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Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 746 Marie wrote: "10.8 Fantasy!The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente
+10 task
+10 combo (20.1 - 1979 ; 20.8 - i don't want t..."
Ah i didn't check this one, i assumed it had a lexile since all the other books in the collection have... Sorry for the bother!
Although if i'm not mistaken, i now have a total of 100 points ? i was at 90 after post 736 (minus five in combo as you told me in 750), and +10 with post 746 = 100
20.1 LifetimeBorn around 1966 according to this article
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (non-fiction)
Task total = 30
Points total = 130/b>
Kate S wrote: "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
..."
This an anthology of short stories by many different authors and compiled by Kate Bernheimer. I am happy to take 10 combo pts but I didn't think that they would qualify. Let me know what you would like to do!
20.3 AgedThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Atwood is 78
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.3 Book Club #22
+5 Combo 10.8 Fantasy (over 1000 times)
+5 Combo 20. 1Lifetime born 1939
+5 Combo 20.4 Doctorate Ryerson University (https://www.ryerson.ca/calendar/2014-...)
+5 Combo 20.5 Meta
Task Total: 45pts
Grand Total: 190 pts
From Post 760Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "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"
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 772Owlette wrote: "10.9 Power of Five
A 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 (Y..."
Sorry, Owlette, this does not qualify for 10.6 as it is true stories, and does not fit the purpose of this task.
From Post 775itpdx wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
+20 task
+5 combo (10.8)
Task total: 25
Season total: 430"
+5 Combo 20.8
20.1 LifetimeThe Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
+20 Task (born 1950, see post 360)
+10 Not-a-novel (memoir)
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 640
PC total: 45
Season Total: 685
Rachelccameron wrote: "Kate S wrote: "From Post 747This an anthology of short stories by many different authors and compiled by Kate Bernheimer. I am happy to take 10 combo pts but I didn't think that they would qualify. Let me know what you would like to do!"
You're right, I overlooked the edited by portion of your post. I apologize for the confusion. Disregard the combos I erroneously added. :)
Kate S wrote: "From Post 775itpdx wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
+20 task
+5 combo (10.8)
Task total: 25
Season total: 430"
+5 Combo 20.8"
OK! I would like to switch this book to 20.8 and have 20.1 as a combo. So the task total is 30 and the season total would be 435
10.5 In TranslationJournal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish translated by Ibrahim Muhawi
+10 task
+10 combo 20.1 born 1941, 20.4
+10 LIT
+10 NAN
Task total: 40
Season total: 475
15.6 Page Count (second time around)After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun
+15 Task (301 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 590
20.10 First PersonVanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
+20 Task (non-fiction entirely comprised of letters/telegrams and diary entries)
+15 Combo (10.7--most of the Bloomsbury Group were represented here, including Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster; 10.9--"Priya"; 20.1--born 1974)
Taks total: 35
Season total: 1445
15.3 PC2Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, 195 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1460
10.1 Readers Also EnjoyedA Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
+10 task (approved in thread, from Moll Flanders and The Castle of Otranto)
+ 5 combo (20.10, 100% in fictional first person)
+10 canon
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 925
10.10 Group ReadsAn Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
+10 task
+20 combo (10.2, 10.9, 20.1, 20.10 approved)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 955
20.4 DoctorateLove Medicine by Louise Erdrich
+20 task (approved)
+ 5 combo (20.1)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 980
15.6 Page CountThe 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Lexile 930
+15 task (320 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 415
15.9 Page CountSmall Great Things by Jodi Picoult
+15 task (480 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 445
20.3 AgedWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
task=20
WC=10
LiT=10
Jumbo=25 (1392 p.)
task total= 65
grand total=610
Can check that off my bucket list!
15.8 Page CountTo The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey (417 pages)
Task total: 15
Season total: 460
20.1 LifetimeL'economia delle cose by Elena Varvello
Approved here
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.6, approved here)
+5 Not A Novel (short stories, see above)
LiT points don't apply because the author writes in my own mother tongue.
