SU 18 Completed Tasks

[Kazen]

10.5 - Inferno

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises by Rebecca Solnit

+10 task (pub. 2018)
+5 combo (10.9)
+10 female
+5 multiple

Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 410 points

[Kazen]

15.5 - Listopia Tag

Counterpoint by Anna Zabo

MM with Musician MCs list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
tag: musicians

Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 425

[Coralie]

10.9 Emily Bronte

The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold

+10 Task
+10 Combo 10.5, 10.8R
+10 Female author
+5 Multiple

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1185

[Kazen]

15.6 - Listopia Tag

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Books White People Need to Read list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: race-studies

+15 task
+5 not-a-novel

Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 445 points

[Kazen]

10.5 - Inferno

The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert

+10 task (pub. 2018)
+5 combo (10.9)
+10 female
+5 multiple

Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 475 points

[Kazen]

20.7 - Ambassador

Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh

+20 task (born in Fiji)
+10 female

Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 505 points

[Tien]

15.8 Listopia Tag
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

Book can be found on this list: Heroes & Adventures (534 books | 244 voters) (#40) with the tag of: hero

+15 Task
+5 Pub. 1905

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 950

[Tien]

Kate S wrote: "From Post 672

Tien wrote: "30.1 Island Hopping
Real Crime Island Time: The Dark Side of Rarotonga's Cook Islands Paradise
setting: Cook Islands

+30 Task
+5 Multiple

Post Total: 3..."

Thanks, Kate! I didn't even think of it...

[Ed]

20.8 Summer Nights

Maru by Bessie Head


task=20
female author=10
combo= 20 (10.2; 10.8R; 10.9;20.7) Note- I'm claiming 10.2 because I see it in Rebekah's post #247...but I don't see Bessie Head on the list.

task total=50
grand total= 645

[Lalitha]

War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich

#159 in https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

Tag: nobel

+15 Task
+5 Not a Novel

Task total = 20
Season Total = 345+20 = 365

[Ed]

20.4 The Piano Teacher

The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang

task=20
female author=10
combo=5 (20.10- one of the main characters, Saina Wang, is a famous artist -installation art (I think that counts as sculpture? ...and her independent income keeps the family afloat as everything else is lost)
multiple=5

task=40
grand total=685

[Coralie]

10.1 Possession

The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.8K (set in London)


Task Total: 15
Season Total: 1200

[Connie]

20.4 The Piano Teacher

The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey

+20 task (debut)
+10 female author
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 35
Season total: 650

[Megan]

10.5 Inferno

Guarding His Heart by Synithia Williams

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.8R -- Williams)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 915

[Megan]

20.2 Track of the Cat

The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Shelved as Assignment, 890 Lexile

+20 Task -- shelved as "western" 156 times
+10 Combo (10.9, 20.4 -- debut novel; his previously published works are poetry)

+100 RwS Finish
+200 Mega Finish

Task Total: 330
Season Total: 1245

[Lagullande]

15.1 Listopia Tag

Carry on, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

This edition: Carry on, Jeeves can be found on this list: Downton Abbey-esque books(#24) with the tag of: downton-abbey

+15 Task
+5 Before 1980


Points this post: 20
RwS total: 10
ListTag total: 20
Season Total: 30

[Tien]

15.9 Listopia Tag
The Box: Tales from the Darkroom (Autobiografical Trilogy #2) by Günter Grass

Book can be found on this list: Best Books of the Decade: 2000s (6,944 books | 27,685 voters) (#20) with the tag of: best

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 960

[Lagullande]

15.2 Listopia Tag

The Lauras by Sara Taylor

This edition: The Lauras can be found on this list: Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs(#43) with the tag of: genderfluid

+15 Task


Points this post: 15
RwS total: 10
ListTag total: 35
Season Total: 45

[Coralie]

20.6 Winter’s Tale

Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.9
+5 Multiple
+10 Female author


Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1240

[Lagullande]

10.5 Inferno

From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

+10 Task (pub 2018)
+5 Multiple


Points this post: 15
RwS total: 25
ListTag total: 35
Season Total: 60

[Lagullande]

20.4 The Piano Teacher

In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5 pub 2018, 10.8 London)


Points this post: 30
RwS total: 55
ListTag total: 35
Season Total: 90

[Lagullande]

20.7 Ambassador

Death at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood

+20 Task (Australia)
+10 Female


Points this post: 30
RwS total: 85
ListTag total: 35
Season Total: 120

[Lagullande]

20.10 Art World (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)

Trick by Domenico Starnone

+20 Task (approved in help thread)


Points this post: 20
RwS total: 105
ListTag total: 35
Season Total: 140

[Lagullande]

10.5 Inferno

Happiness by Aminatta Forna

+10 Task (approved in help thread)
+5 Combo (10.8 London)
+10 Female
+ 5 Multiple


