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20.2 Anti heroBetter off Dead by Lee Child
20 pts 20.2 Antihero
5 pts Halloween
5 pts 10.3 Back to School
5 pts 10.6 Birthday
5 pts 10.7 Service Reacher was an MP
5 pts 20.5 Boomer
5 pts 20.9 Anniversary “Not even the food distracted him. Or the drink. It was obscene. The most expensive stuff you can imagine. Caviar—Kolikof albino. Ham—Jamón Ibérico. Cheese—pule. Champagne—Boërl & Kroff. Brandy—Lecompte Secret.” P. 51
10 pts Review
Once more Reacher manages to walkinto trouble on his wanderings thru the US. This installment is better than some of the more recent Reacher books. The plot is fairly good but at the end of the day, the plot is just an excuse for Reacher to wreak havoc on bad guy after bad guy. They never seem to learn and just keep coming at him. Just suspend reality and wait to see how and why the justice is served in a very unorthodox manner. The female characters seemto be an afterthought and are needed to create the situation that Reacher finds himself in, bit they do seem to be. More marginal to the plot than in some earlier books
Total task: 60 pts
Total Season: 840 pts.
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15.9 Counting on AuthorsRound 3
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
+15 Task (18 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,945
15.6 Counting on Authors Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
lexile 870
15 task
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15
Running total: 685
Task 10.1 TBRRead a book you have had on your TBR for more than a year. This task may only be used once and cannot be used for combo.
Added to my TBR: April 29, 2012
If Morning Ever Comes (1964) by Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 266 pages)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 525 + 10 = 535
10.5 ClassicsThe Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
This short novel opens with the funeral of Ivan Ilyich, a respected member of the Russian legal profession who has died (apparently of cancer) in his forties. We then move back to trace his life and especially the time from when he first begins to feel unwell, through the growing pain, to the suspicion and then knowledge that his illness is terminal, and the range of thoughts and emotions that go with that.
Ivan Ilyich is not alone in believing that life “owes” him a certain number of years on earth and feeling angry and cheated when it becomes clear that he will not get his full ration. I was surprised, though, to find this attitude was current at a time when so many people died of disease at all ages. I’d thought it was a product of our era of effective healthcare – but no!
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.2, 10.6, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 Review
+10 1001 list
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 1230
10.10 Group ReadA Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Violet Speedwell is trying to build an independent life for herself in Winchester in the 1930s, having moved the 13 miles away from her domineering mother in Southampton. She drifts into the cathedral where she meets and then joins a group of women embroidering kneelers and other cushions for the pews, which begins to give her a social network.
I did enjoy this, but I didn't love it because of the long sections of tourist information thinly veiled as dialogue, and because I found it hard to warm to a character who uses the opposite sex in the way Violet does. I found Gilda and Dorothy's story more interesting.
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.5)
+10 Review
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1255
20.9 AnniversaryNormal People by Sally Rooney
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same Sligo town and drift into a relationship that keeps its hooks in them for many years afterwards. Marianne is a very damaged character. Connell seems less so at first but later... (view spoiler)
I listened to the audio, which was great except for the part involving a Swedish character, when the Swedish accent was so bad that what should have been a painful scene just seemed hilarious.
I wouldn't say I enjoyed this exactly, because I found it so depressing, but I appreciated it. I thought the first parts, when they're at school, were the best.
Champagne: "Jamie turns his empty one upside down and says, Do we not have proper champagne glasses? - These are champagne glasses, says Peggy."
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.6)
+10 Review
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1290
10.5 ClassicsThe Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
I wanted to read something in German again (for the first time in more than a decade) so I went with this -- it's short-ish and I studied it in college so had familiarity. The reading experience was great! I did need a dictionary by my side but was pleasantly surprised that I still have a good handle on the complexities of German grammar.
As far as the play itself, I was not so charmed by it as I remember being in college. The message is a socialist one - that land and resources should belong to those who care for them so that they are useful to society at large. This time around I found this happy framing a little too simplistic.
