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20.10 Zalphabetical (Joanna's task):Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima
+20 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.6 "... the glow of streetlamps, lighten windowsand neon signs must have streamed like water around his falling body."
Post Total= 30
Season Total = 1035
10.1; ...; ...; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); .10.7; 10.8 (x2); ...; 10.10
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
Apple wrote: "Joanne wrote: " 10.9 Keep It ShortThe Long and Short of It by Jodi Taylor
Task Total 10
Combo (10.7, word is Short, 10.5, published 2017) 10
Task Total 20
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Thanks Apple! I did not think it would fit series because it is a combination of the ".5" books
Joanne, it’s a page count thing. I am reading them as the individual stories, so apart from one which met the page requirements they won’t work for me 😢
10.7 Helicopter SeasonThe Distant Echo by Val McDermid
Combos:
10.6: "He searched his pockets and found the screwed-up silver paper from a packet of Polo mints."
20.3: Al Mc Er I
+10 Task (echo)
+10 Combo
+ 5 Series
Post total = 25
Season total = 360
20.2 MathA Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
Combos:
10.6: "producing a long carved silver case from one of the pockets" p 14
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo
+ 5 Series
Post total = 30
Season total = 390
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime WritersThe Corpse with the Silver Tongue by Cathy Ace
10 task
5 series
20 combo 10.7, 20.1, 10.6 ('It is said to be a gold collar, …' page unknown as I read it on the computer), 20.3 Ca, Th, Y, Ce
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35
Running total: 460
20.10 ZalphabeticalWe Solve Murders by Richard Osman
20 pts 20.10 Zalphabetical
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader. IRON “Do you like the type of man who eats all his meals in his local pub?” asks Amy. “And looks like a roadie for Iron Maiden?”
5 pts 20.8 Fall birthdays https://www.famousbirthdays.com/peopl...
Task Total: 30 pts
Season total =405 pts
Post 358
10.1 … … 10.4 … 10.6 … … … …
20.1 … 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) 15.3 (I) … … … … … … …
20.3 ChemistryThis Other Eden by Paul Harding
P AU AR IN
+20 Task
+25 Combo:
10.5-7 letters in HARDING
10.6-COPPER-"Her eyes were the color of greening copper." pg. 29
10.7- Helicopters-OTHER
20.1-Msg. 33 task thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ha...
20.10-Zalphabetical
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=50
Season total=450
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 name in your post. No plurals or other forms of the element name.
Element
47 Ag Silver
p. 118: “In the light of the last remaining streetlight, he sees Niko’s sword flashing SILVER as he spars with Eliza.”
Combos:
20.3 Chemistry:
VERoNICA roth
23 V Vanadium
68 Er Erbium
28 Ni Nickel
20 Ca Calcium
20.5 Speech and Debate:
The 2024 Big Questions resolution is "Resolved: Belief in the supernatural is incompatible with belief in science." Investigate this further by reading a book that either has MPG Science or one that features a supernatural element (ghosts, magic, etc.).
Many beings from Slavic/Polish mythology are in this story. A partial list: strzyga, zmora, banshees, leszy.
When Among Crows (2024) by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 166 pages)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#20.3, #20.5)
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 235 + 20 = 255
Apple wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Post 323 :Task 20.2 Math:Read a book whose title (not including subtitles) contains a three-letter word, a single-letter word, and a four-letter word. Other words are allowed and th..."
Yeah! I missed that! Thanks
Also ... Post #294 ... I forgot to claim:
+05 Series (part of a series)
20.2 MathA Little of What You Fancy by H.E. Bates
20 pts 20.2 Math
5 pts 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader. GOLD They looked, the lilies, Ma often thought, like a crowd of Eastern emperors, all in Turks’ caps, gold and white and pink and copper
5 pts 20.3 Chemistry He Helium B Boron At Astatine Es Einsteinium
25 pts Series Pop Larkin Chronicles #5
Task Total: 55 pts
Season total =460 pts
Post 362
10.1 … … 10.4 … 10.6 … … … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) 15.3 (I) … … … … … … …
20.8 Fall AuthorsAya de Yopougon, Tome 4 by Marguerite Abouet
Born 1971
+20 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 470
10.1 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 (x2) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.8 Fall AuthorsAya de Yopougon, Tome 5 by Marguerite Abouet
Born 1971
+20 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 490
10.1 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; … ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 (x2) ; 20.8 (x3) ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.10 ZalphabeticalShards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
+20 task
+10 Combo [10.6 like channels of MERCURY, 20.7]
+5 series
+5 Multiple
+5 Jumbo (548 pages)
Post total = 45
Season total = 1160
10.5 Lucky SevensThe Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
For 10.6, silver on page 15 - "Klaus maneuvered carefully through the crush, holding aloft an enormous silver tray of empty dinner plates."
