Reading with Style discussion

10.7 Discus Throw

Disco For The Departed by Colin Cotterill

+10 Task (DISCo)

Task total = 10
Season total = 810

15.2 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

golf Option B – from chapter 2 but then I saw Taguchi at golf on Saturday

+15 Task

Task total = 15
Season total = 825

10.5 400 metres

Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 225

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

15.7 Olympic Scavenger

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
Option A, the novel opens with Bobby playing a round of golf

+15 task
+5 Before 1999

Post Total = 20
Season Total = 245

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

15.8 Olympic Scavenger

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Option B, "Desdemona asked, sounding confused "I've never been DIVING in my life."

+15 task

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 260

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

15.9 Olympic Scavenger

There Should Be More Dancing by Rosalie Ham
Option A, boxing - at various times the story recounts the boxing career of Walter, Margery's eldest son, particularly the details of his final, tragic fight

+15 task

Post Total = 15
Season Total = 275

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

15.10 Olympic Scavenger

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Option A, Horse Riding - Sheriff Bell and his wife Loretta go out riding their horses several times through the novel - " He rode out with the reins in one hand, patting the horse."

+15 task
+100 finisher bonus

Post Total = 115
Season Total = 390

10.1; 10.2; ...; ...; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

15.6 Olympic Scavenger

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Boxing-Option B: "As he ran, he performed little boxing moves, punching like he was Rocky Balboa." pg. 251

+15 Task

Task total=15
Season total=125

15.7 Olympic Scavenger

On Agate Hill by Lee Smith

Horse-riding Option A: Set in the 19th Century, there are frequent mentions of riding horses on pages 254, 262, 269, 336 and more, such as "Martha rode out ahead on her big gray horse Valentine . . . "

Task total: 15
Season total: 195

20.2 Opening Ceremonies


A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay

Author born in Canada- Book published 2019

+20 Task
Season Total 150

15.8 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)
Love with a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir by Torre DeRoche

surfing, Option B
"Dad dreamed of a faraway place where he could get his writing career started, a place with wide-open spaces, good surfing, beear and--most importantly--a vast body of water between himself and his controlling mother."

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 580

10.9 Javelin Throw

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

+10 Task: javelIn tHrow

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 295

10.10 1500 metres

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

+10 Task: 794 pages
+ 5 Before 1999: 1873
+ 5 Big: 794

Post Total: 20
Decathalon Finish: 100
Season Total: 415

15.2 Olympic Scavenger
The Midnight Libraryby Matt Haig
swimming option B p 9 "national swimming competition"

Task +15
Grand Total: 70

10.6 Hurdles

Christine by Stephen King

+10 Task - fantasy (mystery--fantasy)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1983)
+ 5 Big (503 pages)

Task total = 20
Season total = 235

10.4 High Jump

Heartbreak Soup by Gilbert Hernández
Rating of 4.36 at time of posting

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 400

10.1; 10.2; ...; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

10.3 Shot Put

Summer Fires by Giulia Sagramola
Rating 2.79 at time of posting

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 410

10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; ...
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3;

15.3 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)

Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty

basketball Option B – from page 39 or whether the point guard on the basketball team had noticed her

+15 Task

Task total = 15
Season total = 840

10.4 High Jump

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

+10 Task (rating 4.31)

Task total = 10

Season total: 20

15.1 Olympic Scavenger

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Diving, Option B - "You're diving into the deep end here" (ch 8)

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season total: 25

15.2 Olympic Scavenger

House of Correction by Nicci French

Swimming, Option A - Tabitha goes swimming in the ocean daily when she's not in prison

+15 Task
+5 Big (528 Pages)

Task total: 20

Season total: 45

15.3 Olympic Scavenger

This Book Won't Burn by Samira Ahmed

Hockey, Option B - "When did you start playing hockey?" (p. 157)

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season total: 60

15.4 Olympic Scavenger

Thursday's Children by Nicci French

Swimming, Option B - "I used to like swimming." (ch. 2)

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season total: 75

15.5 Olympic Scavenger

Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism by Peter Staley

Football, Option B - "A six-foot-four, 230 pound defensive tackle on our football team"

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season total: 90

15.6 Olympic Scavenger

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Athletics, Option A - Violet and Imogen go running together each morning

+15 Task
+5 Big (640 Pages)

Task total: 20

Season total: 110

10.2 Long Jump

Miss Mole by E.H. Young

Historical fiction

+10 task
+5 before 1999 (Published in 1930)

Task total: 15
Season total: 210

15.4Olympic Scavenger

horse or horse-riding

The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West by Will Grant

Option A

With two horses, cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime.

