the appearance of a performance artist called Falling Man who appears in different spots in the city, jumps from buildings dressed in a business suit, and hangs in the position of the famous Falling Man photograph, with one knee bent.
I can imagine some readers hating this, and perhaps in another mood, I would have. But I thought the lack of affect and the fragmented postmodern style were perfect for conveying the effects of shock.
+20 Task
+5 Review
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 55
Post 36 Beth wrote: "15.1The Judas Strain by James Rollins
Five stars from Rick - Founder.....
This book in the series brought back what enthralled me in the first one - a thriller with ..."
Is there another member who has rated this 5*? There need to be two members to start the chain.
EDIT: If you don't already have Kristina Simon in your chain, you could start with her and all will be well.
15.2 TDoSNinth House by Leigh Bardugo
Tanya > Amy W
Reached the last page of the story and YELLED. This is a SERIES???!!!! AARGHH
And it was not a happy YAY MORE, but it’s not exactly bad either. Silly me, I thought this was self-contained (I did not see the GR #1) until I read it…. I really did enjoy this book, but ehhh, the set up for book 2 just struck such a wrong note for me. Not really a spoiler but: (view spoiler)
Still, this was a good read. It started out a little slow, but when the snake uncoils in Alex, it picks up a lot. She’s much better when she’s not trying to pass for preppy.
I will read book 2, and I hope Alex goes even more HAM.
+20 task
+5 review
Task total = 25
Season total = 200
10.5 Page Count 250-299100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith
277 pp
I just love Andrew Smith. He has a way of capturing teenage boys that's gritty and real and vulnerable all at once. This book isn't as weirdly off-kilter as Grasshopper Jungle, but there's such heart here. I loved the voices of the three friends as they worked to sort themselves out into fully formed humans. I will continue to read anything Smith writes.
Fair warning: lots of f-bombs in this one and juvenile boner jokes. I was going to listen to it with my twelve-year-old, but it turned out to be a little too much.
+10 Task
+5 Review
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
20.1 Riding the MetroThe Black Book by Ian Rankin
Set in Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Continent: Europe
I felt like Rebus started to come alive as a character in this book much more than in the previous four books in this long-running series. The mystery part of this book was action-packed but also had so many different pieces and different threads that the author couldn't quite keep it together. I really enjoyed the Edinburgh setting and felt like there was some authentic Scottish slang happening in the story. I'll definitely keep making my way slowly through the Rebus novels.
The narrator for the audiobook did a fine job with this one. I find mysteries often translate well to audio format, but this one wasn't the best because of the number of plot threads. I'd recommend reading this installment instead of listening.
+20 Task
+5 Review
+5 Before 1996 (pub. 1993)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 45
15.3 TDoSFun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Amy W>Jane
A few years ago I bought season tickets to Broadway Across America to secure Hamilton seats. The very first show of that season was Fun Home, and I went in completely cold - didn’t know a thing about it. And just WOW. Watch this number, from the 2015 Tonys! .
Based on the show I thought there’d be more comedy in this tragicomic. The show is able to highlight some happy memories (while not shying away from the tragedy), but the novel is much more somber. Part of that is the monochromatic artwork filled with frowns and wary eyes, part is the very scholarly analysis she applies to her own memoir. Even as she digs deep into her family, she keeps things at a bit of a distance… but the end is so vulnerable that I’m tearing up writing the review. I should have expected that, as the show had me bawling, of course the book would get me too.
Link to the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAue...
+20 task
+5 review
Task total = 25
Season total = 225
20.3 Riding the MetroProven Guilty by Jim Butcher
set in Chicago
Country USA
Continent: North America
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 90
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 36 Beth wrote: "15.1The Judas Strain by James Rollins
Five stars from Rick - Founder.....
This book in the series brought back what enthralled me in the first o..."
I do not have Kristina Simon in my chain, so yes, pkease count that as the second person
15.1 TDoSAnne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables #5) by L.M. Montgomery
Rated 5-stars by Jayme(the ghost reader) and Courtney Bocci
+15 Task
+5 Before 1996 (pub. 1917)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 165
10.7 Page Count 350-399 pagesThe Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
In 1840s Austalia, Mathinna, an orphaned Aboriginal girl, was taken from her people by the wife of the governor of Van Dieman's Land who wanted to "civilize" her. The wife collected artifacts and skulls from Aboriginal tribes, and acted like Mathinna was part of her collection to be put on display in front of her friends.
Meanwhile, a London governess, Evangeline, was sent to Newgate Prison and eventually sentenced to transport to Australia. When her employer suspected that Evangeline was pregnant by her son, a false charge of stealing had landed her in prison.
