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15.4 CiV 10Snow by Orhan Pamuk
+30 Task P-Q-R, 461-500/861-900, 1993-2007
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 430
10.5 ZaneThe Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
+10 Task
+. 5 Combo: 10.6 NYE Countdown (Time)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 445
From Post 201Coralie wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 – historical & cultural
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 295"
+10 Aged
From Post 206Tien wrote: "20.4 Day of the Jackal
The Mandarin Code (Harry Dunkley #2) by Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - Approx. 85+% set in Austral..."
+5 Combo 10.7
From Post 212Norma wrote: "20.4 - Day of the Jackal
Indefensible by Pamela Callow
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.7 - Mys, Cul; 10.8)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 230"
+5 Jumbo (mpe is 502 p)
From Post 229Sue wrote: "20.9 Madame Bovary
Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill
+20 task
Post total: 20
Season total: 100"
+10 Aged
+5 Combo 10.6
From Post 249Valerie wrote: "10.4 Vocation
Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
10 task
5 combo 10.6
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15
Running total: 335"
+5 Combo 20.8
Karen Michele wrote: "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..."
done
15.9 CiVG-H, 301-340/701/740, 1963-1977
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
+75 Task
Season total = 505
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomThe Lost Traveller by Antonia White
+20 Task
+10 Aged
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 275
10.6 NYE CountdownUn travail comme un autre by Alex W. Inker
Minute: Un t rava i l com me un autre
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 150
… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; … ; …
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomAt the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers by Goran Petrović
1433 ratings, published 2000
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 - watch: At th e Lu c ky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Dr aw ers)
+10 Lost in translation (written in serbian, french is my native language)
Task total = 35
Season total = 185
… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; … ; …
10.1 ListWe Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories by Luís Bernardo Honwana
10 pts 10.1 List. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinema...
5 pts 10.2 Short
5 pts 10.6 NYE TIME
5 pts 20.2 Keys to the Kingdom
10 pts Lost in Translation
10 pts Aged
Task total. 45 pts
Total Season: 370 pts
10.1 … … 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 … … … … … … …
15.3. CIV10A House in the Uplands by Erskine Caldwell
25 pts 15.3 CIV10
C-D 181-220/581-620 1933-1947
Task total. 25 pts
Total Season: 395 pts
10.1 … … 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 … … … … … …
20.8 - Madame BkovaryThe Adams File by Diana Xarissa
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.6 - time)
+5 missed jumbo points on post 212
Task total: 30
Grand total: 310
10.6 - NYE CountdownRevenge of the Syndicate by Natalie Nicole
+10 task - second
Task total: 10
Grand total: 320
20.4 - Day of the JackalIn Firm Pursuit by Pamela Samuels Young
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 340
15.6 Christmas in Vegas 10The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
G-H, 221-260/621-660, 1873-1887
45 task
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45
Running total: 445
15.5 CiV 10The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle #1) by Agatha Christie
+35 Task C-D, 381-420/781-820, and 1918-1932
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 800
20.2 Keys to the KingdomThe Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
Published 1962, 4843 ratings
+20 task
+10 aged (86 years; 1913-1999)
Task total: 30
Season total: 190
10.2 ShortLa jeune femme et la mer by Catherine Meurisse
116 pages
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 195
… ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; … ; …
10.8 Singles La boîte de petits pois by GiedRé
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 205
… ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; … ; …
20.5Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
+20 task
+25 combo (10.7, mystery, historical; 10.10, 20.3, 20.4; 20.7)
+10 Aged
Task total = 55
Season total = 80
20.1 Maid in WaitingChaos Vector by Megan E. O'Keefe
+20 Task (according to the back cover this is part of a trilogy)
+5 Jumbo 516 pages
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 555
10.3 Location (Ireland)The Guest List by Lucy Foley
+10 Task
+5 Combo (Thriller 20.4 Day of the Jackal)
Post total: 15
Season Total: 145
20.4 Day of the Jackal (Thriller)The Left-Handed Twin by Thomas Perry
+20 task
+10 Aged ( Perry 1947)
Post total: 30
Season Total: 175
20.8 Dead SeaWhat Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.6 - time
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 580
10.2 ShortThe Chimes by Charles Dickens
+10 task
+ 5 combo NYE Countdown (time)
Task total: 15
Season total: 205
10.3 LocationThe Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
10 pts 10.3 Location set in Ireland
5 pts 10.4 Vocation
Task total. 15 pts
Total Season: 410 pts
10.1 … 10.3 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 … … … … … …
20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Read any book by one of these pulp fiction authors.
The Roman Hat Mystery. Ellery Queen
+20 task
+20 combo (10.6-Time, 10.7- historical, mystery, 20.2 - 2,513 pub. 1929, 20.4)
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 270
10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9
20.1;20.7;20.9;20.10
10.4 VocationIn the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians by Michael Cart
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.6-HOUR)
+10 aged (1941–living)
Task total=25
Season total=475
20.5 WheelsThree Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot #12) by Agatha Christie
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 - thriller)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 835
20.1 Maid in WaitingThe Warden by Anthony Trollope
+20 Task (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1)
+10 Combo: 20.5, 20.8 (AT)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 275
15.6 CiV 10Westwood by Stella Gibbons
+45 Task G-H, 461-500/861-900, and 1933-1947
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 880
10.5 ZaneThe Iron Marshal by Louis L'Amour
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - time found in ThE Iron Marhsal; 20.2 - pub. 1979 | 2,516 rating)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 910
20.1 Maid in WaitingDishonoured Bones by John Trench
+20 Task (approved in help thread)
+10 Combo (10.6 Hour, 20.2 6 ratings pub 1954)
+10 Aged (1920 - 2003)
Points this post: 40
RwS total: 50
CoA total: 170
Season Total: 220
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15.7 Christmas in Vegas 10 A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
A-B, 141-180/541-580, 1963-1977
55 task
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55
Running total: 500
10.10 Group ReadsFirekeeper's Daughter. Angeline Boulley
+10 task
+10 combo (20.8, 20.4)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 290
10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9;10.10
20.1;20.7;20.9;20.10
From Post 268Nick wrote: "10.1 List Lovers
I read this book earlier in the year, but I just finished a re-read. It's that good.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia nominee for best nove..."
+5 Combo 10.6
From Post 270Nick wrote: "20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
The Best of Robert E. Howard: Crimson Shadows by Robert E. Howard.
Combo: 20.8 = 5
Jumbo: 503 pp = 5
Previous Points: 80
Point..."
+15 Combo 10.5, 10.6, 20.9
From Post 281Tien wrote: "20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom
Joan Makes History (Singer family #3) by Kate Grenville
pub 1988 | 272 ratings
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - 100% Australia; 10.6 - time fou..."
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 285Tien wrote: "20.4 Day of the Jackal
Postern of Fate (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries #5) by Agatha Christie
+20 Task
+10 Aged
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 690"
+5 Combo 20.10
15.5 - CiV 10 Time and Again by Jack Finney
{E-F} {381-420/781-820} {1963-1977}
+35 Task
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 245
20.5 WheelsEqual Rites by Terry Pratchett
❄️ Discworld series ❄️
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 265
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Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch
+20 task
+15 combo (10.6-TIME, 20.2, 20.8)
+10 aged (1917–1994)
Task total=45
Season total=450