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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
20.2 ScottishDeath of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton
20 task
15 combo 20.1, 20.3, 10.4
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35
Running total: 245
20.8 OrganizationBefore Midnight by Jennifer Blackstream
Otherwise known as werewolf cinderella
+20 task
+10 combo (10.8, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 305
20.2 ScottishThe Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.4)
Task Total = 30
Season Total = 205
10.6 Keep It ShortMore Stories from My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.9, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 Lost in Translation
+10 Canon
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total = 55
Season Total = 70
10.4 AKAThe Wildling Sisters by Eve Chase
+10 Task (approved in thread)
+ 10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 20
Season total: 125
10.9 The Power of FiveA Better Angel by Chris Adrian
+10 task
+10 combo (10.6; 20.1)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=30
Grand total=320
Page Count15.4 : 200 - 249 pages
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
246 pages
Task points: 15
Challenge points: 15
Page Count15.8 : 400 - 449 pages
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
400 pages
Task points: 15
Challenge points: 30
20.9 AddictionJunkyard Heart by Garrett Leigh
+20 task (approved)
+10 combo (10.9, 20.1 approved)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 265
Task 15.6 Page Count300-349p
That Inevitable Victorian Thing (2017) by E.K. Johnston (Goodreads Author) (YA) (Hardcover, 330 pages)
Lexile 980L
Grand Total: 125 + 15 = 140
10.8 FantasyRed Sister by Mark Lawrence
+10 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1966
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 330
10.4 AKAAnabasis by Saint-John Perse
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.9, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 Canon
+10 Lost in translation
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total = 55
Season Total = 125
15.3 Page Count同時通訳者の英語ノート術＆学習法 by 工藤紘実 (189 pages)
+15 task
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 50 points
20.7 It's WinterOff the Grid by P.J. Tracy
+20 Task - takes place in winter in Minnesota
+5 Combo 10.4 AKA - pseudonym of a mother daughter team approved in task thread
+5 Combo 10.9 - five letters in Tracy
+5 Combo 20.1 author(s) is still living
Task Total: 35pts
Grand Total: 50 pts
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?)A Christmas Secret by Anne Perry
20 task
15 combo 20.1, 20.3, 10.9
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35
Running total: 280
20.2 Scottish Lilith by George MacDonald (351 pages in the one I read)
+20 Task
+25 Combo for 10.8, 20.3, 20.4, 20.8 (approved), 20.10
+10 Canon
Task Total = 55
Season Total = 180
20.2 ScottishThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
+20 task
+25 combo (10.9, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4, 20.6)
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 310
20.9 AddictionWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
(Millat, although he isn't the only one--definitely a main character and one of the POVs--mentioned in the book description, too, plus his pot smoking leads to at least one Very Important story event that is pivotal to the plot)
+20 Task
+10 Combo 20.1 Lifetime (born 1975), 20.4 honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Grinnell College
Task Total - 30
Season Total - 80
20.3 AgedHedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.9 The Power of Five / 20.4 Doctorate
+10 Lost in Translation
+10 Not-A-Novel
+10 Canon
Task Total: 60
Season Total: 445
20.4 DoctorateAnything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 470
20.8 Organization (Amanda)The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
+20 Task: a character becomes a zombie and then returns to human form.
+20 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy! / 10.9 The Power of Five / 20.1 Lifetime / 20.7 It's Winter
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 510
20.10 First Person (Elizabeth (Alaska))Laurinda by Alice Pung
US edition is Lucy and Linh
YA at BPL & has 900L
approval
+20 Task
+10 combo (10.9 - ALICE; 20.1 - born 1981)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 220
20.6 Literature MapHow It All Began by Penelope Lively
+20 task
+15 combo (20.1; 20.3; 20.4)
Task total=35
Grand total=355
Page Count15.6 : 300 - 349 pages
GURKHA: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Kailash Limbu
340 pages
Task total: 15
Challenge total: 45
20.1 LifetimeFragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby
+20 Task (born 1948)
+10 Not a Novel
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 130
PC total: -
Season Total: 130
15.7 living authorsThe Vampire's Mail Order Bride by Kristen Painter
370 pages
Task total: 15
Grand total: 335
From Post 36Tien wrote: "10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
5 letters in JULIA
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 - Author born 1967; approval)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Pos..."
