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15.6 Fabulous Firsts J/P
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden

+15 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Non-Fiction

Task total - 20 pts

20.9 Series

To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey

+20 Task
+20 Combo 10.4, 10.9 - absinthe, 20.3, 20.4)
+ 5 Oldies (1950)

Task total = 45

Season total = 795

15.2 Fabulous Firsts, Round 2

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

J - P

+15 Task
+ 5 Not a novel

Task total: 20
Season total: 2075

20.9 Series

Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse

+20 Task
+ 5 Oldies (1947)

Task total: 25
Season total: 2100

20.9 Series

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 10.9 riesling)
+ 5 Oldies (1954)

Task total: 35
Season total: 2135

20.9 Series

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

+20 Task
+ 5 Oldies (1963)

Task total: 25
Season total: 2160

15.1 Fabulous Firsts - Round 2


The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. Oliver Sacks. 4.28.21
M-O

Task: 15
Non-fiction: 5
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1945

10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x5); 10.10;
15.1;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3(x5); 20.4(x5); 20.5;20.6; 20.7(x2); 20.8(x2); 20.9(x5); 20.10(x5)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

15.2 Fabulous Firsts - Round 2


The Quiet Side of Passion. Alexander McCall Smith. 5.12.21

Q-A

Task: 15
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1960

10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x5); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3(x5); 20.4(x5); 20.5;20.6; 20.7(x2); 20.8(x2); 20.9(x5); 20.10(x5)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

15.3 Fabulous Firsts - Round 2


The Bride's House. Sandra Dallas. 5.3.21

B-S

Task: 15
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1975

10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x5); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3(x5); 20.4(x5); 20.5;20.6; 20.7(x2); 20.8(x2); 20.9(x5); 20.10(x5)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

15.4 Fabulous Firsts - Round 2

Without a Trace. Emily Thomas

E-W

Task: 15
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1990

10.1; 10.2(x2); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6(x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9(x5); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3(x5); 20.4(x5); 20.5;20.6; 20.7(x2); 20.8(x2); 20.9(x5); 20.10(x5)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

10.5 Mother

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

+10 task
+10 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia kahlua; 20.10 Family ( Gibsons and Kilpatricks form a blended family, London Kilpatrick cousins, Gibson daughter marries into Hamley family)
+ 5 jumbo 679 pages
+15 oldie 1863

Task total: 40
RwS finish: 100
Season total: 795

10.10 Group Reads

All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo

+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.6, 10.9 riesling, 20.3, 20.4)

Task total = 30
Season Total=1535

10.6 Sentence

We Live in Water by Jess Walter

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.2)

Task total = 15
Season Total=1550

10.7 Codebreakers (Tien's Task)

House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella by W. Len

Task=10
Combo=10- (10.9 cabernet, 20.7-Alan Turing)

Task Total=20
Season Total=920


10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; -----;
-----; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; -----; 20.9 (12x); -----;

20.10 Family (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

(The story includes the title character and three other generations of her family - her daughter, parents, and grandparents.)

+20 task
+10 non western (the author was born and lives in the Republic of Korea)

Task total: 30
Season total: 190

15.8 Fabulous Firsts

Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle
Lexile: 840

K-V

Task total: 15
Grand total: 820

10.9 Pub Trivia

The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

merlot

10 task
10 1001 book
10 oldie
____
30

Running total: 1225

15.10 Fabulous Firsts
E-T

Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers

+20 Task
+5 Jumbo

Post Total=25
Finisher bonus 100
Mega Finish 200
Season Total=1875

Task 20.9 Series

For 10.9 combo
ABSINTHE
A hoBokEN HIpSTer in sherwood forest

A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest (Twisted Time #2) (2007) by Mari Mancusi

+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.2 “Mari�, #10.9 ABSINTHE)

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 385 + 30 = 415

from Post 903

Nick wrote: "10.8 Birds (Kim's Task)

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin. The bird is "Jay."

Points + 10
Combo 10.2 Name 4 le..."

+5 Combo 10.9

From Post 930

Karen Michele wrote: "20.5 Balkans

Snapping Point by Aslı Biçen

+20 Task: Outside of Istanbul, Turkey, both on land and on the Aegean Sea
+10 Combo: 10.2 Name / 20.3 Opposites: female ..."

+10 Non Western

From Post 932

Deedee wrote: "Task 20.10 Family (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Read any book that is multi-generational or a family saga.

As I said in the Help Thread: 3 generations: Uther Pendragon, King Arthur, and Mordred 😊

F..."

+10 Non Western

From Post 937

Karen Michele wrote: "20.9 Series (Kate S's task)

Jazz by Toni Morrison

+20 Task: labeled as part of a trilogy on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
+15 Combo: 10.2 Name / 10.3 Naughty / 10.5 Mother
+ 5 Oldies: 1993..."

+10 1001

From Post 938

Nick wrote: "10.6 Sentence

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can by Barbara Gordon

Task Points = 10
Grand Total = 445"

+5 Oldies

From Post 939

Nick wrote: "20.4 Crime

A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King

Task Points = 20
Grand Total = 465"

+15 Combo 10.2, 10.3, 20.9
+5 Oldies

From Post 940

Nick wrote: "10.5 Mother

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations by Adrienne Rich

Task Points = 10
Combo 10.9 (Baileys) = 5
Total This Post = 15
Grand Total = 480"

+5 Combo 10.2

From Post 942

Norma wrote: "10.5 - Mother

Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

+10 task
+10 Combos - 20.2, 10.9 - absinthe - Body surfing ANITa SHrEve

Task total: 20
Grand total: 1105"

+5 Combo 20.2

20.3 Opposites

At One Thirty by Isabel Ostrander

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4 - 1915; 10.9 - baileys)
+10 Oldies

