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10-5 WimseyEmpress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task total 15
Season Total 270
10.9 QuiltingCrows & Cards by Joseph Helgerson
+10 Task (Card)
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.10 - Zebulon)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 505
Post 391 Joanna wrote: "20.2 FrenchA Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.6 - Nobel Prize - see help thread)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1988)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 425"
I am so sorry, Joanna. The MPE for this title is just 96 pages and doesn't qualify for RwS.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 391 Joanna wrote: "20.2 FrenchA Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.6 - Nobel Prize - see help thread)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1988)
Task tota..."
Oh, shoot. I could have sworn it was 105 when I put it on the list. The book was great though...totally worth reading.
Joanna wrote: "I could have sworn it was 105 when I put it on the list. "I think that is the edition the author has set as the default for the one that comes up first in search. (Which she has a perfect right to do, but is annoying for this group.)
20.1 ModernistThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
+20 Task
+15 Combo 10.4 (3 words), 10.8, 20.10 (James GatZ)
+10 Oldies
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 270
15.6 Growing GenresThe Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
+15 Task 1966 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 285
10.9 Quilting (Rebekah's Task)Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
+10 Task: Air Castle
+. 5 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5
+10 Non-Western
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 310
20.9 Non-Fiction (Kate S's Task)The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
+20 Task: The Mysteries of Nature #1
+10 Combo: 10.4 3, 4, 5/ 10.3 Discworld (The Mysteries of Nature)
+. 5 Series
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 345
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Joanna wrote: "I could have sworn it was 105 when I put it on the list. "I think that is the edition the author has set as the default for the one that comes up first in search. (Which she has a ..."
Aha! That totally explains it. I didn't even know author's could do that. Anyway, I'm now reading A Girl's Story by the same author and quite enjoying it. I said when I finished the other book that I wanted to read more by this author, so now's a good chance to do so.
10.8 Gilmore Girls David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
+10 Task
+15 Oldies (1850)
+15 Jumbo (882 pages)
Task total = 40
Points total = 530
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x5) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; … ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x2)
15.1 Growing Genres Random order
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
+15 pts - task Fantasy 2011
Task Total - 15 pts
10.5 WimseyThe Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West by Mary Stanton
10 task
5 oldie
10 combo 10.4, 20.7*
————
25
*the main characters are horses and a dog, guest appearance by a cat
20.2 FrenchA Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.6 - Nobel Prize - see help thread)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 500
20.10 Uncommon Letter (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Retribution (Lexi Winter #2) by Sarah Barrie
MC: leXi winter
+20 Task
+5 Series
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 520
15.7 Growing GenresThe Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada
+15 Task 1981 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 360
15.2 Growing GenresRound 2 - Random order
The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb
+15 pts - task 2022 Fantasy
Task Total - 15 pts
20.7 non humanThe Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption by Jim Gorant
+20 Pts - Task
Task Total - 20 pts
15.4 Growing GenresCrime at Guildford by Freeman Wills Crofts
+15 Task 1935 Mystery
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 875
20.7 Non-humanTimbuktu by Paul Auster
20.6: Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature 2006, approved in help thread message 37
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes...
+20 Task (the main character is a dog)
+ 5 Combo (20.6)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 900
Task 20.3 POVRead a book told through multiple point of views (POVs).
Half the novel is told from the point of view of the ghost, the other half of the novel is told from the point of view of the goth.
The Ghost and the Goth (The Ghost and the Goth #1) (2010) by Stacey Kade
Lexile 770L
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 160 + 20 = 180
Task 10.4 3, 4, 5Read a book with exactly 3, 4 or 5 words in the title.
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller (2022) by Oliver Darkshire [381.45]
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 180 + 10 = 190
20.10 - Uncommon LetterDarker Than Night by John Lutz
+20 task - Frank Quinn
+5 Combo 10.4
+5 series
+5 jumbo
Task total: 35
Grand total: 305
10.10 Group ReadsThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
+10 task
+5 combo 20.4 (Sri Lanka)
+10 non-western
Task total: 25
Season total: 340
The Bible Doesn't Say That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings by Joel M. Hoffman
+10 pts - Task
Never mind
15.3 Growing GenresInspector French's Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts
15 pts 15.3 1924 Mystery
Task Total: 15pts
Season Total: 175 pts
… 10.2 …10.4 10.5 … … 10.9 …
… …. … … … … … 20.8 … 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3… … … … … … … …
10.4 3,4,5Who Would Have Thought It? by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
+10 Task
+15 Oldies (pub’d 1872)
Task total = 25
Season total = 25
10.4 3,4,5The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (pub’d 1995)
Task total =15
Season total = 40
10.4 3,4,5The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
+10 Task
Task total =10
Season total = 60
20.6 AwardAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
+20 Task (several awards for body of work, including LA Times Kirsch award and California Arts Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace...)
