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15.10 Growing GenresThe Sacred Bridge by Anne Hillerman
+15 Task 2022 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Growing Genres Chronological Finish: 100
Season Total: 575 (Corrected Point Total)
10.6 Pi DayIn honor of Pi Day (March 14), read a book that has a title containing a word beginning with the letters "Pi"
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.3 Discworld (Great Plains Trilogy) / 20.5 Female
+. 5 Series
+10 Oldies (1913)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 610
20.4 Sub-ContinentTomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
+20 Task: India/Pakistan
+10 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5 / 20.3 POV (Mother/Daughter/others)
+10 Jumbo (739)
+10 Non-Western: Mainpuri, U.P., India
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 660
20.10 Uncommon Letter (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Midnight Come Again by Dana Stabenow
+20 Task: Troopers Mary Zarr and Al Rodriguez (these two characters are actually in the book more than the supporting characters on the Goodreads page)
+10 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5 / 20.3 POV (alternates Kate Shugak / Jim Chopin)
+. 5 Series
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 695
20.10 - Uncommon LetterThe New Teacher
+20 task - Elizabeth Blau
+10 Combo - 10.3 - Sheridan Country Mysteries, 10.4
+5 series
Task total: 35
Grand total: 485
20.6 AwardRabbit Is Rich by John Updike
Helmerich Award, 1987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmeri...
Message 154 of task thread
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+ 5 Series (Rabbit Angstrom)
+ 5 Oldies (1981)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1350
10-2 Albright Sisters Family member in titleDaughter of Sparta by Claire M. Andrews
+Task 10
+5 Styles (Series)
+ 10 Combo ( 10-4 and 20-10-Sphinx of Thebes)
Total Task 25
Season Total 430
20.3 POVSky Without Stars by Jessica Brody
+20 each chapter is told from the pov of one of the three main characters
+5 series
+5 jumbo
+15 combos 10.3, 10.4, 10.9
Task total: 45
Season total: 445
10.6 Pi DayThe Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria by Laura Joh Rowland
10 pts 10.6 Pi Day
5 pts 20.8 Real Fiction Lord Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi see question thread
5 pts 20.10 Uncommon Letter Nitta Monzaemo
5 pts series Sano Ichiro #7
Task Total: 25 pts
Correction - 5 pts
Season Total: 605 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 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 … … … … …
15.8 Growing GenresScience Fiction
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1932
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 1250
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; 15.8;
20.3 POVThe Weekend by Charlotte Wood
(another real world book club book managed to meet a task!)
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 1270
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 (x3); 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; 15.8;
201.10 Uncommon LetterThe Children of Men by P.D. James
Xan Lyppiatt
+20 task
+5 oldies
+10 combo (10.3, 20.6)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1305
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 (x3); 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8;
20.1 ModernistHowards End by E.M. Forster
+20 task
+10 oldies
+ 5 combo (20.3)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 1340
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8;
20.6 AwardPortrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
+20 task
+10 series
+15 combo (10.3; 10.4; 20.10 - Eliza Sommers)
Post Total = 45
Season Total = 1385
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x3); 10.4 (x4); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x3); 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6(x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x3)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8;
10.3 DiscworldRichard II by William Shakespeare
10 pts 10.3 Discworld War of Roses #1
5 pts POV Richard II and Bolingbrooke
5 pts 20.8 Real Fiction King Richard II
5 pts 20.10 Uncommon Letter Fitzwater
5 pts series War of the Roses
25 pts Oldies
Task Total: 55 pts
Season Total: 660 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 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 … … … … …
20.3 POV-Multiple Points of View A Dress of Violet Taffeta by Tessa Arlen
The story is split between the voice of Lady Duff Gordon and her assistant Celia
+Task 20
+ Combo 10 (10.4, 20.8)
Task Total 30
Season Total 460
Task 15.03 Growing GenresMYSTERY
And, with the further requirement, that the books also have a MPG of
SCIENCE FICTION
YEAR: 2012
Doktor Glass (2012) by Thomas Brennan (Paperback 314 pages)
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 310 + 15 = 325
15.10 Growing GenresSuspect by Scott Turow
+ 15 Task (Mystery, 2022)
+100 Finishers Bonus
Season total = 635
10.7 20th Century Bookends (Rosemary's Task)The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
Born 1904 & Died 1991 -as per author's page
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - 3 words)
+10 Oldies (pub 1939)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 670
20.10 Uncommon LetterThe Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
+20 task (Aura Rodriguez, the narrator's partner)
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 20.8 Real Fiction (historical fiction, Pablo Escobar)
+10 Non-Western (Colombian)
Task total: 40
Season total: 610
From Post 563Joanna wrote: "20.8 Real Fiction
The First Mrs. Rothschild by Sara Aharoni
+20 (all those Rothschilds)
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 615"
+10 Non-Western
From Post 584Nancy wrote: " 10.5 Whimsey
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
+10 Task
Season Total: 115"
+5 Combo 20.6
From Post 587Valerie wrote: "20.6 Award
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
20 task
5 oldie
_____
25
Running total: 575"
+5 Combo 20.3
From Post 592Anika wrote: "10.3 Discworld
Harvest Moon by Annabel Chase
+10 Task, The Hex Support trilogy
+5 Combo, 20.7--Edgar, an albino raven, is a main character
+5 Series
Task total:..."
