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20.1 Paul Auster and Alice Munro:Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.4 - Owls ; 10.6 - DS found in wooD Snake ; 20.5 )
+50 Half-way Finish (I forgot to claim this earlier!)
+200 Mega Finish
Post Total: 300
Season Total: 1,125
15.3 BBRBBR: The Women by Kristin Hannah
F: Book with a MPG of Historical Fiction
Augustus by John Williams
Task total: 15
Season total: 440
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 Henry travels by train when in India, 10.5 published 2015, 20.2 Charlotte talks to Carol and her daughters)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 990
10.9 Scandinavia Save Our Forest! by Nora Dåsnes
Set in Norway
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Points total = 560
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 (x4) ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
10.3 Poll 2: New Year's ResolutionsMoi, Fadi, le frère volé, 1986-1994 by Riad Sattouf
Resolution: read the books on my tbr pile that i've received as gifts but did not read yet
Task total = 10
No style, graphic novel
Points total = 570
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 (x4) ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.3 - Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleMurder at Elk Ridge by Anne Shillolo
+20 task
+10 Combo - 10.6 - AS, 20.4 - mystery, crime
Task total: 30
Grand total:
20.3 - Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleThis Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter
+20 task
+10 Combo - 10.6 - KS, 20.4 - mystery, crime
Task total: 30
Grand total: 800
20.4 C.J. Sansom/Caleb CarrKnight's Gambit by William Faulkner
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.3)
+10 Oldies (1949)
Task total = 35
Season total = 870
15.4 BBRBBR book = Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Task I: different language
Flowers in the Mirror by Li Ruzhen
+15 Task (Flowers in the Mirror was written in Chinese; Under the Greenwood Tree was written in English)
Task total =15
Season total = 310
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleThree Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
+20 task (from GR author page: “A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, ...”)
+ 5 combo (Kay takes a train trip from New York to Mexico City to visit her daughter who is ill)
+10 aged (1903-1989)
+10 oldies (pub. 1946)
Task total=45
Season total=315
15.2 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosA. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR: Cassandra Hauptmann => Cassandra (from mythology) is the sole character in the first story of this collection.
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1335
20.4 Sansom and CarrThe World of Lore: Dreadful Places by Aaron Mahnke
+20 Task, "Mystery" and "History" are top MPGs
+5 Combo: 20.10
Task total: 25
Season total: 1360
15.3 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosB. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR: Wanda Schultz => Philip Schultz.
My Dyslexia BY Philip Schultz
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1375
15.4 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosJ. Choose a RwS member who has also read your BBR, and read a book from that member's "favorites" shelf or that the member rated 5-stars: Angelbis gave both Broken for You and Romeo and Juliet five stars.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1390
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
Here’s the bibliography: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/se...
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
There is one minor male character and one gender-uncertain character in this novel. All the other characters are female. There are NO conversations about men or romance. One of the first conversations is between Headmistress Eleanor West and our heroine Cora about whether Cora will remain at the Home for Wayward Children or will she go to the Whitethorn Institute.
Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children #7) (2022) by Seanan McGuire
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 345 +25 = 370
15.7 BBRBBR book = Slow Horses by Mick Herron
C. Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR.
Slough House by Mick Herron
Both set in London.
+20 Task
Post total = 20
Season total = 685
15.8 BBRBBR book = Slow Horses by Mick Herron
G. Read another book published the same year as your BBR.
Heresy by S.J. Parris
Both published 2010
+25 Task
Post total = 25
Season total = 710
20.5 Tom SpanbauerThere Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
+20 Task
+15 Combo - 10.6, 20.2, 20.3
Task total: 30
Grand total: 650
10.3 New Year's ResolutionThe Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.2)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 665
15.5 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosC. Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR: both set in Seattle.
Girls with Bright Futures by Tracy Dobmeier
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 1410
10.1 Stylish Sci FiOrbital by Samantha Harvey
10 pts. 10.1 Stylish Sci Fi literary Fiction, Science Fiction
5 pts 20.8 International Women’s Year
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total: 360 pts
Post 522
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.3 … … 10.6 10.7 … … …
… 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … …
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 … … … …
15.9 BBRBBR book: Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
D - Same time period - both set contemporary time
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Task total: 25
Grand total: 690
20.10 The ____ of ______The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine by P.J. Fitzsimmons
20 task
5 combo 20.4 (mystery + hist. myst.)
_______
25
Running total: 645
Post 501:Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.8 International Women’s Year
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
+20 task born 1975
+5 combo 10.2 characters often commute into London by train
+5 combo 20.1
+5 combo 20.2 th..."
I don't see Zadie Smith on the 20.5 list and don't immediately see any indication that she is an LGBTQ+ author. Do you have a link?
Post 412:Tien wrote: "10.3 Poll 2: New Year's Resolutions
Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper
https://www.dymocks.com.au/top-101
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 )
Post Total: 15
Season Total:..."
+50 Halfway finish - 10pt tasks
Post 499:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Arrow's Flightby Mercedes Lackey
author has wrote 20+ books
Task +20
+10 Aged
book total: 30
Grand Total: 310"
+5 Oldies
Post 495:Joanne wrote: "10.2 Holiday Travel
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Set in before and during WWII, trains are the only means of long-distance transportation. Many characters ..."
The MPE has 758 pages. +5 more jumbo points!
