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SP 23 Completed Tasks
20.7 Non-HumanHow Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
+20 Task, approved in thread
+5 Combo, 10.4
Task total: 25
Season total: 520
20.7 Non-HumanThe Cruel Prince by Holly Black, 760 Lexile
+20 Task, main characters include fairies, goblins, and a selkie
+5 Series, The Folk of the Air
+10 Combo: 10.3, 10.4
Task total: 35
Season total: 555
20.4 Sub-ContinentBetween the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
100% India
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - 3 words)
+10 Non Western (author born & residing in India)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 555
20.7 Non-HumanThe Wicked King by Holly Black, 780 Lexile
+20 Task, main characters include fairies, goblins, and selkies
+5 Series, The Folk of the Air
+10 combo: 10.3, 10.4
Task total: 35
Season total: 590
20.7 Non-HumanThe Queen of Nothing by Holly Black, 750 Lexile
+20 Task, main characters include fairies, goblins, and selkies
+5 Series, The Folk of the Air
+10 combo: 10.3, 10.4
Task total: 35
Season total: 625
20.8 Real FictionThe Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
+20 Task, everyone in this was a real person! It's about Truman Capote and his "swans," the cream of the crop of New York socialites of the '50s and '60s
+15 Combo: 10.4, 20.3, 20.10--C.Z. Guest
Task total: 35
Season total: 660
20.9 Non-FictionZinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich
+20 Task, Voices of Utopia series
+10 Non-Western, born in Ukraine and citizen of Belarus (both former SSRs)
+15 Combo: 10.3, 20.3, 20.6--Nobel for Literature
+5 Oldies, pub. 1989
+5 Series
Task total: 55
Season total: 715
20.10 Uncommon LetterStone Blind by Natalie Haynes
+20 Task, Zeus
+10 Combo: 20.3, 20.7--the gorgons are all main characters (as well as the gods, including Zeus often in the form of different animals as well as golden rain)
Task total: 30
Season total: 745
15.1 Growing Genres, WesternsRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, pub. 1912
Task total: 15
Season total: 760
15.2 Growing Genres, WesternsShane by Jack Schaefer (870 Lexile), pub. 1949
Task total: 15
Season total: 775
10.1 New Horizons The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera
Task: 10
NO COMBOS
Series: 5
Jumbo : 5 MPE 526 pages
Post total: 20
Season total: 250
20.3 POVKing John by William Shakespeare
20 pts. POV King John (England) and King Phillip of France each have their POV on the territory dispute
5 pts 20.8 Real Fiction King John
5 pts 20.10 Uncommon Letter Earl of Essex
25 pts Oldies
Task Total: 55 pts
Season Total: 570 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. 20.3 20.4 … 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 … … … … … …
10.2 Albright SistersThe Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
+10 task (daughters)
+15 combo 20.3 POV (pov of women in 7 generations of the Moy family); 20.8 Real Fiction (Afong Moy is a real person - wiki link in comment 28 of help thread); 20.10 Uncommon Letters (Zoe Moy is a main character)
Task total: 25
Season total: 570
10.4 3,4,5American Murder Houses: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide by Steve Lehto
+10 pts - task
Task Total - 10 pts
20.2 FrenchMaigret at Picratt's: Inspector Maigret #36 by Georges Simenon
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.4, 10.6, 10.7, 20.6)
+15 pts - Series (third book from this series for this challenge)
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1950)
Task Total - 60 pts
15.1 Growing Genres3rd round, random order
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
+15 pts - 1926 Mystery
10.4 3,4,5 words in titleThe Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast
+Task 10
Task total 10
Season total 400
20.6 AwardClark Howard Collected Stories - 1960s by Clark Howard
+20 task (2009 Derringer Award-post 33 on task thread)
+5 combo (10.4)
+5 oldies
Task total=30
Season total=370
From Post 88Tien wrote: "20.3 POV
The Shadow of the Lion (Heirs of Alexandria #1) by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3; 10.4 - 5 wo..."
+5 Combo 20.6
From Post 482Joanne wrote: "20.4 Sub-Continent Set in India
Honor by Thrity Umrigar
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.5 story is told by Smita and Meena)
Task Total 25
Season Total 340"
+10 Non Western
From Post 488Joanne wrote: "20.6 Award Winning
Oathblood by Mercedes Lackey
Lackey won the 2022 SFWA Grand Master Award https://www.sfadb.com/SFWA_Grand_Mast...
+20 Task
+10 Styles (Oldie-19..."
Sorry, 1998 is only 5 Oldies points.
