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20.4 Go for the Gold!There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
+20 Task (set in Russia)
+10 lost in Translation
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 85
20.3 WinnersSilent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
+20 Task (RITA award 2008)
+5 Combo (10.7)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 55
15.2 FYTS: Time Traveler1965-2015
Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
15.1 FYTS: Time Traveler1965-2015
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
Yesterday The Feast of the Goat had 'politics' but now it doesn't. I couldn't find any others of the books I looked at.
I have just read the new tasks posted. It looks like someone read the comment in my review of All the Pretty Horses!
Sam wrote: "Has anyone read The Light Between Oceans? It's not clear from the description if it's 100% set in Australia."Yes, it was set in Western Australia or on a lighthouse off the coast of Western Australia.
20.5 R K NarayanGrendel by John Gardner
+20 Task (approved in help thread)
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.5, 10.7)
+5 Oldies (published 1970)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 45
Grand Total: 1110
10.6 Book LoversThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.7, 10.8, 20.5)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 1060
My plan, starting with the books I need to borrow from the library1965 Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
1970 Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
1975 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1980 The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan
1985 Helliconia Winter by Brian W. Aldiss
1990 Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
1995 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
2000 The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
2005 The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
2010 The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
10.3 Bailey's PrizeFugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
+10 Task (1997 winner)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 1035
10.1 Square PegRemember How I Told You I Loved You? by Gillian Linden
+10 Task
+10 Not a Novel (short stories)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 1025
20.7 David BowieLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.5)
+5 Oldies (published 1955)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 1005
20.8 A Nod to Tristram ShandyTrout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 – 112 pages)
+5 Oldies (published 1964)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 970
10.4 Popular GenreEnemies at Home by Lindsey Davis
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 940
20.9 Tournament of BooksThe Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
+20 Task (2015 short list)
+ 10 Combo (10.8, 20.5 both approved in help thread)
+5 Jumbo (624 pages)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 925
15.10 Waters of the WorldStabat mater by Tiziano Scarpa
Adriatic (Italy)
+15 Task (author born /nationality/setting)
+20 Bonus
Task Total: 35
Completion bonus: 100
Season Total: 890
15.9 Waters of the WorldRush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
Pacific (Australia)
+15 Task (author born /nationality/setting)
+20 Bonus
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 755
10.7 4 Letter NamesMy Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Lexile 960
+10 Task (Mary)
+5 Multiple
+5 Oldies (published 1941)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 720
