Patrick's 2016 Points Challenge

[Patrick]

Total: 206

January: 11
February: 12
March: 16
April: 20
May: 11
June: 10
July: 11
August: 16
September: 22
October: 26
November: 27
December: 27

[Patrick]

January 11

(9+1) Cloudsplitter (Russell Banks) [English] (Seasonal read - Jan to Mar)
(1) Complicity (Iain Banks) [English] (Calendar Challenge - January)

[Patrick]

February 12

(2 + 1) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carré) [English] (BOTM - January)
(2 + 1) The Black Child (Camara Laye) [French] (BOTM - January)
(3 + 1) The Story of the Stone - The Golden Days (Cao Xueqin) [English] (Annual read)
(2) Quartet in Autumn (Barbara Pym) [English] (Calendar Challenge - February)

[Patrick]

March 16

(2 + 1) The Shining (Stephen King) [English] (BOTM - January)
(1) Bonus point for reading/reviewing all January BOTMs
(2 + 1) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Marina Lewicka) [English] (BOTM - February)
(3) The Radetzky March (Joseph Roth) [English] (Calendar Challenge - March)
(2 + 1) Death in Venice (Thomas Mann) [English] (BOTM - March)
(2 + 1) Solaris (Stanislas Lem) [French] (BOTM - February)

[Patrick]

April 20

(4) Broken April (Ismail Kadare) [French] (Calendar Challenge - April)
(3 + 1) The Story of the Stone - The Crab-Flower Club (Cao Xueqin) [English] (Annual read)
(9 + 1) House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski) [English] (Seasonal read - Apr to Jun)
(1 + 1) Soldiers of Salamis (Javier Cercas) [French] (Randomized read)

[Patrick]

May 11

(2 + 1) Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) [English] (BOTM - March)
(5) That They May Face the Rising Sun (John McGahern) [English] (Calendar Challenge - May)
(2 + 1) The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) [English] (BOTM - April)

[Patrick]

June 10

(2 + 1) Midaq Alley (Naguib Mahfouz) [English] (BOTM - February)
(1) Bonus point for reading/reviewing all February BOTMs
(6) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) [English] (Calendar Challenge - June)

[Patrick]

July 11

(2 + 1) A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) [English] (BOTM - March)
(1) Bonus point for reading/reviewinf all March BOTMs
(7) July's People (Nadine Gordimer) [English] (Calendar Challenge - July)

[Patrick]

August 16

(3 + 1) The Story of the Stone - The Warning Voice (Cao Xueqin) [English] (Annual read)
(8) August is a Wicked Month (Edna O'Brien) [English] (Calendar Challenge - August)
(3 + 1) The Story of the Stone - The Debt of Tears (Cao Xueqin) [English] (Annual read)

[Patrick]

September 22

(9 + 1) Anna Karenina (Leon Tolstoy) [French] (Seasonal read - Jul to Sep)
(9) The Last September (Elizabeth Bowen) [English] (Calendar Challenge - September)
(2 + 1) Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih) [English] (BOTM - July)

[Patrick]

October 26

(2 + 1) The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) [English] (BOTM - July)
(10) Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood) [English] (Calendar Challenge - October)
(3 + 1) The Story of the Stone - The Dreamer Wakes (Cao Xueqin) [English] (Annual read)
(5) Bonus points for completing the annual read (The Story of the Stone)
(2 + 1) Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) [English] (BOTM - July)
(1) Bonus point for reading/reviewing all July BOTMs

[Patrick]

November 27

(2 + 1) Murder Must Advertise (Dorothy Sayers) [English] (BOTM - August)
(2 + 1) There but for the (Ali Smith) [English] (BOTM - August)
(11) Embers (Sandor Marai) [English] (Calendar Challenge - November)
(2 + 1) Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson) [English] (BOTM - September)
(2 + 1) The Nine Tailors (Dorothy Sayers) [English] (BOTM - August)
(1) Bonus point for reading/reviewing all August BOTMs
(2 + 1) Their Eyes were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) [English] (BOTM - May)

[Patrick]

December 27

(2 + 1) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) [English] (BOTM - December)
(12) Remembering Babylon (David Malouf) [English) (Calendar Challenge - December)
(2 + 1) Oranges are not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson) [English] (BOTM - December)
(2 + 1) The Holder of the World (Bharati Mukherjee) [English] (BOTM - April)
(2 + 1) Excellent Women (Barbara Pym) [English] (BOTM - June)
(1) The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) (Other reads)
(1) Oroonoko (Aphra Behn) (Other reads)
(1) The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole) (Other reads)

[Patrick]

Updated 31/12/2016 very late (well, almost 4pm on 01/01/17 in Australia)

[Pip]

I am glad your challenge is EST. Usually I take my local time which sometimes is a disadvantage.

[Patrick]

Just trying to be in sync with the majority of the group, otherwise we would always be between 14 and 18 hours in front/behind everybody else on challenges, etc.