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10-3 DiscWorld The Crowded Grave by Martin Walker
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.4)
+Styles 5 (series)
Total Task 20
Season Total 500
20.3 POVThe Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
+20 Task (each chapter is from the POV of a different woman living in the building)
+5 Oldies (pub’d 1982)
+5 Combo (10.4 – 5 words)
Task total =30
Season total = 145
20.3 POVThe Leavers by Lisa Ko
+20 Task (the book goes back and forth between the POVs of two characters who are mother and son)
Task total =20
Season total = 165
15.8 Growing Genres Maigret and the Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon
Mystery, 1942
15 task
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15
Running total: 715
15.3 Growing Genres, WesternsTo Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour, pub. 1955
Task total: 15
Season total: 790
15.6 Growing Genres, WesternsThe Shootist by Glendon Swarthout, pub. 1975
Task total: 15
Season total: 835
20.6 AwardThe Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
+20 Task, Nobel Prize for Literature
+10 Oldies, pub. 1932
+20 Combo: 10.4; 10.7--born 1902; 20.1; 20.3
Task total: 50
+50, Halfway Finish, 20-point tasks
Season total: 935
Jayme(the ghostreader) 10.1 New Horizons
new to you author
Mistletoe Murderby Leslie Meier
Task +10
Series +10 1st book in series
Book Total: 20
Grand Total: 260
20.5 FemaleCaddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
20 pts 20.5 Female
10 pts Oldies
Task Total: 30 pts
Season Total: 740 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 10.9 …
… …. 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 … … … …
Task 10.1 New HorizonsRead a book by a new-to-you author.
Horrorstör (2014) by Grady Hendrix
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 325 + 10 = 335
10.8 Gilmore GirlsLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (1928)
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 705
10.4 - 3, 4, 5A Mark Of Imperfection by Rhys Dylan
+10 task
+10 Combo - 10.3 - Black Beacon Murders, 10.5 - RD
+5 series
Task total: 25
Grand total: 525
10.6 Pi DayFugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
20.3: two points of view, Jakob and Ben
20.10: Jakob's first wife is Alexandra
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.3, 20.10)
+ 5 Oldies (1996)
+50 Halfway finish, 10 point tasks
Post Total: 75
Season Total: 1425
20.3 POVThe Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
+20 Task (points of view include Cora, Will, Luke and more)
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1450
Post 671:Apple wrote: "20.1 ModernistHowards End by E.M. Forster
+20 task
+10 oldies
+ 5 combo (20.3)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1340
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; ..."
Can I please add +5 combo for 20.6 award, Benson Medal, 1938, as approved in thread?
New Total = 1390
20.5 FemaleRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
+20 task
+10 oldies
+20 combo (10.7; 10.8; 20.6 - approved in thread; 20.10 - Maxim de Winter)
+50 halfway finish, 20 point tasks
Post Total = 100
Season Total = 1490
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6(x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8;
15.7 Growing Genres, WesternsBuffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry, pub. 1990
Task total: 15
Season total: 950
15.8 Growing GenresBeast In View by Margaret Millar
15 pts 15.8 1955
Task Total: 15 pts
Season Total: 755 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 10.9 …
… …. 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8… …
20.3 POVSalvage This World by Michael Farris Smith
+20 task (views of Holt, Wade, Jessie, Elser)
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 10.5 Wimsey (MS)
Task total: 30
Season total: 640
10.9 Quilting The Secret Garden Part 2 by Begon Maud
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Points total = 735
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x6) ; 20.3 (x2) ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x3)
10.10 Group ReadsTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.4 ; 20.3 - told through the POV of Sadie and Sam ; 20.10 - Marx)
+50 Half-way Finish (10 points tasks)
Task total = 75
Points total = 810
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x6) ; 20.3 (x2) ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x3)
20.10 Uncommon Letter (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)supporting character= Vivian Quinn
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Task=20
combo=5 (10.4)
Task Total=25
Grand Total= 250
Tasks Completed: 10
10.1; 10.4
15.1
20.4; 20.6 (2x); 20.10 (4x)
Task 10.4 3, 4, 5Read a book with exactly 3, 4 or 5 words in the title.