In the chalk-circle parable, Gruscha is obviously a great mother and Natella is beyond terrible and obviously doesn't care about her child, only about her property/inheritance claims. In life, though, the situation is rarely this obvious. And I'm not sure that parenthood and love and such equivalent analogies to caring for/putting to good use the environment. Unlike a child, a forest or river thrive perfectly well when left alone by humans.
That said, Brecht is a fantastic writer and shows us his characters with both heart and humor. It makes for enjoyable reading.
+10 Task (103 shelvings)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.7 Simon Shashava is a soldier - see Scene One description on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cau...)
Post total: 35
Season total: 700
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10.1 - 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 - 10.9 10.10
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15.5 CoA, 13 lettersMaid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
Season total: 555
15.10 CoA, 20+ lettersWhen Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
Season total: 575
10.2 HalloweenThe Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
Well researched and well written, this book not only talks about the precarious state of politics in the US right now but tackles basic human psychology and how it is being used to destroy the idea of "truth": "[a] report called this Putin model of propaganda 'the firehose of falsehood'--an unremitting, high-intensity stream of lies, partial truths, and complete fictions spewed forth with tireless aggression to obfuscate the truth and overwhelm and confuse anyone trying to pay attention." It was both disheartening and eye-opening...and I know that I have been a victim of that firehose: I'm utterly exhausted by trying to fight the lies and insanity and feel like my hands are tied and just want to hide in my shell. If you're in the market for a political book, this one was a quick and interesting read.
+10 Task, "Death"
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Review
Task total: 30
Season total: 605
10.8 MediterraneanThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
I remember watching this movie over and over with my Mom when it first came out on VHS. It was on perennial rotation with A Room with a View and Truly, Madly, Deeply...all very British, very lovely, absolutely delightful.
I felt that same delight in reading the story. It was an added pleasure to hear internal dialogue of the characters that you miss in the movie (though the movie was rather loyal to the book in every meaningful way).
Two married women, a widow, and a single socialite find each other through a London paper's classified ads. This unlikely group rent a castle in Portofino. Once under the Italian sun, these tight buds all begin to blossom in different ways.
It's funny, it's heartwarming, and it was a pleasant distraction.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo: 10.5--shelved as "Classics" by 766 users
Task total: 25
Season total: 630
10.10 Group ReadsBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In sharp contrast to the political/horror/underwhelming books I've been reading lately, this book had a glorious peace to it. Yes, it discussed the way that humans are effecting the planet in disastrous ways. Yes, it touched upon the decimation of a people at the hands of a greedy and grasping oppressor.
But it mostly focused on the wisdom of nature, the way that the Earth provides for all of our needs, and ways that we can more harmoniously fit into this world. I needed the kindness of this book and the reminder that life is a cycle...
We had to put down our cat, Simon, a few weeks ago and it is one of the hardest things I've ever gone through...I haven't been able to pick up my computer to post on here because he would always come running when he'd hear my typing and crawl up into my lap...this hurts so much to know he won't come running ever again. I don't know how to explain why, but this book was a balm to my soul in this difficult time and I can't wait to get my own copy to revisit again and again.
+10 Task (thank you, Karen Michele, for the fantastic recommendation)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Review
+25 Combo: 10.3; 10.4; 20.3--4.56 average rating; 20.5--b. 1953; 20.6--Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award (2013), Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for Nonfiction (2015)
Task total: 55
Season total: 685
20.7 ExophonicWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
This is my first (and last) time reading this play.
I hated it.
I know that there's got to be more going on below the surface. I know there's an awful lot of Symbolism, but I wasn't invested enough to care.
I read the play, listened to an audio recording of it, and watched a production of the play. The only thing I learned from all of it was that it's pronounced "GOD-dough" rather than "ga-DOUGH" (which is how I'd always heard it)...
Maybe I'm just in a bad place and my mind isn't open/inquisitive enough to delve into the Meaning behind the written, but it was not for me.
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Review
Task total: 40
Season total: 725
20.8 GothicHeart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
This is the first book I've read by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. I was curious how their writing compared and now I have my answer: it doesn't.
King's books (the one's I've read, at least) have bordered on Literature. Hill's are all story and little style. But that story did not disappoint. There were thrills and chills aplenty!
