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20.3 ProlificDo Evil in Return by Margaret Millar
This slightly noirish novel is full of unlikeable characters doing bad things. Female physicians were not common in 1950 when the book was published, but the main character here is a doctor. She talks and acts more like a detective in a hard-boiled novel than a doctor. She is single but seeing a married lawyer whose wife has mental problems. The trouble begins when the doctor refuses to do an abortion for a distressed young woman. Soon there are several murders, blackmail, and extortion. I had a few ideas about who killed who and why, but in the last chapter Millar had some real surprises waiting. In spite of the unlikeable characters, Millar's writing is so good that I had to keep reading.
Scrabble tiles: DEIRMM word: MIRED, DIRE
Wine quote: "The kitchen table bore evidences of a drinking party--three empty bottles of muscatel and four smudged glasses and half a bag of potato chips. A number of potato chips were scattered over the floor as if someone had become drunkenly playful and started throwing them around like confetti."
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2, 20.5)
+10 review
+ 5 oldies (1950)
Task total=45
Season total=535
(19/122 Mysteries Challenge)
20.3 ProlificField of Thirteen by Dick Francis
Every one of these stories was a winner. I like horses, I like riding, I like reading – this collection of short stories fills the bill. To be honest, even though I am a big fan of Francis I didn’t know that he wrote short stories. These stories were magazine commissions and sometimes Francis was allowed to write as he pleased and other times there were set criteria. They all involve horses, but really they are about the people surrounding the horses and human nature. I’m always amazed at the consistency of his writing, and that is on show here as well. 4*
20 task
10 review
10 not a novel
5 combo 10.2 fotdf = doff
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45
Running total: 645
10.1 Short WorksMy own collection:
From McSweeney's #60:
Variety African Healing Market / 14 pages
High Jinks / 10 pages
The Future-Ghost of Charles Bronson at Home Depot / 4 pages
The Tum-Boon Brigade / 8 pages
In This Life or Another / 10 pages
Sanchez Day / 8 pages
A Fresh Start Ruined / 8 pages
A Little Like God / 9 pages
Others:
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury / 6 pages (PDF)
202 Checkmates by Rion Amilcar Scott / 14 pages (online)
Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Alan Poe / 26 pages (Kindle, Complete Works of EAP)
121 Pages Total
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 110
15.5 Power of 9Numerical by birth
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
+15 task (1945)
Task total = 15
Season total = 1080
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10.8 Jetsetters (Anika's Task)The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
+10 Task: Ireland, Netherlands, New York
+15 Combo: 10.2 Scrabble! (THIFJB BIT) / 20.3 Prolific / 20.5 Wine
+ 5 Jumbo
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 140
20.5 WineThe Fragility of Bodies by Sergio S. Olguín
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Scrabble! (TFOBSO FOOT)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 185
20.8 Bedtime (Bryony's Task)Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.2 Scrabble! (DWESB BED) /10.8 Jetsetters / 20.3 Prolific / 20.6 Civil War
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 225
20.10 Another Birthday? (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.2 Scrabble! (TCOATCAMS COAT) / 20.3 Prolific / 20.7 P.I.
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 260
30.1 Go for the GreenNervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
+30 Task (ZIMBABWE)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 290
20.4 SimilarWhite Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
+20 Task:
+10 Combo: 10.7 Non-Fiction / 10.2 Scrabble! (WFWISHFWPTTARRD WISH)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 320
20.4 SimilarHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
+20 Task:
+10 Combo: 10.7 Non-Fiction / 10.2 Scrabble! (HTBAAIXK HABIT)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 350
20.1 Award Thomas King Indians on Vacation: A Novel
20 Task
+15 Combo: +20.10 +10.4 +10.8 (Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada)
Task Total = 35
Season Total =95
20.3 Prolific A Divided Loyalty by Charles Todd
20 Task
+5 Bonus 10.2 (Cat, Cad)
Task Total = 25
Season Total =120
10.8 JetsettersThe Actor's Life: A Survival Guide by Jenna Fischer
Review:
I picked up this book pre-pandemic and of course, now that is has to go back to the library, decided to read it now. I cannot say enough how important this book has been to me the past 2 weeks. It has made me feel so so so much better about my journey as an actor and performer. Fischer is real talk, she doesn't glamourize the industry and her writing has just inspired me and fuelled my ambition that much more.
