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WI 17-18 Completed Tasks
30.1 Holiday bonusMadagascar
The Aye-Aye and I by Gerald Durrell
30 task
10 NaN (non-fiction)
10 combo 20.1, 20.4
____
50
Running total: 445
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?)A Christmas Visitor by Anne Perry
20 task
15 combo 20.1, 20.3, 10.9
____
35
Running total: 480
Our Christmas visitor has been delayed in traffic, so I had time to sneak in a short book!
20.1 LifetimeIn the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult by Rebecca Stott
+20 Task (born 1964)
+5 Combo (10.9)
+10 Not-a-novel (memoir)
Points this post: 35
RwS total: 195
PC total: -
Season Total: 195
15.3 Page CountThe Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
156 pages - living author
+15 task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 370
20.2 ScottishThe Finishing School by Muriel Spark
+20 Task
+25 Combo 10.9, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4, 20.6
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 510
20.3 AgedThe Celestial Omnibus and other Stories by E.M. Forster
(Born 1879, died 1970)
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.6)
+10 Lost in Translation (originally published in English, my mother tongue is Italian)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 75
15.1 Page CountThe Vampyre by John William Polidori (40 pages, published 1819) + Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler (49 pages, published 1900) --> 89 pages total
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 90
20.1 LifetimeBad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
+20 task
+10 combo (10.6, 10.9)
+10 not a novel (short stories)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 410
20.2 ScottishThe Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
+20 task
+10 combo 20.1 (born 1953), 20.10 (first person)
Task total: 30
Season total: 155
10.1 - based on readers also enjoyed Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific NorthwestThe Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer by M. William Phelps
+10 task
+10 not a novel
+5 combo (20.1)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 110
10.8 - listed as fantasy 248 timesPreacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 120
20.1 - born 1970Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 140
Heather wrote: "10.9 - five letter namePreacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 125"
Heather, this doesn't work for 10.9 because both names have 5 letters. However, he was born in 1970, so it works for 20.1 and we can score it there.
10.4 - AKAThe Fireman by Joe Hill (also known as Joseph Hillstrom King)
+10 task
+10 jumbo (768pgs)
+10 combo (10.8 - listed as fantasy 234 times, 20.1 - born 1972)
task total: 30
grand total: 170
20.6 Literature MapThe Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
+20 task
+10 combo 20.1, 20.4
+10 Lit
+5 jumbo
Task total: 45
Season total: 235
20.1 LifetimeLincoln by Gore Vidal
+20 Task (1925-2012)
+20 Combo (10.7, 10.9, 20.3, 20.4)
+10 Canon
+ 5 Jumbo (672 pgs)
Task Total = 55
Season Total = 260
20.1 LifetimeIn Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.6)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total=35
Grand total=450
10.10 Group ReadsAn Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
+10 Task
+20 Combo: 20.1 (born 1959), 20.10, 10.2 ("woman"), 10.9 (Rabih)
+10 Lost-in-translation
Task total=40
Season total=265
Editing this post on 12/28 to correct the season total and this task's total.
Should be 265+30 = 295
Sorry for any confusion.
Task 20.1 LifetimeRead a book written by any author born during Muriel Spark's lifetime (1918-2006).
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History (2017) by Katy Tur (Hardcover, 291 pages) [324.973]
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: non-fiction
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 175 + 30 = 205
Task 10.7 For Real Read a novel or play that features an actual famous person (artist, politician, explorer, singer, etc.).
For #10.7
Wild Bill Hickok was a prominent character for the first half of the novel:
https://www.biography.com/people/wild...
Boone's Lick (2000) by Larry McMurtry (Hardcover, 287 pages)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.9, #20.1)
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 205 + 20 = 225
15.3 Page CountYouth Without God by Ödön von Horváth
165 pages, published 1937
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 105
Post 272 Owlette wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsAn Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
+10 Task
+20 Combo: 20.1 (born 1959), 20.10, 10.2 ("woman"), 10.9 (Rabih)
+10 Lost-in-translation
Task ..."
Alameddine writes in English, so no LiT points for this one.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 272 Owlette wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsAn Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
+10 Task
+20 Combo: 20.1 (born 1959), 20.10, 10.2 ("woman"), 10.9 (Rabih)
+10 L..."
