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20.4 Home EconomicsThe School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
A very charming book about a cooking class, so there are a lot of recipes in the text. The easiest to follow being a very delicious sounding mocha drink from the first chapter.
20 task
15 combo (10.6 = pg 152 '…., the candlesticks solid and silver.'); 20.3 (Ca, Au, Er, S); 20.9 ('oo' + 'ss')
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35
Running total: 160
20.9 - haLLowEEn (Anika's task):Find a book both a double consecutive consonant and double consecutive vowel in the author's name, title, or a combination of the two.
The Difference: When Good Enough Isn't Enough by Subir Chowdhury.
Donsecutive "FF" in Difference
Consecutive "OO" in Good
Task Points: 20
Combo Points: 10
10.1 144 pp
10.2 1st pub'd 2017
Previous Points: 20
Season Total: 50
20.2 MathA Quiet Life in the Country by T.E. Kinsey
+20 Task (a, the, life; 3, 1, 4)
+10 combo 20.3 Te tellurium, K potassium, In indium Se selenium; 10.6 SILVER "He presented the telegram on a silver tray." Chapter 12
+5 Series
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 35
15.8 ScrabbleThe Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson
Tile: H2 - 4H - Head, Heart, Hands, Health in title (all forms)
Letter points: 3
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 290
20.5 Speech and debateThe Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire
+20 task lots of magic
+15 Combo [10.5 McGuire, 10.6 I would never be welcome enough for the roads to grant me OXYGEN., 20.3 Se Na N Ir]
+ 10 young (born 1978)
+ 5 series October Daye
Post total = 50
Season total = 255
15.9 ScrabbleEmily Goes to Exeter (The Traveling Matchmaker #1) by Marion Chesney
Tile: X1 - Exes! - Title word begins with "Ex"
Letter points: 8
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 305
20.7 ArtThe Fate of the Tearling
Mentionned as a trilogy on the Wikipedia page :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - "She saw several silver wastes, but not the sapphire" ; 20.5 - magic)
+5 Multiple
+10 Young (born 1978 - https://www.booknotification.com/auth...)
+15 Series
Task total = 60
Points total = 255
… ; … ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 ; … ; …
20.9 - haLLowEEnComme un chef by Benoît Peeters
+20 Task (Co mm e un chef, Benoît P ee ters)
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 275
… ; … ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
20.8 Fall authorsDeath on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis
+20 task born 1949
+10 Combo [10.6 the bezel was edged in GOLD granulation, 20.3 Li-Nd-Se-Y]
+ 5 series Flavia Albia
Post total = 35
Season total = 290
20.8 Fall AuthorsThe Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
20 pts. 20.8 Fall Authors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_...
5 pts 20.3 Chemistry Ho Holmium. W Tungsten Ar Argon Ds Darmstadtium
5 pts 10.7 Helicopter Season. HOPE
5 pts 10.6 Elementary, My Dear Reader GOLD “Enter Brady carrying the gold belt.”
5 pts 10.5 Lucky Sevens. Author’s Last Name
5 pts 10.1 136 pgs
Task Total: 45 pts
Season total =130 pts
Post 111
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15.1 (L) … … … … … … … … …
15-4 Scrabble T3
3rd book in Trilogy
Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey
Points this Task 15
Season Total 85
20.8 Fall Authors (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task):The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
Born 1890
+20 task
+5 series (Superintendent Battle)
+5 multiple
+15 combo (10.6 - gold "I'll tell you. I'm after gold, Anthony - far up the interior."; 10.7 - Secret; 20.3 - AgAtHA christie = Ag, Silver; At, Astatine, H, Hydrogen; Ac, Actinium)
Post Total= 45
Season Total = 320
10.6 (x2); ...; 10.8 (x2);
15.1;
20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x2); 20.9
10.2 Gothic FictionThe Turn of the Screw by Henry James
10 task
15 combos - 10.1, 10.6 *(ch 3 'The gold was still in the sky…'); 20.3 (He, N, Am, Es)
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25
Running total: 185
*I read this on-line so can't quote an exact page.
20.8 Fall Authors (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task):The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Born 1950
+20 task
+10 series
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.6 - "... and he upped the ante an was climbing Everest without Sherpas or oxygen ...")
Post Total= 40
Season Total = 360
10.6 (x2); ...; 10.8 (x2);
15.1;
20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x3); 20.9
20.1 Back to School:Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Graphic novel, no styles
+20 task
Post Total= 20
Season Total = 380
10.6 (x2); ...; 10.8 (x2);
15.1;
20.1; ...; 20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x3); 20.9
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "20.6 LiteratureMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
+20 Task (#183 on the list)
+20 Combo (10.5 - Christie; 10.6 - From the breast pocket he brought out ..."
