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10.6 Author Lifetime AwardsThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
10 pts. 10.6 Author Lifetime Award
5 pts 20.3 pts Severed Head. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Y...
5 pts 20.6 Characters
Task total 20 pts
Season total 1225 pts
10.3 Summer 2017 -No IA Better Man by Leah McLaren
10 task
10 young
5 combo 20.6
______
25
Running total: 735
10.7 Summer ShortsLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 80 pages, published 1929
Something Special: A Story by Iris Murdoch 55 pages, published 1957
+10 task
+ 5 combo 20.1
+ 5 oldie
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 25
Season total: 545
10.7 Summer Shorts (Mary's Task)The Fires by Alan Cheuse
Task=10
Combo=10 (10.3; 20.6)
Task Total=20
Grand Total= 1235
Completed Tasks: (32)
10.1 (15); 10.2 (10); 10.3 (25); 10.4 (40); 10.5 (35); 10.6 (40); 10.7 (20); 10.8(30)
15.1 (15); 15.2 (15); 15.3(25); 15.4 (20); 15.5 (20); 15.6 (25); 15.7 (25); 15.8 (25)
20.1 (35); 20.2 (50); 20.3 (35); 20.4 (45); 20.5 (40), 20.6 (40);20.6 (2x)(35); 20.10 (20); 20.7 (50)
50.1(65); 50.1 again (60); 50.1 (3rd time)(70); 50.1 (4x)(70); 50.1 (5x)(75); 50.1 (6x)(75); 50.1 (7x)(70)
250,000 or more ratings
✔100,000 - 249,999
✔75,000 - 99,999
✔25,000 - 74,999
✔15,000 - 24,999
✔10,000 - 14,999
✔5,000 - 9,999
1,000 - 4,999
250 - 999
✔fewer than 250 ratings
"20.6 CharactersMarcovaldo by Italo Calvino (pub'd 1963)
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7)
+5 Combo (20.1)
+5 Oldie (1963)
+ 5 multiple
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Task Total: 40
Season total: 105..."
Sorry, I just saw this question...I didnt have the work in front of me when I wrote my claim, and was not certain that there were 9 "named" characters. I have gone back and confirmed that yes, indeed there are many more than 9 named characters and will claim the comboand actually update the entry all-together (if allowed)...updated above and will adjust season total in my next claimed task.
20.6 CharactersNew Boy by Tracy Chevalier
+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+5 Combo (10.8)
+5 Combo (20.7)
+5 Combo (20.10)
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Task Total : 40
Season Total: 205
20.8 - Revisit a FriendBroken by Karin Slaughter
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.8, 20.6)
+5 multiple
+10 young
Task total: 45
Grand total: 635
20.6 - CharactersChristmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.8)
+5 multiple
Task total: 35
Grand total: 670
15.6 - Rating Game10,000 - 14,999
Twist of Faith by Ellen J. Green
+20 task (12,476)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 690
10.7 Summer ShortsEight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll
Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama by L B Pemberton
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
10 pts. 10.7 Summer Shorts
10 pts Oldies
5 pts Multiple
Task total: 25 pts
Season total: 1250 pts
10.4 Visiting A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
+10 Task (on Historical Fictionistas list)
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.9, 20.6)
Task total: 25
Season total: 715
Shirley, thank you for recommending this! It's been on my TBR since it was released but I kept putting it off until I saw it on our Listopia...it is one of the most perfect novels I've read in ages!! It is officially on my TOP TEN EVER READS!
