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SU 23 Completed Tasks
15.10 - Listopia ChainEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
#61 on previous list -- Great Debut Novels: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
+40 task
+100 finisher bonus
Task total = 140
Season Total = 560
20.7 FavoritesLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
+20 Task - Winter 2022-2023 - 20.7 Ratings
In memory of Ron Goulart and Robert Goolrick, read an extremely underrated book with fewer than 1000 ratings on GoodReads, or a popular book with over 75,000 ratings. (744,929)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 385
20.8 FavoritesThe Elephant's Journey by José Saramago
+20 Task - Fall 2020
20.3 Prolific
Mario Vargas Llosa, a prolific author, was one of the presenters at the National Book Festival in 2012. Read any book by an author who has published at least 20 book-length titles (100+ pages) of either fiction or nonfiction, or a combination of the two mediums.
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 405
20.9 FavoritesThe Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
+20 Task - Summer 2020
20.6 Latin America
Read a book set at least 75% OR written by an author born in one of these Latin American Countries. (Author born in Chile)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 425
20.10 FavoritesThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
+20 Task - Winter 2021/22
20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)
In honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gustave Flaubert and his most popular title, Madame Bovary; read a book with a surname in the title (not sub-title). The surname must refer to a character in the book.
+. 5 Before 1998 (1893)
Task Total: 25
Bonus Total: +100 points: 10 tasks from 10 different seasons
Post Total: 125
Season Total: 550
15.9 ListopiaCoraline by P. Craig Russell (and Neil Gaiman)
#19 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
#35 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task total: 30
Season total: 985
**Thanks for the heads up on the scoring increments, Elizabeth! Sorry to have created more work for you, but thank you for the points and for getting me back on track ;-)
15.10 ListopiaThe Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
#49 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#15 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Task total: 40
+100 Finisher Bonus
Season total: 1125
20.1 Favorites, "Wine" (FA20 20.5, Deborah Harkness was one of the presenters at the National Book Festival in 2018. Her Wikipedia page says she is "is an American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast". Read a novel where a character(s) drink wine.)Like Me by Hayley Phelan
+20 Task, "I kept downing glasses of wine and thinking to myself wonderingly, I don't feel drunk at all! Not one bit! How funny!"
Task total: 20
Season total: 1145
20.2 Favorites, "Play the Numbers" (WI11/12 20.10, The winter Challenge is held in 2011 and 2012, in the 12th, 1st, and 2nd months. Read a book that was originally published in a year which contains the numerals 1 and 2, such as 2011, 1925, 1862, etc.)The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair
+20 Task, pub. 2018
Task total: 20
Season total: 1165
20.3 Favorites, "Alliteration" (SP11 20.1, Read a book whose title has words that begin with the same consonant or vowel sound. Ex. Rabbit Run, Bag of Bones)Intrigue in Istanbul by Erica Ruth Neubauer
Task total: 20
Season total: 1185
20.4 Favorites, "Authors with Three Names" (FA15 20.9, In honor of Louisa May Alcott's birthday on November 29, 1832, read a book by an author who is known by three names in Goodreads. Initials, name suffixes (Jr, Sr) and name prefixes (la, de, l' etc.) will not be counted as separate names, but hyphenated names will count as two names.)The Psychopath: A True Story by Mary Turner Thomson
Task total: 20
Season total: 1205
20.5 Favorites, "RwS Anniversary!" (WI14/15 20.1, The first 5 books claimed in our inaugural season, winter 2009/10, were penned by authors born from 1906 to 1951. Read a book published 1906-1951.)The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
+20 Task, pub. 1951
+5, Before 1998
Task total: 25
Season total: 1230
20.6 Favorites, "Soup's On!" (FA22 20.8, Read a book where one of the characters makes, serves, or eats soup. Quoting the text is not mandatory, but please let us know what kind of soup. "Soup" also includes chili, stew, or chowder.)What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas
+20 Task, an entire chapter is about making chicken soup with dumplings
Task total: 20
Season total: 1250
20.9 Favorites, Round 3 Spring 2018 - Task 20.7 The Red Queen
Read a book which is a fictional account of historical royalty, or in which there is a fictional royal character.
Heartstone by C.J. Sansom
+20 Task (Henry VIII's 6th wife, Queen Catherine née Parr, is a character)
+ 5 Jumbo (634 pages)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1100
10.8 SummertimeThe Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
+10 Task (number is in MPE page count - 256)
+5 Before 1998 (1971)
Task total = 15
Season total = 720
15.3 - Listopia ChainMy Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
#67 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
(Previous book To Kill a Mockingbird is #1)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 240
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.7 - FavoritesL'Histoire de France pour ceux qui n'aiment pas ça by Catherine Dufour
SP 20 20.9 Women in Translation
Writen by a woman in french
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 260
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; … ; … ; …
20.8 - FavoritesKleos - histoire complète by Mark Eacersall
WI22-23 - 20.7 Ratings
29 ratings
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 280
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; … ; …
20.9 - FavoritesThe Awkward Squad by Sophie Hénaff
SP 21 20.4 Crime (crime written by a woman)
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 300
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
20.10 - FavoritesGreenwood by Michael Christie
SU 20 20.7 Canada
Born in Ontario, Canada (and book is mostly set in Canada as well)
+20 Task
+5 Big (528 pages)
+100 Bonus (10 tasks from 10 different seasons)
Task total = 125
Points total = 425
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.1 - Favorites (repeated)Le pacte des filles du volcan by Sylvie Baron
SP22 20.3 Our Town
The book is set in Chaudes-Aigues, a small village in Auvergne, France
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 445
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (2) ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.2 – Favorites (repeated)Super Mâtin de l'été
FA 21 20.3 Ratings
4,4 average rating
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 465
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (2) ; 20.2 (2) ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.4 - Favorites - Round 3Adventure, Abduction, & Arrest by Tonya Kappes
+20 - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 720
20.5 - Favorites - Round 3The Betrayal by Laura Elliot
+20 - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 740
20.7 Favorites round 2Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
+20 pts - task . SU 2017 - Frosty June
Read a book from the top 300 of this list.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+20 pts - task
+5 pts - jumbo (589 pages)
+5 pts - Oldies (1992)
Task Total 30 pts
20.10 FavoritesFA 22 20.4 Saramago -Set in the 18th Century
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married by Nancy Rubin Stuart
Task 20
Completion Bonus 50
Task Total 70
Season Total 385
20.7 Favorites, "My Cup of Tea" (SP20 20.8, Read a novel in which a character drinks or brews a cup of hot tea. Please include the sentence when claiming the book for points.)The Darkest Flower by Kristin Wright
+20 Task, "I sat down and made myself some tea, starting out my search with an easy warm-up."
