WI 17-18 Completed Tasks Showing 951-1,000 of 1,126

[Coralie]

20.1 Lifetime

Angel of Storms by Trudi Canavan

+20 Task born 1969
+10 combo 10.8, 10.9
+ 5 Jumbo (568 pages)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1545

[Coralie]

20.1 Lifetime

Ilium by Dan Simmons

+20 Task born 1948
+10 combo 10.8, 20.4
+ 10 Jumbo (752 pages)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1585

[Heather]

10.5 - PEN nominee

The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin

+10 task
+10 LiT
+10 combo (20.1, 20.7 - blizzard in Russia)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 655

[Karen Michele]

20.1 Lifetime

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

+20 Task: 920 Lexile
+ 5 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy!

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1540

[Karen Michele]

20.1 Lifetime

Death at Windsor Castle by C.C. Benison

+20 Task:
+10 Combo: 10.4 AKA / 10.7 For Real (Queen Elizabeth is a main character)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1570

[Karen Michele]

20.1 Lifetime

Sourdough by Robin Sloan

+20 Task:

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1590

[Karen Michele]

20.4 Doctorate

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

+20 Task: 890 Lexile
+10 Combo: 10.3 Listopia Reigns! / 10.9 The Power of Five
+10 Canon

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1630

[Karen Michele]

20.9 Addiction (Kate S)

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

+20 Task: Sherman's mother and father were alcoholics
+10 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime / 20.4 Doctorate
+10 Not-a-Novel

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1670

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

20.4 Doctorate

The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.3)

Task Total = 30

Season Total = 810

[Louise Bro]

10.4 Page Count

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

230 pages

Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 175 pts

[Louise Bro]

15.6 Page Count

The Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler

344 pages

Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 190 pts/b>

[Louise Bro]

15.10 Page Count

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

533 pages

Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 205 pts

[Katy]

10.10 Group Reads

The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri

+10 task
+5 combo (20.1 - born 1967)
+10 Lost in Translation

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 560

[Cat]

20.5 - Meta-fiction

Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
Discworld series is on the pages

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8, 10.9 - TERRY, 20.1)

post total = 35
Season total = 1065

only the translation task for completion :)

[Kazen]

10.2 - It's All Relative

Warrior's Woman by Johanna Lindsey

+10 task
+10 combo (10.8, 20.1)

Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 295 points

[Rosemary]

10.4 AKA

The Godwits Fly by Robin Hyde

+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.9)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1135

[Megan]

20.1 Lifetime

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla

+20 Task (b. 1963 as per BPL)
+5 Combo (10.9 -- GIDLA)
+10 Not-a-novel (non-fiction)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 735

[Kätlin]

20.1 Lifetime:

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner (born 1972)

+20 task

YA with lexile score of 720L, so no style points.

Task total: 20
Grand total: 70

[Anika]

20.10 First Person

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

+20 Task (fiction written in first person)
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)

Task total: 30
Season total: 1505

[Anika]

20.1 Lifetime

The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks by Mike Dow

+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel

Task total: 30
Season total: 1535

[Denise]

20.3 Aged

The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

+20 task
+15 combo (10.6; 20.1; 20.4)
+10 not-a-novel

Task total=45
Grand total=1425

[Anika]

15.2 PC2

There Is Beauty In the Bleeding by Christina Hart, 125 pages

+15 Task (written by a living author)

Task total: 15

+100 Completion bonus
+50 All living authors

Season total: 1700

[Rebekah]

20.4 Doctorate
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

+20 - Book
+25 - Combo (10.9, 20.1,20.2,20.3,20.6)
Task Total - 45 pts
Season Total - 160 pts

[Rebekah]

20.9 Addiction
The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction by Sandra Swenson

+20 - Book
+5 - Combo (20.1 I don't know the exact year she was born but we both had children in the same class at the American Embassy School and we about the same age and I was definitely born in Muriel Spark's lifetime)
+10 - Not a Novel

Task Total - 35 pts
Season Total - 195 pts

[Tien]

15.6 Page Count - 2nd round
Wings Above the Diamantina (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte #3) by Arthur W. Upfield
302 pages
pub. 1936

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 935

[Kate S]

From Post 430

Valerie wrote: "20.8 Organization

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

20 task (approved help thread post 10)
10 canon
10 combo 10.9, 20.3
____
40

Running total: 630"

+5 Combo 20.10

[Kate S]

From Post 920

Deedee wrote: "Task 20.3 Aged
Read a book written by any author who lived 75 years or longer.

