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Post 452 Sue wrote: "20.1 JemismThe Thread Collectors Shaunna J. Edwards
+20 task
+5 NFL New Orleans
+5 20.10 birthday pub 2022
Post total: 30
Season total: 80"
+15 Combo: 10.2, 10.3, 20.2
Post 453 Sue wrote: "20.9 ABCLessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus
+20 task
+5 20.10 birthday pub 2022
Post total: 25
Season total: 105"
+10 Combo: 10.2, 20.2
Post 454 Sue wrote: "10.4 SeriesHatchet Island Paul Doiron
+10 task Mike Bowditch #13
+5 20.10 birthday pub 2022
Post total: 15
Season total: 120"
+5 Combo 10.2
Post 455 Sue wrote: "20.9 ABCThe Summer Wives Beatriz Williams
+20 task
Post total: 20
Season total:140"
+5 Combo, 10.2
Post 527 Sue wrote: "20.10 BirthdayAll the Lovers in the Night Mieko Kawakami
+20 task pub 2011
+10 LiT Japanese
Post total: 30
Season total: 180"
+5 Combo 10.3
Post 596 Sue wrote: "20.10 BirthdaySecrets of the Nile Tasha Alexander
+20 task pub 2022
+5 combo 10.4 series #16 Lady Emily Ashton
post total: 25
season total: 205"
+5 Combo 10.2
Post 617 Sue wrote: "20.10 BirthdayThree Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
+20 task pub 2008
+5 10.4 series Aurora Teagarten
Post total: 25
season total 230"
+5 Oldies (pub'd in 1994)
+10 Combo: 10.2, 20.9
Post 648 Sue wrote: "20.10 BirthdayDistant Shores by Kristin Hannah
+20 task pub 2002
Post total: 20
Season total: 250"
+10 Combo: 10.2, 10.3
Post 649 Sue wrote: "10.4 SeriesA Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
+10 task Armand Gamache #12
Post total: 10
Season total: 260"
+10 Combo: 10.2, 20.9
Post 667 Sue wrote: "20.10 birthdayA Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
+20 task pub 2022
post total: 20
season total: 280"
+10 Combo 10.3, 20.2
Post 556 Tawallah wrote: "20.2 - King Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Task: 20
Combo 15 (20.1, 10.2, 10.9 - Set 75% in New York)
Oldies: 10 - first published in 1952
Jumbo : 5 paperback 581 p..."
Sorry, Tawallah. Pub date of 1952 is worth only 5 Oldies points.
Postg 559 Tawallah wrote: "10.4 Series Everblaze by Shannon Messenger
Task : 10
Post total: 10
Season total: 285"
+5 Jumbo
Post 13 Tien wrote: "10.4 Series (Ed's Task)Legend of the Jade Dragon (Chintz 'n China Mystery #2) by Yasmine Galenorn
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - born USA; 20.10 - pub 2004)
Post Total:..."
You correctly claimed 20 points here, but added only 15 points from your previous post.
20.2 KingYellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
+20 pts - Task
+30 pts - Combo(10.2 - US, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 20.1, 20.8- “..tasteless barley soup.”)
Task Total - 50 pts
Last one for this challenge!
Happy Mark Twain’s Birthday!
Post 300 Tien wrote: "20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) TaskThe Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
Pub. 2022
Review
A thrilling finale to this trilogy!
After hearing ..."
+10 combo: 20.1, 20.8 (thanks to Joanne in Post 625!)
Post 547 Valerie wrote: "20.1 JemisinThe Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith
Here we are on book 16 in this series, and it is still filled with (seemingly) effortless cha..."
You justified your combo for 20.8, but forgot to claim it or else you had a typo and didn't claim your 20.9 combo. One or the other. ;-)
Valerie wrote: "20.3 VonnegutMother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I am a big fan of Vonnegut, and truly believe his novels should be required reading (and not just Slaughterhouse Five)..."
+5 combo 10.2
10.2 Oktoberfest Ape House by Sara Gruen
+10 task (USA)
+5 combo (10.6 Bless the animals)
Task Total 15
Season Total 365
Post 395 Coralie wrote: "20.8 Soup’s OnThe Little Snake by A.L. Kennedy
+20 task barley soup
+10 Combo 10.3, 10.6
Post total: 30
Season total: 650"
Although Kennedy writes in English, this was first published as a German Translation. +10 Lost in Translation points.
Post 702 Norma wrote: "20.9 - A, B, C'sWater's Edge by G.R. Jordan
+20 task
+10 combo - 10.3, 10.4
Task total: 30
Grand total: 875"
Norma, you claimed this book in Post 136. Let us know if you meant to post a different book.
20.2 KingSwimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
I put this on my TBR list based on Ed’s review. Then, because my library is discontinuing Hoopla I had to jettison other planned books and read ones I won’t be able to access once it is gone. This is one of them. I am so glad that this was one I chose. This is a stunning debut. The writing and language is beautiful. I found the story to be very moving – potentially because we have Polish friends and I am old enough to remember the news of the Solidarity Movement. Jedrowski doesn’t falter for a moment here, and I hope to see more novels from him. (As a slight aside – they eat A LOT of soup in this book, especially borscht.) 5*
20 task
10 review
15 combo 10.3, 10.5, 20.8
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45
Running total: 960
(although it looks like Elizabeth has given me 10 more pts I didn't claim, so 970!?)
