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10.3 Thankful for Family:Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
shelved 29 times
+10 points
+10 combo (10.5 7 letters in author’s last name, Woodson;
10.6 - "All over this country people talk about a silver spoon, but truth be told, the spoon is gold.")
Post Total= 20
Season Total = 1490
10.1; ...; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); ...; 10.10
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (X2); 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1 (x5); 20.2; 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
20.10 Zalphabetical (Joanna's task):The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
+20 task
+5 multiple
Post Total= 25
Season Total = 1515
10.1; ...; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); ...; 10.10
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (X2); 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1 (x5); 20.2; 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
10.6 Elementary My Dear ReaderThe Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
For 10.6, gold on page 38: "After an hour of arranging, Juan and I are down to the final ornament, a bright star that Gran and I made years ago out of dry macaroni that we glued into an elaborate pattern and sprinkled with gold glitter from the dollar store."
+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.1 Back to School - Author was a special education teacher
+5 series
Task total: 20
Season total: 595
15.6 ScrabbleObelists at Sea by C. Daly King
15 pts 15.6 Y1 - author first name ends in Y OR last name begins with Y see discussion thread
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total =525 pts
Post 555
10.1 … … 10.4 … 10.6 … 10.8 … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) 15.3 (I) 15.4 (K) 15.5 (O) 15.6 (Y) … … … …
20.3 ChemistryCastle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
+20 task Na-W-Ne-Es
+15 Combo [10.6 he gave Jamal two SILVER pieces to buy more squid, 20.5 magic, 20.7]
+10 series (previously used for 20.6)
+5 multiple
Post total = 50
Season total = 1890
20.5 Speech and DebateThe Rosary of Our Lady by Romano Guardini
+20 Task (communication with spirits through prayer)
+15 Combo: 10.1 (148 pages), 20.1 (professor at two universities in Germany per GR bio), 20.3 (No-Ar-In-I)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 285+40=325
20.8 Fall AuthorsThe World at Night by Alan Furst
+20 Task (b. 1941)
+ 5 Combo (10.6 - Once upon a time they’d loved this hour in Paris; gold light spilling out on the cobbled streets,
+10 Series (posted for 10.6 at #168)
Task total = 35
+50 Halfway finish
Season total = 870
15.9 ScrabbleThe Only One Left by Riley Sager
Tile: G2 Gothic (on page 2 of the list)
Tile Points: 2 points
Task total: 15
Season total: 610
15.10 ScrabbleThe Break by Katherena Vermette
Tile: K1 - Title word ends in K (breaK)
Letter points: 5
+15 Task
Scrabble Finish:
KEPT 10 points
QUAY 16 points
OX 9 points
Letter Total: 35
Task total = 15
Scrabble Finish Bonus: 150
Post Total: 165
Season Total: 1115
20.5 Speech and Debate:Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery
+20 Task: MPG Science
Task Total: 20
20 Point Finish: 50
Megafinish: 200
Season Total: 1385
10.6 Elementary My Dear ReaderRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
+10 Task: Gold - "We've a saddle-bag full of gold"
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Series
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1405
15.9 Scrabble - Round 2European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #2) by Theodora Goss
Tile: J1 - Jumbo 700+ pages
Letter points: 8
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 840
10.7 Helicopter SeasonYou Are Here by David Nicholls
For 10.6, oxygen on page 21: "There'd be no more self-willed illness, no more cosiness, no candles sucking the oxygen from the room, no more relentless self-care. Instead she'd care for others. . . "
+10 task (here)
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (oxygen)
Task total: 15
Season total: 625
20.3 ChemistryThe Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell
RU TH RE ND
Ruthenium, Thorium, Rhenium, Neodymium
+20 Task
+20 Combo:
10.5-seven letters in Rendell
10.6-"...strange abstracts in aluminum frames hung side by side with photographs of inner-city squalor...” pg. 179
20.8-born 1930
20.9-woods, Rendell
+5 Multiple
+5 Series
Task total=50
Season total=670
10.2 Gothic FictionUncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Combos:
10.6:"A bible, with two broad silk markers, red and gold folded in it - the one, I might conjecture, indicating the place in the Old, the other in the New Testament."
+10 Task (#31 on list)
+ 5 Combo
Post total = 15
Season total = 650
10.7 Helicopter SeasonThose Who Perish by Emma Viskic
+10 task both THOSE and PERISH can be found in HELICOPTERS
+10 Combo [10.6 no standover men beating Ant with IRON bars, 20.1]
+20 series (previously used for 10.8,10.5, & 20.1)
+5 multiple
Post total = 45
Season total = 1935
10.4 Significant YearAn Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
Published in 1972, my college graduation year.
For 10.6, silver on page 55: "The rich blues, greens and reds gleamed and changed in the candlelight as she moved, and emphasized the pale silver of her hair and the almost colourless skin."
+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (silver)
+ 5 combo 20.8 Fall Authors (born in 1920)
Task total: 20
Season total: 645
10.2 Gothic FictionThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
(#190)
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 "One is never whole conscious of the greed hidden in one’s heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver” ; 20.3 - Ca = Calcium ; Os = Osmium ; Ru = Ruthenium ; I = Iodine ; 20.5 - not to spoil too much, but a lot of supernatural elements like a haunted book/house)
+10 Series
+5 Jumbo (531 pages)
Task total = 40
Points total = 690
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (x2) ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 (x2) ; 20.6 ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 (x3) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
15.7 ScrabbleCoriolanus by William Shakespeare
15 pts 15.7 C 2 - Classics or MPG Classics
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total =540 pts
Post 570
10.1 … … 10.4 … 10.6 … 10.8 … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) 15.3 (I) 15.4 (K) 15.5 (O) 15.6 (Y) 15.7 (C) … … …
10.9 - Keep it Short! (Valerie's task):The Sea Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 850
20.1 Back to SchoolA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
20 pts 20.1 Back to School. “ He then sought a post in Germany, to learn the language, and spent several months in the summer of 1905 in Nassenheide, Pomerania (now the Polish village of Rzędziny), as a tutor to the children of the writer Elizabeth von Arnim.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._F... See discussion thread for approval
5 pts 20.8 Fall authors
5 pts 10.6 GOLD “ From the red gold keep thy finger . . .”
5 pts 10.5 Lucky Sevens Last name
5 pts 10.1 Exception to the Rule
5 pts Multiple
Task Total: 45 pts
Season total =585 pts
Post 572
10.1 … … 10.4 … 10.6 … 10.8 … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) 15.3 (I) 15.4 (K) 15.5 (O) 15.6 (Y) 15.7 (C) … … …
Task 10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (Tien's task):Read a book whose author is new to you AND has MPG of Crime, Thriller, or Mystery.
Author is new to me
MPG of both
Mystery Thriller
and
Thriller
Combos:
Task 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):
SILVER
p. 236: “’What’s wrong?’ Pamela tugs a SILVER hoop earring. ‘I don’t know.’”
Task 20.3: CHEMISTRY
ChrisTINA ESTEs
6 C Carbon
22 Ti Titanium
11 Na Sodium
99 Es Einsteinium
52 Te Tellurium
Off the Air (2024) by Christina Estes
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.6, #20.3)
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 465 + 20 = 485
Post 485:Coralie wrote: "20.7 Art
The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
+20 task
+10 Combo [10.6 it had flecks of GOLD thread in it, 20.9 aNN clEEves]
+15 series (previously used for 20.10 & 20...."
+5 Combo - 10.5 - 7 letters in Cleeves
Post 499:Nick wrote: "10.2 Gothic Fiction
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. p. 1 of list
Task Points: 10
Combo: + 5 -- 20.5 Speech and Debate. Let's say the ghosts are a real supernatural..."
+10 Combo - 10.6, 20.3
Post 519:Katy wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
+10 task
+5 combo (10.6 - 118: "Greg held up one of his gold medals.")
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 75"
+5 Combo - 20.3
Post 524:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "10.6 Elementary My Dear Watson
Trick or Treat Murderby Leslie Meier
"the tree covered hills wore their fall colors of red and gold" p 6
Task +10
Series+10 #3 in series..."
Jayme, I don't see a previous post where you used a different book from this series this season, so this one is +5 series points, not +10. If you use a different book from the same series for a different task, you can get +10 on that one.
Post 114:Valerie wrote: "10.2 Gothic Fiction
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
10 task
15 combos - 10.1, 10.6 *(ch 3 'The gold was still in the sky…'); 20.3 (He, N, Am, Es)
_______
25
Runnin..."
+5 Combo - 20.5 -- we gave this one to Nick later, so you get the points too.
Post 465:Joanne wrote: "10.4 Significant year
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
Published 2014-The year that I joined Goodreads. This site has had a significant effect on my readin..."
+5 Multiple
15.7 ScrabbleThe Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
+15 Task, T5 translated from a language other than your own: tx from German
Task total: 15
Season total: 515
Post 545:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "10.6 Elementary My Dear Watson
Moon Calledby Patricia Briggs
"He couldn't hold cold iron" p 18
Task +10
Combo +5 chemistry
Multiple +5 BRIggS
Series +10- #1 in the ser..."
I have this scored as:
+10 Task
+10 Combo - 20.3, 20.9
+5 Series
+5 Multiple
Task total: 30
So the total is the same, but the details are diffferent...
Post 538:Joanne wrote: "20.3 Chemistry
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Be - Beryllium
Ac - Actinium
Ci - Chlorine
In- Indium
+20 Ta..."
+5 Multiple
20.8 Fall Authors. Author born in year ending in 9, 0, or 1. Ruth Benedict by Margaret Mead, b. 1901.
Task Points: 20
Combo: + 5 -- 20.1 Mead taught at Columbia, Fordham, and The University of Rhode Island. From Wiki: “Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic.”
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 200
20.10 Zalphabetical. (repeated task)The Ivory Grin by Ross Macdonald. TIG is backwards alphabetically.
Task Points: 20
Bonus: + 5 repeated task.
Points This Post: 25
Season So Far: 225
20.9 HaLLowEEnA Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
+20 Task (Moons/Barry)
+15 Combo (10.6 - He was a closed book and the book was athwart with iron.; 20.1 - see Msg 9 in the task thread; 20.3 - Se, Ba, Ti, Nb
+ 5 Multiple (first posted at #433)
Task total = 40
Season total = 910
10.10 Group ReadsPaladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
+10 task
+10 Combo [10.6 Or salt. Or food. Or IRON., 20.5 supernatural]
+20 series (previously used for 20.5, 10.6 & 10.7)
+10 young (born 1977)
+5 multiple
Post total = 55
Season total = 1990
10.8 BAD SydneyKilling Floor by Lee Child
+10 Task (***I might be one of the only people in the universe who hasn't read a book by this prolific author, but this is my first one***)
+15 Combo (10.5 - pub. 1997, 10.6 - "He peered out through his gold rims.", 20.9 - kiLLing flOOr)
+5 Series
Task total: 30
Grand total: 480
20.3 - ChemistryLest Bridges Burn by Phillipa Nefri Clark
+20 task - Li, Pa, Ne, Cl
+5 Combo - 10.7 - Helicopters - LEST
+10 series - #2 in series
+5 repeat
Task total: 40
Grand total: 975
20.3 - ChemistryTaken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes
+20 task - Og, Er, Te, Es
+5 repeat
Task total; 25
Grand total: 1000
15.1 ScrabbleThe Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
F2: “ph” in title
Letter points: 4
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
I hadn't noticed only one title per post so here they all come, one after another. I also didn't understand midseason 250 points so I hope this all flies.
20.6 LiteratureThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
20 task
10 young
5 combo 10.6 pg. 112 'Inside was a giant platinum and diamond ring.'
________
35
Running total: 840
20.2 MathIt is not a piece of cake by Nancy Peña
+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel
+50 Half-way Finish
Task total = 70
Points total = 760
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (x2) ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 (x2) ; 20.6 ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 (x3) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
15.2 ScrabbleIcebound by Dean Koontz
Z: Author's last name has a "z"
Letter points: 10
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
15.3 ScrabbleOne Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith
O3: Popular outdoors books
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 45
15.4 ScrabbleThe Executioner Weeps by Frédéric Dard
X: "ex" in title word
Letter points: 8
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 60
15.5 ScrabbleThe Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
E10: Animals
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 75
15.6 ScrabbleA Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich
H2: Head Hands, Heart, Health in title
Letter points: 4
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 90
15.7 ScrabbleLust for Life by Irving Stone
A1: Art and Artists
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 105
15.8 ScrabbleIce Trap by Kitty Sewell
Y1: Author's first name ends in "y"
Letter points: 4
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 120
15.9 ScrabbleLittle People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter's Eyes by Dan Kennedy
I2: Author's age 51-74
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 135
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Post Total= 20
Season Total = 1470
10.1; ...; ...; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); ...; 10.10
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (X2); 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1 (x5); 20.2; 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)