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Rosemary wrote: "Post 522 Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "15.9 Scavenger HuntReady Player Oneby Ernest Cline
"Each OASIS public school has the own athletic teams including WRESTLING." p..."
Yes put it for volleyball. Thank you.
15.8 Olympic ScavengerWrestling-Option B
All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
He really would not have a been a man you'd have wanted to wrestle with when he was young. Or today, in fact.
528 pages
Points this task 15
Jumbo 5
Season Total 280
10.8 Pole VaultBabel by R.F. Kuang
Nebula award
+10 Task
+5 Big (544 pages)
+100 Finisher's bonus
Task total = 115
Points total = 555
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.1 - Olympic ScavengerCharogne by Borris
Wrestling Option A: at one point, the characters are wrestling in this graphic novel
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 570
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 (2) ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.2 - Olympic ScavengerLa recomposition des mondes by Alessandro Pignocchi
Athletics - Running - Option A
The characters are shown running in this graphic novel
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 585
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 (2) ; 15.2 (2); 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.10 Olympic ScavengerTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Sail, option B: "Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way."
+15 Task
+5 Before 1999
Task Total: 20
Finisher Bonus: 100
Season Total: 150+120=270
20.9 Opening CeremoniesJoseph in Egypt by Thomas Mann
(C) 1924-1937 / Germany
Published 1936, author born in Germany
+30 Task
+ 5 Old
+ 5 Big (664 pages)
Task total = 40
Season total = 615
15.5 Olympic Scavenger 2.0Field of Thirteen by Dick Francis
option B: horse: pg. 225 '...that as Jules was offering her a new horse...'
15 task
5 oldie
_____
20
Running total: 935
15.2 Olympic ScavengerThe Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden
Option B, horse or horse-riding
"And usually, he eats like a horse."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 825
10.2 Long JumpThe Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet by Michael Pearce
+10 Task (Historical Fiction; used Contemporary for 10.6)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1988)
Task total = 15
Season total = 585
I would like to move a claim. Post 494 was posted as 15.1
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
I'd like to move it to
10.5 400 Meters
with MPE 433 pgs
This is a loss of 5 points, so my corrected season total in 616 above is
580 points
(but will allow me to get a Decathlon finish I think, so I'll make up for it.)
Round 210.8 Pole Vault
The Sea by John Banville
Booker Prize 2005
Task total: 10
Finisher bonus: 100
Season total: 715
15.7 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
Option B, golf - " The retired financier takes up golf, the little merchant puts bulbs in his garden, me, I eat."
+15 task
+5 Before 1999
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 1125
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8; 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x23; 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
Task 15.01 Olympic Scavenger – ROUND TWOFOOTBALL
Option B
The Baker Street Letters (Baker Street Letters #1) (2009) by Michael Robertson (Hardcover 277 pages)
p. 24: “That’s Los Angeles. And I’ve been to FOOTBALL at Manchester. A few rowdy Yanks won’t scare me.”
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 560 + 15 = 575
Decathlon Round 210.3 Shot Put
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
+10 Task: 2.96 Rating
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1050
Decathlon Round 210.6 Hurdles
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
+10 Task: Thriller<-->Nonfiction - Nonfiction
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1060
Decathlon Round 210.10 1500 metres
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
+10 Task: 768 pages
+. 5 Before 1999 (1874)
+. 5 Big (768)
Task Total: 20
Round two Decathlon Finish: 100
Season Total: 1180
20.2 Opening Ceremonies Round 2The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjöwall
(F) 1964-1976
Author born in Sweden
+20 Task (1966)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1966)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1205
15.9 Olympic ScavengerThe Maniac byBenjamín Labatut
15 pts 15.9 Dive/diving Option B. “. . . no other Go player would have had the audacity to dive in . . . .”
