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Post 1008 Bea wrote: "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 To..."
This doesn't qualify for 10.9 because both names are 5 letters, however, it *does* qualify for 20.1, so your score is the same. Just in case you track such things.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 1008 Bea wrote: "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)
Ta..."
Gee, thanks, Elizabeth.
20.3 AgedSome Buried Caesar by Rex Stout
+20 Task (1889-1975)
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.10)
Task total = 30
Season total = 840
10.7A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline
famous person artist Andrew Wyeth
task 10
combo 10.9, 20.1 +10
post total 20
season total 595
task 20.9Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
task 20
combo 10.9 +5
style - canon +10
post total 35
season total 630
task 10.9My Ántonia
Willa Cather
task 10
combo 20.4 (univ. Nebraska) +5
style - canon +10
post total 25
season total 655
I think this completes the RWS challenge so I think my season total is 755.
20.1 LifetimeDarkness in Malaga by Paul S. Bradley
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.4, copyright page states "Paul S. Bradley is a pen name"
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Total: 25
Season total: 120
Here's my review if anyone is interested: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
20.3 AgedFountain and Tomb by Naguib Mahfouz
+20 Task (1911-2006)
+10 Combo: 10.6 and 20.4
+10 Lost in Translation
+10 Canon
+10 Not-a-novel
Task total: 60
Season Total: 1110 + 60 = 1170
Task 20.1 LifetimeRead a book written by any author born during Muriel Spark's lifetime (1918-2006).
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life (How to Be #2) (2015) by Ruth Goodman (Hardcover, 336 pages) [942.05]
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-novel (Non-fiction)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 885 + 30 = 915
From Post 982Rebekah wrote: "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..."
+10 Not a Novel
From post 1004Bea wrote: "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..."
+10 Combo 20.1, 20.7
From Post 584Megan wrote: "10.5 In Translation
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
+10 Task (Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Nominee 2017)
+5 Combo (20.1 -- b. 1978)
+10 LiT (Spanish)
..."
+5 Combo 20.10
From Post 802Lagullande wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
+20 Task (born 1978)
+5 Combo (10.5 Nominee for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2017)
+10 LiT (Spanish ->Eng..."
+5 Combo 20.10
From Post 964Karen Michele wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
+20 Task:
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1590"
+5 Combo 10.8
From Post 972Cat wrote: "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"
+5 Combo 20.4
From Post 1005Bea wrote: "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: ..."
+5 Combo 20.3
From Post 1006Bea wrote: "10.4 AKA
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 105"
+10 Combo 20.3, 20.4
Bea wrote: "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."
+5 Combo 20.1
Gee, Kate! I surely did not do my checking well! I did, however, consider Mark Twain for 20.3, but I decided that he did not make it since he was born in November but died in April of his 75th year. He was actually 74+. Should I keep the points you gave considering this?
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?) (Karin's Task)The Christmas Shoes by Donna VanLiere
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
Task Points: 25
Grand Total: 205
20.8 Amanda's Task: OrganizationMagic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
+ 20 Task
+ 15 Combo (10.4 - pseudonym of husband-wife writing team, 10.8, 10.9 - Fantasy 904 users)
Task Points: 35
Grand Total: 240
This finishes my 20 point tasks so far.
20.8 Organization (Amanda)The Easy Organizer: 365 Tips for Conquering Clutter by Marilyn Bohn
20 Task
10 Not-a-Novel
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1,010
10.4 AKABlood Mask: A Novel of Suspense by Lauren Kelly, AKA Joyce Carol Oates
+10 task
+25 combo (10.9; 20.1; 20.3; 20.4; 20.10-entire story except prologue told through first-person narration)
Task total=35
Grand total=1460
15.5 Page Count250-299 pages
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
Task points: 15 (292 pages)
Grand Total: 255
15.6 Page Count300-349 pages
Egg Drop Dead by Laura Childs
Task Points: 15 (306 pages)
Grand Total: 270
15.9 Page Count450-499 pages
Just One Look by Harlan Coben
Task Points: 15 (499 pages)
Grand Total: 285
I am not sure if posting this task is allowed as I have not yet read (and will not be able to) for tasks 15.7 & 15.8. I should have read the longer books first and left the shorter ones to last. Live and learn.
