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10.3 VowelsThe Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
If you read Lessons in Chemistry and you want to read it's much less good cousin, this is the book for you.
The book tries hard to be a romantic comedy, with a fake dating trope and a solidly stereotypical male lead--young hotshot professor who is a loner and terrorizes all the grad students by failing their proposals and making them redo their work. But the fundamental plot is so ridiculous, I never got past the unbelievability. It might have made sense if these characters were 18, but for a 26-year-old student and a 30-something-year-old professor, it was just silly.
Also, when I first saw the cover, I thought it was two women. Which would have been a much more interesting story. Instead, we get no reason why these characters like each other besides one brief conversation from several years ago. We are told that they fall madly in love during their month of fake dating, but it's not clear why--there hardly seems to be any chemistry between them (view spoiler). I kept wondering if this was Twilight fan fiction--the romance seemed equally inexplicable.
I was interested enough to finish the book, but only barely. This was a debut novel, so maybe this author has come up with slightly better stories in her later books.
The narrator for the audiobook does the best she can with the silliness of the plot.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+5 Prize-worthy (but shouldn't be)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 230
20.9Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt
I am always looking for a worthy microhistory and my favorites are about material science and "stuff". This one was told as a journey in occasional first person about interviewing and musing. There are some good color images and diagrams to go along with the text.
The author clearly described light waves and perception (and even naming) for how we see blue. They covered biological and chemical sources, the molecular chemistry and structures, and little stories behind them. It felt comprehensive without going gruelingly in-depth at any particular point. I would be happy to read more science books by this author if he writes them.
+20 task
+10 review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 185
20.6 WilderAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
As a fan of the Netflix show Anne With An E, I was excited to read the source material and see how it matches the adaptation. I was so glad to discover that the world of Green Gables and the characters are just as charming as it was in the show, and after reading this book I'm so excited to read the rest in the series. I listened to the audiobook version read by Kate Burton, and I highly recommend this version because at times when I might have interpreted Anne's dialogue to be annoyingly overdramatic, the narrator brought so much charm to her ramblings that I enjoyed every word from Anne. I think any audiobook version will have great value because it really hits home just what it's like to listen to Anne go on about a topic for minute after minute after minute, whereas if I had picked this up as a physical book I might have just skimmed the huge paragraph of dialogue. In the last 20% of the book, we get glimpses of Anne's life from 14-17yo, and I liked feeling that her personality had matured a since her younger years. Overall, Anne is such a lovely character, and this really is a timeless classic.
+20 Task (Anne is 12/13 until at least 79% of the book)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies (published 1908)
Task total: 40
Season total: 20 + 40 = 60
15.2 Celebration of StylesNettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is a pseudonym of Ursula Vernon & Wikipedia entry noted she's 46
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_...
+15 Task (Young)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 205
20.3 DickensThe Grell Mystery by Frank Froest
On the eve before his wedding, Robert Grell was dining with his friend, Sir Ralph Fairfield, at their club. About 9-o'clock or so, Grell said that he had an appointment and, if there were any phone calls for him, would Ralph please take them and tell the caller Grell was busy and couldn't come to the phone. Grell never returned. Later, Grell's butler found him dead with a dagger in his chest. Superintendent Heldon Foyle of Scotland Yard's CID was called in.
This is a police procedural. Author Frank Froest (does anyone else think his name looks like a typo?) spent the greater part of his working career as a detective for Scotland Yard. Froest provides an enormous amount of detail about how such a murder investigation would be conducted. There are lots of clues to be tracked down and lots of manpower required to do it. The murderer was not obvious to me until late in the novel when I thought I had a good idea - as did Superintendent Foyle, I might add. We were both wrong, although Foyle recognized his error and had it solved a good couple of chapters before I did.
The writing style was better than I might have anticipated for 1913. The plot very good. The depiction of the the Yard's CID I thought very good. I couldn't fall asleep easily last night and got up to read. I read to the end. This long nighttime reading session is *very* unlike me. I thought this novel very good, but not superb - not five stars, but four, though perhaps you can see all four of them flashing now and then.
