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10.4 3, 4, 5Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
+10 task
+10 oldies
+5 series
+20 combos (10.9; 20.3; 20.6; 20.10 - Mrs Luxmore)
Post Total = 45
Season Total = 465
10.1; ...; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; ...; ...; 20.8; ...; 20.10
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.7 Non-humanKlara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
+20 task
+10 combos (10.4; 20.6)
Task Total = 30
Season Total = 495
10.1; ...; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; ...; 20.7; 20.8; ...; 20.10
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.10 Uncommon Letter (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Zaphod Beeblebrox
+20 task
+5 series
+10 combo (10.3; 20.3 - characters are separated and moves between them)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 530
10.1; ...; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; ...; 20.7; 20.8; ...; 20.10(x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
Kate S wrote: "From Post 236Joanne wrote: "10-1 New Horizons
Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love by
Nancy Rubin Stuart
+10 Task
Season Total 185"
+5 Combo 10.4"
Thanks Kate, I misunderstood the rule for 10.1. I can use a combo on this task, however I cannot use this task to combo with another-is the correct?
Joanne wrote: "I can use a combo on this task, however I cannot use this task to combo with another-is the correct?"Yes, that is exactly correct. 10.1 cannot be used for combo because your claim for that task is special to you. However, that same book might be claimed for other tasks by anyone, so they work for combo for those tasks.
Kate S wrote: "From Post 240Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 Discworld
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
+20 Task: The Singing Hills
+10 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5 / 20.7 Non-human
+ 5 Series..."
Thank you, Kate! I forgot my reason for using the series on two different tasks;)
15.9 Growing GenresThe Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
+15 pts - Task 2004 Humor
Task Total - 15 pts
One book away from Mega Finish!
10.1 New HorizonsTroubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea by Jens Mühling
+10 task
Season total: 175
10.5 WimseyThe Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
+10 task
+5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
Task total: 15
Season total: 285
15.5 Growing GenresMort (Discworld #4) by Terry Pratchett
+15 Task (1987 Fantasy)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 495
15.10 Growing GenresHope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer
+15 pts - task 2019 humor
+100 pts - Chronological Finish
+200 pts - Mega Finish Bonus
Task Total - 315 pts
Re: Post 287I want to move this to
20.10 Uncommon Letter
Early One Morning by Robert Ryan
with the combo for 20.8 instead.
No change in points.
20.6 AwardPercival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
+20 task (2010 John Dos Passos Prize, post 53 task thread)
+15 combo (10.4, 10.5, 20.3-alternates POV of MC and his father
Task total=35
Season total=265
15.4 Growling Genres-FantasyDragondrums - by Anne McCaffrey published 1979
+15 Task
Season Total 220
Years Used: 1979, 1990, 2002, 2015
10.9 QuiltingBroken Bone China by Laura Childs
+10 pts - task
+10 pts - combo (10.3 - A Tea Shop Mystery, 10.4)
+5 pts - series
Task Total - 25 pts
20.8 Real Fiction La fuite du cerveau by Pierre-Henry Gomont
Historical fiction graphic novel, that is taking a real-life event (the stealing of Einstein's brain) and telling the story of the doctor who stole it. Einstein is one of the main characters.
+20 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 410
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 (x5) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x2)
From Post 257Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.4 Sub-Continent
The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
+20 task set in India
+10 combo 10.4, 20.4 each chapter is told by a different character
Task total: ..."
+10 Non Western
15.6 Growing GenresMaigret's Pickpocket by Georges Simenon
+15 Task - Mysteries, 1967
Season total = 265
10.2 Albright SistersWittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
+10 Task (nephew)
+ 5 Combo (20.6 Georg Büchner Prize 1970, approved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_B...)
