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Sample Sub-Challenge Post15.1 Page Count
The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (55 pages)
AND
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (64 pages)
+15 Task (55+64=119)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 445 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 430).
15.8 Page CountThe House of Birds by Morgan McCarthy
(448 pages - living author)
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
15.1 Page CountEntropy's Bed at Midnight by Dan Simmons (60 pages)
AND
A Christmas Pageant by Donna Tartt (32 pages)
+15 Task (60+32=92)
Task total=15
Grand total=15
20.9 AddictionThe Speed Queen by Stewart O'Nan (All three main characters are drug addicts.)
+20 task
+10 combo (20.1; 20.10)
Task total=30
Grand total=45
15.1 Page CountKeeper of Keys by Bernice L. McFadden (38 pages)
and
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark (41 pages)
+15 Task (38 + 41 = 79)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15
10.6 Keep It ShortWhat It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9, 20.2)
Task total: 35
Season total: 35
20.3 AgedThe Public Image by Muriel Spark
+20 Task (1918-2006)
+ 25 Combo 10.9, 20.1, 20.2, 20.4, 20.6
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 45
15.1 Page count Stone Mattress: A Story (Kindle Single) by Margaret Atwood 34 pgs
and
Wonderment in Death by J.D. Robb 90 pgs
15 task (124 pages total)
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15
Running total: 15
15.2 Page CountPuberty Blues by Kathy Lette & Gabrielle Carey
112 pages
YA but not shelved on BPL
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
20.9 AddictedEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
+20 task—Desmond follows 8 families that are impacted by evictions. One man, a nurse, has lost his job and license due to opioid addiction. Another man, an alcoholic, has lost both feet after passing out in sub-freezing weather
+5 combo 20.1
+ 10 not a novel
Task total 35
Season total: 35
20.5 Meta-fictionThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
20 task
10 canon
10 combo 20.1, 20.3
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40
Running total: 55
20.3 AgedThe Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 task
+15 combo (10.6; 20.1; 20.4)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=45
Grand total=105
15.1 Page CountGood Grief by Granger Westberg, 66 pgs
and
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce: A Poem by Robert Penn Warren, 64 pgs
+15 Task, 66 + 64 = 130
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15
20.8 OrganizationThe Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
+20 Task
+ 10 Combo 10.8, 20.1 (born 1972)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 75
20.10 First PersonThese Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner
+20 Task (story told in diary entries)
+15 Combo (10.3, #100 on the list; 10.9; 20.1, born 1953)
Task total: 35
Season total: 70
15.5 page countAwkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome by Ty Tashiro
+15 (288 pages)
Task total: 15
Season total: 30
15.8 Page CountDraekora (The Medoran Chronicles #3) by Lynette Noni
435 pages
YA but not shelved on BPL
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
20.6 Literature MapThe Nautical Chart by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.1, 20.4)
+10 Lit
Task Total = 40
15.10 Page CountThe Rose Petal Beach by Dorothy Koomson
+15 Task (549 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 30
15.5 Page CountPieces of Sky by Trinity Doyle
290 pages
YA but not shelved on BPL
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 45
20.10 First Person (Elizabeth (Alaska))The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
YA Ass Lexile 840
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 no 10 on list , 20.1 born 1948, 20.4 approved in help thread)
Points this post: 35
RwS total: 35
PC total: -
Season Total: 35
10.3 BookclubsEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
#164 on list
+10 task
+5 combo (20.1)
Task total: 15
Grand total:15
15.7 Page CountEver Fallen in Love by Zoë Strachan
(350 pages - living author)
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
10.8 FantasyThe Swarm by Frank Schätzing
+10 task (shelved 38 times)
+10 LiT
+10 combo (10.9, 20.1)
+15 jumbo (881 pages)
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 75
20.3 AgedTarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
+20 task (1895-1977)
+10 combo (10.9)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 100
20.4 DoctorateTracks by Louise Erdrich
+20 task (approved)
+10 combo (20.1, 20.10 approved)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 130
10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
5 letters in JULIA
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 - Author born 1967; approval)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 80
May just made the 50% setting in Dominican Republic
20.1 LifetimeDear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe
approval
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 100
Set approx 80% in Lithuania
10.2 It's all relativeThe Last Woman in His Life by Ellery Queen
10 task
10 combo 10.4, 10.9
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20
Running total: 75
15.1 Page CountThe Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol (65 pages), 1832
AND
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (48 pages), 1848
+15 Task (65+48=113)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
20.4 DoctorateFreaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
YA/810 Lexile
+20 task
+10 combo (20.1; 20.3)
Task total=30
Grand total=150
Task 10.6 Keep it ShortRead a collection of short stories by a single author.
Night Shift (1978) by Stephen King
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.8 “fantasy”, #20.1)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short story collections)
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 00 + 30 = 30
10.3 Listopia ReignsThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.9)
+10 canon
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 155
Post No 8 Anika wrote: "10.6 Keep It ShortWhat It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9, 20.2)
Task total: 35
Seas..."
I see she was born in the UK - do you have a reference specifically in Scotland?
Post 30 Beth wrote: "10.3 BookclubsEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
#164 on list
+10 task
+5 combo (20.1)
Task total: 15
Grand total:15"
I'm sorry, Beth. This is YA Fic at BPL and has a Lexile of 780. Task, but no styles.
Task 10.8 Fantasy! (Cat's Task)Read a book that has been shelved as FANTASY at least 25 times.
Note: Even though Jodi Taylor declines to give her birthdate, the fact that she is still alive & publishing, and, from her appearance in her photo on goodreads, under the age of 100 and above the age of 11, indicates that she fits task #20.1.
No Time Like the Past (The Chronicles of St Mary's #5) (2015) by Jodi Taylor
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.1)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 30 + 15 = 45
15.1 Page CountThe Gold Key in the Mahogany Box by Vara Kamin
and
True Tales of the Everglades by Stuart McIver
77 + 64 = 141 pages
+15 Task
Task total = 15
15.2 Page CountJacob's Journey: Wisdom to Find the Way, Strength to Carry on by Noah Benshea
116 pages
+ 15 Task
Task total = 15
Grand Total: 30
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post No 8 Anika wrote: "10.6 Keep It ShortWhat It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9, 20..."
Oops! That was supposed to be 20.1--clumsy fingers typing on my phone :-/
Anika wrote: "Oops! That was supposed to be 20.1--clumsy fingers typing on my phone :-/ ."Thanks, we'll fix it!
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Sample RwS Post
20.3 Aged
Collected Poems, 1920-1954 by Eugenio Montale
+20 Task (1896-1981)
+ 5 Combo 10.5 (Oxford-Weidenfeld 1999)
+10 Canon
+10 LiT
+10 Not a Novel
+5 Jumbo (640 pgs)
Task Total: 60
Season Total: 430 (assuming mid-season with a previous total of 370)