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20.6 - Winters TaleThe Dutch Shoe Mystery by Ellery Queen
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.8K - New York)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 190
20.4 - The Piano TeacherThe Green Line by E.C. Diskin
+20 task
+5 Combo (20.6)
+5 repeat
+10 female author
Task total: 40
Grand total: 230
20.4 - The Piano TeacherThe Stepchild by Joanne Fluke
+20 task
+5 repeat
+10 female author
Task total: 35
Grand total: 265
15.5 Listopia TagShakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
This edition: Shakespeare: The World as Stage can be found on this list: Best Books About Shakespeare with the tag of: Shakespeare
+15 Task
+ 5 Not a Novel
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 950
15.6 Listopia TagEvery Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
This edition: Every Heart a Doorway can be found on this list: Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2016 with the tag of: eager-to-read
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 965
15.7 Listopia TagWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
This edition:We Have Always Lived in the Castle can be found on this list: Modern Gothic with the tag of: gothic
+15 Task
+ 5 Pre-1980
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 985
15.4 ListopiaWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
This edition which is also the MPE and is #296 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...?
with the tag of "favorite"
found on page=4
task=15
pre-1979=5
task total=20
grand total= 345
15.5 ListopiaNo Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday
This edition is the MPE and is also #184 on page 2 of this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6... with the tag of "travel".
task=15
not a novel=5
task total=20
grand total= 365
10.9 Emily BronteBlood Rites by Jim Butcher
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.7
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 725
15.4 ListopiaMy Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic by Charles Saatchi
tag: art-history
list: #105 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
+15 task
+5 not a novel
Task total: 20
Grand total: 505
20.6 Winter's TaleMapmaker's Opera by Bea González
20 task
10 female author
5 combo 10.9
____
35
Running total: 465
15.4 Listopia TagCurse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill
#118 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Using the tag sun
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 445
20.6 Winter's TaleThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
+20 Task (approved)
+10 Combo (10.7, 10.9)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 445
Kate S wrote: "From Post 341Heather wrote: "15.5 - listopia tag
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
#175 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6......"
Kate S wrote: "From Post 341
Heather wrote: "15.5 - listopia tag
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
#175 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6......"
Then my grand total should be 265 right now. For some reason, it's only showing 250 on the readerboard.
20.3 Gold CoastSins of the South: Big Secrets in a Small Town by Maureen Hughes
+20 - Task
+5 - Combo (20.9)
+10 - Female Author
Task total - 35
Season Total - 795
15.6 Listopia TagThe Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
3rd from the bottom on my plan
+15 Task
+ 5 <1980
Task Total = 20
Season total = 170
15.6 Listopia TagA Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Tag: multi-cultural
Task total: 15
Season total: 325
20.4 The Piano TeacherThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
YA Assignment 870 Lexile
+20 task (debut)
+10 female author
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 35
Season total: 360
15.1 Listopia Tag, Round 2On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
This edition, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is #1 on the list of Best Books on Writing https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Tag: writing
+15 Task
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 385
20.4 Piano TeacherThrone of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
+20 task
+5 combo (10.6)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 530
20.3 Gold CoastBrotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units by Aaron Cohen
Task +20
Combo +10 (20.4, 20.9)
Task Total = 30
Season Total = 160+30 = 190
10.10- Group ReadsKillers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Task: 10
Combo: 10 (20.9, 10.5- published in 2017)
Post total: 20
Season total: 200
Edited post10.8K- Big City, Small Country
1Q84by Haruki Murakami
Set in Tokyo( #8 on list big city)
Task: 10
Jumbo (MPE: 925 pages) 20 point
Post total: 30
Season total: 230
June wrote: "10.8K- Big City, Small Country1Q84by Haruki Murakami
Set in Tokyo( #8 on list big city)
As this is an omnibus not sure it counts for jumbo pointsas 1318 pages
Tas..."
Did you read the entire book, or just volume 1?
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "June wrote: "10.8K- Big City, Small Country1Q84by Haruki Murakami
Set in Tokyo( #8 on list big city)
As this is an omnibus not sure it counts for jumbo pointsas 13..."
I read the entire volume which is 1318 pages
June wrote: "I read the entire volume which is 1318 pages Well done! You'll get the 25 jumbo points then.
10.1 PossessionNorse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.5 Inferno)
Task total = 15
Grand total = 595
15.6 Listopia tagThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
#11 on the list Best Literary Mysteries
tag: mysteries
+15 task
+5 big
Task total: 20
Season total: 215
15.5 Listopia TagThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
#4 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Using the tag 9-11
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 460
10.7 - Not Quite JumboBeartown - Fredrik Backman
+10 task
+5 combo (10.9)
Post total: 15
Grand total: 40
10.9 - Emily BronteMem - Bethany C. Morrow
+10 task
+10 female
+10 combo (10.5; 20.4)
Post total: 30
Grand total: 70
15.1 - ListopiaHer Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
tag: lesbian-fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 task
+5 not a novel
Post total: 20
Grand total: 90
15.2 - ListopiaTouch Not the Cat - Mary Stewart
tag: romantic-suspense
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
+15 task
+5 pre-1980
Post total: 20
Grand total: 110
15.3 - ListopiaThe Other - Thomas Tryon
tag: literary-classics
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 task
+5 pre-1980
Post total: 20
Grand total: 130
20.5 - NemesisYear of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
+20 task
+10 female
+20 combo (10.4; 10.9; 20.4; 20.7)
Post total: 50
Grand total: 180
20.4 - The Piano TeacherWitchmark by C.L. Polk
+20 task
+5 combo (10.5)
+10 female
Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 255 points
Task 15.4 The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co. #1) (2003) by Tom Holt
List:
Humorous Paranormal Books
305th out of 1,254 books — 1,951 voters as of July 16, 2018
Tag:
humorous-romance
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 160 + 15 = 175
Post 410 Norma wrote: "20.6 - Winters TaleThe Dutch Shoe Mystery by Ellery Queen
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.8K - New York)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 190"
I'm sorry, Norma. This title doesn't follow the title format of "The Something's Something". We'll score it for 10.8K for you.
15.7 Listopia TagCountry Dark by Chris Offutt
(Middle of my Alternates - sorry I've made so many changes)
+15 Task
Season Total = 185
15.6 Listopia TagPersepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
Can be found on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (#32) with the tag of: 2018
+15 Task
+ 5 Big
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 745
From Post 366Owlette wrote: "20.8 Summer Nights (Karin's Task)
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
+20 Task (approved in message 59 of task thread)
+10 Combo 10.6 (Heat), 10.9
+10 Female Author..."
+10 Canon
From Post 388Ann wrote: "20.5 Nemisis
Parasite by Mira Grant
+20 task
+10 female
Task total = 30
Grand total = 470"
+5 Jumbo
From Post 122Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.9 EmilyvBronte
The Summer People by Elin Hilderbrand
Task +10
Female author +10
Grand Total 50"
As we scored your book in post 34 for 10.9 also, this one qualifies for multiple, so +5.
From Post 200Karen Michele wrote: "20.3 Gold Coast
Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier
+20 Task: low lexile
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 525"
Not Low Lexile (per Elizabeth's message 225), so +5 Multiple.
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+10 task
+10 Female author
Task total: 20
Grand total: 165