Of course she is funny and charming, one would expect nothing less. But there is also a lot of really great nuts and bolts stuff to be found here. It is all about the American theatre and film scene so will have to tweak to apply to myself up here in Canada. She has really infused me with passion for the work, even amidst the tricky CoVid times. I feel creatively charged and more fulfilled about my journey up until this point.
+10 Task - setting in St. Louis, NYC and LA
+5 Combo 10.2 Scrabble TALASGJF = Last
+10 Review
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 35 pts
Grand Total: 255 pts
10.3 SingleMischief by Charlotte Armstrong
Scrabble: MCA Word: CAM
When their sitter backs out at the last minute, a couple hires the niece of the hotel operator for the evening. They were going to attend an important dinner where the husband was to be the speaker and guest of honor. The wife felt uneasy about leaving their nine-year-old daughter with the sitter who seemed a bit strange. However, she felt that she should be with her husband while he was being honored. By the end of the evening, the wife wished she had followed her maternal instincts.
The book was written in 1950 so it seems rather dated and "cutsie" in the beginning. A visitor comes to the hotel room later, the abnormal actions of the sitter are seen through his eyes, and the suspense builds. The movie "Don't Bother to Knock", starring Marilyn Monroe as the sitter, was based on this book. A modern mystery/thriller might have been more intense, but it was interesting to read a classic mystery for a change of pace.
+10 task
+15 combo 10.2 Scrabble; 10.4 Pilgrim; 20.3 Prolific (29 novels per GR author page)
+10 review
+ 5 oldie (pub 1950)
Task total: 40
Season total: 460
20.5 Wine Consent by Annabel Lyon
A whole lot of wine drinking going on in here! Even the cover has an overturned wine glass!
“Claes deWinter ordered a carafe of Bordeaux. The wine came. The barman poured two glasses and withdrew. Sara sipped her wine.”
+20 Task
+5 bonus (10.3 Single)
Task Total = 25
Season Total = 145
20.5 WineCoconut Layer Cake Murderby Joanne Fluke
"David Paul told her as he poured her a glass or wine."
Task+20
Combo +5 Prolific (has written 25 books in this series)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 145
20.1 Award The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
WOW this was a pretty intense book! I think Rebekah said earlier in the thread that after finishing she needed time before managing a review. I felt the same - had to wait a bit. It really stays with you. The writing style is so straightforward and simple but with a devastating clarity. (I suppose that is why he's a Pulitzer winner!) The injustices and brutality, not just of the school but of the world, are told in such a straightforward manner that it's almost possible to have them slip by without noticing - then suddenly you'll remember and it hits hard. The main characters being so likable, and the fact that the story is based on real life, and seems to be very true to what happened at the school in Florida, make it all the more gutting.
+20 task
+10 combo (20.2, 20.4)
+10 review
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 385
20.5 Wine Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
+20 task ("we all take a sip. The wine tastes rich and deep, almost like you can feel how old it is.")
No Lexile
+20 task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 405
10.4 PilgrimA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
10 pts 10.4 Pilgrim
5 pts 10.2 Scrabble Mill tiles: ALLITRM ILB Mill
5pts 10.7 Nonfiction
5 pts 10.8 Jetsetters California Wyoming Colorado
10 pts Not a Novel
10 pts Review
10 pts Oldies
This book is the letters of an Englishwoman who travelled alone on horseback during the Colorado winter. It is a facinating adventure story about a woman that doesn’t consider her adventures to be much out of the ordinary
The writing is beautifully descriptive of the people and landscape. Bird evokes the Colorado frontier and leaves the reader to wonder if they would have successfully managed the challenge.
Task total: 55 pts
Season total: 515 pts
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30.1
55 pts
20.3 ProlificL'Assommoir by Émile Zola
This was a reread for me in an entirely different translation. I'm glad the translator didn't try to make something out of the title. In Paris, a L'Assommoir was a dirty - almost a hole in the wall - type of place where drunks went to drink their fill, and which also had a still of its own, so that the proprietor could serve his own rotgut whiskey. It was not a nice place. Before I moved to Ketchikan, the law allowed bars to be open 24 hours. Then just before I moved here, the hours were changed to 8am-5am: 3 hours to clean the place. Without a still, some of them remained the epitome of a L'Assommoir. I never went into any of them, but heard enough stories that I could relate them to the "establishments" in this novel. The men (mostly) were there to get blind drunk and come back the next day to do it over again.
There is more story here than just drunkenness, but the awful effects of alcohol is the point. That doesn't mean it is a diatribe that could have been waged by the prohibitionists of a 100 and more years ago. It is a sad story of what can happen nonetheless.
