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Joanna wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Does history - non fiction books count? Some examples:
French History: The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
Or books ..."
Thanks for the reply! so ... "political event" is the key :)
Does history - non fiction books count? Some examples:
French History: The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
Or books on the French Revolution
American History: John Adams (biography)
Or books on the American Revolution / the Civil War
American Tragedy: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Science History: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
English History: The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy (War of the Roses)
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
I count 30 books by bell hooks.
Here’s the bibliography: https://library.ship.edu/anti-racist-...
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
In her discussion of various types of love, she includes the love between best friends of the same sex/gender.
All About Love: New Visions (1999) by bell hooks (Paperback 238 pages)
Dewey: [306.7]
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1950-2000)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 05 = 30
Grand Total: 425 + 30 = 455
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
Here’s the bibliography: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/ch...
That bibliography line (https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/ch...) states that:
Charles de Lint was born in 1951. So Charles de Lint is more than 70 years old.
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
Our heroine Eithnie is a professional artist. She talks to Danielle at the Art Gallery about her next Art Showing. She also talks with her good friend Ruth about Ruth’s three daughters.
The Wild Wood (1994) by Charles de Lint
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
+10 Older Author (age 70 and above)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1950-2000)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 + 05 = 40
Grand Total: 385 + 40 = 425
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
Here’s the bibliography: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/se...
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
There is one minor male character and one gender-uncertain character in this novel. All the other characters are female. There are NO conversations about men or romance. One of the first conversations is between Headmistress Eleanor West and our heroine Cora about whether Cora will remain at the Home for Wayward Children or will she go to the Whitethorn Institute.
Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children #7) (2022) by Seanan McGuire
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 345 +25 = 370
Task 15.I BBRBBR book = All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (2017) by Martha Wells
I/ Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in.
Original language of BBR: English
So, any language except English
Written originally in Icelandic
The Night Guest (2021) by Hildur Knútsdóttir; translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 345 + 15 = 360
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
Here’s the bibliography: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/fr...
Fails Bechtel Test.
The Day the Martians Came (1988) by Frederik Pohl
+20 Task
+10 Older Author (age 70 and above) b. 2013 – d. 1919 = 94 years
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1950-2000) pub. 1988
Task Total: 20 + 10 + 05 = 35
Grand Total: 310 + 35 = 345
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
Here’s the bibliography for author Jenn McKinlay: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/je...
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
The protagonist, librarian Lindsey Norris, and the Chief of Police, Emma Plewicki, discuss the murder of a visitor to their town.
20.7 Cat or Dog
Our protagonist, Lindsey Norris, and her husband have a dog named Heathcliff, p. 171: “a hairy black stray dog that she’d adopted when he’d been dumped into the book drop at the library”. He barks – loudly – when people are on the doorstep of Lindsey & husband’s house.
A Merry Little Murder Plot (Library Lover's Mystery #15) (2024) by Jenn McKinlay (Hardback 308 pages)
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#20.2, 20.7)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 280 + 30 = 310
Task 10.10 Group ReadsRecommended by CONNIE
Combos:
10.2 Holiday Travel:
Read a book which features a train ride.
Our heroine, Marnie, took a train from London to a town in Yorkshire. P. 29: “She felt better on the TRAIN, the first of the day, claiming her forward-facing window-seat with table: the dream.”
10.6 Year of the Snake:
Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in WOOD SNAKE.
ADEKNOOSW
wooD sNake
20.2 Bechdel Test
Surprisingly NONE
You Are Here (2024) by David Nicholls (Hardback 368 pages)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.2, 10.6)
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 255 + 20 = 275
Task 15.F BBRBBR book = All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (2017) by Martha Wells
F. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR.
Top three MPG for All Systems Red
Science Fiction
Fiction
Audiobook
F. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR.
Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse #1) (2017) by Jim C. Hines
The top-three MPG for TERMINAL ALLIANCE are:
Science Fiction
Humor
Fiction
The matching MPG is Science Fiction
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 240 + 15 = 255
Task 15.G BBRBBR book = All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (2017) by Martha Wells
G. Read another book published the same year as your BBR.
YEAR: 2017
Once There Was a Way: What if The Beatles Stayed Together? (2017) by Bryce Zabel (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 308 pages)
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 225 + 15 = 240
Task 10.10 Group ReadsRecommended by JOANNA
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
Our narrator, June Haywood, remembers talking with former roommate and fellow writer Athena Liu about Athena Liu’s new novel about a Chinese workers recruited by the British and sent to the front lines during World War I. Around pages 70, June has a photo session with professional photographer Cate, and they discuss photo session issues.
