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15.3 ScrabbleR2 - Romance or MPG Romance
No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor
F R _ _ _
_ _ _ L _
Post Total= 15
Season Total = 435
10.1; ...; ...; ...; ...;10.6 (x2); ...; 10.8 (x2);
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1; ...; 20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x3); 20.9
20.1 Back to SchoolHiding the Past by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
As posted on task thread, "Whilst writing these books I trained as a teacher and worked for several years in two lovely primary schools."
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nathandyla...
Combos:
10.5: author's last name has 7 letters
10.6: "Gold suits me best, she muttered."
20.3: Na Th Nd N
+20 Task
+15 Combo
+ 5 Series
+ 10 Young https://www.booknotification.com/auth... (birth info is below the lists of books, 26 Dec 1976, age 47)
Post total = 50
Season total = 70
20.3 ChemistryThe Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
Combos:
10.5: author's last name has 7 letters
10.6: "Gold was kept in a small linen bag in a locked drawer"
+20 Task (Ar No Db N)
+10 Combo
+ 5 Series
+ 5 Jumbo
Post total = 40
Season total = 110
20.1 Back to SchoolWar Trash by Ha Jin
Per Goodreads bio, author is a Professor at Boston University.
Page 268, Iron (Fe): ". . . the bows were mostly thin iron rods bent on both ends."
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader
Task total: 25
Season total: 125
20.3 - ChemistryA Measure of Darkness (A Jefferson Shaw Novel) by Robert Gregory Browne
+20 task - Be, Re, Yb, Ne
+5 repeat
-5 error post 93
Task total: 20
Grand total: 150
20.3 - ChemistryAlaska Wild by Helena Newbury
+20 task - He, Na, Ne, B
+5 Combo - 10.5 Lucky Seven - Newbury
+5 repeat
Task total: 30
Grand total: 180
20.3 - ChemistryThe Snow Graves by Roger Stelljes
+20 task - Og, Er, Te, Es
+5 repeat
+5 series
Task total: 30
Grand total: 210
Task 20.3 - Chemistry:For Task:
daNIel jAMES BRown
28 NI - Nickel
95 AM - Americium
99 ES - Einsteinium
35 BR - Bromine
Combos:
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):
OXYGEN
p. 83: “All fires consume large amounts of OXYGEN and emit large amounts of carbon monoxide.”
20.1 Back to School:
Read a book written by an author who is or has been a teacher or professor.
https://www.danieljamesbrown.com/about/
He taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford before becoming a technical writer and editor. He now writes narrative nonfiction books full time.
20.5 Speech and Debate:
MPG SCIENCE
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (2006) by Daniel James Brown [623.9618]
+20 Task
+15 Combo
Task Total: 20 + 15 = 35
Grand Total: 85 + 35 = 120
15.4 ScrabbleSome Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Tile: Y1 Author’s first name ends Y
Letter points: 4
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Post total: 15
Season total = 420
10.4 - Significant YearHeld by Anne Michaels
+10 Task: 2023 - my grandson was born!
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (astatine - "Do you know about astatine?" p145 - there were a few more "surprise Elements and some talk of the Periodic Table in this one!)
Post total = 15
Season total = 145
10.7 - Helicopter SeasonThe Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
+10 Task: Echo: HEliCO
+10 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (silver - "circling on gleaming silver trays" 6% Kindle) / 20.3 Chemistry (BARBARa daV = Ba, Barium; Rb Rubidium; Ar, Argon; V, Vanadium)
Post total = 20
Season total = 165
10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers FestivalThe Night Swim by Megan Goldin
+10 Task: New to me author
+15 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader ( silver -"silver fish sloshed around in circles") /10.10 Group Reads /20.3 Chemistry (RACHEl KR = Ra, Radium; C, Carbon; He, Helium; Kr, Krypton )
+. 5 Multiple
Post total = 30
Season total = 195
10.10 Group Reads:Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (iron - "iron hair and an iron bearing") / 20.5 Speech and Debate (Magic)
+10 Young (1977)
Post total = 30
Season total = 225
20.3 Chemistry:The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
+20 Task: jOSe edUAR AG= Os, Osmium; U, Uranium; Ar, Argon; Ag, Silver
+10 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (copper - "her hair does indeed sparkle with copper" p49 / 20.8 Fall Authors (Author born 1960)
Post total = 30
Season total = 255
20.8 Fall Authors Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur
+20 Task: Author born 1980
+. 5 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader ("a large skein of the finest gold thread" p45)
+10 Young
Post total = 35
Season total = 290
15.2 ScrabbleParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Tile: E7 Environment
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season Total: 305
10.6 Elementary My Dear ReaderRed Gold by Alan Furst
+10 Task (An SS Obergruppenführer heard a rumor about buried gold at the Polyakovo state farm.
