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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
20.1 LifetimeIlium by Dan Simmons
+20 Task born 1948
+10 combo 10.8, 20.4
+ 10 Jumbo (752 pages)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1585
10.5 - PEN nomineeThe Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin
+10 task
+10 LiT
+10 combo (20.1, 20.7 - blizzard in Russia)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 655
20.1 LifetimeGirls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
+20 Task: 920 Lexile
+ 5 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy!
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1540
20.1 LifetimeDeath 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
20.4 DoctorateTheir 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
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
20.4 DoctorateThe Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.3)
Task Total = 30
Season Total = 810
10.4 Page CountHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
230 pages
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 175 pts
15.6 Page CountThe Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler
344 pages
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 190 pts/b>
15.10 Page CountThe City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
533 pages
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 205 pts
10.10 Group ReadsThe 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
20.5 - Meta-fictionMaskerade 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 :)
10.2 - It's All RelativeWarrior's Woman by Johanna Lindsey
+10 task
+10 combo (10.8, 20.1)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 295 points
20.1 LifetimeAnts 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
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
20.10 First PersonThe Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
+20 Task (fiction written in first person)
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Season total: 1505
20.1 LifetimeThe 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
20.3 AgedThe 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
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
20.4 DoctorateThe 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
20.9 AddictionThe 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 -
15.6 Page Count - 2nd roundWings Above the Diamantina (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte #3) by Arthur W. Upfield
302 pages
pub. 1936
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 935
From Post 430Valerie 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
From Post 920Deedee 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
From Post 923Cat 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
From Post 925Cat 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
From Post 931Katy 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
From Post 949Don (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
10.5 - In TranslationFever 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)
Cat wrote: "+100 Finish
+200 Mega-Finish
"
Congratulations! Well done!
20.4 - DoctorateHard Row by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 970
20.4 - DoctorateGlass Houses by Louise Penny
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1000
10.6 Keep It ShortThe 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
15.10 Page CountLouise 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
Coralie wrote: "+100 completion bonus
+100 all books published before 1950
+200 Mega Finish"
Congratulations! Well done!
15.4 Page Count - 2nd roundAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
242 pages
pub. 1884
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 950
20.2 ScottishNorthanger 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
20.6 Literature MapExit 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
Page Count15.9 : 450 - 499 pages
Watership Down by Richard Adams
478 pages
Task points: 15
Challenge points: 150
Completion points: +100
Total Challenge points: 250
10.1 Readers Also EnjoyedThe Christmas Cat by Melody Carlson
This book was selected from suggestions for A New York Christmas
Task +10
Grand Total: 70
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
10.4 AKAThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 105
10.6 Keep It ShortThe 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
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
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.
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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