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Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Just because, I have a 3-word title on my shelf that I think qualifies. Although I was taught vowels are not alliterative, perhaps this works at RwS.Inspector Imanishi Investigates"
I have this book too, now! I just came across it used and got it today. But I don't think I will get to it this season.
That's a good point, Owlette - it looks like it goes by the number of books earning Prize-worthy points. That was me not knowing exactly how the database would calculate it when I wrote the Styles & Bonuses post. I will update it. But anyway, usually we take about 10 people to pick group reads, so there are plenty of winners :)Maybe you are thinking of the "Most Strategic Reader" who gets to create a task? There's only one winner for that. It doesn't depend on Prize-worthy points but on average total points per book claimed. (It's a little more complicated than that - the details are in point 3 under "Other Rewards".) This works the same way it always did.
20.2 War BabiesThe Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Wastrel Dougal Douglas charms his way into a job in personnel research for a small manufacturing company in late 1950s south London. He proceeds to do very little except dazzle some of the employees and stir up trouble among the others.
I found this weird but enjoyable. There are hints that Dougal Douglas might be a devil (remnants of horns on his head). The characters are so awful they made me cringe at times - it's a witty book but in a cruel way. A sly look at life in a part of London that was unexciting at the time, though I'm told Peckham has become a Gen Z hub.
+20 Task (born 1918)
+ 5 Combo 10.6 (1960)
+10 Review
+10 Female
Task total = 45
Season Total = 165
Post 120 Claire wrote: "Sweet sixteen bingoB5 A book with a 1 and a 6 in the publication year
Ibiza
Kiki van Dijk
15 points
Total points: 405 points"
Claire, when you post a bingo task, please would you give us the task number 15.x? I think your next one will be 15.14. I know we can figure it out from your diagram, but it will save us counting each time.
It would also help if you could edit the posts on this page only (101 onwards) to include the task numbers, because we haven't entered those in the database yet.
Post 79 Valerie wrote: "30.1 Go for the Green!The Rock by Robert Daws
Sometimes when I’ve read books for the group project they haven’t been that good. I just read them for the setting...."
I don't think this works for the combo with 20.3. As far as I can see, he has only written two other novels and a short ebook (19 pages). Then he has been a narrator of books by other authors. We need him to be the first-named author of three other 100+ page books.
-5 pts
Post 74 Tien wrote: "In post #42 I claimed"20.6 Fall Equinox (Fall 2018)
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods #1) by Beth Cato
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5 - MPG Food, 1..."
Changed to task 10.5 as requested
Post 54 Marie wrote: "15.1 Sweet Sixteen BingoThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
02 - 17 letters
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 90"
Just to note the total letters should be 16, but this still works for O2 because the author has 6 letters in her last name. So no problem.
20.4 Uncommon LetterInvisible Helix by Keigo Higashino
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo 20.10 (Japan)
Task total = 25
Season Total = 120
10.9 Cheese!Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell
Published in 1934, this is a fairly standard upper-class English country house romance (no murder, sorry!) Poor relation Mary Preston has been invited to stay/live with her deceased uncle’s wife’s rich family. Young David Leslie charms her, but his family warn her that he’s irredeemably selfish. Who is she to believe?
This was enjoyable in a predictable way, but I would only have given it three stars except for one masterful scene. David invites Mary to lunch with him in London, promising wild strawberries that the restaurant imports from Switzerland. Not only does he forget the strawberries on the day, but he invites another girl along for lunch too. Their rivalry over the lunch table is hilarious and earned the book another star from me.
+10 task (Agnes and Lady Emily Leslie eat cheese soufflé)
+10 Review
+10 Female
Task total = 30
Season Total = 95
I'm familiar with Granta, but not McSweeney's. They do sound very similar (book-length quarterly literary periodicals), and as McSweeney's is accepted, we will take Granta.
Post 20 Valerie wrote: "10.9 Cheese!Lost and Fondue by Avery Aames
This was a very enjoyable cozy mystery. The main characters were fairly well established in the first book of the serie..."
+10 Female
15.2 SSBSquare N3 - Free choice
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1916)
Task total = 20
Season Total = 65
Bingo: N2, N3
10.9 Cheese!Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
A character eats cheese on long slices of pear.
+10 task
Task total = 10
Season Total = 45
10.8 Are You a Bookshop or Library Person?The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
+10 task
+10 Female
Task total = 20
Season Total = 35
Owlette wrote: "Does MPG (main page genre) include the genres displayed after clicking “More”?"Yes! But not "show all", which takes you to another page.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "EDIT: We’re doing the same row it looks like."I also plan to do that row!
15.1 SSBSquare N2 - A book written by two authors
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season Total = 15
Bingo: N2
Added to the task description: or whose title contains the word "curious", "curiosity", or "wonder". Plurals and possessives are acceptable - no other variations.
At Karen Michele's suggestion, we have expanded the requirements for her task 10.7 a little. Please re-check the task thread or Task Overview.
Connie wrote: "Books of poetry and plays have been considered nonfiction for some tasks in the past. Are they both OK for this task?"No, this is different from "not a novel". We won't take poetry and plays for this one.