+ 5 20.8 (born 1941)
+ 5 Series (Night Soldiers)
Task total = 20
Season total = 200
15.2 Scrabble - Round 2Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Tile: O1 - page count 100-199
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 525
15.3 Scrabble - Round 2High Wire by Candice Fox
Tile: A5 - Australia
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 540
Task 15.2 ScrabbleStarter Villain (2023) by John Scalzi
Tile: Z1: Author LAST name has a Z
Letter Points: 10
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Grand Total: 120 + 15 = 135
10.9 - Keep it Short! La vie secrète des jeunes by Riad Sattouf
This graphic novel is a compilation of short stories published on a newspaper
+10 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Points total = 350
… ; … ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
20.7 ArtA Restless Truth by Freya Marske
+20 task (Last Binding Trilogy)
+15 Combo [10.6 her hand clenched around her SILVER locket, 20.3 Fr-Am-Ar-K, 20.5 magic]
+10 series (previously used for 20.3)
+5 multiple
Post total = 50
Season total = 470
20.10 ZalphabeticalSouth of Broad by Pat Conroy
+20 task
+5 combo 20.1 (Goodreads bio)
+5 combo 10.6 "...trying to light a fire in a room without kindling or oxygen."
+5 jumbo
Task total: 35
Season total: 130
20.3 - ChemistryTheir Lost Souls by Roger Stelljes
+20 task - Og, Er, Te, Es
+5 Combo - 10.7 - Helicopters - Their
+5 Repeat
+5 Series
Task total: 35
Grand total: 245
10.1 - Exception to the RuleBefore Then Now by S.E. Green
+10 task - 92 pgs
Task total: 10
Grand total: 255
20.4 Home EconomicsLunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
For 10.6, gold on pg 397: "A swath of sheer gold fabric covered the center of the table, scattered with small votive candles."
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.5 Lucky Sevens - recipes has 7 letters
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader - gold
+ 5 combo Helicopter Season - the word recipes is in hElICoPtERS
+ 5 combo Chemistry Li, Be, Th, Ba in eLIzaBETH BArd
Task total: 40
Season total: 165
15.4 ScrabbleQueer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer
Tile: Q1= Title word begins with Q
(10 pts)
15 task
_____
15
Running total: 200
20.5 Speech and DebateA Power Unbound by Freya Marske
+20 task (magic)
+15 Combo [10.6 It was made in SILVER, 20.3 Fr-Am-Ar-K, 20.7 trilogy]
+15 series (previously used for 20.3, 20.7)
+5 multiple
Post total = 55
Season total = 525
10.1 Exception to the RuleThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (64 pages) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (36 pages)
+10 Task (100 pages)
+25 Combo*
-10.2 Raven is #17 and Fall is #30
-20.3 Ar - Al - La - N
-20.5 supernatural elements
-20.6 #96 The complete stories and poems.
-20.8 born 1809
+10 Young (died age 40)
*claiming only tasks that applied to *both* selections.
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 45+85 = 130
15.4 Scrabble - Round 2The Drowning Girls by Veronica Lando
Tile: I8 - letter sequence 'ist', 'ing', 'ire' in any title word
Letter points: 1
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 555
10.7 - Helicopter Season (Coralie's task):Dead List (Calladine & Bayliss #3) by Helen H. Durrant
word in title, LIST, found in heLIcopTerS
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 - "'We're not spoiling the evening,' Ruh insisted, depositing the tin box on the dining table." p67)
+5 Series
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 575
20.1 Author was a teacherHeart's Blood by Juliet Marillier
The author taught at both High School and University level
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_....
Combo with 20-3 (I, Li, Er, Ar)
Combo with 20-9 (LL. OO)
Points this task 20
Combo's 10
Task Total 30
Season Total 155
Post 134:Mary wrote: "20.1 Back to School
Damned 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 ..."
+5 20.3 - Er V Al Re
Post 149:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "10.8 Crime writers
Ten Big Onesby Janet Evanovich
MPG crime, mystery
Task +10
Series +5 Stephanie Plum #10
Book total: 15
Grand total: 75"
Jayme, I think this doesn't work for 10.8 because you've posted other books you've read by Janet Evanovich before and 10.8 needs a new-to-you author.
It works for 20.3:
Ne - Neon
Te - Tellurium
V - Vanadium
No - Nobelium
I've scored this as 20.3. Please let me know if that's not what you want.
+5 extra series points because same series posted in Post 94
Post 150:Apple wrote: "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,Ch..."
No combos when the book used is less than 100 pages. Sorry!
