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SP 23 Completed Tasks
10.4 3, 4, 5Betrayal of Trust by J.A. Jance
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Series (J.P. Beaumont #20)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15
20.6 AwardSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
+ 20 Task (1977 Life Time Achievement World Fantasy Award)
+ 5 Series (Green Town #2)
+ 5 Oldies (Originally published 1962)
+ 10 Combo (10.3 - Green Town, 10.4 - 5 word title)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 75
20.3 POVLinger by Maggie Stiefvater
POV alternates between Grace and Sam primarily but other characters have a voice (chapter) also.
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Series (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2)
+ 5 Combo (10.5 MS found in Wimsey)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 105
20.6 AwardFlight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
+ 20 Award (Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2011)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 125
20.6 AwardLiarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters
(approved in help thread)
(mini-review--- I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once at the same period I was reading this novel.... and I realized John Waters could have written that movie...that's how crazy-weird this story is!)
Task=20
Task Total=20
Grand Total= 90
Tasks Completed: 4
15.1
20.6; 20.10 (2x)
20.7 Non HumanLagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
+20 Task: One of the 4 main characters is a space alien. The first listed review on the book’s homepage, by Karen, explains this clearly.
+ 5 Combo: 20.3 I read the hardback, but the blurb on the most popular paperback’s homepage (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) reads: “Told from multiple points of view and crisscrossing narratives, combining everything from superhero comics to Nigerian mythology to tie together a story about a city consuming itself.”
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 115
10.3 DiscWorldNo. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
+10 pts - task
+10 pts - combo(10.4, 20.6 -Golden Plate in 2009)*
+ 5 pts - series
Task Total - 25 pts
*see post #88 in help thread
10.5 WimseyMemento Mori by Muriel Spark
+10 task
+5 oldies
+10 combo (20.3; 20.6)
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 245
10.6 Pi DayBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
+10 task
+10 non-western
+5 oldies
+5 series
+10 combo (10.3; 20.6 - Flaiano Prize, approved)
Post Total = 40
Season Total = 285
20.5 FemaleFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
+20 task (#68 on list)
+ 5 combo 20.3 POV (Points of view of Evelyn, Ninny, and other characters plus several newsletters)
Task total: 25
Season total: 135
10.8 Gilmore GirlsWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 355
20.6 AwardThe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
+20 task (2016 Grand Master Award, msg 79)
Task total=20
Season total=160
10.7 Century BookendsThe Rose Rent by Ellis Peters
+10 pts - Task
+15 pts - combo (10.4, 10.5, 20.6)
+15 pts -series ( 3 rd book read in this series)
+ 5 pts - oldies (1986)
+50 pts - halfway bonus
Task Total - 95 pts
20.7 Non-HumanRing of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
Otter
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo(10.3 - series is named Ring of Bright Water as well as the first in trilogy, 10.4, 20.9, 20.10 - the author is a main character and narrator)
+ 5 pts - oldies (1960)
+ 5 pts - series
Task Total - 50 pts
20.1 ModernistThe Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
+20 pts - task
+10 pts -combo(10.4, 10.7 - born Feb 17, 1903)
+10 pts - oldies (1936)
+ 10 pts - non-western (Iran)
Task total -50 pts
20.3 POVThe Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
Sections from the POVs of Dr Ruth Galloway, DCI Harry Nelson, and other police officers.
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+ 5 Series
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 385
20.10 Uncommon Letter Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
+ 20 Task (main character's last name is Zeitoun)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 50
20.10 Uncommon LetterMaureen by Rachel Joyce
+20 task (character Queenie)
+ 5 series (Harold Fry #3)
Task total: 25
Season total: 160
20.2 FrenchGrand Silence by Théa Rojzman
+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 285
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; … ; 10.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 (x4) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.10
From Post 126Rebekah wrote: "20.3 PoV
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Shifts between Alix and Emira
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - combo(10.4, 10.10)
Task Total - 30 pts"
+5 Combo 20.10
From Post 127Rosemary wrote: "20.1 Modernist
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
20.3: Sections from the points of view of all main characters and some minor ones.
20.10: Swindling shipbroker Mr C..."
+5 Combo 10.7 (b. 1901)
From Post 133Tien wrote: "10.8 Gilmore Girls (Anika's Task)
The Trial by Franz Kafka
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (pub. 1925)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 320"
+5 Combo 20.1
From Post 149Karen Michele wrote: "10.1 New Horizons
Empty Wardrobes
+10 Task (new author for me)
+ 5 Oldies (1966)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 125"
+5 Combo 10.7 (d 1998)
20.7The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
MC is a god.