Task total = 15 pts
Season total = 545 pts
Post 625
15 point tasks Round 2
15.1 Surfing Option A
15.2 Horseback riding Option A
15.3 Swimming Option A
15.4 Golf Option B
15.5 Horse/horseriding Option A
15.6 Canoe/canoeing Option A
15.7 Swim/Swimming Option B
15.8 Football Option B
15.9 Dive/diving Option B
20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom
20.2 1910-1923 United States
20.3 1938-1950 Australia
20.4 1924-1937 Belguim
20.5 1951-1963 Spain
Round 215.1 Olympic Scavenger Hunt
The Fire Roseby Mercedes Lackey
Football-"a group of young men playing football" p 26
Task +15
Grand total: 320
10.6 Hurdles How To Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy
+10 Task (genre: Fantasy - previously claimed 10.2 as mystery)
Task total: 10
Season total: 160
15.9 Olympic Scavenger The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Sailing, Option B - "she would sail through the entire weekend as if nothing had happened." - ch 12, part 2
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 175
20.1 Opening CeremoniesBlue Monday by Nicci French
(I) 2003-2014 - published 2011
Author born in the UK
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season Total: 205
20.2 Opening CeremoniesPietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
(C) 1924-1937 - published 1930
Author born in Belgium
+20 Task
+5 Before 1999
Task total: 25
Season Total: 230
20.3 Opening CeremoniesThe Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
(D) 1938-1950 - published 1939
Author born in Germany
+20 Task
+5 Before 1999
Task total: 25
Season Total: 255
20.4 Opening CeremoniesBlackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
(J) 2015-2024 - published 2022
Author nationality is Canada (approved in help thread)
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season Total: 275
10.8 Pole VaultThe Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
+10 task Nebula best novel
+5 old
+100 Decathalon finish
Task total: 115
Season total: 320
Round 215.1 Olympic Scavenger
Dickens the Dramatist: Plays by Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
This is a collection of six plays originally published from 1836-1867.
Horse - Option B page 94
"By the bye, I have left the new horse at your garden gate this moment."
+15 task
+ 5 before 1999 (most recent play published in 1867)
Task total: 20
Season total: 735
20.2 Opening Ceremonies - Round 2Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
(J) 2015-2024 / Australia
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 870
Post 613Rosemary wrote: "20.9 Opening Ceremonies
Joseph in Egypt by Thomas Mann
(C) 1924-1937 / Germany
Published 1936, author born in Germany
+30 Task
+ 5 Old
+ 5 Big (664 pages)
Task tot..."
+5 - 20.9 is worth 35 points instead of 30.
10.9 Javelin ThrowThe Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
565 pages
Points this task 10
Jumbo 5
Task Total 15
Season Total 295
15.9 Olympic Scavenger Round 2You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Sailing-Option B: “Clear sailing!" he exclaims, and treats himself to a cigarette out of the pack in the glove compartment.” pg. 277
+15 Task
+ 5 Big
Post total=20
Season total=450
15.3 Olympic ScavengerPeople I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges by Jen Mann
Option B, tennis:
"Here are just some of the many camps we have to choose from: soccer, baseball, basketball, football, golf, tennis, racquetball, swimming, cheerleading, ice skating, dance (ballet, jazz, tap, interpretive), water ballet, and competitve jazz aerobics..."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 840
10.9 Javelin ThrowAll Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
pub. 1995; 530p
Task=10
Big=5
pre 1999=5 (1995)
Task Total:20
Grand Total= 115
Decathlon
✔ 10.1; 10.9; 10.10
Olympic Scavenger
✔ 15.1
20.1 Opening Ceremonies completed
Year bands:
(A) 1896-1909
(B) 1910-1923
(C) 1924-1937
(D) 1938-1950
(E) 1951-1963
(F) 1964-1976
(G) 1977-1989
(H) 1990-2002
✔ (I) 2003-2014
(J) 2015-2024
Host countries:
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, ✔ United States, USSR (including any former USSR country: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
20.3 - Opening CeremoniesClaudine's House by Colette
1922, France
+20 Task
+5 Before 1999 (1922)
Task total = 25
Points total = 610
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 (2) ; 15.2 (2); 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
10.4(2) High JumpTrou de Mémoire - L'Intégrale by Roger Seiter
4.5 rating
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 620
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 (2) ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 (2) ; 15.2 (2); 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
Decathlon 10.4High Jump
The Puma Years by Laura Coleman
Goodreads rating : 4.34
+10 Task
+100 Decathlon completed
Final total: 220
10.4 High JumpIn the Best Families by Rex Stout
+10 Task (4.28 avg rating)
+ 5 before 1999 (1950)
Task total = 15
Season total = 595
Round 215.2 Olympic Scavenger
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
Badminton - Option B page 63
"Hi, Judy!" she called to the little girl who was playing in the yard with a midget badminton set.
