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Fantastic Firsts sample post15.3 A Promised Land by Barack Obama
B-P
+15 Task
+5 Jumbo
+5 NF
Post Total=25
Season Total=300 (assumes previous posts totaling 275)
15.1 Fabulous FirstsThe Twelve Dogs of Christmas by David Rosenfelt
D - T
15 task
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15
Running total: 15
This was my carry over book.
15.1 Fab FirstsThe Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers by Ali S. Khan
N - A
+15 task
+5 NF
Task total: 20
Season total: 20
15.1 Fabulous FirstsThey Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Lexile 870
T - A
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
Task=20
Task Total=20
Season Total=20
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15.1 Fabulous FirstsFair Game (Alpha & Omega #3) by Patricia Briggs
P - F
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
15.2 Fabulous FirstsThe Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
I - P
+15 Task
+ 5 Not novel (approved)
Task total: 20
Season total: 35
10.1 EnjoyedA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
10 pts 10.1 Enjoyed
5 pts Oldies
Task total: 15 pts
Season total: 15 pts
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10.9 Pub Trivia (Anika's Task)The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway #1) by Elly Griffiths
REISLING can be found in cRosSING ELly grIffiths
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 - Elly; 20.4; 20.9)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 40
20.9 Series (Kate S's task)Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1) by Charlaine Harris
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - merlot found in MidnighT cROssroad charLainE)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 65
20.9 SeriesFortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich
20 pts 20.9 Series Stephanie Plum 27
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 35 pts
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20.3 OppositesThe Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig
Low lexile, no styles
Author is male; main character, Amelia Wishart, is female.
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 55
10.5 MotherThe Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
+10 task
+5 combo 10.9 riesling - the wild gIRLs urSula lE GuIN
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
20.4 CrimePlayed to Death by B.V. Lawson
Female author and mystery-crime is on main page
+20 task
+5 combo 20.3 - pov Scott Drayco investigator
+5 combo 20.9 - 1st in series
Task total: 30
Grand total: 45
20.4 CrimeThe Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton
10.9 merlot: ThE adventuRes Of Maud wesT, Lady detective
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 25
Season total: 80
10.9 PubThe Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones
Review
Amaretto - The Last Final Girl, Stephen Graham Jones
+10 task
+5 20.3(screenplay structure, multiple female POVs, primarily Izzy)
Task total = 15
Season total = 15
10.4 SpringCoronation Everest by Jan Morris
First published 1958.
+10 task
+5 combo (10.9 - spelling AMARETTO (cORonATion EveresT jAn Morris)
+5 oldies
Post total: 20
Season total: 20
20.4 CrimeThe Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule
Review
+20 task
+15 combo (20.2, 10.2, 10.9 Baileys thE StrAnger BesIde me: ted bundY:... ann ruLe)
+5 Oldies
+5 Jumbo
Task total = 45
Season total = 60
20.5 Balkansset entirely in Albania
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
Task=20
1000 books=10
oldie= 5 (1978)
Task Total=35
Season Total=55
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20.9 SeriesThe Scarab Path by Adrian Tchaikovsky
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 – vodka, 20.3)
+5 Jumbo (692 pgs)
Task total = 35
Season Total=35
20.10 Family SagaA Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
+20 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1966)
Task total: 25
Season total: 25
15.2 Fabulous FirstsThe Wings of the Sphinx (Commissario Montalbano #11) by Andrea Camilleri
A - W
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 80
20.3 OppositesThe Passengers by John Marrs
Author is male, main character Libby Dixon is female
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
Task total: 25
Season total: 105
10.3 Naughty NinetiesParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
+10 Task (1993)
+5 Oldies
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
Post 26 Connie wrote: "20.10 Family SagaA Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
+20 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1966)
Task total: 25
Season total: 25"
You can spell Cabernet with these letters, so combo with 10.9 and it is part of a series also.
20.4 CrimeThe Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
+20 Task
+25 Combo: 10.2 (Yrsa), 10.4 (2015), 10.9 Chardonnay: tHe ReCkONiNg YrsA sigurdArDottir; 20.3, 20.9
Task total: 45
20.9 SeriesThe Absolution by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
+20 Task (Children's House series)
+20 Combo: 10.2 (Yrsa), 10.9 Absinthe: THE ABSolutIN, 20.3, 20.4
Task total: 40
Season total: 85
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 26 Connie wrote: "20.10 Family SagaA Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
+20 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1966)
Task total: 25
Season total: 25"
You can spell Cabernet with..."
Thanks for finding the extra points, Elizabeth!
10.8 BirdsThe Cat Who Knew a Cardinal by Lilian Jackson Braun
10 task
5 oldie
25 combo 10.3, 10.9 (kahlua), 20.3, 20.4, 20.9
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40
Running total: 70
10.2 NameMagruder's Curiosity Cabinet by H.P. Wood
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 40
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10.1 EnjoyedThe Duke and I by Julia Quinn
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 50
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10.9 Pub Trivia (Anika's Task)Ladies of the Lake by Haywood Smith
ladieS of the laKE HaYWood SmIth = whiskey
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 60
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20.3 OppositesThe Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black
Low Lexile
+20 Task female authors, male POV
Task total = 20
Season Total=55
10.10 Group ReadAll Systems Red by Martha Wells
I'd had this on my wishlist since a real life friend recommended it last summer, so I was excited to see it on the group reads list! I downloaded it right away, raced through it, and loved it. Thanks, Katy!
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.9)
Task total: 15
Season total: 120
10.9 Pub Trivia (Anika's Task)The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
+10 Task (Merlot: The pRincE niccoLO Macchiavelli)
+ 5 Combo (10.4 pub 1532)
+25 Oldies (pub 1532)
Points this post: 40
RwS total: 40
Fan1sts total: -
Season Total: 40
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10.6 SentenceBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Task=10
combo= 10 (10.9-merlot; 20.10*)
oldie= 5 (1972)
Task Total=25
Season Total=80
***for 20.10- the MC is a child who lives with his parents. He also spends harvest season with his grandfather and uncles.
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20.9 - SeriesGone Forever by Scott Blade
+20 task
+5 Combo - 10.9 - cabernet - GoNE forevER sCotT BlAde
+5 Combo missed on post 12 - 10.9 - lambic - No Man's LAnd BaldacCI
Task total: 30
Grand total: 40
20.4 - CrimeHold Still by Lisa Regan
+20 task
+5 Combo 10.2
+5 Combo 10.9 - riesling - Hold StIll LISa REGaN
Task total: 30
Grand total: 70
10.6 SentenceCall Your Daughter Home Deb Spera
+10 Task
+5 combo - 10.9 (calL yOur daughTeR hoME deb spera = merlot)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 75
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15.3 Fabulous Firsts My Brief History by Stephen Hawking
m - s
15 task
5 not a novel
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20
Running total: 90
20.7 Real PersonThe Cold Millions by Jess Walter
+20 task Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is a main character
+10 combo 10.2, 10.9 The Cold Millions Jess Walter Merlot
Task total: 30
Season total: 50
20.4 CrimeThe Assassin's Prayer by Ariana Franklin
+20 Task
+5 Combo 20.9
Task total = 25
Season Total=105
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20.3 Opposites
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.10)
+10 Non Western
+10 1001 Books
+10 Oldies (pub'd 1877)
+20 Jumbo (964 pgs)
Task total = 75
Season Total=275 (assumes previous posts with a score of 200)