+20 tasl
+ 10 combo (10.3, 10.4)
+ 5 series
+5 Jumbo
Task total = 40
Season total - 40
20.3 POVThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
+20 Task (11 narrators including a tombstone)
+10 Combo 10.4, 20.10 (EliZa Michelson, supporting character and a narrator in the second epoch)
+15 Oldies (1859)
+5 Jumbo
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 50
10.3 DiscworldSnowy Mountains Promise (Bundilla Novels #3) by Alissa Callen
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.4 - 3 words; 20.3 - 2 POVs)
+5 Series
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 350
Post 155 Bea wrote: "20.6 AwardSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
+ 20 Task (1977 Life Time Achievement World Fantasy Award)
+ 5 Series (Green Town #2)
+ 5 Oldies (Original..."
I'll need a link somewhere for the award, either in the claiming post or a specific post in the award thread. I need some help in not having to run all over the place.
Kate S wrote: "From Post 127Rosemary wrote: "20.1 Modernist
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
20.3: Sections from the points of view of all main characters and some minor ones.
20.10: Swindling shipbroker Mr C..."
+5 Combo 10.7 (b. 1901)
Much as I appreciate the points, Goodreads and Wikipedia both have his birth date as 1898...
20.3 POVThe Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Chapters from multiple POVs including Ted and Dee
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 405
20.3 POVA Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino
Sections from multiple POVs including two police officers and the victim's son
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+ 5 Series
+10 Non-western
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 445
20.3 POVAre You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
This is a kind of joint memoir. The two authors write alternate sections, with Gorman using bold font and Wallace plain.
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 470
Rosemary wrote: "Kate S wrote: "From Post 127Rosemary wrote: "20.1 Modernist
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
Much as I appreciate the points, Goodreads and Wikipedia both have his birth date as 1898..."
Thank you, Rosemary. We will correct the database in which I somehow entered the wrong information.
20.1 ModernistThe 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
+20 task
+30 Combo (10.3 - USA Trilogy, 10.4, 10.5 - DP, 20.3 -many, 20.6 - post 9 in thread, 20.8 - Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie in summary)
+10 Oldies - 1930
+ 5 Series - USA Trilogy
Task total = 65
Season total = 160
20.6 AwardTerritorial Rights by Muriel Spark
approved in help thread
Task=20
Combo=10.5
Task Total=25
Grand Total= 115
Tasks Completed: 5
15.1
20.6 (2x); 20.10 (2x)
20.5 FemaleIron Kissedby Patricia Briggs
#206 on the list
combo +5 20.6 Award Best Romance of the Year Award 2009
Task +25
Grand Total 60
20.2 FrenchNotre-Dame de Paris The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.8, 20.10 (Quasimodo)
+15 Oldies
+5 Jumbo
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 100
15.1 Growing GenresTrent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley
15 pts 15.1 GG 1913
Task Total: 15 pts
Season Total: 90 pts
… 10.2 … … … … … … … …
… …. … … … … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 …. … … … … … … … …
20.9 NonFiction SeriesGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
+20 pts -Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.3, 10.4, 20.6 -1999 Medal of Science Award bestowed by President Clinton)
+ 5 pts -Oldies (1997)
+ 5 pts - Series
Task Total - 45 pts
20.8Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
Has a mpg of historical fiction and main character is real explorer Sir Richard Burton
+20 task
+5 series
Task total: 25
Grand total: 105
20.10 Uncommon Letter (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha by Dorothy Gilman
"X" in title character's last name.
Task=20
Combo=5 (20.6)
Oldie=5
Series= 5
Task Total=35
Grand Total= 150
Tasks Completed: 5
15.1
20.6 (2x); 20.10 (3x)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I'll need a link somewhere for the award, either in the claiming post or a specific post in the award thread. I need some help in not having to run all over the place."So sorry, Elizabeth, that I did not add this to the post. The information was put in the claiming thread, post #51.
Post 191 Jayme wrote: "20.5 FemaleIron Kissedby Patricia Briggs
#206 on the list
combo +5 20.6 Award Best Romance of the Year Award 2009
Task +25
Grand Total 60"
I'm sorry, Jayme, 20.6 is an author award so the book award doesn't work for that task.
15.2 Growing GenresFantasy
Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell
+15 Task
Season Total 175
Years used: 2002, 2015
20.6 AwardRide the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
+20 task (1978 Grand Master Award, post 38)
+15 combo (10.4, 10.6, 10.7)
+10 oldies
Task total=45
Season total=205
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10 pts 10.2 Albright Sisters
5 pts Series
10 pts Oldies
Task Total: 25 pts
Season Total: 75 pts
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