20.5 LondonLoitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.6, 10.10, 20.1, 20.6)
+5 Pts - Oldies
Task Total - 45 pts
Season Total - 430 pts
15.6 Ratings Game100,000 - 249,999
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
+20 Task
+ 5 before 1995
Task total = 25
Season total = 480
20.1 Iris Murdoch Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
+20 Task (published 1961)
+5 Combo 10.3
+5 Oldies
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 835
10.1 Design your own task: Read a non-fiction bookThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
+ 5 jumbo (656 pages)
Task total: 15
Season total: 135
50.1 SenegalThe Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall
Task=50
Combo=15 (10.2, 20.1; 20.6)
Multiple=5
Oldie=5 (1979)
Task Total=75
Grand Total= 1310
Completed Tasks: (33)
10.1 (15); 10.2 (10); 10.3 (25); 10.4 (40); 10.5 (35); 10.6 (40); 10.7 (20); 10.8(30)
15.1 (15); 15.2 (15); 15.3(25); 15.4 (20); 15.5 (20); 15.6 (25); 15.7 (25); 15.8 (25)
20.1 (35); 20.2 (50); 20.3 (35); 20.4 (45); 20.5 (40), 20.6 (40);20.6 (2x)(35); 20.10 (20); 20.7 (50)
50.1(65); 50.1 again (60); 50.1 (3rd time)(70); 50.1 (4x)(70); 50.1 (5x)(75); 50.1 (6x)(75); 50.1 (7x)(70); 50.1 (8x)(75)
250,000 or more ratings
✔100,000 - 249,999
✔75,000 - 99,999
✔25,000 - 74,999
✔15,000 - 24,999
✔10,000 - 14,999
✔5,000 - 9,999
1,000 - 4,999
250 - 999
✔fewer than 250 ratings
20.2 Oxford AuthorsPrometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley
20 pts. 20.2 Oxford Authots
5 pts 10.3 Summer 2017
5 pts 20.6 Characters
10 pts Young
15 pts Oldies
Task total 55 pts
Season total: 1305 pts
10.3 Summer 2017Dry by Augusten Burroughs
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.6 more than 9 significant named characters)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 385
20.6 CharactersThe Billionaire's Email-Order Date: A Christmas Romance by Vivi Holt
+20 Task -- at least nine named characters
+5 Combo (10.2)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 690
15.7 RG15,000 - 24,999
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 710
Task 15.5 The Ratings Game100,000 - 249,999
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy #1) (1995) by Robin Hobb
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 235 + 15 = 250
15.4 RG15.4 Fewer than 250 ratings
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 690 (adjusted again)
10.8 SeriesThe Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
(#8 in A Dance to the Music of Time series)
+10 task
+20 combo 10.2, 10.3, 20.1, 20.6
+ 5 oldie (pub 1966)
Task total: 35
Season total: 580
20.8 Revisit a Friend Plainsong by Kent Haruf
+20 Task (first read September 2018)
+15 Combo 10.3, 20.1, 20.6
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 875
10.2 Jackson's Dilemma The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1944)
+10 task
+20 Combos ( 10.3 Summer task, 20.1 Iris Murdoch, 20.4 Boxall's 1001, 20.6 Characters)
+ 5 Oldie
Task 35 points
Season Total 715
20.7 ShakespeareTwelfth Night (1601) by William Shakespeare
(NOTE: The page count on the MPE is 320 pages which seems terribly off. My paperback copy had 107 pages including the "End Notes".)
+20 task
+10 Combos 10.4 Visiting (Catching Up With Classics), 20.6 Characters
+25 Oldie
Task 55 points
Season total 770 points
15.8 RG5,000 - 9,999 Ratings
Dear Fatty by Dawn French
+20 Task
+5 Non-Fiction
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 605
15.9 RG75,000 - 99,999 Ratings
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
+30 Task
+5 Big (599p)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 640
10.10 Group ReadsThe Return of Mr. Campion: Uncollected Stories by Margery Allingham
Task=10
Combo= 15 (10.7, 201, 20.6)
(I didn't add 20.5 but it probably qualifies...I'm just not sure of some of the locations mentioned...and whether the 75% threshold is met.)
