Reading with Style discussion

10.1 100 metres

Letters from Klara by Tove Jansson

+10 task
+5 Before 1999

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 100

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2;
20.1;

10.7 Discus Throw

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 110

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2;
20.1;

15.3 Olympic Scavenger

Audition by Pip Adam

Option B, surfing - " ... them with film and tape and at the same time surfing the internet for material to make a T-Shirt that would fit me."

+15 task

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 125

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1;

15.4 Olympic Scavenger

Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey

Option B, swimming - " The manatees swimming in the lagoon made the waters in their wake bloom luminous with bioluminescence , "

+15 task

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 140

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1;

15.5 Olympic Scavenger

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

Option B, cycle - "For two or three years I'd been trapped into a thankless cycle of picking up after myself,"

+15 task

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 155

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5;
20.1;

15.6 Olympic Scavenger

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Option B, wrestling - " When she had finished wrestling the bag into her lap, she felt something warm on her thigh."

+15 task

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 170

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
20.1;

20.2 Opening Ceremonies

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector

F, Brazil

+20 task
+5 Before 1999

Post Total = 25
Season Total = 195

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
20.1; 20.2;

20.3 Opening Ceremonies

The White Book by Han Kang

J, South Korea

+20 task

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 215

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

10.10 1500 metres

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

+10 task (560 pages)
+ 5 (500 pages or more)

Task total: 15
Season total: 125

15.5 Olympic Scavenger

The Ronin's Mistress by Laura Joh Rowland

Wrestling Option A: “ ‘Oh, Gozo has a job at a tea house that has women’s sumo wrestling matches.’ Okaru added, ‘She was wrestling the night your father was attacked.’”


15 pts 15.5 Olympic Scavenger

Task total = 15
Season total = 80

Post 160

15 point tasks Round 1
15.1 Cycling A
15.2 Judo Option B
15.3 Horse/horseriding Option B
15.4 horse/horseriding Option A
15.5 Wrestling Option A

10.9 Decathlon
Javelin Throw

How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling by Jane Wilson-Howarth

Task total: 10
Running total: 35

10.9 Javelin Throw

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

+10 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (1925)

Task total = 15
Season total = 105

10.3 Shot Put

Honeybath's Haven by Michael Innes

+10 Task (2.96)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1978)

Task total = 15
Season total = 120

20.4 Opening Ceremonies

Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

(E) 1951-1963 / Japan
Published 1958, author born in Japan

+20 Task
+ 5 Before 1999

Task total = 25
Season total = 145

Task 15.3 Olympic Scavenger

BASKETBALL
Option B

Home Is Where the Bodies Are (2024) by Jeneva Rose (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 256 pages)

p. 64: “The park got its swing set, monkey bars, slide, shade shelter, picnic tables, BASKETBALL court, and several flower beds.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 135 + 15 = 150

20.9 Opening Ceremonies

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

(F) 1964-1976
Author born in USSR - Russia

+35 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (pub 1972)

Task total = 40
Season total = 400

20.1. Opening Ceremonies

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells.

20.1. 20 pts 1896-1909 United Kingdom
5 pts pre 1999

Task total = 25
Season total = 105

Post 167

15 point tasks Round 1
15.1 Cycling A
15.2 Judo Option B
15.3 Horse/horseriding Option B
15.4 horse/horseriding Option A
15.5 Wrestling Option A

20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom

10.5 400 metres
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman
413 pages

+10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 250

Post 138 Connie wrote: "10.3 Shot Put

A Bigamist's Daughter by Alice McDermott

Rating 2.96

+10 task
+ 5 published before 1999 (1982)

Task total: 15
Season total: 105"

95 in post 125 +15 here = 110

10.2 Long Jump

Spook Street by Mick Herron

Mystery

+10 Task

Task total = 10
Season total = 155

15.6 Olympic Scavenger

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

15.6 15 pts Surfing Option B. “Gulls take turns surfing.”


Task total = 15
Season total = 120

Post 171

15 point tasks Round 1
15.1 Cycling A
15.2 Judo Option B
15.3 Horse/horseriding Option B
15.4 horse/horseriding Option A
15.5 Wrestling Option A
15.6 Surfing Option B


20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom

10.1 100 metres

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

+10 Task (128 pages)

Task total = 10
Season total = 410

15.9 Olympic Scavenger
The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) by Richard Osman

football, option B
"I knew Donna had gone to the football."

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 265

15.8 - Olympic Scavenger

Un Anglais dans mon arbre by Olivia Burton

Boxing Option A: in the graphic novel, one of the character is depicted boxing against someone.

Points total = 150

… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; … ; …
20.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …

10.10 1500 metres
The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield

+10 Task (672 pages)
+5 Big

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 280

15.5 Olympic Scavenger

The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

Dive Option A: A dive into shallow water starts the book.

