Winter 2012/13 How to play "Location, location, location"

[Liz M]

Location, location, location: Your goal is to gain an in-depth knowledge of a specific location, by examining the shifting social, political, and economic climate of the locale through literature.

Choose a book set in any real location. Read 9 more books that are set within 150 miles of the location of the first book, without crossing a country border. The majority of the book should be set within 150 miles of your chosen location (90% of the book), published dates must span at least 50 years, and books must be written by at least five different authors.

The first book is worth 15 points. For each subsequent book, bonus points will be awarded by proximity:
25 bonus points for books set within 10 miles (16 km)
15 bonus points for books set within 25 miles (40 km)
5 bonus points for books set within 75 miles (121 km).

For semi-fictitious settings (such as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi) only 5 bonus points will be awarded. Books with multiple locations within the 150 limitation will be awarded a bonus based on the qualifying location that is the furthermost from the first book.

A “Historian” can read the books in any order. When all ten tasks are complete, the reader will receive a 50-point bonus.

An “Archeologist” must read the books in chronological order (either starting with the most recently published to the oldest publish date or starting with the oldest and finishing with the newest). When all ten tasks are complete, the reader will receive a 100-point bonus.

The fine print:
1. Plans must be approved before posting in the completed task thread.
2. To make selecting books for this sub-challenge more challenging, YA with a Lexile score less than 800 and graphic novels are not allowed.
3. You cannot claim regular style points for any book you read for LLL (nor do the LLL tasks count as combo style points for Reading with Style's 10 and 20 point tasks).
4. You can complete LLL as many times as you like with one important caveat: you cannot repeat a location.