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SU 23 Completed Tasks
20.3 Favorites - Round 2 Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
+20 Task (SP 20 Theodore H White: Read a book by an author who shares a surname with one of the U.S. Presidents)
President Andrew Jackson
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 360
10.7. Number is in original pub dateStick Together by Sophie Hénaff
2016
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 505
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 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
20.4 – Favorites (repeated)À la recherche de Jeanne by Zazie Tavitian
Published 2022
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 525
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (2) ; 20.2 (2) ; 20.3 (2) ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.9 FavoritesWarbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
SU 19 20.6 Characters
Read a book with at least 9 named characters.
+20 Task (Siri, Vivenna, Susebron, Lightsong, Llarimar, Vasher, Nightblood, Bluefingers, Denth)
+5 Big (688 pgs)
Task total: 25
Season total: 205 + 25 = 230
10.8 - SummertimeThe House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
🔥 388 pages 🔥
+10 task (8 in MPE page count)
+100 finisher bonus
Task total = 110
Season Total = 690
20.8 - FavoritesFinna by Nino Cipri
🔥 136 pages 🔥
FA 18 task 20.7 - A Month in the Country: short novel or novella 100-200 pages
+20 task
Task total = 20
Season Total = 710
20.1-Round 2/FavoritesSP 2014-20.2 - Read a book shelved as war at least 25 times.
Shadows Linger by Glen Cook
Tagged War 34 TImes https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Task Points 20
Season Total 420
15.3 Listopia Chain 2They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
#15 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#19 here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Running total: 945
20.7 FavoritesA Noble Radiance by Donna Leon
SU 19 20.6 Characters
Read a book with at least 9 named characters
+20 task
Commissario Guido Brunetti, Vice-Questore Giuseppe Patta, Lorenzo Vianello, Paula, Raffi, and Kyara Brunetti, Signorina Elettra, Franconi, Nickerson
Season total: 215
15.9 Listopia ChainAnxious People by Fredrik Backman
+30 Task (#40 from previous list: What We've Read So Far in 2022 #1,035 on new list: Titles that start with A or B)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 925
15.10 Listopia ChainBlue is for Nightmares (Blue is for Nightmares #1) by Laurie Faria Stolarz
+40 Task (#83 from previous list: Titles that start with A or B)
+100 Finisher
Post Total: 140
Season Total: 1,065
20.8 FavoritesBy Its Cover by Donna Leon
"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.)
+20 task “He finished his glass of wine.”
Season total: 235
10.10 SummertimeHide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
+10 Task (title begins with H)
+5 Before 1998 (1854)
Task total = 15
Season total = 735
10.6. Number is in year of Author birthThey Called Us Enemy by George Takei
+10 Task (George Takei born in 1937)
Task total: 10
Season total: 230 + 10 = 240
10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)Himawari House by Harmony Becker
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Season total: 240 + 10 = 250
20.6 - Favorites - Round 3A Body of Water by Rhys Dylan
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 760
20.7 - Favorites - Round 3The Guilty by David Baldacci
+20 task - Winter 2022/23 - 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 780
20.1 Favorites - 2nd roundThe Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
+20 Task (Fall 2021 - 20.3 - rating of 4 or higher - currently at 4.05)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 565
20.2 Favorites - 2nd roundZero Days by Ruth Ware
+20 Task (Winter 22/23 - 20.10 - mpg mystery)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 585
20.1 FavoritesWhat of the Night?: Selected Plays by María Irene Fornés
Winter 14/15 20.8 - Exiles and Emmigrants - Jama's Task:
Read a book written by an author who has more or less permanently settled in a country other than his/her homeland (the country of his/her original citizenship).
20 pts 20.1 Favorites Born in Cuba lived in US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_I...
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 630 pts
Round 3
Post 729 Winter 14/15 20.8
Post 685 Rebekah wrote: "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/s..."
The MPE for this title is this edition:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
with 438 pages. So no Big points.
Post 279 Marie wrote: "15.1 - Listopia ChainDemon Copperhead
#1 in https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task total = 15
Points total = 110
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ;..."
