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SU 23 Completed Tasks
20.2 Favorites - second roundDancing in My Nuddy-Pants by Louise Rennison
SP 21 - 20.9 - Series - continue a series
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 550
20.3 Favorites - second roundMimosa by Archie Bongiovanni
FA 12 - 20.4 - Carmilla - LGBT author/title char/narrator
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 570
20.8 FavoritesA Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
+20 Task (Winter 18-19, 20.4 Wilkie Collins, Top 300 Best Crime and Mystery Books
+5 Before 1998 (1953)
Task total = 25
Season total = 405
20.7 FavoritesThe Eight Doors of the Kingdom: Meditations on the Beatitudes by Jacques Philippe
+20 Task (SP '12 "20.6 - In honor of Selexyz Bookstore, a dutch bookstore located inside a refurbished Dominican church dating from 1294, Read a Novel that has a religious figure as the main character OR a non-fiction book about religion (Dewey decimal numbers: 200-299)." Library copy 226.9306
Task total=20
Season total=155
20.8 FavoritesSearching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart by Jacques Philippe
+20 Task WI '21-'22 20.2 Book with 5k or fewer ratings and published in the 20th century (1901-2000). 4,164 ratings today; 1991
+5 Old
Task total=25
Season total=180
20.9 FavoritesEncounters with Angels: The Invisible Companions of Our Spiritual Life by Odile Haumonte
+20 Task SP '23 20.2 Read a book originally published in French.
(Rencontres avec les anges)
Task total=20
Season total=200
15.2 Listopia 2nd RoundThe Overstory by Richard Powers
#59 on previous list - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#2 on next list - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Total - 15 pts
10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 700
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.8. Number is in MPE page count Shift by Hugh Howey
579 pages
+10 task
+5 Big
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 715
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8 (x2); 10.9; (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.4. Number of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle)Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 725
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; (x2); 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8 (x2); 10.9; (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.3. Number of words in subtitleSlouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light by Steffie Nelson
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 735
10.1; 10.2; 10.3 (x2); 10.4; (x2); 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8 (x2); 10.9; (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.2. Number of words in titleBehind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
+10 task
+5 Before 1998
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 750
10.1; 10.2 (x2); 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
15.4 ListopiaReady Player Two by Ernest Cline
#75 2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
#190 Best Science Fiction Ever Written.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 points
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 765
10.1; 10.2 (x2); 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task20.6 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Costa Book Award for Novel 2018)
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 785
10.1; 10.2 (x2); 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6 (x2); 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task20.7 Winter 20.19-2020: 20.10 A Winning Decade
Read a book that has received one of the following literary awards during the years 2010-2019:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Costa Book Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction or Drama)
Agatha Award
Hugo Award
The City & the City by China Miéville
Hugo Award for Best Novel 2010
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 805
10.1; 10.2 (x2); 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6 (x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20.10 FavoritesEvery Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
WI 22-23 20.10 Mystery
Task total: 20
Bonus for 10 tasks from 10 different seasons: 100
Season total: 390
10.3 Summertime round #2Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army
+10 pts - task
20.6 FavoritesSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
20 pts 20.6 Favorites
Spring 2012 20.9 - Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task - It's epidemic
In 1925, mushers and their dog teams rushed diptheria serum to epidemic threatened Nome. Every March, the Iditarod Dog Sled Race is held to commemorate this historic event. Read a book in which a main plot point is an epidemic.
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 425 pts
Round 2
Post 402: Fall 2012 20.8
Post 458: Summer 2013 20.6
Post 463: Fall 2016 20.10
Post 529: Summer 2019, 20.1
Post 532: Winter 2012/13 20.5
Post 578: Spring 2012 20.9
10.4 Summertime round #2Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner
+10 pts - task
+5 pts - Oldies (1937)
15 pts - task Total
20.10 - Favorites - Round 2Eleven by Carolyn Arnold
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
+75 bonus - all one task
Task total: 95
Grand total: 630
20.1 - Favorites - Round 3Mercy by David Baldacci
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 650
20.2 - Favorites - Round 3Vistas, Vices, & Valentines by Tonya Kappes
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 670
15.10 Listopia ChainThe Absolutist by John Boyne
+40 Task (#20 on previous list World War 1 Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... )
Task total = 40
+100 Finisher bonus
Season total = 545
10.5 Summertime round #2The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star by Susan Wittig Albert
+10 pts - task - Alabama
15.7 Listopia ChainThe Rook (The Checquy Files #1) by Daniel O'Malley
+20 Task (#30 from previous list: Unique special abilities/superpowers #171 on new list: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 735
20.9 FavoritesEarthlings by Sayaka Murata
SP 20 20.9 Women in Translation
Read a book written by a woman in a language other than English.
