SU 18 Completed Tasks

[Rosemary]

15.1 Listopia Tag

Miss Julia Renews Her Vows by Ann B. Ross

#98 on list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

tag: southern

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 80

[Rosemary]

20.3 Gold Coast

Judge & Jury by James Patterson

+20 Task (about the trial of a mafia boss)
+10 Combo (10.7, 10.8K set 100% in NYC)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 110

[Karen Michele]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 42 Karen Michele wrote: "10.4 Book Lover's Day

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8R Mom
+10 Canon

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 40"

This doesn't ..."

So sorry for missing that - sorry to Rebekah, too!

[Kate S]

From Post 44

Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 Emily Bronte (Rosemary's Task)

Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 75"


+10 Canon

[Kate S]

From Post 32

Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "10.9 Emily Bronte

Murder on the Half Shelf by Lorna Barrett.

+10 Task BarrEtt
+10 Multiple
+10 Female author

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 70"

FYI: Multiple is only 5 points

[Beth]

15.1

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

List - #3 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Tag - mars

+15 task
+5 length (572 pages)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 80

[Ann]

10.7 Not Quite Jumbo
The Trees by Ali Shaw
488 pages
Task total = 10
Grand total = 35

[Connie]

20.5 Nemesis

As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner

+20 task (1918 influenza)
+ 5 combo 10.5 (pub 2018)
+10 female author

Task total: 35
Season total: 55

[Ann]

10.8 Tokyo
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide

Task points = 10
Grand total = 45

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

10.8R Mom

History of the Rain by Niall Williams

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.6)

Task Total = 15

Season Total = 25

Bessie Lois Boyd Williams, this was for you. The book is full of references to other books - used, well read books, for readers like you.

[Ann]

20.8
The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Task = 20
+ 10 Female
+5 Debut (20.4)

Task total = 35
Grand total = 80

(Not recommended at all)

[Coralie]

10.6 Cloud Atlas

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

+10 Task
+10 female author

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 115

[Rebekah]

30.1 Island hopping
On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves

+30 pts - Task (Maldives)
+10 pts - Combo (20.4,20.8 (view spoiler)[when they crash, Anna was hired to be T J's high school tutor. He is almost 17 and she just turned 30. After three years stranded without hope of rescue, they fall in love, however the deed wasn't done until he had turned 19. When they return home, they want to stay together as a couple but meet several obstacles because of their age and the circumstances under which they fell in love and that she was a high school teacher and he a student) (hide spoiler)]
+10 pts - Female Author

Task total - 45 pts
Season Total - 45 pts

[Lalitha]

10.4 - Book Lovers Day

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Task: +10
Combo: +5 (10.8)
Canon: +10
Jumbo: +15

Task Total = 40
Season Total = 35+40 = 75

[Valerie]

30.1 Island Hopping

Resort to Murder by Carolyn G. Hart

set wholly in Bermuda


30 task
10 female author
_____
40

Running total: 70

[Norma]

20.7 - Ambassador

Murder in the Dark by Kerry Greenwood

+20 task
+10 female

Task total: 30
Grand total: 50

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

15.1 Listopia

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
This edition appears on this list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9.... (#3)
tag: tournament-of-books

+15 task
Season total: 15

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

15.2 List tag
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
This edition https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... appears on this list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (#12)
tag: 2017

YA Lexile 830

+15 task
+5 NAN
Task total 20
Season total: 35

[Connie]

15.1 Listopia tag

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

tag: female friends

Task total: 15
Season total: 70

[Ann]

20.2 Western
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente

+ 20 Task
+ 10 Female
+ 5 (10.6, snow)
Task total = 35
Grand total = 115

[Megan]

20.6 Winter's Tale

A Gentleman's Agreement by Joy Avery

+20 Task
+10 Female

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 60

[Megan]

15.1 Listopia Tag

Disco For The Departed by Colin Cotterill

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

Using the tag screwball-mystery

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 75

[Megan]

10.5 Inferno

Better At Weddings Than You by Mina V. Esguerra

+10 Task -- published 2017
+10 Female

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 95

[Kätlin]

10.9 Emily Bronte:

The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

This is shelved as YA, and the lexile score is low, so no styles or combos.

