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Post 157:Joanne wrote: "20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr:
Lady Osbaldestone and the Missing Christmas Carols
MPGS, HF and Mystery
+20 Task
Season Total 165"
+10 Aged - Stephanie Laurens, b. 1953
Post 136:Mary wrote: "20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
20 pts 20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr MYSTERY CRIME
5 pts 20.2 Edna O’Brien. Isabelle and Irene dis..."
+5 Combo 20.3
20.4 Sansom/CarrThe Laws of Our Fathers by Scott Turow
+20 Task (Mystery/Crime)
+ 5 Combo (20.10)
+10 Aged (b. 1949)
+ 5 Oldies (1996)
+15 Jumbo (MPE 817 pgs)
Task total = 55
Season total = 395
10.2 Holiday TravelThe Waste Lands by Stephen King
+10 Task
+10 Aged
+5 Oldies (1991)
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.3)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 170
15.2 BBRBBR book - Starter Villain (pub. 2023)
Task G - same publication year
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
+15 Task (pub 2023)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 195
20.7 Best Friends ForeverThe Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
+20 Task (narrator is the Dalai Lama's cat)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 215
20.9 Not How It HappenedCrucible of Gold by Naomi Novik
+20 Task (series on wiki list)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 235
10.8 TheaterTwo Trains Running by August Wilson
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Year of the Snake
+ 5 Oldies (1993)
Task Total: 20
Grand total = 345
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleThe Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Year of the Snake (A S unless McCall has to be included)
+10 Aged (1948)
Task Total: 35
Grand total = 380
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleThe Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now! by Mark Hyman
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand total = 400
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.6 Year of the Snake / 10.8 Theater
+25 Oldies (1602)
Task Total: 55
Grand total = 455
Post 250:Marie wrote: "20.5 Tom Spanbauer
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 - September discussed with several female charac..."
This appears as Juv Fic in the Brooklyn Public Library and does not have a lexile listing. Task points, but no style points.
Post 238:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "20.3 Frascine Pascal and nelson DeMille
Christmas Cupcake Murderby Joanne Fluke
author wrote 20+ books #27 in this series
Task +20
Grand Total: 165"
+10 Aged
Broken Book Report15.7 - BBR
BBR book - Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Task G: Read another book published the same year as your BBR
1st to Die by James Patterson - published 2001
Task total: 20
Grand total: 295
15.3 BBRBBR book: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
J - RWS favorites/5-stars given by Landice
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Task total: 15
Grand total: 250
15.7 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenB. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR: John Willoughby => Tim, Barnaby A, Barnaby B, and Jane Willoughby
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry (790 Lexile)
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 780
15.8 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenC. Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR: set +51% in Devon.
Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie
+25 Task
Task total: 25
Season total: 805
BBR Sharpe's RiflesA. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR.
Sharpe's Havoc by Bernard Cornwell
Richard Sharpe is in both books
+15
Task Total 15
Season Total 265
20.6 Akira ToriyamaLe Grand incident by Zelba
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 205
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10.5The Patriarch by Martin Walker
+10 task pub. 2015
+5 combo 20.7 Balzac, a half grown Basset saves Bruno’s life by giving a warning
+5 combo 20.3
+5 combo 20.4
+10 aged b. 1947
Task total: 35
Season total: 305
20.1 Paul Auster and Alice MunroMaus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Task total: 20
Season total: 60
20.1 Paul Auster and Alice MunroMaus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Task total: 20
Season total: 80
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleBilliards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll
+20 Task https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/he...
