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20.6The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
+20 task
+10 combo (10.6, 20.9)
Task total = 30
Grand total = 395
I forgot some combos on this, 10.10 and 10.5Task total = 40
Grand total for post 283 = 375
Grand total after my last book (post 308) = 405
Ann wrote: "20.1
Circe by Madeline Miller
+20 task
+10 Female
Task total = 30
Grand total = 365"
20.9 Art World Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts
- One of the three POV people not only becomes a sculptor during this book (plus her grandmother, not a POV but a very significant character, is a famous artist who is a painter), her sculptures have significance to the main story, (view spoiler)
+20 Task
+10 female author
+15 combo 10.5 Inferno--published in 2018, 10.7 Not quite jumbo 438 pages, 10. 9 Emily Bronte - Nora R-o-b-e-r-t-s
Task total = 45
Season Total = 45
10.10 Group ReadsGhachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8K -- Bengaluru/Bangalore; 10.9)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 370
10.2 The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
+10 task
+10 female
+ 5 combo (10.7 - 468 pages)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 205
10.10 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
+10 task
+15 combo (10.5 - 2017, 10.6 - moon, 20.9)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 230
15.2-ListopiaO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
This edition which is also the MPE. It is located on page 21 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... with the tag of "Book Club"
task=15
pre-1980=5
task total=20
grand total= 250
Post 299 Valerie wrote: "20.9 Tom WolfeDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
lexile 880
20 task
____
20
Running total: 285"
This task requires nonfiction, so a novel won't work for 20.9. Did you have it in your possession before May 15?
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 299 Valerie wrote: "20.9 Tom WolfeDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
lexile 880
20 task
____
20
Running total: 285"
This task requires nonfiction, so a novel won't..."
No, I did not have this book. I will ask a question in the task thread.
20.9 Tom Wolfe:Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (approved on the task help thread, post #15)
+20 task
+10 female author
Task total: 30
Grand total: 55
15.5 Listopia TagWithout You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
my list is in task plan post 5, this is #7 on it
15 task
5 not a novel
_____
20
Running total: 325
15.5 Listopia TagThe Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
(First Alternate)
+15 Task
+ 5 <1980
Task total = 20
Season total = 125
20.6 Winter’s TalePenric’s Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.8R, 10.9
+10 Female author
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 580
20.6 Winter’s TaleMira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.5, 10.8R, 10.9
+10 Female author
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 630
15.6 Listopia TagCat Crimes III by Ed Gorman
my list is in task plan post 5, this is #5 on it
15 task
5 not a novel
____
20
Running total: 345
Task 15.2 Go, Went, Gone (2015) by Jenny Erpenbeck; translated from German by Susan Bernofsky; (Paperback, 286 pages)
List:
Berlin
130th out of 305 books — 184 voters as of June 29, 2018
Tags: berlin
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 75 + 15 = 90
15.4 - listopia tagWelcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
#242 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
tag: elite-list
Task total: 15
Grand total: 245
20.2 Track of the CatDoc by Mary Doria Russell
+20 Task (shelved as "Western" 237 times)
+10 Female
Task total: 30
Season total: 260
10.1 PossessionMagic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie N. Holmberg
+10 Task (in my possession since Nov 2017)
+10 Female
+5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 25
Season total: 285
20.9 Tom Wolfe (Kate S's Task)Tobruk by Peter FitzSimons
approval
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.7 - Australia as per author's GR page)
+5 Multiple
+5 Jumbo (580 pages)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 360
10.8K Big City, Small CountryVoyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
+10 Task (set 90% in London)
+10 Female author
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 380
20.7 Summer NightsGroup Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll
+20 Task (approved)
+ 5 Combo (10.7 416 pages)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 405
15.3 Listopia TagAnarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill
#490 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Using the tag no-people
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 385
10.3 - AwardsThe Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
L.A. Times Young Adult Literature winner in 2016
Lexile score 860
Task - 10
Season total 160
20.9- Tom WolffeOutliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
#14 on Independent Reading: Creative Fiction list
Task: 20
Season total: 180
Task 15.3 Three Day Road (2005) by Joseph Boyden (Hardcover, 354 pages)
List:
Lists linked to the MPE version, here:
Three Day Road
World War One Literature
19th out of 200 books — 331 voters as of July 06, 2018
Tag: great-war
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 90 + 15 = 105
10.10 Group readsBrain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
10 task
10 female author
5 combo 10.8K (NY)
_____
25
Running total: 370
15.10 Listopia TagA River Runs Through It, and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
The 25th anniversary edition, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, is #94 on the list of Best Short Story Collections https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7....
