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Karen Michele wrote: "ate will probably be confirming this, but for my task, 10.9, it's the author rating for John Green that you need and it counts at Average rating: 4.21 · 2,748,034 ratings, so you get those 5 points. "Thanks Karen Michelle. Perhaps I have been reading it wrong then ? I was reading both points for the books.
I think i should go put all my list in the task thread and have them double checked ....
Amanda wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "ate will probably be confirming this, but for my task, 10.9, it's the author rating for John Green that you need and it counts at Average rating: 4.21 · 2,748,034 ratings, so ..."You want to get the rating from the author page, not the page for the book itself, so click the link to the author you want to check and it's right at the top of that author's list of books. If you have any trouble feel free to ask in the task thread and I'll help.
Karen Michele wrote: "You want to get the rating from the author page, not the page for the book itself, so click the link to the author you want to check and it's right at the top of that author's list of books. If you have any trouble feel free to ask in the task thread and I'll help. "Went and re-read the task and see the "author" part now.
Good job I am going though all my books and checking totals today.
Thanks for the help :)
20.6 CrimeThe Black Echo by Michael Connelly
+20 task (shelved 414 times)
+5 Combo (10.9 - Tried and True 4.06, 785,733)
+5 Prize Worthy - Edgar Award Best First Novel 1993
Task total: 30
Grand total: 30
20.6 CrimeThe Black Ice by Michael Connelly
+20 task (shelved 252 times)
+5 Combo (10.9 Tried and True - 4.06, 785,733)
+5 Prize Worthy - Falcon Award 1995
Task total: 30
Grand total: 60
10.9 Tried and TrueThe Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
+10 task (4.06, 785,733)
task +10
Task total: 10
Grand total: 70
20.6 CrimeThe Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
+20 task (shelved 192 times)
+5 Combo (10.9 - Tried and True - 4.06, 785,733)
+5 Prize Worthy - Dilys Award 1996
Task total: 30
Grand total: 100
20.6 CrimeThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
+20 Task (on the genre section)
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 350
20.6 CrimeTrunk Music by Michael Connelly
+20 task (shelved 192 times)
+5 Combo (10.9 Tried and True - 4.06, 785,733)
+5 Prize Worthy - Barry Award for Best Novel 1998
Task total: 30
Grand total: 130
10.9 Tried and TrueThe Target by David Baldacci
+10 task (3.98, 619,611)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 140
10.9 Tried and TrueAngels Flight by Michael Connelly
+10 task (4.06, 785,733)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 150
20.6 CrimeBlood Work by Michael Connelly
+20 task (shelved 196 times)
+5 Combo (10.9 Tried and True - 4.06, 785,733)
+10 Prize Worthy - Mccavity Award Best Mystery Novel 1999; Anthony Award Best Novel 1999)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 185
Post 520 Amanda wrote: "10.7 WeirdGood Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
+10 task
+ 10 combo ( 10.4 "Accurate" - full title is "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prop..."
Sorry, Amanda, "accurate" is 8 letters. (And I have had much the same problem all season.)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Sorry, Amanda, "accurate" is 8 letters. (And I have had much the same problem all season.) "It' ok, seems I get my points back to An Abundance of Katherines for 10.9, so I will still be same points.
I just don't know where my head is at at the moment, which was why I spent yesterday going back over every book I have selected, and every challenge. Wore me out!
10.5 - Nebula:Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
+10 Task: Nominated in 2005
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 – Scrabble! (kingdom)
+ 5 Prize-Worthy: Locus Award for Best First Novel (2004)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 865
Amanda wrote: "10.4 ScrabbleWill Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan - "Grayson"
+ 10 task
+ 15 combo (10.9 - 3.93 rating, 156,100 ratings; +10..."
Sorry, the Children's Choice Award does not meet the criteria for Prize-worthy style points.
Norma wrote: "10.9 Tried and TrueThe Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
+10 task (4.06, 785,733)
task +10
Task total: 10
Grand total: 70"
+5 Combo 20.6
Norma wrote: "10.9 Tried and TrueThe Target by David Baldacci
+10 task (3.98, 619,611)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 140"
+5 Combo 20.6
Norma wrote: "10.9 Tried and TrueAngels Flight by Michael Connelly
+10 task (4.06, 785,733)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 150"
+5 Combo 20.6
20.7 PenguinThe Bhagavad Gita
+20 Task
+10 Not-a Novel (poem)
+10 Canon
Task total: 40
Grand Total: 890
15.2 - OceaniaThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
+15 task (Australia - qualifies through A, B, and C)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 365
10.7 WeirdThe Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
+10 task (shelved as weird five times here)
No styles; low Lexile
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 375
Task 10.6 - Women's Ed:Read a book written by a woman who has earned a doctorate (not an honorary degree).
Mary Beard: Beard received an MA at Newnham and remained in Cambridge for her PhD.
