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15.1 CiV 10
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
+15 Task A-B, 381-420/781-820 pages, and 1993-2007
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 265 (assumes a mid-season, previous total of 250)
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The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters
20 task
10 aged
5 combo 20.5
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35
Running total: 35
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
+15 Task A-B, 101-140/501-540 pages, and 1933-1947
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
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The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
She's in top form here!
20 task
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20
Running total: 55
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The Lilac Girls of Ravensbrück by Martha Hall Kelly
+15 Task I-J-K, 461-500/861-900 pages and 2008-2022
Post Total: 15
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Yesterday by Juan Emar
+15 Task E-F, 141-180/541-580 pages and 1933-1947
Points this post: 15
RwS total: -
CoA total: 15
Season Total: 15
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From ttps://www.goodreads.com/list/show/155601.Po...
# 36 - The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Task: 10
Post: 10
Season total: 10
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
This was my carry-over book. 5 stars!
+15 Task S-T-U, 381-420/741-780 pages, and 2008-2022
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
10 task
5 combo 10.7
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15
Running total: 70
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Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
15 pts 15.1 CiV 10
L-M 101-140/501-540 1888-1902
Task total. 15 pts
Total Season: 15 pts
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Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
+15 Task V-W-X-Y-Z, 261-300/661-700, and 1963-1977
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
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Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
I-J-K, 181-220/581-620, 1888-1902
15 task
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15
Running total: 85
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13 White Tulips by Frances Crane
+20 Task C-D, 221-260/621-660 pages and 1948-1962
Points this post: 20
RwS total: -
CoA total: 35
Season Total: 35
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Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future by Richard Davies
+10 task TIME
Task total: 10
Season total: 10
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The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
+15 Task E-F, 381-420 pages, and 19.3-1917
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
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The Cunning by Robert Bloch
+20 task
+10 combo (20.2, 20.8)
+10 aged (1917-1994)
Task total=40
Season total=40
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Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice. Yusef Salaam
Includes hour
+10 task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 10
10.6
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The Viscount Who Loved Me. Julia Quinn
Takes place in 1814
+20 task
+5 - combo (10.6) Time
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 45
10.6;10.8
20.7;
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The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 - Hour, 10.7 - historical/mystery, 20.8 - RB
+10 Aged (1945-living)
Task total = 45
Season total = 60
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The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Newell Boothby
20 pts 20.2 Keys to the Kingdom
5 pts 10.6 NYE Countdown TIME
Task total. 25 pts
Total Season: 40 pts
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Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
+10 TIME
+5 Combo 10.7 Science Fiction & Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 40
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Caín by José Saramago
+10 Historical & Cultural
+5 Combo 10.8
+10 Lit originally published in Portuguese
+10 Aged
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 75
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Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries by Martin Edwards
My list is the British Library Crime Classics:
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This book is number 6 on the list.
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 25
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Read one of these books recommended by a fellow RwS member:
Kathleen (itpdx)
Bewilderment (2021) by Richard Powers (Hardcover, First Edition, 278 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.6 TIME:bewIlderMEnT)
Task Total: 00 + 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 00 + 15 = 15
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Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan
+20 Task I-J-K, 181-220/581-620, and 2008-2022
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 35
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The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles #3) by Anne Rice
+25 Task P-Q-R, 421-460/821-860, and 1978-1992
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 60
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Gun Street Girl (Detective Sean Duffy #4) by Adrian McKinty
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 - mystery & cultural; 20.8 - author's initials AM found in quMrAn)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 90
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Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) by Adrian McKinty
author's initials AM found in quMrAn
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 - mystery & cultural; 20.4 - thriller)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 120
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Science Fiction, Cultural, Historical
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 : A rou nd t h e world in 80 days - hour)
+10 Aged (born 1828 and died 1905 at 77 years old)
Task total = 25
Season total = 25
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Confirmée by Florence Dupre la Tour
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 35
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Rizzio by Denise Mina, 128 pp.
Task Points: 10
Season Total So Far: 10"
New tasks since you posted! This also qualifies for 10.7 - Historical, Mystery - and 10.8 Singles.
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Noor. Nnedi Okorafor
+10 task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 20
10.6;10.8"
This also fits 10.7 for Science Fiction and Cultural
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The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
{V-W-X-Y-Z} {101-140/501-540} {1873-1887}
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
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Protected Secrets by Shawn McGuire
+20 task - 634 rating
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20
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City of Stones by Robert Ellis
+20 task - 142 rating
Task total: 20
Grand total: 40
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Engaging With The Enemy by Jean Stokes
+10 task - 123pgs
+10 Combo - 10.6 - time, 20.2 - 90 rating
Task total: 20
Grand total: 60
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In Her Hero's Arms by Jean Stokes
+20 task - 49 rating
Task total: 20
Grand total: 80
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Fighting For Her Honor by Jean Stokes
+10 task - 111pgs
+5 Combo - 20.2 - 61 rating
Task total: 15
Grand total: 95
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Falling For The Pilot by Jean Stokes
+10 task - 124pgs
+5 Combo - 20.2 - 93 rating
Task total: 15
Grand total: 110
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Protected Secrets by Shawn McGuire
+20 task - 634 rating
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20"
20.2 Must have both fewer than 5k ratings and have been published in the 20th Century. Do you have a list you can use for this and #42? How about #44? Let's try to salvage some of these.
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Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
Task: 20
Combo-5 (10.7- mystery&historical)
Total: 25
Season total: 35
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The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
Task: 10
Combo: 10 (20.8- TH; 20.4- MPG- thriller)
Post total: 20
Season total: 55
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Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
+10 Task (historical & mystery)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 35
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10.1 List Lovers
Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre
+10 using the canon as my list
+10 Lit (originally published in French)
+10 Canon
+10 Aged (1905-1980) <-- he died before his 75th birthday, but maybe that is a good example to use to show the years without exact dates..
+5 Combo 20.9 Genet refers to writer Jean Genet
+5 Jumbo 625 pages in MPE
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 250 (assumes a previous, mid-season total of 200)