Sorry Elizabeth, -5, Christie has 8 letters so does not qualify for 10.5. Trust me, I have counted it many times to be sure :(
Haha on me. Thanks, Apple.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Haha on me. Thanks, Apple."Surprise though! Add 5 for combo 20,8, Christie was born in 1890, so your score is now the same.
(sorry, was making my initial notes, and only remembered this as I was keying in to the database ... it is a long session!)
No, I had already included 20.8 for 1890. It's minus 5 for 10.5.
Task 15.1 ScrabbleMake Russia Great Again (2020) by Christopher Buckley
Tile: I6 - I am - First person narrative
Letter Points: 1
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Grand Total: 70 + 15 = 85
15.4 ScrabbleThe Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Tile: C2 - MPG Classics
Tile Letter Points: 3
Task total: 15
Season total: 100
10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers FestivalThe Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.3 - Al ex Mi C hae Li d Es : AL= Aluminium/C = Carbon/LI : Lithium/ES: Einsteinium ; 20.10)
+10 Young (47 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mi...)
Task total = 30
Points total = 305
… ; … ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; … ; …
… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
15.10 ScrabbleAll the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
Tile: T6 - No "T" in author name
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Scrabble Finish:
Words:
Boxy - 16 points
ZENITH - 18 points
Word total: 34
+150 Scrabble Finish bonus
Post Total: 165
Season Total: 470
20.3 ChemistryThe Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Mccaffrey
C Carbon nonmetal
Ca Calcium
Re Rhenium
Mc Moscovium
Points this task 20
Series 5
Task Total 25
Season Total 110
20.7 ArtSunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 (and when mother came down from her bed in a fortnight’s time with the shine of the gold still in the sweet hair of her and her eyes clear eyes again, he raged pg 15 in the edition I read); 20.3 - W Tungsten, Sg Seaborgium, Ra Radium, Si Silicon; 20.8 - 1901
+10 Young (1901-1935)
+5 Multiple (previous post at #34)
+5 Series (A Scots Quair)
Task total = 55
Season total = 155
20.8 Fall Authors (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task)Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
born 1959
https://www.google.com/search?safe=ac...
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3 - Ba - Barium, Rb - Rubidium, Ar - Argon, I - Iodine )
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 495
Post 75Bucket wrote: "10.5 Lucky Sevens
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
+10 Task (7 words in title)
+5 Combo (20.8 - Ijeoma Oluo was born in 1980 LINK: https://en.wikipe..."
+5 --> You posted +5 Young, but it's +10
Post 93:Norma wrote: "20.3 - Chemistry
Double Negative (A Jefferson Shaw Novel) by Robert Gregory Browne
+20 task - Be, Re, Yb, Ne
+5 series
Task total: 25
Grand total: 130"
For RwS, a series has to have at least 3 books, or be part of a two-book series where a third book is clearly planned. As far as I can tell, this book is part of a 2-book series.
-5 series points
Post 103Nick wrote: "20.9 - haLLowEEn (Anika's task):
Find a book both a double consecutive consonant and double consecutive vowel in the author's name, title, or a combination of the two.
[book:The Difference: When ..."
You put 10.2 in your combo, but I think you meant 10.5. No change in score.
15.1 ScrabbleThe Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
T6 - no T in author name
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 45
20.5 Speech and DebateThe Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
+20 Task (witches, vampires, magic)
+15 Combo (10.6 - "Another flash of gold caught my eye.", 20.1 - from wikipedia - "Harkness is a professor of history and teaches European history and the history of science at the University of Southern California.", 20.3 Ra/H Ar/Es)
+5 Series
Task total: 40
Grand total: 85
20.3 ChemistryA Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
+20 task Fr-Am-Ar-K
+15 Combo [10.6 a boot in one hand and a SILVER flask in the other, 20.5 magic, 20.7]
+ 5 series The last Binding Trilogy
Post total = 40
Season total = 325
20.1 Back to SchoolDamned If I Do by Percival Everett
20 pts. 20.1 Back to School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perciva...
5 pts 10.9 Keep it Short
5 pts 10.6 Elementary my Dear Reader. IRON “And he fixed your curling iron . . . .”
