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Joanna wrote: "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 g..."
Thanks, that was it --- and thanks for the other extras, too!
20.8 Fall AuthorsLes Guerres de Lucas by Laurent Hopman
Born 1970 - https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Lauren...
+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 890
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 (x5) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Writers FestivalThe Elmsley Count by Mark Lock
+10 Task (new to me, MPG crime)
+10 Combo (10.6 "A house in Blackheath... A silver SLK" p 313, 20.7 https://www.goodreads.com/series/4062... )
+ 5 Series
Post total = 25
Season total = 675
20.9 HaLLowEEnBlood from a Stone by Donna Leon
+20 Task (Blood/Donna)
+10 Combo (10.6 - She had iron grey hair that capped her head in a tight perm; 20.1 - see Msg 9 in the task thread)
+ 5 Multiple (first post at Msg 433)
+25 Series (previous at 20.10, 10.4, 20.2, 20.1)
Task total = 60
Season total = 1010
10.6 Elementary My Dear ReaderDragonseye by Anne McCaffrey
with the iron mines at Telgar going full-blast
+10 Task
+ series 10 ( task 20.3, same series)
+5 multiple
Task Total 25
Season Total 440
10.5 - Lucky SevenDeadly Invasion by Renee Pawlish
+10 task - author name - Pawlish
+5 Combo - 20.3 - Chemistry - Re, Ne, Pa, W
+10 series
Task total: 25
Grand total: 1025
20.3 - ChemistryDeadly Guild by Renee Pawlish
+20 task - Re, Ne, Pa, W
+5 Combo - 10.5 - Pawlish
+5 repeat
+15 series
Task total: 45
Grand total: 1070
10.7 - HelicoptersLest Tides Turn by Phillipa Nefri Clark
+10 task - LEST
+5 Combo- 20.3 - Chemistry - Li, Pa, Ne, Cl
+15 series
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1100
20.8 Fall authorsLife After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen
+20 Task (b. 1981)
+15 Combo: 10.6 Chapter 3 "America stopped buying four and a half million ounces of silver a month."; 10.7 "their"; 20.3 Ar-Co-He-N
+10 Young
+5 Jumbo
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 55
Season Total: 325+55=380
Forgot to include source for Jared Cohen’s birth year: Wikipedia. Thanks.
20.3 ChemistryA Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
20 task Ag, At, H, Ac
5 series
5 multi
10 combo 10.6 (pg 59: ''Tisn't often you see a real bit of gold nowadays -'), 20/8
______
40
Running total: 905
15.5 ScrabbleHamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Tile: I3 (372 pages)
Letter points: 1
Task total =15
Season total = 270
15.6 ScrabbleTar Baby by Toni Morrison
Tile: U3 (Toni Morrison born in 1931)
Letter points: 1
Task total =15
Season total = 285
15.7 ScrabbleThe Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Tile: Q1 (Quickening starts with Q)
Letter points: 10
Task total =15
Season total = 300
15.8 ScrabbleThe White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943 by Inge Scholl
Tile: R6 (biography of Hans and Sophie Scholl)
Letter points: 10
Task total =15
Season total = 315
15.9 ScrabbleFierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Tile: Y2 (Kai Cheng Thom is 33 - born in 1991)
Letter points: 4
Task total =15
Season total = 330
10.6 Elementary My Dear ReaderWho Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell
+10 Task (“Silver willow, heavy with dust, grew along the river banks, perfuming the air around with its honey smell.")