Judas Coyne is a 50-something (former) rock star in the vein of Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper whose band has all died, whose estranged father is on his deathbed, who is a devoted owner of two German Shepherds, and who cycles through girlfriends so quickly that he can't be bothered to call them by name and only calls them by the state they come from. He has made his career and fortune by tapping into the darkness and carefully cultivates that image. When he hears of an auction for a suit with a ghost attached to it, he buys it instantly as nothing more than a whim/joke.
Unluckily for him, the ghost is real. It is malevolent and it is out to get Judas in a very real way.
It was a great ghost story and was perfect for the Halloween season.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+15 Combo: 20.4, 20.6: Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel (2007), Locus Award for Best First Novel (2008), ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel (2008); 20.10: his music and rock star career are pivotal to the story, shelved as "mystery" more than 200 times
Task total: 45
Season total: 770
20.9 AnniversaryA Day Like This by Kelley McNeil
Annie Beyers has an amazing life: a loving husband, an idyllic home in upstate New York, a beautiful five-year-old daughter. Late one Friday afternoon, Annie realizes Hannah's fever has gotten pretty high and her ears are hurting her so she needs to be rushed to the pediatrician before they close for the weekend. On the way in the inclement weather, Annie's car is struck by a truck. She wakes up in the hospital and immediately asks about Hannah...but no one knows who Hannah is. The home she remembered is no longer hers, she and her husband are estranged, she has a career she had always dreamed about...but she doesn't have a daughter.
It was compelling to try to figure out what in the world was going on and I was worried it was going to be ridiculous but it ended well and every question was answered without being *too* tidy. It wasn't exceptional--not the writing or the story and the characters were kinda vanilla--but the story was engaging enough that I didn't resent it. 2.75 stars, rounded up.
+20 Task: "'Here,' she said, walking across the room with a glass of champagne. 'It's a little early in the day...' But I was already taking a sip, letting the bubbling liquid fill my mouth."
+10 Review
+10 Combo: 20.3--4.3 average stars; 20.4
Task total: 40
Season total: 810
20.10 Musical MysteriesThe Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
I *loooooved* Station Eleven and merely *loved* The Glass Hotel so was excited to read one of her earlier books.
Sadly, it wasn't nearly as good.
The four members of the high school Lola Quartet have all gone their own way after graduation. Gavin goes to Columbia to become a journalist--only to lose his job and end up back in Florida since he has nowhere else to go. Daniel disappears shortly after the quartet's final performance but soon returns to Florida and becomes a cop. Jack, the musical wunderkind, ends up in North Carolina for music school--but can't quite hack it and has to leave. Sasha had the smarts to leave their small town, but ended up stuck there as a waitress in a greasy spoon. All of these characters are connected by Anna, a lover of music who is dating Gavin (and Daniel), friend of Jack, and half-sister of Sasha, disappears before the end of the school year, leaving rumors of a pregnancy and miscarriage in her wake.
None of the characters is particularly likable. The story bounced all over the place--in time and location--which worked for the unfolding of the story, but made it hard to connect to any of the people involved. The story required far too much suspension of disbelief for a book of realistic fiction. Didn't love :-(
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo 20.4
Task total: 35
Season total: 845
15.6 CoA, 14 lettersBloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
Season total: 865
20.3 RatingsUnder a Dark Moon by Stella Riley
+20 task ratings 4.38
+5 Combo 20.5 born 1950
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1230
10.3 Back to SchoolEcho by Jack McDevitt
+10 task as per Goodreads profile
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1240
15.4 Counting on AuthorsThe Battle Ground by Ellen Glasgow
+ 15 Task
+ 50 All women
+ 50 All before 1996
+100 COA Finish
Task total = 215
Season total = 665
And with this, I've completed my 20th Century women's challenge. No bonus points, but a glow in my heart. ;-)
10.8 MediterraneanA Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac
+10 task set in France
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1250
15.9 Counting on authorsTubal Cain by Joseph Hergesheimer
+15 Task (18 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1265
15.5 CoA 13 lettersA Family Romance by Anita Brookner
(Also published with the title Dolly)
Task Total - 15 pts
15.1 Counting on AuthorsRound 3
The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper
+15 Task (9 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,960
20.7 - exophonicKlara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
+20 task
+10 combo (10.6 - 11/8/54, 20.5)
Task total: 30
Season total: 530
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20.3 RatingsThe End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
20 pts 20.3 Ratings
5 pts 10.3 Back to School
5 pts 10.5 Classics
10 pts Review
Incredibly creative book. Asimov creates a world where there is a fixed reality in time and an “eternal” timeline in which people can time travel and affect the “real” timeline. An entire approach to civilization is developed in the eternal timeline with processes and ethics created to manage the interaction of the two parallel worlds. Technician Harlan begins to blur those lines and the course if history starts to be affected as the result of his actions. The consequences of Harlan’s actions are unexpected and thought provoking.