Task total: 20
Season total: 1270
20.10 Favorites, Round 3 Winter 2015-16 - Task 20.9 Winnie-the-Pooh
Read a book published during author A.A. Milne's lifetime (1882-1956).
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
+20 Task (1938)
+ 5 Before 1998
+100 Completion bonus, all different seasons
Post Total: 125
Season Total: 1225
20.7 Favorites - Round 2Purity in Death by J.D. Robb
Fall 2020 - 20.3 Prolific - auth has published 20+ books
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 790
20.7 - FavoritesCharlatans by Robin Cook
🔥 author, Robin Cook, was a practicing medical doctor - he's currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (according to his GRs profile) 🔥
SP 17: task 20.9 - National Doctor's Day (Kate's Task): author who is/was a practicing medical doctor
+20 task
Task total = 20
Season Total = 580
20.1 Favorites Round 2All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
FA 22 20.10 Birthday (Publication date contains 2 consecutive digits) Published in 1992.
+20 task
+ 5 old (before 1998)
Task total: 25
Season total: 435
10.4. Number of letters in a title wordGuide du Routard Roussillon 2023/24
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 475
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (2) ; 20.2 (2) ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.3 – Favorites (repeated)Languedoc et Roussillon - Explorer la région - 6
SU 20 20.4 France
Book set in France (travel guide for Languedoc Roussillon region of France)
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 495
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (2) ; 20.2 (2) ; 20.3 (2) ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
15.8 Listopia ChainIf I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
+30 Task: #66 on previous list: Best Magical Realism
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#7 on current list:Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2000
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 580
10.10. Summertime 2+10 Task: Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored.
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 590
20.1 Favorites (2nd rd) - My Family and other animalsThe Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi
spring 2017 20.4 My Family and Other Animals In honor of Valerie's favorite book, My Family and Other Animals, read a book set at least 75% in Greece.
20 task
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20
Running total: 760
20.9 Favorites 2nd RoundNights at the Circus by Angela Carter
+20 pts - task SU 2019 - 20.4 The Black Prince
Read a book from Boxall's 1001 books to read before you die, written by a woman.
+ 5 pts - oldies 1984
Task Total - 25 pts
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task20.10 Winter 2019-2020: 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 Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017
+20 task
+75 finishing bonus, all one task
Post Total = 95
Season Total = 980
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2) ; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 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 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x2)
20 Point Tasks, Round 3, All One Task20.1: Winter 2013/14 20.5 - Disturbing: In honor of Last Exit To Brooklyn, read a book shelved at least five times as "disturbing" .
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Shelved 11 times as disturbing
+20 task
+5, Before 1998
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 1005
10.1 (x2); 10.2 (x2); 10.3 (x2); 10.4 (x2); 10.5 (x2) ; 10.6 (x2); 10.7 (x2); 10.8 (x2); 10.9 (x2); 10.10;
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1 (x3); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6 (x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x2)
15.4 Listopia ChainThe White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
# 26 on list 3 https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#784 on list 4 https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
Task points 15
Season Total 400
15.10 Listopia ChainAnnihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
#44 on the previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
40 task
100 finisher bonus
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140
Running total: 900
10.3 SummertimeNumber of words in subtitle. (8)
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert
Task total: 10
Season total: 445
20.8 Favorites - 2d roundMemoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
FALL 2015 - 20.1 Celebration - pub year has 0 and 7
+20 Task (pub 2007)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 810
20.9 Favorites - 2d roundBurn by Maya Banks
FALL 2017 - 20.7 -Single Word - title is one word
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 830
20.9 FavoritesA Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of Yarn by Clara Parkes
Fall 2015 20.1-Celebration!
Help celebrate Elizabeth's 70th birthday this season by reading a book whose original publication year contains both a 7 and a 0. Yes, doubles qualify (1770 and 2007 are fine)!
20 pts 20.9 Favorites 2017
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 490 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
Post 641: Fall 2020 20.3
Post 705: Fall 2015 20.1
Jayme(the ghostreader)10.2 number of words in the title
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie Flagg
Task +10
Before 1998-published January 1, 1987 +5
Grand Total: 180
15.1 Listopia Chain 2Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
#5 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
15 task
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15
Running total: 915
15.2 Listopia Chain 2A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
#9 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#21 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
15 task
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15
Running total: 930
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Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
+20 Task: #54 on previous list: Women in Translation
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
#60 on current list: Best Magical Realism
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 365