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20.8 Queen of Short FictionThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2, 10.6, 10.9 merlot thE pOsTMan aLways Rings twice)
+10 1001 books
+10 Oldies (1934)
Task total = 55
Season total = 155
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Who Killed Charmian Karslake? by Annie Haynes
+20 Task (continuing Inspector Stoddart series, no.3)
+25 Combo (10.6, 10.9 Whiskey: WHo KIllEd charmian karSlake annie haYnes, 20.2 Annie, 20.3, 20.4 )
+10 Oldies (pub 1929)
Points this post: 55
RwS total: 145
Fan1sts total: -
Season Total: 145
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15.2 Fabulous FirstsR-K
Ruddy Gore by Kerry Greenwood
Task=15
Task Total=15
Season Total=110
----; -----; -----; -----; -----; 10.6; -----; ----; ----; -----;
15.1; 15.2; -----; ----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
-----; -----; -----; -----; 20.5; -----; -----; -----; 20.9; -----;
10.6 SentencePicture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - reisling)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 105
15. 1 Fabulous FirstsB-T
Bug by Tracy Letts
+15 Task
+5 Non Fiction
Task Total: 20 pts
Grand Total : 40 pts
Kate S wrote: "From 37+5 Combo 20.10 (this appears to cross and include several generations)
Thanks for catching that Kate. I think it occurred to me while I was reading it, but not when I was posting it.
Kim wrote: "20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Trials and Tribulations - The Robinswood Story Book 3 by Jean Grainger
+20 Task
+10 combo - 10.9 (tRIaIS and trIbulations jean GraiNgE..."
I just realized that this is a multi-generational book, as well, so there would be +5 Combo with 20.10 for this, as well.
Edit to 10.5 Mothers post 17As discussed in the 20.9 thread - the outspoken auhtors series also includes The Wild Girls
+5 combo (20.9)
Thanks
20.4 CrimeMurder at the Library of Congress by Margaret Truman 3.10.21
+20 Task
+10 combo - 10.9 [lambic or merlot], & 20.9 - Capital Crimes series
+5 Oldie - 1991
Post Total: 35 +10 missed points (message 88 & 112)
Season Total: 175
10.1; 10.2; -----; -----; -----; 10.6; -----; ----; 10.9(x2); -----;
----; -----; -----; ----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
-----; -----; -----; 20.4x2; -----;-----; -----; -----; 20.9; -----
20.3 - OppositeAbsent by Emma Salisbury
+20 task
+5 combo - 10.2
+5 combo - 10.9 - baileys - ABSEnt saLIsburY
+5 combo missed on post 44
Task total: 35
Grand total: 105
10.8 BirdsThe Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.9 Baileys: thE two Lives of lYdiA Bird joSie sIlver
Task total: 15
Season total: 150
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Red Station (Harry Tate #1) by Adrian Magson
I listened to audio but I'm guessing approximately 70% set in Georgia
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - amaretto found in REd sT aTiOn AdriAn Magson)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 135
10.9 PubReport from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson
Merlot - repORT from pLanEt Midnight
+10 task
+5 combo 20.9 series (ok'd in help)
+5 combo 10.2 4 letter name
Task total: 20
Grand total: 185
10.5 MotherI Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
by Maggie O'Farrell
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.6 (approved in thread), 10.9 Riesling: I am, I am seveNteen bRuShEs maGgie o'farrelL
Task total: 20
Season total: 170
10.8 Birds An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch
+10 task (finch)
+5 combo (20.9 -- #11 in the Charles Lenox series)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 35
10.3 NaughtyNaked in Death (In Death #1) by J.D. Robb
pub. 1995
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.2 - ROBB; 10.4; 20.4; 20.9)
+5 Oldies
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 170
20.4 - Crime Dark in Death by J.D. Robb
� female author; MPG Crime �
+20 Task
+ 10 Combo (10.2-Robb; 20.9-#46 in series)
Task total = 30
Season Total = 30
20.9 SeriesShakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore
+20 task
+5 combo 10.9 merlot
chrisTOpher MooRE and the L from squirrels
Task total: 25
Grand total: 210
20.7 LifetimeOscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance by Gyles Brandreth
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 - lambic found in wILde iMportAnCe Brandreth; 20.9)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 200
20.9 SeriesThe Transatlantic Book Club by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
