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20.4 - CrimeThe Girl From Paradise Hill by Susan Lund
+20 task
+15 Combos (10.2, 20.9, 10.9 - merlot - ThE girl fROM paradise hilL
Task total: 35
Grand total: 440
10.9 - Pub TriviaThe Girl Who Cried Too Much bySusan Lund
+10 task merlot - ThE giRL whO cried too Much
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.9)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 460
20.9 - SeriesThe Only Girl Left Alive by Susan Lund
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.9 - sauvignon - the ONly GIrl left AliVe SUsaN lund
Task total: 30
Grand total: 490
20.8 Queen of Short Fiction (Denise's Task)The Bone Collection: Four Novellas. Kathy Reichs. 4.3.21
Task: 20
Combo: 15 - 20.9, 20.4, 10.9 cabernet - The Bone Collection Kathy Reichs
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 750
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; -----; 10.6(x2); -----; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8; 20.9(x2); 20.10(x4)
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Prayers the Devil Answers. Sharyn McCrumb. 4.4.21
Task: 20
Combo: 5 - cabernet - Prayers The Devil Answers Sharon McCrumb
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 775
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; -----; 10.6(x2); -----; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8; 20.9(x3); 20.10(x4)
20.9 - SeriesDiary of a Submissive: A Modern True Tale of Sexual Awakening by Sophie Morgan
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.9 - absinthe - diAry of a SuBmissive: a modern True tale of sexual awakENIng sopHie morgan
Task total: 25
Grand total: 515
10.10 Group ReadsA Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 cabernet)
Task total = 15
Season Total=745
15.3 - Fabulous FirstsThe Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
E - Z
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season Total = 355
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10.7 CodebreakersHouse of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella by W. Len
=>thanks to Anika for finding this; I quite enjoyed it.
10 task
10 combo 10.9 cabernet, 20.7
____
20
Running total: 555
10.7 CodebreakersThe Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 whiskey)
Task total = 15
Season Total=760
20.8 Queen of Short FictionCrime Stories by J.A. Konrath
+20 Task
+5 Combo: 10.9 amaretto: criME sTORies j.A. konrATh
Task total: 25
+100 RwS Finish
Season total: 850
(I'm so glad you liked House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella, Valerie!)
Anika wrote: "20.8 Queen of Short FictionCrime Stories by J.A. Konrath
+20 Task
+5 Combo: 10.9 amaretto: criME sTORies j.A. konrATh
Task total: 25
+100 RwS Finish
Season total:..."
Way to go, Anika!
Anika wrote: "20.8 Queen of Short FictionCrime Stories by J.A. Konrath
+20 Task
+5 Combo: 10.9 amaretto: criME sTORies j.A. konrATh
Task total: 25
+100 RwS Finish
Season total:..."
Finished already! Holey moley :) !! Well done.
20.5 BalkansGirl at War by Sara Nović
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.2 Name / 10.4 Spring (2015) / 20.1 Prize
Post Total=35
Season Total=595
20.6 AchillesMedicus by Ruth Downie
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.2 Name / 20.3 Opposites / 20.4 Crime / 20.9 Series
Post Total=40
Season Total=635
20.9 SeriesThe Royal Rabbits Of London by Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - absinthe - T he Royal R ab b its of Londo n )
Task total = 25
Points total = 345
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... .... .... 10.6 .... .... 10.9 (x2) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 .... .... .... 20.9 (x2) 20.10
10.10 Group ReadsAll Systems Red by Martha Wells
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.9 Series
Post Total=15
RwS Finish= 100
Season Total=750
20.3 - OppositeLethal White by Robert Galbraith
+20 task (JK Rowling)
+15 Combo ( 10.5, 20.4, 20.9)
+5 jumbo - 650pgs
Task total: 40
Grand total: 570
10.3 - NaughtyFatherland by Robert Harris
First published 1991
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (pub'd 1991)
Task total = 15
Season total = 15
(This is my first post -- hopefully I got it right!)
