SU 18 Completed Tasks

[Ann]

10.9 EB
The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber

+10 task
+5 combo (20.1 Prometheus)
Task total = 15
Grand total = 310

[Kate S]

From Post 139

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

The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 July
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 20
Season Tot..."

+5 Combo 20.9

[Kate S]

From post 175

Ed wrote: "20.7 Ambassador
In a German Pension: 13 Stories by Katherine Mansfield

task=20
female author=10
task total=30
grand total=115"

+10 Canon

[Rosemary]

10.9 Emily Bronte

Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.5 2017)
+10 Female author
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 240

[Rosemary]

20.4 The Piano Teacher

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

+20 Task
+10 Female author
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 275

[Rebekah]

10.9 Emily Bronte
The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.9)
+10 Female Author

Task Total - 25 pts
Season Total - 305 pts

[Rebekah]

20.7 Ambassador
A Question of Power by Bessie Head (South Africa)

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8R, 10.9, 10.2)
+10 Female Author

Task Total - 45 pts
Season Total - 350 pts

[Owlette]

15.5 Listopia Tag

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

This edition The Screwtape Letters is #76 on the list of Books with ratings from 200,000 to 500,000 https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Tag: 500000

+15 Task
+5 Pre-1980

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 125

[Karen Michele]

Kate S wrote: "From Post 139

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

The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 July
+ ..."

I missed that one and now that you've found it for me, I'd actually like to move the book to 20.9. Here's a post for that:

Post 139: change

20.9 Tom Wolfe

The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead

+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.2 July / 10.8K Big City, Small Country

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 580 (+10 to total)

[Megan]

20.3 Gold Coast

Thirsty by Mia Hopkins

+20 Task -- protagonist/narrator of the book is a gang member trying, with varying success, to get out of the life, and most of the plot & romance are about this
+5 Combo (10.5 -- published 2018)
+10 Female

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 255

[Megan]

10.5 Inferno

For the Hope of a Crow (Red Dead Mayhem) by T.S. Joyce

+10 Task -- published 2018
+5 Multiple
+10 Female

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 280

[Rosemary]

10.6 Cloud Atlas

The Burning Air by Erin Kelly

+10 Task
+10 Female author

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 295

[Tien]

10.6 Cloud Atlas
Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe
approval

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 - roBErt; 20.7 - Melbourne, Vic, AU)

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 255

[Cory Day]

10.1 Possession

Take the Lead by Alexis Daria

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.5, 20.4)
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 30

[Cory Day]

20.7 Ambassador

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

+20 Task (Fiji)
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 60

[Cory Day]

20.4 The Piano Teacher

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 85

[Cory Day]

10.8K Big City, Small Country

Something Real by Nellie Christine

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.5)
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 110

[Connie]

15.5 Listopia tag

Country Dark by Chris Offutt

# 153 2018 Mystery Thriller Horror https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: thriller

Task total: 15
Season total: 210

[Coralie]

15.3 Listopia Tag

The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese

Can be found on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (#24) with the tag of: Italian

+15 Task
+5 pre-1980

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 370

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Post 200 Karen Michele wrote: "20.3 Gold Coast

Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier

+20 Task: low lexile

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 525"

Good news, Karen. This is another one that got into the database before BPL declared it YA. All styles apply. I see 10.9 and 20.7, plus Female. Let us know if you see another task for this.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Post 211 Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Ambassador
A Question of Power by Bessie Head (South Africa)

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8R, 10.9)
+10 Female Author

Task Total - 40 pts
Season Total - 345 pts"

She is now added to the list for 10.2 July, so another combo for you.

[Heather]

15.3 - listopia tag

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

#42 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Tag - medicine

+15 task
+10 female author
+5 not a novel

Task total: 30
grand total: 130

[Heather]

20.10 - Art world

Sacré Bleu by Christopher Moore

+20 task - entire plot revolves around the turn of the century Paris art community (van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, etc.)
+5 combo (10.7 - 421 pages)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 155

[Rebekah]

10.6 Cloud Atlas
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head

+10 -Task
+25 - Combo (10.8r, 10.9, 20.7-South Africa, 20.4,10.2)
+10 - Female author

Task Total - 45
Season Total - 395

I love this author, she’s a new discovery for me. She’s very much a philosopher set in the times of apartheid in South Africa and the relative freedom of Botswana. Unfortunately her life was too short.