This finishes my posting to date.
20.5 Meta-FictionEqual Rites by Terry Pratchett
Part of the qualifying Discworld-series
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.8, 10.9, 20.1, 20.4)
Task total: 40 pts
Grand total: 245 pts
20.1 LifetimeHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Author was born in 1969.
+20 Task
+10 LiT (Read in Danish)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 40 pts
Grand total: 285 pts
10.9 The Power of FiveA Summer at Sea by Katie Fforde
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 (Author born in 1952)
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 300 pts
20.10 First PersonLetters by Kurt Vonnegut
+20 task
+10 combo 20.1, 20.3
+ 10 NAN
Task total: 40
Season total: 580
10.1 Readers Also EnjoyedA Dry White Season by André Brink
+10 Task (from Cry, the Beloved Country)
+10 Combo (20.1, 20.3 1935-2015)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1180
10.3 Listopia ReignsThe Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.9, 20.1)
+10 Not a Novel
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1215
10.4 AKAThe Iliad by Homer
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Jumbo (683 pages)
+10 LiT
+5 Combo (10.9)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 1265
10.10 Group Read13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1290
20.4 DoctorateWinter by Ali Smith
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.9, 20.1, 20.2, 20.7)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1330
20.6 Literature MapExit West by Mohsin Hamid
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8, 10.9, 20.1)
+100 RwS Completion
+200 Mega Finish
Post Total: 335
Season Total: 1665
20.3 AgedIn a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
+ 20 task (1904-1993)
Task total = 20 (but a 20th Century woman!)
Season Total = 860
10.3 Listopia ReignsExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Task +10
Combo +5 (20.1)
Task total= 15
Grand total = 115
20.8 OrganizationEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Task (20.1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_T...
+10 pts - Not Novel
Task Total - 35 pts
Season Total - 230
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Task (20.1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_T...
+10 pts - Not Novel
Task Total - 35 pts
Season Total -
Sorry I didn't mean to post twice. Not even sure I how I did it.
20.3 AgedWorld's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
+20 task (1931-2015)
+15 combo 20.1, 20.4 (Kenyon College), 20.10 (first person)
Task total: 35
Season total: 510
20.1 LifetimeA Student's Guide to Robert Frost by Connie Ann Kirk
+20 task (born 1957)
YA so no styles
Task total: 20
Season total: 530
20.4 Honorary Doctorate1776 by David McCullough
+20 task
+15 combo 20.1 (born 1933), 20.3, 10.9
+10 not a novel
Task total: 45
Season total: 575
20.1 LifetimeBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks
+20 task (born 1953)
+ 5 combo 20.4 (Univ of East London)
Task total: 25
Season total: 600
15.4 - Page Count病院の言葉を分かりやすく：工夫の提案 by 国立国語研究所「病院の言葉」委員会
(Roughly translated - Making Hospital Words Easy to Understand: Proposed Techniques. The author is a research group committee.)
+15 task (234 pages)
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 310 points
(If there are any issues with this one no worries.)
20.3 - AgedThe Farm in the Green Mountains by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
+20 task (b.1901-d.1991)
+5 combo (10.9)
+10 lost in translation (written in German, read in English)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 45 points
Grand total: 355 points
Post 1014 Jane wrote: "10.7A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline
famous person artist Andrew Wyeth
task 10
combo 10.9, 20.1 +10
post total 20
season total 595"
I'm sorry, Jane. This doesn't qualify for 10.9 because both Baker and Kline are 5 letters.
20.1 LifetimePrecious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five/ 20.4 Doctorate
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1705
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Read one of the top 300 books from the Best Books for Book Clubs list.
On February 18, 2018: #232 (page three)
Garden Spells (Waverley Family #1) (2007) by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 290 pages)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.8 “fantasy”, #20.1)
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 865 + 20 = 885