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Broken Book Report - second time15.7 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task G: Read another book published the same year as your BBR.
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen - 2001
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 920
Broken Book Report - second time15.8 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task H: Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
Gunning for Truth by Renee Pawlish
+25 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 945
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleThe Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
Combos:
10.2 Ethelberta and other characters take train journeys in France
20.2 Ethelberta and her sister Picotee talk about their work (poet/storyteller and teacher) and their family situation
20.10 Title
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 20.2, 20.10)
+10 Aged (1840-1928)
+10 Oldies (1876)
+ 5 Jumbo (512 pages)
Post total = 60
Season total = 960
15.9 BBRBBR book = Slow Horses by Mick Herron
A. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR.
Character Catherine Standish in Slow Horses
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
(Lexile 1090)
Main character is Catherine of Stonebridge
+25 Task
Post total = 25
Season total = 985
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/l/ja...
Combos:
20.2 Bechdel Test
Our heroine, Tessa “Teg” Brown (age 50ish) goes on an adventure with female friends Peg (age 60ish) and Meg (age 70ish). They discuss many things throughout the novel, but almost never about romance.
20.7 Best Friends Forever
Read a novel with a cat or dog as character with a beneficial role such as companion, health supporter, or mystery solving-assistant. Please give the name of the cat or dog and a short description.
Our heroine, Tessa “Teg” Brown, has two cats, named Memory and Thought. She interrupts her otherworldly adventure to return home to feed her cats.
Library of the Sapphire Wind (Over Where #1) (2022) by Jane Lindskold
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#20.3, #20.7)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 470 + 30 = 500
10.3 New Year's ResolutionsMcSweeney's Issue 76 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Aftershocks by Dave Eggers
+10 Task
+. 5 Combo: 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Task total = 15
Grand total = 1120
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr:The Reserve by Russell Banks
+20 Task: Mystery / Historical Fiction
+10 Combo: 10.2 Holiday Travel (numerous train trips are taken both to the reserve and by pilots traveling for the war effort) / 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
+10 Aged (1940 - 1923)
Task total = 40
Grand total = 1160
20.7 Best Friends Forever (Owlette's task):Three Wild Dogs by Markus Zusak
+20 Task: Frosty and his brothers before him, Reuben and Archer are the juvenile delinquents of the family, but give joy and love in return;)
+ 5 Combo: 10.5 New Year New Date 2015
Task total = 25
Grand total = 1185
20.9 That's Not How It Happened (Anika's task):Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
+20 Task: Napoleon era with dragons! Wikipedia Series
Task total = 20
Grand total = 1205
20.9 That's Not How It Happened (Anika's task):This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
+20 Task: Wikipedia List
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Year of the Snake
Task total = 25
Grand total = 1230
15.10 BBRBBR book = Slow Horses by Mick Herron
E. Read another book by the same author who wrote your BBR.
Bad Actors by Mick Herron
+30 Task
+100 BBR Finisher bonus
Post total = 130
Season total = 1115
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Can You Forgive Her? Volume II by Anthony Trollope-
Post=20
Oldie=15 (1865)
Post total = 35
Season total = 35
Tasks Completed:
20.3
20.6 Akira Toriyama:No Brainer by Jeff Kinney-
Post- 20
Combo=5 (20.3)
Post Total= 25
Season Total=60
Tasks Completed:
20.3; 20.6
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr:Crime and Historical Fiction-
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo-12/13/25-
Post- 20
Aged=10
Oldie=5 (1984)
Post Total= 35
Season Total=95
Tasks Completed:
20.3; 20.4; 20.6
10.6 Year of the Snake:Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Post- 10
Combo= 10 (20.3; 20.4
Oldie=10 (1923)
Post Total= 30
Season Total=125
Tasks Completed:
10.6
20.3; 20.4; 20.6
15.7 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosH. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
You Are Here by David Nicholls
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 1810
20.3 Frascine Pascal and Nelson DeMille20+ books written
Spy, Spy Againby Mercedes Lackey
Task +20
Aged +10
Book total: 30
Grand Total: 405
20.7 Best Friends ForeverThe Templars' Last Secret by Martin Walker
Bruno’s Basset Hound, Balzac does some tracking of a victim in this book.
+20 task
+5 combo 20.3
+5 combo 20.4
+10 aged b. 1947
Task total: 40
Season total: 580
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr:My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen
+20 Task: Mystery / Crime
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Scandinavian
+ 5 Oldies (1993)
Task total = 30
Grand total = 1260
10.9 ScandinaviaOn the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
+10 Task (from Danish)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 1240
15.8 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosG. Read another book published the same year as your BBR: both first published in 2004.
