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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
10.5 In TranslationMemoirs of a Polar Bear by Yōko Tawada
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy! / 20.1 Lifetime
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1735
Task 10.5 In TranslationRead a book that won or was nominated for one of these Translation Prizes
Eléctrico W (2011) by Hervé Le Tellier
+10 Task (won the 2013 French-American Foundation Translation Prize)
+10 Lost in Translation (originally written in French)
+10 Combo (10.9, "Herve"; 20.1, b. 1957)
Task total: 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 915 + 30 = 945
10.10 Group ReadsEverything Happens as It Does by Albena Stambolova
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1760
Post 1029 Bea wrote: "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 ye..."
Yes. We look at years of birth/death only.
Valerie wrote: "100 completion
_____
165
+ 200 Mega finish"
Congratulations! Well done!
20.4 - DoctorateSand Sharks by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1060
20.1 - LifetimeChristmas Mourning by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.4)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1090
10.1 - Readers also EnjoyedThree-Day Town by Margaret Maron
This book was selected from suggestions for Betrayal of Trust
+10 task
+20 Combo (10.9, 20.1, 20.4, 20.7 - takes place in New York in January)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1120
20.1 Lifetime You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.10 fiction in first person)
Task total: 25
Season total: 1755
15.8 Page Count The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths by Harry Bingham
+15 Task (400 pages)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 580
15.10 Page Count The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
+15 task (752 pages)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 595
20.10 First PersonThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
+20 Task
+10 Lost in Translation (originally written in English, my mother tongue is Italian)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 480
(In case you check and can't find this among my books - it's because it's part of this book: The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Volume 3, which I'm currently reading but have already finished said novel. I hope this is allowed)
20.5 Meta-fictionThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
20 Task
15 Combo (10.2 - MAN; 10.8 - 282 x; 20.1 - 1928 as per author's page)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1,045
10.3 Listopia ReignsBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 123 on that list
+10 Task
+10 LiT
+10 Combo - 10.9 Power of 5 S-I-J-I-E, 20.1 Lifetime (born 1954 as per GR author page etc)
Task total = 30
Season Total - 470
I would like to move a book from Post 965: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
and instead claim it for:
10.3 Listopia Reigns!
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
+10 Task: 890 Lexile
+10 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five / 20.4 Doctorate
+10 Canon
Task Total: 30 (-10)
Season Total: 1750
10.2 It's All RelativeThe Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 15
RwS Finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Total this Post: 315
Season Total: 2065
20.1 LifetimeOut of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 2090
Karen Michele wrote: "RwS Finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200"
Congratulations! Well done!
My Page Count is messed up because the MPE of the book I planned for 15.10 has changed, and the new one is under 500 pages. So I'd like to move City Sister Silver from task 20.1, claimed in post 706, to:
15.10 Page Count
City Sister Silver by Jáchym Topol
512 pages, living author
+ 15 task
+100 Page Count completion
+ 50 bonus for all living authors
+200 Mega finish
MINUS 45 points claimed for this book in post 706
Post total: 320
Season total: 1580
20.1 LifetimeEastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.4 approved)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1625
15.6 Page Count(second round)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
320 pages
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1640
That's probably all I'll get to this season. Thanks and see you next season!
10.10 Group ReadsA Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
+10 Task
15 Combo (10.6; 20.1 - born 1928 as per author's page; 20.3 - will be turning 90 this year)
10 Not-a-Novel
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1,080
30.1 Holiday bonusAngola!
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
30 task
10 LiT
5 combo 20.1
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45
Running total: 1575
Rosemary wrote: "+100 Page Count completion
+ 50 bonus for all living authors
+200 Mega finish"
Congratulations! Well done!
