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15.5 Ticket to Ride
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
City = San Francisco
+15 Task (Omaha--Kansas City--Denver--Salt Lake City--San Francisco)
Season total = 590 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 575)
**Please include somewhere in your sub-challenge posts your train route as you go so we can make sure you get the correct bonus on completion of 15.1-15.10**
20.6 The SonnetsThe Triumph of Achilles and Descending Figure by Louise Glück
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Female
+5 Oldies (1985, 1980)
+5 Combo (10.5: from author's profile, "Hungarian Jewish heritage")
Task total: 50
Season total: 50
10.1 Square PegThe Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts by Jeff Belanger
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
Season total: 70
15.1 Ticket to RideA Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti
City = Seattle
+15 Task (Seattle - )
Season total = 15
20.2 A Midsummer Night's DreamThe Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
#37 on list
20 task
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20
Running total: 20
10.4 Leap YearThe Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault
+10 task
+10 combos (20.4; 20.9 - Both of these are related in the text. When the poet Gaston dies, Bilodo takes on his identity to continue the poetic exchange with Segolene. To truly immerse himself in the "character" of Gaston, he moves into his former apartment)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 20
10.4
15.1 Ticket to Ride The Second-Worst Restaurant in France by Alexander McCall Smith
Sault Ste Marie
15 task
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15
Running total: 35
15.1 Ticket to RideSnow by Orhan Pamuk
City = Phoenix
+15 Task (Phoenix--TBA)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
10.5 Jewish WritersFoundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
+10 task
+5 oldies
+5 combo (20.4, please see help thread)
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 40
10.4; 10.5
15.1 Ticket to RideNew OrleANs
Bound by Antonya Nelson
I am planning on the Circular Route beginning and ending in New Orleans:
15.1 New Orleans -- Bound by Anotnya Nelson
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10 New Orleans
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
10.8 "Fairytale of New York"The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
Published 1993
+Task 10
+ Female Author 10
+ Oldie 5
Task Total 25
Season Total 25
20.4 OthelloThe Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
20 task
10 female author
10 oldie
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40
Running total: 75
15.1Attempting circular. We will see how this goes....
Washington
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
10.4 shortIf They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
100 pages
+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.6 poetry
+10 female
+10 not a novel
Task total: 35
Grand total: 50
20.9 Fresh Start (Joanna's task)Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang
How it fits 20.9: The MC's family moves from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis, and a lot of the story is about how they adjust to their new life
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 20
20.4 OthelloA Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
(This book is YA with lexile score of 860L)
How it fits 20.4: The MC meets a boy who introduces himself as a regular citizen named Bo, but he is actually (view spoiler)
+20 Task
+10 Female
Task total: 30
Season total: 20 + 30 = 50
20.10 Boxing Day (Rosemary's task)Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 60
10.4; 10.5
20.10
Task 10.9 Summer, Not Winter (Apple's Task)Read a book set at least 75% in one of my Southern Hemisphere "Neighbours".
Novel set >75% in Queensland, Australia.
For #20.9 combo: The main female character and a 6 year old boy move from Boston, Massachusetts to rural Queensland, Australia.
His Illegal Self (2008) by Peter Carey
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.9 character moves to a new city, a new house, or a new job.)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 00 + 15 = 15
20.4 Othello true identity is hidden Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
*ok'd in help thread # 15
+Task 20
+Female Author 10
Task Total 30
Season Total 55
10.1 - Square PegAva Strong by You’ll Be Sorry
+10 task
+10 female Author
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20
10.8 - Fairytale of New YorkDeviant Way by Richard Montanari
+10 task - published 1995
Task total: 10
Grand total: 30
Post 15 Joanne wrote: " 10.8 "Fairytale of New York"The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
Published 1993
+Task 10
+ Female Author 10
+ Oldie 5
Task Total 25
Season Total 25"
This book is described as short stories at Brooklyn Library, and the stories don't seem closely linked other than all being set on Pern (different eras, different characters), so
+10 Not a Novel
10.1 Square PegThe Prisoner by Marcel Proust
Task=10
Oldie=10 (1923)
Task Total=20
Grand Total=20
Tasks Completed:
10.1
20.1 ShakespeareThe Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+10 Combo 20.4 and 20.9 How it fits 20.4: Polixenes and Camillo put on disguises to observe Florizel (Act IV). Florizel is a prince but hides his identity by using a different first name. 20.9 approved in task thread.
+25 Oldie (1623)
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 65
Season Total: 65
10.9 Summer, Not WinterHomecoming by Kate Morton
+10 task (set in Australia)
+ 5 combo 10.2 Singular Mystery
+ 5 combo 20.4 Othello (view spoiler)
+10 female author
+ 5 jumbo (547 pages)
Task total: 35
Season total: 45
Rosemary wrote: "Post 15 Joanne wrote: " 10.8 "Fairytale of New York"The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
Published 1993
+Task 10
+ Female Author 10
+ Oldie 5
Task Tot..."