I recently read a biography of Zola and learned what lengths he went to research the background and possible characters for his novels. Zola had spent months walking the streets in this poor Paris neighborhood, seeing the buildings, the shops, the people, the general activity. Zola did everything he could to put the reader in the picture to see this story "up close and personal."
The translation is excellent. My previous read was a Victorian translation by Ernest Vizetelly. I could see with this edition how much he was constrained by Victorian standards. The original outraged the critics and from the translator's comments one can get a sense of how this might have happened.
No translation, however faithful its rendering of the novel’s gutter slang and obscenities, could possibly recreate the impact of that language on the nineteenth-century reader. Today readers have become accustomed to slang and are no longer shocked by obscenity. It follows that much of the original power of L’Assommoir to command attention by its unorthodox and audacious language is lost forever—and lost, of course, not simply in translation but to readers of the original as well.The critics were outraged. There is a response from Zola who says he was only reflecting life as it is lived in this very poor Paris neighborhood. One line, rather late in the novel pretty much sums up the depiction Yes, yes, men and women were a foul lot, in this bit of Paris where people had to live all on top of one another because they were so wretchedly poor!
This novel made Zola's career. His prior novels sold, but not well and Zola had continued to work as a journalist in order to make ends meet. After L'Assommoir his publisher renegotiated the contract and Zola became a multi-millionaire. I rated this 5-stars with my first read - my first by Zola, by the way - and this reread and translation has done nothing to make me think I should give it fewer stars.
+20 Task (the series itself has 20 entries)
+10 Review
+15 Combo (10.4, 20.2, 20.5 - "Then one evening when they had a bit of cash, they sat down and drank a bowl of mulled wine to refresh themselves"
+10 Oldies (pub's 1876)
Task total = 55
Season total = 245
10.8 - JetsetterIn the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
+10 task (New York, Virginia, Vermont)
+5 Combo (10.2 - ITBMJSF - fits, jib, sit fist, mist)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 465
From Post 313Deedee wrote: "Task 20.6 Civil War
Read any work set at least 51% during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
This book is divided into 5 sections: 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865.
[book:Lincoln's Spies: Their S..."
+5 Combo 10.2
From Post 320Bryony wrote: "20.7 - P.I.
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
My review
The Cormoran Strike series is one of my favourite contemporary mystery series and this latest instalment ..."
+10 Review
From Post 323Tien wrote: "10.5 Monster Redux
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Review
This book is not on my TBR because I didn't think I'd like it much. However, it is ..."
+10 Combo 10.2, 10.9
From Post 324Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.7 P.I.
Battle Ground by Jim Butcher
This is more volume 2 of the previous book Peace Talks than a next book. It starts right where book #16 leaves off. And if you..."
+10 Review
Anika wrote: "Also, could I please move my book posted in message 64, The Glass Hotel, from 20.4 to 20.5, no change in points...Thank you!"
Done
From Post 340Norma wrote: "20.7 - PI
Flood by Andrew Vachss
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.10 - 1942)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 415"
+5 Oldies
+5 Combo 20.3
From Post 343Ed wrote: "30.1 Go for the Green
Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome And Principe: From Plantation Colony To Microstate by Tony Hodges
This book was a bit dry.... a mostly academic..."
+5 Combo 20.10
From Post 344Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.2 Scrabble
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skatersby Joan Ryan
LGIPBTMABOEGAFSJR
word-bite
Review
This book is a..."
+10 Not a Novel
+5 Oldies
From Post 345Tien wrote: "20.10 Another Birthday? (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) by Philip Pullman
930L
Review
One of my quirks is running far away from a..."
+5 Combo 10.6
+5 Oldies
10.6 BannedThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Task total: 10 pts
Season total: 525 pts
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15.1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..
30.1
20.3 ProlificFarhenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
20 pts 20.3 Prolific
5 pts 10.6 Banned
10 pts Review
5 pts Oldies
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. While I am fairly sure I read it years ago, I was surprised at how up to the minute it seemed. The plot revolves around society that does not look for anything other than short term entertainment. Surprisingly the modern reader probably finds that the evolution of society presented in the book is closer to reality than would have seemed possible in 1953. I was surprised to fin d that book burning is only the culmination of a long term societal decline, and while an important part of the plot, is not as central as the social changes that have occurred. Highly recommend
Task total: 40 pts
Season total: 565 pts
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15.1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..