+ 5 Oldies (1959)
Post total = 25
Season total = 380
10.6 Wood SnakeThe Measure by Nikki Erlick
10 pts 10.6 Wood Snake
Task Total: 10 pts
Correction post 253: 5 pts
Season total: 165 pts
Post 277
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10.7 VerityThe Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith (710 Lexile)
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 20.2: December and Stella Rosa talk about their respective parents and home lives; 20.10
Task total: 20
Season total: 825
20.9 That's not how it happened (Anika's task)Dead, Mr Mozart by Bernard Bastable aka Robert Barnard
+20 Task: on Wikipedia stand-alone list
+10 Combo 20.3 (numbers in GR bio of Robert Barnard), 20.4 (mystery, crime)
+10 Aged 1936-2013
+5 Oldie 1994
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 465+45=510
10.4 Penguin Awareness DayThe Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer
+10 Task
+5 Oldies, pub. 1993
+10 Aged, b. 1945
+5 Combo: 20.4, “Mystery, “Historical Fiction,” “Historical Mystery,” and “Crime” are all top MPGs
Task total: 30
Season total: 855
10.10 Group ReadOld Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.1 - Literary Fiction & Science Fiction; 20.1; 20.2 - Sisters speaking of housekeeping/repairs; 20.3; )
+10 Aged (born 1939 )
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 540
15.9 BBR2, Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenD. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR: set during the Regency Period.
The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet's Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Paynter
+25 Task
Task total: 25
Season total: 880
20.8 International Women’s Year (Apple's task):Cinderwich by Cherie Priest
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 - to cut it short 2 females searching for another missing female; 20.3 )
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 570
20.6 ToriyamaMedea by Blandine Le Callet
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.8, GN retelling of the play by Euripides; 20.2, Medea is taught medicine (and poisoning) by the crones in Colchis, has many conversations with Pelias's daughters--including an entire scene where she teaches them the art of "resurrection", and ends her life on a deserted island with only her female servants to talk to (none of which was about men)
Task total: 30
Season total: 930
Tien wrote: "Cinderwich by Cherie Priest+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 - to cut it short 2 females searching for another missing female; 20.3 )
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 570"
Which task are you claiming in this post?
15.6 Broken Book Report False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
D. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR.
contemporary setting(s)
20 task
_____
20
Running total: 365
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.3, 20.9 – from Wikipedia)
+10 Aged (b 1949)
+5 Oldies (pub 1993)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 565
Task 10.10 Group ReadsRecommended by JOANNA
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
Our narrator, June Haywood, remembers talking with former roommate and fellow writer Athena Liu about Athena Liu’s new novel about a Chinese workers recruited by the British and sent to the front lines during World War I. Around pages 70, June has a photo session with professional photographer Cate, and they discuss photo session issues.
Yellowface (2023) by R.F. Kuang
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 210 + 15 = 225
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.10, 20.3)
+10 Aged (b 1955)
+5 Oldies (pub 1998)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 610
20.4 C.J. Sansom/Caleb CarrHavana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
+20 Task (Mystery/Crime)
+ 5 Combo (20.3)
+10 Aged
+ 5 Oldies (1999)
Task total = 40
Season total = 435
Anika wrote: "Tien wrote: "Cinderwich by Cherie Priest+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 - to cut it short 2 females searching for another missing female; 20.3 )
Post Total: 30
Season T..."
sorry, fixed it; for20.8 International Women’s Year (Apple's task)
20.5 Tom Spanbauer:Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) by T.J. Klune
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3 )
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 595
20.9 That's Not How It Happened (Anika's task):Victory of Eagles (Temeraire #5) by Naomi Novik
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - eagles )
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 620
10.7 Verity (Coralie's Task)The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille / 20.10 The _____ of _____
+10 Aged (1930-2012)
Task Total: 30
Grand total = 485
20.5 Tom SpanbauerThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.6 Year of the Snake / 20.2 Edna O'Brien / 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille / 20.10 The _____ of _____
Task Total: 40
Grand total = 525 + 5 for play = 530 adjusted total
Broken Book Report15.8 BBR
BBR Book - Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Task H. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
Undone by Karin Slaughter
+25 task
Task total: 25
Grand total: 320
Broken Book Report15.9 BBR
BBR Book - Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Task I. Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in.
Hidden in Shadows by Viveca Sten
+25 task - Swedish
Task total: 25
Grand total: 345
15.4 BBRBBR: When Red Is Black by Qiu Xiaolong
The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
15 pts 15.4 A. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR. Chief Inspector Chen Cao is the detective in both books.
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total: 180 pts
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Joanne wrote: "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 O..."
Michael Crichton died too young at age 66. No Aged points for him.