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20.2 FavoritesMidnight Sun by Jo Nesbø
20 pts 20.2 Favorites 273 pages
Summer 2013 20.6 MLB 32 Teams Read a book that the page count includes both a 3 and a 2 (GR most popular English language print edition).
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 340 pts
Round 2
Post 402: Fall 2012 20.8
Post 458: Summer 2013 20.6
15.1 Listopia Chain The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
#11 on the list Books with Only Words on the Cover - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 Task
+5 Big (512 pages)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 60
15.2 Listopia ChainKnow My Name by Chanel Miller
#15 from previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... and #83 on new list, What Women Born in the 90s Have Read in 2022 - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 75
15.3 Listopia Chain The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
#61 on previous list - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... - and #26 on new list, What We've Read So Far in 2022 - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 90
15.7 Listopia ChainDark Voyage by Alan Furst
+20 Task (#99 on previous list: Best 1940s Historical Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... #107 on Literary Spy Stories https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... )
Season total = 290
20.3 FavoritesDare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown
20 pts 20.3 Favorites http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary....
Fall 2016 20.10 Vera Brittain Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task
Vera Brittain-(1893-1970) served as a nurse in the armed forces in WWI. Read a book with the DDC classification in the 600s at BPL. (600s are Technology, which includes Health & Medicine)
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 360 pts
Round 2
Post 402: Fall 2012 20.8
Post 458: Summer 2013 20.6
Post 463: Fall 2016 20.10
20.7WI 19-20 20.2 Emancipation Season
Read a book related to the American Civil War or a novel set in the American South. For the purpose of this task, the following state are the American South: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey
set entirely in Florida
Task = 20
Task Total=20
Grand Total= 155
Seasons used: 1. Fall 2012; 2. Winter 2020-21.; 3. Winter 2011-12; 4. Spring 2021; 5. Fall 2016; 6. Winter 22-23; 7. Winter 19-20
Task 20.9 Favorites - 10 tasks from 10 different seasons – all one task, #20.10
SPRING 2014
20.10 - I Love NYC - Liz M's Task:
Read a title published by one of my favorite NYC indie publishers: Archipelago Books, Melville House, or NYRB. While you do not have to read the specific edition from one of these three publishers, please provide a link the publisher's website for the title you read.
The Reverberator (1888) by Henry James
I read a different edition; here’s the link to the MELVILLE HOUSE edition:
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-re...
+20 Task
+05 Published Before 1998
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 225 + 25 = 250
Task 20.6 Favorites FA 2021 20.3 Ratings In honor of Stainslaw Lem's birthday, read a book with an average rating of 4.0 or higher.
Genghis: Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden- Average rating is 4.36
+20 Task
Season Total 255
15.7 Listopia ChainThe Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
#34 on previous list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#21 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
20 task
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20
Running total: 405
20.10 Favorites - Another BirthdayThe Princeling of Nanjing: The Triad Years by Ian Hamilton
fall 2020 task 20.10 Read any book by an author born in the 1940s and is still living.
20 task
100 finisher bonus (10 diff tasks, 10 diff seasons)
______
120
Running total: 525
20.1 Favorites Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
+20 Task (Fall 2022 Task 20.1 Jemisin - Main character is a person of color)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 110
20.2 Favorites The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
+20 task (Winter 21-22 Task 20.4 - mpg thriller)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 130
20.3 Favorites Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge
+20 task (Spring 2021 Task 20.4 Crime - mpg crime, female author)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 150
20.4 FavoritesLet Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
+20 task (Fall 2019 Task 20.8 Periodic Table - author initials match a chemical symbol - in this case Cm for curium)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 170
20.5 FavoritesFalling by T.J. Newman
+20 task (Spring 2013 task 20.10 Initially - author uses initials as given name)
Task total: 20
Season Total: 190
ED- 20.1 Most Improved - Kathy KS’ Task: Pleasure Reading in the 1940s
Option 3:
Word Play by Maxwell Nurnberg
*****I CLAIM 1 IAF TICKET*****
"PLAY" found in "never APoLogize for Your..."
Points this task: 20
Season total: 60
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 1
Tasks completed=
20.1; 20.3; 20.7
20.3 Favorites 2nd roundThe Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
+20 pts - task Fall 2010 - 20.8 Just the Facts - Read a non-fiction book that has a minimum of 200 pages. The book can be about any subject.
Task Total - 20 pts
Ed wrote: "ED- 20.1 Most Improved - Kathy KS’ Task: Pleasure Reading in the 1940s
Option 3:
Word Play by Maxwell Nurnberg
*****I CLAIM 1 IAF TICKET*****"
Wrong group.
20.7 FavoritesThe Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
SP 14 20.5 Othello (protagonist is a member of a minority group)
Task total: 20
Season total: 200
20.9 Favorites Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
+20 Task (WI 17-18 Lifetime: Read a book written by any author born during Muriel Spark's lifetime (1918-2006)
Lily King was born in 1963.