I see. I misunderstood post 34 in the 20.10 thread. My season total is 255, not 265.
20.1 LifetimeChristmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
+20 Task (b. 1959)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+15 Combo (10.6; 20.4--approved in thread; 20.7--all of the stories are set at Christmas-time in the Northern Hemisphere)
Task total: 45
Season total: 425
20.5 -metafiction on first listTimequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
+20 task
+15 combo (10.8, 20.1 - Born 1922, 20.3 - lived to 84)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 205
From Post 174Karen Michele wrote: "20.4 Doctorate
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 470"
+10 Not a Novel (we have this as linked short stories)
From Post 107Coralie wrote: "20.10 First Person
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
+20 Task
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1980
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 235"
+5 Combo 10.8
From Post 108Anika wrote: "10.9 The Power of Five
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.1, born 1977; 10.8, shelved 240 times as "fantasy")
Task total: 20
Season tot..."
+5 Combo 20.10
From Post 123Lagullande wrote: "20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?) (Karin's Task)
Winter by Ali Smith
(most of the book happens over the Christmas Period in the UK)
+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.1 born 1962, ..."
+5 Combo 10.9
From Post 127itpdx wrote: "20.5 Meta Fiction
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
+20 task
+15 combo 20.4, 20.1 (1939) 20.3
+5 jumbo
Total: 40
Season total: 90"
+5 Combo 10.3
From Post 208Deedee wrote: "Task 20.5 Meta-fiction
Meta-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 ..."
+5 Combo 20.4
From Post 216Valerie wrote: "20.1 Lifetime (1918-2006)
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
20 task
20 combo 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 10.9
----
40
Running total: 370"
+5 Combo 20.6
From Post 230itpdx wrote: "20.1 Lifetime
The 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 to..."
+5 Combo 20.3
From Post 264Heather wrote: "10.1 - based on readers also enjoyed Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
[book:The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of Am..."
+5 Combo 20.1
10.6 Keep it shortThe Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. Le Guin
+10 Task
+20 Combo 10.8, 20.1, 20.3, 20.4
+10 not a Novel
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 555
10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill
+10 Task (COLIN)
+5 Combo (20.1 - b. 1952)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 95
20.3 AgedPeer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.9, 20.4 (almost qualified for 10.8 Fantasy-shelved 24 times as of today)
+10 Lost-in-Translation
+10 Not-A-Novel
+10 Canon
Task Total=60
Season Total=295+60=355
10.4 AKATheir Pregnancy Gift by Kate Hardy
+10 Task (aka Pamela Brooks; approved in task thread)
+10 Combo (10.9 - HARDY, 20.1 - b. 1966 per Brooks' GR profile)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 115
20.10 First PersonThis Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950 by Cesare Pavese
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (diary - non-fiction)
(This doesn't qualify for LiT because the author writes in my own mother tongue)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 135
20.8 - main character becomes a zombieMy Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland
+20 task
+25 combo (10.8 - 270 times, 10.9, 20.1, 20.9, 20.10)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 250
10.7 For realCircling the Sun by Paula McLain
fictionalized story of Beryl Markham's early life
10 task
10 combo 20.1, 10.9
____
20
Running total: 505
10.2 It's All RelativeThe Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
+10 Task ("Man")
+10 L-i-T (translated from Swedish)
+15 Combo (10.7--including Presidents Truman and Johnson, Stalin, Franco, Churchill, Chairman Mao, Kim Jong-il, just to name a few...there were A LOT in this one; 10.9; 20.1--born 1961)
Task total: 35
Season total: 465
10.9 5 LettersThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
+10 Task - 5 letters in Peter
+5 Combo 10.8 - 100ppl shelved as Fantasy
+5 Combo 20.1 born 1928
+5 Combon 20.3 died at almost 80 years
Task Total: 25 pts
Grand Total: 75 pts
20.1 LifetimeNo One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal
+20 Task (approved in task thread)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 135
20.1 LifetimeThe Dying Game by Åsa Avdic
+20 Task (b. 1974)
+5 Combo (10.9 -- AVDIC)
+10 LiT (Swedish)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 170
15.7 Page CountAn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
+15 Task (351 pages)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 185
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+20 task
+10 not a novel
+5 combo (20.1)
Task total : 35
Grand total: 455