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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
15.9 PCOne Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern, 469 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
+100 Completion Bonus
+50 All Living Authors
+200 Mega Finish
Season total: 1270
15.6 PC2Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan, 328 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1285
Anika wrote: "15.9 PCOne Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern, 469 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
+100 Completion Bonus
+50 All Living Authors
+200 Mega Finish
S..."
Wow - done so early! Well done!
Anika wrote: "+100 Completion Bonus
+50 All Living Authors
+200 Mega Finish"
Well done!
Congratulations, Anika! That was quick!
20.3 AgedThe Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
+20 (Coover b. 1932, 85 yrs)
+5 Combo (20.1 - published 1968)
Total: 25
Season total: 50
and my review if anyone is interested: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "+100 Completion Bonus
+50 All Living Authors
+200 Mega Finish"
Well done!"
Wow, Anika. If you get moving you might get a Double-Mega before the end of the season. I wonder whether anyone has ever done that before?
Lagullande wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika wrote: "+100 Completion Bonus
+50 All Living Authors
+200 Mega Finish"
Well done!"
Wow, Anika. If you get moving you might get a Double-Mega before the end of th..."
I don't think a double-Mega is possible because one is only permitted to complete the 10.1 task once.
Thanks for all the congrats, everyone! I'm blushing up a storm over here...though:Is it bad to admit that somehow in my head I got mixed up and thought that the season ended at the end of January rather than the end of February so I thought I was just squeaking in under the wire?
(I wish there was a way to use emojis here, because I'd put in a long line of laughing-so-hard-I'm-crying faces...)
15.4 PC2
It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright, 240 pages
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1300
20.3 AgedMerivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
+20 Task (b. 1943)
+25 Combo (10.2, 10.7 [Charles II], 20.1, 20.4, 20.10)
Task Total = 45
Season Total = 570
10.2 It's All Relative A Young Man in Search of Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer
+10 Task: "man"
+15 Combo: 10.9, 20.3, 20.4
+10 Lost-in-Translation (from Yiddish)
+10 Not-a-Novel (memoir)
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 810
10.4 AKABlack Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase
+10 task (approved)
+10 combo 10.9, 20.1
Task total: 20
Season total: 370
Ed wrote: "I don't think a double-Mega is possible because one is only permitted to complete the 10.1 task once. ."Of course. You're right, Ed. Maybe that restriction should be removed if it is the last task to be completed twice?!
20.7The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
+20 task
+15 combo (10.8- 417 times, 10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 565
20.1 LifetimeNinefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
+20 Task born 1979
+5 Combo 10.8
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1045
10.8 FantasyThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
10,721 users as of 1/3/18
Task +10
Style +10 Combo 20.1 (born 1978, found on his GR page.), Power of 5 Lynch
Book Total: 20
Grand Total: 220
15.9 Page CountWorld's End by T.C. Boyle
480 pages - living author
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 720
20.3 AgedThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
as per GR author page, born 1875 & died 1955 (age 80)
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 - approval)
+10 LiT
+10 Cannon
+10 Jumbo (706 pages)
Post Total: 55
Season Total: 720
15.1 Page Count - 2nd roundThe Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
64 pages
pub. 1852
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
64 pages
pub. 1891
Total: 128 pages
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 735
Lagullande wrote: "Ed wrote: "I don't think a double-Mega is possible because one is only permitted to complete the 10.1 task once. ."Of course. You're right, Ed. Maybe that restriction should be removed if it is t..."
I'm kinda bummed about the 10.1 restriction--it would have been fun to try for a double-Mega! Ah well...I'll just focus on the Page Count sub-challenge for a while :-)
15.5 PC2
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris, 275 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1315
My first try. Let me know if I have it right or wrong, please.Bram: A Highlander Romance by L.L. Muir
164 pp
15.2 subtask page count
20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 35
From Post 614Denise wrote: "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
T..."
+5 Combo 10.6
From Post 624Karen Michele wrote: "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
..."