+5 Oldies (pub’d 1995)
+10 Combo (10.4 – 3 words, 10.7 - born 1909, died 1993)
+5 Jumbo (569 pages)
Task total =40
Season total = 100
20.3 POVInfinite Country by Patricia Engel
+20 task (POVs of all five family members)
+ 5 combo 10.5 Wimsey
Task total: 25
Season total: 365
15.3 Growing GenresRound two - Random Order
The Waterbabies by Charles Kingsley
+15 pts - 1863 Fantasy
20.2 FrenchA Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux
+20 task
+5 oldies
+10 combos (10.4; 20.6 - Nobel Prize)
Post Total = 35
Season Total = 705
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4; ...; ...; 20.7; 20.8; ...; 20.10(x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;15.5;
15.6 Growing GenresScience Fiction
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
1962
+15 task
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 720
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4; ...; ...; 20.7; 20.8; ...; 20.10(x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
20.4 Sub-ContinentThe Illuminated by Anindita Ghose
+20 task
+10 non-western
Post Total = 30
Season Total = 750
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; ...; 20.7; 20.8; ...; 20.10(x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
20.6 AwardCity of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
Recipient of SFWA Grand Master 2003, as posted in thread
+20 task
+5 series
+5 oldies
+20 combos (10.3; 10.4; 20.7; 20.10 - Zove)
Post Total = 50
Season Total = 800
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; 20.10(x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
From Post 356Tawallah wrote: "20.1 - Modernist
Quartet by Jean Rhys
Task: 20
Oldies: 10 ; first published in 1928
Post total: 30
Season total: 30"
+10 Non Western
From Post 358Tawallah wrote: "20.4 - Sub-continent
The Game by Laurie R. King
Task: 20
Series : 5
Post total : 25
Season total: 90"
+5 Combo 20.6
From Post 359Tawallah wrote: "20.5 - Female
#214 on list
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Task: 20
Combo: 5(10.4)
Series: 5
Post total: 30
Season total: 120"
+10 Combo 10.3, 20.10
From Post 362chunwui wrote: "20.9 Non-Fiction (Kate S's Task)
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3)
+5..."
+10 Non Western
From Post 393Nick wrote: "20.2 French
La Symphonie pastorale by André Gide.
+ 20 Task
+ 10 Oldies (1919)
+ 10 Combo -- 10.4 and 20.6 Award -- Nobel Prize 1947
Total Points This Post: 40
Seas..."
+5 Combo 20.1
20.6 AwardThe Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters
+20 Task (Grand Master, Edgars, in task thread)
+15 Combo (10.4, 10.5, 20.5 - Book #1 of the series is on the list)
+ 5 Series
+ 5 Oldies (1988)
Task total = 45
Season total = 360
20.9Ghostwater by Will Wight
Supporting character named Ziel
+20 task
+15 combo (10.3 Cradle series; 20.3 Yerin and Lindon; 20.7 Orthos is a giant turtle)
+5 Series
Task total = 40
Season total = 175
10.8 Gilmore Girls (Anika's Task)Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
+10 task
+5 series
+5 oldies
+30 combo (10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 20.3; 20.6; 20.10 - Joaquin)
+50 Halfway Bonus
Post Total = 100
Season Total = 900
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 20.1; 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4 (x2); ...; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; 20.10 (x2)
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
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Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Born 1903
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.4 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 - the same story is told 99 times through different stlyes, and sometimes different POV)
+10 Oldies (1947)
Task total = 35
Points total = 490
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; … ; … ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.10 ; 20.2 (x5) ; 20.3 (x2) ; … ; … ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; … ; 20.9 ; 20.10 (x2)