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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
With these 10 extra combo points, my total should now be 235.
(I am terrible at catching combo points.)
20.7 Art. Book is part of a trilogy. , # 1 in the “Sacred Throne” trilogy. The Armored Saint by Myke Cole.Points This Post: 20
Season So Far: 255
20.6 Literature. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, p. 1, # 42Task Points: 20
Combo: + 10 10.2 (#4 on the Gothic Fiction list) 20.3 Chemistry
H = Hydrogen 1
NE = Neon 10
AU = Gold 79
ER = Erbium 68
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 285
20.5 Speech. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. A supernatural element in the plot -- possession by an evil spirit and the testing of its authenticity plays a significant part of the plot.Stuart Turton b. 1980. +5 Combo 20.8 birth year ends in 0.
+10 Young
+ 50 Half-Way Finish, all 20 point tasks finished.
Task Points: 20
Bonus Points: 65
Task Total: 85
Season Total: 370
That will do it for me for this challenge. Enjoyed it!
20.9 HalloweenThe Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace
20 pts 20.9 Halloween
5 pts 20.3 Chemistry Ga Gallium W Tungsten Al Aluminium. La Lanthanum
5 pts 10.7 Helicopter THREE
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader IRON “Behind the car was a mass of wreckage; a great iron casting lay split into three pieces amidst a tangle of broken packing-case.”
5 pts 10.5 Lucky Sevens Last name
5 pts Series
Task Total: 45 pts
Season total =930 pts
Post 706
10.1 … … 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 10.8 … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 20.9 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)
15.4 ScrabbleTeaching Words and How They Work: Small Changes for Big Vocabulary Results by Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Tile: K1 - Title word ends in K ("work")
Letter points: 5
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season Total: 280
15.5 ScrabbleBig Words for Young Readers: Teaching Kids in Grades K to 5 to Decode—and Understand—Words With Multiple Syllables and Morphemes by Heidi Anne Mesmer
Tile: T6 - author name has no T
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season Total: 295
15.6 ScrabbleGood Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo
Tile: 06 - letter sequence OO in title word ("good")
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season Total: 310
15.7 ScrabbleWhat the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise by Seema Yasmin
1190 lexile
Tile: Y1 - author last name starts with Y
Letter points: 4
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season Total: 325
15.8 ScrabbleDear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
Tile: B1 - bird in title
Letter points: 4
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season Total: 340
15.9 ScrabbleDark Corners by Megan Goldin
Tile: I9 - author's name has an I in it
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season Total: 355
20.4 Home Economics Read a book with a recipe that is not a cookbook
Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala
+20 task (recipes throughout and at the end of this mystery novel)
+10 combo (20.1 - she was an ESL teacher for years according to this interview - https://www.apalaweb.org/apala-author...) (20.3 - in miaPMaNANsALa - Promethium PM, Sodium NA, Nitrogen N, Aluminum AL)
+5 series (#5 in Tita Rosie's Kitchen series)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 390
10.5 Lucky SevensThe Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
+10 Task (Wharton = 7 letters)
+ 5 Combo (10.6 - “His thin hair was worn a little too long over his coat collar, and a Masonic emblem dangled from the heavy gold chain which crossed his crumpled black waistcoat.”)
+ 5 Multiple (Post #75)
Task total =20
Season total = 430
20.10 ZalphabeticalPalace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
+20 Task
+ 15 Combo (10.5 - Mahfouz = 7 letters; 20.7 - book 2 in The Cairo Trilogy; 20.8 Mahfouz was born in 1911)
Task total =35
Season total = 465
10.2 GothicThe Strange Case of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
10 pts 10.2 Gothic
5 pts 10.2 Exception to Rule
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader. GOLD “ A purse and gold watch were found upom the victim: …”
5 pts 10.3 Chemistry O Oxygen, Be Beryllium, Tl Thallium , Te Tellurium
5 pts 20.8 Fall Authors
Task Total: 30 pts
Season total =960 pts
Post 716
10.1 10.2 … 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 10.8 … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 20.9 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)
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival It's Elementary by Elise Bryant
+10 task (mystery, new-to-me author)
+15 combo (10.6 - "a mouth guard and a double dose of magnesium" page 1; 20.1 - Elise Bryant was a special education teacher per her GR bio; 20.3 - eLISE BRyaNt - Lithium, Selenium, Bromine, Nitrogen)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 415
20.1 Back to School:The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
+20 Task:
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader - silver ("all the silver chloride sensors poking you")
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Series
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1665
20.1 Back to School:The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
+20 Task:
+10 Combo: 10.5 Lucky Sevens (Rushdie) / Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (gold: "the city looked like a sea of molten gold"p1)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1700
20.8 Fall Authors (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task):Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
+20 Task: Author born 1971
+. 5 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (gold: "...gold medal! You guys will absolutely sell!")
