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15.5 BBR
BBR book = Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Task E - same author - Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Grand total = 110 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 90)
20.4 - C.J. Sansom and Caleb CarrGirl in Trouble by Stacy Claflin
+20 task - Mystery, Crime
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20
20.3 Francine Pascal + Nelson DemilleSnuff by Terry Pratchett
20 task
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20
Running total: 20
This is my carry over book.
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleBlack Diamond by Martin Walker
+20 task
+5 combo 20.4 mystery, crime
+10 aged b. 1947
Task total: 35
Season total: 35
15.1 BBRBBR book = Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Task D - same time period
The Executioner by Chris Carter
Both books were published in 2010 and set in the early 2000s.
+15 Task
Post total = 15
Season total = 15
20.2 Edna O’BrienAs Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
20 pts 20.2 Edna O’Brien. Layla and Samara discuss leaving Syria.
Task Total: 20 pts
Season total: 20 pts
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15.1 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsI. Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in--my BBR was originally written in English; my 15.1 book was originally written in French.
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
15.1 BBRBBR book: Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Task D, Same time period (late Soviet era, but pre break-up)
Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
+15 Task
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.3)
+10 Aged (b. 1949)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1989)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 40
15.2 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsE. Read another book by the same author who wrote your BBR.
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 30
15.3 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsJ. Choose a RwS member who has also read your BBR, and read a book from that member's "favorites" shelf or that the member rated 5-stars: Rosemary read this and gave my 15.3 title 5 stars.
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 45
10.1 Member Lottery - Stylish Sci-Fi (Deedee's task)The Nutcracker: Hoffmann and Dumas
+10 Task (Classics / Fantasy)
+5 Combo (10.8 play review here->https://www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/n...)
+ 15 Oldies (pub 1816)
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 30
BBR total: -
Season Total: 30
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Broken Book Report 15.1 BBR
BBR Book - Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Task A - Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR
Jeffrey Tolliver - Kisscut by Karin Slaughter
Task total: 15
Grand total: 35
20.4 C. J. Sansom + Caleb CarrHeirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen
Mystery, Historical Fiction
20 task
10 aged
5 combo 20.3
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35
Running total: 55
15.4 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsH. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 60
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleTom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
20 pts 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
10 pts Oldies
10 pts Aged
Task Total: 40 pts
Season total: 60 pts
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20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleHome Front by Kristin Hannah
Task +20
Wrote 20 books
Grand total: 20
20.10 The ____ of ____The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
+20 task
+ 5 combo 20.4 MPGs of Historical Fiction and Mystery
Task total: 25
Season total: 25
20.7 Best FriendsThe Crowded Grave by Martin Walker
+20 task. Gigi, a basset hound, is a companion, ice breaker (everyone seems to fall in love with him on sight), a truffle hunter and a hero.
+10 aged born 1947
+5 combo 20.4
+5 combo 20.3
Task total: 40
Season total: 75
15.5 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsB. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR. Harbinder Kaur => Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 80
15.2 BBRBBR book = Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Task I - different language (my book in English, this book in Arabic)
Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
+15 Task
Post total = 15
Season total = 30
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb CarrThe Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
MPG's: History and Crime
+20 Task
Season Total 20
10.2 Holiday TravelMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
+10 Task
YA Assignment at BPL, no combos
Task total: 10
Season total: 90
15.1 Broken Book Report A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
J. Choose a RwS member who has also read your BBR, and read a book from that member's "favorites" shelf or that the member rated 5-stars.
Krista rated BBR book 5* and following 5*
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
15 task
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15
Running total: 70
10.8 Theater (Valerie's Task):Monkey by Wu Cheng'en
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.1 - Literature AND Fantasy; 10.5 - pub 1592 )
+10 Non Western
+10 Aged (approx 74-75)
+25 Oldies (pub 1592)
Post Total: 65
Season Total: 65
10.1 Stylish Sci-FiOrbital by Samantha Harvey
Literary Fiction and Science Fiction
Task total: 10
Season total: 35
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.4 – blackbird, 20.2, 20.4 – historical fiction, historical)
+10 Aged (1908-1994)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1958)
Task total: 50
Grand total: 90
20.4 - C.J. Sansom and Caleb CarrThe Dry by Jane Harper
+20 task - mystery and crime
Task total: 20
Grand total: 55
10.10 Group ReadsDays at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
10 task
10 non-western
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20
Running total: 100
What a charming book!! Thanks for the rec, Tien.