Task total: 15
Season total: 140

15.3 Olympic Scavenger

Fear Itself by Walter Mosley

Sail, Option B - "Maybe I’d never get on a steamship and sail to Europe, and maybe I’d never know the elegance of a fine hotel room on the Seine, but at least I could imagine it in my bookstore." pg. 103

+15 Task

Task total=15
Season total=70

10.2 Long jump

All Yours by Claudia Piñeiro

+10 Task: Thriller<-->Nonfiction (Thriller)

Task total = 10
Season total = 185

10.3 Shot Put

Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong

+10 Task: 2.93 Rating

Task total = 10
Season total = 195

10.5 400 metres

Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters

+10 Task: 496 pages

Task total = 10
Season total = 205

10.7 Discus Throw

The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti Laboucane-Benson

+10 Task: circle

Task total = 10
Season total = 215

10.8 Pole Vault

Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

+10 Task: Women's Prize Winner 2024

Task total = 10
Season total = 225

20.5 Opening Ceremonies

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

(A) 1896-1909
Author born in USA

+25 Task (1904)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1904)

Task total = 30
Season total = 255

20.6 Opening Ceremonies

Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell

(I) 2003-2014
Author born in Sweden

+25 Task

Season total = 150

15.7 Olympic Scavenger

The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King

15.7 15 pts Tennis Option A. “She scandalized the neighbors by playing tennis”


Task total = 15
Season total = 135

Post 185

15 point tasks Round 1
15.1 Cycling A
15.2 Judo Option B
15.3 Horse/horseriding Option B
15.4 horse/horseriding Option A
15.5 Wrestling Option A
15.6 Surfing Option B
15.7 Tennis Option A


20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom

15.10 Olympic Scavenger
Master of Furies (The Firemane Saga #3) by Raymond E. Feist

rowing, option A
"'Ready the longboat.'… They quickly rowed ashore, riding the breakers into the sand, and when Hava jumped out of the longboat..."

+15 Task
+100 Finish (15 Task)

Post Total: 115
Season Total: 395

20.2 - Opening Ceremonies

The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen
2020, Finland

+20 Task

Task total = 20

Points total = 170

… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …

20.4 Opening Ceremonies
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

(H) 21951-1963
Author born in Russia

+20 Task
+5 (pub 1957)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 420

10.2 Decathlon
Mystery

Bird in a Cage by Frédéric Dard

+10 Task
+5 Before 1999

Task total: 15
Running total: 50

Linda wrote: "10.9 Decathlon
Javelin Throw

How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling by Jane Wilson-Howarth

+10 Task

Running Total: 60"

This book and task were claimed in Post 161...did you mean to post a different book?

15.8 Olympic Scavenger

Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at Happy Hour by Ross Mathews

Option B: athletic or athletics

"I respected American Pie actress Shannon right away because I could tell she was smart, an animal activist, and clearly the best player in the game: athletic, aggressive, and cut-throat."

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 145

15.7 Olympic Scavenger

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Canoe Option B – Chapter 15 He had no canoe

+15 Task

Task total = 15
Season total = 425

15.1 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)
The Empty House and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood

canoe, option A
"'After that, just before sunset, I went round the island a couple of times in my canoe for precaution's sake."

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 435

15.3 Olympic Scavenger

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Boxing, Option B: "Gore took up boxing, often with Sixteen forty-five, Lieutenant Thomas Cardingham."

Task total: 15
Grand total: 95

15.4 Olympic Scavenger

James by Percival Everett

Canoe, Option A: this is a retelling of Huck Finn; they are frequently traveling on a canoe. (It also would work for Option B.)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 110

Task 10.1 100 metres
Read a book with 100-199 pages in the MPE.

MPE is 110 pages

Enemies of the System (1978) by Brian W. Aldiss (Paperback, 110 pages)
Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella (1979)

+10 Task
+05 Published before 1999 (1978)

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 150 + 15 = 165

15.4 Olympic Scavenger

The Class of '49 by Don Carpenter

Football, Option B - "Sissy never dated boys who were not fraternity members, unless they were on the football or baseball teams and were exceptionally well-behaved, but as her senior year began to come to an end, she wondered more and more what she was missing."

+15 Task
+ 5 before 1999

Task total=20
Season total=90

15.2 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb

cycling, option A
"A black car came towards us and accelerated at Margaret who was cycling just behind me."

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 450

Post 188 Tien wrote: "20.4 Opening Ceremonies
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

(H) 1951-1963
Author born in Russia

+20 Task
+5 (pub 1957)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 420"

Tien, you have always put letter (H) with your Opening Ceremonies posts, but you have actually claimed

Post 5, 20.1, 2018, (J) Italy
Post 13, 20.2, 1967, (F) UK
Post 87, 20.3, 2009, (I) Germany
Post 188, 20.4, 1957, (E) Russia - USSR

In future, please would you post the correct letter for each year group, because it makes it so much easier for us to check finishes!

Post 194 Tien wrote: "15.1 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)
The Empty House and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood

canoe, option A
"'After that, just before sunset, I went round the island a ..."

+5 Before 1999