+20 Task (Froest born 1858)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies (1913)
+ 5 Multiple (posted earlier in #120)
Task total = 45
Season total = 205
15.2 Celebration of StylesAged: Author was 92 years old. (Dec 13, 1925-March 24, 2018)
The Widow's Trial by John Ehle
Task total: 15
Season total: 180
10.6 September The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Task: 10
Oldies:10 first published 1930
Post total : 20
Season : 65
10.7 Scrabble Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey
Scrabble score : 23
Task: 10
Jumbo: 5 - paperback page 541
Award: 5 - Dragon Award for Science Fiction 2017
Post total: 20
Season total: 85
10.4 DebutLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
This book was recommended to me by my son, who has been a research chemist. I think that the main reasons he recommended it is the delightful humor, and an understanding of how difficult it has been for women to make progress in the world of science. I am a generation behind Elizabeth Zott. But I was often only one or two of the women in my science and math classes, and one of my contemporaries found that even when she was listed as the principal author of a paper, the other scientists (male) assumed that her male partner had been the main researcher.
Elizabeth Zot is a research chemist who through her TV show, Supper at Six inspires women in the 60s to follow their dreams beyond being housewives and mothers.
I did struggle with the unusual background of both Elizabeth Zott and her partner, Calvin Evans, as well as the neat tie up of loose ends at the conclusion of the book.
It is interesting the part that organized religion plays in the book, especially the Catholic Church.
+10 task
+10 review
+5 prize
Total: 25
Season total: 105
10.7 Scrabble (Anika's TaskThree Miles Down by Harry Turtledove
(I planned 3 books for this task, and they all seemed to need to be ready in a row - this one because it is a library book, due back now!)
To be honest, there was no real reason why I read this, except it was half falling off the shelf when I went to my RL book club one time, and it looked like it might be fun.
The main character, Jerry, IS fun. He is a marine biology grad student who write sci fi in his spare time, who somehow ends up on a ship that is pretending to be mining, to hide the fact that it is going to raise a sunk Russian Sub, which is hiding the fact that they are actually going to try to raise the sunken spaceship that seems to have been the cause of the sunken submarine. All this, in the middle of the Watergate scandal.
The way Jerry thinks, is a little left field. He's not quite a hippy, so maybe it's all that sci fi he has read. It is certainly different to all the other characters he ends up working with, and he is careful in how he navigates those relationships.
And, whilst the story is interesting, and Jerry is interesting, the way it is told is often repetitive and the same lines and ideas seem to roll across the page again, and again. I don't think we needed to read Jerry's thoughts on Nixon and Watergate so much, just keep it to the highlights and tell the more interesting story here!
An okay read, and at times entertaining, but not a book I will probably remember much of in 12 months time.
+10 task
+5 multiple
+10 review
Post Total =25
Season Total = 310
10.6; 10.7 (x3);
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1; ... ; ...; ...; 20.5; ....; ....; 20.8; ....; 20.10 (x2)
10.10 Group ReadsThe Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse
This book was just the ticket. Funny and charming, this is a great choice for difficult times. Sally is a great character, plucky and generous (to a fault). Sally inherits a fortune, and then the adventures begin. Of course, a contemporary reader knows where the story is going so the enjoyment is the road taken there. Wodehouse wrote ‘what he knew’ in this novel – he had lived in the UK, France and New York City (where he was involved in the theatre scene) and so could credibly send Sally on her way.
I listened to the audiobook read by Frederick Davidson. At first, I was surprised that a man (who was obviously older and British) was the narrator. However, he did a ripping job (as Ginger would say). 4*
10 task
10 oldie
10 review
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30
Running total: 235
NB: If you are looking for a book for 20.10, this novel contains quite a lot of letter writing.
Post 161 Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "10.4 DebutLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
This book was recommended to me by my son, who has been a research chemist. I think that the main reasons he rec..."
There are 2 Prizes for this title: Australian Book Industry and GR Choice for Debut Author.
+5 Prize-Worthy
20.10 LettersThe Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Two books in a row where a young woman has inherited a fortune! Katherine Grey, after a modest job and lifestyle, inherits a large amount of money. Katherine wants to live a little life, having spent the last few years in a small village. As an aside, the village is St Mary Mead, which I always found funny to read in this novel since I expected Miss Marple to pop up! Katherine decides to visit a cousin on the Continent, and takes the Blue Train. She meets some of the people involved in the mystery, and most importantly, Hercules Poirot. Poirot is at his best here – at one moment disassembling, at another bullying a witness to truthfulness. Of course, I’ve read this, oh…. a thousand times(!), but I had conveniently forgotten who did it. So it was enjoyable to trail along behind Poirot as he developed the solution. 4*
many letters here (as well!): Ch. 29 A Letter from Home (a letter to Katherine from someone in St Mary Mead)
20 task
10 review
10 oldie
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40
Running total: 275
20.6 WilderMoon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: The Beginning by Amy Reeder
A really sweet and fun intro to the story of a young genius inventor and her dinosaur! This book collects 12 chapters, and I would say it takes until chapter 7 for the plot to really get going and for the full premise of the story to reveal itself. I liked Lunella much better when her rival was introduced, as it became really fun to watch them square off both as civilians and as hero/villain. I do wonder how Lunella could possibly keep an entire dinosaur hidden away from the authorities, but hey it is a comic. I would definitely recommend this book for young girls around Lunella's age.
