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Post 368 Mary wrote: "10.2 Bookshops of MelbourneHamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
10 pts 10.2 Bookshops of Melbourne
5 pts 10.4 fall birthdays
5 pts 10.9 “I brought you this,” Agnes says, h..."
-5 Combo 10.4: we've discussed this and agreed that the F counts as an initial in this type of name, so this book doesn't work for 10.4
20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!Chatterton Square by E.H. Young
E H Young was a best-selling novelist in her day, but many of her books are out of print now. I really enjoyed this one. It is set just before World War 2 but written after it, so the war is a tangible cloud over the lives of the characters, with readers of the time knowing what was to come.
The Blacketts, a straight-laced family headed by a man who takes a strict line with his wife and daughters, are thrown into disarray when a more Bohemian family moves into their street. Rosamund Fraser is running her household alone, with her husband away long-term. She and her handsome sons prove an irrestistible attraction to the Blackett mother and daughters.
+20 Task (3.97 average, 237 ratings)
+10 Review
+10 Female
Task total = 40
Season Total = 410
It's the halfway point of the season. How is everyone doing? On track? Off track? Never had a track? ;)
Post 368 Mary wrote: "10.2 Bookshops of MelbourneHamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
10 pts 10.2 Bookshops of Melbourne
5 pts 10.4 fall birthdays
5 pts 10.9 “I brought you this,” Agnes says, holding out a hunk of bread and a packet of the cheese she makes herself, in the outhouse in Henley Street, straining ewe’s milk through muslin.” Agnes gives Bartholomew cheese "
To clarify, for 10.9, giving or receiving generic cheese wouldn't work, but the detail you've quoted of how it's made is enough for us to accept it as a specific type of cheese (sheep's cheese).
Post 362 Norma wrote: "20.4 - Uncommon LetterThe Fix by David Baldacci
+20 task - X
+5 Combo - 10.9 Cheese - Cheese burger medium with the works.
Task total: 25
Grand total: 635"
Please confirm who eats this cheeseburger, or is it just on a menu or something like that, which would not work?
Post 346 Claire wrote: "10.5 Leo TolstoyRead a book with MPG Food.
Ons voedsel
Louise O. Fresco
10 points + 10 points female + 15 points combo (10.1, 10.4, 10.9 ‘ with calcium and pr..."
-5 Combo: this doesn't work for 10.4 because of the author's initial F.
However, according to the database your total to post 350 is 995, not 965 as you have here. I'm not sure how the difference arose, but I guess you may have missed adding the points from one post.
Post 339 Claire wrote: "Sweet sixteen Bingo 15.2.3B1 Author has a equal number of letters in their first name and their last name.
Motive X
Stefan Ahnhem
15 points
Total: 930 points
..."
+5 Big (the most popular printed edition in English has 608 pages)
Post 338Deedee wrote: "Task 15.05Square I-5 - A book without chapter numbers.
Mattie (1988) by Judy Alter
Spur Award for Best Western Novel (1988)
+15 Task..."
+5 Old
Post 322 Claire wrote: "Sweet sixteen Bingo 15.25 I4 a book of short stories or essays
Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout
15 points + 150 points card finished
Total: 870 points ..."
Congratulations on your Bingo card finish!
Post 315 Tien wrote: "10.9 Marie's taskAtlanta's Guide to Cryptids (DRC Files #1) by Kevin A. Davis
...
Post total: 25
Season total: 375
Tien, at post 255 you had 365 points, plus 25 here = 390
Post 307 Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "10.4 Fall BirthdaysRepentance by Eloísa Díaz
I decided to read this book in my quest to understand Argentina. It tells the story of policeman Alzada in two time ..."
+5 Combo 20.4
Post 301 Karen Michele wrote: "20.1 Happy Birthday Elizabeth!Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein
+20 Task: 3.75 / 185
+15 Combo: Combo: 10.3 1925 Movies /10.4 Fall Birthdays / 10.8 Are ..."
+5 Combo 20.6
Post 268 Joanne wrote: "15-3A book (fiction or nonfiction) set more than 200 years before the time it was published
Queens of the Crusades - set in the 13th Century, published 2021
+15 Post
+ 5 big
T..."
Joanne, when you post Bingo tasks, please also include the number of the square on the Bingo board, because we need to enter it in the database. This one is I2.
Everyone, if you are claiming 10.9 Cheese! from now on, please check message 4 in the task thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... to make sure your book really fits the task, and include the requested information in your posts. Claims up to post 350 have been accepted without changes. Thank you!
Please note for this task, either a character must eat cheese, as in Deedee's question, or a specific type of cheese must be named (like cottage cheese or Camembert). It's not enough just to find the word "cheese" in the book unless you can also say who eats it. Only if a specific type of cheese is named, then it's okay if nobody eats it.
A few books have been claimed where just "cheese" has been quoted and I have assumed the characters actually eat it and accepted the books this time, because we are a little behind with the scoring and it may be too long ago for readers to remember the details. But for future posts, if it's just "cheese", please tell us who eats it, as requested in the task description.
Yes, subtitles are normally included in a task like this unless specified otherwise.
This seems a good moment to open a new Socializing thread - the old one had reached nearly 600 posts, and it has been quiet for a few days. And we will soon be at the halfway point for the season!
To clarify the alliteration task: if a pronunciation is standard enough to be in dictionaries like Merriam-Webster and Collins, we will take it. And as we said earlier in this thread, subtitles can be ignored. So we will accept, for example, Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods and Shooting Schedule.
LOL Denise, you can use it for either one as you like :)
15.3 SSBSquare N1 - a book by a winner or finalist of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1974)
Task total = 20
Season Total = 370
Bingo: N1, N2, N3
