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15.8 Listopia TagSummer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Just above the Alternates - Yay! I read one I originally planned to read!
+15 Task
+ 5 <1980
Task Total = 20
Season Total = 260
10.1 PossessionMy Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
+10 task
+10 female author
Task total: 20
Season total: 235
15.9 Listopia TagLibriomancer by Jim C. Hines
Can be found on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5... (#41) with the tag of: librarians
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 870
Task 20.8 Summer NightsA Partisan's Daughter (2008) by Louis de Bernières
(set in 1970s London)
+20 task
+10 combos 10.8K (London), 10.9 (initials E B)
Task total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 235 + 30 = 265
20.3 Gold CoastLillian Armfield: How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force by Leigh Straw
+20 Task
+10 Female
+5 Combo (10.5 - pub. 2018)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 725
20.5 NemesisRat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
task=20
female author=10
combo=5 (10.8- set entirely in NYC)
task total=35
grand total= 510
From Post 525Beth wrote: "10.8K Big City, Small Country (Karen Michele's Task)
Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster
takes place entirely in London
+10 task
+10 female author
+10 combo (10.9, 20.4..."
+10 Combo 10.7 and 20.7
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 530 Gabriel wrote: "Let's see if I can get this right...The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar (using this edition: The Sport of the Gods
..."
I submit the scoring for this book as follows:
Claiming for: 10.9 Emily Bronte
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Task total 10
Season total 30
15.7 Listopia TagForever Yours by Francis Ray
#312 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Using the tag harlequin-romance
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 600
15.8 Listopia TagPancakes and Corpses by Agatha Frost
This edition: Pancakes and Corpses
is #392 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Using the tag cozies
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 615
15.2 - Listopia TagAll Systems Red by Martha Wells
#2 on: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: hugo-awards
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 310 points
15.3 - Listopia TagHow to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall
#498 on: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: gay-romance-set-in-britain
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 325 points
20.8 - Summer NightsKindred by Octavia E. Butler
+20 task - the main characters are in an interracial marriage and shunned by their families for it
(low lexile - no styles)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 345 points
20.7 - Winter's TaleChi's Sweet Home, Volume 1 by Kanata Konami
+20 task
(graphic novel - no styles)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 365 points
10.6 Cloud AtlasThe Other Half of the Sky edited by Athena Andreadis
+10 task
+10 female
+5 combo 10.7
Task total: 25
I had 675 but Kate added 10 combo points I missed
Grand total: 710
10.9 Emily Bronte (Rosemary's Task)Spans: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
+10 task
+10 female
+5 multiple
Task total: 25
Grand total: 735
15.4 - Listopia TagGlutton for Pleasure by Alisha Rai
#152 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
tag: winery
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 380 points
15.7 Listopia TagPersonal History by Katharine Graham
#67 Memoirs by women list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: autobiography
+15 task
+ 5 not-a-novel
+ 5 big (642 pg)
Task total: 25
Season total: 425
Kate S wrote: "From Post 498Lalitha wrote: "15.2 Listopia
Summer by Edith Wharton
Found at #230 on: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Ta..."
Sorry, just seeing this. I am back at 255 in my total score now.
15.3 ListopiaThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
#28 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Tag: crime
Task =+15
Pre 1980 +5
Jumbo +5
Task Total = 25
Season Total = 255+25 = 280
20.7 AmbassadorThe Ballad of Banjo Crossing by Tess Evans
+20 Task (Australia as per author's GR page)
+10 Female
+5 Combo (10.5 - pub. 2017)
+5 Multiple
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 765
10.6 Cloud AtlasThe House of the Four Winds by John Buchan
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 885
20.4 Piano Teacher debut novelA Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
+20 task
+5 combo ( 10.8M London)
+5 jumbo
Task total: 30
Season total: 265
20.4 Piano teacher The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Task +20
Combo +25 (Canon, female author, big city - NYC)
Task Total = 45
Season Total = 280+45 = 325
10.6 Cloud AtlasThe Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Female author
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 910
20.9 Tom Wolfe (Kate S's task)The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
+20 Task -- creative non-fiction
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.8K -- set in NYC)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 645
15.2Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris
List : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Tag: - abomination
+15 Task
+5 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20 pts
Grand Total: 180 pts
- Despite the list and the tag I actually found this book pretty entertaining. Often the satire and social commentary were right on point.
10.5 Inferno[bookOn The Right Track|40659624] by Penelope Janu
+10 Task (2018)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 790
30.1 Island hoppingIce by Ulla-Lena Lundberg
Åland Islands
+30 - Task
+15 - Combo (10.6,10.7-448pg, 10.9)
+5 - Multi
+10 - Female Authoe
Task Total - 60 pts
Season Total - 1100 pts
15.3 Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature by Betsy Bird
List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
Tag: best
+15 Task
+5 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20 pts
Grand Total: 200 pts
20.9- Tom WolfeThe Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Task: 20
Multiple: 5
Combo: 5-( 20.4- debut book)
Task: 30
Season total: 360
30.1- island HoppingBorn in the Briar Patch by Bev Clarke
Task: 30
Female: 10
Multiple: 5
Post total: 45
Season total: 405
20.1 Gemini:Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (approved on the task thread, message #23)
+20 task
+5 combo (10.5 Inferno - published in 2017)
+10 female author
Task total: 35
Grand total: 90
15.1 Listopia TagBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
book found on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
tag:creativity
+15 task
+5 not a novel
Task total = 20
grand total = 45
15.2 Listopia TagFinding Rebecca by Eoin Dempsey
List https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Tag: wwii
+15 task total
Grand total = 60
20.7 AmbassadorThe Hating Game by Sally Thorne
+20 task
+5 Combo (20.4 Debut novel)
+10 female author
Task total = 35
Grand total = 95
20.4 Piano TeacherGirl Last Seen by Nina Laurin
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5)
+10 female author
Task total = 35
Grand total = 130
20.8 Summer NghtsMaurice by E.M. Forster
+20 task
Task total: 20
RWS completion bonus +100
Grand total: 855
10.5 InfernoThe Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People by Judith Orloff
+10 Task
+10 Female
Task total: 20
Season total: 475
10.4 Book Lover's DayA Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
BPL YA Assignment Lexile 1150
+10 Task (#329)
+5 Combo (10.8K London)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task total: 30
Season total: 505
20.10 Art World La femme au serpent by Claude Izner
This mystery novel revolves around a set of murders where the painting "Portrait of a woman, said to be of Simonetta Vespucci" by Piero di Cosimo is central (a copy of this painting is found on each death scene
+20 task
+5 combo (10.5 - 2017)
+10 female (the 2 authors under the pen name Claude Izner are both female - i'm assuming this is correct for this bonus, if not let me know :)
Task total = 35
Points total = 105
10.8R Mom (Rebekah via Karen Michele's Task)Full Court Seduction by Synithia Williams
+10 Task -- Williams
+5 Combo (10.5 -- published 2017)
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 670
20.6 Winter's TalePolly's March by Linda Newbery
Lexile 860
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.8K (London), 10.9
+10 Female author
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 545
15.5 Listopia TagMadame Solario by Gladys Huntington
This edition: Madame Solario is
#102 on list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
tag: family
+15 Task
+ 5 pre-1981
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 505
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This edition:
Into the Beautiful North can be found on this list: 15.8 Latino / Latina Fiction with the tag of: latin-american-literature
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1170