+10 task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 10

[Norma]

10.5 - Inferno

Banana Cream Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke

+10 task (2017)
+10 female

Task total: 20
Grand total: 70

[Tawallah]

15.1 -Listopia Challenge
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal can be found on the https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8... - #15 with the tags microhistory

Task: 15
Not-a-novel= 5

Post total: 20
Season total: 30

[Beth]

10.4 Book Lover's Day

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

+10 task
(Also takes place almost entirely in London)
+10 combo (10.8K, 20.4)
+10 female author

Task total: 30
Grand total: 110

[Owlette]

15.1 Listopia Tag

A Family Affair by Rex Stout

#466 on Tales of New York City https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Tag: cities

Actual edition read: A Family Affair by Rex Stout


Task: 15
Pre-1980: +5

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 20

[Ann]

20.4 Debut
Three Years with the Rat by Jay Hosking

+20 task
+ 5 Multiple
Task total = 25
Grand total = 140

[Tien]

10.4 Book Lover's Day
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) by Stieg Larsson
#74 on list

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - 465 pages)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 105

[Heather]

10.6 - flood

The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 by David Welky

+10 task
+10 combo (20.5 - cholera, typhus, and influenza epidemics were major concerns after the flood, 20.9)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 85

[Lalitha]

10.8R Mom

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Task +10
Combo +10

Task Total = 20
Season Total = 75+20 = 95

[Megan]

20.5 Nemesis

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby

+20 Task -- yellow fever epidemic
+5 Combo (20.9 -- creative non-fiction)
+10 Female

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 130

[Karen Michele]

10.5 Inferno

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

+10 Task
+10 Female

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 245

[Karen Michele]

15.1 Listopia Tag

Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers

This edition: Reflections in a Golden Eye can be found on this list: Best Books of the Decade 1940s #155 with the tag of: 1941

+15 Task
+5 Before 1980 (1941)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 265

[Karen Michele]

15.2 Listopia Tag

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

This edition: Magpie Murders can be found on this list: Librarian Recommended Books #5 with the tag of: 2017-publications

+15 Task
+5 Big

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 285

[Karen Michele]

10.8K Big City, Small Country (Karen Michele's Task)

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

+10 Task
+10 Female

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 305

[Norma]

20.4 - The Piano Teacher

Once Gone by Blake Pierce

+20 task
+5 Combo (10.9)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 95

[Coralie]

10.5 Inferno

Down Among the Sticks and Bones bySeanan McGuire

+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+10 female author

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 140

[Rebekah]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "10.8R Mom

History of the Rain by Niall Williams

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.6)
You made me smile!
Task Total = 15

Season Total = 25

Bessie Lois Boyd Williams, this was for you. The book..."

[Rebekah]

Karen Michele wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 42 Karen Michele wrote: "10.4 Book Lover's Day

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8R Mom
+10 Canon

Task Total: 25
Seaso..."

No problem, Karen! I almost started reading a book with Williams in the title instead of as author!

[Rebekah]

Connie wrote: "10.5 Inferno

Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris

+10 task
+10 female author


Task total: 20
Season total: 20"

There is a combo with 10.6 as Moon is on the word list

[Rebekah]

20.5 Nemesis
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

+20 - Task
+20 - Combo (10.4, 10.9, 20.4, 20.7, 20.8)
+10 - Female Author

Task Total - 50 pts
Season total - 95 pts

[Tien]

15.1 Listopia Tag
The Dead Will Tell (Kate Burkholder #6) by Linda Castillo

Book can be found on this list: Best of Amish Fiction (#237) with the tag of: amish

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 120

[Coralie]

20.6 Winter’s Tale

Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.8R, 10.9
+10 female author

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 180

[Connie]

Rebekah wrote: "Connie wrote: "10.5 Inferno

Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris

+10 task
+10 female author


Task total: 20
Season total: 20"

There is a combo with 10.6 as Moon is ..."

Thanks for noticing that "moon" is on the weather list, Rebekah.

[Beth]

10.2 July

My Mother's Rules: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Emotional Genius by Lynn Toler

+10 task
+10 female

Task total: 20
Grand total: 130

[Ann]

10.5
The Thinnest Air by Minka Kent
Talk about hot off the presses! This will be officially published July 1, but I had an advanced copy via Amazon First Reads.

+10 task
+10 Female
+5 (10.6, “Air”)

Task total = 25
Grand total = 165

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

15.1 Listopia Tag

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey

4th on my list

+15 Task
+ 5 before 1980 (1936)

Task Total = 20

Season total = 45

[Rachel]

15.1 Listopia Tag

MPE Edition found on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5... (#1) with the tag -high-

+15 Task
+5 Big - over 800 pages

Task Total: 20 pts
Grand Total: 20 pts