Points this task 15
Season Total 165

10.10 1500 metres

Homecoming by Kate Morton

547 pgs


10 task
5 jumbo
____
15
100 finisher bonus
_____
115

Running total: 405

15.9 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)
A Second Chance (The Chronicles of St Mary's #3) by Jodi Taylor

boxing, Option B
"'College boxing champion in my day.' panted the professor."

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 595

10.8 Decathlon

The Sea by John Banville
Booker Prize 2005

Task: 10
Running Total: 80

Task 20.5 Opening Ceremonies

The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander #2) (1992) by Henning Mankell; translated from Swedish by Laurie Thompson

H/1990-2002
Author: Born in Stockholm, Sweden
SWEDEN

+25 Task
+05 Published before 1999 (1992)

Task Total: 25 + 05 = 30

Grand Total: 180 + 30 = 210

15.6 Olympic Scavenger

Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth by Michael S. Engel

Cycling Option B
Page 197 has this quote from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 100

Completed so far: 15.1 golf, B; 15.2 surfboard, B; 15.3 canoe, canoeing A; 15.4 basketball, B, 15.5 tennis, B; 15.6 cycling, B.

15.7 Olympic Scavenger

The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

Wrestle-Option B: "You could have made it worse," Lily said. If you'd tried to wrestle the gun away he might have shot everyone in that classroom." pg. 158

+15 Task

Task total=15
Season total=140

15.7 Olympic Scavenger

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Surf - Option A: The book features a professional surfer; several times, characters are surfing.

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 180

20.8 Opening Ceremonies

The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel

(J) 2015-2024
author born in China

+30 task

Season total = 225

20.3 Opening Ceremonies

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

20 pts 20.2. (B) 1910-1923 United States
5 pts Pre 1999

Task total = 25
Season total = 180

Post 289

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
20.2 1910-1923 United States

20.4 Opening Ceremonies

Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

(B) 1910-1923 / Japan

+20 Task
+5 Before 1999

Task total: 25
Grand total: 205

15.9 Olympic Scavenger

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

Option A: golf - Bobby Jones and Dr. Thomas play a round of golf at the beginning of the first chapter. Bobby does not play well, puts a ball into the rough and we and Bobby come upon the mystery.

15 task
5 oldie
______
20

Running total: 425

15.4 Olympic Scavenger (Round 2)

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

boxing Option B – from page 253 imagine evolution like a boxing match

+15 Task

Task total = 15
Season total = 855

20.6 Opening Ceremonies

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

(G) 1977-1989 (1988)

Author born in Australia

+25 Task (1988)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1988)
+ 5 Big (515)

Task total = 35
Season total = 450

20.7 Opening Ceremonies

Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll

(E) 1951-1963 (1959)

Author born in Germany

+30 Task (1959)
+ 5 Before 1999 (1959)

Task total = 35
Season total = 485

10.2 Decathlon, Long Jump

The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell, MPG Thriller

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 175

10.6 Decathlon, Hurdles

Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper, MPG Nonfiction

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Season total: 185

10.10 1500 metres

The Count of Monte Cristo, Vol. 1 of 2 by Alexandre Dumas

706 pages

+10 Task
+5 Before 1995 (1844)
+5 Big

Task total = 20

Points total = 205

… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …

15.10 - Olympic Scavenger

A l'aise, Blaise ! by Claude Ponti

Athletics Option A: running and jumping, illustrated

+15 Task
+100 Finisher bonus

Task total = 115

Points total = 320

… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …

10.9 Javelin Throw

I Am Their Silence: Barcelona Murder Mystery by Jordi Lafebre

+10 Task

Task total = 10

Points total = 330

… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …

20.3 - Opening Ceremonies

Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki

(G) 1983, Japan

+20 Task
+5 Before 1999

Task total = 25

Points total = 355

… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …

10.5 400 metres

Olympe de Gouges by Catel

488 pages

+10 Task

Task total = 10

Points total = 365

… ; … ; … ; 10.4 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; 15.4 ; 15.5 ; 15.6 ; 15.7 ; 15.8 ; 15.9 ; 15.10
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …

15.4 Olympic Scavenger

Framed in Fire by Iona Whishaw

Canoe option B: “…my mother and grandmother still came in a canoe to fish in the lake before I was born.”

+15 task
Season total: 100

10.9 Decathlon, Javelin Throw

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

+10 Task
+5 Pub'd 1999

Task total: 15
Season total: 200