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10.3 - DiscworldThe Beachfront Inn: Sconset Beach Book One by Ainsley Keaton
+10 task - Sconset Beach series
+5 Combo - 10.4
+5 series
Task total: 20
Grand total: 165
20.6 AwardA Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
message 46 in help thread
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4)
+ 5 Oldies (1982)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 570
10.3 DiscworldExit Strategy by Martha Wells
+10 Task (Murderbot Diaries series - approved)
+ 5 Combo (20.7 main character is an AI robot)
+ 5 Series
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 590
20.10 Uncommon LetterLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
+20 Task - main character Elizabeth Zott
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.3 multiple POVs)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 620
10.2 Albright SistersAunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu
+10 Task (Aunty)
+15 Combo 10.3, 10.4, 20.3 (Ch. 21 " Different People" gives four POVs: Edmond, GraceFaith, Patrick, and Aunty Lee)
+5 Series
+10 Non-western
Task total: 40
Season total: 140
20.4 Sub-ContinentThe Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
+20 task set in India
+10 combo 10.4, 20.4 each chapter is told by a different character
Task total: 30
Season total: 150
Repost20.5 Female
Iron Kissedby Patricia Briggs
#206 on the list
combo +5 series # 3 in the Mercedes Thompson series
Task +25
Grand Total: 60
From Post 163Connie wrote: "20.5 Female
Fried 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 character..."
+5 Oldies
From Post 190Ed wrote: "20.6 Award
Territorial 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)"
+5 Oldies
20.5 FemaleSuccubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid #1) by Richelle Mead
+20 Task
+5 Series
+5 Combo (20.7 - succubus)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 465
20.8 Real Fiction (Owlette's Task)Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
+20 Task (Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf)
+20 Combo (10.2: Sister, 10.4: 4 word title, 20.3: diary of Vanessa Bell and letters of Lytton Strachey, 20.10: Saxon Sydney-Turner and Quentin Bell)
Points this post: 40
RwS total: 80
GG total: -
Season Total: 80
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20.2 FrenchMaigret's Pickpocket by Georges Simenon
20 task
5 series
5 oldie
10 combo 10.7, 20.6
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40
Running total: 245
Post 232 Ed wrote: "20.4 Sub-Continentset in Sri Lanka
Trouble in Nuala by Harriet Steel
Task=20
Combo=10 (10.3;20.8)
Series= 5
Task Total=35
Grand Total= 185
Tasks Completed: 7
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Which is the real person in this?
10.9Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New 1968-1988 by Robin Morgan
+10 task
+5 pub 1990
+5 10.4 4 words in title
Task total: 20
Grand total: 150
10.6Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art by Nancy G. Heller
Task total: 10
Grand total: 160
15.6 Growing GenresRumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
+15 pts - Task 1978 Humor
Task Total - 15 pts
10.10 Group ReadsTolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
10 task
5 combo 10.4
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15
Running total: 260
20.3 POVFalling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Each section is headed with a character's name and is from their POV - at least 6 of the characters feature in this way.
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 640
20.7 Non-humanRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
+20 task
+10 combo 10.4 3, 4, 5; 20.3 POV (Tova, Marcellus, and Cameron)
Task total: 30
Season total: 270
20.9 Non-FictionAxolot by Patrick Baud
This graphic novel is a cabinet of curiosities of strange stories, animals, trees,..., told and illustrated by several authors.
+20 Task
No style, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Points total = 390
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 (x5) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; … ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x2)
15.9 GGThe Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
2017 Fantasy
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 135
15.10 GGThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
2022 Fantasy
+15 Task
+100 GG completion bonus
Task total: 115
Grand total: 250
Task 20.5 FemaleRead a book in the top 300 from the Best Female Leads List.
On March 30, 2023:
Page 3, #227
Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga, #1) (1986) by Lois McMaster Bujold
+20 Task
+05 (#10.4 – three-word title)
+05 Series
+05 Oldies: -25 to 75 years old: (1948-1998)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 05 + 05 = 35
Grand Total: 80 + 35 = 115
Task 10.7 20th Century Bookends (Rosemary's Task)Read a book by an author who was born in the decade 1901-1910 or died in the decade 1991-2000.