[Tawallah]

10.2- July
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

+10 task
+10- female author

Post total: 20
Season total: 50

[Tawallah]

10.7 - Not Quite Jumbo

The Heir to the North by Steven Poore

+10 task

Post total: 10
Season total: 60

[Tawallah]

10.9- Emily Bronte

The Heart of Stone by Ben Galley

+10 task
+ 10 combo- ( 10.5, 10.7)

Post total: 20
Season total: 80

[Karen Michele]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 200 Karen Michele wrote: "20.3 Gold Coast

Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier

+20 Task: low lexile

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 525"

Good news, Karen. This is..."

That's great, thanks!

[Tawallah]

20.7- The Ambassador

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Author born in South Africa

+20 task
+5- (20.4)

Post total: 25
Season total: 105

[Valerie]

20.1 Gemini

Circe by Madeline Miller

20 task
10 female author
10 combo 10.10, 10.5
_____
40

Running total: 220

[Beth]

10.10 Group Read

In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu

+10 task
+5 combo (10.5 pub 2018)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 220

[Ann]

10.8
Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold

+10 task
+10 Female
+5 combo (10.9)
Task total = 25
Grand total =335

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

10.5 Inferno

Chosen Country by James Pogue

+10 task

Season total: 100

[Deedee]

Task 15.1

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (2016) by Candice Millard (Hardcover, 400 pages) [968.0483]

List:

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 (#38)

Tag:

new-york-times

+15 Task
+05 Not-a-Novel

Task Total: 15 + 05 = 20

Grand Total: 20 + 20 = 40

[Rebekah]

20.6 Winter's Tale
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

+20 - Task
+20 - Combo (10.3-LATimes, 10.7-455pgs, 10.8K-London, 10.9)
+10 - Female Author

Task Total - 50
Season Total - 445

[Rebekah]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 211 Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Ambassador
A Question of Power by Bessie Head (South Africa)

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8R, 10.9)
+10 Female Author

Task Total - 40 pts
Seas..."

From her bio, I don't see that she ever lived in the US, only South Africa and Botswana

[Beth]

20.3

Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman by Louis Ferrante

Task total: 20
Grand total: 240

[Deedee]

Added to Post #239:

Not-a-Novel: 5 points per book that qualifies as Not-a-Novel

[Owlette]

15.6 Listopia Tag

A Skating Life: My Story by Dorothy Hamill

This edition, Skating Life: My Story is #705 on the Women and mental illness list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Tag: mental-illness

+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 145

[Anika]

10.3 Awards

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

+10 Task
+10 Female
+5 Combo (20.4)

Task total: 25
Season total: 150

[Anika]

10.9 Emily Bronte

The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice by Rebecca Musser

+10 Task
+10 Female

Task total: 20
Season total: 170

[Rebekah]

20.8 Summer Nights
Maru by Bessie Head pub 1971
A village chief falls in love with and works to marry a woman from a tribe considered untouchable, “ lower than a diseased prostitute” of his own tribe because of her parentage.

+20 - task
+20 - Combo ( 10.6- the word Maru is the Setswana word for clouds. This is the language spoken in Botswana in which the story takes place.
https://tn.oxforddictionaries.com/tra..., 10.8r, 10.9, 20.7 - South Africa, 10.2)
+10- Female Author

Task total - 50
Season Total - 495

[Rebekah]

Ann wrote: "20.7
The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Highly recommended.

+20 task
+10 female
+15 combo (20.4 debut, 10.7 not-quite-jumbo, 20.10 artist (Kerewin is a painter and sculptor..."

I though it was so good I chose it as a Group Reads pick for the Spring 2014 challenge. Glad you liked it!

[Connie]

20.4 The Piano Teacher

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

+20 task (debut)
+ 5 combo 10.7 (432 pg)
+10 female author

Task total: 35
Season total: 245

[Megan]

20.1 Gemini

The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin

+20 Task -- based on Theseus & the Minotaur

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 300

[Beth]

10.1

The Duchess War by Courtney Milan

+10 task
+10 female author

Task total: 20
Grand total: 260

[Tawallah]

20.7- The Ambassador

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculée Ilibagiza

Author is born in Rwanda

+20 task
+10 female author
+10 Combo( 10.9, 20.4)
+5 multiple

Post total: 45
Season total: 150

[Deedee]

Task 10.5 Inferno
Read a book hot off the presses: originally published in 2017 or 2018.

Florida (2018) by Lauren Groff

+10 Task
+10 Female Author

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20

Grand Total: 40 + 20 = 60

[Beth]

10.9 Emily Bronte

The Bride Wore Blue by Cheryl Bolen

+10 task
+10 female author

Task total:20
Grand total: 280

[Megan]

10.7 Not Quite Jumbo (Coralie's Task)

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

+10 Task -- 472 pages
+10 Combo (10.8K -- set more than 75% in London; 20.4)
+10 Female

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 330