Yellowface (2023) by R.F. Kuang
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 210 + 15 = 225
Task 15.H BBRBBR book = All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (2017) by Martha Wells
H. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
Three Word Title
(Note: "Stories" is sub-title; so Title is 3 words, 'Dogs and Monsters')
Dogs and Monsters: Stories (2024) by Mark Haddon (Hardback 273 pages)
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 195 + 15 = 210
Task 20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr:Read a book by C.J. Sansom, Caleb Carr, or any book with at least two of the following MPGs listed: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, History.
Book has following MPGs: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime
To see MPG 'Crime' click "more" button.
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
Our Heroine Daisy discusses with her good friend (and sidekick!) Floria whether a painting is a multi-million dollar original, or an inexpensive reproduction being presented as a multi-million dollar original.
Death at a Country Mansion (Daisy Thorne Mystery #1) (2020) by Louise R. Innes
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 170 + 25 = 195
Task 20.9 That's Not How It Happened (Anika's task):Read a novel that was nominated for or won a Sidewise Award for Alternate Histories OR a book from the "Standalone Novels," "Novel Series," or "Plays" section of the Wikipedia list of alternates.
Winner of the Sidewise Award for Long Form (2021)
#20.2 combo: Inca woman Higuenamota is the translator between the Incan language and Castilian Spanish. She talks directly with Castilian Queen Isabella about European politics and European religions.
Civilizations (2019) by Laurent Binet; translated from the French by Sam Taylor (Hardback 310 pages)
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 145 + 25 = 170
Task 20.2 Edna O'Brien:Read a book by Edna O'Brien or any novel that passes the Bechdel Test. To pass the Bechdel test, a novel must have: 1) at least two female characters; 2) who talk to each other; 3) about something other than a man/romantic interest in a man
Our first person narrator Phillip Carver has two older sisters, Betsy and Josephine. He describes them as talking with each other about their small business (real estate and insurance). Phillip’s mother often talked to Betsy and Josephine about etiquette – they are from an old southern upper class society which still does the debutantes who ‘come out’ into Society around the age of 19.
Peter Taylor was born on January 08, 1917 and died on November 02, 1994.
A Summons to Memphis (1986) by Peter Taylor
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1987)
+20 Task
+10 Older Author (age 70 and above)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1950-2000)
Task Total: 20 + 10 + 05 = 35
Grand Total: 110 + 35 = 145
Second PLAN ✔️BBR: The Jekyll Revelation (2016) by Robert Masello
A. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same first name as a character from your BBR.
Name: RAFAEL Salazar environmental scientist
Name: ROBERT Louis Stevenson
B. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR.
Name: Rafael SALAZAR environmental scientiest
Noelle Salazar -- The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
Name: Robert Louis STEVENSON
Benjamin Stevenson -- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
C. Read a book set in the same city/country/world as your BBR.
53.6% Set in:
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (includes Santa Monica & Hollywood)
D. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR.
53.6% Set in:
Present-day 2010s
E. Read another book by the same author who wrote your BBR.
Robert Masello
F. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR.
Historical Fiction
Fiction
Mystery
G. Read another book published the same year as your BBR.
published 2016
H. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
Three word title
I. Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in.
Original language: English
So, any language except English
J. 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.
still looking
Task 10.2 Holiday Travel:Read a book which features a train ride.
Chapter 3:
p. 23: “The train leaves the station with a puff of steam and a short whistle. We settle into one of the opulent first-class carriages, the lighting comfortably dim, the dining tables already set with crystal and china. Lucy sits beside me on a plush velvet sofa, with Robert across from us in a tufted leather chair.”
And with that, our heroine, and her brother Robert and her sister Lucy, take the train from their rural manor house to LONDON!
#20.2 combo:
Our heroine, Katherine, and her frenemy, Eliza, strategize about how to win the scavenger hunt. (They’ve been forced to be partners for the game.)
Arcana (Sylvani #1) (2014) by Jessica Leake (Paperback 268 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 95 + 15 = 110
Task 10.6 Year of the Snake:Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in WOOD SNAKE.
wood SnakE
#20.2 combo: Our heroine, Tamsyn, talks with the teenaged cousin of her love interest, named Emerald, about the mechanics of using magic in the book’s world.
The Wedding Witch (The Ex Hex #3) (2024) by Erin Sterling (Hardback 278 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 80 + 15 = 95
Task 20.7 Best Friends Forever (Owlette's task):Our heroine Charlotte has a corgi dog named Rupert. She walks him every day, and one day the dog finds a clue to the murder.
#20.2 combo: Charlotte is the wardrobe / costumer for the play. She talks with the actress, Lauren, about the costumes Lauren will be wearing in her role as ‘Juliet’ in Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
Untimely Death (Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery #1) (2015) by Elizabeth J. Duncan
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 55 + 25 = 80