Oldie=5 (1989)
Task Total=30
Grand Total= 1340
Completed Tasks: (34)
10.1 (15); 10.2 (10); 10.3 (25); 10.4 (40); 10.5 (35); 10.6 (40); 10.7 (20); 10.8(30); 10.10
15.1 (15); 15.2 (15); 15.3(25); 15.4 (20); 15.5 (20); 15.6 (25); 15.7 (25); 15.8 (25)
20.1 (35); 20.2 (50); 20.3 (35); 20.4 (45); 20.5 (40), 20.6 (40);20.6 (2x)(35);20.7 (50); 20.10 (20);
50.1(65); 50.1 again (60); 50.1 (3rd time)(70); 50.1 (4x)(70); 50.1 (5x)(75); 50.1 (6x)(75); 50.1 (7x)(70); 50.1 (8x)(75)
250,000 or more ratings
✔100,000 - 249,999
✔75,000 - 99,999
✔25,000 - 74,999
✔15,000 - 24,999
✔10,000 - 14,999
✔5,000 - 9,999
✔1,000 - 4,999
250 - 999
✔fewer than 250 ratings
20.7 ShakespeareNew Boy by Tracy Chevalier
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8, 20.6, 20.10)
Task total=35
Grand total=905
15.9 Ratings GameProdigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
75,000 - 99,999
as of posting: 89,412
30 task
____
30
Running total: 765
15.6 RG15,000-24,999 (NB: 24,905 when posted today)
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
+5 non-fiction
Task total: 25
Grand total: 390
20.1 Iris MurdochBusman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
+20 Task (pub. 1937)
+30 Combo (10.2, 10.3, 10.8, 20.2, 20.3, 20.6)
+10 Oldies (1937)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 450
20.2 Oxford AuthorsWhite Tears by Hari Kunzru
+20 Task
+10 Young (b. 1969)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 480
20.4 The Black PrinceThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 - pub. 1983)
+5 Oldies (1983)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 510
15.10 RG250,000+ Ratings
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles #1) by Anne Rice
+30 Task
+5 Old (pub 1976)
+100 Finisher
Post Total: 135
Season Total: 775
20.1 Iris MurdochThe Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
+20 Task (pub'd 1944)
+10 Combo (20.2, 20.6)
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Oldies
Task total = 40
Season total = 520
From Post 507Ann wrote: "20.10 Historical
The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
+20 task
+ 15 combo (10.8 (#14 in series), 20.5, 20.6)
Task total = 35
Season total = 240"
+5 Jumbo
From Post 508Connie wrote: "20.1 Iris Murdoch
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
+20 task (pub 1981)
+ 5 combo 10.7 Summer Shorts
+ 5 oldie
Task total: 30
Season total: 500"
We carry this with the 1926 date, so +10 Oldies (not 5)
From Post 516Rebekah wrote: "20.3 The Severed Head
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Ca...
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Oldies (1935)
+ 5 pts - Comb..."
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 522Rebekah wrote: "10.7 Summer Shorts
The Ballad of Reading Gaol & An Ideal Husband both by Oscar Wilde
+10 pts -Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.4, 20.2)
+10 Pts - Oldies (1898 TBoR..."
+5 Combo 20.6
From Post 524Lynn wrote: "10.3 Summer Task - Author with no i in his or her name
To Kill a Mockingbird and Harper Lee (1960), Lexile level 870, play https://www.broadway.com/shows/to-kil......"
+5 Combo 20.2
From Post 528Karen Michele wrote: "10.7 Summer Shorts (Mary's Task)
The Pearl by John Steinbeck 1000 Lexile
The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Oldies..."
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 529Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 All Star Reads (Anika's Task)
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.3 Summer 2017
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 620"
+5 Combo 20.6
20.6 CharactersAn Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
+20 task
+10 combo (10.3, 10.7)
+ 5 multiple
Task total=35
Grand total=940
20.8 Revisit a Friend State Tectonics by Malka Ann Older
+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.3, 10.8, 20.6
+5 Multiple
+10 Young
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 925
Kate, I think I should have 40 more points than you have given me. Did you miss my post #506?
20.8 Revisit a Friend (Lynn's Task)The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death 0.1) by Nnedi Okorafor
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6)
+10 Young (born 1974; wikipedia)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 810
15.5 RG, <250The Distancers: An American Memoir by Lee Sandlin
+15 Task
+5 NF
Task total: 20
Season total: 735
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Karen Michele wrote: "10.8 Series (Beth's Task)
The Marco Effect by Jussi Adler-Olsen
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.6 Characters
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 405"
+5 Jumbo MPE has 506 pages