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories (2023) by Kelly Link (Hardcover 272 pages)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 335 + 10 = 345
20.1 ModernistMercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
20 task
5 oldie
25 combo 10.4, 10.7, 20.2, 20.3, 20.6
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50
Running total: 765
20.6 AwardNight, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 task (2009 Ivan Sandorf Life Achievement, post 157 task thread)
Task total=20
Season total=450
20.3 POV The Singapore School of Villainy by Shamini Flint
+20 task (told from POV of a whole cast of characters)
+5 combo (10.4)
+10 nonwestern (author is Malaysian)
+5 series (Inspector Singh Investigates series)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 595
20.10 Uncommon Letter Red Bones by Ann Cleeves
+20 task (Jimmy Perez is the main character)
+15 combo (10.3, 20.3, 20.6)
+15 series (#3 in the Shetland Island series - first 2 already claimed for tasks 20.3 and 20.6)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 645
10-3 DiscWorldBlood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
+10 Task
Season Total 510
Joanne wrote: "10-3 DiscWorldBlood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
+10 Task
Season Total 510"
Is this a copy/paste error? This doesn't work for 10.3.
No. just a stupid error, I completely forgot about the "Series" portion of the task. So sorry, just ignore
15.9 Growing Genres, WesternsSix-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, pub. 2013
Task total: 15
Season total: 980
15.9 Growing GenresScience Fiction
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
1897
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1505
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6(x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9
20.5 FemaleA Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton
(posted in thread, based on rule 1st book in series is on the list.)
+20 task
+5 series
+10 combo (10.4, 20.7 - approved in thread)
+50 halfway bonus - 2nd time completing 20 point tasks
Post Total = 85
Season Total = 1590
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6(x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9
20.10 Uncommon LetterAcqua Alta by Donna Leon
Dottor Semenzato is a key character even though he is dead. Approved in the task questions
+20 task
+5 combo 20.3 Brunetti, Brett Lynch, Salvatore La Capra
+5 series
+5 oldie
Task total: 35
Season total: 520
20.9 Non-FictionVoices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
+20 Task - Voices of Utopia series
+10 Non-Western - born in Ukraine and citizen of Belarus
+20 Combo: 10.3, 10.4, 20.3, 20.6--Nobel Prize for Literature
+5 Series
Task Total: 55
Season Total: 700
From Post 605Anika wrote: "20.4 Sub-Continent
The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas
+20 Task, set 100% in India
+5 Series, Blue Mumbai
+15 Combo: 10.3, 10.4, 20.3
Task total: 40
Season total: 445"
+10 Non-Western
From Post 624Denise wrote: "20.6 Award
Clark Howard Collected Stories - 1960s by Clark Howard
+20 task (2009 Derringer Award-post 33 on task thread)
+5 combo (10.4)
+5 oldies
Task total=30
Se..."
+5 Jumbo
From Post 637Valerie wrote: "20.4 Sub-Continent
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
20 task
5 jumbo
5 oldie
10 non-western
20 combo 10.2, 20.6*, 20.8*, 20.10*
______
60
*all confirmed in appropr..."
Sorry, this author does not qualify for non-western
10.7 20th Century Bookends The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
10 pts 10.7 20th Century Bookends
5 pts 10.5 3,4,5
10 pts Oldies
5 pts Series
Task Total: 30 pts
Season Total: 785 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 … 10.9 …
… …. 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8… …
Repost for 617 just for the combos I missed Combos: 25 (20.3, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 20.10 - Shizuka)
New season total with corrections: 275
10.4 3,4,5 Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Task: 10
Combos: 10 (20.5, 10.3)
Series : 5
Post total : 25
Season total: 300
10.3 Discworld Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
Task: 10
Series : 10
Combo: 10 (20.5, 10.4 )
Post total: 30
Season total: 330
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