+20 Task (the MC Lunella is 9yo)
+10 Review
+5 Multiple
Task total: 35
Season total: 60 + 35 = 95
15.2 Celebration of Styles- YoungerThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
http://www.scottlynch.us/author.html born 1978
Task points 15
Season Total 135
Task 15.1Not a Novel
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska (2005) by Heather Lende [979.82]
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 00 + 15 = 15
Task 10.3 Vowels Read a book by an author whose first name begins with a vowel: a, e, i, o, or u.
First Name: Adrian
One Day All This Will Be Yours (2021) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 15 + 10 = 25
Task 10.7 Scrabble (Anika's Task) Read a book whose title would score at least 23 points using the Scrabble scoring system.
Scrabble Score: 28
Guidebook to Murder (A Tourist Trap Mystery #1) (2014) by Lynn Cahoon
Review: This is the first book of a long-running cozy mystery series (15 books so far). It’s set in a small coastal tourist-oriented town in central California – about a two-hour drive south of San Francisco. Our heroine is a mid-30s recently divorced lawyer. She decided to switch occupations after the divorce. She’s bought a coffee & bookstore shop in the small town, which is starting to turn a small but noticeable profit. When a good friend who is elderly dies in her sleep, our heroine decides that it wasn’t natural causes, it was murder (she’s right). The rest of the novel reads like a paint-by-numbers painting – all the elements of a 21st century cozy mystery included, one after the other. I thought the novel read like a debut novel, and was planning to use it for 10.4. However, the internet revealed to me that Cahoon had published a trio of romances similar to Harlequin Romances in 2012/2013 timeframe. Nevertheless, Guidebook to Murder is her first published cozy mystery. I suspect that in latter installments of the series, Cahoon gets more relaxed and more inventive (that’s usually how it happens, isn’t it?).
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 25 + 20 = 45
Task 10.7 Scrabble (Anika's Task) Read a book whose title would score at least 23 points using the Scrabble scoring system.
Scrabble Score: 24
After the Hurricane (2022) by Leah Franqui
+10 Task
+05 Repeat a task
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 45 + 15 = 60
Task 10.7 Scrabble (Anika's Task) Read a book whose title would score at least 23 points using the Scrabble scoring system.
Scrabble Score: 42
Cinnamon and Gunpowder (2013) by Eli Brown
+10 Task
+05 Repeat a task
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 60 + 15 = 75
Task 20.1 Author! Author! Read a book where an author is the focus/main character. Author can be real or fictional, and your read can be either fiction or nonfiction.
The main characters are Charles A. Siringo (whose publications include his 1885 memoir A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony); Dashiell Hammett (mystery readers know him well! The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and many more); and Charmian London (a travel writer – she wrote Voyaging in Wild Seas: Or, A Woman Among the Head Hunters – additionally, she was also the second wife and later, the widow, of Jack London).
Ragtime Cowboys (2014) by Loren D. Estleman
Review: Ragtime Cowboys is set in 1921 California, splitting its time between ‘near Los Angeles’ and ‘near San Francisco’. The novel has a humorous, witty, lighthearted tone, with an emphasis on banter between Siringo and Hammett. In the tradition of ‘buddy films’, Siringo and Hammett don’t have much in common, but get along very well anyways – Siringo is old, Hammett is young; Siringo is ‘conservative’, a retired Pinkerton detective, while Hammett states that he’s a Marxist; and on and on. Siringo is hired by Wyatt Earp (yes, Wyatt Earp from the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral) to locate and retrieve a racehorse that has been stolen from him. While doing this, our buddy-pair stumble onto a complicated, big-money plot, and action and witty comments result. Our buddies also each have a brief romance with action-oriented age-appropriate females (Siringo and Charmian London, Hammet with her step-daughter Becky London).
The historical note after the novel’s end separates out fact from fiction in the novel. Most likely Siringo and Hammett never knew each other. The ‘complicated, big-money plot’ DID happen, but a few years later than the timeframe of the novel. And, interestingly, Estleman includes a thank-you to Becky London (p. 267) “who was so very kind to me in her final years”.
So, overall: a caper story, with witty dialogue, and an inventive use of historical figures.