+. 5 Multiple
+. 5 Series
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1735
15.9 ScrabbleWhen Among Crows by Veronica Roth
+15 Task, Y2--author aged 50 or younger: Roth is 36
Task total: 15
Season total: 555
20.7 ArtThe Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
+20 Task, first in the Graves Glen trilogy
+10 Young, b. 1979
+5 Series
+20 Combo: 20.1, from her Wikipage: "She began writing her first novel, Hex Hall, while working as an English teacher at Sparkman High School"; 20.3, Er (erbium) In (indium) Te (tellurium) Li (lithium); 20.5, about witches with a ghost thrown in for good measure; 20.8, b. 1979
Task total: 55
Season total: 610
20.9 haLLowEEnAmazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
+20 Task, liTTlewOOd
+5 Combo: 20.3: Fr (francium) Li (lithium) Tl (thallium) W (tungsten)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 30
Season total: 640
20.3 ChemistryGoing Postal by Terry Pratchett
20 task Te, Pr, At, C
5 series
5 multi
5 combo 10.6 pg. 33 '…and a very nearly gold dollar stitched cunningly into the collar.'
_______
35
Running total: 1370
10.7 HelicopterAgain the Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace
10 pts 10.7 Helicopter. THREE
5 pts 10.5 Lucky Sevens Last name
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader. IRON “ Cornelius had the steel door fitted, and as the well is right under his window and is fastened by an iron trapdoor and is, moreover, visible from the road, it’s much more secure than any safe he could have in his house.’”
5 pts 10.9 Keep it Short
5 pts 20.3 Chemistry Ga Gallium W Tungsten Al Aluminium L Lanthanum
5 pts 20.9 Halloween
10 pts The Four Just Men#6
Task Total: 45 pts
Season total =1005 pts
Post 725
10.1 10.2 … 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) 15.3 (I) 15.4 (K) 15.5 (O) 1
Task 15.9 ScrabbleThe Devil in Montmartre: A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris (Inspector Lefebvre #1) (2014) by Gary Inbinder
Novel set entirely in FRANCE.
E - E2 - set in any European country
Letter Points: 5
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Grand Total: 525 + 15 = 540
20.3 - ChemistryDeadly Revenge by Renee Pawlish
+20 task - Re, Ne, Pa, W
+5 Combo - 10.5 - Pawlish
+5 repeat
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1130
20.8 - Fall AuthorsBlindsighted by Karin Slaughter
+20 task - 1971
+5 Combo - 20.3 Chemistry - Ar, In, La, Te
+5 repeat
+5 series
Task total: 35
Grand total: 1165
20.3 - ChemistryDead of Winter by Darcy Coates
+20 task - Ar, Co, At, Es
+5 repeat
Task total: 25
Grand total: 1190
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10.9 Keep It ShortThe Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar
10 pts 10.9 Keep It Short
5 pts 10.1 Exception to the Rule
5 pts Elementary My Dear Reader. IRON “They were made of iron.”
5 pts 10.7 Helicopter OTHER.
5 pts 20.3 Chemistry Os Osmium Am Americium Al Aluminum O Oxygen
Task Total: 30 pts
Season total =1035 pts
Post 731
10.1 10.2 … 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 20.9 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)
20.3 ChemistryThe Unknown Quantity by Mignon G. Eberhart
20 task O, Be, Rh, Ar
5 multi
10 combo 20.8 (b. 1899); 10.6 (pg 111: "...small gold rimmed comb, ...")
_______
35
Final total: 1405
15.7 - ScrabbleMary Poppins by P.L. Travers
(830L)
F1 - Fantasy
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 1005
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 (Y) ; 15.2 (Z) ; 15.3 (P) ; 15.4 (I) ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; … ; … ; …
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
15.10 ScrabbleMartín Fierro by José Hernández
Tile: Z1 (Z in author last name)
Letter points: 10
Task points =15
Finisher bonus = 150 (exactly 31 points)
Total points = 165
Season total = 630
20.8 Fall AuthorsA Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
+20 Task (b. 1951)
+25 Combo (10.5 - pub'd 1997, 10.6 - but he saw from the way the gold buckskin of her skirt shivered that her knees were still shaking; 20.1 - see Msg 9 in the task thread; 20.2 - A Free Man; 20.3 - Ba, Ra, H, Am)
+5 Multiple (first post at #558)
+5 Series
Task total = 55
Season total = 1130
20.3 - ChemistryDeadly Judgment by Renee Pawlish
+20 task - Re, Ne, Pa, W
+5 Combo - 10.5 - Lucky Seven - Pawlish
+5 repeat
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1220
20.3 ChemistryThe Grand Banks Café by Georges Simenon
+20 Task (O, Rg, Es, Si)
+10 Combo (10.5, 10.6 - ...who has always been kind to me, on the condition that she sends my gold chronometer to my nephew,
+5 Multiple (first post #195)
+10 Series (Post 202 for 20.10)
Task total = 45
Season total = 1175
And that will do it for me for Fall. Thanks to the mods and all participants for making this an enjoyable season.