My last book for the season!
20.4 SaramagoJeoffrey The Poet’s Cat by Oliver Soden
I was only going to read the first few pages. I wanted to see if I could plead the case for this being a "Biography?" option for Winter season--it definitely would fit..I know this because I ended up finishing the darn thing and now I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out as I write this review. I know I'm crying like mad because I still smart from the loss of our oldest cat last year (there's a passage when Jeoffrey is dying: "He was trembling slightly, his sides billowing in and out, slightly distended. But he made no attempt to move, and she sat still, calm and expectant, and let him manage his dying as he wished." I have so much regret that I could not be that calm in the face of my Simon's dying).
I'm also a sobbing mess because this unexpectedly powerful book is really about life in all its beauty and banality, its freedoms and confines, and about how we choose to share it.
Jeoffrey was born in 1750 in a cupboard in a brothel. He spent his childhood running the streets of London, adored by the whores, doted on by actors and aristocrats alike (he even "meets" the King of England). After a brief stay with a young lad, he ends up in a mental asylum to comfort a mad poet, Christopher Smart. While in the asylum, Smart had begun to write his magnum opus, Jubilate Agno. Jeoffrey found his way into a portion of the poem and it became the most recognized and oft-anthologized part of his 1,200-line work (which, incidentally, was not published until 1938 when an excerpted section was published in a literary magazine edited by T.S. Eliot).
The writing in this was perfect, the subject matter well-researched and documented, the snapshot of London in the mid-18th Century was intriguing, and overall it just *worked*. So good.
+20 Task, 97% is set between 1750-1773
+10 Review
+15 Combo: 10.6 told from Jeoffrey's POV; 20.8 ("He had scratched his way up the backs of buildings to whip in and out of first-floor windows, dive at the hems of skirts, lap at cream and soup, and snooze under beds, undisturbed by the rhythmic squeaking of the mattress above him."); 20.9
Task total: 45
Season total: 1690
Norma wrote: "20.10 - BirthdayBlood Memory by Greg Iles
+20 task - 2005
+15 Combo - 10.2 - Germany, 10.3, 20.9
Task total: 35
Grand total: 910"
+15 Jumbo (800 pgs)
Post 748 Tien wrote: "20.7 CervantesExemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.5)
+10 LiT
+20 Oldies (pub 1613)
+50 Half-way Finish (forgot to claim earlier o..."
Oldies should be 25 points.
Post 719 Katy wrote: "20.9 ABCs Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer, the author, was an Obama aide and now..."
+5 Combo, 20.10
Post 721 Rosemary wrote: "20.2 KingJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
First published in 1932, this follows the antihero Ferdinand Bardamu as he lurches from grim World W..."
+5 combo 20.6
20.3 VonnegutLysistrata by Aristophanes
I read this one a few weeks ago and just realized I never posted it!
I'm so glad that I read the translation that I did--it was riotous! I know Greek comedy can be a good time, but every other play I've read I've had to work for it...this was pretty overt in its hilarity and innuendo.
Lysistrata is ready for the Peloponnesian War to be over and she knows exactly what to do to make that happen: she convinces all of the women--on both sides of the conflict--to withhold sexual favors until a peace if brokered. At times it felt a little too over-the-top, with the double entendres firing on all cylinders, but it was ridiculously funny and I can see its influence on later playwright's works.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+25 Oldies, pub. ~424
+5 Combo: 20.8, "I've managed to produce some soup and they're slaughtering for me/ A sucking-pig: its flesh should taste as tender as could be." (just gotta say: "Soup's On!" has been the surprise gift that keeps on giving! it has been one fun task)
Task total: 60
Season total: 1750
Post 731 Sue wrote: "10.4 SeriesGlass Houses by Louise Penny
+10 task Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #13
Post total: 10
Season total: 290"
+10 Combo: 10.2, 20.9
Post 783 Ed wrote: "10.9 NFL! (Anika's Task)set in New York City
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
Well, on paper, this is a book I should have loved. The plot revolves around..."
+5 Combo 10.2
Post 795 Bucket wrote: "20.9 ABCsA Fantasy of Dr. Ox by Jules Verne
Review: This is a short, easy read. True to Verne, it features an overconfident man with science smarts and money who i..."
+5 Combo: 20.5
Post 828 Rebekah wrote: "20.4 CervantesWhere the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
+20 pts - task
+20 pts - Combo (10.2-Mexico, 20.1, 20.2, 20.8 - Consomme, 20.9)
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1958)
+10 pt..."
Fuentes was born in Panama, so doesn't work for 10.2.
20.9 ABC'sSeven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
+20 task
+10 combo 20.10, 10.2
+5 jumbo
Task total: 35
Season total: 370
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Shadows Reel C.J. Box
+10 task Joe Pickett #22
+5 20.10 Birthday pub 2022
Post total: 15
Season total: 50"
+10 Combo, 10.2, 10.3