Pecos Crossing (1963) by Elmer Kelton

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.1)

Task Total: 20 + 05 ..."

+5 Combo 10.9

[Kate S]

From Post 923

Cat wrote: "10.10 - Group Reads

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1)
+10 NaN (short stories, right)

Task total = 25
Season total = 980"

+15 Combo 10.3, 10.6, 20.4

[Kate S]

From Post 925

Cat wrote: "10.2 - It's All Relative

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa

+10 Task
+10 LiT
+5 20.1 (he was born in 1950s, moved to Korea..."

+10 Not a Novel

[Kate S]

From Post 931

Katy wrote: "10.8 Fantasy!

Artemis by Andy Weir

+10 task (shelved fantasy 102 times)
+5 combo (20.1 - born 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Weir)

Task Total: 15
Seas..."

+5 Combo 20.10

[Kate S]

From Post 949

Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.4 Doctorate

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
Link for article about receiving honorary doctorate
https://www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite/UC3M......"

+5 Combo 10.2

[Cat]

10.5 - In Translation

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

+10 Task
+10 LiT
+10 Combo (20.1; 20.10 - it's 1st person narration oddness)

+100 Finish
+200 Mega-Finish

Post total = 330

Season total = 1420 (I think. i might've lost track somewhere)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Cat wrote: "

+100 Finish
+200 Mega-Finish
"

Congratulations! Well done!

[Norma]

20.4 - Doctorate

Hard Row by Margaret Maron

+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 970

[Norma]

20.4 - Doctorate

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1000

[Norma]

20.1 - Lifetime

Death's Half Acre by Margaret Maron

+20 task
+10 Combo

Task total: 30
Grand total: 1030

[Rosemary]

10.6 Keep It Short

The Casino by Margaret Bonham

+10 task
+ 5 combo (20.3 1913-1991=78 yrs)
+10 not a novel (short stories)

+100 RwS finish

Post Total: 125
Season Total: 1260

[Coralie]

15.10 Page Count

Louise de La Vallière by Alexandre Dumas

+15 Task (733 pages)
+100 completion bonus
+100 all books published before 1950
+200 Mega Finish

Post Total: 415
Season Total: 2000

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Coralie wrote: "


+100 completion bonus
+100 all books published before 1950
+200 Mega Finish"

Congratulations! Well done!

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

20.1 LifetimeSisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

Task +20
Book Total: 20
Grand Total: 280

[Tien]

15.4 Page Count - 2nd round
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
242 pages
pub. 1884

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 950

[Tien]

20.2 Scottish
Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2) by Val McDermid

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.1 - 1955 as per author's age; 20.4 - approval)

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 980

[Megan]

20.6 Literature Map

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8 -- shelved 308 times as "fantasy"; 10.9 -- HAMID; 20.1 -- b. 1971)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 770

[Shannon SA]

Page Count

15.9 : 450 - 499 pages

Watership Down by Richard Adams
478 pages

Task points: 15
Challenge points: 150
Completion points: +100
Total Challenge points: 250

[Bea]

10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed

The Christmas Cat by Melody Carlson

This book was selected from suggestions for A New York Christmas

Task +10

Grand Total: 70

[Bea]

10.3 Listopia Reigns!

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Found on Best Books for Book Clubs list, #132

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1)
+5 Jumbo (692 pages)

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 90

[Bea]

10.4 AKA

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 105

[Bea]

10.6 Keep It Short

The Quiet Little Woman, Tilly's Christmas, Rosa's Tale : Three Enchanting Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott

+ 10 Task
+ 10 Not-a-novel (Short Stories)

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 125

[Bea]

10.7 For Real (Anika's Task)

A Mystery Of Errors by Simon Hawke

Shakespeare is a major character of this book.

+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 140

[Bea]

10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

+ 10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 150

That finishes my posting for 10 point tasks.