+ 10 task (7 words in title)
+ 5 combo 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (silver)
Task total: 15
Season total: 385
15.8 ScrabbleOne Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich
Tile: B1 = word 'bird' in title
(3 pt)
15 task
_____
15
Running total: 475
10.4 Significant YearThe Woman Who Wouldn't Die by Colin Cotterill
+10 task (published 2013 – the year my grandson was born)
+20 Combo [10.6 CALCIUM and charcoal. The arsonist’s snack of choice, 20.1, 20.3 Co-Li-N-Te, 20.5 supernatural]
+20 series (previously used for 20.1, 20.3 & 20.5)
+5 Multiple
Post total = 55
Season total = 1215
10.9 - Keep it Short!How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
+10 Task
+10 Young (1978)
Task total =20
Season Total: 460
15.6 ScrabbleThe Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Tile: Q1 Title word begins with Q: Queen
Letter points: 10
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season Total: 475
20.2 MathA Fine and Bitter Snow by Dana Stabenow
+20 Task: A Fine And
+10 Combo: 20.3 Chemistry (daNA STABE= Na, Sodium; S, Sulphur; Ta, Tantalum; Be, Beryllium) / copper - a thriving copper mine / 20.8 Fall Authors (Author born 1961)
+10 Series (2nd time)
Task total = 40
Season Total: 515
20.7 Art:The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
+20 Task: The Winternight Trilogy #3
+15 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (gold - fine gold and not melted, 1% / 20.3 Chemistry (KATHErIN = K, Potassium; At, Astatine; He, Helium; In, Indium) / 20.5 Speech and Debate (Magic)
+10 Young
+ 5 Series
Task total = 50
Season Total: 565
20.9 - haLLowEEnThe Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
+20 Task: faLLs stOOd
+10 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (I've seen what looks like silver hovering above the falls. p16 / 20.3 Chemistry (CATHY mAR = Ca, Calcium; Th, Thorium; Y, Yttrium; Ar, Argon)
Task total = 30
Season Total: 595
20.10 ZalphabeticalThe Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
+20 Task: T-P-M
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader (iron - iron railings and iron plates)
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Series
+15 Jumbo (864)
Task total = 50
Season Total: 645
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime WritersThe Man With a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
+10 Task (not read this author before)
+30 Combo (10.5 - 7 words in title; 10.6 - The superintendent flicked his thin, gold wristwatch.; 20.1 - see Msg 9 in the task thread; 20.2 - Man with a; 20.3 - #18 Ar, Th, Ag, Es; , 20.8 - b. 1931)
+ 5 Series
Task total = 45
Season total = 525
20.5 Speech and DebateThe Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry
+20 Task: the entire plot revolves around magic and the mages who wield it
+15 Combo: 10.6, "Rowan was turning the silver amulet over in his fingers, lost in thought"; 20.1, from her Goodreads bio "She holds a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and teaches English, Film, and Media Studies"; 20.10, T-M-D
Task total: 35
Season total: 270
20.3 ChemistryValiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II by Lena Andrews
leNA aND-RE-Ws sodium, neodynium, rhenium, tungsten
+20 task
+5 combo 20.1 approved in questions
+5 10.6 "When Doris Sanford arrived at Fort Des Moines...she worried about her iron."
+5 Last name Andrews
Task total: 35
Season total: 225
20.3 ChemistryThe Man in the Box by Thomas Moran
+20 Task (THomAs MORan = Ho, Holmium; As, Arsenic; O, Oxygen; Ra, Radium)
+10 Combo (10.5 - pub’d in 1997; 10.6 - “Then they walked back to their tin pots and drove off.”)
Task total =30
Season total = 210
Post 80:Apple wrote: "10.8 - BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (Tien's task):
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
+10 task
+5 series
+5 multiple
+10 combo (10.6 - "... larger than a saucepan..."
+5 Combo 20.1
Post 365:Coralie wrote: "20.10 Zalphabetical
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
+20 task
+10 Combo [10.6 like channels of MERCURY, 20.7]
+5 series
+5 Multiple
Post total = 40
Season..."
+5 Jumbo
10.6 ElementaryThe School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
+10 Task ("My family is the gold.")
+10 Combo (20.3 - Es, S, Am, Ne; 20.9 - oo/ss)
+10 Young
Task total: 30
Grand total: 285
15.4 ScrabbleAn Unbroken Thread: Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework by Susan Kay-Williams
15 pts 15.4 Scrabble K1 - Title word ends in K
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total =475 pts
Post 382
10.1 … … 10.4 … 10.6 … … … …
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 (L) 15.2 (U) 15.3 (I) 15.4 (K) … … … … … …
20.2 Math PiRead a book with a 3 letter, 1 letter and 4 letter word in the title
Best I Never Hadby Jeannie Choe
Task +20
Young +10
Grand total: 190
Task 20.1 Back to SchoolRead a book written by an author who is or has been a teacher or professor.
Goodreads Bio of Jonathan Coe:
Coe studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge, before teaching at the University of Warwick where he completed a PhD in English Literature.
