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15.9 - Olympic ScavengerLes Illustres de la Table (Illustres de la Table (Les)) by Mathieu Burniat
Sailing Option A
The book is presenting several known chefs or people revolving about gastronomy - one of the characters is drawn sailing a boat during his travels to discover food.
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 185
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Oooh I'm so sorry, I totally missed that the letter corresponds with the year range. H was the example post so I just kept it 😅I'll make sure to remember this next time
15-4 Olympic ScavengerThe Patriarch by Martin Walker
Option A- Bruno the main character is the Tennis instructior at the local club. At one point is observing 2 high level young people play Tennis.
Points this task 15
Season Total 120
15.5 Olympic ScavengerThe Dare by Harley Laroux
Diving - Option B: "He'd been chugging alongside none other than Manson Reed, who tossed aside his empty beer can with a smile and laughed as Daniel went diving."
Task total: 15
Grand total: 125
10.4 Decathalon, High JumpLula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller, 4.36 avg rating
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Season total: 155
10.5 Decathalon, 400 MetresTable for Two by Amor Towles, 464 pages
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Season total: 165
10.4 High JumpThe Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
rating 4.53
10 task
5 jumbo
_____
15
Running total: 230
10.6 HurdlesThe Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times by Robin Reames
Nonfiction
+10 tsk
Season total:70
20.10 Opening CeremoniesAnne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
(A) 1896-1909
Author born in Canada
+35 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (pub 1909)
Task total = 40
Finisher Bonus = 150
Season total = 615
15.3 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
football, option B
"You gotta get through them and out the back door, like football practice."
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 475
20.7 Opening CeremoniesThe Mongolian Conspiracy by Rafael Bernal
(F) 1964-1976
author born in Mexico
+30 Task
+ 5 Before 1999 (1966)
Task total = 35
Season total = 185
10.10 1500 metresComplete Short Stories by Elizabeth Taylor
+10 Task, 626 pages
+ 5 Big
+ 5 Before 1999 - all of the stories were published in four volumes or in magazines before the author's death in 1975
Task total = 20
Season total = 175
10.8 Pole VaultThe Promise by Damon Galgut
+10 Task (2021 Booker Prize winner)
Task total = 10
Season total = 625
15.1 Scavenger Hunt Game of Dog Bonesby Laurien Berenson
"Ice hockey game" p 8
Option B-hockey
Task+15
Grand total:55
10.4 High JumpThe Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
+10 Task (rating 4.54)
Task total = 10
Season total = 635
15.8 Olympic ScavengerWho Cries for the Lost by C.S. Harris
Horse-riding Option A – page 6 two men cantered their highbred horses along the southern boundary of Hyde Park.
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 650
15.4 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar
diving, option B
"He is still in London yet speaks of emigrating somewhere warm to pursue his diving"
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 490
15.5 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)Psykhe by Kate Forsyth
swimming, option A
"Then I was swimming. The far shore seemed an impossible distance away."
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 505
15.5 Olympic ScavengerA Plus One for Murder by Laura Bradford
Tennis, option B: "He likes tennis balls best, but he'll chase and bring back anything I throw." Chapter 7, MC's dog
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 85
Completed so far: 15.1 golf, B; 15.2 surfboard, B; 15.3 canoe, canoeing A; 15.4 basketball, B, 15.5 tennis, B.
10.4 High JumpCalling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
+10 Task: Rating 4.34
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 265
15.5 Olympic ScavengerArgall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by William T. Vollmann
Canoe or canoeing, Option A - The original Americans travel by canoe throughout the book.
+15 Task
+ 5 Big: 746 pages (about 300 pages read in the spring season)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 285
15.5 Olympic ScavengerPostscript to Nightmare by Dolores Hitchens
Athletic-Option B: "The man looked young, with a wiry athletic build." pg. 5
+15 Task
+ 5 before 1999
Task total=20
Season total=110
15.7 Olympic Scavenger Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Option A: A book whose central theme is hockey, with hockey players playing hockey in a hockey town. "Kevin scores the first goal in the opening minute of the game.'
15 task
_______
15
Running total: 245
15.6 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
rowing, Option B
"That's why it was so bad for Elliott when Dudley said it was over for his rowing, he was his only parent so his word was gospel."
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 520
15.7 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)A Lady's Formula for Love (The Secret Scientists of London #1) by Elizabeth Everett
sailing, Option B
"Georgie, it's likesailing through a lavender-scented hurrican of pettiness with one oar and half a sail."
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 535
15.6 Olympic ScavengerLosers: Part I by Harley Laroux
Athletics, Option A - characters go jogging together; one character runs on a treadmill
+5 500+ pages (577pp)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 145
20.3 Opening CeremoniesThe Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
(I) 2003-2015 // Author b. UK
Task total: 20
Grand total: 165
Coralie wrote: "10.4 High JumpThe Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
+10 Task (rating 4.54)
Task total = 10
Season total = 635"
+5 Old (first pub 1990)
15.8 Olympic ScavengerThe Indians Won by Martin Cruz Smith
15.8 15 pts Canoeing Option A. “He would have arrived sooner but the [men] paddling his canoe would not go near the village.”
5 pts Pre 1999
Task total = 20
Season total = 155
Post 238
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
15.8 Canoeing Option A
20 pt tasks Round 1
20.1 1896-1909 United Kingdom
10.8 Pole VaultThe Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
+10 Task (Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1955)
+ 5 Before 1999
Task total = 15
Season total = 190
20.5 Opening CeremoniesHeller by J.D. Nixon
(I) 2003-2014 / Australia
Published 2011, author born in Australia
+25 Task
Task total = 25
Season total = 215
15.9 Olympic ScavengerThe Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire
wrestling Option B – page 111 It was like challenging a sleeping giant to a slow-motion wrestling match
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 670
15.10 Olympic ScavengerAspects by John M. Ford
athletic Option B – from Chapter 3 quickly found Longlight an athletic breasthalter
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Finisher bonus =100
Season total = 785
15.6 Olympic ScavengerThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Row or Rowing Option A: Water Rat owns a rowboat, and he and Mole spend lots of time rowing in the river throughout the book.
+15 task
+ 5 before 1999 (pub in 1908)
Task total: 20
Season total: 180
20.2 Opening CeremoniesThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
A 1896 - 1909 (1907) - Ukraine
20 task
5 oldie
_____
25
Running total: 270
15.1 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen
badminton Option B – from page 4 The town of Port Badminton sits like a freckle on the top lip of Shark Bay
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 800
Post 244 Valerie wrote: "20.2 Opening CeremoniesThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
A 1896 - 1909 (1907)
20 task
5 oldie
_____
25
Running total: 270"
Please edit to add the country you are claiming - he would work for either Ukraine/USSR or UK
20.5 Opening CeremoniesThe Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada
(G) 1977-1989
Author born in Japan
+25 Task
+5 pub 1981
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 565
15.8 Olympic ScavengerTo the Hilt by Dick Francis
Option B: 'When the hell did you last sit on a horse?" she asked, frowning.
15 task
5 oldie
______
20
Running total: 290
Task 15.4 Olympic ScavengerVOLLEYBALL
Option B
How High We Go in the Dark (2022) by Sequoia Nagamatsu
p. 286: “Perhaps they sky will be filled with large, colorful kites flying in the wind – dragons and butterflies and biplanes. Not far away, people playing VOLLEYBALL will notice her.”
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 165 + 15 = 180
Post 212 Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "10.6 HurdlesThe Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times by Robin Reames
Nonfiction
+10 tsk
Season total:70"
55 at post 139 + 10 here = 65
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+5 Big