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10.3 9, 10, 11100 % Bio - Le temps des Romains vu par un ado et par sa cousine ! by Julien Hervieux
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 645
10.1 ; ... ; 10.3 (x2) ; 10.4 (x2) ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; ... ; ... ; 10.9 ; ...
15.1 ; ... ; ... ; ... ; ... ; ... ; ... ; ... ; ... ; ...
20.1 (x3) ; 20.2 (x2) ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; ... ; 20.7 ; 20.8 (x2) ; 20.9 (x5) ; 20.10 (x3)
Post 769 Jayme wrote: "20.8 Soup's OnThe Hills Have Spiesby Mercedes Lackey
"She handed him a bowl of soup." p 110
Task +20
Combo +15 10.4 series #1 in the series, 10.3, 10.2
Task +35
Gran..."
Jayme, I'm sorry, but this doesn't fit 10.3. Did you mean a different task for that combo?
Post 775 Marie wrote: "20.7 CervantesThe Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
MPG Spain
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 - born in the US ; 10.8 - the hotel Castellana where David stays and An..."
I'm sorry, Marie. This title is shelved as YA Fiction at BPL and has a Lexile of 620. Task, but no styles.
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20.5 FaulknerA Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie
Having read about a dozen of Agatha Christie's mysteries, this was the best one yet. I had been growing tired of her convoluted plots with nearly miraculous solutions in the last chapter. Also, her frequent racist statements were irritating me. But all of that is minimized in this concise mystery concerning three murders (two poisonings) and greed and REVENGE. This is the 7th volume in the Miss Marple series...(I'm reading them in oder) and I liked that Miss Marple was an important but not central figure in the plot.
Task=20
Review=10
combo= 10 (10.4; 20.9)
Oldie=5 (1953)
Half-way Bonus=50
Post Total=95
Grand Total=850
10.1; ---;10.3; 10.4 (2x); 10.5; ---; ---; ---; 10.9 ---;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;15.5; ----; ----; ----; ----; ----;
20.1;20.2;20.3;20.4;20.5;20.6;20.7; 20.8;20.9; 20.10
Coralie wrote: "Half-way finish 50
mega Finish 200"
Congratulations! Well done!
Anika wrote: "+100 Finisher Bonus
+200 MegaFinish"
Congratulations! Well done!
Post 315 Anika wrote: "20.7 CervantesMarina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (850 Lexile)
'Tis the season for the creepy books and this one delivered in spades. Though set on the cusp of the 1980s in Barc..."
+10 LiT
Post 391 Anika wrote: "20.1 JemisinI Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Kim Young-ha
I was drawn in by the title. I saw it on the "Most Poetic Book Titles" list and was instantly intri..."
+5 Oldies
Post 578 Anika wrote: "20.3 VonnegutThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
While reading this, I kept asking myself: why is it shelved and listed as "anti-war"?! These are just horrible peopl..."
+5 Oldies (1926 is 10 points)
Post 357 Ann wrote: "10.3What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
I have never read The Fall of the House of Usher, though god knows I’ve tried. It is one of those mental block books for ..."
+5 Combo 10.2
Post 457 Ann wrote: "20.2 DebutHeatwave by Victor Jestin
It’s not bad, and it’s very good at creating a hot, oppressive atmosphere, but this was not for me. In this short-yet-slow ..."
+5 Combo 10.3
Post 286 Apple wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsRivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
+10 task
+10 combos (10.4; 20.10 - first published 2011)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 350"
+5 Combo 20.1
Post 543 Bea wrote: "20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) TaskRead any book whose original publication year is 2 consecutive digits. (e.g. 1944, 1880, 2006).
Belgrave Square by [author:Anne Perry|6331..."
+5 Oldies
Post 281 Bucket wrote: "20.9 ABCsThe Elephant's Journey by José Saramago
Review: The story is Saramago’s imagining of a historical event - when an elephant was transported from Portugal ..."
+10 Combo - 20.2, 20.7
Post 622 Deedee wrote: "Task 10.3 9, 10, 11Read a book where any of the author's names begins with the 9th, 10th or 11th letter of the alphabet (I, J, K).
Kelley Armstrong was born in Ontario, Canada. Here’s the ISFDB (..."
+5 Combo 10.4
Post 536 Ed wrote: "20.2 KingSwimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
What a debut! I loved this novel. Having recently read Call Me By Your Name and loving it, I t..."
+5 Combo 10.2 (Jedrowski, though Polish, was born in Germany)
Joanne wrote: " 10.5 Autumn ColorsBlack Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
Historical Fiction based on a true story about The American Library in Paris, during WWII.
An..."
Post 466 Joanne wrote: " 20.8 Soups on
Paul complimented Maman on the creamy soup
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Historical Fiction based on a true story about The America..."