Points this post: 30
RwS total: 135
ListTag total: 35
Season Total: 170

[Rachel]

10.5 Inferno

Origin by Dan Brown
published 2017

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 - 461 pgs
+5 Multiple

Task Total: 20 pts
Grand Total: 210 pts

[Rachel]

20.2 Track of the Cat

The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Shelved over 600 times as Western

+20 Task

Grand Total: 230 pts

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

10.1 Possession

The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart

+10 Task (have a complete works)
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
+10 Female

Task Total = 25

Season total = 475

[Tien]

20.1 Gemini
Ransom by David Malouf

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.7 -born in Brisbane, AU)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 985

[Karin]

30.1 Island Hopping

Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel written by a Samoan female author and set in Samoa

+30 - Task
+15 - Combo 10.8K Samoa, 20.4 (debut novel), 20.7(author born in Southern Hemisphere in Samoa)
+10 - Female Author


Task 55 points


Season Total = 265

[Coralie]

10.3 Awards

You & Me by Padgett Powell

+10 Task winner of the James Tait memorial Prize


Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1250

[Deedee]

Task 20.7 Ambassador
Read a book by an author born in a country entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.

Author was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

The Book of Not (Nervous Conditions #2) (2006) by Tsitsi Dangarembga

+20 Task
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 295 + 30 = 325

[Tien]

10.5 Inferno
The Assassin of Verona (William Shakespeare Thriller #2) by Benet Brandreth

+10 Task (pub 2017)
+5 Combo (10.9 - BEnet)
+5 Multiple

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1,005

[Rachel]

15.3

Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord

found on this list . https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

- tag France

+15 Task

Grand Total: 245 pts

[Anika]

20.10 Art World

The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.5--pub. 2018; 10.8K--set in NYC)

Task total: 40
Season total: 695

[Ann]

15.6 Listopia tag

Me Before You by. Jojo Moyes
Tag: Comforting

#1 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

+15 task
Task total = 15
Grand total = 845

[Tien]

10.2 July
What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey

+10 Task
+10 Female

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1,025

[Lagullande]

15.3 Listopia Tag

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
(Canon, Lexile 900)

This edition: Oliver Twist can be found on this list: I Saw the Movie & Read the Book (#100) with the tag of: book-to-film

+15 Task
+5 Pre-1980
+5 Big


Points this post: 25
RwS total: 135
ListTag total: 60
Season Total: 195

[Ed]

20.9 Tom Wolfe (Kate S's Task)

Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson

task=20
female author=10

task=30
grand total=715

[Valerie]

15.9 Listopia Tag

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

my list is in task plan post 5, this is #4 on it

15 task
5 older than 1980
_____
20

Running total: 665

[Lagullande]

15.4 Listopia Tag

Disco For The Departed by Colin Cotterill

This edition: Disco For The Departed can be found on this list: Best Multicultural Mysteries (#32) with the tag of: multicultural

+15 Task


Points this post: 15
RwS total: 135
ListTag total: 75
Season Total: 210

[Rebekah]

15.5 Listopia Tag
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

#8 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Tag-microhistory

+15 - task
+ 5. - non- fiction*

Task total - 20 pts
Season Total - 1230 pts
*my iPad insisted on the decimal point

[Deedee]

Task 10.2 July – National Black Family Month

Everfair (2016) by Nisi Shawl (Hardcover, 381 pages)
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2017)
James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2016)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.4 Debut Novel)
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 325 + 25 = 350

[Rosemary]

10.4 Book Lover's Day

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
+10 Female author

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 635

[Rosemary]

10.10 Group Read

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8K, 10.9)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 655

[Rebekah]

15.6 Listopia Tag
An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan

#571 on this list - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... ( the list has the CD version but I read the hardback edition)
Tag- citizenship

+15 - task
+ 5 - non fiction

Task total - 20 puts
Season Total - 1260 pts

[Karen Michele]

10.5 Inferno

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1700

[Karen Michele]

20.1 Gemini

Circe by Madeline Miller

+20 Task
+10 Combo: Combo: 10.5 Inferno / 10.10 Group Reads
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female

Task Total: 45
Season Total: 1745

[Karen Michele]

20.4 The Piano Teacher

Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.3 Awards
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1785

[Anika]

15.9 Listopia Tag

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (Lexile 840)

+15 Task (from this Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2..., using the tag "mental-health")

Task total: 15
Season total: 710

[Anika]

Anika wrote: "10.6 Cloud Atlas

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

+10 Task ("Moon")
+15 Combo (10.5--pub. 2017; 10.10; 20.9)
..."

I'd like to switch this one from 10.6 to 10.10...since I'm just flip-flopping 10-point-tasks, my total should remain the same. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience!