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15.4 - ScrabbleThe Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker
I6 - first person narrative
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 775
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; 15.4 (I) ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
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
15.5 - ScrabbleGuide du Routard Baléares 2024/25
N6 - Not a novel (travel guide on the Baleraric Islands - it has no pictures)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 790
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; 15.4 (I) ; 15.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
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
15.6 - ScrabbleGuide du Routard Barcelone 2024/25 (Etranger)
E2 (Barcelona, Spain)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 805
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; 15.4 (I) ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
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
10.5 Lucky SevensThe Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
+10 Task: Fremlin
+10 Combo: Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (silver: "it's an old-fashioned silver one" p136) / 20.3 Chemistry (CELIa FRemlIN = Ce, Cerium; Li, Lithium; Fr, Frankium; In, Indium)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1430 (you have me with 100 more points - I haven't found them yet, but I'll check)
10.6 Elementary My Dear ReaderOrbital by Samantha Harvey
+10 Task: Gold - "gold coins on a tapestried cloth"
+ 5 Combo: 20.3 Chemistry (sAMaNTHa hARvey = Am, Americium; N, Nitrogen; Th, Thorium; Ar, Argon)
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Young (1975)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1460
20.3 ChemistryA Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
+20 Task: AgAtHA christie = Ag, Silver; At, Astatine, H, Hydrogen; Ac, Actinium
+ 5 Series
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1485
20.3 ChemistryCards on the Table by Agatha Christie
+20 Task: AgAtHA christie = Ag, Silver; At, Astatine, H, Hydrogen; Ac, Actinium
+ 5 Series
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1630 (Corrected Total)
20.3 ChemistryThe Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
20 pts 20.3 Chemistry C Carbon, Li Lithium, Ne Neon, In Indium
5 pts 10.6 URANIUM. “Look at whathappened to Madame Curie—cancer killed her, and I’ve had colleagues tell me you cannot touch her papers because they are still riddled with uranium “.
5 pts Series
5 pts Multiple
Task Total: 35 pts
Season total =620 pts
Post 609
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) … … …
20.10 ZalphabeticalThe Mother Hunt by Rex Stout
+20 Task (TMH)
+ 5 Multiple
+15 Series (previous for 10.7 and 10.9)
Task total = 40
Season total = 950
Task 15.7 ScrabbleJeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013) by Sebastian Faulks
S1 - Author name (first or last) starts with S
Letter Points: 1
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Grand Total: 485 + 15 = 500
20.10 ZalphabeticalTell Me Everything by Elizabeth StroutElizabeth Strout
+20 task
+ 15 combo ( 10.6 - "And she had the strangest things on her feet, boots with long big silver zippers up the front of them."; 20.1; 20.3 ELIzaBeTh Strout - Lithium, Beryllium, Thorium, Sulfur)
+ 5 series
+5 multiple
Post Total= 45
Season Total = 1560
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 (x3); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
20.2 MathEven Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
+20 task
+15 combo (10.6 - "The silver light dimmed as Luna drifted behind that cloud she'd been flirting with for the last eighteen minutes."; 20.5 - magic spells, vampires, devils, angels; 20.8 - born 1969)
+5 multiple
Post Total= 40
Season Total = 1600
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 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4
10.2 Gothic Fiction:Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
#141
+10 task
+10 young
+20 combo (10.5 - name, O'Connor; 10.6 - "The little silver-rimmed glasses gave him a look of deflected sharpness"; 20.3 FranCe O'ConNor - Francium, Cerium, Oxygen, Nobelium; 20.9)
Post Total= 40
Season Total = 1640
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 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
20.3 Chemistry:The Year of the End by Anne Theroux
AnNe ThErOux - Neon, Thorium, Erbium, Oxygen
+20 task
+5 combo (20.1 - see help thread)
+5 multiple
Post Total= 30
Season Total = 1670
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 (x2); 20.3 (x4); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
15.10 ScrabbleLong Island by Colm Tóibín
Tile: I9 Author name has an I.
Tile points: 1
For the Scrabble Finisher Bonus, the words FIX, COZY, and KEG were used for 39 Scrabble points and a finisher bonus of 150.
Task total: 15
Scrabble finisher bonus: 150
Season total: 810
15.10 Scrabble - Round 2The Ink Master's Silence (Glass and Steele #6) by C.J. Archer
Tile: K1 - Title word ends in K
Letter points: 5
+15 Task
Scrabble Finish:
Words:
JOKE - 15 points
ACQUIT - 17 points
Word total: 32
+150 Scrabble Finish bonus
Post Total: 165
Season Total: 1,015
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Writers FestivalA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
MPG Mystery
+10 Task
Season Total 385
20.8 Fall Authors Read any book whose author was born in a year ending in 9, 0, or 1.
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
+20 Task
+10 Young (Born 1981) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jon...
Task Total 30
Season Total 415
20.5 Speech and DebateWhat an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
+20 task MPG Science
+5 combo 10.6 N nitrogen, Ni nickel, Fe iron, Ac actinium
+5 combo 20.8 born 1959
+5 combo 20.3 “Because it takes extra material and energy to produce dark feather parts, including deposits of minerals like calcium, cadmium, and zinc.”
+5 multiple from post 33
Task total: 40
Season total: 405
10.6 Elementary My Dear Watson Dead Until Darkby Charlaine Harris
"His blond hair had hot red gold." p 6
Task +10
Combo +5 20.3 chemistry
ChArlaINe HarRiS-C-Carbon, Ar-Argon,In-Indium, H-Hydrogen, R-radium, S-sulfur
Series- +5
Book total +25
Grand total: 335
10.5 Lucky SevensWhat Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley
10 task (title or last name)
5 series
10 combo 10.6 (pg. 37 '…a set of electroplated silver spoons.'), 20.3 Al, Nb, Ra, Y
________-
25
Running total: 865
20.8 Fall authorsNot the Ones Dead by Dana Stabenow
+20 task
+15 Combo [10.6 those few left after the EPA put the COPPER and GOLD mine on hold again., 20.3 Na-Ta-Be-No, 20.4 there is a detailed description of how Kate made salmon bouillabaisse]
+15 series (previously used for 10.6 & 20.3)
+5 multiple
Post total = 55
Season total = 2045
10.5 Lucky SevensAgrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore by Emma Southon
10 pts. 10.5 Lucky Sevens. Last Name
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader. IRON “Everyone else was stuck with iron rings.”
5 pts 20.1 Back to School. https://www.emmasouthon.com/
10 pts Young. https://www.librarything.com/author/s.... Birth date C 1985
Task Total: 30 pts
Season total =650 pts
Post 624
10.1 … … 10.4 10.5 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) … … …
20.1 Back to SchoolHowards End by E.M. Forster
20 pts 20.1 Back to School See Discussion Thread
5 pts. 10.5 Lucky Sevens. Last Name
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader. GOLD. “Then she turned westward to gaze at the swirling gold.”
5 pts 20.8 Fall Authors
5 pts Multiple
Task Total: 40 pts
Season total =690 pts
Post 625
10.1 … … 10.4 10.5 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) … … …
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20.3 ChemistryZero-Sum by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oat es
+20 Task (CE-Cerium; Ca-calcium; AT-astatine; ES-Einsteinium)
+15 Combo
10.6- “His eyes glide over me like liquid mercury.” pg. 93
10.9-Short stories
20.1 professor at Princeton as noted on GR author page
+5 Multiple
Task total=40
Season total=710
10.2 Gothic Fiction Dracula by Bram Stoker
+10 task (#8 on the list)
+25 combo (10.5 - pub 1897; 10.6 - Ch 2 "He held in his hand an antique silver lamp"; 20.3 - Br, Am, Er, S; 20.5 - supernatural element; 20.6 - #33 on list)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 160
10.7 Helicopter Season Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
+10 task (word - here can be made from HElicoptERs)
+15 combo (10.6 - Ch 1 "It is the soft silver of an expensive kitten"; 20.3 - Li, Ne, Mo, Y; 20.5 - supernatural element of psychic powers)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 185
15.8 ScrabbleIn the Quick by Kate Hope Day
+15 Task, Q1, any title word begins. with "q"
Task total: 15
Season total: 520
10.8 BADDrop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.6, "Grandma Helen--who doesn't share my parents' disdain for law enforcement--checks her reflection in her silver compact before fluffing her gray curls"; 20.3, Am (americum) Li (lithium) Ne (neon) Co (cobalt)
Task total: 20
Season total: 540
10.2 Gothic FictionThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
+10 Task
+25 Combo -
-->10.1 (126pp)
-->10.6 - "Mother, I have gold bath taps."
-->10.9 (Short stories)
-->20.3 (Ge/La Ca/Te)
-->20.8 (b. 1940)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 515
15.7 ScrabbleKalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
A3 - award winner - Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize (2007)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 530
20.4 Home EconomicsA Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato
+20 Task
+25 Combo -
-->10.6 - "He wore his country's color in a grand coat embroidered in gold."; ; ; (p. 34),
-->10.7 - Recipes
-->20.3 - Be/Th Ca/O
-->20.5 - magic and living gods
-->20.8 - b. 1980
+10 Young (b. 1980)
Task total: 55
Grand total: 585
20.1 Back to School One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
+20 task (according to her GR bio, Ware has been a teacher of English as a foreign language)
+5 combo (10.6 - page 9 - "his habit of convincing himself that every rainbow ended in a pot of gold just for him")
+10 Young (born 1977)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 220
20.1 Back to School Holly by Stephen King
+20 task (according to GR bio, King has been a teacher)
+10 combo (10.6 - page 234 - "dark circles under his eyes that suggest to Holly either insomnia or an iron deficiency")
+5 series
+5 multiple
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 260
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime WritersA Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
For 10.6, iron on page 64: "He would have killed her on the 'Bars of Iron' set, if no one had been looking."
+10 task (new mystery writer for me)
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader - iron (Fe)
+ 5 combo 20.1 Back to School (She was a physical training teacher)
+ 5 combo 20.3 Chemistry O, Se, In, Te
Task total: 25
Halfway Finish for 10 point tasks: 50
Season total: 885
CORRECTED TOTAL FOR SEASON15.8 Scrabble
Biggles Defends The Desert by Captain W E Johns
15 pts 15.8 W1 - WWI or WWII - not set in Europe
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total =705 pts
Post 638
10.1 … … 10.4 10.5 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) 15.8(W) … …
10.4 - Significant YearAya de Yopougon, Tome 6 by Marguerite Abouet
2010: year of birth of my daughter
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Points total = 815
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; 15.4 (I) ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
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
20.8 Fall AuthorsAya: Claws Come Out by Marguerite Abouet
Born 1971
+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 835
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; 15.4 (I) ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (x2) ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 (x2) ; 20.6 ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 (x4) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
10.3 Thankful for FamilyWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Flagged 16 times as family-saga
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 - #10 ; 10.5 - 7 words ; 10.6 "on the moon we had gold spoons")
+10 Young (died at 48 years old)
Task total = 35
Points total = 870
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; 15.4 (I) ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (x2) ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 (x2) ; 20.6 ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 (x4) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
Post 601:Linda wrote: "15.10 Scrabble
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
C1: Crime writers of color
Letter points: 3
+15 Task
Scrabble Finish:
Words:
HAZE: 16
COY: 8
..."
Congratulations on the Scrabble finish! The word/letter count is used to determine how many points you get for finishing, but isn't actually added to the season total.
So, with this finish, your season total as of Post 601 is 300 -- 15 points for each of the 10 scrabble tasks + 150 points for finishing with a word count adding up to more than 31 points.
Post 607:Karen Michele wrote: "20.3 Chemistry
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
+20 Task: AgAtHA christie = Ag, Silver; At, Astatine, H, Hydrogen; Ac, Actinium
+ 5 Series
Task Total: 25
Sea..."
+5 Combo 20.8
+5 Multiple
Post 608:Karen Michele wrote: "20.3 Chemistry
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
+20 Task: AgAtHA christie = Ag, Silver; At, Astatine, H, Hydrogen; Ac, Actinium
+ 5 Series
Task Total: 25
Season..."
+5 Combo 20.8
+5 Multiple
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Post 626:Mary wrote: "20.1 Back to School
Howards End by E.M. Forster
20 pts 20.1 Back to School See Discussion Thread
5 pts. 10.5 Lucky Sevens. Last Name
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear R..."
Coralie wrote: "20.8 Fall authors
Not the Ones Dead by Dana Stabenow
+20 task
+15 Combo [10.6 those few left after the EPA put the COPPER and GOLD mine on hold again., 20.3 Na-Ta..."
This appears to be a duplicate of Post 625. Not sure if you meant to post something else here.
Post 605:Karen Michele wrote: "Season Total: 1430 (you have me with 100 more points - I haven't found them yet, but I'll check)"
Look back at Post 560 with the Scrabble finish. I think you only gave yourself 50 points instead of 150.
Post 523 - 15.9 --> score was 1050
Post 560 - 15.10 --> +15 = 1065 + 150 = 1215, but you only wrote 1115.
Post 629:Katy wrote: "10.7 Helicopter Season
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
+10 task (word - here can be made from HElicoptERs)
+15 combo (10.6 - Ch 1 "It is the soft silver of a..."
+5 Jumbo
Post 228:Anika wrote: "10.7 Helicopter Season
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
+10 Task, here = HElicoptER
+5 Combo: 20.3, Li (lithium) Ne (neon) O (oxygen) Ar (argon)
+5 Jumbo, 512 pa..."
+10 Combo - 10.6, 20.5
Joanna wrote: "Post 626:Mary wrote: "20.1 Back to School
Howards End by E.M. Forster
20 pts 20.1 Back to School See Discussion Thread
5 pts. 10.5 Lucky Sevens. Last Name
5 pts 10..."
Not sure how I did that but I deleted 626. Correction made to total in post 638.
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Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
C1: Crime writers of color
Letter points: 3
Scrabble Finish:
Words:
HAZE: 16
COY: 8
FIX: 13
Word total: 37
+15 Task
+150 Scrabble finish bonus
Post total: 165
Season total = 300