WI 17-18 Completed Tasks Showing 551-600 of 1,126

[Norma]

15.9 - Page Count

Exes by Dan Greenburg

+15 task - 452 pgs

Task total: 15
Grand total: 415

[Owlette]

30.1 Holiday Bonus

Algeria

The Stranger by Albert Camus

+30 Task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.10)
+10 Canon
+10 Lost in Translation

Task Total: 60
Season Total: 720

[Deedee]

Task 20.6 Literature Map
Read any book by an author found on Literature Map for Muriel Spark.

The Two Hotel Francforts (2013) by David Leavitt

+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.9, #20.1)

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 375 + 30 = 405

[Shannon SA]

Page Count

15.7 : 350-399 pages

The Dry by Jane Harper

352 pages

Task points: 15
Challenge points: 105

[Lagullande]

15.1 Page count

Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood 34 pgs

and

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 52 pgs


Points this post: 15
RwS total: 325
PC total: 15
Season Total: 340

[Lagullande]

20.4 Doctorate

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

+20 Task (approved in help thread)
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9, 20.1 born 1955)
+10 Not-A-Novel (essays)


Points this post: 45
RwS total: 370
PC total: 15
Season Total: 385

[Katy]

15.2 Page Count

Final Girls by Mira Grant

+15 Task (112 pages)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 165

[Katy]

10.2 It's All Relative

The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen

+10 task
+10 combo (10.9; 20.1 - born 1950)
+10 LiT (orig pub in Danish)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 195

[Katy]

20.7 It's Winter (Or Summer)

The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia

+20 Task (murder on Jan. 16, most of novel in 2-3 weeks following)
+5 combo (20.1)
+10 Canon
+10 LiT

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 240

[Katy]

20.1 Lifetime

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

+20 task (from his picture it's clear he's in the range...also I attended college with him and know he graduated in 2000 or 2001!)
+15 combo (10.2; 10.4 - confirmed pseudonym here; 20.10 - told entirely in first person)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 275

[Heather]

20.9 - addiction

White Trash Zombie Gone Wild by Diana Rowland

+20 task (addiction is a primary plot point)
+20 combo (10.8 - 89 times, 10.9 - Diana, 20.1, 20.10)

Task total: 40
Grand total: 420

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

10.10 Group Reads
Thank you, Kate S.

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

+10 Task
+15 combo (20.4, 20.1, 10.5)
+10 NAN
+10 LIT
Task total 45

Season total: 320

[Karin]

10.6 Keep it Short


Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes


+10 Task

+10 Not a Novel (short story collection)
+10 Combo - 10.9 (MOYES) and 20.1 link to birth year https://www.jojomoyes.com/about-jojo/

Task Total = 40

Season Total - 270

[Kate S]

Tien wrote: "In post 361, I claimed The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) for task 10.4 AKA

I would like to move it to task 20.4 Doctorate, please.

+10 Task

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 620"

Moved.

[Kate S]

Rosemary wrote: "As Cat says, also 10.9, so I make that +20 combo points, bringing my total to 630."

Got it

[Heather]

20.9 - addiction

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

+20 task (Carrie talks a lot about her alcoholism and drug abuse)
+5 combo (20.1)
+10 not a novel

Task total: 35
Grand total: 455

[Kate S]

15.5 Page Count

Only Skein Deep by Maggie Sefton

+15 Task (261 pages)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 725

[Kate S]

20.1 Lifetime

Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman

+20 Task

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 745

[Kate S]

20.1 Lifetime

Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.9

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 770

[Kate S]

20.1 Lifetime

Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.9
+10 Not a Novel
+5 Jumbo

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 810

[Heather]

20.1

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

+20 task
+10 combo (10.4, 10.8 - 295 times)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 485

[Kate S]

20.8 Organization

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō

+20 Task
+10 Not A Novel
+5 Combo 20.1
+10 LiT

Post Total: 45
Season Total: 855

[Denise]

20.3 Aged

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson

+20 task
+15 combo (10.2; 10.9; 20.1)

Task total=35
Grand total=660

[Connie]

10.6 Keep It Short

The Laying On of Hands: Stories by Alan Bennett

+10 task
+15 combo 20.1 (born 1934), 20.3 (age 83), 20.4 (pending approval)
+10 not a novel

Task total: 35
Season total: 275

[Megan]

10.2 It's All Relative

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo

+10 Task (Women and Men)
+5 Combo (20.1 -- posted in task thread)
+10 Not-a-Novel (non-fiction)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 235

[Megan]

15.5 Page Count

The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

+15 Task (288 pages)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 250

[Megan]

