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SU 23 Completed Tasks (844 new)

Jun 08, 2023 02:49PM

20.1 Favorites, "Fall Equinox" (FA18, 20.10: title contains all five vowels)

I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You by Yumi Sakugawa

Task total: 20
Season total: 30

SU 23 Completed Tasks (844 new)

Jun 08, 2023 02:45PM

10.7 Summertime: 6,7,8 in pub. date

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

+10 Task, pub. 2018

Task total: 10
Season total: 10

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 28, 2023 10:43AM

20.10 Uncommon Letter

Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes

+20 Task, Alex (ANOTHER Alex 😂 two books in a row with that character name)
+10 Combo: 10.5, 20.3

Task total: 30
Season total: 1510

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 26, 2023 04:10PM

20.5 Female

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

+20 Task, #221 on the list
+25 Oldies, pub. 1593
+10 Combo: 10.4, 20.3

Task total: 55
Season total: 1480

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 26, 2023 12:44PM

20.10 Uncommon Letter

The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer

+20 Task, Alex
+5 Series, Glass Library series
+5 Combo, 10.4 (**Note: I don't think I can claim 10.3 for this one: "Glass" is the last name of the patron's who fund the library**)

Task total: 30
Season total: 1425

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 26, 2023 12:39PM

20.3 POV

Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg

+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.3, Whimbrel House series; 10.4; 20.7, a main character is a ghost who animates a house and is then transferred to a dog; 20.10, Mr. Babineaux
+5 Series

Task total: 45
Season total: 1395

SU 23 20-point Favorites questions (48 new)

May 21, 2023 11:57AM

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "Once we choose our ten former-season tasks and a read a book to fulfill them, they’re then essentially set in stone."

No, your thinking was right to start with.

You'll read for the ..."

Yay!!!! Thank you for clarifying!! Oh, I’m so excited…I found, like, 30 old tasks I wanted to revisit and hated having to decide which I had to edit out :-D now I can read ‘em all!!! You just made my whole summer <3

SU 23 20-point Favorites questions (48 new)

May 21, 2023 09:52AM

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "So…say i complete the megafinish and want to do the 20 point tasks again—can i choose a new set of old tasks? (i may have found FAR more than ten that caught my fancy…)"

There is no ..."

Duh me….I knew there was no megafinish, just slipped my mind when I was trying to figure out how to explain my question…
I think I’m still not asking right,
But I think I’m answering my own question as I try to ask it more clearly…
I think what was throwing me off is I was envisioning it more like a classic sub-challenge, where once all ten books are completed you basically wipe the slate clean and start over within the framework of the sub-challenge…I was hoping that on the completion of the my ten 20-point books, I could wipe them out to choose ten different previous-season tasks….but, duh, even though it *feels* like a sub-challenge since we have so much freedom to construct the challenge, it wouldn’t be the case. Once we choose our ten former-season tasks and a read a book to fulfill them, they’re then essentially set in stone.

SU 23 20-point Favorites questions (48 new)

May 21, 2023 09:26AM

So…say i complete the megafinish and want to do the 20 point tasks again—can i choose a new set of old tasks? (i may have found FAR more than ten that caught my fancy…)

Socializing IV (1048 new)

May 19, 2023 02:20AM

Yay, chunwui!! Congrats on the new job!

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 17, 2023 09:13AM

20.9 Non-Fiction

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

+20 Task
+5 Series
+5 Oldies
+15 Combo: 10.3, "All Creatures Great and Small" series; 10.4; 10.7, died 1995

Task total: 45
Season total: 1350

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 17, 2023 09:06AM

15.10 Growing Genres, Westerns

A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley

Task total: 15
+100 Chronological finish
+200 Mega Finish
Season total: 1305

SP 23 20.7 Non-human (24 new)

May 17, 2023 08:36AM

I’m reading All Creatures Great and Small, about a rural vet. While there isn’t one animal who would be considered “main” (though Tricky Woo is quite the scene-stealing pup), most of the book (easily 75%) is about the many animals he treats and their varied maladies. Would that work?

SU 23 15 Point Planning (13 new)

May 16, 2023 11:53AM

SU 23 15-point Listopia Chain questions (28 new)

May 16, 2023 11:41AM

Anika wrote: "I know Graphic Novels are usually a no-go for the 15-point tasks...has that rule been suspended for this season? I saw the Lexile suspension for summer but hadn't seen any reference to graphic nove..."

Yay!!!! So many books that I'll be able to cross off my TBR that I've been putting off because they won't work for RwS! So excited!

SU 23 15-point Listopia Chain questions (28 new)

May 16, 2023 11:37AM

I know Graphic Novels are usually a no-go for the 15-point tasks...has that rule been suspended for this season? I saw the Lexile suspension for summer but hadn't seen any reference to graphic novels. By the way, this summer season looks to be a lot of fun!! Can't wait for June 1st already :-)

SU 23 20 Point planning (11 new)

May 16, 2023 11:30AM

SP '12, El Ateneo: In honor of El Ateneo bookstore, a bookshop converted from an old theatre in downtown Buenos Aires, read a book that has been made into a movie. (Rebecca)
SP '13, Initially: Read a book by an author whose given names are usually published as initials only. (C.J. Box)
SP '14, Spring Fling: Read a book with a title which contains a 5 (or more) letter word with only one vowel. (Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke)
SU '15, Books in Books: Read a book that was mentioned in a novel you read for the Spring or Summer 2015 challenge. (I read Station Eleven Spring 2015 post 707; Hamlet)
FA '15, Authors with Three Names: Read a book by an author who is known by three names in Goodreads (Erica Ruth Neubauer)
SP '16, William Shakespeare: Read any book by one of these sonneteers [links to Wikipedia page "Sonneteers"] (Much Ado About Nothing)
SU '16, The Gods!: Read a book about the ancient Greek or Roman gods or ancient mythological figures, i.e.: Minotaur, etc. (Lore)
WI '16/'17, Wunderkind: Read any work that features music or musicians (Daisy Jones & The Six
SP '17, Yours, Mine, and Ours: Read a book where a character is taken up by a new author (Reluctant Immortals)
SU '17, Trilogies: Read a book that is part of a completed trilogy (Hunter's Moon)

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 13, 2023 02:08PM

15.9 Growing Genres, Westerns

Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, pub. 2013

Task total: 15
Season total: 980

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 12, 2023 03:25PM

15.8 Growing Genres, Westerns

Open Season by C.J. Box, pub. 2001

Task total: 15
Season total: 965

SP 23 Completed Tasks (908 new)

May 11, 2023 03:24PM

15.7 Growing Genres, Westerns

Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry, pub. 1990

Task total: 15
Season total: 950