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10.2 - Short A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
❄️ 147 pages ❄️
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo [10.6 - time]
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 120
15.4 Christmas in Vegas 10A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
V-W-X-Y-Z, 261-300/661-700, 1993-2007
30 task
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30
Running total: 300
10.4 VocationParnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
10 pts 10.4 Vocation
5 Points NYE HOUR
Task total. 15 pts
Total Season: 220 pts
… … 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … … … 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 … … … … … … …
Task 10.8 Singles Read a book with a one-word title (no subtitles) or a book whose author has just one name (for example Homer, Stendhal, Colette, Saki).
Renegades: Born in the USA (2021) by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen (Hardcover, 320 pages) [973.932]
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 95 + 10 = 105
20.4 Day of the JackalThe Mandarin Code (Harry Dunkley #2) by Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - Approx. 85+% set in Australia; 10.6 - time found in ThE MandarIn code)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 365
20.1 Maid in WaitingThe Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie
+20 Task #3 in the Age of Madness trilogy
+5 Combo 10.6 – time
+5 Jumbo 520 pages
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 325
20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
author's initials, MR, found in quMRan
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 - science fiction & cultural; 20.4)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 395
POst 205 Deedee wrote: "Task 10.8 Singles Read a book with a one-word title (no subtitles) or a book whose author has just one name (for example Homer, Stendhal, Colette, Saki).
[book:Renegades: Born in the USA|58542840..."
Deedee, this title has a subtitle and so doesn't work for Singles. Have you used your List ask yet?
10.1 - List LoversList Used: Best Books of 2020
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
+10 Task
+15 Combo [10.4; 10.6 - time; 20.8]
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 145
20.4 - Day of the JackalIndefensible by Pamela Callow
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.7 - Mys, Cul; 10.8)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 230
20.8 - Dead SeaWhispers from the Dead by Karen Ann Hopkins
+20 task - KH
+10 Combo (10.6 - time; 20.4)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 260
Oops, misread the task concerning “no sub-titles”. I haven’t used List yet but am still considering options for it.Anyways, here’s my next book claimed:
Task 15.2
{G-H} {141-180/541-580} {1963-1977}
The Firedrake (1966) by Cecelia Holland (Paperback, 176 pages)
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 95 + 20 = 115
10.2 ShortThe Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
+10 Task (112 pages MPE; approved in thread)
+ 5 Combo 10.6 (time)
+10 Aged 1852-1933
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 25
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomDublin 4 by Maeve Binchy
+20 Task (2,591 ratings; published 1982)
+10 Combo: 20.8 MB, 10.3 (Ireland)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 55
20.4 Day of the Jackal Murder at the Queen's Old Castle by Cora Harrison
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.7 (mystery+historical), 10.3 (Ireland), 10.6 (second, hour)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 90
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomThe Willows at Christmas by William Horwood
+20 Task (195 ratings; published 1999)
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 (watch, time)
+ 10 Aged (1944 - present)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 125
10.8 Singles Rosemary's TaskCashelmara by Susan Howatch
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.7 (historical + cultural), 10.3 (Ireland)
+10 Aged (1940 - present)
+10 jumbo (720 pages MPE)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 165
20.6 Hidden FiguresAtlantis: Three Tales by Samuel R. Delany
+20 task (2021 Lifetime Achievement winner)
+10 combo (10.7-Science Fiction/Historical, 20.2)
+10 aged (1942–living)
Task total=40
Season total=340
20.2 Keys to the KingdomThe Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
20 pts 20.2 Keys of the Kingdom
5 pts 10.4 Vocation
5 pts 10.7 HISTORICAL MYSTERY
Task total. 30 pts
Total Season: 250 pts
… … 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … … … 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 … … … … … … …
20.7 John AdamsThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe pub. 1774
+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.2-149 pgs, 10.6 - Hour, 20.9)
+10 pts - Aged (1749-1832)
+10 pts - LiT (German)
+10 pts - Canon
Task Total - 65 pts
Season Total - 65 pts
10.2 ShortThe Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
+10 task
+5 combo 10.7 (cultural, historical)
Task total: 15
Season total: 210
10.2 ShortPortuguese Irregular Verbs. Alexander McCall Smith 128 pages
+10 task
+10 combo (10.7- cultural/mystery, 20.8 AM)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 180
10.2;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9
20.1;20.7;
15.2 Christmas in VegasSilver Borneby Patricia Briggs
Last name-B, page count-342pp, year published 2010
Task +15
Grand Total: 30
20.9 Madame BovaryMrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill
+20 task
Post total: 20
Season total: 100
20.4 Day of the JackalThe Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.6 – time
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 350
20.1 Maid in WaitingClean Sweep (Innkeeper Chronicles #1) by Ilona Andrews
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 - author's initials, IA, found in khIrbAt)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 420
10.3 LocationThe Silent Country by Di Morrissey
95% in Australia
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 - hour found in tHe silent cOUntRy)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 445
From Post 158Heather wrote: "10.2 The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous - 120pg.
+10 task
+10 LiT
+10 Canon
Task total: 30
Season total: 120
… ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.7 ; ... ; … ; …
… ; … ..."
+5 Ccombo 10.8
From Post 166Coralie wrote: "10.7 Genre-Rich
Callander Square by Anne Perry
+10 Task
+10 Aged
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 260"
+5 Combo 20.2
From Post 192Bea wrote: "10.8 Singles
Toxin by Robin Cook
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 50"
+10 Aged
From Post 195Karen Michele wrote: "10.5 Zane
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
+10 Task
+10 Aged
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 305"
+5 Combo 20.2
From Post 199Sue wrote: "20.5 Wheels
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
+10 Task
+10 Canon ( C. Democratic Age, Great Britain)
Post total: 20
Season total: 70"
+5 Jumbo
+5 Combo 10.6
Task 10.5 ZaneList of Western Writers
Glendon Swarthout
The Old Colts (1985) by Glendon Swarthout (Paperback, 239 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2 (5k or fewer ratings and published (1901-2000)))
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 115 + 15 = 130
Kate S wrote: "From Post 192Bea wrote: "10.8 Singles
Toxin by Robin Cook
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 50"
+10 Aged"
Oh, goodness. Thanks for the extra points, Kate. I was sure that I checked; but, since I did not add this book to my spreadsheet when I posted, I missed accounting for this. Again, thanks.
20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)Maigret by Georges Simenon
+20 Task
+30 Combo: 10.2, 10.6 (time), 10.7 cultural+mystery, 10.8, 20.2, 20.4
+10 Aged
+10 LiT
Task Total: 70
Season Total: 235
10.9 DiscoveryTaste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America Mayukh Sen by Mayukh Sen
+10 task at the intersection of a number of interests—food, immigrants, feminism
+5 combo 10.6 time
Task total: 15
Season total: 225
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomThe Commandant by Jessica Anderson
pub. 1975 | 98 ratings
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - 100% Australia; 10.7 - historical & cultural)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 485
20.4 Day of the JackalUnforgiven by Sarah Barrie
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - 100% Australia; 10.8)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 515
15.8 CiVP-Q-R, 221-260/621-660, 1903-1917
The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. Reeve
+65 Task
Season total = 390
** 1910 mystery short stories
10.10 - Group ReadsBewilderment by Richard Powers
❄️ Kathleen (itpdx)'s choice ❄️
+10 Task
+10 Combo [10.6 - time; 10.8]
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 165
I'd like to move a book from 10.5 Zane to 20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
+20 Task
+. 5 Combo: 10.5 Zane
+10 Aged
Change in Points: +10
Season Total: 320
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+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 – historical & cultural
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 295