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20.5 Female Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
#122 on the list
Task: 20
Oldies: 5 - published in 1996
Combo 5 - 10.3 - London Below
Post total: 30
Season total: 230
10.1 New HorizonsThe Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
10 pts 10.1 New Horizons
5 pts 10.3 Discworld. The Grampian Quartet
5pts 10.4 345
5 pts Series
10 pts Oldies
Task Total: 35 pts
Season Total: 275 pts
10.1 10.2 …10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. … 20.4 … … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 … … … … … …
20.7 Non HumanThe Skylark of Space by E.E. "Doc" Smith
20 pts 20.7 Dunark alien
5 pts 10.3 Discworld. Skylark #1
5pts 10.4 345
5 pts 10.5 Wimsey
5 pts 20.6 Award see question thread post 20 First Fandom Hall of Fame
5pts 20.10Uncommon Letter Marc DuQuesne
5 pts Series
10 pts Oldies
Task Total: 60 pts
Season Total: 335 pts
10.1 10.2 …10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. … 20.4 … … 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 … … … … … …
20.6 AwardSkylark Three by E.E. "Doc" Smith
20 pts 20.6 Award see question thread post 20 First Fandom Hall of Fame
5 pts 10.3 Discworld. Skylark #2
5 pts 10.5 Wimsey
5 pts 20.7 Dunark alien
5 pts 20.10 Marc DuQuesne
10 pts Series
10 pts Oldies
Task Total: 60 pts
Season Total: 390 pts
10.1 10.2 …10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. … 20.4 … 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 … … … … … …
20.10 Uncommon LetterSkylark of Valeron by E.E. "Doc" Smith
20 pts Uncommon Letter Marc DuQuesne
5 pts 10.3 Discworld. Skylark #3
5 pts 10.4 345
5 pts 10.5 Wimsey
5 pts 20.6 Award see question thread post 20 First Fandom Hall of Fame
5 pts 20.7 Disembodied Intellectuals aliens (numbered One thru Eight)
15 pts Series
10 pts Oldies
Task Total: 70 pts
Season Total: 460 pts
10.1 10.2 …10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. … 20.4 … 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 … … … … … …
Post 459 Joanne wrote: " Disc WorldKrondor: The Assassins by Raymond E. Feist
+10 Task
+5 Series
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task total 20
Season Total 300"
The look at the title as to the left of the : (colon), so this doesn't work for 10.4. The good news is that it works for 10.5 and hope that is what you meant.
I did mean 10.5-slip of the typing, thank you!
15.2 Growing GenresMystery, published 2020
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Task total: 15
Season total: 445
15.2 Growing Genres FantasyPublished 2021
Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson
+ Task 15
Season Total 390
Years used: 1979, 1990, 2002, 2015, 2021
From Post 410Owlette wrote: "20.1 Modernist
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.4 (3 words), 10.8, 20.10 (James GatZ)
+10 Oldies
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 270"
+5 Combo 20.5
From Post 411Jayme wrote: "20.5 Female
The Joy Luck Clubby Amy Tan
Task +20
Combo +5 10.4
Grand Total: 110"
+5 Oldies
From Post 416Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.8 Real Fiction
Malcolm: The Scots-English Edition, Illustrated and Translated by George MacDonald
+20 Task Historical Fiction & Malcolm MacPhail
+10 Oldies, Publi..."
Sorry, Don, the MPE of this book doesn't qualify for jumbo points.
From post 424Rebekah wrote: "20.7 non human
The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption by Jim Gorant
+20 Pts - Task
Task Total - 20 pts"
+5 Combo 10.4
From post 427Deedee wrote: "Task 20.3 POV
Read a book told through multiple point of views (POVs).
Half the novel is told from the point of view of the ghost, the other half of the novel is told from the point of view of the..."
+10 Combo 10.3, 10.4
+5 Series
From Post 434Bucket wrote: "10.4 3,4,5
Who Would Have Thought It? by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
+10 Task
+15 Oldies (pub’d 1872)
Task total = 25
Season total = 25"
+5 Combo 10.5
+10 Non Western
From post 445Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "10.1 New Horizons
A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence by Mary Pipher
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 60"
+5 Combo 10.4
20.6 AwardThe Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton
Western Literature Association, and others
+20 task (approved on help thread comment 30)
+ 5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
+ 5 series
+ 5 oldies (pub 1998)
Task total: 35
Season total: 480
10.6 Pi DayThe Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart
10 task
5 combo 10.4
50 half way bonus
______
65
Running total: 525
Kate S wrote: "From post 424Rebekah wrote: "20.7 non human
The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption by Jim Gorant
+20 Pts - Task
Task Total - 20..."