John Hersey died on March 24, 1993
A Single Pebble (1956) by John Hersey
+10 Task
+05 (#10.4 – three-word title)
+05 Oldies: -25 to 75 years old: (1948-1998)
Task Total: 10 + 05 + 05 = 20
Grand Total: 115 + 20 = 135
15.10 Growing GenresThe Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess by Andy Marino
RWS 15 point Sub Challenge – “Growing Genres”
Choose one genre from the list: Horror
Ten books read w 1st pub’n dates at least 5 yrs apart:
Vathek by William Beckford 1786
In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan LeFanu 1872
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 1897
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood 1906
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 1959
If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub 1977
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite 1993
Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan 2009
The Fisherman by John Langan 2016
The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess by Andy Marino 2021
+ 15 Task 2021 Horror
+ 100 Chronological Finish
Task Total: 115
Season Total: 275
15.4 - Growing GenresSecret Smile by Nicci French
+15 task - Mystery - 2003
Task total: 15
Grand total: 180
10.1 New Horizons What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4, 3, 4, 5)
Task total: 15
Season Total: 80
10.9 Quilting (Rebekah's Task)The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - 4 words)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 480
20.5 FemaleDead Until Darkby Charlaine Harris
Task +20
Como +5 Series (#1 in the Sokkie Stackhouse series)
Grand Total: 85
20.8 Real FictionEarly One Morning by Robert Ryan
+20 Task - William Grover Williams, Robert Benoist and Eve Aubicq were all real people
+20 Combo - 10.3, 10.4, 20.3 - several POV, 20.10 - Eve Aubicq)
+ 5 Series - Morning, Noon, and Night
Task total = 45
Season total = 235
Kate: if you're just getting to this I have a task change at Post #316
10.5 WhimseyThe Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
10 pts 10.5
5 pts 10.4 3,4,5
Task Total: 15pts
Season Total: 145 pts
… 10.2 …10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. … … … … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 …. … … … … … … … …
20.10 Uncommon LetterLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
+20 Task (Elizabeth Zott)
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.3)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 280
20.3 POVFever by Maya Banks
+20 Task
+5 (10.3 - #2 of the Breathless series)
+5 Series
Task total: 30
Grand total: 310
10.9 QuiltingThe Cat Who Saw Stars by Lilian Jackson Braun
+10 Task (Friendship Star)
+15 Combo (10.3 approved, 10.4, 20.10 MC Jim Qwilleran)
+ 5 Series (The Cat Who...)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 670
From Post 202Deedee wrote: "Task 20.6 Award
Read a book written by an award winning author. The award in this case should be for an author's body of work.
Robert A Heinlein Award
Here is a link to the award:
http://www.sf..."
+5 Series
From Post 211Deedee wrote: "Task 10.8 Gilmore Girls (Anika's Task)
Read one of the books from the Rory Gilmore Reading List
#209 of list: The Manticore by Robertson Davies
The Manticore (The Deptford Trilogy #..."
+5 Combo 10.3
From Post 232Valerie wrote: "20.3 POV
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
see task thread, many POV
20 task
10 oldie
10 jumbo
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40
Running total: 205"
At 836 pages, this gets 15 Jumbo
From Post 236Joanne wrote: "10-1 New Horizons
Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love by
Nancy Rubin Stuart
+10 Task
Season Total 185"
+5 Combo 10.4
From Post 240Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 Discworld
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
+20 Task: The Singing Hills
+10 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5 / 20.7 Non-human
+ 5 Series: second task claim (The Singing Hill..."
This should be +10 series (second use)
20.3 POVLand of the Blind by Jess Walter
+20 task (alternates POV of Detective Caroline Mabry and a man who is writing a lengthy confession)
+ 5 combo (10.4)
Task total=25
Season total=230
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21 Hours: A Suspense Thriller by Dustin Stevens
+20 task -main character - Felix O'Connor
Task total: 20
Grand total: 145