Reading with Style discussion

Post your completed tasks here. In order to help us better manage our score keeping: PLEASE ONLY POST ONE BOOK PER MESSAGE and do not delete posts.

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20.1 Star Trek

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.7 Simon Frazier, 20.9)
+ 5 Multiple [if this task has been claimed before]
+15 Prize-Worthy (4 prizes)
+ 5 Oldies (1992)
+ 5 Jumbo (572 pages)

Task total = 60
Season Total = 220 (assuming mid-season with 160 pts claimed earlier)

International Buffet

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15.3 International Buffet

The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi

COURSE: Soup
NAME: Vegetarian Borscht

ELEMENTS: 3
Name (SA)
Prep time (1972)
Ingredients - carrot, potato: "she was astonished to see her father-in-law grab a handful of carrots and potatoes"

+ 15 task

Task total = 15
Season total = 235 (assuming mid-season with 220 points claimed earlier)

15.1 International Buffet

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

COURSE: Beverage
NAME: classic caesar

ELEMENTS: 5
Name (AE)
Country Canada (author’s country of residence)
Serving Size (133 pages)
Prep time (2025)
Ingredients - ice: "All the glittering ice of them softened"

+ 15 task

Task total = 15
Season total = 15

20.7 - Puzzle Fun

Proof of Life by J.A. Jance

+20 task - Dr Roz

Task total: 20
Grand total: 20

15.1 International Buffet

Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur

COURSE: Salad
NAME: Shirazi Salad

ELEMENTS: 2
Origin: Iran
Ingredients: Lemon/ " I marinated it in lemon juice and spices", p21

+ 15 task

Task total = 15
Season total = 15

20.9 Kobayashi Maru (Joanna's task)

Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman

+20 points
+ 15 ( 10.9; 20.1; 20.2)
Task total: 35 points
Total : 35 points

20.9 the author is on the provided list
10.9 maTT diNNiman
20.1 MPG Science Fiction
20.2 The MC meets a lot of different races from other worlds for the first time

remark by mods : + 5 pt for Zev
Total: 40 points

10.9 Fall Doubles (Norma's task)

Matrix
Lauren Groff

10 points
+ 10 ( prize worthy)
+ 5 (oldies)
Total task: 25 points
Total: 65 points

.10.9 groFF
.prize worthy: Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award (2022), Joyce Carol Oates Prize (2022)
.Oldies: published 2001

20.9 Kobayashi Maru

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.4)
+5 Prize-Worthy (World fantasy Award)

Task total = 30
Season Total = 45

20.4 Vulcan Philosophy

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 Fall Doubles)
+ 10 Oldies (1929)

Task total = 35
Season Total = 35

20.4 Vulcan Philosophy

The Spinoza Problem
Irvin D. Yalom

20 points
+ 5 ( 20.7 )
+ 5 (prize worthy)
Task total: 30 points
Total: 90 points

20.4 MPG Philosophy
20.7 Baruch Spinoza
Prize worthy: Wizo literatuurprijs

Scored as 20.7 because non fiction: total: 90
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20.7 - Puzzle Fun

Sins of the Fathers by J.A. Jance

+20 task - Dr Roz
+5 combo 10.4
+5 multiple

Task total: 30
Grand total: 50

20.10 Wales
Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
Entire book set in Carmarthen, Wales

Task - 20
Combo - 10 (10.3 - pub 1879, 10.9 - Trollope)
Oldies - 10 (pub 1879)
Task Total -40 pts

20.7 Puzzle Fun

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

+20 task Ruth Zardo and Hazel Smyth
+5 combo 10.9
+5 combo 10.5 Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series
+5 award
Task total: 35
Season total: 35

15.1 International Buffet

This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman

COURSE: Main
NAME: Meat Pie

ELEMENTS: 2
Prep Time - 260 minutes (2026)
Ingredients - beef, onion Pg 153: "You boiled the leaves to wrap ground beef mixed with rice and minced onion."

Task total: 15
Season total: 15

15.2 International Buffet

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

COURSE: Main
NAME: Mahshi

ELEMENTS: 3
Name - SM
Prep Time - 60 minutes (2016)
Ingredients - rice Pg 1: "At this time of day, rice balls, sandwiches, and salads are what sell best."

