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message 751: by Owlette (last edited Nov 30, 2024 05:38PM) (new)

Owlette | 705 comments 20.5 Speech and Debate

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


message 752: by Owlette (new)

Owlette | 705 comments 20.5 Speech and Debate

Prose 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


message 753: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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.


message 754: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 755: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 756: by Joanna (last edited Dec 02, 2024 03:15PM) (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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.


message 757: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 758: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 759: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 760: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 761: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 762: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 763: by Joanna (last edited Dec 03, 2024 08:11AM) (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments Post 38:
Valerie wrote: "20.5 Speech and Debate

Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

MPG: Magic Realism

20 task
5 series
____
25

Running total: 80"


+10 Combo 10.6, 20.8


message 764: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 765: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 766: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 767: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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


message 768: by Joanna (last edited Dec 03, 2024 08:13AM) (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2278 comments 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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