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15.3 Olympic ScavengerDemon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold
Sailing Option A – The first scene takes place on a sailing ship
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 170
20.5 Opening CeremoniesSuspended Sentences: Three Novellas
(G) 1977-1989
Author born in France
+25 Task
+ 5 Old (pub 1988)
Task total = 30
Season total = 200
20.6 Opening CeremoniesUncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
(H) 1990-2002
Author born in Australia
+25 Task
+ 5 Old (pub 1992)
Task total = 30
Season total = 230
20.7 Opening CeremoniesThe Sundial by Shirley Jackson
(E) 1951-1963
Author born in USA
+30 Task
+ 5 Old (pub 1958)
Task total = 35
Season total = 265
10.6 HurdlesThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Fantasy
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 85
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20.4 Opening CeremoniesDirt Music by Tim Winton
(H) 1990-2002
Author born in Australia
+20 Task
Season total = 95
15.1 Olympic ScavengerNine Lives by Peter Swanson
Golf, Option B - “Out stepped a clean-cut man dressed in what looked like golf clothes to Jack.” pg. 139
+15 Task
Task total=15
Season total=35
15.4 Olympic ScavengerThe Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland
Horse/horse riding Option A. “Two armies of mounted troups plunged into th lake and charged”
15 pts 15.4 Olympic Scavenger
Task total = 15
Season total = 65
Post 109
15 point tasks Round 1
15.1 Cycling A
15.2 Judo Option B
15.3 Horse/horseriding Option B
15.4 horse/horseriding Option A
10.2 Long jumpAn Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (Elderly Lady #2) by Helene Tursten
mystery THRILLER
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 200
10.4 High JumpForget Me Not by A. E. Bratchford
avg rating 4.29
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 210
20.3 Opening CeremoniesSelected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
(F) 1964-1976
Author born in USSR
+20 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (1969)
Task total = 25
Season total = 125
20.4 Opening CeremoniesThe Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
(H) 1990-2002
Author born in UK
+20 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (1993)
Task total = 25
Season total = 150
15.4 Olympic ScavengerMartyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Basketball, Option B - "What do you love? Basketball, I guess." chapter 15
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 165
10.6 HurdlesWorld of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
+10 Task: Thriller<-->Nonfiction (Nonfiction)
Task total = 10
Season total = 175
15.4 Olympic ScavengerWild Fire by Ann Cleeves
Surfing Option A – During a family outing at the beach, the teenagers go surfing
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 280
Task 20.4 Opening CeremoniesThe Late Mattia Pascal (1904) by Luigi Pirandello; translated from Italian by William Weaver
A/ 1896-1909
Author Luigi Pirandello was born in Agrigento, Sicily, ITALY
+20 Task
+05 Published before 1999 (1904)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 95 + 25 = 120
15.3 Olympic ScavengerCirce by Madeline Miller
Option A: sailing
Circe lives on Aeaea, an island, so everyone who visits her comes by boat. At one point, she herself sails to Minos to assist her sister in birthing the Minotaur.
Task total: 15
Season total: 45
10.7 Decathlon, Discus ThrowThe Daring Girls of Guernsey by Gayle Callen
+10 Task, Daring
Task total: 10
Season total: 55
15.4 Olympic ScavengerThe Cloisters by Katy Hays
Option B: dive or diving
"I waded out into the lake, its rocky shoreline pricking at my feet every few steps until I was far enough to dive under."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 70
20.5 Opening CeremoniesIn the Fog by Richard Harding Davis
(A) 1896-1909
Author born in US
+25 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (1901)
Task total = 30
Season total = 125
15.4 Olympic ScavengerThe Coast Road by Alan Murrin
Football - Option B with word "football" in text on pg 207:
"He was staring at a football match on the television."
Task total: 15
Season total: 95
15.7 Olympic ScavengerThe Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman
diving, option B
"His profile had said he was a diving instructor, which had sounded suitably alpha to Donna"
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 225
15.5 Olympic ScavengerThe Girl from the Island by Lorna Cook
Option B: golf or golfing
"'Playing golf today, what are you doing?'"
