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20.1 LifetimeReading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster
(approved here)
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.10, approved here)
+10 Lost in Translation (published in English, my mother tongue is Italian)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 215
From Post 352Coralie wrote: "10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed
Crosstalk by Connie Willis
+10 Task from The Philosopher Kings
+10 Combo 10.8, 20.1 born 1945
+ 5 Jumbo 592 pages
Task Total: 25
Season ..."
Sorry, this does not qualify as jumbo. The most popular print English edition (MPE) has *only* 498 pages.
From Post 41Deedee wrote: "Task 10.6 Keep it Short
Read a collection of short stories by a single author.
Night Shift (1978) by Stephen King
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.8 “fantasy”, #20.1)
+10 Not-a..."
+5 Combo 20.4
From Post 191Heather wrote: "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"
+10 Combo 20.4, 10.8
From Post 361Tien wrote: "10.4 AKA
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling
10 Task
5 Combo (20.1 - GR author link noted born 1965)
Post Total..."
+5 Combo 20.4
From Post 77Beth wrote: "15.6 Living Authors
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter by Scott Adams
304 pages
Task total: 15
Grand total: 105"
Beth, I show a slight addition error here (you had 95 in your last post) 95+15=110. That difference has carried forward. No, big deal, but it is nice when our records match. ;)
From Post 349Karin wrote: "20.9 Addiction
Thirteenth Night by Alan Gordon
(confirmed on question thread. Protagonist is an alcoholic and drinking comes up quite a bit, including hangovers, th..."
I show an addition error here. In post 336, you had 135 points.
135+25=160.
Kate S wrote: "From Post 191Heather wrote: "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"
+..."
I'm not going to go back and correct the totals in all of the subsequent posts, so this would make my grand total 300.
15.2 100-149p (Pre- 1950 Publications)104 pages, 1941
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 545
15.5 250-299p (Pre- 1950 Publications)288 pages, 1937
Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 560
20.1 LifetimeThe Changeling by Victor LaValle
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy!
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 585
20.1 LifetimeHiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy!
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 605
20.4 DoctorateIn the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 20.1 Lifetime / 20.3 Aged / 20.7 It's Winter (or Summer)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 640
20.5 Meta-fictionBag of Bones by Stephen King
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.8 Fantasy! / 20.1 Lifetime / 20.4 Doctorate / 20.10 First Person
+10 Jumbo (736p)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 690
20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?) (Karin's Task)Eleven Pipers Piping by C.C. Benison
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.4 AKA /20.1 Lifetime
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 720
20.1 LifetimeThe Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
+20 Task (b. 1955)
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
Task Total = 25
Season Total = 345
15.7 PCThe Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden, 362 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 540
15.1 Page CountThe Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams 93 pages
The Walking-Stick Forest by Anna Tambour 19 pages
Task total: 15
Season total: 210
Task 10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)Read a book by an author who has five letters in exactly one of his or her names.
Dark Matter (2016) by Blake Crouch (Hardcover, 342 pages)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#10.8 “fantasy”, #20.1)
Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20
Grand Total: 270 + 20 = 290
20.6 Literature MapLife in the Garden by Penelope Lively
+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.1 born 1933, 20.3 currently aged 84, 20.4 approved in help thread)
+10 Not-a-novel (memoir)
Points this post: 45
RwS total: 275
PC total: -
Season Total: 275
20.1 LifetimeThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
+20 task https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liane_M...
+ 5 combo (10.9)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 535
20.8 OrganizationThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
20 task (approved help thread post 10)
10 canon
10 combo 10.9, 20.3
____
40
Running total: 630
15.1 Page CountThe Transfer] by Veronica Roth 55 pages
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 52 pages
+15 Task
Grand total = 40pts
20.4 - DoctorateUp Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.1)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 345
10.1 Readers Also EnjoyedStarr Bright Will Be with You Soon by Rosamond Smith, AKA Joyce Carol Oates
(From Readers Also Enjoyed list of Sourland, which I read last season)
+10 task
+25 combo (10.4; 20.1; 20.3; 20.4; 20.9-lots of alcohol, cocaine, and abuse of prescription drugs such as Valium helped fuel the MC's destructive behavior)
Task total=35
Grand total=595
20.4 DoctorateMy First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
+20 Task (approved in 20.4 Task help thread)
+10 Combo: 20.2 (born in Scotland, moved to USA), 20.3 (1838-1914)
+10 Not-a-novel
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 540
Beautiful nature book.
20.10 Epistolary FictionLetters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
#53 on the list
Task +20
Grand Total: 155
15.8 PCMy Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella, 448 pages
+15 Task (by a living author)
Task total: 15
Season total: 555
30.1 Holiday Bonus! Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar
(a set of 7 stories...six of which are set in Algeria, the seventh only suggests that it is set in Algeria) Although the book has already been returned to the library, that 7th story was roughly the same length in pages as the other 6.
task=30
Nan=10
LiT=10
combo= 40 (10.2; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.9; 20.1; 20.3; 20.4; )
task total= 90
grand total=335
Post 434 Sarah wrote: "15. 9 Page Count 450-499Apache Dawn by Marcus Richardson 495 pages
+15 task
grand total = 55 pts"
I'm sorry Sarah, the MPE (most popular English Language print edition) for this is only 392 pages. You may wish to rearrange your plan.
20.1 LifetimeMemories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.9)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 560
20.1 LifetimeThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.8, 10.9
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 750
10.7 For Real (Anika's Task)The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
+10 Task Galileo, the scientist, is the MC in the play.
+10 Lost in Translation
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Canon
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 580
10.8 Fantasy!The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Shelved 2,205 times as fantasy
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1)
+10 Lost in Translation (published in English, my mother tongue is Italian)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 240
15.10 Page CountThief's Magic (Millennium’s Rule #1) by Trudi Canavan
553 pages
+15 Task
+100 Completion bonus
+50 All living authors bonus
Post Total: 165
Season Total: 475
15.7 Page Count - 2nd roundHaxby's Circus by Katharine Susannah Prichard
360 pages
pub. 1930
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 490
15.5 Page Count - 2nd roundThe Harp In The South (Harp in the South #2) by Ruth Park
251 pages
pub. 1948
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 505
Page Count15.10 : 500+ pages
Death and Mr. Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
Task points: 15
Challenge points: 90
20.4 DoctorateOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.3 no.156, 10.6, 10.10, 20.1 born 1956)
+10 Not-a-novel (short stories)
Points this post: 50
RwS total: 325
PC total: -
Season Total: 325
20.1 LifetimeThe Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
+20 Task
+30 Combo (10.6, 10.9, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.6)
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total = 60
Season Total = 405
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task=20
NaN=10
LiT=10
WC=10
combo= 20 (10.6;10.8 10.9; 20.4)
task total= 70