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10.10 Group ReadIf Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura
+10 Task
+10 Non Western
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 225
10.8 Gilmore GirlsShane by Jack Schaefer
(YA assignment, 870 Lexile)
+10 task
+10 combo (10.7, 20.6 - 1986 Saddleman Award and 1975 WLA Distinguished Achievement Award - msg 58, task help thread)
+ 5 oldies (1949)
Task total=25
Season total=105
15.1 - Growing GenresNowhere Safe by Kate Bold
+15 task - Mystery - 2022
Task total: 15
Grand total: 30
15.2 - Growing GenresThe Target by David Baldacci
+15 task - Mystery - 2014
Task total: 15
Grand total: 45
10.4 3,4,5The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss by Jason Fung
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 245
20.3 POVThe Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
Set in a dry cleaner's in London. Chapters from the point of view of the two main characters, Robert who is selling the shop and Akeel who is buying it, and from the POV of several of their customers.
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 270
10.6 Pi DayThe Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters
+10 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo(10.4, 10.5, 10.7, 20.6- 1993 Cartier Dagger)
+10 pts - Series 2nd time (see post # 38)
+ 5 pts - oldies (1984)
Task Total - 45 pts
10.8 Gilmore GirlsThe Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
10 task
5 series
5 combo 10.4
10 oldie
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30
Running total: 130
10.4 3, 4, 5The Convent's Secret (Glass and Steele #5) by C.J. Archer
+10 Task
+5 Series
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 240
20.10 supporting character= liZZie chambers
Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood
Task=20
Combo=5 (10.4)
Series= 5
Task Total=30
Grand Total= 55
Tasks Completed: 2
20.10 (2x)
20.9 Non-Fiction (Kate S's Task)After The Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis (Quarterly Essay #48) by Tim Flannery
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3; 10.4 - 3 words)
+5 Series
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 275
10.5 WimseyTout un monde: Comment j'ai changé de regard sur mon mode de vie by Emilie Saitas
SE
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Points total = 185
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; 10.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
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20.2 FrenchFréhel by Johann G. Louis
+20 Task
No style = graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 205
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; 10.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
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… ; 20.2 (x3) ; 20.3 ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.3 - Growing GenresThe Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
+15 task - Mystery - 2009
Task total: 15
Grand total: 60
10.3 - DiscworldOutdoors, Oars, & Oaths by Tonya Kappes
+10 task - Camper & Criminals series
+ 5 Combo - 10.4
+5 Series
Task total: 20
Grand total: 80
15.6 Growing GenresIf You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub
+15 Task 1977 Horror
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 90
20.10 Uncommon LetterThe Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
+20 Task (MC Waxillium)
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.4, 20.3)
+5 Series (The Mistborn Saga)
+5 Jumbo (507 pages)
Task total = 45
Season Total: 155
10.1 new Horizons Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
+10 pts - Task
+ 25 pts - combo (10.5, 10.6, 10.7 - b 1903, 20.2, 20.6-1966 MWA Grand Master,
+ 5 pts - series
+ 10 pts - Oldies (1931)
Task Total - 50 pts
15.1- Mystery1999- Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham by M.C. Beaton
Task=15
Task Total=15
Grand Total= 70
Tasks Completed: 3
15.1
20.10 (2x)
20.6 AwardElizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
Nobel Laureates in Literature
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.10 - eliZabeth costello)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 300
20.2 FrenchA Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
+20 task
+10 combo (10.4; 20.6 - Nobel Prize 2022)
Post Total = 30
Season Total = 180
20.8 Real Fiction (Owlette's Task)The City of Mist: Stories by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
+20 task
+5 series
+15 combo (10.3; 10.4; 20.3)
Post Total = 40
Season Total = 220
20.3 PoVSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Shifts between Alix and Emira
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - combo(10.4, 10.10)
Task Total - 30 pts
20.1 ModernistThreepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
20.3: Sections from the points of view of all main characters and some minor ones.
