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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
15.4 PCHow to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Finding Love Beyond Words by Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, 240 pages
+15 Task (by living authors)
Task total: 15
Season total: 585
From Post 371Cat wrote: "20.3 - Aged
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
lived 1890 - 1976 = 86
(assuming low lex)
+20 Task"
Not YA at BPL
+5 Combo 20.4
20.1 LifetimeAngel Falls by Kristin Hannah
Born 1980 from wikipedia.com
Task +20
Book Total: 20
Grand Total: 180
15.5 PC Living AuthorsThe Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies by Susan Wittig Albert (288 pg, pub 2011)
Task Total - 15 pts
Season Total - 45 pts
10.7 For RealThe Maid by Kimberly Cutter
+10 Task (Joan of Arc)
+5 Combo 20.1
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 440
10.2 It's All RelativeThe Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
+10 Task
+5 Combo
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 455
20.1 LifetimeThe Dead Cat Bounce by Sarah Graves
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.9
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 480
20.1 LifetimeMy Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris GRAPHIC NOVEL
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 500
10.2 It’s all RalativeA Woman Of Seville by Sallie Muirden
+10 Task
+15 Combo 10.7, 20.1, 20.10
Diego Velazquez is one of the narrators
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 775
15.3 - Page Count LIVINGScrewed Down Murder by Belle Knudson
187 pages
+100 completion bonus
+50 living authors
Season total = 780
20.1 LifetimeThe Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (b. 1972)
+20
+5 Combo (10.8 - Fantasy)
Total: 25
Season total: 25
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20.8 Organization The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
The hero, Hawthorn, is a troll, but he becomes a changeling and is then changed into a human
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 - 304 times ; 20.1 - born 1979)
Task total = 30
Points total = 50
Post 489 Rosemary wrote: "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"
I find only electronic editions at BPL and those aren't marked as YA/Juv. Therefore, all styles apply - what I can quickly see is 10.8, 20.1, and 20.4. Kate may find others.
30.1 Holiday BonusDry Season by Gabriela Babnik
+30 Task (setting: Burkina Faso)
+15 Combo (20.1, 20.7 - Harmattan season, 20.10)
+10 LiT
Task total = 55
Season total = 460
10.2 Its all RelativeThe Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
+10 - Task
+15 Combos (10.7 https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/car... , 10.9, 20.1 born 1951 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...)
Task total - 25 pts
Season Total - 70 pts
20.10 -first personHow the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back by Diana Rowland
+20 task
+15 combo (10.8 - 60 times, 10.9 - Diana, 20.1)
task total: 35
grand total: 380
10.3 Listopia Reigns!The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
YA Lexile 850
+10 Task (#121 on list)
+30 Combo: 10.8 (shelved 52 times), 10.9 (Green), 20.1 (born 1977), 20.4 (approved in task thread), 20.9 (key character is an alcoholic), 20.10 (first person fiction)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 660
10.5 In TranslationThe Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera
+10 Task Oxford-Weidenfeld Tranlation Prize
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1970
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 800
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 489 Rosemary wrote: "20.5 Meta-fictionThe Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Low lexile, no styles
+20 task
Post Total: 20
Season Total..."
10.9 with TERRY ??
15.6 300-349p (Pre- 1950 Publications)303 pages, 1806
Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 860
10.6 Keep it ShortFifty Bales of Hay by Rachael Treasure
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 - approval)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short story collection)
Post Total:25
Season Total: 610
20.10 First Person (Elizabeth (Alaska))Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil
+20 Task: 100% first person fiction
+10 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five / 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 890
In post 361, I claimed The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) for task 10.4 AKAI would like to move it to task 20.4 Doctorate, please.
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 620
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 489 Rosemary wrote: "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"
I find only electronic editions at BPL and those aren't marked as YA/Juv. Therefore, all styles apply - what I can quickly see is 10.8, 20.1, and 20.4. Kate may find others."
Wonderful! They must have lost the paper copy they had when I first added it to my TBR :)
As Cat says, also 10.9, so I make that +20 combo points, bringing my total to 630.
20.1 LifetimeThe Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
+20 Task born 1978
+5 Combo 10.8
+5 Jumbo 650 pages
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 830
20.1 LifetimeA Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
+20 Task born 87
+10 Combo 10.8, 20.7 set in London in February
+5 Jumbo 512 pages
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 865
20.10 First PersonChildren of My Heart by Gabrielle Roy
+20 Task
+10 LiT
Task Total = 30
Season total = 490
10.9 The power of 5 (Ed's Task)The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (for ANGIE)
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Season Total - 190
20.1 Lifetime(age is mentioned here https://www.freep.com/story/entertain... plus there is a photo of her with her son on her GR page).
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence
+20 Task (approved book)
+10 Not a Novel (nonfiction)
+10 Combo - 10.9 (ANNIE) and 20.10 First person (approved--epistolary as in letters from author to books in first person)
Task Total = 40
Season Total - 230
15.4 Page CountChinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughterby Adeline Yen Mah
Task +15
Grand Total: 195
15.3 PCDo Not Find Me by Kathleen Novak, 184 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 600
20.2 ScottishThe Bachelors by Muriel Spark
+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.9, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4, 20.6)
Task total: 45
Season total: 645
From Post 495Cat wrote: "15.1 - Page Count LIVING
Christmas Present by Jodi Taylor 41pages
Christmas Past by Jodi Taylor 45 pages
41+45 = 86"
Sorry, Cat, from the rules of PC: "Each book claimed for Page Count must be written by a different author." You can use one of these, but will need to find a short by a different author to complete 15.1. Thanks.
From Post 502Deedee wrote: "Task 20.1 Lifetime
Read 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 fanta..."
+5 Combo 20.10
20.1 LifetimeAmerican War by Omar El Akkad
+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.8, 10.9, 20.10
Post Total: 35
Season Total:
10.9 The Power of FiveThe Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
+10 Task
+5 Combo 20.1
+10 Not a Novel
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 640
20.1 LifetimeHomesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.6
+10 Not A Novel
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 675
20.7 It's WinterComfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah
+20 task
+5 Combo (20.1 Lifetime)
Task total = 25
Grand total = 85
15.10 500p or more (Pre- 1950 Publications)512 pages, 1485
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 905
20.10 First personFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
lexile: 910
20 task
20 combo 10.3, 10.9, 20.1, 20.3
____
40
Running total: 735
20.1 LifetimeSomeone to Run With by David Grossman
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.9
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 930
20.4 - DoctorateKiller Market by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 400
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10 task
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10 LiT
5 combo 20.3
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35
Running total: 695