10.9 - Pub TriviaA Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
CABERNET - All letters in CELEBRATING
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (608 pages)
Task total = 15
Season total = 30
Bucket wrote: "(This is my first post -- hopefully I got it right!)"Looks perfect! Glad you stopped lurking! :-)
10.9 - Pub TriviaThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
ABSINTHE - ABSI in ISABEL, N in SUNS, THE in THE
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (622 pages)
Task total = 15
Season total = 45
20.7 - Real PersonThe Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
See posts 43-44 in discussion for this task
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 MERLOT, MERL in author name, OT in title; 20.10 - 3 generations of each of 3 families)
+10 Non-Western (Namwali Serpell born in and citizen of Zambia)
+5 Jumbo (576 pages)
Task total = 45
Season total = 90
15.1 Fantastic FirstsThe Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
E-P
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 105
Remaining letters
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15.2 Fantastic FirstsThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
L-S
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 120
Remaining letters
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15.3 Fantastic FirstsThe Child in Time by Ian McEwan
I-T
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 135
Remaining letters
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15.4 Fantastic FirstsUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
J-U
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 150
Remaining letters
ABCD FGH K M
NO QR VWXYZ
20.6 AchillesHelen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella
#30 on historical fiction list
+20 task
+5 combo 10.4 pub 2015
+5 combo 10.9 Merlot: hELen Of spaRTa aMalia
+5 combo 20.5 set in Greece
+5 combo 20.9, previously claimed by Anika and approved
Task total: 40
Grand total: 765
Karen Michele wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsAll Systems Red by Martha Wells
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.9 Series
Post Total=15
RwS Finish= 100
Season Total=750"
Another fast finisher! Well done!
15.5 Fabulous Firsts, S-LShrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
+15 Task
+5 Not Fiction
Task total: 20
Season total: 870
Thanks for the congrats, Rebekah and Valerie :-) ❤️
10.5 MotherLaRose. Louise Erdrich. 4.6.21
Task: 10
Combo: 10 (20.3, Male-MC, Female-Author; 20.10 - many generations)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 795
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); -----; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8; 20.9(x3); 20.10(x4)
From Post 402Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Jayme(the ghostreader)
10.3 Naughty nineties
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J.K. Rowling
Task +10
Grand Total: 125"
+10 Combo 10.5, 10.9
From post 403Ed wrote: "10.1 Enjoyed
Based on Lettice and Lovage: A Comedy ,
I read
The Three Arrows by Iris Murdoch
Task=10
Combo= 10- (10.2; 20.3-MC is a Prince)
Oldie = 5 (..."
+5 Combo (from the MPE)
From Post 412Coralie wrote: "20.9 Series
Sign of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 shiraz)
+10 Oldies (published 1987)
Task total = 35
Season Total=680"
1987 is 5 Oldies points
From Post 450Norma wrote: "20.3 - Opposites
Just Try To Stop Me by Gregg Olsen
+20 task
+10 Combo (20.9, 10.9 - merlot - just TRy to stOp ME gregg OLsen
+5 missed oldies from post 276
Task t..."
+5 Combo 10.6
20.6 AchillesKiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
+20 Task #147 on Best Gay fiction
+10 Combo (10.9 Kahlua, 10.2)
+5 Oldies (published 1976)
+10 Non-Western
Task total = 45
Season Total=800
20.3 OppositesThe Crystal Beads Murder by Annie Haynes
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.9 Absinthe: THe cryStal BEAds murder anNIe haynes, 20.2, 20.4, 20.9)
+10 Oldies (pub 1930)
Task total: 50
Grand total: 815
15.5 Fabulous FirstsI See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People by Terence Lester.
I -- T
+ 15 Task
+ 5 Nonfiction
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 130
15.6 Fabulous FirstsUncertain Logic by Christopher L. Bennett
C -- U
+ 15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 145
15.7 Fabulous Firsts(The) Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder by John Glatt
J -- P
+ 15 Task
+ 5 Nonfiction
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 165
10.10 - Group ReadsThe Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
+10 Task
+ 10 Combo - ( 10.9 - absinthe, 20.3)
+5 Oldies (1983)
Task total - 25 pts
20.8 Queen of Short Fiction (Denise's Task)The Postman Always Rings Twice. James M. Cain 4.7.21
Task: 20
Combo: 15 (10.2, 10.6, 10.9-merlot)
1001 books: 10
oldie (1934): 10
Post Total: 55
Season Total: 850
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); -----; 10.8; 10.9(x4); -----;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
20.1; -----; 20.3(x4); 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; 20.8(x2); 20.9(x3); 20.10(x4)
10.10 Group ReadsAll Systems Red by Martha Wells
+10 Task
+5 Combo 20.9 Series
Task Total: 15 pts
Grand Total: 175 pts
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+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 355