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleChristmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
+20 task
+10 Oldie (pub 1882)
Task total: 30
Season total: 65
15.1 BBRBBR book = The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine
Task G - published same year - High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Grand total = 15
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer
+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.2, 20.3, 20.4 – historical fiction, historical)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 125
10.10 Group Read. I read Rosemary’s selection of Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.+ 10 Task.
+ 15 Oldies. 1864
+ 10. Combo: 20.3 St. James Guide to Horror lists 20 story collections, a dozen novels, and 2 books of poetry., 20.4 genres of Mystery and Historical Fiction.
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 35
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleChristmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
+20 Task
+10 Oldie (1882)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 30
20.5 Tom SpanbauerCher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher
+20 Task (source in task thread)
+10 Aged (b. 1946)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 60
20.2 Edna O'Brien:Grounds for Murder (A Coffee Lover's Mystery #1) by Tara Lush
Protagonist, Lana Lewis, hired a new employee, Erica, so they spoke about coffee, latte art, and the murder mystery too
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 85
15.1 BBRBBR book: The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) by Richard Osman
Task G - same publication year - 2023
Heir of Uncertain Magic (Whimbrel House #2) by Charlie N. Holmberg
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 100
15.2 Broken Book Report A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
G. Read another book published the same year as your BBR. -> 2011
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
15 task
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15
Running total: 115
I'd like to move my #9 post:20.4 Pascal and DeMille
Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
+20 Task (10 in Arkady Renko series, 14 as Martin Cruz Smith, 6 as Simon Quinn)
+ 5 Combo (20.3 - Mystery/Crime)
+10 Aged (b. 1942, still living)
+ 5 Oldies (pub'd 1989)
Task total = 40
Season total = 40
10.3 Bucket ListMy personal bucket list is To Read Older Fantasy. The book must be at least 20 years old (so for this year (2024) published before 2005).
Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
Published 1989
+10 Task
+10 Aged (Lackey, born in 1950 is 74 years old)
+5 Oldies (Published 1989)
Task Total 25
Season Total 45
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMillehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_C...
(over 150, not counting poetry, plays, and YA, for which I don't have the energy to check page counts)
Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.1)
+10 Aged (born 1938)
Task total=35
Season total=35
20.4 - C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr Bad River by Marc Cameron
+ 20 task - mystery, crime
+5 Combo - 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Task total: 25
Grand total: 80
Add Combo10.10 Group Read. I read Rosemary’s selection of Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
+ 10 Task.
+ 15 Oldies. 1864
+ 10. Combo: 20.3 St. James Guide to Horror lists 20 story collections, a dozen novels, and 2 books of poetry., 20.4 genres of Mystery and Historical Fiction.
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 35
+ 5 Combo 20.5 Le Fanu is on the LGBTQ author list
Grand Total 40
10.7 VerityVerity by Colleen Hoover
+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.3 (published more than 20 books)
Task total: 15
Season total: 80
20.3 Francine Pascal and NelsonDeMille. I read Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov who has published over 100 books.+20 Task
+10 Aged. Isaac Asimov lived to be 72 https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
+ 5 Oldie – 1st pub’d 1952, 72 years ago.
+10 Combo. 10.1 MPG’s of Science Fiction and Classics, 10.5 -- 2 and 5 in pub year (1952)
Points This Post: 45
Grand Total So Far: 85
10.1 Member Lottery - Stylish Sci-Fi (Deedee's task):I read A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. with MPGs of Science Fiction and Classics.
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Aged. Walter M.Miller, Jr. lived to be 73: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
+ 5 Oldies. Pub’d 1959.
Task Points: 25
Grand Total: 110
20.2 Edna O'BrienAncillary Justice by Ann Leckie
+20 Task: no talk of romance
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 20
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20.1 Paul Auster & Alice Munro
Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.3; 20.8 - pub. 1975)
+10 Aged (b. 1941)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1975)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 90 (assuming mid-season with a previous total of 45)