+10 LiT
From Post 636Rosemary wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
Mort by Terry Pratchett
+20 task
+15 combo (10.8 shelved 7000+ times, 10.9, 20.4)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 705"
+5 Combo 20.5
From Post 641Kazen wrote: "10.9 - The Power of Five
Bad for the Boss: A BWAM Office Romance by Talia Hibbert
+10 task
Task total: 10 points
Grand total: 180 points"
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 622Karen Michele wrote: "10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed
Renegades by Marissa Meyer
+10 Task: From Carve the Mark, 860 Lexile
+15 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy! / 10.9 The Power of Five /..."
I show an addition error here. Previous total was 905, add the 30 from this post and you should have 935.
Also, in Post 923
Karen Michele wrote: "20.2 Scottish
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
+10 Task: 1410 Lexile
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five
+ 5 Jumbo
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 940"
This should be +20 task, not 10.
Leslie wrote: "My first try. Let me know if I have it right or wrong, please.Bram: A Highlander Romance by L.L. Muir
164 pp
15.2 subtask page count
20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 3..."
Welcome, Leslie! Glad you've decided to join us!
The 15 point tasks cannot be combined with the 10- and 20-pointers, nor the reverse. It is clearer if the task you are claiming the book for is at the top, and then the book and the details following. Let us know if you wanted to claim this for 20.1 or for 15.2 as it does qualify for either of them.
And feel free to ask any questions in the General Questions thread, or even in the socializing thread. It often takes a season or two to learn all of our quirks.
15.1 Page CountDolan's Cadillac by Stephen King (64 pages)
AND
Dreamer by Brandon Sanderson (21 pages)
+15 Task (85 pages)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 980
15.9 Page CountLucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
+15 Task (472 pages)
+100 Page Count Completion
+50 All Living Authors
Post Total: 165
Season Total: 1160
Kate S wrote: "From Post 622Karen Michele wrote: "10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed
Renegades by Marissa Meyer
+10 Task: From Carve the Mark, 860 Lexile
+15 Combo: 10...."
Thanks Kate --- sorry for all the errors!
10.10 Group readsThe View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
10 task
10 not a novel
5 jumbo
15 combo 10.8, 20.1, 20.4
_____
40
Running total: 840
10.4 - AKABeast by Judith Ivory
+10 task (real name in profile)
+5 combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 225 points
eta: forgotten combo
20.3 AgedThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
+20 Task (89 years)
+15 Combo (20.1-b.1929; 10.8; 20.9-Main character has to go to therapy because of OD)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 130
15.1 Page Count - pre1950The Signalman: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Charles Dickens
56pages
pub 1866
Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story by Amelia B. Edwards
48pages
pub 1881
Season total = 795
10.5 In TranslationPerfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
+10 task (PEN Translation Prize for John E. Woods (1987)
+15 combo (10.3; 10.8; 20.1)
+10 LiT
Task total=35
Grand total=790
15.9 450-499p (Pre- 1950 Publications)464 pages, 1886
The Masterpiece by Émile Zola
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1035
10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus low lexile
+10 Task
Season Total: 1045
20.10 First Person (Elizabeth (Alaska))The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous
+20 Task: entirely in first person
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1075
20.3 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
+20 task
+5 combo (10.8 - 809 times)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 590
Post 675 Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.8 FantasyThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
10,721 users as of 1/3/18
Task +10
Style +10 Combo 20.1 (born 1978, found on his GR page.), Power of 5 Lynch
Book ..."
I'm sorry, Jayme. This doesn't work for 10.9 because both of his names have 5 letters, and the task allows only one of them.
Post 699 Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus low lexile
+10 Task
Season Total: 1045"
This was not shelved as YA when it was first read by a member of the group, so is grandfathered in as Lexile qualified. I have added McManus for 20.1 as well as 10.9, let us know if have other styles, or want to switch to the higher scoring task.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 699 Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus low lexile
+10 Task
Season Total: 1045"
This was not s..."
Oh, thanks! I'll just take the combo and leave it on 10.9.
10.7 For RealDodger by Terry Pratchett
Lexile 1210
+10 Task Charles Dickens (among others) plays a significant role in the book
+20 Combo 10.8, 10.9, 20.1, 20.4
Task Total: 30
Completion Bonus: 100
Season Total: 1175
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YA low Lexile so no combos/styles
+20 Task
Points this post: 20
RwS total: 455
PC total: 15
Season Total: 470