15.3 Page Count

Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim

+15 Task (163 pages)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 265

[Megan]

10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed

Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

+10 Task (posted in thread)
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.1 -- posted in thread)
+10 Not-a-Novel

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 295

[Megan]

10.5 In Translation

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

+10 Task (Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Nominee 2017)
+5 Combo (20.1 -- b. 1978)
+10 LiT (Spanish)

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 320

[Lagullande]

10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

+10 Task (Woolf)
+0 Combo (grr! she refused the honorary doctorates she was offered)
+10 Not-A-Novel (essays)


Points this post: 20
RwS total: 390
PC total: 15
Season Total: 405

[Kätlin]

20.1 Lifetime:

The Midnight Star by Marie Lu (author born in 1984)

This is YA, but luckily for me has a Lexile score of 800L.

+20 task
+10 combos (10.9 The Power of Five, 10.8 Fantasy! - shelved as fantasy 1219 times)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 30

[Rosemary]

10.2 It's All Relative

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

The word is "women": plurals and subtitles were accepted in the help thread.

+10 task
+ 5 combo (20.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_... )
+10 not a novel (non-fiction)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 655

[Coralie]

10.10 Group reads

Augustown by Kei Miller

+10 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1978

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 945

[Anika]

20.3 Aged

Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems by Mary Oliver

+20 Task (author is 82-years-old)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Combo (20.1--born 1935; 20.4--approved in thread)

Task total: 40
Season total: 685

[Valerie]

20.4 Doctorate

High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

20 task
10 combo 20.1, 20.3
____
30

Running total: 765

[Connie]

20.1 Lifetime

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

+20 task (born 1943)
+ 5 combo 10.9

Task total: 25
Season total: 300

[Ed]

30.1 Holiday Bonus!

The Savage Night by Mohammed Dib

set in Algeria (approved in help thread)

task= 30
NaN (stories)=10
LiT=10
combos= 15 (10.6; 20.1;20.3)

task total= 65
grand total= 385

[Marina]

10.6 Keep It Short

The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1, approved here)
+10 Lost in Translation (published in English, my mother tongue is Italian)
+10 Not A Novel (short stories)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 275

[Shannon SA]

Page Count

15.2 : 100 - 149 pages

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

104 pages

Task points: 15
Challenge points: 120

[Shannon SA]

Page Count

15.9 : 450 - 499 pages

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens

496 pages

Task points: 15
Challenge Points: 135

[Ashley Campbell]

20.1 Lifetime

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 85

[Megan]

10.7 For Real (Anika's Task)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

+10 Task (Abraham Lincoln and Willie Lincoln, primarily)
+10 Combo (10.8 -- shelved as fantasy 212 times; 20.1 -- b. 1958)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 340

[Ed]

20.3 Aged

Brand by Henrik Ibsen

task=20
WC=10
Nan (play)=10
LiT=10
combo= 10 (10.9; 20.4)

task total=60
grand total= 445

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

20.3 Aged

The Widow by Georges Simenon

+20 Task (1903-1989)
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
+10 LiT

Task Total = 35

Season Total = 525

[Anika]

20.6 Literature Map

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8--shelved 282 times as "fantasy"; 10.9 "Hamid"; 20.1--born 1971)

Task total: 35
Season total: 720

[Deedee]

Task 15.2 Page Count

100-149 p

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (2017) by Martha Wells

Most Popular Edition
Published May 2nd 2017 by Tor.com
ebook, 144 pages

Grand Total: 405 + 15 = 420

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Deedee wrote: "Task 15.2 Page Count

100-149 p

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (2017) by Martha Wells

Most Popular Edition
Published May 2nd 2017 by Tor.com
ebook, 144..."

Just a note that we always use the most popular English Language print edition for the MPE, not the ebook. You're OK with this one, as the paperback has 149 pages.

[Cat]

15.1 - Page Count - Living

Christmas Past by Jodi Taylor
45 pages

The Colour of Gold by Toni Mount
66 pages

[Cat]

15.8 - Page Count - Living

I realised my previous entry for this (#384) is a duplicate author, so replacing with a unique author for the round:

Provenance by Ann Leckie
439 pages

Completed PC #1; using living authors = +150

Post total = 165

Season total = 780

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Post 595 Shannon wrote: "Page Count

15.9 : 450 - 499 pages

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens

496 pages

Task points: 15
Challenge Points: 135"

Shannon, I'm so sorry, I hope you can revise your plan. The MPE for this title is 383 pages, so fits 15.7 not 15.9.