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20.4 The Piano teacherSeraphina by Rachel Hartman
Low Lexile
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1270
10.2 JulyThe Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
+10 task
+10 female author
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 25
Season total: 675
Kate S wrote: "Anika wrote: "Anika wrote: "10.6 Cloud AtlasKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
+10 Task ("Moon")
+15 Combo (10..."
Oops, thought post number was included when you reply to that specific post—noted! It was post 478. Thanks again!
From Post 683itpdx wrote: "10.5 Inferno
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris
+10 task
+5 combo (10.9)
+10 female
+5 multiple
Task t..."
+5 Combo 20.9
From Post 685Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Ambassador
The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head
+20 pts -Task
+10 pts - Combo
+10 pts - Female Author
+ 5 pts - Multiple
Ta..."
This should have +15 Combo 10.2, 10.8R, and 10.9. Not sure which ones you were claiming, but you should have one more.
From Post 691Norma wrote: "10.7 - Not Quite Jumbo
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.9..."
+5 Combo 10.3. I also think this should qualify for 20.9-creative non-fiction. Thoughts?
20.2 Track of the CatBorden Chantry (The Talon and Chantry series #1) by Louis L'Amour
152x times as Western
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1,045
Post 726 Megan wrote: "+100 RwS Finish
+200 Mega Finish"
Congratulations! Well done!
Post 740 Karin wrote: "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), ..."
I'm sorry, Karin. Samoa isn't on the list of unclaimed island nations for this task. Let us know which of your combo tasks you'd like to use.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 740 Karin wrote: "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 Samo..."
Strike it from my list for now--I am probably not going to use it.
10.6 Cloud AtlasThe Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
+10 Task ("Snow")
+5 Combo (10.8K--set in NYC)
Task total: 15
Season total: 725
15.5 ListopiaBel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
The book is listed as #192 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
with the tag "1001"
task=15
pre-1980=5
task=20
grand total=735
20.7 AmbassadorPraise by Andrew McGahan
+20 Task (born in Queensland as per GR author page)
+5 Multiple
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1,070
20.7 AmbassadorBendable Learnings: The Wisdom of Modern Management by Don Watson
+20 Task (born in Australia)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1295
10.10 Group ReadsWho Fears Death (Who Fears Death #1) by Nnedi Okorafor
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Female
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1,095
20.4 The Piano TeacherBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
+20 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total = 35
Season total = 510
15.10 Listopia TagA Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
+15 Task (using the Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1..., using the tag "fascism")
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
+100 LT Finish
Season total: 845
15.5 Listopia TagClaire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
This edition: Claire of the Sea Light can be found on this list: New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (#31) with the tag of: notable
+15 Task
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 135
ListTag total: 90
Season Total: 225
15.6 Listopia TagEscape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
This edition: Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West can be found on this list: Best True Survival Stories (#26) with the tag of: survival
+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel
Points this post: 20
RwS total: 135
ListTag total: 110
Season Total: 245
15.7 Listopia TagMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
(Canon; Lexile 960)
This edition: Moby-Dick or, The Whale can be found on this list: Most Difficult Novels (#4) with the tag of: literary-fiction
+15 Task
+5 Big
+5 Pre-1980
Points this post: 25
RwS total: 135
ListTag total: 135
Season Total: 270
15.8 Listopia TagKudos by Rachel Cusk
This edition: Kudos can be found on this list: The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2018 Book Preview (#45) with the tag of: 2018
+15 Task
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 135
ListTag total: 150
Season Total: 285
20.4 The Piano TeacherFolk by Zoe Gilbert
+20 Task ("An extraordinary debut novel set on an island where myth and reality overlap")
+10 Combo (10.5 pub 2018, 10.9)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Points this post: 45
RwS total: 180
ListTag total: 150
Season Total: 330
15.7 Listopia tagDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Tag: funny
#17 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
+15 task
+5 not a novel
Task total = 20
Grand total = 865
10.2 JulyReport from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1270
10.5 InfernoLove Songs and Lullabies by Amy Vastine
+10 Task (published 2018)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1295
10.3 AwardsHome by Marilynne Robinson
+10 Task (LA Times Book Prize)
+ 5 Combo (10.9)
+10 Female author
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 680
15.8 Listopia TagBreakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Tag: Short
#17 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
+15 task
+5 not a novel
Task total = 20
Grand total = 885
Kate S wrote: "From Post 685Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Ambassador
The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head
+20 pts -Task
+10 pts - Combo
+10 pts - Femal..."
