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20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task 20.1 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Costa Book Award for First Novel 2017
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 430
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.8. Number is in MPE page countA Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
385 pages
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 410
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20.10 Fall 2021: 20.2 Anti-heroIn honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, read a book from one of these anti-hero lists. Best Anti-heroes in Books (Top 150)
The Best Anti-heroes (Top 150)
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
#10 on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
+20 task
+5 Before 1998
+Bonus 100 points: 10 tasks from 10 different seasons
Post Total = 125
Season Total = 400
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9
20.9 Winter 20-21: 20.5 AfricaIn honor of Chinua Achebe, read one of the top 225 books from the list Africa (fiction and nonfiction).
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
# 13 on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
+20 task
+5 Before 1998
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 275
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; ...
10.6. Number is in year of Author birthSeduced by Moonlight by Laurell K. Hamilton
Born 1963
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 250
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...
10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last nameA Caress of Twilight by Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell has 7 letters
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 240
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...
10.4. Number of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle) A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
Shadows has 7 letters
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 230
...; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...
20.8Spring 2021: 20.6 Achilles
In honor of The Song of Achilles (2012 winner), read one of the top 150 books from Best Gay Fiction or one of the top 50 from Historical Fiction on Greece and Rome.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
#37 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
+20 task
+5 Before 1998
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 220
...; 10.2; 10.3; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...
20.7Winter 2010-11: 20.1 - "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" Read a book about life after the end of the world. Choose one of the top 50 books from Goodreads' list of post-apocalyptic fiction.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
#24 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+20 task
+ 5 Big
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 195
...; 10.2; 10.3; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; ...; ...; ...
10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
+10 task
+5 Before 1998
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 170
...; 10.2; 10.3; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; ...; ...; ...; ...
I am planning on doing Winter 2020/21 20.5 AfricaIn honor of Chinua Achebe, read one of the top 225 books from the list Africa (fiction and nonfiction).
Out of Africa is #13 on the referenced list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
but I am wondering if Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass will be okay to use?
(Knitting a blanket, and I can get this as an audiobook, which will let me keep knitting ;) )
10.3. Number of words in subtitleThe Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 155
...; 10.2; 10.3; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; ...; ...; ...; ...
20.6 Fall 2020:20.3 Prolific
Mario Vargas Llosa, a prolific author, was one of the presenters at the National Book Festival in 2012. Read any book by an author who has published at least 20 book-length titles (100+ pages) of either fiction or nonfiction, or a combination of the two mediums.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 145
...; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; ...; ...; ...; ...
20.5 Spring 2016:20.10 AutoBioMem Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task
Read a biography, autobiography or memoir.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell
+20 task
+5 oldies
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 125
...; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...
20.4 Spring 2015:20.9 - Nameless - Kate S's Task:
Read a book with an unnamed narrator. Some examples can be found here.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 100
...; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...
20.3Summer 2017: 20.4 Trilogies
In honor of Paradise and The Return of the King, read a book that is part of a completed trilogy.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
+20 task
+5 oldies
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 80
...; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...
20.2Summer 2015: 20.8 - A Funny Story - Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task:
Read a book shelved as comedy at least 40 times.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Shelved as Comedy 506 times
+20 task
+5 oldies
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 55
...; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
20.1; 20.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...
Summer 2012: 20.7 - A Poet's Non-Poetry (Spring 2011, 20.4)Read a book of non-poetry by a poet whom has published at least five books of poetry.
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 30
...; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; 20.7; ...; ...; ...
10.2. Number of words in titleThis is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 10
...; 10.2; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...; ...;
20.6 AwardThe Wind's Twelve Quarters / The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin
+20 task
+5 oldies
+5 jumbo
+5 combo (20.3 - approved in thread)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 2125
And that is it for me, thanks for a great season Elizabeth, Kate and all!
