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15.6 Growing GenresTraitor's Moon (Nightrunner #3) by Lynn Flewelling
+15 Task (1999 Fantasy)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 700
20.6 AwardThe Big Money by John Dos Passos
+20 Task (Antonio Feltrinelli Prize, previously claimed)
+30 Combo (10.3, 10.4,10.5, 20.1, 20.3 - multiple characters/POV), 20.8 - Henry Ford was one of the "biographies")
+15 Series
+10 Oldies (1936)
Task total = 75
Season total = 710
10-4 3,4,5 words in titleThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard
+ Task 10
+ Combo 5 (10.5 R.D.)
Task Total 15
Season Total 515
10.2 Albright SistersOur Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
+10 Task: Wives
+10 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5 / 20.3 POV (alternates between Miri and Leah)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 715
10.7 20th Century Bookends (Rosemary's Task)The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
+10 Task: Died 1995
+15 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5/ 10.3 Discworld (The Zoo Memoirs) / 20.9 Non-Fiction
+. 5 Oldies (1961)
+. 5 Series
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 750
10.8 Gilmore Girls (Anika's Task)The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
+10 Task
+. 5 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5
Task Total: 15
10 Point Task Finish: 50
Post Total: 65
Season Total: 815
20.8 Real Fiction (Owlette's Task)Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić
+20 Task: In the characters: Lieutenant Colonel von Paulich
https://www.napoleonseries.org/resear...
+10 Combo: 10.3 Discworld (Bosnian Trilogy) / 20.6 Award (Nobel Prize 1961 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lis...)
+10 Oldies (1945)
+. 5 Series
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 860
20.8 Real FictionThe Crime Writer by Jill Dawson
+20 Task (a novel with MC Patricia Highsmith)
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1475
20.10 Uncommon LetterMartyn Pig by Kevin Brooks
+20 Task (MC's best & only friend Alex Freeman is a major supporting character)
+ 5 Combo (10.6 pig)
This is low lexile 540 but it's only listed as an ebook in Spanish at BPL. Not sure how this counts but I don't mind losing the combo points if that's the right thing :)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1500
20.10 Uncommon LetterThe Queen: Her Life by Andrew Morton
+20 Task (Elizabeth)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1520
20.9 Non-FictionThe Piano Lesson by August Wilson
+20 task (plays approved in post 21 of task thread)
+25 combo:
10.3-The Century Cycle #4
10.4-3 words
10.6-Piano
20.3-POV of several characters
20.6-Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award, post 111 of task thread
+10 series (2nd title read)
+5 oldies (1990)
Task total=60
Season total=515
15.7 Growing GenresUndead and Unwed (Undead #1) by MaryJanice Davidson
+15 Task (2004 Fantasy)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 715
20.9 Non-FictionInseparable by Florence Dupre la Tour
+20 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 830
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x6) ; 20.3 (x2) ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; 20.10 (x3)
15.2 Growing GenresAu bonheur des ogres by Daniel Pennac
(Translated in english as "The Scapegoat", but i cannot find the version)
Mystery, published 1985
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 845
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x6) ; 20.3 (x2) ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; 20.10 (x3)
20.7 Non-humanRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
+20 Task (octopus)
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.3)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 740
20.2 FrenchThe Judge's House by Georges Simenon
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.4, 10.7, 20.6 - in the thread, MWA Grand Master 1966)
+10 Oldies (1940)
+ 5 Series
Task total = 50
Season total = 760
20.5 FemaleSeeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
+20 Task: using a different book in the series was pre-approved
+10 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5 / 10.5 Wimsey (PE)
+. 5 Oldies (1997)
+. 5 Series
Task Total: 40
20 Point Task Finish: 50
Mega Finish: 200
Post Total: 290
Season Total: 1150
20.8 Real FictionThe Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
Historical fiction about a real person.
Task total: 20
Season total: 660
ED10.4. What's in a Name?
The Albigenses, by the Author of 'Bertram' Volume 1 by Charles Maturin
821p.
*****I CLAIM 2 BIG BOOKS TICKETS*****
NOTE- this work was originally published in 1824. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alb...
but GR uses the 2013 date for this edition. If that is sufficient information *****I WOULD LIKE TO CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
Points this post: 10
Total points: 130
Books read: 9
Golden Oldies: 1?
Big Books: 2
Non-Fiction: 0
Tasks completed: 9
5.5; 5.9
10.4
15.7; 15.10
20.2; 20.4; 20.8; 20.9
20.1 ModernistWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
20 pts 20.1 Modernist
5 pts 10.5 3,4,5
5 pts 20.3 POV Antoinette and her husband
5 pts Oldies
Task Total: 35 pts
Season Total: 820 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 … 10.9 …
20.1 …. 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8… …
Post 775Ed wrote: "ED10.4. What's in a Name?
The Albigenses, by the Author of 'Bertram' Volume 1 by Charles Maturin
821p.
*****I CLAIM 2 BIG BOOKS TICKETS*****
NOTE- this work was ..."
