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SU 2016 How to Play Five Years Through Summer
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Read 10 books by 10 different authors. Select books based on original publication year. The original publication dates must be exactly 5 years apart. You may skip one 5 year date in the series and you can start your series with any date.
Examples:
1915, 1920, 1925, 1930 etc. OR
1867, 1872, 1882, 1887, etc. (1877 skipped)
Posting a plan is NOT required for this sub-challenge, but if you want to the thread is here.
Five Years Through Summer may be completed twice with one caveat: your fifty year periods may not overlap.
Scoring
Time Traveler
This reader will read all 10 books in chronological order.
15.1-15.4 15 points
15.5-15.8 25 points
15.9-15.10 40 points
Completion Bonus: 100 points
Time Leaper
This reader will read the 10 books in any order.
15.1-15.4 15 points
15.5-15.8 20 points
15.9-15.10 25 points
Completion Bonus: 50 points
Additionally, readers can earn the following points per book:
5 bonus points for each non-fiction* book read
5 bonus points for each book over 500 pages read
*Non-fiction is not the same as Not-a-Novel. Short story collections, poetry collections and plays will not qualify for this non-fiction bonus.
A few notes:
I. You cannot claim regular style points for any book you read for Five Years Through Summer (nor do the FYTS tasks count as combo style points for Reading with Style's 10 and 20 point tasks).
II. All books read for this sub-challenge must be at least 100 pages, based on the most popular English-language print edition.
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 are not allowed.