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Bucket wrote: "Just finished Eugene Onegin. Does a novel in verse get "not-a-novel" style points? The whole book is written in rhyming couplets, but it does tell a fictional story."
Yes
Ed wrote: "D or Q?Eça de Queirós"
Brooklyn Public Library has him listed as
Queiros, Eca de.
So, it looks like a Q to me.
That is correct, Ed.
So, I found this link: https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/....It appears the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award is already on GoodReads and has just not been kept current. It looks like this one will fit the task.
I also recently finished it and look forward to your thoughts. :)
This took a bit of planning, but it was designed to do so:1948-1962 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow 114pages (101-140) on the canon
1888-1902 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 190 pages (181-220) YA890
1963-1977 Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert 224 pages (221-260) YA1130
1873-1887 She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard 317 pages (301-340)
1918-1932 Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger 289 pages (261-300)
1903-1917 Martin Eden by Jack London 480 pages (461-500) YA1020
2008-2022 The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill 391 pages (380-420)
1993-2007 Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men by Padgett Powell 144 pages (141-180)
1978-1992 The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler 352 pages (341-380)
1933-1947 The Years by Virginia Woolf 444 (421-460)
While not required, feel free to post your CiV10 plans in this thread if you would like.
Use this thread to post any questions or discussions about one of our most diabolical challenges.
Christmas in Vegas 10th Anniversary! (CiV10)The original Christmas in Vegas is returning for its 10th Anniversary!
Read 10 books where each book fits one each from the wheels of the slot machine: Author's Last Initial, Page Count, Publication Dates. See this spreadsheet for your ranges: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... (Ranges also listed below behind spoiler alert).
You may use an item from each column only one time and there are only 10 choices for each. This is will require the ultimate in your planning prowess, for which you will be amply rewarded!
To get a pay off, read a book that uses one item from each wheel. For example, Case Histories by Kate Atkinson fits A-B, 381-420/781-820 pages, and 1993-2007. Once you have used one of the choices on each wheel, they are no longer available to use for your remaining reads. The challenge is with the progressive removal of items from their wheels; the initial combinations are easy, but further combinations are increasingly difficult.
Of course, as the stakes get higher, so do the point rewards:
15.1 – 1st book claimed – 15 points
15.2 – 2nd book claimed – 20 points
15.3 – 3rd book claimed – 25 points
15.4 – 4th book claimed – 30 points
15.5 – 5th book claimed – 35 points
15.6 – 6th book claimed – 45 points
15.7 – 7th book claimed – 55 points
15.8 – 8th book claimed – 65 points
15.9 – 9th book claimed – 75 points
15.10 – 10th book claimed – 85 points
Hit the jackpot: completion of all 10 tasks is worth 100 points.
Plan your choices carefully; this sub-challenge can only be played once!
A few reminders:
I. You cannot claim regular style points for any book you read for Christmas in Vegas (nor do the Christmas in Vegas tasks count as Combo style points for regular Reading with Style tasks).
II. All books read for this sub-challenge must be at least 100 pages, based on the most popular English-language print edition (MPE).
III. Please be aware that cookbooks, illustrated guides, and graphic novels are not allowed for the sub-challenge. Also, books designated as "YA", "Assignment", or "Juv" by the Brooklyn Public Library with a Lexile score less than 800.
Ranges for the three wheels are under this spoiler tag.
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From Post 699Denise wrote: "20.3 Ratings
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
+20 Task (4.05)
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.5, both in GR bio)
Task total=30
Season total=440"
+10 Not a Novel
From Post 682Mary wrote: "20.6 Awarded
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
20 pts 20.6 Awarded
5 pts 10.2 Halloween
5 pts 10.3 Back to School
5 pts 10.5 Classics
5 pts 10.6 Birthday
5 pts 20...."
I do not see this on Boxall's 1001 list, sorry.
Edited to say: 5 Combo 20.2
From Post 649Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "10.7 Service
Under the Dome by Stephen King
A mysterious dome descends on a small Maine town one October, locking it away from the rest of the world. I expected the s..."
+5 Combo 20.8
From Post 618Bucket wrote: "20.2 Anti-hero
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (#90 on Best Anti-heroes in Books list)
It took me a while to get into this one, and I'm not one who needs a bracin..."
+5 Combo 10.3
From Post 464Coralie wrote: "20.1 Serially
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.5 (shelved 279 times), 20.3 (rating 4.04)
+5 Jumbo 573 pages
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 795"
+5 Combo 10.3
From Post 322Bucket wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
I'm of two minds on this one.
First, the negative. My main complaint is the ways the plot feels forced. The most egregi..."
+5 Combo 20.6
From Post 593Valerie wrote: "20.8 Gothic
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
This novel has SO much atmosphere that I can see why it is considered a ‘gothic’ work. The atmosphere really is an..."
+5 Combo 10.3
From Post 590Nick wrote: "20.6 Awarded
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
Mythopoetic Fant Award 1990, Premio Ignotus por Novela 1992
Task Points: 20
Season Total: 480"
+10 Combo 10.3, 20.5
From Post 580Kristina Simon wrote: "20.9 - Anniversary (Kate S's Task)
Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
🍁 "A glass of poisoned champagne was about the only thing that would keep Rosemary quiet." ~ 1..."
+5 Combo 20.4
From Post 578Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Exophonic
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
+20 pts - Task
+25 pts - Combo(10.7- central to the book is the fight between militant Palestinians and Israeli army. The p..."
You claim 5 combos here, but only list 4 (20.5x2). I do not see another, but maybe I missed it.
From Post 574Deedee wrote: "Task 20.1 Serially
Read a novel originally published serially.
Dune Messiah (Dune #2) (1969) by Frank Herbert (Mass Market Paperback, 331 pages)
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.5: ..."
+5 Combo 10.7
From Post 553June wrote: "10.9- Oxford
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert R. McCammon
Task: 10
Combo: 10 (rating : 4.27; boomer - see GR data born in 1952)
Jumbo: MPE of 656 : 5 points
Post tot..."
You claim 10 points for combo here, but only list one, I have noted the other for 20.3, please let us know if I am wrong.