5 pts 10.5 Lucky Sevens. Author’s Last Name
Task Total: 35 pts
Season total =165 pts
Post 134
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20.1 … … 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … …
15.1 (L) … … … … … … … … …
15.1 - ScrabbleY1
They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 320
… ; … ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
10.1 Exception to the Rule No More "Look Up the List" Vocabulary Instruction by Ellin Oliver Keene
+10 task (112 pages)
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 10
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano
+10 task ("Vero slammed her hand down on the silver bell atop the concierge's desk" ch. 3)
+5 series (#4 in the Finlay Donovan series)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 25
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight
+10 task ("with enough effort, he could strike gold" - p. 199 )
+5 combo (20.3 - K, Mb, Er, Cr)
+5 multiple
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 45
Scrabble 15-5I3 - page count 300-399
Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond E. Feist 368 pages
Points this task 15
Season Total 125
20.7 ArtThe Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
+20 task
+10 Combo [10.6 A great big NEON sign, pointing his way, 20.3 Er-La-Ti-Na]
+ 5 series Cormac Reilly
Post total = 35
Season total = 360
10.9 Keep it Short!Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
+10 Task (short stories)
+10 Combo (10.6 - "We had heard stories of piglet dissections, the infamous 'growing and changing' unit, rocket launches with carbon dioxide canisters, and a cow's lung blackened and doused in cigarette smoke, but no one had warned us about this."; 20.3 - KaLi Fajardo-AnsTiNe = Li, Lithium; F, Fluorine; Ti, Titanium; Ne, Neon)
+10 Young (Kali Fajardo-Anstine is 37: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Fa...)
Task total =30
Season total = 90
20.8 Fall authorsEdith Stein: Selected Writings by Edith Stein
+20 Task (1891)
+20 Combo
-10.1 (126 p.),
-10.6 "He sweeps with broom of iron..." (p. 73)
-20.1 (in Wikipedia about being a teacher and on page 15 of book: "When the Third Reich was established early in the year 1933, I had been an instructor at the German Institute for Scientific Pedagogy in Munster, Westphalia for about a year.")
-20.3 Th-S-Te-In
+10 Young (died age 50; Auschwitz)
Task total: 50
Season total: 35+50=85
10.7 Helicopter SeasonCurtains for Three by Rex Stout
+10 Task (three)
+10 Combo (10.6, - The opener he always used, a gold item that a satisfied client had given him years ago, was in the drawer of his desk in the office.; 10.9)
+ 5 Series (Nero Wolfe)
Task total = 25
Season total = 180
20.3 ChemistryOld Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood
mARGAREt ATwood
AR=Argon GA=Gallium RE=Rhenium AT=Astatine
+20 Task
+25 Combo:
10.6-IRON-"Her iron frying pans were rusting." pg. 71;
10.9-short stories;
20.1-many universities, see msg 18 in task help thread;
20.4-recipe: "She covered the bowl of mushed-up garlic and parsley mixture with a little red plastic hat and set it aside...then took some hamburger out of the fridge along with a plate of mushrooms she'd already chopped...She spooned the garlic mixture into the meat, broke an egg into it, added dried breadcrumbs and the mushrooms: meatloaf, it would become. Then she began mixing in everything with her hands--the only proper way to do it, according to her. She made biscuit dough like that too."
20.8-1939)
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=50
Season total=155
20.1 Back to SchoolCurse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill
+20 task (mentioned in Goodreads profile)
+15 Combo [10.6 shacks made of rattan and TIN, 20.3 Co-Li-N-Te, 20.5 supernatural]
+ 5 series Dr Siri Paiboun
+5 multiple
Post total = 45
Season total = 405
20.1 Back to SchoolThe Court Charade by Flore Vesco
From https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flore_V..., "Après avoir enseigné le français en collège" (After teaching french in middle school)
+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 340
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15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
15.2 Scrabble33 Variations byMoisés Kaufman
15 pts 15.2Scrabble. U1 - pub'd in the 10s, any century
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total =180 pts
Post 147
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20.1 … … 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … …
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) … … … … … … … …
15.1 Scrabble - Round 2The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller
Tile: U2 - letter sequence 'ure', 'ust', 'unt' in any title word
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 510
10.8 Crime writersTen Big Onesby Janet Evanovich
MPG crime, mystery
Task +10
Series +5 Stephanie Plum #10
Book total: 15
Grand total: 75
10.1 Exception to the Rule:Foster by Claire Keegan
89 pages
+10 task
+15 combo (10.6 - gold - "Good as gold, she was, the same girl."; 20.1; 20.3 Clai KeeGaN Cl,Chlorine, Re Rhenium; Ga, Gallium, N, Nitrogen
Post Total= 25
Season Total = 405
10.1; ...; ...; ...; ...;10.6 (x2); ...; 10.8 (x2);
15.1;
20.1; ...; 20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x3); 20.9
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E8- More than 8 books in a series
Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker
Points this task 15
Season Total 70