Tag: stories
+15 Task
+5 Pre-1980
+5 Not-a-Novel
+100 Listopia Tag Finish
Task Total: 125
Season Total: 325
Thanks to the moderators for the fun sub-challenge!
10.1 PossessionPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (I've owned the book since 2008!)
+10 - Task
+15 - Combo (10.4,10.9,20.7)
+10 - Female author
Task - 35 pts
Season Total - 560 pts
10.7 Not Quite JumboUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
+10 - Task
+15 - Combo (10.3,10.9,20.9)
+10 - Female Author
Task Total - 35 pts
Season Total - 595 pts
20.8 Summer NightsA Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières
+20 task
+10 combos 10.8K (London), 10.9
Task total: 30
Season total: 310
15.5 - listopia tagAstrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
#175 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
tag: science
Task total: 15
Grand total: 260
20.10 Art World (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
+20 Task -- about painter Artemisia Gentileschi
+5 Combo (10.10)
+10 Female
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 420
10.7 Not Quite Jumbo (Coralie's Task)Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
+10 Task
+10 Female
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 905 (I think)
10.7 Not Quite Jumbo (Coralie's Task)The Outsider by Stephen King
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.5 Inferno
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 925
10.9 Emily Bronte (Rosemary's Task)East of Eden by John Steinbeck
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 Book Lover's Day
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Jumbo
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 950
20.9 Tom WolfeI'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
+20 task
+10 Female
+
Task total =
Grand total =
20.7 AmbassadorAffections by Rodrigo Hasbún
+20 Task (Bolivia)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 975
20.8 Summer Nights (Karin's Task)Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler
+20 Task: 2 in love where man is in love with a woman owned by another --- other forbidden loves play a more minor role as well.
+15 Combo: 10.2 July / 10.9 Emily Bronte / 20.4 The Piano Teacher
+10 Female
Task Total: 45
RwS Finish: 100
Season Total: 930 (found and fixed!)
15.2 ListopiaThe Black Poets ed by Dudley Randall
+15 task
+ 5 not a novel
+ 5 published 1971
list - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
tag - top-5
Task total: 25
Grand total: 445
10.5 InfernoPathways edited by Mercedes Lackey
+10 task
+10 female author/editor
Task total: 20
Grand total: 465
20.1 GeminiThe Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
+20 task
+10 female
+5 combo 20.4
Task total: 35
Season total 165
15.3 Listopia TagDrowned Wednesday (The Keys to the Kingdom #3) by Garth Nix
YA - 840L
Book can be found on this list: Imaginative Books (532 books | 336 votes) (#494) with the tag of: imagination
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 375
15.4 Listopia TagRapture by Kameron Hurley
Can be found on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3... (#151) with the tag of: gritty
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 645
10.3 AwardsA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2010),
task=10
female author=10
task total=20
grand total= 270
By the way...I gave this book 5 stars.... I found myself resisting the constant flashbacks and flash forwards.... yet I couldn't put it down and by the end it all comes together.
Post 345 Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 Emily Bronte (Rosemary's Task)East of Eden by John Steinbeck
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 Book Lover's Day
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Jumbo
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 950"
I'm sorry, Karen, this is a YA Assignment at BPL with a Lexile of 700. Task but no styles.
Post 346 Ann wrote: "20.9 Tom WolfeI'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
+20 task
+10 Female
+10 combo (10.5 Inferno..."
I'm sorry, Ann. 20.4 requires a debut novel, so this nonfiction will not work for that task.
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First published 2017
Task +10
Style,female author +10
Book total 20
Grand Total 75