Thanks for catching that-it is short stories, and I just forgot about that!
15.2 Ticket to RideHouSTon
Side Life by Steve Toutonghi
I am planning on the Circular Route beginning and ending in New Orleans:
15.1 New Orleans -- Bound by Anotnya Nelson
15.2 Houston -- Side Life by Steve Toutonghi
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10 New Orleans
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
20.9 Fresh StartLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
+20 Task, main character begins the book working in a chemistry lab, halfway through the book takes a new job in the television industry
+10 Female
+5 Combo, 20.4: (view spoiler)
Task total: 35
Season total: 105
20.1 ShakespeareRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
20 task
5 oldie
10 NaN
10 combo 10.4, 10.5
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45
Running total: 120
10.5 - Jewish Writers Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Read 34 pages in October = less than 10%
Task: 10
Female author: 10
Post total: 20
Season total: 20
15.2 Ticket to RideSeATtle
Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope
+15 Task
Vancouver
Seattle
Season total = 30
10.6 Winter BirthdaysAt Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
+10 Task total
+10 Female
+5 Oldies, pub. 1965
Task total: 25
Season total: 130
Post 25 Norma wrote: "10.8 - Fairytale of New YorkDeviant Way by Richard Montanari
+10 task - published 1995
Task total: 10
Grand total: 30"
+5 Oldies
10.8 "Fairytale of New York" A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
For 20.9 combo: first Jonathan, then Bobby, moves from their hometown of Cleveland to make a fresh start in New York.
+10 Task (1990)
+ 5 Combo (20.9)
+ 5 Oldies
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 20
Task 20.9 Fresh Start (Joanna's task)Read a book in which a character moves to a new city, a new house, or a new job. The move should be an important part of the story. Please explain how your book fits the task when you post.
This book is a memoir of Emma Brockes – subtitle: “Panic and Joy on my solo path to motherhood.” Part of her “solo path” involved the author relocating from London, England to New York City, New York. One of the reasons for relocation is that in vitro fertilization of a single “unpartnered” woman using donor sperm is something that can be done in New York City in the 2013-2014 timeframe, but is prohibited in London, England in the 2013-2014 timeframe.
An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood (2018) by Emma Brockes (Hardcover 290 pages) [Biography/921]
+20 Task
+10 Female Author
+10 Not-a-Novel (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Task Total: 20 + 10 + 10 = 40
Grand Total: 15 + 40 = 55
10.2 Singular MysteryThe Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh
+10 Task
+10 Female
+5 Combo 20.4 (view spoiler)
Task total: 25
Season total: 155
15.1 Ticket to RideHurlyburly by David Rabe
Truly awful
15 pts Ticket to Ride Denver
Task Total: 15 pts Note See librarian thread for page count
Season Total: 15 pts
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15.1 Denver post 41
15.1 Ticket to Ride - CircularThe Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Denver
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 75
10.4; 10.5
15.1;
20.10
10.6 Winter BirthdaysArabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber
+10 Female
+ 5 Oldies (1993)
Task total = 25
Season total = 40
20.1 ShakespeareRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
How it fits 20.1: phrase from Hamlet:
+10 Combo: 10.5 Jewish Writers /10.6 Winter Birthdays
+10 Not-a-Novel
+ 5 Oldies (1966)
Task total = 45
Season total = 85
20.7 The Wild Life (Mary's Task)The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Winter Birthdays
+10 Female
+ 5 Oldies (1998)
Task total = 40
Season total = 125
Post 33 Valerie wrote: "20.1 ShakespeareRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
20 task
5 oldie
10 NaN
10 combo 10.4, 10.5
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45
Running total: 120"
+5 Combo 10.6
10.4 Leap YearA Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 85
10.4 (x2); 10.5
15.1;
20.10
15.2 Ticket to Ride The Goodbye Look by Ross Macdonald
Sault Ste Marie -> Montreal
15 task
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15
Running total: 140
15.2 Ticket to RideThe Boy at the Keyhole by Stephen Giles
City = Los Angeles
+15 Task (Phoenix--Los Angeles--TBA)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
20.6 The SonnetsTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (1924, 60 pages)
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Winter Garden by Pablo Neruda (1974, 96 pages)
20 task
5 oldie
10 NaN
5 combo 10.4
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40
Running total: 180
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20.4 Othello
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
How it fits 20.4: Charlotte Bronte hid her identity by writing under the pen name of Currer Bell.
How it fits 20.9: Charlotte moved from England to Brussels, Belgium, where she taught in a school and gained inspiration for her first novel (unpublished at the time) The Professor, and her later novel Villette.
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.9)
+10 Female
+10 Not a novel (biography)
+15 Oldies (pub'd 1857)
+ 5 Jumbo (587 pages)
Task total = 65
Season total = 285 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 220)