+ 10 Combo (10.6 - pub’d in 1947; 20.9 - 2 E’s in Seen, 2 L’s in Mitchell)
Task total =20
Season total = 350
20.8 Fall AuthorsUnder the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
+20 Task (Thomas Hardy was born in 1840)
+ 10 Combo (10.7 - Tree in HELICOPTERS; 20.3 - THomAs HArdy = Ho, Holmium; As, Arsenic; H, Hydrogen; Ar, Argon)
Task total =30
Season total = 380
20.9 haLLowEEnThe Keep by Jennifer Egan
+20 Task (2 E’s in Keep, 2 N’s in Jennifer)
+ 10 Combo (10.4 - pub’d in 2006, the year I graduated from college; 20.3 - JenNiFeR eGan = Ni, Nickel; Fe, Iron; Re, Rhenium; Ga, Gallium)
Task total =30
Season total = 410
20.3 ChemistryHidden History of Detroit by Amy Elliott Bragg
Am Li O Br
Task: +20
Scrabble: +300
Season Total: 320
10.7 Helicopter SeasonAn Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn
The word is Peril
+10 Task
+5 Series
Season Total 455
10.6 Elementary Dear ReaderEden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler
"Here and there, too, lay shards of pottery with a pink willow pattern, and bits of leather and scraps of iron"
+10 task
+5 repeat (comment # 285)
Task total: 15
Season total: 420
20.3 ChemistryThe (Other) You by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oat es
(CE-Cerium; Ca-calcium; AT-astatine; ES-Einsteinium)
+20 Task
+20 Combo:
10.6- “...near the end of October on a very dark starless night when the air smelled mildly of sulphur,...” pg. 225
10.7-Helicopters-OTHER
10.9-short stories
20.1 professor at Princeton as noted on GR author page
+5 Multiple
Task total=45
Season total=755
15.10 ScrabbleThe Man in the Queue: Murder Mystery by Josephine Tey
15 pts 15.10 Q1 - Title word begins with Q
Task Total: 15 pts
150 pts Finisher Bonus 34pts= QUICKLY (25 pts) WHO (9 pts)
Season total =885 pts
Post 675
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) 15.9(H) 15.10 (Q)
Task 15.8 ScrabbleIn the Quick (2021) by Kate Hope Day
K1 - Title word ends in K
Letter Points: 5
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Grand Total: 500 + 15 = 515
20.9 haLLowEEnThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
For 10.6, gold on page 122: "I wondered where, with those looks, those alert good-natured eyes and hair the gold of illuminations, she would end."
+20 task (aFFair grEEne)
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader - gold
+ 5 combo 20.3 Chemistry - Ra, H, Am, Ne
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 35
Season total: 920
10.4 Significant YearIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
+10 Task (pub. 2022 -- Year of my son's bar mitzvah)
+10 Combo (10.5 - auth last name; 10.6 - "The grass catches the copper light: on and off and on again.")
+10 Young (auth. b. 1986)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 615
10.4 Significant Year Year published 1991-I bought my first home in 1991
Perilous Seas by Dave Duncan
+10 Task
+5 Series
Task Total 15
Season Total 460
10.9 - Keep it Short! (Valerie's task):Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor
+10 task
+10 young
+15 combo (10.5 - O'Connor; 10.6 - "A plastic fern in a gold pot sat in the opening and trailed its fronds down almost to the floor."; 20.3 FLanNerry O'CoNnor - Lanthanum, Neon, Cobalt, Nitrogen)
+50 10 point halfway finish
Post Total = 85
Season Total = 1755
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9; 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)
20.1 Back to SchoolThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
20 task
20 combo 10.5, 10.6 (pg 143: ' Like a golden ring falling into a silver basin,...), 20.8 (1929), 10.9
_________
40
50 half way finish
_______
90
Running total: 1015
15.9 ScrabbleThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Tile: L3 LGBT
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Post total: 15
Season total = 2060
Task 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):Read a book that mentions an element from the periodic table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...). Provide a quote that mentions the element name in your post. No plurals or other forms of the element name. Using an element name that does not refer to a physical substance, e.g., “copper” referring to a police officer not the metal, is allowed.
p. 5: “I had a GOLD plaque engraved with those very words.”
