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10.7 DiscusMothering Sunday by Graham Swift
+10 Task (ring)
+100 Declathlon Finisher
Season total: 705
And that will do it for me for Summer. Thanks to the mods and looking forward to Fall!
10.8 Pole VaultSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
National Book Award for Fiction 2017
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 1135
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x2); 15.6 (x2); 15.7 (x2); 15.8 (x2); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.8 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3Echo Boy by Matt Haig
Option B, dive - "... dive down and find that pearl, the last remaining piece of who I was, and bring it to the surface."
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1150
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x3); 15.8 (x3); 15.9 (x2); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.9 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon
Option B, wrestling - " It is a homage of sorts to the work of the activist-writer, which is the work of bearing witness, wrestling with the Properties of Perpetual Light ..."
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1165
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x3); 15.8 (x3); 15.9 (x3); 15.10 (x2)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
Task 10.4 DECATHALON - High JumpRead a book with a Rating higher than 4.25 (min 4.26).
In Other Lands (2017) by Sarah Rees Brennan (Young Adult) Lexile HL800L
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 765 + 10 = 775
20.3 Opening Ceremonies Round 2Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li
(J) 2015-2024 (2023)
Author born in China
+20 Task (2023)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1225
Decathlon Round 310.4 High Jump
A Whale Is A Country by Isabel Zapata
+10 Task: 4.26 rating
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1235
Decathlon Round 310.5 400 metres
Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 48, Spring 2015: Sixteen New Stories and A Full-Length Screenplay by Dave Eggers
+10 Task: 466 pages
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1245
Decathlon Round 310.6 Hurdles
Heaven by Emerson Whitney
+10 Task:
Thriller<-->Nonfiction - Nonfiction
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1255
15.10 Olympic ScavengerThe Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu
Option B, basketball - ""You're on the schedule for the varsity basketball game on Wednesday." - ch 6
+15 task
+100 finisher bonus
Post Total: 115
Season Total: 410
I am so sorry for all my math errors this season! Don't know what's happening to my brain! I double checked this one!
15.1 Olympic Scavenger Round 2Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Option A, hockey - they play hockey throughout the book
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 425
15.2 Olympic Scavenger Round 2A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson
Option B, diving - "It's a dive called the Bullpen." pg. 169
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 440
Apple wrote: "15.9 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon
Option B, wrestling - " It is a homage of sorts to the work o..."
Was this mostly set in Guam (for the countries of the world group project)?
15.3 Olympic Scavenger Round 2The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Option B, football - “Football highlights were playing on the TV mounted above the bottles, and I pretended to be interested.”
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 455
Anika wrote: "Apple wrote: "15.9 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon
Option B, wrestling - " It is a homage of sorts..."
OMG! I didn't even think! Iy was essays, but yes, it was about growing up in Guam, environment, native peoples. He did go and work with Mother Teresa (interesting guy, i knew nothing but will read more), I definitely think it counts.
However, when looking for my own Global read challenge, is Guam a country in its own right?
15.10 Olympic Scavenger - Round 3The Nothing Girl by Jodi Taylor
Hockey, option B - " I remembered her heading the charge, sweeping downthe hockey pitch, the day we snatched victory from Rushford St Winifred's..."
+15 points
+100 finisher's bonus
Post Total = 115
Season Total = 1280
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x3); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x3); 15.8 (x3); 15.9 (x3); 15.10 (x3)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
Decathlon Round 310.1 100 metres
Rhode Island Red by Charlotte Carter
+10 Task: 192 pages
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1265
Decathlon Round 310.9 Javelin Throw
A Poem for Every Summer Day by Allie Esiri
+10 Task: jAvElin
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1275
20.4 Opening Ceremonies Round 2Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li
(D) 1938-1950 Japan
Author born in Japan
+20 Task (1948)
+. 5 Before 1999
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1300
15.10 Olympic Scavenger Round 2Traces of Mercury by Clark Howard
Basketball-Option B: “Keep in mind that this is a legal proceeding, not a basketball game.” pg. 237
+15 Task
+ 5 Before 1999
+100 Finisher bonus
Post total=120
Season total=570
Thanks to the mods for yet another fun season.
Karen Michele wrote: "20.4 Opening Ceremonies Round 2Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li
(D) 1938-1950 Japan
Author born in Japan
+20 Task (1948)
+. 5 Before 1999
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1300"
Karen, this is the book you claimed for 20.3 in post 661 - not a Japanese author and not this time slot. You must have meant to put a different book here?
Rosemary wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "20.4 Opening Ceremonies Round 2Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li
(D) 1938-1950 Japan
Author born in Japan
+20 Task (1948)
+. 5 Before 1999
Task Total: 25
Season Tot..."
Sorry! - You are right! I forgot to change the book when I was doing the post. I'll post it below.
20.4 Opening Ceremonies Round 2Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
(D) 1938-1950 Japan
Author born in Japan
+20 Task (1948)
+. 5 Before 1999
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1300
15.1 Olympic Scavenger - Round 4Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Option B, dive - "During a prey-catching dive or stoop, a peregrine falcon can reach an astonishing..."
+15 points
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1295
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x4); 15.2 (x3); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x3); 15.8 (x3); 15.9 (x3); 15.10 (x3)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
15.2 Olympic Scavenger - Round 4Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Option B, swim - " Hey - you okay?" " Yeah." "You going to swim?" "What!? I mean - no."
+15 points
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1310
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x4); 15.2 (x4); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x3); 15.8 (x3); 15.9 (x3); 15.10 (x3)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7;
20.8 Opening CeremoniesThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
A, United States
+30 points
+5 Before 1999
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1345
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3; 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10 (x2)
15.1 (x4); 15.2 (x4); 15.3 (x3); 15.4 (x3); 15.5 (x3); 15.6 (x3); 15.7 (x3); 15.8 (x3); 15.9 (x3); 15.10 (x3)
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8
I thought I was never going to finish this one! Thanks Mods for a great season :)
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The Captive Kingdom by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lexile: 740
Option B - dive - "The speed of my dive and flow of the water carried me deeper into the pit than I would have expected to go in only a few seconds."
Task total: 15
+100 Scavenger Finish
Post total: 115
Grand total: 1000
What a nice round number to finish the season! I have one more book I'm reading, but I don't know if I'll finish it in the next two days. Guess we'll see.