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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
20.1 LifetimeThin Air by Michelle Paver
+20 task
+10 combo (10.9, 20.10 - told in the first person)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 590
From Post 405Ed wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
task=20
NaN=10
LiT=10
WC=10
combo= 20 (10.6;10.8 10.9; 20.4)
task total= 70"
Sorry, Ed, this does not work for Not-a-Novel. This is a novel (a disjointed novel, but still a novel) according to BPL.
From Post 419Karen Michele wrote: "20.4 Doctorate
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime / 20.3 Aged / 20.7 It's Winter (or Summer)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 640"
+10 LiT originally published in Spanish
From Post 431Sarah wrote: "10.9 The Power of Five
Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
+10 task
Task total = 10
Grand total = 10"
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 438Denise wrote: "10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed
Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon by Rosamond Smith, AKA Joyce Carol Oates
(From Readers Also Enjoyed list of [book:Sourla..."
+5 Combo 10.9
From Post 441Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.10 Epistolary Fiction
Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
#53 on the list
Task +20
Grand Total: 155"
+5 Combo 20.1
20.3 AgedFatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases by Ann Rule
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Jumbo
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 170
20.5 Meta-FictionThe Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.8, 20.3, 20.1, 10.9)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 210
20.3 AgedCollected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.6, 10.8, 10.9, 20.5)
+10 Canon
+10 LiT
+5 Jumbo
Post Total: 65
Season Total: 265
20.9 AddictionGrief Cottage by Gail Godwin
+20 Task
+10 Combo 20.1, 20.3
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 285
10.6 Keep it ShortThe Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt
+10 Task
+10 Combo 20.1, 10.8
+10 Not-a-Novel
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 315
20.7 It's Winter (Or Summer?)Fleece Navidad by Maggie Sefton
+20 Task
+10 Combo 20.1, 20.3
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 360
10.8 FantasyAll Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
+10 Task
+10 Combo 20.1, 20.10
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 365
15.3 Page Count - 2nd roundThe Just Men of Cordova (The Four Just Men #3) by Edgar Wallace
178 pages
pub. 1917
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 520
20.4 DoctorateLa Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
degree of D. Litt. (Doctor of Letters), honoris causa, by the University of Oxford (source)
+20 task
Task total = 20
Points total = 20
20.1 - born 1938The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
YA, Lexile of 800.
+20 task
+5 combo (10.8 - fantasy 215 times)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 330 (290 as of post 386 on the readerboard plus another 15 for total of 305 as of post 402)
task 10.1The Other Einstein|28389305]
Marie Benedict
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
task points 10
combo 10.7 (albert Einstein) +5
10.9 (marie) +5
20.1 (can't find a birth date but obviously in the right time period) +5
post total 25
season total 25
10.3Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
task points 10
combo 20.1 born 1969 +5
20.10 +5
bonus - not a novel (memoir) +10
post total 30
season total 55
10.6Sweet Land Stories
E.L. Doctorow
task points 10
combo 20.1 (born 1931) +5
20.3 (84) +5
bonus not a novel +10
post total 30
season total 85
task 20.1 (born 1973)About Grace
Anthony Doerr
task total 20
combo 10.9 +5
post total 25
season total 110
20.6 (Univ. of Exeter)Miss Marple: The Complete Short StoriesAgatha Christie
task points 20
combo 20.3 ((85) +5
10.6 +5
bonus not a novel +10
post total 40
season total 150
20.8 Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
task points 20
combo 20.1 (born 1977) +5
bonus not a novel +10
post total 35
season total 185
20.2The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
task points 20
combo 20.4 (Univ. of Edinburgh) +5
post total 25
season total 210
20.10The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis
task points 20
combo 10.3 (#228) +5
10.8 +5
10.9 +5
20.4 (Laval Univ) +5
bonus not a novel +10
post total 50
season total 260
Kate S wrote: "From Post 349Karin wrote: "20.9 Addiction
Thirteenth Night by Alan Gordon
(confirmed on question thread. Protagonist is an alcoholic and drinking comes up quite a..."
I'll take it!
20.5 Meta-fictionNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
+20 Task
Not yet sure about combo, but will be back when I get an answer
Task Total = 20
Season Total - 180
Post 474 Jane wrote: "10.3Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
task points 10
combo 20.1 born 1969 +5
20.10 +5
bonus - not a novel (memoir) +10
post total 30
season total 55"
I'm sorry, Jane. As this is a memoir, it doesn't qualify for 20.10 which needs to be a novel (or a diary/letters).
10.4 AKAThe Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
+10 Task
+10 Lost in Translation (originally French)
+10 Not- a- Novel (non-fiction)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 760
20.1 LifetimeThe Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five
+ 5 Jumbo
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 790
20.4 DoctorateA Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five / 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 820
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?)Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
+20 Task: late December / January in Denver
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 845
10.2 It's All RelativeThe Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell
+10 task
+15 combo (20.1; 20.3; 20.4)
Task total=25
Grand total=625
20.5 Meta-fictionThe Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Low lexile, no styles
+20 task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 610
Task 20.1 LifetimeRead a book written by any author born during Muriel Spark's lifetime (1918-2006).
The Princess Saves Herself in this One (Women are some kind of magic #1) (2016) by Amanda Lovelace
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: poetry collections
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 290 + 30 = 320
20.6 Literature MapMoon Tiger by Penelope Lively
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 20.1 (born 1933), 20.3, 20.4, 20.5 (on both lists)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 620
20.6 Literature MapThere Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.2 - woman; 10.6; 10.8 - 109x; 20.1 - born 1938; 20.3 - turning 80 this May)
+10 LiT
+10 Not-a-Novel (short story collection)
Post Total:65
Season Total: 585
15.1 - Page Count LIVINGChristmas Present by Jodi Taylor 41pages
Christmas Past by Jodi Taylor 45 pages
41+45 = 86
20.1 - LifetimeA Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
born 1956
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - BRYAN)
+10 NaN
Post = 35
Season total = 610
Task 20.3 AgedRead a book written by any author who lived 75 years or longer.
Barrett Jr., Neal b. November 03, 1929 d. January 12, 2014
The Prophecy Machine (Investments #1) (2000) by Neal Barrett Jr. (Paperback, 342 pages)
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.1)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 320 + 25 = 345
Task 20.1 LifetimeRead a book written by any author born during Muriel Spark's lifetime (1918-2006).
Artemis (2017) by Andy Weir
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.8 fantasy)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 345 + 25 = 370
15.6 Page CountThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith--304 pages
Task total: 15
Season total: 225
15.2 PCAlan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma by David Boyle, 112 pages (MPE is the kindle version; paperback is 107, so still fits the requirement)
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 570
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