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (2008) by Mary Beard
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-Fiction
+05 Prizeworthy: Wolfson History Prize (2008)
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 390 + 25 = 415
10.3 – Borrowing from the Mods: Read by Liz M 10/20/07The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
+10 task
+10 combo (20.3- about 75% of the book is set in Paris; 20.10)
+10 not a novel (biography)
total=30
grand total= 395
10.3 - Borrowing from the modsThe Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
(Sam's shelves)
+10 task
+5 prize worthy (ALA Alex Award)
+15 combo (10.7; 10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2008/... 10.9)
Post total: 30
Grand total: 30
10.5 - NebulaDoomsday Book - Connie Willis
+10 task
+15 prize worthy (Hugo; Nebula;Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis)
+5 jumbo
+10 combo (10.8 - http://galactisuburbia.podbean.com/e/... 20.2)
Post total: 40
Grand total: 70
10.8 - Podcast ReadingHausfrau - Jill Alexander Essbaum
http://bookriot.com/2015/03/25/the-bo...
+10 task
Post total: 10
Grand total: 80
10.9 - Tried and TrueBriar Rose - Jane Yolen
+10 task
+5 prize worthy (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award)
+10 combo (10.3 - Kate S's shelves; 10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2012/...)
Post total: 25
Grand total: 105
20.2 - SeriesBeyond the Highland Mist - Karen Marie Moning
+20 task
+10 combo (10.8 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20... 10.9)
Post total: 30
Grand total: 135
20.6 - CrimeBroken Monsters - Lauren Beukes
+20 task
+5 combo (10.8 - http://bookrageous.podbean.com/e/book...)
Post total: 25
Grand total: 160
20.9 - NamelessThe Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
+20 task
+10 jumbo
+10 prize worthy (Quill Award, Hopwood Award)
+5 combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/...)
Post total: 45
Grand total: 205
15.4 - Eastern Asia - JapanVirus: The Day of Resurrection by Sakyo Komatsu
+15 task
+5 pre-1990 (1964)
task total: 20
grand total: 470
10.8 PodcastFables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
+10 Task (BOTN episode 147)
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 110
10.3 – Borrowing from the ModsThe River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
+10 Task: Sam read in Oct. 2014
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Combo: 10.4 (Darkest is 7 letters), 10.8 (BOTNS #156: Narrative Nonfiction)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 195
20.2 SeriesThe Last Colony by John Scalzi
+20 Task (Old Man's War #3)
+5 Combo (10.9)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 915
15.8 European UnionThe Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
+15 task (United Kingdom)
+5 pre- 1990 (1951)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 935
15.3 - North AmericaChase Me by Tessa Bailey
+15 task (A, B, and C - author bio)
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 185 points
From Post 495Joanna wrote: "10.5 Nebula
Dune by Frank Herbert
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 BOTNS#128 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/......"
Sorry, Joanna, the Seiun appears to be crowd sourced and does not qualify for prize worthy
Actually, it seems to me that this is like the Hugo. From the Wikipedia: "Seiun" is the Japanese word for "nebula", but the award is not related to the American Nebula Award. It is not the Japanese "equivalent" to the Hugo Award, as the Hugo Award is open to works from anywhere in any language, but it is similar to the Hugo Award, which is presented by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, in that all of the members of the presenting convention are eligible to participate in the selection process.
Task 20.6 CrimeBlindsighted by Karin Slaughter
*shelved as crime 274 times*
+20 Task
+5 Combo w/10.9 (Average rating: 4.13 · 232,534 ratings)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 255
Task 10.1 Rants and RavesMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
*reviewed by Joanna during the Winter 14/15 challenge/post #817
+10 Task
+5 Combo w/ 10.9 (Average rating: 3.99 · 125,048 ratings)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 270 pts
20.7 - PenguinMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
+20 task
+20 combo (10.2, 10.3 Liz M read Mar 2009, 20.4, 20.10)
+10 canon
Task total: 50
RwS total: 270
Reading Globally total: 40
Grand Total: 310
10.8 PodcastI Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections by Julia Wertz
+10 Task (Bookrageous episode 15)
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 120
10.8 Podcast ReadingHeart-Shaped Boxby Joe Hill
The link can be found here from Book Riot dated 10/21/2014 http://bookriot.com/2014/10/21/175-fa...
Task +10
Style: +20 Prize Worthy (Bram Stoker Award 2007, Locus Award 2008, ITW Thriller Award 2008) 10.9 Tried and True
Book Total: 30
Grand Total: 225
20.6 CrimeThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
+20 task
+15 combo (10.1 - reviewed in post #506 during winter challenge; 10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/..., 10.9)
task total: 35
grand total: 275
Reading globally:15.4 - North America
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block (A, B and C in USA)
+15 task
+5 oldies (first published in 1983)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 120
10.9 Tried and TrueDead Heat by Patricia Briggs
+10 Task (Average rating: 4.23 · 715,842 ratings)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 485
10.4 ScrabblePainted Faces by L.H. Cosway
+10 Task (painted)
+5 Combo (10.8 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/po...)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 500
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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
(borrowed from Kate S, read April 2012)
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.9)
Kate will probably be confirming this, but for my task, 10.9, it's the author rating for John Green that you need and it counts at Average rating: 4.21 · 2,748,034 ratings, so you get those 5 points.