Task total: 20
Season total: 95 + 20 = 115
15.10 Listopia ChainEvvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
#50 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+40 Task
+100 finisher bonus
Task total: 140
Grand total: 710
20.4 Favorites - 2nd RoundUnder the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
SP 2013 - 20.3 Pride and Prejudice - 100k+ ratings/3.99+ stars
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 730
Task 10.9 Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)Last Name: Hilderbrand
Nantucket Nights (2002) by Elin Hilderbrand
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 385 + 10 = 395
20.7Winter 17/18 20.1 Lifetime
Read a book written by any author born during Muriel Spark's lifetime (1918-2006).
Nailbiter, Vol. 2: Bloody Hands by Joshua Williamson
B 1981
+20 task
Season total = 485
20.4 FavoritesRabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
+20 pts - task - 20.4 summer 2018
Read an author’s debut book
Task Total - 20 pts
20.7 FavoritesWi 21-22 20.1 Part of a Trilogy
Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb
Points this task 20
Styles 5 (Big, 847 pages)
Task Total 25
Season Total 280
20.5 Favorites Task 20.5 in Fall 2022 - Faulkner: read a book with an author on postage stamp
Endless Night by Agatha Christie
Task : 20
Published in 1967 : 5
Post total: 25
Season total: 220
15.6 Listopia ChainThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
+20 Task: #72 on previous list: Women on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#13 on current list: Women in Translation
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 335
10.10 SummertimeA Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
+10 Task: Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H) Begins with F
Task Total: 10
Finisher Bonus: 100
Season Total: 445
20.7 FavoritesThe Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess
20 pts 20.7 Favorites
Pre 1998. 5 pts
Winter 21/22 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
In honor of Stuart Woods and Angela Lansbury, read any book with an MPG of mystery.
Task total: 25 pts
Season total: 450 pts
Round 2
Post 402: Fall 2012 20.8
Post 458: Summer 2013 20.6
Post 463: Fall 2016 20.10
Post 529: Summer 2019, 20.1
Post 532: Winter 2012/13 20.5
Post 578: Spring 2012 20.9
Post 597: Winter 21/22 20.10
10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last nameDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
Task total: 10 (6 letters in author's last name)
Season total: 115 + 10 = 125
20.6 Favorites, Round 3 Fall 2015 - Task 20.9 Authors with Three Names
Read a book by an author who is known by three names in Goodreads.
The Hive by Camilo José Cela
+20 Task
+ 5 Before 1998 (1951)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1035
20.9 FavoritesSecrets Can't be Kept by E.R. Punshon
+20 Task (Summer 2014, 20.9 Father's Day, set at least 75% during 1904-1954 - Set during WWII)
+5 Before 1998 (1946)
Task total = 25
Season total = 570
10.8. Number is in MPE page countCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
Task total: 10 (6 is in MPE page count of 236)
Season total: 125 + 10 = 135
10.9 Summertime 2nd roundAt Your Command: Includes Neville Goddard: A Cosmic Philosopher by Mitch Horowitz by Neville Goddard
+10 pts - Task
10.8 SummertimeOur Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
Number is in MPE page count - 464 pages
Task total: 10
Season total: 400
Task 10.6 Number is in year of Author birth (numbers: 6, 7, 8)Born: December 22, 19 78
The Will of the Dead (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Titan Books #4) by George Mann
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 395 + 10 = 405
15.1 Listopia ChainAcorna's Worldby Anne McCaffrey
#361 on Best Romance, Fantasy, and Science Fiction list.
+15 Task
Grand Total: 165
20.5 Favorites - 2nd RoundWhen Two Feathers Fell From The Sky by Margaret Verble
Winter 2019-2020 - 20.3 She Writes - F auth/F main char
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 750
20.5 Favorites 2nd roundIsland by Aldous Huxley
+20 pts - Task SU 2014 - 20.3 Banned
Read a book by an author whose work was burned in Nazi Germany OR read a book listed on this banned books link.
+ 5 pts - Oldies - 1962
Task Total - 25 pts
20.10 FavoritesSix Days of the Condor by James Grady
+20 Task (Winter 11-12, 20.4, Baby It's Cold Outside: Read a book where the author is from a country of which at least part is above the arctic circle - Grady was born in the US)
+5 Before 1998 (1974)
Task total = 25
+100 Finisher Bonus
Season total = 695
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115
Running total: 670