Scoring reconciliation:
In Post 429, you had a 5 point addition error in your total from Post 328
Post 443 and Post 465 had a total of 75 points, but your posted total reflected only 70 points
Total change to the score you were posting is +10 points
Post 567 Karen Michele wrote: "20.8 Soup's On! (Owlette's Task)The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
+20 Task: plain soup
+15 Combo: 10.2 Octoberfest (Phoenix, AZ) / 20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task) / ..."
+5 Combo 10.9
Post 696 Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 9, 10, 11Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
+10 Task: both authors have a J initial
+20 Combo: 10.2 Octoberfest / 10.9 NFL / 20.8 Soup's On! (I heat up some soup) / 20...."
+5 Combo 20.9
20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task)Murder of a Stacked Librarian by Denise Swanson
+ 20 Task (Author initials DS)
+ 15 Combo (10.2 born in US, 10.4 Series, 20.1 Native American)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 105 (corrected) [Kate gave me +5]
15.1 EoTP ReduxSpur Award
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
+ 15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 120
This does it for me.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Joanne wrote: " 10.5 Autumn Colors[
Thank you Elizabeth
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 769 Jayme wrote: "20.8 Soup's OnThe Hills Have Spiesby Mercedes Lackey
"She handed him a bowl of soup." p 110
Task +20
Combo +15 10.4 series #1 in the series, 1..."
You can remove 10.3
20.9 ABCNot Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout
Looking at the title, I didn't realize this pairs two novellas. And, frankly, I didn't read the description carefully or I might have realized it. They are perfectly paired. In the title story, we learn that Archie is a Major in the army and that Wolfe has decided to do some training in an effort to slim down and become fit. (That would be a funny sight indeed!) Archie has been ordered to get Wolfe to investigate a suspicious death which had already been deemed either an accident or suicide. It's Wolfe - we can be pretty certain it was murder.
In the second story, titled Booby Trap, Archie is still in uniform. This story is the natural outcome and sequel of the first, so the less said here the better.
Though short, both are good. The book itself is about 190 pages and each story is about the same length. But they were too short to feel invested in even trying to see where they would lead. I wouldn't have missed this for anything, but I cannot come up with more than 3-stars.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+25 Combo (10.2, 10.4, 10.9 - NYC, 20.5, 20.10)
+10 Oldies (1944)
Task total = 65
Season total = 1380
And that will do it for me this season!
20.4 SaramagoThe Anatomist's Apprentice by Tessa Harris
Protagonist is an American Colonist doctor who went to London for further training at which time the Revolutionary War began
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.4, 20.2, 20.8 -broth for a sick patient, 20.10 -2011)
Task Total - 40 pts
20.1 JemisinOne Hundred Days by Alice Pung
Karuna is of mixed race, her father being Australian and her mother Filipino-Chinese.
+20 task
+5 combo (10.2)
Task Total = 25
Season Total = 1575
20.1 JemisinRivers of London: Body Work by Ben Aaronovitch+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 1595
15.8 EotPOur Familiar Hunger by Laisha Rosnau
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2019)
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 1295
15.9 EotPThey May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine
Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction (2017)
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 1310
15.10 EotPSoft Apocalypses by Lucy A. Snyder
Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection (2014)
+15 Task
+50 Years bonus (2014-2023)
+100 Completion bonus
+200 Megafinish
Post total: 365
Grand total: 1675
Joanna wrote: "+100 Completion bonus
+200 Megafinish"
Congratulations! Well done!
Post 303 Joanne wrote: " 20.9 Author's initials appear in alphabetical orderBloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson
A ha..."
+5 Combo 20.10
You also had an addition error from post 302, giving yourself only 45 points when you posted 50.
Post 497 Kim wrote: "10.6 Bless the Animals (Rebekah's Task)Magic's Pawn. Mercedes Lackey
I started to listen to this with my husband on a recent weekend trip, but I could see that there w..."
You claim 15 combo points here, but only show 2 tasks. Let us know if you had another task for your combos.
Post 538 Kim wrote: "10.1 TBRFrankland. James Whorton
This book has been on my TBR for a few years. The author was a colleague of mine at the college I recently retired from, and when ..."
+5 Combo 20.9
You also had an addition error from post 537, skimping yourself 5 points
Post 546 Kim wrote: "20.4 SaramagoAlex and Eliza. Melissa de la Cruz
Book one in a trilogy about Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton, it takes place from 1777-1780. Eliza is the ..."
An addition error here, you have posted 90 points, but counted it as 80 points.
Post 487 Mary wrote: "20.5 FaulknerDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
20 pts 20.5 Faulkner. See task thread
5 pts 10.4 Series
5 pts 20.8 Soup’s On “Watkin . . .letting his ..."