+20 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 75 + 30 = 105
15.2 Celebration of StylesAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green
I expected to like this more than I did, though I don't know why I should have expected that. I've read two others by this author -- Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars. I also found both of those to be only okay.
There are definitely some funny moments and funny lines. And the overall message of authenticity and acceptance is good. But reading about intentionally quirky and self-involved teenaged boys just didn't really do much for me. I think maybe nerdy middle school boys might like this more than I did. Then again, maybe there's not enough adventure or action in this book for that reading group.
In any event, I'm glad to be able to pass this book along after having it sit on my shelf for more than 10 years.
+15 Task (auth b. 1977 - Young)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 245
20.1 Author! Author!Lessons by Ian McEwan
Approved in help thread, main character, Roland, is a poet
I am trying to work out why I own, and have read, so many Ian McEwan books. They are fine, but nothing has ever really moved me the way a Haruki Murakami will. And this, is probably my least favourite so far.
There are some fine points in this, when the story deals with Roland's relationships with the various women in his life, and with his son, when he is reading the journals of his mother-in-law as she travels through Germany in search of the White Rose and to pursue her own writerly ambitions. These, however, are constantly interrupted as McEwan moves to the larger scale - the Cuban missile crisis, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall (aso featured in his Black Dogs), Chernobyl, the Pandemic ... it just felt like there was too much that McEwan was trying to squeeze into the one book, and that it detracted from whatever story it was he was trying to tell.
Was it the story of the damage and missed opportunities Roland had experienced due to his relationship with his piano teacher? Was it a study of what a successful life looks like, and what sacrifices need to be made to ensure that success? Was it a book about the nature of love?
I am not sure what the intent was, but I think, just as I have learnt with pizza making, McEwan needs to try the less-is-more approach, and let the story speak for itself.
+20 task
+10 review
+5 multiple
Post Total =35
Season Total = 345
10.6; 10.7 (x3);
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1 (x2); ... ; ...; ...; 20.5; ....; ....; 20.8; ....; 20.10 (x2)
10.6 September13 Clues for Miss Marple by Agatha Christie
Of course, I had to read a Miss Marple book after the last one! However, St Mary Mead is only mentioned as the hot bed of human behaviour rather than the setting. The majority of the short stories take place at a dinner party with various interested parties (ie: Miss Marple, the ex-head of Scotland Yard, etc.). Some of them feature Raymond West, her novelist nephew (who wouldn’t stoop to writing mysteries!!). Christie’s short stories are truly short, so you can zip from one to another, if you like. They were all amusing and typical Christie. I particularly enjoyed Miss Marple knitting away while she solved the mysteries. 4*
10 task
10 oldie
10 review
5 multi
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35
Running total: 310
10.7 ScrabbleMurder in the Maze by J.J. Connington
The novel opens with twin brothers chatting over things in the study. One of them, Neville Shandon, is a barrister and just visiting. He says he needs some peace and quiet to review an important case and thinks he will go to center of the Maze. Brother Roger says he was headed the same way in the afternoon and would use the other center. This Maze is on the grounds of Roger's estate and has twelve foot hedges to mark the paths. Late in the afternoon, the brothers are found murdered, each having been shot with poison darts. Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield happens to be in the neighborhood visiting his friend Wendover.
This was originally published in 1927. I thought the writing style better than the norm for the time period. The characterizations are good enough. We learn where the poison for the darts came from and it worked perfectly with the character of its owner. Somehow poison darts didn't sound so far-fetched as a murder weapon, but maybe I was just in the mood to go along with it. I didn't figure out the mystery, but maybe that was also due to the fact that I was just in the mood to go along with it.
I have too many books to read and yet several times I thought I would enjoy reading more of this series. I'm getting too long in the tooth to think I can read every book I come across that sounds as if I would want to spend time with it. I'll add Book 2 to my already over-burdened wishlist and hope I live to one hundred. In any case, this just slips across the 3-/4-star line.
