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From Post 548Norma wrote: "20.3 - Gold Coast
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
+20 task (49th on Best Mafia Books List)
Task total: 202
Grand total: 270"
+5 Jumbo
From Post 549Norma wrote: "10.9 - Emily Bronte
X. by Shelby Mena
+10 task
+5 repeat
+10 female author
Task total: 25
Grand total: 295"
+10 Combo 10.5 and 20.4
June wrote: "30.1- island HoppingBorn in the Briar Patch by Bev Clarke
Task: 30
Female: 10
Multiple: 5
Post total: 45
Season total: 405"
You have a combo for 10.9 -extra 5 points!
20.10 Art World (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
task=20
task total=20
grand total= 530
20.10 Art World (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 - 462 pages; 20.6)
+10 Female
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 830
10.6 Cloud AtlasThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
10 task
10 combo 10.4, 10.7
_____
20
Running total: 570
20.4 The Piano TeacherSweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
+20 Task
+10 Female
+5 Combo—10.8K, set in NYC
Task total: 35
Season total: 485
20.10 Art World (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Glimmerglass by Marly Youmans
+20 Task (MC is a painter)
+10 Female
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 575
15.8 Listopia TagLost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
#170 Favorite Magical Realism Novels https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: magical realism
Task total: 15
Season total: 455
10.1 PossessionFeud by Phyllis Bourne
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.5 -- published 2018; 10.9)
+10 Female
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 700
15.9 Listopia TagI, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters by Rabih Alameddine
#46 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
using the tag lebanese
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 715
20.9 Tom WolfeGet Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright
+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.5–pub. 2017; 20.5)
Task total: 40
Season total: 525
30.1 Island Hopping Set mostly in SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS--this is shown on the main edition page under setting
The Reef by Nora Roberts
+30 – task
+10 - Female Author
+15 – Combo – 10.8K (Saint Kitts and Nevis is #9), 10.7 435 pages, 10.9 Roberts,
Task total = 55
Season Total = 150
Post 592 Rachelccameron wrote: "15.3 Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature by Betsy Bird
List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5......"
I'm sorry, this is a YA Nonfiction at BPL and has no Lexile score. It does not work for Listopia Tag. However, Betsy Bird as both an E and a B, so you can at least salvage the book in 10.9 and we'll score it there unless you have another idea.
Post 594June wrote: "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 tota..."
I'm sorry, June. 20.4 is for a debut novel, so this nonfiction work won't qualify for the combo.
15.4 Listopia tagThe Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Tag: Gothic
#33 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 task
+5 Big (MPE shows 512 pages)
Task total = 20
Grand total = 810
20.4 Piano TeacherAt Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total = 40
Season total = 335
15.8 Listopia TagLe Bal & Snow in Autumn by Irène Némirovsky
my list is in task plan post 5, this is #8 on it
15 task
5 not a novel
5 older than 1980
____
25
Running total: 595
10.6 Cloud AtlasDeath in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
+10 Task -- clouds
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 740
10.5 InfernoThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1205
10.7 Not Quite Jumbo (Coralie's Task)Isadora by Amelia Gray
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.5 Inferno
+10 Female
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1235
10.8K Big City, Small Country (Karen Michele's Task)Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray
+10 Task: NYC, low lexile
Season Total: 1245
15.9 Listopia TagThe Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
This edition:
The Brutal Telling can be found on this list: Mysteries/Suspense/Thrillers Set in Canada with the tag of: canada
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1260
Anika wrote: "20.9 Tom WolfeGet Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright
+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.5–pub. 2017; 20.5)
Task..."
Kidding! Just realized I actually wanted to claim this one for 20.5! Please swap it for me on the official spreadsheet. Sorry and thank you!