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 180
100 points (10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ed wrote: "ED- 20.1 Most Improved - Kathy KS’ Task: Pleasure Reading in the 1940s
Option 3:
Word Play by Maxwell Nurnberg
*****I CLAIM 1 IAF TICKET*****"
OMG I can't believe I did that again! Sorry!
15.8 - Listopia ChainMaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
#8 on previous list -- Best of Margaret Atwood: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
#21 on next list -- 2015 The Intended Reading List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
+30 task
Task total = 30
Season Total = 385
15.4 ListopiaHark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
#28 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
also, #36 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 535
15.5 ListopiaThe Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
#6 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
also, #68 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Task total: 15
Season total: 550
20.5 Favorites, "Microhistory" (FA15 20.7, Microhistory: Microhistories are the study of one small thing, particularly with the goal of searching for answers to larger questions through the examination of a small thing. For this task, read a nonfiction microhistory. Books that fit this task focus on a specific item, event, or city, but are not merely a biography or memoir of a single person or a case study of a single event.)Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last by Wright Thompson
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 570
20.6 Favorites, "Crime" (SP15 20.6, “Crime” is listed as one of the genres on the book's page.)A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury
Task total: 20
Season total: 590
20.7 Favorites, "Dead Sea" (WI21-22, Read a book in which the author's first and last initial can be found in "KHIRBAT QUMRAN".)Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule
Task total: 20
Season total: 610
20.8 Favorites, "Post 19th Century Poetry" (SP11, Read a book of poetry written after 1900.)The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon
+20 Task, pub. 2022
Task total: 20
Season total: 630
20.10 FavoritesOn Writing by Charles Bukowski
+20 task (Fall 2014) 20.2 Birthplace-author born in Belgium, Ireland, Germany, or Switzerland
+100 finisher bonus, 10 tasks from 10 different seasons
Task total=20
Season total=310
15.6 Listopia ChainThe Lost Gate (Mither Mages #1) by Orson Scott Card
+20 Task (#55 from previous list: Most Unique, Original, and Interesting Magical Systems #63 on new list: Unique special abilities/superpowers)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 695
15.2 Listopia ChainTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#1 in https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
(Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver #90)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 175
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
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20.8 FavoritesThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
+20 Task (FA 22 Soup's On! - cabbage soup is an essential part of the MC's villain origin story)
+5 Big (541 pgs)
Task total: 25
Season total: 10 + 25 = 35
20.4 FavoritesThe Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
+20 Task (WI 22-23 Southeast Asia - setting is Burma aka Myanmar)
Task total: 20
Season total: 35 + 20 = 55
20.5 - FavoritesThe World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
SP 19 - 20.5 Myra Breckinridge: Read a book in which the protagonist is LGBTQ
Out of the 7 main characters, 3 of them are gay.
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 195
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
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20.6 - FavoritesThe Grace Year by Kim Liggett
SU19 - 20.6 Characters (Read a book with at least 9 named characters)
Some of them: Tiernen, Ivy, June, Michael, Kiersten, Jenna, Gertrude, Ryker, Hans…
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 215
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
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20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Set in Boston
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 225
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
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20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.5 FavoritesPutin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton
Spring 2018 task 20.9 Jumbo
+20 task
+5 big
Task total: 25
Season total: 150
20.9 Favorites, "AutoBioMem" (SP16 20.10, Read a biography, autobiography or memoir.)Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life by David Aguilar
+20 Task, memoir
Task total: 20
Season total: 650
**Set 99% in Andorra for the Countries of the World group project**
20.2 - Favorites - Round 2Wildlife, Warrants, & Weapons by Tonya Kappes
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 365
20.2 - Favorites - Round 2Wildlife, Warrants, & Weapons by Tonya Kappes
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 365
20.3 - Favorites - Round 2Blossoms, Barbeque, & Blackmail by Tonya Kappes
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 385
20.4 - Favorites - Round 2Jackets, Jack-O-Lantern, & Justice by Tonya Kappes
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 405
20.5 - Favorites - Round 2Her Deepest Fear by Kelly Utt
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 425
10.7 - SummertimeRough Justice by Brad Smith
+10 - number in original pub date - 2016
Task total: 10
Grand total: 435
20.6 - Favorites - Round 2You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 455
20.7 - Favorites - Round 2Santa, Sunrises, & Suspicions by Tonya Kappes
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 475
15.6 ListopiaLove That Dog by Sharon Creech
#8 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...,
#34 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Task total: 15
Season total: 665
20.1 Favorites, Round 3 Winter 2016-17 - Task 20.6 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Read a book where the title is a full sentence.
We're in Trouble by Christopher Coake
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 910
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+20 task (WI 16-17) 20.6-title is a full sentence
Task total=20
Season total=190