I think it was probably 10.8R and 10.9 but thanks for checking it out and finding the other 5 pts!
What about post #687? Can I get the points for combo with 10.8K?
20.6 Winter's TaleThe Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
+20 - Task
+15 - Combo (10.3,10.4, 20.10 two of the main characters are professional sculptors of clay. There are also several other artists and artist camps but not necessarily about painting)
+10 - Female author
+5 - Jumbo (675)
Task Total - 50 pts
Season Total - 1310
15.8 Listopia TagA Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
#32 on the list Best Irish Literature
Tag: Irish
+15 task
Season total: 335
20.10- Art WorldThe Girl with the Botticelli Eyes by Herbert Lieberman
Task 20
Combo: 5 (10.9- Eb)
Post total: 25
Season total: 450
15.7 Listopia TagHow to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
#50 in this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Tag- career
+15 - Task
+ 5 - Non Fiction
+ 5 - pub 1944
Task total - 20 pts
Season Total - 1330
Sorry, Elizabeth. I was interrupted while writing the entry and didn’t realize I had hit the “post” button before finishing
Rebekah wrote: "15.7 Listopia TagHow to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
+15 - Task
+ 5 - Non Fiction
+ 5 - pub 1944
Task total - 20 pts"
Don't forget to tell us which list.
Task 10.5 InfernoRead a book hot off the presses: originally published in 2017 or 2018.
The Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline (Paperback, 231 pages)
American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best Young Adult Book (Honor Book) (2018)
Winner Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général (2017)
CBC Canada Reads Nominee (2018)
Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature (2017)
Yes, all those prizes for this Young Adult novel—but no Lexile score
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 350 + 10 = 360
10.6 Cloud AtlasThe Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Female author
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1320
20.2 Track of the CatKaren Memory (Karen Memory #1) by Elizabeth Bear
60x times as Western
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 - BEar)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,135
15.6 ListopiaShakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
#34 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... tag "cozies"
task=15
grand total=750
Rebekah wrote: "What about post #687? Can I get the points for combo with 10.8K?"I got this added as well.
From Post 742Deedee wrote: "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) ..."
+5 Combo 10.9
15.9 Listopia TagWashington Black by Esi Edugyan
This edition: Washington Black can be found on this list: Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2017 (#157) with the tag of: people-of-color
+15 Task
Points this post: 15
RwS total: 180
ListTag total: 165
Season Total: 345
15.9 Listopia TagA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
#4 on this list Interesting Books of 2013
+15 task
Season total: 350
20.2 Track of the CatAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
+20 Task (shelved as Western by 608 readers)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 700
15.9 Listopia tag Horns by Joe Hill
Tag: weird
#28 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 task
Task total = 15
Grand total = 890
15.8 Listopia TagTales of the City by Armistead Maupin
#2 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Tag - city
+15 - task
+ 5 - pub 1978
Task total -20 puts
Season Total - 1350
20.8 Summer Lovin' first published 1978 (British Guard man with Indian princess, so forbidden by his employer, but the Indians, by her position, by the fact that she is engaged to a Rana, etc)The Far Pavilions
+20 - Task
+10 - Female Author
+20 - Jumbo
Task 50 points
Season Total = 260
5 books so far as book in message 740 withdrawn
15.10 Listopia tag Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Tag: POC
#9 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 task
+200 Mega Finish
Task total = 215
Grand total = 1105
(Keels over and dies from eyestrain)
10.7 Not Quite JumboWhen America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin
+10 task
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 15
Season total: 690
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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;..."
It's not a problem, but can I get a post number of the original post, please?