15.4 ListopiaRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
No:3 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Tag: Modern-gothic
Task +15
Pre 1980 +5
Task Total = 20
Season Total = 325+20 = 345
15.9 Listopia tagThe Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
#221 on Best Novels set in 20th Century Britain https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: britain
+15 task
+ 5 pre-1980 (pub in 1964)
Task total: 20
Season total: 475
10.5 InfernoIron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
+10 task
+5 multiple
Task total: 15
Grand total: 870
Author is pseudonym for husband wife team so I did not claim the female author bonus
From Post 406Ann wrote: "30.1 - Island Hopping
The Reef by Nora Roberts
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
+30 task
+10 female
+10 combo (10.9, 10.7)
Task total = 50
Grand total = 550"
+5 Combo 10.8K
From Post 595June wrote: "30.1- island Hopping
Born in the Briar Patch by Bev Clarke
Task: 30
Female: 10
Multiple: 5
Post total: 45
Season total: 405"
In addition to the 5 points Rebekah pointed out for combo 10.9, there is also +5 combo for 10.7.
From Post 628Ann wrote: "15.4 Listopia tag
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Tag: Gothic
#33 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+1..."
I am sorry, Ann, I show the MPE with page count of 466.
Hi Kate - the readerboard said it's through post 642 but it seems to be missing my entry on post 641.... Thanks, Beth
Beth wrote: "Hi Kate - the readerboard said it's through post 642 but it seems to be missing my entry on post 641.... Thanks, Beth"That was a typo, the readerboard is updated through post 628.
10.5 InfernoInto the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.7
+5 Multiple
+10 Female author
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 940
10.7 Not Quite JumboLustrum by Robert Harris
+10 Task (419 pages)
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 520
20.2 Track of the CatRevenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto 66X as Western
(Hmmm...I'm not sure if this qualifies for styles.... although, the book location is designated YA... it is listed as "SF/Fantasy". I suspect it doesn't qualify but I'll be optimistic and claim the points below...and see if I'm correct.)
task=20
combo= 5 (20.4)
multiple=5
female author=10
task total=40
grand total= 570
10.7 Not Quite JumboA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.3
+10 Female author
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 965
20.5 NemesisLike the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918 by Lois Lowry
BPL Juv Lexile 830
+20 Task (Spanish flu epidemic 1918)
+5 Combo 10.8R (Lois)
+10 Female
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 610
15.1 Listopia TagThe Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (900 Lexile)
This edition: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue can be found on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9... (#1) with the tag of ya
+15 Task
+5 Big (513 pg)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 130
15.7 Listopia TagBirds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
#5 on this list Mediterranean Melting Pot III
Tag: Byzantium
+15 task
+5 jumbo
Task total: 20
Season total: 285
20.6 Winter's TaleAcorna's Quest (Acorna #2) by Anne McCaffrey
+20 Task
+10 Female
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 860
15.3 Listopia tagDigging In by Loretta Nyhan
list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: chick-lit
Task total = 15
Grand total = 145
15.6 Listopia TagThe Inheritors by William Golding
That edition is #25 on list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
tag: atlatl
+15 Task
+ 5 pre-1981
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 540
15.10 Listopia TagA Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
#52 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
using the tag february-2018-releases
+15 Task
+100 Finish
Task Total: 115
Season Total: 855
10.5 InfernoMarigolds and Murder by London Lovett published 2017
task=10
female author=10
combo= 5 (20.4)
task total=25
grand total= 595
10.8K Big City, Small Country (Karen Michele's Task)Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery #1) by Susan Elia MacNeal
at least 75% is set in London
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.4; 20.6)
+10 Female
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 890
Task 10.5 InfernoRead a book hot off the presses: originally published in 2017 or 2018.
Good Trouble: Stories (2018) by Joseph O'Neill
+10 Task
+05 Multiple
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 265 + 15 = 280
15.7 Listopia TagAt Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
That edition is #38 on list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: virago
+15 Task
+ 5 pre-1981
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 560
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+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.8K - London)
Task Total = 15
Season Total = 295