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15.10 Scrabble
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Tile: J1 - Jumbo
Letter points: 8
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Scrabble Finish:
Words:
Zap - 12
Joke - 15
Hit - 6
Word total: 33
+150 Scrabble finish bonus
Post total: 165
Season total = 415 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 250)
15.1The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann
Tile T-6 No "T" in authors names
Task Total 15
Season Total 15
15.1 ScrabbleOur Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Tile: Y2 - Young - author aged 50 or younger
Letter points: 4
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
15.1 ScrabbleExit Strategy by Martha Wells
Tile: X1 Exes!
Letter points: 8
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season Total: 15
10.4 - Significant Year (Karen Michele's task):Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 1st pub'd in 1958, my birth year.
Task Points = 10
Combo Points = 10 (This always confuses me, but I'm going to try.)
The book also fits:
20.3 Chemistry. The author GRAHAM GREENE has letters that meet the following elements:
H -- 1 Hydrogen "graHam"
NE -- 10 Neon "greeNE"
RA -- 88 Radium "gRAham"
AM -- 95 Americum "grahAM"
and
20.10 Zalphabetical.
All 4 words of the title are in backwards alphabetical order:
Our
Man
In
Havana
Points This Post: 20
Season Total: 20
15.1 ScrabbleThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
Tile: K1 – title work ending in K - worK
Letter points: 5
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Post total: 15
Season total = 15
15.1 ScrabbleTake It Back by Kia Abdullah
Tile: K1 - Title word ending in K
Letter Points: 5
+15 task
Post total: 15
Season total: 15
15.2 ScrabbleThe Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Tile: I3 - page count 300-399
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers FestivalThen She Vanishes by Claire Douglas
+10 new to me author
+10 Combo [10.5 (7-letter author name); 20.3 Chemistry - Cl, Ir, U, As}
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20
20.4 Home Economics The Country Kitchen by Della T. Lutes
20 pts 20.4 Home Economics
5 pts 20.3 Chemistry. La - Lanthanum; Lu-Lutetium; Te - Tellurium; S - Sulfur
5 pts 20.1 Back to School “ She graduated from a high school in Jackson at age 16 and became a teacher, first in Jackson and then in Detroit public schools.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_T...
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader IRON “Season with salt and pepper, and place in a heavy aluminum or steel (or iron spider if you can get it) frying pan in which a generous amount of butter has been brought to smoking heat (but not browned) .”
Task Total: 35 pts
Season total =35 pts
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15.2 ScrabbleGift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tile: C2 – MPG classics
Letter points: 3
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Post total: 15
Season total = 30
20.6 Literature:The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - "Sunny and clear or cold and bitter, it never mattered as he paddled in rhythm to music in his head, working above water the color of IRON." p86; 20.3 - NIcHOLAs spARks; Ni - Nickel, Ho - Holmium, La - Lanthanum, Ar - Argon)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 60
20.1 Back to School:10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 - "Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of OXYGEN" p11; 10.7 - THIS; 20.8 - born 1971)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 95
15.1 ScrabbleGirl of Kosovo by Alice Mead (not shelved at BPL)
+15 Task, I9, author's name contains an "i"
*1 scrabble point
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
10.10 Group ReadsNettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
10 task
10 combo 10.6 (pg. 16 "The queen's mind was as brittle-sharp as an iron dagger,...'); 20.5 (MPG - magic)
10 young (b. 1977)
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30
Running total: 45
Goodness, I enjoyed that! Thanks for the rec. Anika!
20.3 Chemistry48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oat es
+20 Task (CE-Cerium; Ca-calcium; AT-astatine; ES-Einsteinium)
+10 Combo (10.6-Iron “The shovel in my hands, one of those heavy iron shovels with a wooden handle worn smooth by decades, to defend myself I struck…” pg. 89; 20.1 professor at Princeton as noted on GR author page
Task total=30
Season total=30
20.10 ZalphabeticalThe Life Impossible by Matt Haig
+20 Task, T-L-I
+10 Combo: 10.6, iron "I didn't know that iron is a particularly receptive material for telekinetic powers."; 20.5, when Grace moves to Ibiza, she gains the ability to read minds, telekinesis, and more magic than she knows what to do with.
+10 Young, b. 1975
Task total: 40
Season total: 55
10.5 Lucky 7'sA Scandal in Batterseaby Mercedes Lackey
PPublished 2017
Task +10
Combo +15 20.8 Mercedes Lackey 1950, 20.5 ghosts, 10.6 elementary my dear reader- "nothing, no coppers element copper
Series +5 elemental masters #12
Grand total 30
15.2 ScrabbleThe Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn
Tile: F2 Ph in title
Letter points: 4
Task total: 15
Season total: 30
20.7 ArtThe Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Mentionned as a trilogy on the Wikipedia page :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 : "The man wore a small gold crucifix that bounced and glimmered as he rode” ; 20.5 - magic)
+10 Young (born 1978 - https://www.booknotification.com/auth...)
+5 Series
Task total = 45
Points total = 45
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20.4 Home EconomicsAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
The non-fiction account of Barbara Kingsolver & her family's one year of eating local, punctuated by her daughter's Camille recipes.
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.5 - first published 2007 ; 10.6 - “I train them to their trellises, tidy the mulch at their feet, inhale the oxygen of their thanks” ; 20.3 - BaRbAr a K In gsolver (Ba = Barium , Rb = Rubidium, Ar= Argon, In= Indium)
Task total = 35
Points total = 80
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20.6 Literature:V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
#361, graphic novel, no styles
+20 task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 20
20.6;
10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (Tien's task):The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
+10 task
+5 series
+15 combo (10.5 - Richard; 10.6 - "That was the copper wasn't it? And it's Fiona Bruce now isn't it?"; 20.8 - 1970)
Post Total = 30
Season Total = 50
10.8;
20.6;
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):Ravensong by T.J. Klune
"I pulled it up and up and up until a little ball of silver struck my palm, molten and hot."
