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Post 75 -Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "Jayme(the ghostreader)
20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Author wrote 20 + books
Closer to Homeby Mercedes Lackey
Task +20
Combo +5 10.3 personal bucket list- ..."
10.3 can't be used for combos, sorry.
20.1 Paul Auster and Alice MunroPulse by Julian Barnes
+20 Task (author is on the American Academy author list)
+5 Combo (20.3 - author has published 20+ books)
+10 Aged (author is ~78; born 1946)
Task total =35
Season total = 35
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
+20 Task (author has published 20+ books)
+5 Oldies (pub’d 1981)
+10 Aged (author lived to ~87; 1927-2014)
+10 Non-Western (author born in Colombia, lived in Mexico)
Task total =45
Season total = 80
20.8 International Women’s YearThe Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney
+20 Task (author born in 1975)
Task total =20
Season total = 100
15.1 BBRBBR book = Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Task A: shared first name
Stoner by John Williams
+15 Task (Under the Greenwood Tree character = William Dewy; Stoner character = William Stoner)
Task total =15
Season total = 115
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr: Lady Osbaldestone and the Missing Christmas Carols
MPGS, HF and Mystery
+20 Task
Season Total 165
15.7 BBRThe Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
H. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
BBR book: The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) by Richard Osman
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 350
15.4 - BBRI. Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in.
Chosen book Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Read Book Hospital by Sanya Rushdi
Whilst this is set in Australia, the text was originally written in Bengali, Rushdi's native language
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 175
10.6, ...; ...; ...; 10.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6
10.9 Scandinavia (Norma's Task):I'm Traveling Alone by Samuel Bjørk
Set in Norway
+10 task
+5 combo (20.4)
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 190
10.6, ...; ...; 10.9; 10.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6
20.7 Best Friends ForeverCat Breaking Free by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
20 task (Joe, Dulcie + Kit are the main cat characters, who are sentient - which their people are aware of. Aside from companionship, they act as 'snitches' to the police to solve crimes in their small town)
10 aged
15 combo 10.5 (2005), 20.2 the three main female characters, who go on a (horse) pack trip together converse about what is in the woods, 20.3
______
45
Running total: 225
15.4 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenH. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
The Liar's Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 585
Apple wrote: "Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "Jayme(the ghostreader)20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Author wrote 20 + books
Closer to Homeby Mercedes Lackey
Task +20
Combo ..."
I will just take the combo off.
20.6 Akira Toriyama:I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 - MC with her cousin about slavery etc; 20.5 - pronoun: they/them)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 380
15.3 BBRBBR book = Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Task H - same number of words in title
Great Apes by Will Self
+15 Task
Post total = 15
Season total = 165
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleThe Drop & The List by Mick Herron
+20 Task https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/mi...
Post total = 20
Season total = 185
20.10 The ___ of ___The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
+20 task
+20 Combo (10.4, 20.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrici..., 20.4 Mystery/Crime, 20.5)
+10 Aged (1921-1995)
+ 5 Oldies (pub'd 1962)
Task total = 55
Season total = 295
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.6, 20.2, 20.3)
+10 Jumbo (752 pages)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 355
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.2)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 380
10.1 Member Lottery - Stylish Sci-Fi (Deedee's task):Supernova: Petir by Dee Lestari
+10 Task
+10 Non-Western
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 400
10.5 New Year New DateAway in a Manger by Rhys Bowen
+10 Task (2015)
+15 Combo 20.2 Gus and Sid (two women) live across the street. They are friends with the main character, Molly. In the beginning, they discuss how to make Christmas pudding and the beggar girl seen by Molly and Bridie; 20.3, 20.4 (mystery, HF)
+10 Aged (b. 1941)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 250+35=285
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleAcceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
+20 task (author has written >20 books)
+ 5 combo 10.10 Group Reads
Task total: 25
Season total: 225
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:An author with more than 20 published books
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
+20 Task
+_5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Aged
+5 Oldies
Task Total 40
Season Total 200
*Note: I hope we are in sync now. I was off by 5 somewhere so I just corrected my sheet to agree with you. Let me know if I am still off.
Broken Book Report15.3 BBR
BBR Book - Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Task C. Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR.
Faithless by Karin Slaughter - Heartsdale, Georgia, US
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 200
Broken Book Report15.4 BBR
BBR Book - Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Task D. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR.
Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter - present day
Task total: 15
Grand total: 215
20.2 Edna O'BrienLaurels are Poison by Gladys Mitchell
+20 Task (set in a ladies college, most conversations are between women about solving the crime)
+10 Combo (20.3, 20.4)
+10 Oldies (pub 1942)
+10 Aged (1901-1983 aged 82 at death)
Points this post: 50
RwS total: 115
BBR total: -
Season Total: 115
10.1 10.2 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... 20.2 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
Post 62:Tien wrote: "20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr:
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher #29) by Lee Child & Andrew Child
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 135"
+5 Combo 20.3
+10 Aged
Post 67:Anika wrote: "20.10 The _____ of _____
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
+20 Task
+10 Aged (died at age 82)
+10 Non-Western
+15 Oldies, pub. 1886
+5 Combo: 10...."