For a 10-point task, the task is only worth 10 points, not 20. Should clear up our discrepancy.
10.6 Keep it shortStone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
10 task
15 combo 20.1, 20.3, 20.4
10 not a novel
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35
Running total: 315
20.1 LifetimeA Study in Sable by Mercedes Lackey
+20 Task born 1950
+5 Combo 10.8
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 355
20.9 AddictionSacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore
+20 Task (cleared in thread)
+20 Combo (10.7--main and recurring characters include: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pisarro, Claude Monet, Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, James Whistler, etc.; 10.8--shelved as "fantasy" 292 times; 10.9; 20.1--born 1957)
Task total: 40
Season total: 165
20.4 - DoctorateA Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
+20 task (1958)
+10 Combo (20.1, 10.9)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 175
20.1 - LifetimeNever Knowing by Chevy Stevens
+20 task (1973)
+5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 200
Kate S wrote: "For a 10-point task, the task is only worth 10 points, not 20. Should clear up our discrepancy. "Thanks, Kate! I know it was my error but I just couldn't see it :p
20.1 LifetimeBefore We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Approved in the task thread.
Task +20
Book Total: 20
Grand Total: 75
15.3 - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson182 pages, Penguin Classics edition.
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
10.6 - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King+10 task
+10 not a novel
+5 combo (20.1- born 1947)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 40
20.4 DoctorateAnimals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin
+20 task
+5 combo 20.1
+10 NAN
Task total 35
Season total: 130
Post 160 Shannon wrote: "Page Count15.8 : 400 - 449 pages
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
400 pages
Task points: 15
Challenge points: 30"
I'm very sorry, Shannon. The MPE for this title is 380 pages so doesn't fit 15.8. It *does* fit 15.7, so you will need to rearrange your plan.
Post 164 Owlette wrote: "10.4 AKAAnabasis by Saint-John Perse
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.9, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 Canon
+10 Lost in translation
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total = 55
Season Total = 125"
I'm sorry, Owlette, Perse lived 1901-1975, so a year short of the 75 year requirement for 20.3.
Post 178 Shannon wrote: "Page Count15.6 : 300 - 349 pages
GURKHA: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Kailash Limbu
340 pages
Task total: 15
Challenge total: 45"
Shannon, the MPE for this title is 288 pages and doesn't fit 15.6. It does fit 15.5. You will want to rearrange your plan.
20.1 - Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik LarsonBorn 1954
+20 task
+10 not a novel (non fiction)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 70
Heather wrote: "20.7 - Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik LarsonSet Sept. 8, 1900 - technically still summer.
+20 task
+10 not a novel (non ..."
Yes, summer, but in the Northern Hemisphere, so doesn't qualify for 20.7. We'll score it for 20.1.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Heather wrote: "20.7 - Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik LarsonSet Sept. 8, 1900 - technically still summer.
+20 task
+10 n..."
Gotcha. Got a little scrambled there. 20.1 is fine.
15.10 Page CountThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
796 pages, published 1880
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 164 Owlette wrote: "10.4 AKAAnabasis by Saint-John Perse
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.9, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 Canon
+10 Lost in translation
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total =..."
Elizabeth--I will put a message in the Librarian Help thread. GR's birth year of 1901 doesn't match anyone else's that I could find online.
10.9 The Power of FiveFalling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
+10 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1962
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 370
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David Williams is alive and between the ages of 11 & 100 and so qualified for #20.1
When the English Fall (2017) by David Williams
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.9, #20.1)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 95 + 30 = 125