Task total: 15
Season total: 30

10.5 Evan Hunter/Ed McBain

When the Wolves Are Silent by C.S. Harris

+10 Task (this is the 21st book in the Sebastian St Cyr series)
+20 Combo (10.3 – published 2026, 10.4, 10.9, 20.10 – letters found in title)

Task total = 30
Season Total = 75

20.7 - Puzzle Fun
Her Stolen Bones by Fiona Tarr

+20 task - Zara Hudson
+10 combos - 10.3 2026, 10.9 Tarr
+5 multiple

Task total: 35
Grand total: 85

20.7 Puzzle Fun

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

MC: Zacharias

20 task
15 combo 10.4, 20.8 (Witch/Socerers; ghost, various fae characters), 20.3 Prunella (other MC) is South Asian + British
______
35

Running total: 35

20.7 Puzzle Fun

Place Called Estherville by Erskine Caldwell

+20 task (Ganus and Kathyanne Bazemore)
+10 combo (10.9, 20.3-biracial brother and sister Ganus and Kathyanne Bazemore are MC's)
+10 oldies (1949)

Task total = 40
Season Total = 40

20.7 Puzzle Fun (Owlette’s task)

A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear

+20 Task: Lizzie Beale
+5 Combo: 10.5 Maisie Dobbs

Task total: 25
Season Total: 25

10.5 Evan Hunter/Ed McBain
Foundationby Mercedes Lackey
Author has written 15 books in the Hundred kingdoms series
Task +10
Grand toal: 10

15.1 International Buffet

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower

Course : dessert
Name: Wienerbrod

Elements: 3
Prep time: 2019
Servings: 107 pgs.
Ingredients eggs: “She promised to buy enough eggs for the cake.”

Task: 15
Season total: 50

15.1 International Buffet

De kleine blonde dood
Boudewijn Büch

COURSE: Appetizers
NAME: Bitterballen

ELEMENTS: 3
Origin: the Netherlands: book set in the Netherlands and by Dutch writer
Prep time 1985
Ingredients - butter: ‘my pen goes through the paper as a knife through the butter’ ch. 24

+ 15 task

Task total = 15
Grand total : 105 points

15.2 International Buffet

Bookshops & Bonedust
COURSE: Soup
NAME: Vegetarian Borscht

ELEMENTS: 3
Name: TB
Prep time : November 7, 2023
Ingredients : Salt ‘ clothes worn out by the salt’ ch.9

Task total = 15
Grand total : 120 points

15.3 International Buffet

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

COURSE: Beverage
NAME: Singapore Sling

ELEMENTS: 3
Name - GS
Prep time - 3 minutes (2013)
Ingredients - gin, orange slice, cherry Page 119: "One part each sloe gin, whisky, Galliano, triple sec, orange juice, orange slice, and a cherry."

Task total: 15
Season total: 45

15.2 International Buffet

City of Destruction by Vaseem Khan

COURSE: appetizer
NAME: bitterballen

ELEMENTS: 3
Serving Size (368 pages)
Prep time (2024)
Ingredients - onion: "began with the bowl of French onion soup set before her"

+ 15 task

Task total = 15
Season total = 90

15.1 International Buffet

The Patriarch by Martin Walker

COURSE: Side
NAME: Sukuima Wiki

ELEMENTS: 2
name (MW)
ingredients -tomatoes: pg. 225: "…along with tomatoes, onions, cheese and lardons."

15 task
_____
15

Running total: 50

20.2 Prime Directive
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Task: 20 pts
Combo: 10 pts (20.1, 20.6)
Prize-Worthy: 5 pts (won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1962)
Oldies: 5 pts (published 1961)
Jumbo: 5 pts (uncut version has 525 pages)

Task Total = 45

Post 6:
Claire wrote: "20.9 Kobayashi Maru (Joanna's task)

Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman

+20 points
+ 15 ( 10.9; 20.1; 20.2)
Task total: 35 points
Total : 35 points

20.9 the au..."

+5 Combo - 20.7 - Zev

Post 10:
Claire wrote: "20.4 Vulcan Philosophy

The Spinoza Problem
Irvin D. Yalom

20 points
+ 5 ( 20.7 )
+ 5 (prize worthy)
Task total: 30 points
Total: 90 points

20.4 MPG Philosophy ..."

Sorry - this book appears to be fiction. This task requires a nonfiction book. I've scored it for 20.7, making he total 25 and your total to here 85.

Post 4:
Norma wrote: "20.7 - Puzzle Fun

Proof of Life by J.A. Jance

+20 task - Dr Roz

Task total: 20
Grand total: 20"

+5 Combo 10.5

Post 12:
Norma wrote: "20.7 - Puzzle Fun

Sins of the Fathers by J.A. Jance

+20 task - Dr Roz
+5 combo 10.4
+5 multiple

Task total: 30
Grand total: 50"

+5 Combo 10.5

Post 17:
Coralie wrote: "10.5 Evan Hunter/Ed McBain

When the Wolves Are Silent by C.S. Harris

+10 Task (this is the 21st book in the Sebastian St Cyr series)
+20 Combo (10.3 – published 20..."