+5 Combo 20.3
From Post 600Anika wrote: "20.1 Modernist
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
+20 Task
+10 Non-Western, Chilean
+10 Combo: 10.7, born 1904; 20.6, Nobel for Literat..."
+5 Oldies
I've only read 3 lost books so far. But I usually don't finish lost until late in the year, if at all. I might read one or two more this month.
Post 610, Post 611 Anika wrote: "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: ..."
Anika, you have already claimed this series for task 20.7 in Post 608, so no series points. BUT, you have combos. If you wish to move these two books to different tasks, you will get not just 5 series points for these books, but 10 points and 15 points respectively. Let us know in a new post if you want to move them.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 610, Post 611 Anika wrote: "20.7 Non-HumanThe Wicked King by Holly Black, 780 Lexile
+20 Task, main characters include fairies, goblins, and selkies
+5 Series..."
Who am I to say no to more points? ;-) Thank you so much, I would love it if you'd rearrange those tasks to maximize points!
**edited again: I just re-read the rules for the series style and finally understand what you mean :'D oops. I will repost those books to meet the proper requirements
10.2 Albright SistersThe Prodigal Sister by Darry Fraser
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - 3 words)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 685
15.3 Growing Genres3rd round, random order
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
+15 pts - task 2004 Mystery
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 610, Post 611 Anika wrote: "20.7 Non-HumanThe Wicked King by Holly Black, 780 Lexile
+20 Task, main characters include fairies, goblins, and selkies
+5 Series..."
**edited again: I just re-read the rules for the series style and finally understand what you mean :'D oops.
After doing the math, moving those books from a 20-point task to a 10-point task it doesn't make too much of a point difference and I don't have to do the reposting, so I'll just leave them as is and lose the series bonus...but thank you again for bringing the rules of that style to my attention! I should have read it more closely to begin with ;-)
10.4 - 3, 4, 5Tell Me You're Sorry by Kevin O'Brien
+10 task
+5 jumbo - 544 pages
Task total: 15
Grand total: 500
Post 617 Tawallah wrote: "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"
This task does not prevent your claiming combos for other tasks, just that you can't claim 10.1 as a combo when you post for another task.
I see combos for 10.3 and 10.4. Let us know if there should be others.
Post 618 Mary wrote: "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 Fictio..."
I'm sorry, Mary. A title (Earl of Essex) isn't a name so this doesn't work for 20.10.
15.5 Growing Genres The Hills of Homicide by Louis L'Amour
Mystery, 1983
15 task
____
15
(corrected) Running total: 670
15.6 Growing Genres Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters
Mystery, 1976
15 task
____
15
Running total: 685
Post 646Norma wrote: "10.6 - PiThe Girl in the Pink Shoes by Stacy Green
+10 task
+5 series
Task total: 15
Grand total: 450"
The MPE for this is All Good Deeds, so it doesn't work for 10.6 Pi Day. The good news is that it *does* work for 10.4 3, 4, 5. No change in score. Hope this works for you.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 618 Mary wrote: "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
..."
Makes sense. Thanks.
15.7 Growing GenresStrangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
15 pts 15.7 1950
Task Total: 15 pts
Correction post 695 -5
Season Total: 670 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 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 15.7 … … … …
10-5 WimseyKrondor: Tear of the Gods by Raymond E. Feist
+10 Task
+10 Series (2nd book of series read)
+5 Combo (10.3 -Krondor is a city name)
Points this task 25
Season Points 485
20.3 POVTwenty-Two Malaysian Stories by Lloyd Fernando
20 pts POV. Several different unnamed first person narrators in different stories
5 pts 10.4 3,4,5
10 pts NonWestern see General Question thread post 53
5 pts Oldies
Task Total: 40 pts
Season Total: 710 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 … 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 15.7 … … … …
20.6 AwardSix Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley
+20 task received the Grand Master Award (msg 79)
+15 combo 10.4, 10.6, 20.10 Ezekiel Rawlins
+5 series
Task total: 40
Season total: 485
Post 665 Joanne wrote: "10-2 Albright Sisters Family member in titleDaughter of Sparta by Claire M. Andrews
+Task 10
+5 Styles (Series)
+ 10 Combo ( 10-4 and 20-10-Sphinx of Thebes)
To..."
Unfortunately, this is YA Fiction at BPL, but has no Lexile. Task, but no styles
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Thank you. It's my fault. This isn't something I read so I didn't realize the series is named after a person. We'll fix it.