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 85
15.6 Olympic ScavengerThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Option B: football
"...after years of jeering at football and all the football means, here I was on an empty Caribbean beach, running these silly pass patterns with all the zeal of a regular sandlot fanatic."
+15 Task
+5, pub. 1998
Task total: 20
Season total: 105
20.1 Opening ceremoniesPublished 2019 (j -United States)
Ruff Justiceby Laurien Berenson
Task: 20
Grand total:45
15.4 Olympic ScavengerBits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
Option B: basketball
Chapter 14 of e-book, but not the audiobook: "I didn't really want to go out to the theater, or concerts, or Yankee games, or basketball games."
+15 Task
Season Total: 70
Completed so far: 15.1 golf, B; 15.2 surfboard, B; 15.3 canoe, canoeing A; 15.4 basketball, B.
Task 15.2 Olympic ScavengerDIVE
Option B
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries #1) (2024) by Catherine Mack
p. 180: “She turns and does a little DIVE into the water, her body folding into itself, and then her feet come up straight behind her and she disappears.”
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 120 + 15 = 135
20.1 Opening CeremoniesMiracle Creek by Angie Kim
(J) 2015-2024 (published in 2019)
Author born in South Korea
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Season total = 20
15.1 Olympic ScavengerGemina by Amie Kaufman
Athletic, Option B
"She's tall and athletic, face abscured by her helmet."
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (659 pgs)
Task total = 20
Season total = 40
15.8 Olympic ScavengerBehind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
swim, option B
"As I climb out of the pool after a swim, I notice a couple of men looking in my direction and prepare to tell them, should they decide to come and talk to me, that my husband is arriving in two days' time."
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 240
15.3 Olympic ScavengerThe Pasha of Cuisine by Saygın Ersin
Rowing, option B- The oarsman were still rowing vigorously, but the captain had become enamored with the idea of the lands to the west of the Great Sea The top of page 252.
+ 15 Task
Season Total 60
20.1 Opening Ceremonies(E) 1951-1963 The Poisoned Crown - by Maurice Druon -published 1956
The author was born in France
+20 Task
+ 5 Published before 1999
Task Total 25
Season Total 85
10.3 Shot PutA Bigamist's Daughter by Alice McDermott
Rating 2.96
+10 task
+ 5 published before 1999 (1982)
Task total: 15
Season total: 105
15.3 Olympic ScavengerA Match Made for Murder by Iona Whishaw
Option A horse riding
The main characters go for a horseback ride.
+15 task
Season total: 55
15.7 Olympic ScavengerCastle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
Option A: swim or swimming
When their tiny plane crashes between Tahiti and the Marquesas, Barry swims to land. While living on their desert island, Barry and Sophie swim a lot. Not much else to do on a desert island...
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 120
20.8 Opening CeremoniesBefore We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
(J) 2015-2024
Author born in Japan
+30 Task
Task total = 30
Season total = 330
15.5 Olympic ScavengerDoors of Sleep by Tim Pratt
Wrestling Option A – Minna wrestles with Polly the first time they meet
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 345
15.6 Olympic ScavengerQuantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer
Hockey Option B – p 27 like a fondness for hockey and maple syrup
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 360
20.1 - Opening CeremoniesLiving Alone by Stella Benson
B (1919), UK
+20 Task
+5 Before 1999
Task total = 25
Points total = 135
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Read the paired MPG from 10.2Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
Non Fiction
+10 Task
Season Total 95
10.8 Pole VaultThe Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths, Edgar Award for Best Novel 2020
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Season total: 130
15.2 Olympic ScavengerFrom a Distant Place by Don Carpenter
Tennis, Option B - "But Sandy came back that first year for summer vacation, worked as a busboy at Horizons in Sausalito, swam a lot, played tennis and spent his nights with a woman at least twenty-five, and when fall came, refused to go back to Dartmouth." pg. 140
+15 Task
+ 5 published before 1999 (1988)
Task total=20
Season total=55
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The Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
golf, option B
"I detailed some of Poirot's minor peculiarities-toast that had to be made from a square loaf-eggs matching in size-his objection to golf as a game 'shapeless and haphazard', whose only redeeming feature was the tee boxes!"
+15 Task
+5 Pub. 1932
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 190