Wrong group?
20.7 Non-humanIn the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
20 task (most characters are robots)
5 combo 10.4
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25
Running total: 805
15.10 Growing Genres, WesternsA Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
Task total: 15
+100 Chronological finish
+200 Mega Finish
Season total: 1305
20.9 Non-FictionAll Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
+20 Task
+5 Series
+5 Oldies
+15 Combo: 10.3, "All Creatures Great and Small" series; 10.4; 10.7, died 1995
Task total: 45
Season total: 1350
Anika wrote: "+100 Chronological finish
+200 Mega Finish"
Congratulations! Well done!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 775Ed wrote: "ED10.4. What's in a Name?
The Albigenses, by the Author of 'Bertram' Volume 1 by Charles Maturin
821p.
*****I CLAIM 2 BIG BOOKS TICKETS*****
N..."
oops.....wrong group...sorry. I don't seem to be able to fit this in any of the RwS tasks.
10.1 New HorizonsDarling Discovered: A True Story of Submission by Mrs. Darling
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 750
15.8 Growing GenresOn the Edge (The Edge #1) by Ilona Andrews
+15 Task (2009 Fantasy)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 730
20.7 Non-humanDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
+20 task (androids)
+5 combo (10.5)
+5 oldies (1968)
Task total=30
Season total=545
Task 20.9 Non-Fiction (Kate S's Task)Read a work of non-fiction that is part of a series.
A Zoo in My Luggage (The Zoo Memoirs #1) (1960) by Gerald Durrell (Paperback 198 pages) [590.92]
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 – Five words in Title)
+05 Oldies: -25 to 75 years old: (1948-1998)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 05 = 30
Grand Total: 345 + 30 = 375
20.10 Uncommon LetterThe Stechlin by Theodor Fontane
Many Xs and Zs among the characters: Rex, Czako, Lorenzen and more
+20 Task
+10 Oldies (1898)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1550
15.10 Growing Genres The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mystery, 1909
15 task
100 chronological finish, newest to oldest
_____
115
Running total: 920
20.10 Uncommon LetterHowards End by E.M. Forster
+20 Task WilcoX family
+10 Combo 20.3 POV, 20.6 Benson Medal approved in task thread for another reader
+10 Oldies 1910
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 275+40 = 315
20.7 Non-humanThe Willows in Winter by William Horwood
+20 Task (Rat, Mole, Badger, Toad and other animal characters)
+10 Combo 10.3, 10.4 (4 words in title)
+5 Oldies (1993)
+5 Series
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 315+40=355
20.9 Non-fiction (Kate S's Task)Richard II by William Shakespeare
+20 Task (Wars of the Roses approved in thread)
+20 Combo 10.3 Discworld Wars of Roses #1, 20.3 POV Richard II vs. Bolingbroke, 20.8 Richard II was King, 20.10 FitZwater
+5 series Wars of the Roses
+25 Oldies
Task Total: 70
Season Total: 355+70= 425
20.8 Real Fiction The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - combo(10.4, 10.7- b 1904, 20.3, 20.10 - Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett)
+5 pts - oldies (1959)
+5 pts - jumbo (588pgs)
Task Total - 50 pts
10.9 QuiltingThe Chain by Adrian McKinty
+10 task (chain)
+5 combo (20.3)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 715
20.3 POVWhat Have We Done by Alex Finlay
+20 task (multiple POVs from all 4 main characters)
+5 combo (10.4)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 740
20.4 Sub-ContinentThe Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
+20 task (India)
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 20.3 POV (each of these 3 stories has at least 2 points of view)
+10 Non-Western (born in India)
Task total: 40
Season total:700
From post 673Mary wrote: "10.3 Discworld
Richard 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 pt..."
+5 Combo 20.9
From Post 676Jayme wrote: "20.3 POV
Fiddler Fairby Mercedes Lackey
Task +20
Combo +5- 20.6 Award
Series +10
Grand Total: 240"
I show this as +5 Series
20.9 Non Fiction A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Book 1 in Trilogy : 20
Published in 1977 : 5
Combo: 10 (10.3,10.5)
Series: 5
Post total: 40
Season total: 370
15.9 Growing GenresThe Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
+15 Task 2014 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1565
Post 707 Joanne wrote: " 10-3 DiscWorld The Crowded Grave by Martin Walker
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.4)
+Styles 5 (series)
Total Task 20
Season Total 500"
Sorry, this doesn't fit 10.3 Discworld, because that task requires the series be other than the name of a person. We'll score it for 10.4 and no combo.
15.9 Growing GenresGideon's Fire by J.J. Marric
15 pts 15.9 Growing Genres 1961
Task Total: 15 pts
Correction post #800 5 pts
Season Total: 840 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 … 10.9 …
20.1 …. 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 …
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Valerie wrote: "20.4 Sub-Continent
Midnight'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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Thanks, Kate. I went back and forth on the non-western, and made the wrong choice! ha, ha....