+10 Task (32 points)
+10 Review
+10 Oldies (1927)
+ 5 Multiple (previous post #137)
Task total = 35
Season total = 240
10.8 Friends (Mary's Task)No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
+10 Task
+15 Prize-worthy (Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Literature (2019) and for Nonfiction (2019), National Biography Award (2019), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for General Non-Fiction (2019) and for Audiobook (2020))
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 230
15.4 Celebration of StylesA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Young, Becky Chambers was born in 1985
Post Total =15
Season Total = 360
10.6; 10.7 (x3);
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1 (x2); ... ; ...; ...; 20.5; ....; ....; 20.8; ....; 20.10 (x2)
20.8 MorrisonThe Reader (The Reader Trilogy #1) by Traci Chee
810L
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 250
20.7 ChristieCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
+20 Task
+5 Jumbo (626p)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 275
15.5 Celebration of Styles The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon
LiT
15 task
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15
Running total: 325
15.3 Celebration of StylesNo Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging by Zoya Patel
+15 Task (Not a Novel)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 290
15.3 Celebration of StylesHeaven by Mieko Kawakami
+15 Task (Lost in Translation)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 260
Post 166 Valerie wrote: "20.10 LettersThe Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Two books in a row where a young woman has inherited a fortune! Katherine Grey, after a modest job and ..."
+5 Multiple
10.7 Scrabble Every Day Is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel
+10 Task (39 points)
+ 5 Oldies (1985)
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 200
15.4 Celebration of StylesNot at Home by Doris Langley Moore
+15 Task (Aged, 1902-1989)
Season total = 230
20.8 Morrison A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The story of four friends who meet at college and stay in touch, especially Jude who has suffered a terrible childhood that leaves him catastrophically scarred both physically and psychologically.
Truly an amazing book. Very painful at times, and I couldn't read it too close to night time or it might keep me awake, and on the other hand in some ways things are too perfect with a romance-novel-level idealism(view spoiler). But still I can see why it has had such an impact on the bestseller and awards nomination lists.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+15 Prizeworthy
+10 Jumbo
Post Total = 55
Season Total = 285
20.2 WarBook has both war and historical fiction as genres.
Hannah's War by Jan Eliasberg
Dr Hannah Weiss, an Austrian Jew who escaped from Nazi Germany, loves her work in science but has ethical concerns about the atomic bomb being developed in 1945 Los Alamos. A petition had been circulated about the danger of the weapon, leading the OSS to send investigators to determine if information was being leaked to the Nazis. Major Jack Delaney was sent to interrogate Hannah, and she finds that he is also hiding secrets about his past.
The story switches from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Nazi Germany in flashbacks. Hannah had not received the recognition she deserved in Germany before she defected because she was a woman and a Jew.
The book is a riveting story written by screenwriter Jan Eliasberg, and would be a wonderful film. Hannah and Jack are playing a cat and mouse game as secrets about their identities are slowly revealed, and they try to ignore their mutual attraction. Although the two main characters are fictional, there are real supporting characters such as Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer. "Hannah's War" is a page-turner about the race to build the bomb, and the hope that it would never have to be used.
+20 task
+10 review
Task total: 30
Season total: 210
20.9 Popular Science Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist by Richard Shepherd
+20 Task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 305
10.5 OctoberThe Wharton Gothics: Stories of the Unnatural and the Supernatural by Edith Wharton
This is an original compilation of eight Wharton short stories, specifically put together for this audiobook. I was expecting more ghostly presence in the stories, however only about half were what I would call ghost stories. The others were (as another reviewer said) about haunted people. As you would expect, the majority are well written. Some of the stories showcase Wharton’s knack for getting to the heart of matters. I always enjoy reading Wharton’s work, although you are not going to have ‘it all wrapped up in a bow at the end’! As a ghost story, I particularly liked ‘Mr Jones”; and as a ‘haunted person’ story I liked “The Quicksand’ the best. The reader did a good job on this production. 4*
10 task
10 review
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20
Running total: 350
10.4 Debut (Tien's Task)Crossroads of Canopy (Titan's Forest #1) by Thoraiya Dyer
+10 Task
+5 Prize-worthy (Ditmar Award for Best Novel (2018))
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 305
20.8 MorrisonThe Assassin's Touch by Laura Joh Rowland
20 pts 20.8 Morrisson
10 pts Review
Another mystery set in Japan. This book relies on odd murder techniques that strain credulity. It is also driven by coincidences: the two protagonists are investigating very different cases that serendipitously merge. There are a few sword fights and misunderstandings and the case is solved.
This series is light reading with a veneer of authenticity about Japanese culture around the year 1600. But it seems as if the characters are a bit too willing to take actions that might not have been accepted socially at the time.
Task Total: 30pts
Season Total: 30 pts
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15.6 Celebration of Styles Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
Aged
15 task
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15
Running total: 365
10.5 October Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Task: 10
Oldies: 5 published in 1990
Jumbo : 10 paperback 744 pages
Prize Worthy : 5 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection 1990
Post total: 30
Season total: 115
15.1 CoSThe Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
+15 Task, Young (b. 1980)
Task total: 15
Season total: 90
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