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20.4 - Crime

Credible Threat by J.A. Jance

+20 task
+10 Combo (20.9, 10.9 - cabernet - CREdiBle thrEATs ja jaNce)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1330

10.3 Naughty

As High as the Heavens by Kathleen Morgan

+10 task (published 1998)
+ 5 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia merlot

Task total: 15
Season total: 905

Rebekah wrote: "15.9Fabulous Firsts
G - R
The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life by Robin Stern

+20 pts - Task
+10 Pt..."

I realized I just finished I had labeled this as 15.8 when it should have been 15.9, I corrected it

I don’t know what I did just now. Basically I read another book for fabulous firsts and when I went to the reading plan I made, I realized I had already completed the challenge. I had counted two different books as 15.8.
15.8 was Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
So 15.9 would have been The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life by Robin Stern
And 15.10 should have been Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin

As I was trying to correct this, it seems like my original post for Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places has disappeared. Maybe I should quit trying to do this when I’m sleepy? (Smile)

15.10 Fabulous Firsts
D - U
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin

+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - non fiction
+100 pts - Completion Bonus
+100 pts - Mega Finish

Task Total - 230 pts

20.10 Family
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
A section talks about the title character’s childhood with parents, nurse and others, the last part is told about his child.

+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - combo ( 10.2, 10.4-1859, 10.9 - lambic)
+10 pts - non - Western (Russia)
+10 pts - 1001 Books
+15 pts - Oldies (1859)
+05 pts - Jumbo (586 pages)
Task Total - 65 pts

Task 20.3 Opposites
Read a book written by an author of one sex, using a point of view of the opposite sex. The point of view should be a main character and a significant portion of the narrative.

About half of the novel is told from the point of view of Nolan (male). The author is Sharon Shinn (female).

Heart of Gold (2000) by Sharon Shinn (Mass Market Paperback, 342 pages)

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 465 + 20 = 485

10.8 Birds (Kim's Task)

Title/author's name contains a bird's name (or the word bird)
[Crow]

A Very Private Grave by Donna Fletcher Crow

Task Points: 10
Combo Points: 15 (10.2, 20.4, 20.9 - #1 of 6 books)
Season Total: 225

15.10 Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

D - U

+20 Task
+ 5 Jumbo

Post Total=25
Fabulous Firsts Finish=100
Mega Finish= 200
Season Total=1615

10.9 Pub Trivia (Anika's Task)

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad

+10 Task Sauvignon: cUltIVAtiNG geNiuS ghOldy

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 1625

20.3 Opposites

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.9 Series (planned trilogy)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1650

20.3 Opposites

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

+20 Task (author female/ main character Talmadge male)
+10 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (merlot) / 20.2 Family (3 generations)

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1680

20.3 Opposites

The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

+20 Task (author female/ main character male)
+ 5 Combo: 20.2 Family (3 generations)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1705

10.1 Enjoyed

Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
Last season I read Eight Perfect Murders

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.9 ABSINTHE
+5 Come 20.3 Male Author - POV Woman

Task Total: 20pts
Grand Total: 565 pts

20.1 Prize

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Task=20
Combo= 15 - (10.9-Baileys; 20.3; 20.10- focus on three siblings, their spouses and one kid in particular)

Task Total=35
RwS finish=100
Mega Finish=200

Season Total=1560


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; 15.10;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9 (15x); 20.10;

15.8 Fab Firsts

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen

P - L

+15 task
+5 nonfiction
+5 jumbo

Task total: 25
Season total: 325

20.9 Series

Your Inner Hedgehog by Alexander McCall Smith

20 task
5 combo 10.9 merlot
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25

Running total: 1660

This will be my last one for this season. Well done everyone!

20.3 Opposites

Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2, 10.9 - reisling, 20.2, 20.9)
+10 Oldies (1911)

Task total = 50

Season total = 1020

And that'll do it for me this season!

20.9 - Series

The Hidden Child by Camilla Läckberg

+20 task
+10 Combo (20.4, 10.9 - lambic - CAMILla lackBerg)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1360

20.9 - Series

The Drowning by Camilla Läckberg

+20 task
+10 Combo (20.4, 10.9 - lambic - CAMILla lackBerg)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1390

20.9 - Series

The Lost Boy by Camilla Läckberg

+20 task
+10 Combo (20.4, 10.9 - lambic - CAMILla lackBerg)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1420

20.9 - Series

Buried Angels by Camilla Läckberg

+20 task
+10 Combo (20.4, 10.9 - lambic - CAMILla lackBerg)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1450

20.3 Opposites

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+25 Oldies
+15 Combo: 10.3: 1599; 10.4; 10.9 merlot

Task Total: 60
Season Total: 315

20.3 Opposites

All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2)

Task total = 25
Season Total=2285

Task 10.02 Name

For 10.9 Combo:
Amaretto
how TO AMERicAn: an immigrant's guide to disappointing your parenTs

How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents (2018) by Jimmy O. Yang (Hardcover, 240 pages) [791.43028]

+10 Task (“Yang��)
+05 Combo (#10.9 “Amaretto��)

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 485 + 15 = 500

10.10 Group Reads

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

10 pts 10.10 Family
5 pts 10.2 Name
5 pts 10.3 Naughty
10 pts Non Western
5 pts Oldies

Task total: 35 pts
Season total: 630 pts

10.1 10.2 ... ... ... 10.6 ... 10.8 10.9 10.10
20.1 ... 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

20.2 Ann/e

The Abbey Court Murder by Annie Haynes

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.9 amaretto, 20.4, 20.9)
+10 Oldies (1923)

Task total: 45
Season total: 2555

20.3 Opposites

Another World by Pat Barker

+20 Task (author female, main character Nick is male)
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.10 includes 4 generations)
+10 1001 list

Task total: 40
Season total: 2595

That's my last for this season! Thank you all for another great challenge that inspired me to read so many books this season!

I see by the Readerboard I've missed seeing some Mega Finishers and there are two more on this page.

To all who manage to get that hard won Mega:

Congratulations! Well done!

20.9 - Series

The Ice Child by Camilla Läckberg

+20 task
+10 Combo (20.4, 10.9 - lambic - CAMILla lackBerg)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1480

20.10 Family

On the House: A Washington Memoir by John Boehner

+20 task Boehner introduces us to family from his parents to his grandsons.
+ 10 combo 10.2, 10.9 absinthe
Task total 30
Season total: 355

Last one for me!
20.2 Ann/Anne
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

+20 - Task
+25 - Combo (10.2, 10.3, 10.5-1994, 10.8, 10.9- bourbon)
+5 - Oldies (1994)
Task Total - 50

10.3 Naughty

A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King

+10 task (pub 1993)
+5 combo (20.4) not claiming 20.9 b/c this is a reread
+5 oldies

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 805

20.5 Balkans

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

+20 task
+10 combo (20.1, 20.10)
+100 RWS Finish

Task Total: 130
Season Total: 935

10.1 Enjoyed

A Poem for Every Spring Day by Allie Esiri

+10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 1715

20.4 Crime

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

+20 Task
+10 Non Western

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1745

10.5 Mother

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Name

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1760

15.10 Fabulous Firsts

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond

C - Z

+20 task
+5 nonfiction
+100 finisher FF
+200 Mega Finish (my first mega, I think!!!)

Task total: 325
Season Total: 1260

Fabulous books and reads everyone, thank you!

Now on to the sub-challenge summer!