+15 task
+ 5 before 1999 (published 1930)
Task total: 20
Season total: 755
Task 20.10 Opening CeremoniesB/1910-1923/
Author: born Jalisco, Mexico
MEXICO
The Underdogs (1915) by Mariano Azuela
+035 Task
+005 Published before 1999 (1915)
+150 Finisher bonus: 150 points
Task Total: 35 + 05 + 150 = 190
Grand Total: 575 + 190 = 765
20.10 Opening CeremoniesThe Son by Georges Simenon
(D) 1938-1950 / Belgium
Published 1942, author born in Belgium
+35 Task
+ 5 Old
Task total = 40
Finisher bonus = 150
Season total = 810
10.3 Shot PutPoison for Teacher by Nancy Spain
+10 Task (2.96)
+ 5 Old (1949)
Task total = 15
Decathlon (2) finish = 100
Season total = 925
I am taking a break from moderating for the next couple of seasons but I will still read and post some, and I will be back as a moderator as soon as I have more time. Thank you all for making this a fun group to moderate!
Post 632 Katy wrote: "20.4 Opening CeremoniesBlackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
(J) 2015-2024 - published 2022
Author nationality is Canada (approved in help thread)
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season Total: 275"
Katy, I think you missed counting posts 548 and 549, +30
but then there is an addition error in post 629, -10
So we have your total at 295.
Post 640 Ed wrote: "10.9 Javelin ThrowAll Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
pub. 1995; 530p
Task=10
Big=5
pre 1999=5 (1995)
Task Total:20
Grand Total= 115"
Ed, for 10.9 the author's initials must be in the words JAVELIN THROW. Did you intend this book for a different task?
RWS Decathlon 10.5 400 metersBasho: The Complete Haiku by Matsuo Bashō 431 pp. This translation by Jane Reichhold 1st pub'd 1972.
Task Points = 10
Bonus Before 1999 = 5
Decathlon Finisher Points = 100
Total Points = 225
20.1 Opening Ceremonies. I read Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos.
Date range (1st pub'd 1925), host country USA (author born in Chicago, USA).
Task Points = 20
Bonus Before 1999 = 5
Total Points = 250
I believe that will be it for me for this challenge. This post was an extra "Bonus" suggested by Elizabeth, since I had erroneously read the book for a Decathlon task which it didn't fit. (smirk!)
20.10 Opening Ceremonies C - 1924 - 1937Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
France
35 task
5 oldie
______
40
150 finisher bonus
_____
190
Final total: 1125
This is it for this season! I'm going out with a bang with this book!
15.9 Olympic Scavenger - Round 2Under My Skin by J. Kenner
Option B - cycle - "I know that we've grown up saying that we're not going to have kids because it's just a [g-d] vicious cycle, but it doesn't have to be."
Task total: 15
Grand total: 885
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Goodreads rating: 4.33
+10 Task
+5 Before 1999
Task total: 15
+100 D..."
Oops! My copy had 106 p. Neglected to check the Goodreads page. I’ll try to catch up.