+20 task (#5 of series)
+10 combo 10.9 Pub Trivia-cabernet; 20.10 Family 3 generations
Task total: 30
Season total: 80
10.9 Pub Trivia HMS Beagle, Aux origines de Darwin by Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer
Bourbon
HMS B eagle, A u x or igi n es de Darwin by Fa b ien Gr o lleau, Jérémie Royer
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Points total = 75
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20.4 CrimeCall Me Star Girl by Louise Beech
10.9 merlot: caLl ME sTaR lOuise
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.6, 10.9)
Task total: 30
Season total: 300
15.2 Fabulous FirstsThe Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
M-N
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 185
10.5 MotherThe Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Task=10
Combo= 10 (10.9-Baileys; 20.3-MC is Dougal Douglas)
Oldie=5 (1960)
Task Total=25
Season Total=135
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15.1; 15.2; -----; ----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
-----; -----; -----; -----; 20.5; -----; -----; -----; 20.9; -----;
From Post 55Katy wrote: "10.9 Pub Trivia
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez
+10 task (shiraz)
Task Total: 10
Season Tot..."
+5 Combo 10.2
From Post 64Marie wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.10 : 3 households - Gifty, her mother's and her aunt - and briefly her father's new hom..."
+10 Combo 10.9, 20.1
From Post 69Joanna wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
+10 Task
+10 Non-western
+10 Combo (10.9 - amaretto, 20.10)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 85"
+5 Combo 20.1
10.10 Group Reads Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
+10
+15 combo (10.9 - amaretto - Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi; 20.1; 20.10)
+10 nonwestern
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 75
20.6 Achilles #40 on the Best Gay Fiction listFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Fannie Flagg. 3.12.21
+20 Task
+5 combo - 10.9 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg = riesling
+5 combo 20.9 - Whistle Stop, AL series
+5 combo 20.10
+5 Oldie - 1987
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 215
10.1; 10.2; -----; -----; -----; 10.6; -----; ----; 10.9(x2); -----;
----; -----; -----; ----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----; -----;
-----; -----; -----; 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; -----; 20.9; -----
20.9 SeriesThe Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.2 � Goss, 10.9 � merlot/shiraz
Task total = 30
Season Total=150
20.5 BalkansHelen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella
+20 Task, set in Greece
+20 Combo: 10.4, pub. 2015; 10.9 Merlot: hELen Of spaRTa aMalia; 20.6, #30 on Greek/Roman list; 20.9
Task total: 40
Season total: 210
20.7 Real PersonThe Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
A novel about Hedy Lamarr
10.9 merlot: ThE OnLy woMan in the Room
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 25
Season total: 325
10.6 SentenceThank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. Thomas L. Friedman. 3.13.21
+10 Task
+5 combo - 10.9 Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations = vodka
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 230
10.1; 10.2; -----; -----; -----; 10.6(x2); -----; ----; 10.9(x2); -----;
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-----; -----; -----; 20.4x2; -----;20.6; -----; -----; 20.9; -----
10.4 SpringWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
+10 Task (pub. 1975)
+10 Non-Western (Egypt)
+10 1001 Books
+5 Oldies
+10 Combo: 10.9 wOMan aT zERo nawaL ; 20.7
Task total: 45
Season total: 255
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
+20 task
+10 oldies (published 1939)
+10 combo (10.9 [spell riesling - aNnE of InGLeSIde - l. m. montgomeRy], 20.10 [characters include three generations of Anne’s family])
Task total: 40
Season total: 60
Task 10.9 Pub Trivia (Anika's Task)Merlot
cOLEMan, claire g. � TeRra nullius
Terra Nullius (2017) by Claire G. Coleman
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 10 + 10 = 20
20.9 SeriesCrossing the Line by Karen Traviss
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.9 � riesling
Task total = 25
Season Total=175
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+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.9 Pub Trivia (Merlot) / 20.9 Series
Task total = 20
Season Total=100