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20.5 Speech and DebateProse and Cons by Amanda Flower
+20 Task MPGs Magic, Paranormal
+20 Combo: 10.6 (Ch. 3 "She wore a black skirt with a silver crow printed on it, an orange sweater, and silver Doc Marten boots..."); 10.7 "prose"; 20.3: Am-Fl-O-Er; 20.8: born 1980 per Wikipedia
+10 young
+5 Multiple
+5 Series
Task Total: 60
Season Total: 425+60=485
Post 670:Bucket wrote: "20.9 haLLowEEn
The 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 - JenNiF..."
Sorry, 10.4 can't be used as a combo.
-5 pts from this post.
Post 701:Marie wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
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 washin..."
+5 Combo - 10.5 - author name 7 letters
Post 704:Nick wrote: "20.6 Literature. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, p. 1, # 42
Task Points: 20
Combo: + 10 10.2 (#4 on the Gothic Fiction list) 20.3 Chemistry
H = Hydrogen 1
NE = Neon 1..."
+5 Combo 10.5 - author name 7 letters
Post 743:Anika wrote: "10.1 Exception to the Rule
Sharks 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
Seas..."
This counts for the task, but because the MPE has 96 pages, it does not qualify for combo points.
Post 715:Bucket wrote: "20.10 Zalphabetical
Palace 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 1..."
+5 Series
Post 684:Deedee wrote: "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..."
+10 Young
Post 695:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "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"
+10 Young
Post 748:Karen Michele wrote: "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: ..."
+10 Young
Post 716:Mary wrote: "10.2 Gothic
The 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 Rea..."
+10 Young
Post 746:Karen Michele wrote: "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..."
+5 Jumbo
Post 38:Valerie wrote: "20.5 Speech and Debate
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
MPG: Magic Realism
20 task
5 series
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25
Running total: 80"
+10 Combo 10.6, 20.8
Post 400:Tawallah wrote: "10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Fiction Writers Festival
Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
First book I have ever read by this classical mystery author
Task : 10
Multiple ..."
+10 Combo - 20.1, 20.3
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..."
+10 Combo - 10.6, 20.8
Post 656:Joanne wrote: " 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader
Dragonseye by Anne McCaffrey
with the iron mines at Telgar going full-blast
+10 Task
+ series 10 ( task 20.3, same series)
+5 multiple
..."
+5 Combo 20.3
Post 495:Apple wrote: "20.4 Home Economics:
Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The story The Father begins with how to make Omurice (Omlette Rice)
+20 task
+5 series
+5..."
+5 Combo 20.8
Post 720:Karen Michele wrote: "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 Rea..."
+5 Combo 20.5
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The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
+20 Task (magical realism; books magically appearing)
+20 Combo: 10.6 ("She put the large gold Cadillac---her mother's idea---into park and cut the engine." p. 20); 20.8 (born 1971 https://www.google.com/search?q=sarah...
20.9 (ee and dd); 20.10 (T-S-Q)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 380+45 = 425