This is 10 oldies, not 15.
Post 94:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "Jayme(the ghostreader)
20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Author wrote 20 + books
Acorna's Questby Anne McCaffrey
Wrote 20+ books
Task +20
Aged +10
Book total: 30
Gr..."
+5 Oldies
Post 23:Joanne wrote: " 20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
MPG's: History and Crime
+20 Task
Season To..."
+5 Jumbo
Post 66:Valerie wrote: "10.5 New Year New Date
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
p. 1952
lexile: 720
10 task
10 aged
10 combo 20.2, 20.3
______
20
Running total: 145"
+5 Oldies
Post 43:Joanne wrote: "10.3 Bucket List
My personal bucket list is To Read Older Fantasy. The book must be at least 20 years old (so for this year (2024) published before 2005).
Magic's Pawn by [author:Me..."
+5 Combo 20.3
Post 119: Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.10 The________ of _________
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
+20 task
+5 combo 20.2 The book is about women who free dive for seafood. They operate as a women o..."
+10 Aged
Post 130:Apple wrote: "10.10 Group Reads:
Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 160
10.6, ...; ...; ...; 10.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.3; ...; 20.5; 20.6"
+5 Jumbo
+5 Combo 20.3
Post 73:Apple wrote: "10.10 Group Reads:
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 100
10.10
15.1, 15.2
20.3; ...; 20.5"
+5 Combo 20.3
Post 148:Joanne wrote: "20.2 Edna O' Brian
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
The book is about a group of women who, at most times, avoid talking about..."
+5 Combo 10.10
Task 20.9 That's Not How It Happened (Anika's task):Read a novel that was nominated for or won a Sidewise Award for Alternate Histories OR a book from the "Standalone Novels," "Novel Series," or "Plays" section of the Wikipedia list of alternates.
Winner of the Sidewise Award for Long Form (2021)
#20.2 combo: Inca woman Higuenamota is the translator between the Incan language and Castilian Spanish. She talks directly with Castilian Queen Isabella about European politics and European religions.
Civilizations (2019) by Laurent Binet; translated from the French by Sam Taylor (Hardback 310 pages)
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 145 + 25 = 170
15.5 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenF. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR: both have "Historical Fiction" as a top-three MPG.
The Lady and the Highwayman by Sarah M. Eden
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 605
20.3 Pascal and DeMilleThe Friend of Madame Maigret by Georges Simenon
+20 Task (this series 70+ books, and others)
+10 Combo (20.4 - mystery/crime, 20.10)
+10 Aged (1903-1989)
+ 5 Oldies (pub'd 1950)
Task total = 45
Season total = 340
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.2)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 405
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleCloser to the Heartby Mercedes Lackey
wrote 20+ books
Task +20
Aged +10 born 1950
Grand Total: 105
10.1 Member Lottery: Stylish Sci-FiThe Inheritors by William Golding
+10 Task: Classics & Science Fiction
+ 5 Oldies (1955)
+10 Aged (1911 - 1993)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 100
10.3 New Year's ResolutionsRead My McSweeney's and Peirene Subscriptions
McSweeney's Issue 75 by Dave Eggers
+10 Task: Owned via subscription
+ 5 Combo: 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Task Total:15
Grand Total: 115
10.9 Scandinavia (Norma's Task):The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting
+10 Task: Norway
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Holiday Travel (The train shuddered and wheezed its way into Hamar, p73)
Task Total:15
Grand Total: 130
10.9 Scandinavia (Norma's Task):The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting
+10 Task: Norway
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Holiday Travel (train home he had sat in the gangway)
Task Total:15
Grand Total: 145
20.1 Paul Auster and Alice MunroThe Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk
+20 Task: on the list
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 165
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleThe Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories by Martin Edwards
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.2 Holiday Travel (train thundered on, stopping every now and then)/ 20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr (Mystery / Crime)
+10 Aged (1955)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 205
20.6 Akira ToriyamaIt Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
+10 Aged (1946)
+ 5 Oldies (1993)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 245
20.8 International Women’s Year (Apple's task):Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
+20 Task: Orange Prize Nominee
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Holiday Travel (11% "became so queasy on the train"
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 270
20.9 That's Not How It HappenedCahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
+20 Task: Sideways Prize
+10 Combo: 10.2 Holiday Travel (he even knows where and when the Cahokian trains run) / 20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr (Mystery / Crime)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 300
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+20 task
+5 combo 10.6
+5 combo 20.2 the author/artist is a woman and she recounts several conversations with Senator Salazar, also a woman, about her experiences as a freshman senator and about her legislation.
Task total: 30
Season total: 225