+ 5 Oldies (1982)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 690
15.3 Growing GenresThe Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
+15 Task 1929 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 705
10.10 Group ReadsSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
20.3: POVs include Gaspery, Edwin, Mirella, Olive Llewellyn
20.10: Q: Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, Z: Zoey Roberts
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.4, 10.5 SE, 20.3, 20.10)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 735
20.3 POVThe Girl on the Boat by P.G. Wodehouse
POVs include the two main male characters, Sam Marlow and Eustace Hignet, plus others
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+10 Oldies
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 770
20.7 Non-humanFugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Main character Murderbot (aka SecUnit) is an AI robot
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3 Murderbot Diaries, approved)
+10 Series, second claim, different task
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 805
10.1 New Horizons Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale
+10 task
Task total:10
Season Total: 180
10.4 3, 4, 5 Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
+10 task
+15 combo (10.3 - Incryptid series, 10.5, 20.3 - part of book told through Sarah's POV, the rest through Verity's)
+10 series (2nd book I've posted in the Incryptid series)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 215
20.10 Uncommon Letter Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
+20 task (main character is named Raquel Laing - Q)
+15 combo (10.4, 20.3 - multiple POVs throughout book, 20.6 - Edgar Grand Master award, on list!)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 250
20.4 Sub-ContinentBlack Narcissus by Rumer Godden
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7: The author is in Elizabeth's spreadsheet available in message 2 of Task Thread)
+10 Oldie (1939)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 140+35 = 175
20.6 AwardMaigret and the Burglar's Wife by Georges Simenon
+20 Task (Grand Master 1966; in task thread posts 25-26)
+20 Combo 10.2 (wife), 20.2 (French), 10.4 (3,4,5), 10.7 (birth year is in Elizabeth's spreadsheet in post 2 of task thread)
+5 Series
+5 Oldies (1951)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 175+50 = 225
10.6 Pi DayTalking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past by Ransom Riggs
+10 Task
No style points, the book is mostly composed of photographies
Task total = 10
Points total = 420
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 (x5) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x2)
20.6 AwardSag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
+20 Task (See post 129 in the Awards thread)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 340
From Post 258Jayme wrote: "Repost
20.5 Female
Iron Kissedby Patricia Briggs
#206 on the list
combo +5 series # 3 in the Mercedes Thompson series
Task +25
Grand Total: 60"
Sorry, Jayme, you have already claimed this series for this task. You only get the series points for the first claim. (Additional claims for the same series in different tasks still work.)
From Post 286Jayme wrote: "20.5 Female
Dead Until Darkby Charlaine Harris
Task +20
Como +5 Series (#1 in the Sokkie Stackhouse series)
Grand Total: 85"
+5 Combo 10.4
10.4. 3, 4, 5An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
10 task
5 series
5 combo 20.3 (we are privy to both Sophie’s and Benedict’s POV)
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20
10..4 3, 4, 5The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters
10 task
10 series
5 oldie
15 combo 10.5, 10.7, 20.6
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40
Post 320 Marie wrote: "20.8 Real Fiction La fuite du cerveau by Pierre-Henry Gomont
Historical fiction graphic novel, that is taking a real-life event (the stealing of Einstein's brai..."
HIstorical Fiction is not one of the listed genres. We can move this to 10.4 or you might know of another 20-point task.
20.2 FrenchA Summer with Montaigne: On the Art of Living Well by Antoine Compagnon
This book was translated from French to English by Tina Kover. It is part of a ten book nonfiction French series of essays about French authors. The series title is Un été avec (A summer with).
+20 task
+15 combo I0.3 Discworld; 10.4 3,4,5; 20.9 Non-fiction
+ 5 series
Task total: 40
Season total: 325
10-3 DiscWorld-non-person in titleThe City of Tears by Kate Mosse
#2 in the Burning Chamber series
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4)
+5 Series
Total Task 20
Season Total 240
10-4 3,4,5 words in titleSprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
+10 Post
Total post 10
Season Total 250
10.5 WimseyTime's Echo by Rysa Walker
+10 Task
+5 Series (Chronos Files)
+5 Combo (10.3)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 360
15.5 -Growing GenresIron Lake by William Kent Krueger
+15 task - Mystery - 1998
Task total: 15
Grand total: 195
10.3 - DiscworldStamped Out by Tonya Kappes
+10 task - Mail Carrier Cozy Mystery Series
+5 series
Task total: 15
Grand total : 210
10.2 Albright SistersUncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
+10 pts - task
+15 pts - oldies (1864)
Task Total - 25 pts
20.2 frenchArsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
+20 pts - task
+10 pts - oldies (1907)
+ 5 pts - series
Task Total - 35 pts
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Science Fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1979
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 420
10.1; ...; 10.3; ...; 10.5; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; ...; ...; 20.8; ...; 20.10
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;