I only see 3 combos here - Task total: 35

Post 22:
Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "10.5 Evan Hunter/Ed McBain
Foundationby Mercedes Lackey
Author has written 15 books in the Hundred kingdoms series
Task +10
Grand toal: 10"

+5 Combo 20.1 - Science Fiction Fantasy MPG

Post 25:
Claire wrote: "15.3 International Buffet

Bookshops & Bonedust
COURSE: Soup
NAME: Vegetarian Borscht

ELEMENTS: 3
Name: TB
Prep time : November 7, 2023
Ingredients : Salt ‘ clothes worn out by t..."

For your records, this should be 15.4

15.2 International Buffet

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

Course: side dish
Name: kimchi-bpkkeumbob

Elements: 4
Name: PB
Serving size: 240 pgs.
Prep time: 2023
Ingredients: oil “Humble vessels that held a household’s oil and wine but had room for scenes of life, death and the very gods.”

Task: 15
Season total: 65

10.6 Books in Books

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4)
+10 Oldies

Task total: 25
Grand total: 25

20.8 Haunted House

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

+20 Task (wizard/vampire [and others])
+15 Combo (10.3 - 2026, 10.5 - book 18 of the Dresden series, 20.7 - Fitz)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 60

Joanna wrote: "Post 10:
Claire wrote: "20.4 Vulcan Philosophy

The Spinoza Problem
Irvin D. Yalom

20 points
+ 5 ( 20.7 )
+ 5 (prize worthy)
Task total: 30 points
Total: 90 poin..."

I’m sorry, I mixed it up with another task where fiction w1s okay for this:-(
My total should be still 90, I think as I had 5 extra points in message 30?

15.3

Summer House with Swimming Pool
Herman Koch

Course: Side Dish
Name: Milcao

ELEMENTS: 3

Servings : 389
Preparation time: January 26, 2011

Ingredients : Salt ‘ Besides pine needles and salt, I also smell burning rubber.’ Ch 25

Task total = 15
Grand total : 135 points

15.4


Jessica Fellowes

Course: Salad
name: Shirazi Salad

Elements: 3

Servings: 388
Preparation time: January 1, 2018
Ingredients: ‘ because the sprig of mint tickled his nose.’ ch.27

task: 15 point
Grand Total: 150 points

Servings:

15.1 International Buffet

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

COURSE: Appetizers
NAME: Bitterballen

ELEMENTS: 4
Name (BB)
Prep time  (2025)
Servings (336 pgs.)
Ingredients - Eggs: "Clearing the eggs early in the season meant that those birds that could, would lay again, and fresh eggs were more saleable..."

Task total=15
Season total=55

Joanna wrote: "Post 17:
Coralie wrote: "10.5 Evan Hunter/Ed McBain

When the Wolves Are Silent by C.S. Harris

+10 Task (this is the 21st book in the Sebastian St Cyr series)
+20 C..."

I have edited to add 10.9 for the 4th combo.

10.9 Fall Doubles

Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran

+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.7 Puzzle Fun (characters Mitzi von Trapp, Franz Wasner)

Task total: 15
Season total: 60

20.4 Vulcan Philosophy

Timecode of a Face by Ruth Ozeki

+20 task (MPG Philosophy)
+15 combo (10.7-face, 10.10, 20.3-MC is Japanese American Ruth Ozeki)

Task total = 35
Season Total = 90

10.9 - Fall Doubles

Split Second by David Baldacci

+10 task
+10 missed combos post 4 and 12

Task total: 20
Grand total: 105

10.9 Fall Doubles (Norma's task)

The Patron Saint of Liars
Ann Patchett

10 points
+ 5 (oldies)
+ 5 multiple

Total task: 20 points
Total: 170 points

10.9. ANN
.Oldies: published 1992

10.10 Group Reads

Whistler by Ann Patchett

10 pts 10.10 Group Reads
5 pts 10.3 US Semiquincentenniel 2026
5 pts 10.9 Fall Double
5 pts 20.7 Puzzle Fun. Daphne Zabriskie Fuller. (much of the story is about events during the childhood of Fuller when she used her birthname Zabriskie)

Task total 25pts
Season Total 25 pts

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Post 49

20.2 Prime Directive

Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

20 task
5 oldie
15 prize
_____
40

Running total: 90