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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
10.8 Fantasy!The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
+10 Task (shelved "fantasy" 251 times)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.1--born 1958)
Task total: 30
Season total: 230
20.3 AgedSmall Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design by Henry Petroski
Birthday is actually Feb 6 not Jan 1 but still 1942 so he is currently 75
+20 task
+10 not a novel
+10 combo (20.1, 10.9)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 390
10.1 - Readers Also EnjoyedDown Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
+10 task
+10 combo (10.8, 20.1)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 70 points
20.1 - LifetimeA Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole
+20 task (born 1982)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 90 points
Task 20.5 Meta-fictionMeta-fiction: Found in the category: Modern and contemporary works
Combos:
#10.7 – author Isaac Asimov is a major character in the novel (but the character Isaac Asimov is NOT the first-person narrator)
#10.9 – 5 letters: Isaac
#20.1 – born in 1920
Murder at the ABA (1976) by Isaac Asimov (Mass Market Paperback, 230 pages)
+20 Task
+15 Combo (#10.7, #10.9, #20.1)
Task Total: 20 + 15 = 35
Grand Total: 140 + 35 = 175
20.5 Meta-fictionMurder at the ABA by Isaac Asimov (on both lists)
+20 task
+20 combo (10.7 - Isaac Asimov appears in the novel as a character; 10.9; 20.1; 20.4)
Task total=40
Grand total=395
15.7 - Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer372pg
Task total: 15
Grand total: 85
Heather wrote: "15.8 - Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer432pg - Kindle edition
Task total: 15
Grand total: 85"
You might want to rearrange your plan. The MPE is only 372 pages. The only time we would use the Kindle/ebook edition for our page counts is when there is no English language paper edition available.
20.1 LifetimeHild by Nicola Griffith
+20 Task (1960)
+10 Combo (10.7-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hild_(n... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_o... 10.8)
+5 Jumbo
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 65
20.10 First PersonThe Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
YA with no lexile score, but I don't think there are any styles anyway
+20 task (novel with a first person narrator)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 330
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer)A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck (900 Lexile)
+20 Task (set in Pennsylvania, US, starts on Halloween and ends in January after school restarts after winter break, with a bulk of the book occurring around and after Christmas)
+15 Combo (10.9, 20.1, 20.10--fiction in first person)
Task total: 35
Season total: 265
20.1 Lifetime (1918-2006)Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
20 task
20 combo 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 10.9
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40
Running total: 370
15.5 PCDairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (930 Lexile)
+15 Task, 275 pages (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 280
15.6 Page CountOne Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn
305 pages
YA but not shelved on BPL
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 225
10.3 Listopia reignsThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
+10 Task
+20 Combo 10.8, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 410
20.1 Lifetime (1918-2006)The Christmas Cat by Melody Carlson
20 task
5 combo 20.7 (see post 234 below)
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25
Running total: 395
10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis (980 Lexile)
+10 Task (found on the The Mystery of Hollow Places list, which I read last season)
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 20
Season total: 300
20.4 - DoctorateSouthern Discomfort by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (20.1, 10.9)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 245
15.1 Page CountThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (64 pages)
AND
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (64 pages)
+15 Task (64+64=128)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 425
10.3 Listopia Reigns!The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
+10 Task (#228 on list)
+20 Combo (10.8--listed 705 times as "fantasy; 10.9; 20.4--cleared in thread; 20.10--fictional epistolary novel)
Task total: 30
Season total: 330
20.9 Addiction Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
by George S. McGovern (I read the 208-page edition)
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 20.1 (1922-2012), 20.3, 20.4
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 225 (45+55+55+55+15)
10.8 Fantasy! (Cat's Task)Armada by Ernest Cline (shelved Fantasy 239 times)
+10 Task
+ 10 Combo 20.1 Lifetime (born March 29, 1972 on Wikipedia), 10.9 (CLINE),
Task Total - 20
Season Total - 100
20.1 LifetimeThe Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon
+20 task
+5 combo 10.9
+10 NAN
Task total 35
Season total: 165
20.7 It's WinterAndy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry
+20 task (set in winter from Dec 29-Jan 1)
+25 combos 10.9 (Berry), 20.1 (born 1934), 20.3, 20.4, 20.10 (written in first person as an older man looking back at his childhood)
Task total: 45
Season total: 100
Post 220 Valerie wrote: "20.1 Lifetime (1918-2006)The Christmas Cat by Melody Carlson
20 task
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20
Running total: 390"
Does this take place at least 75% during the Christmas season? (Winter, North America?)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 220 Valerie wrote: "20.1 Lifetime (1918-2006)The Christmas Cat by Melody Carlson
20 task
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20
Running total: 390"
Does this take place at least 75% during ..."
According to the definition in the help thread, no. The story seems to start the week (or so) before American Thanksgiving and ends on Christmas day. Sorry for not making that clear in my original post.
Re: Post 220 Valerie wrote: "According to the definition in the help thread, no. The story seems to start the week (or so) before American Thanksgiving and ends on Christmas day. Sorry for not making that clear in my original post. "That sounds as if it takes place mostly in December. Kate hasn't gotten to these yet, so feel free to edit your post and add 20.7 to it.
20.1 LifetimeConversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
+20 Task (born 1991)
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.10)
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 160
PC total: -
Season Total: 160
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?)Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith
+20 task (90% from 24 December to early January of the same winter in the UK)
+ 5 combo (10.4 pseudonym of Lucy Beatrice Malleson)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 355
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Re: Post 220 Valerie wrote: "According to the definition in the help thread, no. The story seems to start the week (or so) before American Thanksgiving and ends on Christmas day. Sorry for not maki..."Oh, ok! Thanks.
20.1 LifetimeScraps of Heaven by Arnold Zable
+20 Task born 1947
+5 Combo 10.9
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 450
10.9 Power of 5Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
+10 task
+5 combo 20.1 (born 1955)
+10 NAN
Task total: 25
Season total: 190
20.1 LifetimeA Family Christmas by Caroline Kennedy
+20 task (born 1957, approved)
+ 5 combo 20.7 (Set around Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere)
Task total: 25
Season total: 125
Lifetime 20.1The Christmas Weddingby James Patterson
Born in 1947
Style + 10 Combo 20.7 It's Winter MC gets married on Christmas Day. 10.9 Power of Five James
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 120
20.5 Meta-FictionThe Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.1, 20.4--verified in thread, 20.8--verified in thread)
Task total: 35
Season total: 365
15.1 PCAgainst Love Poetry: Poems by Eavan Boland, 64 pages, and Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück, 80 pages
+15 Task (both living authors)
Task total: 15
Season total: 380
15.5 Page CountThe Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter
272 pages, published 60
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 30
20.10 First PersonComrades Stumbling Along: The Friendship of Catherine de Hueck Doherty and Dorothy Day as Revealed Through Their Letters
by Robert Wild
+20 task
+10 combo 10.1 (born 1936), 10.3
+10 not-a-novel
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 265
15.5 - Page CountWhen Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri (272 pages)
+15 task
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 105 points
20.10 - First PersonA Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume
+20 task (told in the first person)
+10 combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 135 points
15.9 Living AuthorsThe Legend of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reichert
496 pages
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 405
15.2 Habit StackingHabit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott
107 pages
Task total: 15
Grand total: 420
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+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Combo (20.1)
Task total: 35
Season total: 200