The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket (1040 Lexile)
+25 Task
Task total: 25
Season total: 1845
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3)
+10 Aged (born 1949)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 1105
20.7 Best Friends Forever Dog or Cat as an important part of the book
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
+20 Task
+10 Aged (Connie Willis is 77 years old)
+5 Oldies (published 1998)
+ 5 Personal Bucket List (reading older fantasy)
Task Total 40
Season Total 585
Broken Book Report - second time15.9 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task I: Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in.
The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
+25 task - Icelandic
Task total: 25
Grand total: 970
Broken Book Report - second time15.10 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task J. 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.
7th Heaven by James Patterson
+30 task - Jayme (theghostreader) give it a 5 star rating
+100 bonus
Task total: 130
Grand total: 1100
10.6 Year of the Snake:A Poem for Every Winter Day by Allie Esiri
+10 Task:
Task total = 10
Grand total = 1270
Thanks for a great winter season!
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Hot Mess by Jeff Kinney-
Post- 20
Combo= 5 (20.6)
Post Total= 25
Season Total=150
Tasks Completed:
10.6
20.3 (2x); 20.4; 20.6
20.5 Tom Spanbauer:Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Post- 20
Combo= 5 (20.6)
Oldie=10 (1927)
Jumbo=10 (784p.)
Post Total= 45
Season Total=195
Tasks Completed:
10.6
20.3 (2x); 20.4; 20.5; 20.6
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/in..., 20.4 Mystery, Crime)
+10 Oldies (pub 1887)
+10 Aged (1859-1930, died aged 71)
Points this post: 50
RwS total: 355
BBR total: 15
Season Total: 370
10.1 10.2 .... 10.4 .... .... .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 .... .... .... .... 20.10
15.2 BBRBBR book = Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Task H - same number of words in title -
Send Nudes by Saba Sams
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 355
BBR total: 30
Season Total: 385
10.1 10.2 .... 10.4 .... .... .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 15.2 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 .... .... .... .... 20.10
10.3 New Year's ResolutionsMy list is the books I need to read for the LOST 2025 Challenge in the Pick-a-Shelf GR group.
The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E.M. Delafield
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 "We go by train to large and airy red-brick establishment standing on a hill", 20.2 several conversations between the author and female friends concerning her literary career, 20.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._D...)
+10 Oldies (pub 1930)
Points this post: 35
RwS total: 390
BBR total: 30
Season Total: 420
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 .... .... .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 15.2 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 .... .... .... .... 20.10
Mary wrote: "15.7 BBRBBR When Red Is Black by Qiu Xiaolong
Shanghai Redemption by Qiu Xiaolong
15 pts 15.7 BBR D. Read a book set in the same time pe..."
15.7 is worth 20 points, so +5
Joanne wrote: "20.7 Best Friends Forever Dog or Cat as an important part of the book
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
+20 Task
+10 Aged (Connie Willis is 77 years old)
..."
Hi Joanne, the bucket list task can't be used as a combo, so -5
Ed wrote: "20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Hot Mess by Jeff Kinney-
Post- 20
Combo= 5 (20.6)
Post Total= 25
Season Total=150
Tasks Completed:
10.6
20.3 (2x); 20...."
Sorry Ed, 20.6 can't be used for combos, -5
Ed wrote: "20.5 Tom Spanbauer:Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Post- 20
Combo= 5 (20.6)
Oldie=10 (1927)
Jumbo=10 (784p.)
Post Total= 45
Season Total=195
Tasks Completed:
10.6
2..."
Hi Ed, can you confirm which combo this is? 20.6 is for graphic novels, thanks.
Apple wrote: "Ed wrote: "20.5 Tom Spanbauer:Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Post- 20
Combo= 5 (20.6)
Oldie=10 (1927)
Jumbo=10 (784p.)
Post Total= 45
Season Total=195
Tasks Comple..."
Sorry...I think that was a cut and paste error.
15.9 BBR3, Broken for You by Stephanie KallosI. Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in: BBR written in English, 15.9 title written in Faroese
The Old Man and His Sons by Heðin Brú
+25 Task
Task total: 25
Season total: 1870
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15.6 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task F: Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR.
Dead On Time] by W.L. Knightly - mystery, fiction, thriller
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 900