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Joanne wrote: "Does the bird name "Golden Cascade" https://www.google.com/search?q=is+th......"I tried to find any other bird name that was only a "Cascade" but couldn't find one. Unfortunately, since only a "Golden Cascade" is a bird name the standalone word "Cascade" wouldn't work.
20.10 The _____ of _____The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
+20 Task
+10 Aged (died at age 82)
+10 Non-Western
+15 Oldies, pub. 1886
+5 Combo: 10.8 (https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.co... here's a link to the play version)
Task total: 60
Season total: 190
15.7 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsF. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR: they share a top-three MPG of "Fiction."
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 130
15.6 BBR, The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsD. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR: both set modern day.
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 110
Tien wrote: "Checking if this qualifies:Monkey by Wu Cheng'en
Below is Wikipedia article about the stage adaptation (opera)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey:......"
That looks great! Enjoy! (As long as it's the one by Wu Cheng'en...the "Monkey" link I clicked took me to a Kurt Vonnegut book, which wouldn't work for this task).
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
Karen Michele wrote: "Does Literature combined with a country work? Example: Japanese Literature"After some further research, it seems like many readers have shelved books as "Japanese Literature" when they mean "Japanese Author" or merely "Japanese"--we found manga and YA novels that had MPG of "Japanese Literature" when we wouldn't necessarily consider them the level of writing or import that the task implies ("Literature" or "Classics").
For that reason, we won't accept "*country name* Literature" for this task as we fear that this will be true across the board.
Joanne wrote: "I am just clarifying- It is a personal bucket list. In the last 4 years I have had a list I am growing "Read older fantasy". The book must be at least 10 years old, and not a re-read. So I could u..."It is a personal bucket list. Sounds like your "Read older fantasy" list would be a perfect fit!
Lagullande wrote: "Is an underground train (subway) acceptable?"No, for this task it needs to be a railway train that doesn't just move one within a single city (i.e.: subway or metro)...think Murder on the Orient Express or Anna Karenina or The Girl on the Train. Even if the person only rides the train within a single city in the book, as long as the train is part of a larger railway system, it would work.
Karen Michele wrote: "Is a bucket list like "read the next book in the series" or "read from my collection of McSweeneys literary journals" work here? I'm trying to "get organized" ;)"You know your bucket list better than anyone, so whatever qualifies as "bucket list" to you would work...just keep in mind that if you want to do the task multiple times, you'd use the same bucket list you started with.
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
15.4 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
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
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
15.1 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
BBR: The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsA. Clare Cassidy=> Clare Mackay (See Them Run by Marion Todd)
C. Sussex: The Last Word
E. Same author, The Postscript Murders
F. MPG, Fiction: Anxious People
G. Pub. 2018: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
I. Different language: The Girl Who Reads on the Métro, written in French
J. RwS member: Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie was a 5-star read for Rosemary
Rosemary wrote: "Can I please check Thomas Hardy... according to Fantastic Fiction, he published 14 novels, 4 story collections published during his lifetime (died Jan 1928), some posthumous short st..."From my research, he's also written two plays which would firmly put him over the 20-book threshold :-)
15.10 ScrabbleBleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths
+15 Task, H2, Head, Hearts, Hands, Health (in all forms) in title
Scrabble words made: QUIZ, BIT, THY= 36
Task total: 15
+150 Scrabble Finish, +31 Scrabble score
Season total: 865
That's that for me this season. See you all in Winter!
10.1 Exception to the RuleSharks in the Rivers by Ada Limon
+10 Task, MPE 96 pages
+5 Combo: 10.6, "...in the gold madrone world I came into."
Task total: 15
Season total: 700
20.2 MathThis is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
+20 Task, "you" "I" "this"
+25 Combo: 10.5, Tropper = 7 letters; 10.6, "Other than the small gold locket that hangs from her rearview mirror, the car is empty..."; 20.1, Tropper teaches at Manhattanville College per GR bio; 20.3, O (oxygen) Na (sodium) Th (thorium) Er (erbium); 20.8, b. 1970
Task total: 45
Season total: 685
