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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
10.4 AKAThe Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick
+10 Task pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz
+15 Combo 10.2, 10.9, 20.1 born 1948
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 970
Task 20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?) (Karin's Task)This book was set in London, England, 15% November, 85% December
Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel (2017) by Samantha Silva
+20 Task
+15 Combo (#10.7 (Charles Dickens), #10.9, #20.01)
Task Total: 20 + 15 = 35
Grand Total: 420 + 35 = 455
15.5 Page CountThe Way Life Should Be by Christina Baker Kline
(288 pages)
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 15 pts
15.10 PCHere I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, 571 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 735
10.9 The Power of FiveLove Story by Erich Segal
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 (author born in 1937))
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 60 pts
10.8 Fantasy! (Cat's Task)Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
+10 task (fantasy 2081 users)
+10 combo (20.1; 20.4)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=30
Grand total=690
Task 15.1 Page Counttwo or three short works adding up to 75-150 pages
The Patagonia (1888) by Henry James
And
To Build A Fire (1903) by Jack London
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 455 + 15 = 470
20.5 Meta-fictionThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.7 Rafael Trujillo, 10.8 70x, 10.9 Junot, 20.1 born 1968, 20.4 approved in help thread)
Points this post: 45
RwS total: 435
PC total: 15
Season Total: 450
15.6 Page CountEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
327 pages - living author
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 670
10.5 In TranslationElectrico W by Hervé Le Tellier
+10 Task (won the 2013 French-American Foundation Translation Prize)
+10 L-i-T (originally written in French)
+10 Combo (10.9, "Herve"; 20.1, b. 1957)
Task total: 30
Season total: 765
From Post 567itpdx wrote: "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 to..."
I'm glad to see you liked this one.
+5 Jumbo
From Post 591Connie wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
+20 task (born 1943)
+ 5 combo 10.9
Task total: 25
Season total: 300"
+5 Combo 20.3
10.1 Also EnjoyedThe Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem by Jon R. Luoma
On the also enjoyed list for Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
+10 task “reserved”
+10 combo 10.9, 20.1 approved in thread
+10 NAN (nonfiction)
Task total: 30
Season total: 355
10.1 Readers Also EnjoyedRenegades by Marissa Meyer
+10 Task: From Carve the Mark, 860 Lexile
+15 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy! / 10.9 The Power of Five / 20.1 Lifetime
+5 Jumbo
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 920
20.2 ScottishIvanhoe by Walter Scott
+10 Task: 1410 Lexile
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five
+ 5 Jumbo
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 940
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?) (Karin's Task)Why Did You Lie? by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
+20 Task: Takes place in Iceland in January -- brrr!
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 965
15.3 150-199p (Pre- 1950 Publications)192 pages, 1909
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 980
20.2 ScottishTransition by Iain M. Banks
+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.8, 10.9, 20.1 born 1954
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1005
20.9 AddictionRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
20 task
15 combo 10.9, 20.1, 20.3
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35
Running total: 800
15.7 Page CountGray Mountain by John Grisham
+15 Task (368 pages in MPE)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 870
15.10 Page CountSix Four by Hideo Yokoyama
+15 Task (576 pages in MPE)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 885
10.5 TranslationThe Hunger Angel by Herta Müller
+10 Task
+10 LiT
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 915
20.4 Honorary DoctorateHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
+20 task (approved)
+15 combo 10.9, 20.1 (born 1984), 20.9 (mother was a drug addict)
+10 not a novel
Task total: 45
Season total: 350
20.3 AgedAnnie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
+20 task
+10 combo (10.9; 20.1)
Task total=30
Grand total=720
20.1 LifetimeMort by Terry Pratchett
+20 task
+15 combo (10.8 shelved 7000+ times, 10.9, 20.4)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 705
20.4 DoctorateThe History Boys by Alan Bennett
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (play)
+10 Combo (20.1--b. 1934; 20.3--83-years-old)
Task total: 40
+100 RwS Finish
Season total: 905
10.1 Readers Also EnjoyedClaudine's House by Colette
+10 Task (enjoyed by readers of Suite Française)
+10 Combo: 10.4 (approved in task help), 20.3 (1873-1954)
+10 Lost-in-Translation
+10 Not-a-Novel (stories of her childhood)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 765 (additional 5 points for The Stranger was approved today in 10.5 task help, so that changed my running total from 720 to 725 plus 40 for this task equals 765)
20.1 LifetimeSmoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
+20 task
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=30
Grand total=750
10.8 - Fantasy!Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh
+10 task
+10 combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 170 points
10.9 - The Power of FiveBad for the Boss: A BWAM Office Romance by Talia Hibbert
+10 task
Task total: 10 points
Grand total: 180 points
20.10 - First PersonDress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney C. Stevens
+20 task (told in first person)
Shelved YA, no lexile, no styles
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 200 points
Task 20.9 Addiction (Kate S)Read a book in which a main character experiences substance abuse.
Terry:: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism (1996) by George S. McGovern [616.861] (Hardcover, 208 pages)
+20 Task (#20.9)
+15 Combo: 20.1 (1922-2012), 20.3, 20.4
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 470 + 45 = 515
15.1112 pages - Before Ebola: Dispatches from a Deadly Outbreak by Peter Apps
22 pages - The Nazi Connection by Gloria Steinem
Task total: 15
Grand total: 500
15.2124 pages - Obeying Evil: The Mockingbird Hill Massacre Through the Eyes of a Killer by Ryan Green
Task total: 15
Grand total: 515
Post 613 Louise Bro wrote: "10.9 The Power of FiveLove Story by Erich Segal
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 (author born in 1937))
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 60 pts"
Louise, this doesn't work for 10.9 because both names are 5 letters. We'll score it for 20.1.
20.1 - LifetimeHome Fires by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.4)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 445
20.1 - LifetimeDeath by Water by Kerry Greenwood
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 470
20.1 - LifetimeJourney to Death by Leigh Russell
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 495
15.9 Page CountSouth Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12 by Roald Amundsen
496 pages, published 1912
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 290
10.7 For Real (Anika's Task)Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
+10 Task
+5 Combo - 20.1 (Jayme use this so must have had a link or something--you can see her photo here plus her children are not yet full grown)
Task Total = 15
Season Total - 285
20.1 LifetimeHunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 30 pts
Grand Total: 105 pts
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approval
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.9 - KROSS; 20.1 - approval; 20.3 -approval; 20.4 - approval)
+10 LiT
+5 Jumbo (544 pages)
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 665