20.10: Swindling shipbroker Mr Coax is an important supporting character
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.3, 20.10)
+10 Oldies (1934)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 310
From Post 54Rebekah wrote: "10.10 Group reads
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
Love the cats’ names. They could have ended up with a whole salad of cats, Radish, Parsley, ..."
+10 Non Western
From Post 58Karen Michele wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
+10 Task: thanks for this choice, Valerie. I enjoyed it!
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 40"
+10 Non Western
20.10 Uncommon Letter The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
+ 20 Task (main character's name is Lucrezia)
+ 5 Combo (20.8 Real Fiction, fictional portrait of the young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici)
+ 5 (Combo (10.4 3, 4 ,5)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 30
20.8 Real FictionDoc by Mary Doria Russell
20 pts 20.8 Real Fiction Doc Holliday
5 pts 20.10 Uncommon Letter. Father Alexander von Angensperg,
Task Total: 25 pts
Season Total: 50 pts
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10.8 Gilmore Girls (Anika's Task)The Trial by Franz Kafka
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (pub. 1925)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 320
20.3 POVVera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht
+20 task (several chapters from Felix's POV, the rest of the book from Vera's)
+5 series
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 70
20.3 POVMad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
+20 task (told in alternating POVs)
+5 combo (20.6 - approved in help thread - Jodi Picoult won the Hale Prize)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 95
20.5 FemalePoison Study by Maria V. Snyder
+20 Task (#29 on list)
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.5 MS, 20.10 General Brazell)
+5 Series (Study)
Task total = 40
Season Total: 195
20.3 POVLa tour by Doan Bui
The novel is following the POV of serveral linked characters, all living in the same tower on the Olympiades area in Paris Chinatown: Victor and Alice Truong, vietnamese immigrants, their daughter Anne-Maï, Clément, a neighbour, Ileana, who comes from Romania,...
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.2)
Task total = 25
Points total = 230
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; 10.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
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20.10 Uncommon Letter La petite menteuse by Pascale Robert-Diard
The main character's name is Alice Keridreux
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.4 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 - the book has two POV, Alice, the attorney, and Lisa, her client)
(I'm not counting 10.5 on combos cause there's an hyphen on her name so not sure the PD would be acceptable)
Task total = 35
Points total = 265
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; 10.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
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… ; 20.2 (x3) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.10
10.6 Pi DayBlind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
+10 task
+15 combo (10.3, 10.4, 10.7)
+ 5 series
+ 5 oldies (1969)
Task total=35
Season total=140
20.6 AwardThe Children Act by Ian McEwan
Jerusalem Prize 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusal...
Posted in help thread
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 "children" approved, 10.4, 10.5 IM)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 345
10.4 3,4,5The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts - combo (20.6- 2014 Helmerich Award, also Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement)*
Task Total - 15 pts
* see help thread
10.7 20th C bookendsAn Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters
10 task
5 series
5 oldie
15 combo 10.4, 10.5, 20.6
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35
Running total: 165
15.1 Growing Genres-FantasyFool's Assassin by Robin Hobb -published 2015
Points this task 15
Season Total 135
15.2 Growing GenresThe Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock by Anna Katharine Green
+15 Task Mystery 1895
Season total = 95
10.10Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
+10 task
+5 combo 10.4
Task total: 15
Grand total: 80
20.4 Sub-ContinentThe Hunt for Mount Everest by Craig Storti -The book is set in India, Nepal and England. Only about 20% is set in England. The rest of the book is set in India, as they survey the land and the mountains and Nepal during the expedition for the search for Everest in 1921-22
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.4)
Total Task 25
Season Total 160
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10.5 WimseyMrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
+10 Task (ET)
+. 5 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5
+ 5 Oldies (1971)
Post Total: 20
Added points (thanks, Kate): 10
Season Total: 110
10.1 New HorizonsEmpty Wardrobes
+10 Task (new author for me)
+ 5 Oldies (1966)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 125
15.3 Growing GenresThe Man in the Queue by Gordon Daviot pseudonym for Josephine Tey
+15 Task 1929 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 140
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+20 task
+ 5 series
Task total: 25
Season total: 110