Combo
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader
SILVER
p. 175: “’Coral,’ I said decisively. ‘Because that’s the most precious thing, in the underwater world. Not gold, or SILVER, or diamonds. Coral.’”
20.3 Chemistry
jONATHan COe
8 O Oxygen
11 Na Sodium
90 Th Thorium
27 Co Cobalt
THE BOOK
Bournville (2022) by Jonathan Coe
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.6, #20.3)
Task Tota: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 260 + 20 = 280
[Includes ... Post #294 ...
+05 Series (part of a series)]
20.1 - Back to SchoolCareer of Evil by Robert Galbraith
+20 task - taught at Leith Academy
+5 Combo - 20.3 - Chemistry - O, Be, Ga, Br
+5 repeat
Task total: 30
Grand total: 680
20.4 Home EconomicsThe Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker
The story contains instructions for making a truffle omelette.
+20 task
+5 combo 20.3 mAR TI N wAL ker
+5 combo 10.6 "He is a sweet man, has a heart of gold."
+10 series-first book posted 220/284
Task total: 40
Season total: 265
15.8 ScrabbleMiss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Tile: Y1 - Author's first name ends in Y
Tile points: 4
Task total: 15
Season total: 400
20.7 Art Read a book that is part of a trilogy
Too Dangerous to Desire by Cara Elliott #3 in the series
Points this task 20
Combo: Series 5
Task Total 25
Season Total 250
20.10 ZalphabeticalThe Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
+20 task
+5 Combo [10.6 pulled out a SILVER cigarette case and flipped it open]
+10 series (previously used for 10.4)
+5 Multiple
+10 young (born 1974)
Post total = 50
Season total = 1265
20.5 Speech and DebateThe Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch
+20 task (magic)
+10 Combo [10.6, 20.3 Be-Na-Ar-O]
+5 series
+5 Multiple
Post total = 45
Season total = 1305
20.3 ChemistryCrowded Lives: And Other Stories of Desperation and Danger by Clark Howard
CL AR K HO
Chlorine, Argon, Potassium, Holmium
+20 Task
+15 Combo:
10.6-ARSENIC-"Maybe they smell the arsenic on my hands, she thought." pg. 90
10.7- Helicopters-OTHER
10.9-Short Stories
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=40
Season total=490
20.1 Back to SchoolA Trick of Fate by Stella Riley
+20 task
+15 Combo [10.6 the tiny flecks of GOLD amongst the blue,20.7,20.8]
+5 series (The Brandon Brothers)
+5 Multiple
Post total = 45
Season total = 1350
Task 20.4 Home Economics:Read a book that contains a recipe but is NOT a cookbook.
Book includes recipes for main character Georgia:
Georgia’s Easy and Delicious French Omelet
Georgia’s Favorite (Not Salty) Mousse au Citron
For combos:
10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader
SILVER
p. 28: “His SILVER hair was cut short with not a strand out of place, and his only concession to being in the kitchen was to roll the sleeves of his sky blue dress shirt up to his elbows.”
10.7 - Helicopter Season (Coralie's task):
RECIPE = hElICoPtREs
20.2 Math:
3 = FOR
1 = A
4 = LIFE
20.3 Chemistry:
RACHEll LInden
88 Ra Radium
6 C Carbon
2 He Helium
3 Li Lithium
Recipe for a Charmed Life (2024) by Rachel Linden (Paperback 372 pages)
+20 Task
+20 Combo (#10.6, #10.7, #20.2, #20.3)
Task Total: 20 + 20 = 40
Grand Total: 280 + 40 = 320
15.9 ScrabbleA Better Man by Louise Penny
Tile: = I2 Inbetween: author's age is 51-74
(1 pt)
15 task
_____
15
Running total: 490
10.5 - Lucky SevensThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Surname has 7 letters
Task: 10
Post : 10
Season total: 10
10.4 - Significant year 2000 - graduated from university
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Task : 10
Post : 10
Season total : 30
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle
Debut mystery novel by an author I've never read before
Task: 10
Post : 10
Season total: 40
20.3 Chemistry Death of a Bore by M.C. Beaton
M C - muscovium , Be - berylium, At- astatine, N- nitrogen
Task: 20
Series : 5
Post : 25
Season total: 65
10.8 BAD Sydney Crime Fiction Writers FestivalMiss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
First book I have ever read by this classical mystery author
Task : 10
Multiple (second time doing this task): 5
Post : 15
Season total: 80
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Stone Yard Devotional BY Charlotte Wood
+20 task
+5 multiple
+10 combo (10.6 "... was an airless box with two tiny bedrooms, low white-tiled ceilings and small aluminium sliding windows..."; 20.1 - see task thread
Post Total= 35
Season Total = 1005
10.1; ...; ...; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); .10.7; 10.8 (x2); ...; 10.10
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x3); 20.6; ...; 20.8 (x5); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x2)