Another young woman on the transport ship to Australia was Hazel who had learned the skills of a healer and midwife. Her terrible crime was stealing a silver spoon.
This is not a book for anyone with a queasy stomach since the story shows the abuse of guards, filthy conditions, food filled with maggots, and the general oppression of women in the various prisons. But there are also beacons of light--a kindly doctor made some lives more tolerable, Quaker women gave the prisoners fresh clothes and supplies, and the prisoners formed friendships. Some did not survive the relocation to Australia, but it was a fresh hope for others.
"The Exiles" was wonderful historical fiction with courageous, resilient characters. It worked well having the story told through multiple perspectives since each of these young women was such a unique individual, but I would have liked knowing more about Mathinna's outcome.
+10 task 370 pages
+ 5 review
Task total: 15
Season total: 45
20.2 Riding the MetroA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
pub. 1959
Chicago, IL, USA-North America
The title of this play has been circulating in my brain for decades....and I finally decided to read it. I'm glad I did. An African-American family living in sub-prime apartments in Chicago may be getting the chance to improve their lot. But external forces work against them. The play explores the racial tensions in the 1950's American city...but also the tensions within a family....husband and wife, siblings with each other and siblings with their mother. There is also a component of one sibling having a suitor from Nigeria...and the interplay of African values v. African-American culture. And the ultimate test.... dignity or money? Five stars.
Task=20
review=5
pre-1996=5
Task Total=30
Season Total=90
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Post 82 Anika wrote: "15.7 TDoSSaga, Vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughan
+30 Task
Task total: 30
Season total: 245"
Don't forget to include the member chain.
15.8 TDoS Saga, Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan
Rin => Mai
OMG!!! I cannot believe how this series ended! I read everywhere I could online to see when more was planned to be released and all I could find was that the story was planned in two waves of 54 issues each...so far, only the first 54 have dropped (which i just finished with my mouth agape) and I AM DYING for the next wave to roll in!
If you’re a fan of A Game of Thrones, you’ll love it (indiscriminate knocking off of characters); if you’re a fan of fairy tales I’m pretty sure you’d like it (the good vs. evil theme is strong, and the line between good and evil in constant flux); really, if you’ve ever read a graphic novel/comic book and remotely enjoyed it, I can give this a solid recommendation. 5 stars.
+45 Task
+5 Review
Task total: 50
Season total: 295
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 82 Anika wrote: "15.7 TDoSSaga, Vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughan
+30 Task
Task total: 30
Season total: 245"
Don't forget to include the member chain."
You’re so speedy! I realized I’d forgotten that part right after I’d posted it, went in to edit it and you’d already gotten this message off 😂 Thank you for keeping me on my toes!
10.10 - Page Count - +500The Girl in the Woods by Camilla Läckberg
+10 task - 580pgs
Task total: 10
Grand total: 10
10.4 - Page Count - 200-249The Devil's Kiss by Gemma James
+10 task - 242pgs
Task total: 10
Grand total: 20
10.1 - Page Count - 75 - 150Master of the House by Sadie King - 51pgs
Their Runaway Bride by Vanessa Vale - 76pgs
+10 task - 127pgs
Task total: 10
Grand total: 30
10.6 - Page Count - 300 - 349The Sweet Second Life of Darrell Kincaid by Catherine Robertson
+10 task - 327pgs
Task total: 10
Grand total: 40
10.1 - Randomize by Andy WeirEmergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles
104p. total
I’m not a big fan of really short fiction. It always feels… unfinished to me. That said, Randomize, Emergency Skin, and You Have Arrived at Your Destination are all three very good short stories. Randomize is about geniuses, quantum entanglement, and gambling – good but abrupt, Emergency Skin is a very clever story about misrepresentation of ‘facts’ to convince people that you’re doing the right thing – very well written and VERY NK Jemisin, and You Have Arrived at Your Destination is a very weird little story about designer genetics and predestination – creepy as hell, if you think about it too hard. I can’t wait to finish the rest of the stories in the series.
+10 task
+5 review
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
10.1 - Page CountThe Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson (52 pages)
This has quite a different feel to the other Moomin books. It was written in 1939 (and first published in 1945) and it does seem to reflect the anxious times it was written. The story is definitely darker and has less humour than the later Moomin books but Moominmamma is as always a loving and reassuring presence and ultimately there’s a happy ending. The illustrations are gorgeous and I’m tempted to buy a hard copy (I read this on Kindle) just to see them in print.
On Stories by C.S. Lewis (32 pages)
An interesting short essay which could perhaps be summed up as a defence of adults reading books written for children.
I have to admit I laughed out loud at the following paragraph. It is part of Lewis’ theory that Kenneth Grahame chose to make the characters in The Wind in the Willows animals rather than humans so they could have the independence of adults but with children’s freedom from responsibilities or domestic concerns.