Sorry, 1987 is just 5 Oldies points.
Post 602 Nancy wrote: "20.8 Soup’s OnAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
+20 (task) (“she tried to baptize me with soup, thin soup it was and with cabbage in it”)
+10 Review
+5 Oldies (1996)
+5 Co..."
+5 Combo 20.5
Post 654 Nancy wrote: " 20.10 BirthdayOther Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
+20 (task) (published in 2022)
+5 combo (10.2 Oktoberfest - USA)
+5 combo (20.8 Soup’s On “ The waitress proceed..."
+10 Combo, 10.6 & 10.8
Post 638 Norma wrote: "10.4 - SeriesThe Eye Thief by M.K. Farrar
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 655"
+5 Combo 10.3
20.9 ABCsBeyond the Glass by Antonia White
It was a relief to get to the end of this fourth and last book of Antonia White's series that begins with Frost in May. The later books are certainly memorable and well-written but very gloomy, with a different terrible thing happening in each book. All these dreadful events conspire to unhinge the heroine, and at the end it's hard to believe she is still only 23 after all she has been through.
Book two was heartwrenching, but I found this last one the heaviest. It also has a psychic element that didn’t fit well with the dark and stark realism of the rest, for me. Still, the writing is so good that I had to give it 3 stars.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+ 5 Oldies (1954)
Post total: 40
Season total: 2770
20.9 ABCsRevelation by C.J. Sansom
Sixteenth-century lawyer Matthew Shardlake once again gets mixed up with the politics of the court of Henry VIII after an old friend is killed in a gruesome way and his death is linked to another that involves the powerful Seymour family. Shardlake soon finds himself and his assistant Barak working for Archbishop Cranmer to root out a vicious serial killer.
I'm enjoying this series, although this instalment had some killings that were close to the limit of the violence I'm prepared to read about, and I hope the following books will rein that back in. I guessed the killer fairly early, and then I got a bit impatient because there seemed to be more pages than necessary before the showdown. But still it was a good read that had me hooked.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.4, 20.10 2008)
+ 5 Jumbo (550 pages)
Post total: 50
Season total: 2820
That's all from me this season. Thank you so much for everything, in what has been a mega reading season for me!
Post 273 Rosemary wrote: "10.7 GeocachingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Lexile 920
This is the sixth book in the Harry Potter series but the first book ever to be added t..."
+5 Combo 10.8
Post 355 Rosemary wrote: "20.1 JemisinThe Guide by R.K. Narayan
After Raju is released from prison in southern India, he takes up residence in a deserted temple and soon finds himself being..."
+5 Combo 10.3
Post 356 Rosemary wrote: "20.10 BirthdayOur Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
“The crime does not lie in extinguishing life, but in kindling it: organising it so that where there wasn’..."
+10 Combo 20.1, 20.9
Post 433 Rosemary wrote: "20.10 BirthdayHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Accompanied by Ron and Hermione, Harry abandons what should have been his last year at Hogwarts ..."
+5 Combo 10.8
Post 467 Rosemary wrote: "20.4 SaramagoSugar Money by Jane Harris
It's 1765 and 12-year-old Lucien, a mixed-race slave in the hands of French monks on the Caribbean island of Martinique, ..."
+5 Combo 20.7
Post 496 Rosemary wrote: "20.4 SaramagoWalsingham: Or, The Pupil of Nature by Mary Robinson
A dramatic late 18th-century novel in which Walsingham Ainsworth, born into genteel poverty and br..."
+5 Jumbo
Post 449Sue wrote: "15.1 Ned Kelly AwardWe Begin at the End Chris Whitaker
+15 task
+5 20.9 ABC
Post total: 20
Season total: 20"
Sorry, Sue, there are no Combos for EoTP
Post 450 Sue wrote: "10.4 SeriesThe Nature of the Beast Louise Penny
+10 task Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11
+5 20.9 ABC
Post total: 15
Season total: 35"
Ah! I see your combo here got accidentally posted to 449. We're good through 450. :-)
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Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine by David Heath
Published 2022
It is very seldom that I finish a book that I immediately know is really not for me. However, this book had enough information in it, information I had searched for, so I plowed through it and am glad that I made the effort.
Please do not get me wrong, the book for the right audience is probably astounding. The fact is, I am a right brain person and all the science in this book boggled me. If I truly understood half of the research, I feel good about it.
The author's research was through and well worth mention here. He spends his daytime job as an award-winning investigative journalist and a little research on him had me trusting him.
As I said, for the prime left-brain audience, this is the book on Covid-19 for you. We right brain people got enough of it that we are happy
+20 Task
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.9)
Total Task 40
Season Total 1355