Post 27:Connie (on semi-hiatus) wrote: "10.1 Stylish Sci-Fi
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Literary Fiction and Science Fiction
Task total: 10
Season total: 35"
+5 Combo - 20.8 (auth b. 1975)
Post 232:Rosemary wrote: "10.1 Stylish Sci-Fi
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
+10 Task (Literary Fiction and Science Fiction)
Post total = 10
Season total = 355"
+5 Combo 20.8 (auth. b. 1975)
Joanna wrote: "Post 501:Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.8 International Women’s Year
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
+20 task born 1975
+5 combo 10.2 characters often commute into London by t..."
Joanna wrote: "Post 501:
Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.8 International Women’s Year
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
+20 task born 1975
+5 combo 10.2 characters often commute into London by t..."
Apologies. I missed that there are two columns on the qualifying lists and just went to the bottom. -5
15.2 Broken Book ReportFrom Circe by Madeline Miller
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Set in antic Greece, at the same time where the Odyssey (and Circe) happens
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 585
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 (x4) ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.7 Best Friends ForeverMarley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
+20 Task, Marley was protector (notably when a neighbor girl was stabbed and John was assisting her, Marley stood guard), actor (though the movie went straight to video), and loyal best friend (though, admittedly, a bit of a handful).
+5 Combo: 10.5, pub. 2005
Task total: 25
Season total: 1435
10.3 New Year's ResolutionSastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Rosita Arvigo
+10 Task, my NYR is to work towards completion of the group Countries of the World challenge, this one was set 100% in Belize, turning that country green
+10 Aged, currently 83-years-old
Task total: 20
Season total: 1455
20.4 C.J. Sansom/Caleb CarrThe Care of Time by Eric Ambler
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Am... ; 20.10)
+10 Aged (1909-1998)
+ 5 Oldies (1981)
Task total = 45
Season total = 915
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille: an author who has published more than 20 books.
Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Mc...
+20 Task
+ Styles 5 ( Aged)
+Combo 5 (10.5)
Task Total 45
Season Total 485
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr:MPG is History
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 cy Ian W. Toll
926 pages
+task 20
Jumbo 20
Total Task 40
Season Total 525
20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleArrow's Fallby Mercedes Lackey
20+ books written
Task +20
Combo +10 (10.3 10.1)
Aged +10
Oldies +5
Book Total: 45
Grand Total: 360
10.6 Year of the SnakeMedieval Women in Their Communities by Diane Watt
+10 Task
+ 5 Oldies (1997)
Post total = 15
Season total = 730
20.7 Best Friends Forever Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Task: Daisy's grandmother's dog Poppins provides comfort, and gives clues to the solution of the murders by whom he recognises and doesn't.
20.2: Most of the characters are female, and they talk to each other about many things including their family history and the murders that are happening.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 as above, 20.4 mystery & crime)
Post total = 30
Season total = 760
15.6 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosF. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR: both share "Fiction" in their top 3 MPGs.
Glamorous Notions by Megan Chance
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 1475
20.8 International Women's DayThe Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
+20 Task, Women's Prize nominee 2024
+20 Combo: 10.2: Carmel takes a train from Dublin to Dun Laoghaire; 10.4, "Wren"; 10.6, snAkE; 20.2, Imelda and Carmel talk about their childhood and youth and family business after the death of their mother
Task total: 40
Season total: 1515
Broken Book Report - second time15.1 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task A: Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR.
2nd Chance by James Patterson - Claire Washburn
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 815
Broken Book Report - second time15.2 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task B: Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR.
3rd Degree by James Patterson - Warren Jacobi
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 830
Broken Book Report - second time15.3 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task C: Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR.
4th of July by James Patterson - San Francisco, California
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 845
15.9 Broken Book Report BBR book: A Trick of the Light
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
E. Read another book by the same author who wrote your BBR.
25 task
______
25
Running total: 670
15.10 Broken Book Report BBR book: A Trick of the Light
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
BBR book pub in English; this novella in Japanese
30 task
100 finish bonus
______
130
Running total: 800
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
Here’s the bibliography: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/ch...
That bibliography line (https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/ch...) states that:
Charles de Lint was born in 1951. So Charles de Lint is more than 70 years old.
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
Our heroine Eithnie is a professional artist. She talks to Danielle at the Art Gallery about her next Art Showing. She also talks with her good friend Ruth about Ruth’s three daughters.
The Wild Wood (1994) by Charles de Lint
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
+10 Older Author (age 70 and above)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1950-2000)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 + 05 = 40
Grand Total: 385 + 40 = 425
10.2 Holiday TravelThe Best American Short Stories 2024 by Lauren Groff
This book had two train rides:
Two young women were traveling by train, but only one escaped the flood waters of the Johnstown Flood in "Privilege."
Death is traveling by train in "Viola in Midwinter."
Task total: 10
Season total: 450
10.2 Holiday TravelEveryone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
+10 task (all takes place on a train ride across Australia!)
+5 combo (20.4 - MPGs mystery and crime)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 165
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The Fraud by Zadie Smith
+20 task born 1975
+5 combo 10.2 characters often commute into London by train
+5 combo 20.1
+5 combo 20.2 the first Mrs. Ainsworth and Mrs. Touchet talk about slavery and abolition
+5 combo 20.5
Task total: 40
Season total: 495