“They are like children in so far as they have no responsibilities, no struggle for existence, no domestic cares. Meals turn up; one does not even ask who cooked them. In Mr. Badger’s kitchen ‘plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf’. Who kept them clean? Where were they bought? How were they delivered in the Wild Wood? Mole is very snug in his subterranean home, but what was he living on? If he is a rentier where is the bank, what are his investments? The tables in his forecourt were ‘marked with rings that hinted at beer mugs’. But where did he get the beer?”
+10 task
+5 before 1996 (published 1945 and 1947)
+5 review
Post total: 20
Season total: 20
10.5 250-299 pagesA Stranger Here Below by Charles Fergus
Very good new mystery series set in 1830s Pennsylvania when Pennsylvania was close to the frontier. The main character is Gideon Stoltz a Pennsylvania Dutch sherrif who finds a friend dead and ends up investigating two murders, one of which is 39 years old. Well written characters and an unusual setting. Highly recommend.
10 pts. 10.5 250 - 299 pages
5 pts Review
Total task: 15 pts
Total Season: 65 pts.
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10.4 Page CountAround the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne
208 pp
Task +10
Pre 1996 +5
book Total: 15
Grand Total: 50
20.3 RtMLes Liasons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Set in Paris
Country: France
Continent: Europe
I loved this movie back in the day and was glad to have seen it before reading this—helped keep the characters straight in my head. Oooh! The scandal! And I loved that it was an epistolary novel—it engages the reader as voyeur, reading over the shoulder of each correspondent...the details of the story are portioned out to us so slowly and deliberately and never fast enough to satisfy until the finale.
+20 Task
+5 Pre-1996
+5 Review
Task total: 30
Season total: 375
10.1 Page CountOpen House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell. 13 pages
A Guide For Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad 30 pages
Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker 40 pages
Total 83 pages
Open House on Haunted Hill
Well, what a surprise. I love haunted house books, but usually they are more like the house on Silver Street. Not exactly welcoming…
This was so very sweet. It’s a perfect little story. I loved it.
Non horror fans, don’t be alarmed by the title. This is about a house that desperately wants to be a home, and it’s lovely.
A Guide For Working Breeds
Wow. As the author intro stated, A BIG MOOD.
Loved this. Parts made me literally laugh out loud. There needs to be some crossover fanfic where Murderbot goes to the cafe. Recommended!
Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker
Eeeeeee. This was unsettling and creepy and weird in all the right ways. I started typing that I wish this was a full novel, that I wish there was more to the story, but it wouldn’t really work. At least it wouldn’t work with Stella. Uncle Bob though…. Eeeee.
This was just enough to cast a kind of nightmare spell. It feels lurking, looming, waiting. More probably would ruin that effect.
Very good.
+ 10 task
+5 review
Task total = 15
Season total = 240
10.2 The Stranger by Albert CamusI’m not even sure what to say about this one. The translator said in the foreword that he’d done something different with this. Instead of translating the ‘meaning’ or the ‘feeling’ as other translators had done, he tried to translate Camus’ EXACT phrasing or as near to as possible, to let Camus’ intentional words and phrasing do what he’d intended of them. To try and let the story tell itself, instead of forcing it through an English (both language and cultural) filter.
That said, this is a weird little book. Weirder than The Plague. And I quite like it. It took me a bit, mostly because it was so offputting but then I realized WHY it was so offputting… The main character reads as almost neuroatypical. It’s unusual and after I settled into it, I like it. And this book is all about how one deals with the absurd and existence. It’s… something. If you don’t like things that make your brain work, it’s definitely not one for you.
+10 task
+5 pre 1996
+5 review
Task total: 20
Season total: 35
10.2 Page Count 100-149Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
This is a basically plotless novel. The GR summary mentions a father feeding his baby, but thankfully that isn't the focus. The baby is referred to frequently, but much of the book is the father's musings on a wide range of subjects, from peanut butter to correct use of commas to gross bodily functions. There are some flashbacks and asides about events in his marriage. He tries to tie it all together in the last chapter, but it didn't feel convincing. This is my least favorite of the four books by Baker that I have read. A better place to start with him is The Mezzanine, which was 5 stars for me. 3 stars for this title.
+10 Task (116 pages)
+5 Review
+5 Before 1996
Post Total=20
Season Total=40
20.1 RtMNaked in Death by J.D. Robb
Set > 95% in New York, USA
Continent : North America
First published in 1995
Task point : 20
Bonus : 5
Post total : 25
Season total: 45
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Rated 5* by Natalie and Angelbis
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 25