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Good luck with your new job, chunwai! I hope you have more time to relax now.
20.8 Real FictionThe Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
Historical fiction about a real person.
Task total: 20
Season total: 660
For The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Marjorie Merriweather Post is a real person:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjori...
Plan✓ 10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name
Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
✓ 10.2. Number of words in title
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
✓ 10.3. Number of words in subtitle
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert
✓ 10.4. Number of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
✓ 10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)
Positano One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
✓ 10.6. Number is in year of Author birth
1812 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
✓ 10.7. Number is in original pub date
2008 Fine Just the Way it Is by Annie Proulx
✓ 10.8. Number is in MPE page count
464 pages Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
✓ 10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
✓ 10.10. Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored.
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
Working on my plan to finish it once, then start again.✓ FA 22 20.9 ABCs (Author's initials appear in alphabetical order) 20.4
Absolutely Positively Connecticut: More Stories from the Award-Winning WTNH-TV Series Now Seen on CPTV by Diane Smith
✓ SU 15 20.4 The South (Set in US South) WV 20.8
Charley Bland by Mary Lee Settle
✓ WI 13-14 20.10 Between the Wars (author born between 1866-1913) 20.6
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (born 1909)
✓ FA 10 20.5 Freedom Season (a book related to the American Civil War or a novel set in a Southern state) 20.9
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
✓ WI 22-23 20.10 Mystery (MPG - Mystery)
Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline 20.10
✓ WI 16-17 20.1 Carson McCullers (author died at age 50 or younger) 20.1
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
✓ FA 21 20.3 Ratings (average rating of 4.0 or higher) 20.3
Mink River by Brian Doyle
✓ SP 16 20.1 William Shakespeare (Sonneteers list) 20.2
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
FA 17 20.5 Old (main story set 100 years or more before publication)
✓ The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell 20.5
✓ SP14 20.5 Othello (protagonist is a member of a minority group)
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber 20.7
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SU 19 20.1 Iris Murdoch (book published during her lifetime 1919-1999)
Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko
✓ FA 22 20.10 Birthday (Pub date year contains 2 consecutive digits) Pub 1992 20.1 Round 2
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
WI 18-19 20.10 Over and Under (rating over 3.74 and under 1001 ratings)
Moving On by Sara Steger
SP 14 20.8 Spring Fling (a title word with 5 or more letters with only 1 vowel)
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
SP 18 20.7 The Red Queen (fiction about royalty)
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner
WI 18-19 20.8 Appalachia (setting)
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Others to consider:
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
Pompeii by Robert Harris
20.3 POVSalvage This World by Michael Farris Smith
+20 task (views of Holt, Wade, Jessie, Elser)
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 10.5 Wimsey (MS)
Task total: 30
Season total: 640
20.10 Uncommon LetterThe Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
+20 task (Aura Rodriguez, the narrator's partner)
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 20.8 Real Fiction (historical fiction, Pablo Escobar)
+10 Non-Western (Colombian)
Task total: 40
Season total: 610
10.2 Albright SistersThe Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
+10 task (daughters)
+15 combo 20.3 POV (pov of women in 7 generations of the Moy family); 20.8 Real Fiction (Afong Moy is a real person - wiki link in comment 28 of help thread); 20.10 Uncommon Letters (Zoe Moy is a main character)
Task total: 25
Season total: 570
For the book The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, Afong Moy is a real person and the first Chinese woman to come to the United States.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afong_Moy
Great sign, Elizabeth! LOL!
10.1 New HorizonsHow to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
+10 task (new author for me)
+ 5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
Task total: 15
Season total: 545
20.3 POVThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
+20 task (POV of Shylock and Antonio)
+ 5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
+25 oldie (pub 1596)
Task total: 50
Season total: 530
20.6 AwardThe Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton
Western Literature Association, and others
+20 task (approved on help thread comment 30)
+ 5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
+ 5 series
+ 5 oldies (pub 1998)
Task total: 35
Season total: 480
15.2 Growing GenresMystery, published 2020
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Task total: 15
Season total: 445
10.3 DiscworldLucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
+10 task (series is Amgash, the name of a town)
+15 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 10.5 Wimsey; 20.6 Award (2022 Helmerich Award--see comment 140 in help thread)
+ 5 series
Task total: 30
Season total: 430
Thanks, Elizabeth.
20.3 POVSomebody's Luggage by Charles Dickens
+20 task (interrelated short stories written by Dickens and four other writers with many POV)
+15 oldie (published in 1862)
Task total: 35
Season total: 400
20.3 POVInfinite Country by Patricia Engel
+20 task (POVs of all five family members)
+ 5 combo 10.5 Wimsey
Task total: 25
Season total: 365
10.4 3, 4, 5The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.3 Discworld (A Novel of the Civil War)
+ 5 series (A Novel of the Civil War)
Task total: 20
Season total: 340