From Post 497Jayme wrote: "20.7 Nonhuman
One Good Knightby Mercedes Lackey
Task + 20
Combo +10 (10.4,(3 word title), 20.6 Award SFWA grand master award)
Styles +5 series
Book total: 35
Grand Total..."
+5 Combo 10.3
Kate S wrote: "From Post 488Joanne wrote: "20.6 Award Winning
Oathblood by Mercedes Lackey
Lackey won the 2022 SFWA Grand Master Award https://www.sfadb.com/SFWA_Grand_Mast...
..."
Kate, there was 5 points for Oldies and 5 points for Series, I am confused
15.7 Growing GenresCoffin And The Paper Man by Gwendoline Butler
+15 Task 1991 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1300
15.8 Growing GenresLessons in Discovery by Charlie Cochrane
+15 Task 2009 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1315
15.6. Growing GenresAppleby's End by Michael Innes
15 pts 15.6 1945
Task Total: 15 pts
Season Total: 585 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. 20.3 20.4 … 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 … … … … …
10.7 20th Century BookendThe Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
+10 Task (b. 1907)
+10 Oldies (all originally published in the 1930s)
+5 Combo (20.3 - short stories from different perspectives)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 640
20.3 POVThe Anatomy of Jane by Amelia LeFay
+20 Task (told from alternating POV of three main characters)
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 665
20.6 AwardBy the Swordby Mercedes Lackey
Winner of the SFWA award in 2022
Task +20
Combo +15 ( 20
5 female, 10.3 3,4,5, 10.2 #9 in Valdemar series)
Oldies +5 published 1991
Series +10
Book total: 50
Grand total: 205
20.4 Sub-ContinentMidnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
20 task
5 jumbo
5 oldie
10 non-western
20 combo 10.2, 20.6*, 20.8*, 20.10*
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60
*all confirmed in appropriate task threads
From Post 503Mary wrote: "20.4 Subcontinent
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
20 pts 20.4 Subcontinent
5 pts 20.6 Awards 1907 Nobel Prize Literature
10 pts Oldies
Task Total: 35 pts
Season Total: 240..."
+5 Combo 20.3
From post 506Tawallah wrote: "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"
+5 Combo 20.7
From Post 527Rebekah wrote: "10.4 3,4,5
The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts- Oldies (1974)
+ 5 pts- Series
Task Total - 20 pts"
+10 Combo 10.5, 20.6
From Post 533Apple wrote: "10.4 3, 4, 5
The 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); 1..."
+5 Combo 10.7
From Post 537Marie wrote: "20.5 Female
One 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 ..."
+5 Combo 10.3
From post 542Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "10.4 3,4,5
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
+10 Task
+10 Oldies, published 1936
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 95"
+20 Combo 10.9, 20.3, 20.6, 20.10
From Post 545Rebekah wrote: "20.4 sub continent
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - combo (10.3 Baby Ganesh is an elephant)
+5 pts - series
..."
+10 Combo 20.6, 20.7
From Post 548Connie wrote: "20.3 POV
The 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"
+5 Combo 20.7
Ignore this-my mistake
10.2 albright SistersThe House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith
+10 Pts - Task
+15 pts - combo(10.3, 10.4, 10.6)
+10 pts - series - 2nd book read for this challenge
Task Total - 35 pts
20.9 Non-FictionMa Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
+20 task (plays approved in post 21 of task thread)
+30 combo:
10.2-Ma
10.3-The Century Cycle #3
10.4-4 words
20.3-POV of several characters and producers
20.6-Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award, post 111 of task thread
20.8-Ma Rainey is mentioned in the GR description and was a real person
+5 series
+5 oldies
Task total=60
Season total=430
Kate S wrote: "From Post 537Marie wrote: "20.5 Female
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next series book 1) is #84 in the lis..."
Maybe i didn't understand correctly, but since Thursday Next is the name of the main character i don't think the 10.3 combo works (and yes, she has a strange name :))
20.10 Uncommon Letter The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde
The main character's name is Thursday NeXt
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.5 - Thursday Next series book 1 is #84 in the list ; 20.7 - a lot of the book's characaters characters are "day players", which are actually robots)
+10 Series (previousely used in 20.5)
Task total = 40
Points total = 645
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 (x3)
20.4 Sub-ContinentA Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Set in Calcutta, India
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.4)
+5 Series
+50 Half-way Finish (20-points tasks)
Task total = 80
Points total = 725
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) ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x3)
20.1 ModernistDown and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - born 1903)
+10 Oldies (pub 1933)
+50 Halway Finish (20-point Tasks)
Post Total: 85
Season Total: 645
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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+25 Oldies, pub. 1601
+5 Combo, 20.3
Task total: 50
Season total: 495