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 335
Post 809 Marie wrote: "20.1 LifetimeBorn around 1966 according to this article
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (non-fiction)
Task total = 30
Points total = 130/b>"
Hi Marie - we'll need a book for this one (I can Gabrielle Hamilton in the article).
10.7 For Real (Anika's Task)Henry V by William Shakespeare
+10 Task
+10 Not-A-Novel
+10 Canon
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1340
Page Count #2 / Living Authors15.7 350-399p
368 pages:
Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1355
20.1 LifetimeThe Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1385
20.3 AgedFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.6 Keep it Short / 10.8 Fantasy! /10.9 The Power of Five / 20.5 Meta-fiction
+10 Lost in Translation
+10 Not-A-Novel
+10 Canon
Post Total: 70
Season Total: 1455
20.4 DoctorateDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
+20 Task: 930 Lexile
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five
+10 Not a Novel
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1490
20.9 Addiction (Kate S)Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1515
10.7 - Queen Victoria, Vlad Tepes, Jack the Ripper, and moreAnno Dracula by Kim Newman
+10 task
+ 5 jumbo
+10 combo (10.8 - 439 times, 20.1)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 630
15.7 PC2The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine, 387 pages (has two Lexile levels listed: 920 and 890, but both are above the required level)
+ 15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 1475
20.3 AgedThe Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
+20 Task
+20 Combo 10.2, 10.6, 10.8, 20.1
+10 Not a Novel (short stories)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 1465
20.5 Meta-fictionThe Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
+20 Task (on both lists)
+20 Combo: 10.8 (shelved 65 times), 20.1, 20.4, 20.6
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 950
15.8 Page CountThe Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. Singer
448 pages, published 1936
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 350
Task 20.1 LifetimeTrumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (2018) by David Frum (Hardcover, 320 pages) [973.933]
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.9 ‘David’)
+10 Not-a-Novel: non-fiction
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 = 35
Grand Total: 665 + 35 = 700
10.7 For RealHomer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
+10 task (approved)
+20 combo (20.1, 20.3 1931-2015, 20.4 approved, 20.10 all first person from Homer's point of view)
Post Total: 30*
Season Total: 1010
* edited to add 20.10 combo
20.5 Meta-fictionStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
approved in task help thread
20 task
10 combo 10.3, 10.8
5 jumbo
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35
Running total: 970
Task 10.4 AKAIn honor of Get a New Name Day (Feb 13), read a book published under a pseudonym.
See: Roberta Isleib
Roberta Isleib writes the ‘Key West Food Critic Mysteries’ under pseudonym Lucy Burdette
Death in Four Courses (Key West Food Critic Mystery #2) (2012) by Lucy Burdette (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 293 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.1)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 700 + 15 = 715
10.10 Group ReadsSecondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
+10 task
+15 combo (10.5; 20.1; 20.4)
+10 not-a-novel
+10 LiT
+ 5 jumbo
Task total=50
Grand total=1120
20.1 LifetimeThe End of Eddy by Édouard Louis
+20 Task (b. 1992)
+10 Combo (10.9 -- LOUIS, 20.10 -- first-person novel purporting to be an autobiography)
+10 LiT (French)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 630
20.10 First PersonMiss Julia Stands Her Ground by Ann B. Ross
+20 task (novel in first person)
+10 combo (20.1 approved, 20.7 - main plot takes place in December of one year, with a long flashback to Christmas of a previous year, so 100% in winter, all in USA)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1040
20.1 LifetimeThe Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
+20 Task born 1964
+5 Combo 10.8
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1490
10.7 For RealVictoria by Daisy Goodwin
Main character is Queen Victoria
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1 (author born in 1961))
+10 LiT (Read in Danish)
Task total: 30 pts
Grand total: 75 pts
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+20 task
+15 combo (10.6; 20.1; 20.4)
+10 not-a-novel
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