-15
Post 94:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "10.4
Significant year 2003
Year I started my career
To the Ninesby Janet Evanovich
Task +10
Series +5 Stephanie Plum
Book total: 15
Grand total: 60"
+5 Combo 20.3
Karen Michele:Between posts 162 and 163, I think you skipped posting a book. Your season total went from 165 in post 162 to 220 in post 163 when it should have gone up 30, not 55. The season total is wrong after that for the rest of your posts on this page.
Post 159:Deedee wrote: "Task 20.3 - Chemistry:
For Task:
daNIel jAMES BRown
28 NI - Nickel
95 AM - Americium
99 ES - Einsteinium
35 BR - Bromine
Combos:
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (Mary's task):
OXYGEN
p. 83: “All..."
+5 Multiple
20.3 - ChemistryThe Last Throw: A Black Beacons Murder Mystery by Rhys Dylan
+20 task - Rh, Y, Dy, La
+5 repeat
+5 series
Task total: 30
Grand total: 285
20.7 ArtThe Red by Tiffany Reisz
+20 Task (Godwick's Trilogy)
+15 Combo (10.5 - pub. 2017, 10.6 - "Gabrielle was tall and shapely and black and had the loveliest French accent that made every word sound like it had been dipped in silver.", 20.5 - supernatural - ghost/spirit)
+5 series
+10 young (author b. 1975)
Task total: 50
Grand total: 135
Joanna wrote: "Karen Michele:Between posts 162 and 163, I think you skipped posting a book. Your season total went from 165 in post 162 to 220 in post 163 when it should have gone up 30, not 55. The season tota..."
Thanks and sorry. I'll go figure it out. I remember something going a bit haywire when I was posting last time.
I fixed my totals. I think that on post 163 I had already totalled it with 25 points and then remembered I hadn't checked for an element and went back and found that. I then added the new total, 30, so ended up gaining 55 instead of just the 30. Sheesh!
10.5 Lucky sevensAnd Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic
+10 task (published 2017)
+10 Combo [10.6 the IRON tang of blood in his mouth, 20.1]
+10 series (previously used for 10.8)
Post total = 30
Season total = 555
10.5 Lucky 7sThe Shattered Castle by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lexile: 710
+10 Task (author last name = 7 letters)
+5 Series (Ascendance series Book 5)
+10 Combo (10.6 - "It didn't look like a single gold coin was missing."; 20.1 - from GR profile - "She is a former speech teacher.")
Task total: 25
Grand total: 160
20.3 ChemistryYoung Lonigan by James T. Farrell
+20 Task: Am, Es, Ar, Re
+15 Combo: (10.5, 10.6 - no matter how hard he was socked, because his head was made of hard stuff like iron and ivory and marble., 20.7 - Studs Lonigan trilogy
+ 5 Series
Task total = 40
Season total = 240
PS - I probably won't be reading the rest of this trilogy. The anti-semitism and general racism was more than I could stomach.
10.2 GothicThornyhold by Mary Stewart (# 80 on list)
For 10.6 - gold - page 28 "A small reflecting world of misty green and gold. . . "
+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.5 Lucky Sevens - 7 letters in Stewart
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader - gold
+ 5 combo 20.1 Back to School - author was a teacher per Wiki
+ 5 combo 20.5 Speech and Debate - witches, magic potions, crystal ball, supernatural
Task total: 30
Season total: 195
20.7 Art:A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1) by Victoria Schwab
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - "'Made of cherrywood, the doors were carved with the royal emblem of Arnes, the chalice and rising sun, the grooves filled with melted gold, and above the emblem, the threads of metallic light traced an R across the polished wood.." p40; 20.5 - magic)
+5 Series
+10 Young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._E._S...
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 620
10.9 Keep It Short!Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud by Martha Wells
Although the title only mentions two stories, there are actually four stories in this collection, so I hope that's enough for it to work.
Combos:
10.6: "But the light fell on dark blue scales, catching a gold undersheen."
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo
+ 5 Series
Post total = 20
Season total = 130
20.9 haLLowEEnLove in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood
Combos:
10.5: author last name
10.6: "as gold rather than the more common copper or silver, they represent a considerable sum."
20.10: L I E
+20 Task (exceSS, haywOOd)
+15 Combo
Post total = 35
Season total = 165
Jayme(theghostreader)10.8 Elementary my dear Watson
The Cat of the Baskervillesby Vicki Delany
She wore short white shorts with a tight blur top with silver sparkles. p 20
Task +10
Female author-5
Grand total : 95
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F _ _ _ _
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Post Total= 15
Season Total = 420
10.1; ...; ...; ...; ...;10.6 (x2); ...; 10.8 (x2);
15.1; 15.2;
20.1; ...; 20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x3); 20.9