This is a five star book even if you are not a science fiction fan.
Total task: 40 pts
Total Season: 880 pts.
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15.3 11 LettersA Nile Journal by Emily Hornby
15 pts 15.3 11 Letters
5 pts Not a Novel
Female Author
Pre 1996
Total task: 20 pts
Total Season: 900 pts.
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15.8 16-17 LettersMillie, M.D.: The Story of a Nineteenth Century Woman, 1846-1927 by Helen Dann Stringer
15 pts 15.8 16-17 Letters
5 pts Not a Novel
Female Author
Pre 1996
Total task: 20 pts
Total Season: 920 pts.
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20.1 20.2 20.3 …20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 20.10
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10.4 Truth and Reconciliation Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
10 pts 10.4 Truth and Reconciliation
5 pts 20.9 Anniversary p 254 Hannay distributed champagne with the mock solemnity of a Mass.
10 pts Review
Mystery story set in the mining country of northern England. This is an interesting mix of the life and society of a mining town, the practicalities and dangers of 19th century mining, and colonial history of Great Britain. The overarching story is a missing person mystery that is ultimately solved but turns out to be relatively unimportant to the narrative. Just when you think the mystery will be resolved another twist in the plot occurs. Very different from the Arkady Renko series and worth a read
Task total: 25 pts
Total Season: 945 pts
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10.5 ClassicsDiary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
10 pts 10.5 Classics
5 pts Oxford Lady
5 pts 20.1 Serial
5 pts 20.9 Anniversary p120 Melancholy engendered by the whole of this conversation is ed by a glass of champagne
10 pts Review
Loosely novelized description of the author’s life using a diary structure. While it is well written, the story is generally uninteresting. There are a series of complaints about a tight budget, annoying neighbors and acquaintances, and children who get sick or show up at inconvenient times. All in all, while intended to be a collection of amusing anecdotes, this book just seems to be a bit tedious with no new insights on the time or social class the author lives in. Not a bad read, but really not good either
Task total: 35 pts
Total Season: 980pts
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20.1 20.2 20.3 …20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 20.10
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10.9 OxfordThe House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell
10 pts 10.9 Oxford. House
5 pts 10.7 Service George Hillingdon is in the British military
5 pts 20.9 Anniversary p 60 Elf downed his champagne with a pained expression
10 pts Review
Task total: 30 pts
Total Season: 1110 pts
Set largely in London in the 1890s, two mysteries intertwine and (as expected) turn out to be distinct elements of the same crime. The “detectives” are Olivia Hillingdon who moves in upper class social circles but doesn’t quite belong and Gdeon Bliss a poor university student. They come up against influential people who do not want them to solve the mystery. The crimes are macabre and there is a sense of a gothic story throughout. This is a new author for me and I will be looking for additional books from him.
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 ... 10.7 ... 10.9 ...