Task total = 40

Season total = 835

20.9 series
Eye Spyby Mercedes Lackey
Task +20
Grand Total: 320

20.1 Prize

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

+20 task
+15 combo 10.2 Name; 10.9 Pub Trivia absinthe; 20.10 Family (3 generations)

Task total: 35
Season total: 830

15.6 Fabulous Firsts

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

T-H

+15 Task
+5 NF

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 655

20.4 Crime

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.2 Name
+5 Combo 10.9 Pub Trivia - RIESLING

Task Total: 30 pts
Grand Total: 505 pts

15.6 Fab Firsts

Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital by Maurice Benard

M-N

+15 Task
+5 Not a Novel

Task Total: 20 pts
Grand Total: 525 pts

20.6 Song of Achilles
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Published sometime between 1894 - 1896*

+20 pts - Task (#49 on Historical Fiction List)
+20 pts - Combo (10.3, 10.6 - Latin sentence that translates to “Whither Thou Goest� or “Where are you going?�, 20.7 - multiple historical characters including Roman Emperor Nero, his retinue, his wife Poppaea, his child, concubines of both sexes, Seneca, Gaius Petronius, Tigellinus, Aulus Plautius and his wife Pomponia and the apostles Peter and Paul, 20.10 - multiple families and their connections ie nephews, children, siblings, cousins, parents, grandchildren in the families of the Emperor and the Senators)
+10 pts - Oldies*
+5 Pts - Jumbo (589 pages)

Task Total - 55 pts

*Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ gives original publication date as 1894, However the Wikipedia Article about book gives it first published in installments beginning in 1895 and the article about the author gives it in book form in 1896. Gutenberg gives in introduction as published as a book in 1896. So I wasn’t sure if I could count combo points for 10.4.


� was first published in installments in the Gazeta Polska between 26 March 1895 and 29 February 1896,�

10.8

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman

10 pts 10.8 Birds
5 pts 10.9 Pub Trivia merlot

Task total: 15 pts
Season total: 480 pts

10.1 10.2 ... ... ... 10.6 ... 10.8 10.9 ...
... ... 20.3 20.4 20.5 ... ... 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 ... ... ... ... ... ...
A B F G
Q U V W

10.2 Name

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

Task=10
Combo=5=(10.9 cabernet)
Oldie=5- (1982)

Task Total=20
Season Total=940


10.1; 10.2 (2x); 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; -----;
-----; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; -----; 20.9 (12x); -----;

Rebekah wrote: "20.6 Song of Achilles
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Published sometime between 1894 - 1896*

+20 pts - Task (#49 on Historical Fiction List)
+20 pts - Combo (10.3, 10..."

It's also on the 1001 list Rebekah! So a massive point-earner :)

20.3 Opposites

Sealskin by Su Bristow

+20 Task (all told from POV of Donald, male; author is female)
+ 5 Combo (20.10 3 generations: Donald, his mother, and his children)

Task total: 25
Season total: 2185

20.4 Crime

Simisola by Ruth Rendell

+20 task
+30 combo (10.2, 10.3, 10.5, 10.9-merlot siMisOLa ruTh REndell, 20.3 author female/POV Reg Wexford, male, 20.9)
+ 5 oldies (1994)

Task total=55
Season total=570

15.6 round 2

The Game's Afoot by Richard Foreman

G - R

Task total: 15
Grand total: 1555

20.8

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

+20 task
+15 oldies pub 1842
+10 for 1001 - contains Purloined Letter
+5 combo 10.9 - merlot - ... Of MysTERy ... aLlen

Task total: 50
Grand total: 1605

10.8 Birds (Kim's Task)
Lady Bird and the Fox by Kim Kelly

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - merlot found in Lady biRd and ThE fOx kiM kelly)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,000

20.9 Series

The Postman from Space by Guillaume Perreault

+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel

Task total = 20

Points total = 685
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... 10.4 .... 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x4) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 (x3) 20.4 20.5 20.6 (x2) 20.7 .... 20.9 (x3) 20.10 (x2)

10.5 Mother

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 - absinthe : The tale s of Beedle the ba rd, J K Rowl in g ; 20.3 - 3/5 of the tales + Dumbledore's notes are from a male perspective)

Task total = 20

Points total = 705
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... 10.4 10.5 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x4) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 (x3) 20.4 20.5 20.6 (x2) 20.7 .... 20.9 (x3) 20.10 (x2)

20.8 Queen of Short Fiction

Alfred Hitchcock présente : Cinq Crimes À Vous Coller Au Fauteuil

It's a publication of 5 mystery short stories by authors Robert Edmond Alter, Richard Matheson and William Brittain (They have been published under other "Alfred Hitchcock presents" collection but the one i read seems that it's not existing with the same composition in english).

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - 1999 ; 10.9 - vodka: Alfre d Hitchcoc k présente : Cinq Crimes À Vo us Coller Au Fauteuil)

Task total = 30

Points total = 735
10.1 10.2 (x2) .... 10.4 10.5 10.6 .... 10.8 10.9 (x4) 10.10
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
20.1 20.2 20.3 (x3) 20.4 20.5 20.6 (x2) 20.7 20.8 20.9 (x3) 20.10 (x2)

10.2 Name

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (reisling)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 1190

10.5 Mother

The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (merlot)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 1205

20.4 Crime

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (merlot)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1230

20.9 Series (Kate S's task)

Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard

+20 Task
+10 Combo: 20.3 Opposites / 20.4 Crime

Task Total: 30
Missed Points: 20
Season Total: 1280 Corrected total

Coralie wrote: "
Finisher bonus 100
Mega Finish 200"

Congratulations! Well done!