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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 BuffetThe 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
15.1 International BuffetWomen 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 MaruSilver 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 PhilosophyA 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 PhilosophyThe 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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Please check the Group Reads thread for readers entitled to nominate a Group Read this season.Beth - last chance to designate a task for this season by emailing suggested task ideas to rwsmods@gmail.com
20.7 - Puzzle FunSins 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 WalesCousin 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 FunThe 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 BuffetThis 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 BuffetConvenience 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 McBainWhen 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 FunHer 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 FunSorcerer 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
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35
Running total: 35
20.7 Puzzle FunPlace 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 McBainFoundationby Mercedes Lackey
Author has written 15 books in the Hundred kingdoms series
Task +10
Grand toal: 10
15.1 International BuffetThe 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 BuffetDe 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 BuffetBookshops & 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 BuffetThe 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 BuffetCity 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
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15
Running total: 50
20.2 Prime DirectiveStranger 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 BuffetAll 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 BooksVoyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4)
+10 Oldies
Task total: 25
Grand total: 25
20.8 Haunted HouseTwelve 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?
15.3Summer 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 BuffetThe 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 DoublesMaria: 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 PhilosophyTimecode 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 DoublesSplit 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 ReadsWhistler 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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20.2 Prime DirectiveRendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
20 task
5 oldie
15 prize
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40
Running total: 90
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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)