20.1 20.2 20.3 …20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 ... 15.3 ... ... ... ... 15.8 ... 15.10
10.10Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
+10 task
+20 combo (10.4, 20.3 - 4.24 rating, 20.4, 20.6 - ALA Alex, Ignyte)
Task total: 30
Season total: 560
10.1;10.2;10.3;10.4(x2);10.5;..;10.7;..;..;10.10
..;15.2;..;..;15.5;15.6;15.7;15.8;15.9;15.10
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15.4 CoA, 12 lettersAnne of Manhattan by Brina Starler
+15 Task
+50 All Female Authors
+100 CoA Finish
Task total: 165
Season total: 1030
15.7 Counting on authorsThe Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman
+15 Task (15 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1280
15.10 Counting on AuthorsHench by Natalie Zina Walschots
+15 Task (20 letters)
Post Total: 15
Finishing bonus 100
Mega Finish: 200
Season Total: 1595
20.1 SeriallyThe Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
"Do you like detective stories? I do. I read them all, and I've got autographs from Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie and Dickson Carr and H.C. Bailey."
How much do I love that one of the characters in this book has the author's autograph!?
I absolutely adored the first half of this one--the not-so-subtle humor, the great characters, Miss Marple (this is my first Marple mystery and it won't be my last). As with most of the Christie I've read, I felt like the end was abrupt and wrapped up a little too tidily but I enjoyed the ride.
The Bantrys wake to news that there is a dead body in their library. No one knows who she is or how she got there. First call goes to the local authorities; second call goes straight to Miss Marple, the local spinster who solves crimes based on her years of observing human nature. Several twists, turns, and cups of tea later, she divulges the who/what/why of the matter. Need to go back and read the first Marple mystery now!
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo: 10.5--shelved as "Classics" 582 times
Task total: 35
Season total: 1065
20.3 RatingsWes in Town - Un Tournage à Angoulème
+20 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Season total = 375
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15.7 - Counting on AuthorsLes enfants sont rois by Delphine de Vigan
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 390
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Coralie wrote: "15.10 Counting on AuthorsHench by Natalie Zina Walschots
+15 Task (20 letters)
Post Total: 15
Finishing bonus 100
Mega Finish: 200
Season Total: 1595"
Well done on the Mega, Coralie!
15.4 12 Letters CoAWest with the Night by Beryl Markham
15 pts 15.4 CoA
5 pts not a novel
Female
Pre 1996
Task total: 20 pts
Total Season: 1130 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 ... 10.7 ... 10.9 ...
20.1 20.2 20.3 …20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 ... 15.3 15.4 ... ... ... 15.8 ... 15.10
15.7 15 Letters CoAThe Member of the Wedding: The Play by Carson McCullers
15 pts 15.7 CoA
5 pts not a novel
Female
Pre 1996
Task total: 20 pts
Total Season: 1150 pts
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20.1 20.2 20.3 …20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 ... 15.3 15.4 ... ... 15.7 15.8 ... 15.10
20.7 ExophonicThe Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays by Chinua Achebe
I found this collection a bit hit and miss. Some essays read like the speeches they originally were and others felt quickly tacked on to round out the collection.
But I did enjoy many of the essays -- especially "What Is Nigeria to Me?" "Africa's Tarnished Name" "Teaching Things Fall Apart" and "Africa is People."
Throughout, Achebe never shies away from discussing Europe's and the U.S.'s grievous wrongs of colonization, slavery, racism, and dehumanization of African people over centuries. Achebe expresses anger, disgust and frustration. He describes the unbelievable amount of work humanity has to do to resolve and make up for these awful mistakes. His skill as a writer is clear, because he also maintains a lightness of tone, a hopefulness, throughout the collection. His preference for joy is clear and contagious.
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Review
+10 Combo (10.3 see bio on GR; 10.6 born Nov 1930)
Post total: 50
Season total: 750
Claimed to date:
10.1 - 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 - 10.9 10.10
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10.4 Truth and ReconciliationThe Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Treuer’s book of the American Indian—history, memoir, reportage.
There is a very brief summing up of Indian American history from pre-history up to the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Then Treuer looks at what has happened since with some of his family's experiences and interviews of others woven in. This is what I wanted. I have heard of allocation, relocation, termination and sovereignty as well as AIM but I did not understand what they were about or the time line order. Treuer explains and leaves us with hope that Indians are finding strength in their culture and modern resilience.
+10 task
+10 combo 10.3, 20.3
+10 NAN
+10 review
+5 jumbo
Task total: 45
Season total: 495
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Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
+15 Task (20 letters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,930