30.1
20.3 ProlificOne Good Deed (Archer #1) by David Baldacci
Review
Once again, I picked this for a challenge because title fits a task. I thought I was familiar with David Baldacci and his crime/thriller novels but this... Well, I was caught by surprised by the time setting. It's not in present times! It's back in 1949 and the tone of the novel was very much noir, in the way of Dashiell Hammett et al. I was a little sceptical but was proven wrong. The characterisations, the way the investigation was carried on, the writing was just en pointe! And the end was so very tricky and I am now very much looking forward to the next instalment in this series.
+20 Task
+10 (10.2 - DOG; 20.5 -"They'd both tried the wine and didn't cotton to it. But when they tried it later, it tasted different" @45%)
+10 Review
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,025
PS: thanks for all those other missed combos, Kate!
Post 363 Karen Michele wrote: "20.8 Bedtime (Bryony's Task)Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.2 Scrabble! (DWESB BED) /10.8 Jetsetters / 20.3 Prolific / 20.6 Civil War
T..."
I don't find 20 titles with sufficient page length on Goodreads.
Post 360 Karen Michele wrote: "10.8 Jetsetters (Anika's Task)The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
+10 Task: Ireland, Netherlands, New York
+15 Combo: 10.2 Scrabble! (THIFJB BIT) / 20.3 Prol..."
John Boyne doesn't quite make 20 titles of sufficient length.
10.8 Jetsetters (Anika's Task)This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Visits many countries, including the UK, Peru, China, the US and more.
My review
I rarely read science fiction but I picked this book up to fulfil a prompt from another reading challenge. Perhaps my lack of familiarity with the genre explains my slightly confused response to this book. On the positive side, I thought the book was generally very well written, including at times some beautiful metaphors and turns of phrase. But, I couldn’t shake the feeling that maybe the authors were just trying to be too clever with the plot. It seemed like a fascinating main plot line, but the resolution felt over complicated in a way that I thought detracted from the overall story. It could be though that I’m just not familiar enough with this genre to easily follow a somewhat convoluted time travel plot, so perhaps the fault is with me rather than the authors.
+10 task
+10 review
+10 combo (10.2 - "wit") (20.5 - "She pulls it out, sits down, while Garden pours her a glass of red wine to match her own." [page 144])
Post total: 30
Season total: 240
Kate S wrote: "From Post 340Norma wrote: "20.7 - PI
Flood by Andrew Vachss
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.10 - 1942)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 415"
+5 Oldies
+5 Combo 20.3"
Thanks Kate for catching these.
20.3 - ProlificMorgan’s Woman: The Bounty Hunter Pursues An Innocent Woman by Judith E. French
+20 task
+5 Combo - 10.2 - MWTABHPAIWJEF - bath, faith, path, whip, white
+5 Combo - 10.4
+5 Combo - 10.8 - Colorado, Nebraska, Tennessee
+10 points missed post 340
Task total: 45
Grand total: 510
20.4 SimilarDear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Scrabble: DEAN Word: DEAN
Wine: pg 37 "Florida drank wine and shook her ass. . ."
"Dear Edward" is a compelling story about the need for human connection following a great loss. Edward Adler, his brother Jordan, and their parents were moving to California where their mother has a new job opportunity. They board a full plane in New York, but the plane crashes in Colorado with Edward as the lone survivor.
Twelve-year-old Edward is taken in by his aunt and uncle, but he is emotionally disconnected from everyone but Shay, the girl next door. Edward misses his family terribly, especially Jordan. The siblings were very close, and had spent most of their time together while they were home-schooled by their father. Edward has both physical and emotional damage. He also has to deal with being a survivor, the Miracle Boy.
Alternating chapters tell about the people and events in the plane before the crash. The other passengers are a fascinating group of people, all with interesting backstories. These chapters also provide emotional relief from the heartbreak that Edward faces after the crash. Later, Edward receives letters from some of the victims' families. They feel the need to connect with the last person to see their loved ones alive. They are all facing a great loss, and feeling very alone.
This was a wonderful book with characters the reader can care about. Although parts of the book are very sad, the moving story shows the healing power of love and a sense of hope for a better future.
+20 task
+15 combo 10.2 Scrabble; 10.8 Jet Setter (NY, NJ, CA, CO); 20.5 Wine
+10 review
Task total: 45
Season total: 505
Task 10.1 Short WorksYou may create your own collection/anthology. Your collection will be the usual RwS 100 page minimum and include at least 3 stories where no story is more than 50 pages.