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
"A white-and-gold drum major pranced across our windshield, pronging the air with his silver baton."
+10 task
+5 multiple
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1970
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x5); .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)
20.7 Art:Death's End by Liu Cixin
+20 task
+5 series
+5 combo (10.6 - "The tube was made of carbon fiber, and as it wasn't subject to pressure...")
+5 jumbo
+50 20 point halfway completion
+200 mega finish
Post Total = 285
Season Total = 2255
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4(x2); 10.5 (x3); 10.6 (x5); .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; 20.7; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x4)
** After my loan of The Good Earth ran out and I hadn't finished (and couldn't re-borrow), I didn't think I would get to the Mega. It was a real slog too.
20.2 MathThis is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
+20 Task, "you" "I" "this"
+25 Combo: 10.5, Tropper = 7 letters; 10.6, "Other than the small gold locket that hangs from her rearview mirror, the car is empty..."; 20.1, Tropper teaches at Manhattanville College per GR bio; 20.3, O (oxygen) Na (sodium) Th (thorium) Er (erbium); 20.8, b. 1970
Task total: 45
Season total: 685
Task 10.5 - Lucky SevensRead a book with 7 words in the title (including subtitle if there is one), or with 7 letters in the author’s last name, or whose year of first publication ends in 7.
Year of first publication: 2007
Combos:
Task 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):
GOLD
p. 99: “Suffice it to say, we are now the proud owners of one hundred bars of U.S. Treasury GOLD.”
Task 20.3 Chemistry:
STEve HOckenSMiTH
16 S Sulfur
52 Te Tellurium
67 Ho Holmium
62 Sm Samarium
90 Th Thorium
On the Wrong Track (Holmes On the Range #2) (2007) by Steve Hockensmith
+10 Task
+10 Combos (#10.6”gold”, #20.3 chemistry)
+05 Series (part of a series)
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 540 + 25 = 565
10.3 Thankful for FamilyRoss Poldark by Winston Graham
10.6: "her mother's fairy tales in which everyone slept in satin sheets and ate off gold platters."
20.3: W In Ra Am
+10 Task (shelved 35 times)
+10 Combo (10.6.20.3)
+ 5 Series
Post total = 25
Season total = 700
10.1 Exception to the RuleSharks in the Rivers by Ada Limon
+10 Task, MPE 96 pages
+5 Combo: 10.6, "...in the gold madrone world I came into."
Task total: 15
Season total: 700
15.10 ScrabbleBleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths
+15 Task, H2, Head, Hearts, Hands, Health (in all forms) in title
Scrabble words made: QUIZ, BIT, THY= 36
Task total: 15
+150 Scrabble Finish, +31 Scrabble score
Season total: 865
That's that for me this season. See you all in Winter!
10.10 Group ReadsThe Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
10.6: "In 1982, a gold medallion about the size of a 10p piece was found in Suffolk" p39
20.8: born 1951
+10 Task (another book by this author is listed)
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.8)
+50 Halfway finish, 10-pt tasks
Post total = 70
Season total = 770
That's all from me this season - thank you mods and everyone!
10.4 - Significant Year The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters
+10 Task: Published in 2002, the year I became a school librarian
+10 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (gold - " the gold spacer was part of a woman's armlet") / 20.3 Chemistry (eLIzaBETH peterS = Li, Lithium; Be, Beryllium; Th, Thorium; S, Sulfur)
+. 5 Multiple
+. 5 Series
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1765
20.2 Math:A Poem for Every Autumn Day by Allie Esiri
+20 Task: a day poem
+ 5 Combo: 20.3 Chemistry (ALLIe ESIri= Al, Aluminum; LI, Lithium; ES, Einsteinium; I, Iodine)
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Series
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1800
20.3 Chemistry:Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
+20 Task: NAOmi ALdERman - Na, Sodium; O, Oxygen; Al, Aluminum; Er, erbium
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1825
That's fall finished!
20.1 Back to SchoolThe Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual by Jennifer Berkshire
+20 task (see question discussion)
+5 combo Chemistry NI nickel, FE iron, BE beryrillium, K potassium
+5 repeat (post 97)
Task total: 30
Season total: 450
20.3 ChemistryNo Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
RU TH RE ND
Ruthenium, Thorium, Rhenium, Neodymium
+20 Task
+15 Combo:
10.5-seven letters in Rendell
10.6-"...when I was a young copper my contemporaries used to call me Wex.” pg. 13
20.8-born 1930
+5 Multiple
+5 Series
Task total=45
Season total=800
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - “a broad valley where the gold showed like yellow butter across the bottom of the washing-pan” ; 20.6 - #193)
+10 Young (died 40 years old)
+50 Half-way Finish
Task total = 80
Points total = 990
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
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