Element 79 Au Gold
Goodnight June (2014) by Sarah Jio (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 288 pages)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 515 + 10 = 525
20.8 Fall AuthorsGrey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
+20 Task (1901-1935)
+15 Combo (10.6 - her eyes changed and grew darker and glassed over with gold in that way that Ellen had seen before.; 20.3 - W, Sg, Ra, Si ; 20.7)
+ 5 Multiple (first post at #558)
+10 Young
+15 Series (20.7, 20.3)
Task total = 65
Season total = 1075
10.10 Group Reads:Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
+10 task
+10 young
+5 multiple
+10 combo (10.6 - ""... we lived in a town surrounded by low stone walls that snaked silver through the hilly yellow fields."; 20.3 ChAr l Otte Mc ConAghy - Argon, Oxygen, Cobalt, Silver)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1790
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
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)
20.5 Speech and Debate:The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
+20 task
+10 young
+ 5 multiple
+10 combo (10.6 - "It was old and had gold end papers and the binding was broken in two places from rough handling"; 10.10)
Post Total = 45
Season Total = 1835
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
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 (x4); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
20.1 Back to School:Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
+20 task
+5 multiple
+10 series
+10 combo (10.6 - " 'The air is pure here' Whitby said, ' You can get high just from the oxygen levels.'" ; 20.9)
Post Total = 45
Season Total = 1880
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
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 (x6); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x4); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x4); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
20.1 Back to School:The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
+20 task
+5 multiple
+10 combo (10.5 - Enright; 10.6 - "Sean's pupils are ringed with a gold so pale it is nearly white.")
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1915
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
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 (x7); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x4); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x4); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
15.4 ScrabbleR4 - Author first name is Rebecca, Ruth, Robert, Richard
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
PO_ _E R
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1930
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x3); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (X2); 15.4 (x2); 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1 (x7); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x4); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x4); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
"... a few lucky capitalists stumbled upon the
richest gold and diamond reserves in the world,"
+10 task
+10 young
+5 multiple
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 1955
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x4); .10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x2); 15.2 (x2); 15.3 (X2); 15.4 (x2); 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1 (x7); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x4); 20.4 (x3); 20.5 (x4); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
15.8 ScrabbleThis Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
E1 - Auth name starts with E
Task total: 15
Grand total: 630
15.9 ScrabbleA Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire
P1 - Pseudonymous author
Task total: 15 (she aslo writes as Mira Grant)
Grand total: 645
10.4 Significant Year1924 - the year my Mom was born
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
10 task
5 series
20 combo 10.9, 20.8, 10.6 (pg. 134: "Mr. Davenheim always wore a thick gold ring...'), 20.3 Ag, At, H, Ac
_______
35
50 1/2 way for 10s
200 mega finish
______
285
Running total: 1300
20.3 chemistry Lost Dogs and Lonely Heartsby Lucy Dillon
lUCy dillON
Task+20
Combo-10.6- "she saw flecks of gold on his arms".
p 22
Multiple +5
Grand total:365
20.3 ChemistryThief of Time by Terry Pratchett
20 task
5 series
5 multi
5 combo 10.6 (pg 31: 'It clinked with the heavy, rich clink of gold.')
_______
35
Running total: 1335
20.2 MathsA Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow
+20 task (A COLD DAY)
+15 Combo [10.6 carrying over half a million tons of COPPER and a billion ounces of SILVER., 20.3 Na-Ta-Be-No, 20.8]
+20 series (previously used for 10.6, 20.3 & 20.8)
+5 multiple
Post total = 60
Season total = 2120
15.10 ScrabbleElusive by Genevieve Cogman
Tile: E2 set in Europe (UK & France)
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Scrabble Finish:
Words:
quickly - 25
fed - 7
Word total: 32
+150 Scrabble finish bonus
Post total: 165
Season total = 2285
20.6 LiteratureAtonement by Ian McEwan
For 10.6, gold on page 71: "No one in the world could do this better than Briony Tallis who would be representing her country next year at the Berlin Olympics and was certain to win the gold."
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader - gold
+ 5 combo 20.1 Back to School - Author taught English to non-native speakers
Task total: 30
Half-way finish for 20 point tasks: 50
Mega finish: 200
Season total: 1200
20.3 ChemistryAya de Yopougon, Tome 8 by Marguerite Abouet
Ar = Argon ; Er = Erbium ; Te = Tellurium ; B = Boron
+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 910
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 (x2) ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 (x2) ; 20.6 ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 (x5) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
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Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
15 pts 15.9 H2 - 4H - Head, Heart, Hands, Health in title (all forms)
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total =720 pts
Post 651
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) 15.9(H) …