This task can be completed only once.
You cannot claim combos for this task nor may it be used for combo.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2020 (F&SF, #750) (2020) edited by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 258 pages)
I read The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2020. In addition to non-fiction columns, cartoons, and a poem, there were short stories and novelettes, specifically:
216 pages total
Short Stories (108 pages total):
Knock, Knock said the ship by Rati Mehrotra (17 pages)
Last Night at the Fair by M. Rickert (7 pages)
Bible Stories for Adults No. 37: The Jawbone by James Morrow (17 pages)
Madre Nuestra, Que Estas En Maracaibo by Ana Hurtado (10 pages)
A bridge from Sea to Sky by Bennett North (16 pages)
Crawfather by Mel Kassel (11 pages)
The Staircase by Stephanie Feldman (12 pages)
The Shape of Gifts by Natalia Theodoridou (18 pages)
Novelettes (108 pages total):
Spirit Level by John Kessel (26 pages)
All Hail the Pizza King and Bless His Reign Eternal by David Erik Nelson (33 pages)
’Omunculus by Madeleine Robins (23 pages)
The Monsters of Olympus Mons by Brian Trent (26 pages)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 315 + 10 = 325
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 360 Karen Michele wrote: "10.8 Jetsetters (Anika's Task)The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
+10 Task: Ireland, Netherlands, New York
+15 Combo: 10.2 Scr..."
We checked John Boyne in the prolific thread messages 12, 13, 14 and 15 and he was approved.
20.3 ProlificA Stranger In My Grave by Margaret Millar
This is a story about a woman who dreamed about being in a cemetery and seeing a tombstone with her name on it, complete with her date of birth and a date of death four years earlier. She became very disturbed about it and hired a private investigator to recreate what had happened on that date. Her husband, mother, and other acquaintances were very opposed to her investigations, and eventually we learn why.
The plot was rather convoluted, and even worse there were no likeable characters. I can enjoy a story with unlikeable characters if at least some of them are interesting, but none were. Still Millar's writing was good, but it was a relief to get this one finished. Barely 3 stars.
Scrabble tiles: ASIMGMM word: MAIM
Wine quote: "I was drinking. I bought a bottle of wine because it was a cold night."
+20 task
+10 review
+15 combo (10.2, 20.5, 20.7-PI Steve Pinata)
+ 5 oldies (1960)
Task total=50
Season total=585
10.9 Autumn LeavesRed at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Beautiful and powerful story of a family. The story starts at the coming-of-age party of sixteen-year-old Melody, but traces her parents and grandparents stories as well. The narrative shifts through time and perspective frequently. The multiple readers for the audiobook really brought these stories to life and made it possible to follow the different time periods and narratives in audio format. I loved learning the ways that the family's history continued through generations, leaving marks on the future both explicit and implicit. Woodson is a gifted writer--her characters are vivid, her moments in time both poignant and ordinary, and the prose is a pleasure to read. I want to read more by this author.
+10 Task (red)
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.2 - RATBJW - Brat)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 515
20.9 InitiatedOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
How did I not read this when it came out? I so much want to go back and push this book into the hands of my fourteen-year-old self. I would have adored this book then--around the time I also adored The Clan of the Cave Bear. Lots of sexy parts, a female character able to do lots of cool stuff, a dashing male lead--everything I wanted from a book at that time.
As a more mature reader, I still quite enjoyed this relatively witty romp through 1700s Scotland. The plot is far-fetched and silly at times, but enjoyable enough that I didn't mind. It almost felt like the author was including the reader in an in-joke--yes this is silly, but isn't it fun. In some ways, this reminds me of Connie Willis--another author who manages quite far-fetched but fun time travel.
The narrator for these books is one of my favorite narrators and she does a fantastic job bringing this story to life. It isn't easy to read sex scenes in a way that doesn't feel cringe-y, but Porter manages quite well. I'd definitely listen to more of these if Porter reads the rest of the series. I'll be quite disappointed if they changed narrators.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+15 Jumbo (850pp)
+5 Oldies (1991)
+10 Combo (10.2 - DOG, 10.3)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 575
Karen Michele wrote: "We checked John Boyne in the prolific thread messages 12, 13, 14 and 15 and he was approved."OK. You'd think I would have had sense enough to add him to the list, then wouldn't you? :-)
15.2 Power of 9.2018
Educated by Tara Westover
Task total: 15 pts
Season total: 580 pts
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
+15 task (1936)
Task total = 15
Season total = 1065