Thank you
10.2 sisitersAunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse
Task - 10 pts
Combo - 5 pts (10.4)
Series - 10 pts
Oldies - 5 pts(1974)
Task Total - 30 pts
10.4 3,4,5The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts- Oldies (1974)
+ 5 pts- Series
Task Total - 20 pts
15.9 Growing GenresHunter's Moon by Dana Stabenow
+15 Task 1999 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 460 (Corrected Points)
15.7 Growing GenresScience Fiction
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
1950
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 960
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
10.4 3, 4, 5All Systems Red by Martha Wells
+10 task
+5 series
+10 combo (10.3; 20.7)
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 985
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x3); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
20.7 Non-humanArtificial Condition by Martha Wells
+20 task
+10 series
+5 combo (10.3)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1020
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x3); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8; 20.9; 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
10.3 DiscworldRogue Protocol by Martha Wells
+10 task
+15 series
+5 combo (20.7)
Post Total = 30
Season Total = 1050
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x3); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8; 20.9; 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
10.4 3, 4, 5The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
+10 task
+10 series
+5 oldies
+10 combo (10.3, 20.9)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1085
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8; 20.9; 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
20.9 Non-Fiction (Kate S's Task)Uncanny and Improbable Events by Amitav Ghosh
+20 task
+5 series
+10 non-Western
+15 combo (10.3, 10.4; 20.6 - approved)
Post Total = 50
Season Total = 1135
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8; 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
20.8 Real Fiction (Owlette's Task)The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
+20 task
+5 series
+5 oldies
+15 combo (10.3, 10.4; 20.3)
Post Total = 45
Season Total = 1180
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
20.3 POVThe Ghost Road by Pat Barker
+20 task
+10 series
+5 oldies
+15 combo (10.3; 10.4; 20.8)
Post Total = 50
Season Total = 1230
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7;
20.5 FemaleOne of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next series book 1) is #84 in the list)
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.7 - all characters are non-humain but literary books characters; besides, one of the main characters, Sprockett, is also a robot ; 20.10 - Thursday Next)
+5 Series
Task total = 35
Points total = 585
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x5) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x2)
20.2 FrenchAgir pour le climat en famille by Pascale Baussant
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 605
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x6) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x2)
20.4 SubcontinentA Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
+20 Task (Set in India)
+5 Oldies (1995)
+5 Jumbo (603pp)
+15 Combo (10.4, 20.3, 20.6 - see post 8 in thread)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 555
15.6 - Growing GenresDesert Heat by J.A. Jance
+15 task - Mystery - 1993
Task total: 15
Grand total: 365
20.5 - FemaleA is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
+20 task
+5 series
+5 oldie - 1982
+5 Combo 10.4
+5 Combo 20.6 - Cartier Diamon Dagger Award 2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartier...
Task total: 40
Grand total: 405
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "10.4 3,4,5Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
+10 Task
+10 Oldies, published 1936
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 95"
Combo with 10.9 - card trick
20.4 sub continentThe Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - combo (10.3 Baby Ganesh is an elephant)
+5 pts - series
Task Total - 30 pts
20.8 Real FictionFeel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer
+20 pts - Task (Bernie Sanders)
+5 pts - combo (10.4)
+ 5 pts - series
Task total - 30 pts
Rebekah wrote: "20.8 Real FictionFeel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer
+20 pts - Task (Bernie Sanders)
+5 pts - combo (10.4)
+ 5 pts - series
Task total - 30 pts"
This book is not historical fiction. We can score it for 10.4.
20.3 POVThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
+20 task (POV of Shylock and Antonio)
+ 5 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5
+25 oldie (pub 1596)
Task total: 50
Season total: 530
15.10 Growing Genres2nd round, Random order
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
+15 pts - 1907 Fantasy
+ 50 pts - completion bonus
Total 65 pts
20.6 AwardSo Much Blue by Percival Everett
+20 task (2010 John Dos Passos Prize, post 53 task thread)
+10 combo (10.4, 10.5)
Task total=30
Season total=340
Task 15.02 Growing GenresMYSTERY
And, with the further requirement, that the books also have a MPG of
SCIENCE FICTION
YEAR: 2017
Sweet Dreams (2017) by Tricia Sullivan
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 260 + 15 = 275
20.6 AwardCorrection by Thomas Bernhard
Georg Büchner Prize 1970, approved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_B...
There are two points of view, Roithamer's and the unnamed narrator's.
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.3)
+ 5 Oldies (1975)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1025
10.10 groupreadsFour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
+10 pts - task
+10 Pts - combo (10.4, 20.3)
+5 pts - jumbo (528)
Task total - 25 pts
I loved listening to this book in the different voices and although I consider myself a history buff, I learned a lot about people and events I never heard of.
15.7 - Growing GenresB is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
+15 task - 1985 Mystery
Task total: 15
Grand total: 420
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Task: 20
Jumbo: 5 (hardcover 542 pages)
Post total : 25
Season total: 200