20.7Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts by Lucy Dillon
approved in help thread
Task +20
Style+ 5 20.1 Born 1974 (wikipedia page)
Book Total: 25
Grand total: 305
task 20.1In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
task 20
combo 10.7 (Hitler) +5
style non fiction +10
post total 35
season total 790
20.6 Lit MapThe Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
+20 pts - Task
+30 pts - Combo (10.6,10.9,20.1,20.2,20.3,20.4)
+10 pts- Not Novel
Task - 60 pts
Season Total - 290 pts
20.10 First PersonThe Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts by William Still
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo - !0.9, 20.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
+10 pts - Not Novel
Task Total - 40 pts
Season Total - 330 pts
15.2 Page Count - 2nd roundWhere Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
148 pages
pub. 1905
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1,095
10.5 In TranslationThe Vegetarian by Han Kang
PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Deborah Smith (2017)
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 - born 1970 as per author's page)
+100 RwS Finish
+200 Mega Finish
Post Total: 315
Season Total: 1,410
20.1 LifetimeThe Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
+20 task (no date but photo on GR profile shows within correct range)
+10 Combo (10.8 25 shelvings, 10.9 Gowar)
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 920
PC total: 45
Season Total: 965
20.3 AgedThe Beggar by Naguib Mahfouz
+20 Task (1911-2006)
+ 5 Combo (20.4)
+10 LiT
Task Total = 35
Season Total = 895
And that wraps up Winter for me! (although it hasn't stopped snowing, and overnight temps in the 20s)
Task 10.1 Readers Also EnjoyedChoose one book you read last season, and read any book on that book's Readers Also Enjoyed list.
The book from last season:
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise (2010) by Julia Stuart
As of February 25, 2018 this book was on the Readers Also Enjoyed list:
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (Mr Malik #1) (2008) by Nicholas Drayson
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.1)
+100 RWS Finish !!!!!!
Task Total: 10 + 05 +100 = 115
Grand Total: 945 + 115 = 1,060
Kate, updating the Project sheet, I just realized I claimed a book for 30.1 that doesn't qualify - Tunisia isn't on the list of countries. (I was too excited about this, I guess!)Post 768 The Pillar of Salt was claimed for Task 30.1.
It needs to be moved to 20.1, and awarded one less combo, reducing my Season Total to 880.
20.1 LifetimeThe Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul (b. 1947)
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combos (10.2, 10.4, 10.5, 20.8-starts life as a traditional tribal village girl living in a hut to a very sophisticated, educated, glittering metro European life full of wealth and vice)
+10 pts - Not Novel
+10 LiT (French)
Task Total - 60 pts
Season Total - 390 pts
20.8 OrganizationThe Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant by Margareta Magnusson
+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Combo 20.1 & 20.3 (her page here and several times in the book she says that she is "between the ages of 80 and 100", but she also says she has a daughter who is 50, so she probably isn't 100 and born before Feb 1, 2018 (wow, 17 days before my maternal grandmother).
Task total = 40
Season Total - 510
Rebekah wrote: "20.1 LifetimeThe Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul (b. 1947)
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combos (10.2, 10.4, 10.5, 20.8-starts lif..."
Rebekah, does at least 51% of this take place in Senegal?
15.5 Page Count (second time around)A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
+15 Task (256 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 790
15.2 Page Count (second time around)What Happened at Midnight by Courtney Milan
+15 Task (102 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 805
15.2 Page CountOn a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
106 pages
+15 Task
+100 Completion Bonus
+50 All living authors
Grand total: 465 pts
Wow! This is the first time I've actually completed any part of the challenge. I feel quite proud!
20.3 AgedThe Novice: A Story of True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
The author was born in 1926 and is still alive.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.1 (1926), 20.4)
Task total: 30 pts
Grand total: 495 pts
20.4 DoctorateThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
(Only just posted in help thread, I'm sorry)
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 (#216), 20.1 (1930), 20.3 (1930-2013))
+10 LiT (Read in Danish)
+10 Canon
Task total: 55 pts
Grand total: 550 pts
Thank you for a great season everybody!
From Post 1032Tien wrote: "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"
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 1038Louise Bro wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Aut..."
+5 Combo 10.2
From Post 1042Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "10.4 AKA
Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 200"
+10 Combo 10.9, 20.1
From Post 1030Bea wrote: "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"
+5 Combo 20.1
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The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
MPE: 528 pgs
15 task
50 all living authors
100 completion
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165
+ 200 Mega finish
Running total: 1530