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10.2 It's All RelativeMan of Two Tribes (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte #21) by Arthur W. Upfield
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 830
20.3 AgedCandide by Voltaire
task=20
combo=10 (10.4;10.8-rated 45x as fantasy)
LiT=10
WC=10
task total= 50
grand total=545
10.8 Fantasy Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist
Fantasy-54 users
Style + 5 Combo Power of Five- Feist
Task+ 10
Book Total: 15
Grand Total: 230
15.8 PC2Still Me by Jojo Moyes, 400 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1395
20.1 LifetimeGoing Home by Archie Weller
+20 Task born 1957
+5 Combo 10.6
+10 Not a Novel (short stories)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1290
20.1 LifetimeIdaho by Emily Ruskovich
+20 Task (no exact date but photo shows within range)
+5 Combo (10.9 Emily)
Points this post: 25
RwS total: 550
PC total: 15
Season Total: 565
15.8 Page Count - 2nd roundAll That Swagger by Miles Franklin
418 pages
pub. 1936
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 845
20.1 LifetimeThe Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
+20 Task (b. 1972)
+5 Combo (10.8)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 155
From post 728Leslie wrote: "20.5 Meta-fiction
The Princess BrideWilliam Goldman
Task total: 20
Season total: 40?"
+10 Combo
This book also qualifies for 20.1 and 20.3; 5 points per task for combo.
From Post 747Rachelccameron wrote: "10.8 Fantasy
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer
228 times
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo - 576 pgs
+10 Not a Novel
Ta..."
+10 Combo 10.6 and 20.1
30.1 Holiday Bonus!The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi (born 1920, still living)
+30 Task (Tunisia)
+20 Combo (10.9, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 LiT
Task Total = 60
Season Total = 630
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski (395 pages)
Task total=15
Grand total=935
Moved to Post 771
20.1 LifetimeElkhorn Tavern by Douglas C. Jones
+20 task (born 1924)
+ 5 combo 10.9
Task total: 25
Season total: 445
I'd like to move the book from Post 769 to another task. I forgot I need living authors for Page Count.20.1 Lifetime
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski
+20 task
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=30
Grand total=950
10.9 Power of FiveA Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw by
Isaac Bashevis Singer
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.6, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 Lost in Translation (Yiddish)
+10 Canon
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total: 55
Season Total: 845 + 55 + 5 for Blue Fox's 20.8 approved in General Questions thread today = 905
20.1 Lifetime:The Maze Runner by James Dashner (born 1972)
+20 task
Sadly, this is YA and the lexile score is 770L, so not eligible for style points.
Task total: 20
Grand total: 50
15.10 PC2Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman, 528 pages
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1410
20.3 AgedMurder Will Speak by George Bellairs
+20 task (1902-82)
+10 combo (10.4, 20.7 story begins on 24 December 1940 and covers approx one week)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 875
20.3 AgedThe Murder of a Quack by George Bellairs
+20 task (1902-82)
+ 5 combo (10.4)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 900
I'd like to make a switch. I'd like to replace this post, originally post 91 :15.7 350-399p
352 pages, 1599
Henry V by William Shakespeare
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 45
I'd like to change it to:
15.7 350-399p
366 pages, 1922
The Cross by Sigrid Undset
+15 Task
No point change
I will move the original book in another post. Thanks!
20.1 LifetimeThe White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
+20 Task born 1965
+5 Combo 10.2
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1315
10.3 Listopia Reigns!Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
+10 task (#108 on the list)
+10 combo (10.9, 20.1 - born 1970)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 295
20.3 AgedBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
+20 task (born in 1941 so she is now at least 76!)
+10 combo (20.1, 20.4 - link in help thread post 218)
+10 not a novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 335
20.5 Meta FictionThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
+20 task (first link)
+15 combo (10.2, 10.8 - shelved 282 times, 20.1 - born 1928)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 370
20.10 First Person Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
YA at BPL, 900L
+20 Task (approved in thread)
+10 combo (10.9, 20.1 - born 1981)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 400
10.3 Listopia Reigns!The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
+10 task
+10 combo (10.9, 20.1)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=30
Grand total=980
20.10 First Person (Elizabeth (Alaska))Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8 42 shelvings, 20.1 born 1949, 20.4 approved in help thread)
+10 LiT (Japanese ->English)
Points this post: 45
RwS total: 595
PC total: 15
Season Total: 610
15.8 Page count One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
MPE: 448 pgs
15 task
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15
Running total: 915 (*note this includes the 5 pts for combo 10.8 for Candide - see message 56 in 'General Questions' thread)
20.1 LifetimeSorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
+20 Task born 1986
+5 Combo 10.8
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1340
20.3 AgedToo Many Cooks by Rex Stout
+20 Task (1889-1975)
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.10)
Task Total = 30
Season total = 660
20.8 OrganizationThe Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.2, 10.9, 20.1
+10 Not a Novel (biography)
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 1385
15.8 400-449p (Pre- 1950 Publications)400 pages, 1932
1919 by John Dos Passos
+ 15 Task
+100 Page Count Completion
+100 point bonus for reading all books published before 1950
Post Total: 215
Season Total: 1310
10.6 Keep it ShortThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
+10 Canon
+10 LiT
+10 Not a Novel
Task total = 45
Season Total = 705
20.1 LifetimeBurning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski
+20 task
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=30
Grand total=1010
15.3 Page CountThe Misunderstanding by Irène Némirovsky
+15 Task (164 pages)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1400
Page Count15.6: 300 - 349 pages
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
320 pages
Task points: 15
Challenge points: 120
Task 20.8 Organization (Amanda)Approved by Elizabeth(Alaska) thanks!
Dreams of the Golden Age (Golden Age #2) (2014) by Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 318 pages)
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.8, #20.1)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 620 + 30 = 650
Task 15.4 Page Count200-249p
The Naked Sun (Robot #2) (1956) by Isaac Asimov
Most Popular Edition: 208 pages
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 650 + 15 = 665
Lagullande wrote: "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-..."
Please could I move my book previously posted for 20 points in message 585, task 10.9, to 15.2 instead:
15.2 Page count
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 112 pages
Points this post: -20 +15 = -5
RwS total: 575
PC total: 30
Season Total: 605
15.3 Page countThe Sun's Love Is Ours by David B. Dacosta 170 pages
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 575
PC total: 45
Season Total: 620
20.1 LifetimeFever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
+20 Task (born 1978)
+5 Combo (10.5 Nominee for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2017)
+10 LiT (Spanish ->English)
Points this post: 35
RwS total: 610
PC total: 45
Season Total: 655
10.3 Listopia reigns!Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
10 task
10 combo 10.9, 20.1
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20
Running total: 935
20.4 - DoctorateSlow Dollar by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 665
20.4 - DoctorateHigh Country Fall by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 720
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+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1380