+10 task
+5 jumbo (512)
+10 young (b.1982)
+5 series
+5 combo (20.5 - witches, werewolves)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 85
10.6; ...; 10.8;
20.6;
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
"We were kicking sand everywhere but he held me in a grip of iron."
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 series
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 105
10.6 (x2); ...; 10.8;
20.6;
15.3 ScrabbleLast One Alive (Maddie Ives #7) by Charlie Gallagher
Tile: E12 - Author name (first or last) ends in E
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 110
10.4 - Significant Year (Karen Michele's task):Old Man's War (Old Man's War #1) by John Scalzi
published 2005 - wedding
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - "She had not painted herself in NEON in real life; that would have been a fine way to be killed by ground forces" 91%; 20.8 - born 1969)
+5 Series
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 135
15.2 Scrabble Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
Tile E8: series with >8 instalments
(1 pt)
15 task
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15
Running total: 55
10.4 Significant YearDeath in the East by Abir Mukherjee
+10 Task my sister died in 2019
+5 Combo [10.6 – held in place by an IRON bolt]
+5 Series
+10 Young (born 1974)
Post total = 30
Season total = 60
20.5 Speech and DebateMaterial World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway
+20 task MPG Science
+5 combo 10.6 “…the molten liquid coming out of the furnace contains nickel, cobalt and copper while the slag being drained away contains lithium”
+5 jumbo 512 pgs.
Task total: 30
Season total: 30
20.7 ArtThe Green Gauntlet by R.F. Delderfield
+20 Task (3rd book in The Horseman Riding By
+ 5 Combo 10.6: Blackberry Moor had once been a vast rectangle of yellow gorse, heath, heather and green or gold bracken according to the season of the year
+ 5 Series
+ 5 Jumbo (510 pgs)
Task total = 35
Season total = 35
10.5 Lucky Sevens (Rosemary's task):Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham #2) by Benjamin Stevenson
7 words in title
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 - "And just like a flare of lit MAGNESIUM burning bright and short, we settled back into the usual panel rhythm, though not without a few whispers of excitement from the crowd, no longer regretting missing the gorge tour." p69; 10.7 - THIS; 20.3 - Be - Beryllium, N- Nitrogen, In - Indium, Te - Tellirium;)
+5 Series
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 165
10.8 - BAD Crime WritersSweet Little Lies by Caz Frear
+10 task - new to me author
+5 repeat
+5 series
Task total: 20
Grand total: 40
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Writers FestivalResurrection Bay by Emma Viskic
+10 New to me author
+5 Combo [20.1]
+5 Series
Post total = 20
Season total = 80
20.5 Speech and DebateBefore Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
MPG: Magic Realism
20 task
5 series
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25
Running total: 80
Hi Valerie, none of your chemical combinations seem to be consecutive letters. Have a look at other completed posts, all show the two letter combos as consecutive, as per in the task example. I tried really hard to make this name work, but I couldn’t find the combinations. I don’t think I got passed 2 😭
15.3 ScrabbleThe Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
Tile: Q1 Title word begins with Q - Queen
Letter points: 10
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Post total: 15
Season total = 95
20.5 Speech and DebateThe Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Supernatural element: magic
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.6: "what appeared to be gold and silver, melted down and allowed to run in rivulets across the fabric" ; 20.7 - trilogy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...)
+10 Young (born 1978 - https://www.booknotification.com/auth...)
+10 Series (1st book read - post 22)
+5 Jumbo (515 pages)
Task total = 55
Points total = 135
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20.3 ChemistryAya by Marguerite Abouet
M Ar gu Er i Te A B oue: Ar = Argon ; Er = Erbium ; Te = Tellurium ; B = Boron
+20 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 155
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20.8 Fall AuthorsAya of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet
Born 1971
+20 Task
No style, graphic novels
Task total = 20
Points total = 175
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20.5 Speech and Debate:The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 - "The NEON lit up, and a song crackled from the forty-year-old speakers." p103 )
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 190
Apple wrote: "Hi Valerie, none of your chemical combinations seem to be consecutive letters. Have a look at other completed posts, all show the two letter combos as consecutive, as per in the task example. I t..."
I have changed the task. (Luckily I found one that should work).
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader
The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang
"We whispered about ponds, the width of lakes in whose depth swam gold and silver fish"
Points this task 10
Young 5 (born 1983)
Season Total 30
10.1 Exception to the RuleThe Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
+10 Task (96 pgs)
+ 5 Combo (10.5-7 letters in Swanson)
Task total=15
Season total=45
In Post 25 - Apple wrote: "10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (Tien's task):
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
+10 task
+5 series
+15 combo (10.5 - Richard; 10.6 - "That was t..."
10.5 requires the author's last name to have 7 letters.
-5pts
In Post 30:Valerie wrote: "15.2 Scrabble
Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
Tile E8: series with >8 instalments
(1 pt)
15 task
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15
Running total: 55"
I show your total as of this post as 60:
Post 5 - 15
Post 17 - 30
Post 30 - 15
In Post 33 -Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.5 Speech and Debate
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway
+20 task MPG Science
+5 combo 10.6 “…the molten liqu..."
+10 Young (b. 1979)
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20.6 Literature
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
+20 Task
+10 Combo [10.5 (7-letter author name); 20.7 (trilogy - only 3 books in series by same author)]
+5 Series
+5 Multiple*
+10 Young (died age 50)
Post total = 50
Season total = 250 (assuming mid-season with a previous total of 200 and a previous post for 20.6)