The MPE for this is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
at 546 pages. +5 Big points
10.1 SummertimeStella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
+10 Task 6 letters in author first name
Point this post: 10
Total points: 10
20.1 FavoritesWhere The Sea Used To Be by Rick Bass
+20 Task (Fall 2019 20.4 Boomer - Rick Bass was born in 1958)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 30
20.2 FavoritesThe Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
+20 Task (Spring 2023 20.3 POV - 4 different POVs in this novel)
+5 Big (512 pages)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 55
20.3 FavoritesThe Candy House by Jennifer Egan
+20 Task (Spring 2020 20.6 Katherine Anne Porter - Jennifer Egan is an American woman short story writer)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 75
20.4 FavoritesThe Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
+20 Task (Summer 2019 20.6 Characters - Book info lists 11 named characters)
+5 Big (577 pages)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 100
20.5 FavoritesA New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
+20 Task (Winter 2022-2023 20.5 Books - MPG books about books)
+5 Big (1095 pages)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 125
20.6 FavoritesEx Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
+20 Task (Spring 2021 20.2 Ann/e - author's name is Anne)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 145
20.7 FavoritesThe Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
+20 Task (Fall 2022 20.9 ABCs - author's initials are alphabetical: CM)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 165
20.8 FavoritesWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
+20 Task (Winter 2019-2020 20.3 She Writes - female author, female MC)
+5 Before 1998 (published 1966)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 190
20.9 FavoritesThe Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
+20 Task (Spring 2022 20.7 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Yiyun Li was born in China and immigrated to the US)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 210
15.4 Listopia Chain 2Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
#15 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
#66 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
15 task
_____
15
Running total: 960
10.10. 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 Gathering by Anne Enright
+10 task
+100 point finisher bonus
Post Total = 110
Season Total = 1115
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 (x2);
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)
20.5 – Favorites (repeated)Les Vies de Charlie by Kid Toussaint
SP 2023 - 20.2 French
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 550
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (2) ; 20.2 (2) ; 20.3 (2) ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 (x2) ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20 Point Tasks, Round 3, All One Task20.2: Winter 2013/14 20.5 - Disturbing: In honor of Last Exit To Brooklyn, read a book shelved at least five times as "disturbing" .
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Shelved as disturbing 7 times
+20 points
+ 5 Before 1998 (1975)
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 1140
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 (x2);
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
20.1 (x3); 20.2 (x3); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6 (x2); 20.7 (x2); 20.8 (x2); 20.9 (x2); 20.10 (x2)
10.3. Number of words in subtitleNos mutineries : réponses imparables aux idées reçues sur le féminisme
+10 Task
+100 Finisher Bonus
Task total = 110
Points total = 660
10.1 ; 10.2 ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; 10.5 ; 10.6 ; 10.7 ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; 15.3 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 (2) ; 20.2 (2) ; 20.3 (2) ; 20.4 (x2) ; 20.5 (x2) ; 20.6 ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.9 - FavoritesElementary, She Read by Vicki Delany
🔥 MPG Books About Books 🔥
WI 22-23 task 20.5 - Books: MPG Books About Books
+20 task
Task total = 20
Season Total = 730
10.9 SummertimeAuthor first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H).
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Task total: 10
Season total: 455
20.10 round #2Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
+20 pts - Task SU 2020 - 20.8
Inspired by The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck and more, read a novel which has a main character’s name or nickname in the title. First, last or full name are okay, and the name may be the whole title or part of it.
Task total -20 pts
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 685 Rebekah wrote: "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:/..."
Ok
10.3 Number of words in subtitleThe Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate by John H. Walton
Task : 10
Post total : 10
Season total: 230
10.5 Number of letters in setting/state/city/country Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Set in Harlem, New York - fits for setting or state
Task: 10
Bonus Finisher : 100
Post total: 110
Season total: 340
Task 10.1 Number of letters in author's first or last name7 letters in author’s last name: ADD I SON
A Spell for Trouble (Enchanted Bay Mystery #1) (2020) by Esme Addison
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 415 + 10 = 425
15.3 Listopia 2nd RoundH is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
#11 on previous list. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#1 https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
+15 pts - task
15.5 Listopia Chain 2WE3 by Grant Morrison
#75 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
#60 here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/413
20 task
_____
20
Running total: 980
10.4 SummertimeThe Cipher by Isabella Maldonado
+10 Task 6 letters in the word cipher
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 595
20.8 Favorites, "Just the Facts, Ma'am" (FA10 20.8, Read a non-fiction book that has a minimum of 200 pages. The book can be about any subject)The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
+20 Task, nonfiction 336 pages
Task total: 20
Season total: 1290
20.9 Favorites, "Austria-Hungary" (SU14 20.10, The Great War began on 28 July 1914 when the Austro-Hungarians fired the first shots in preparation for the invasion of Serbia. Read a book about or set in (more than 75%) Austria-Hungary -- Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.)The Cypress Maze by Fiona Valpy
+20 Task, set 100% in Italy
Task total: 20
Season total: 1310
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Winter 14/15 20.8 - Exiles and Emmigrants - Jama's Task:
Read a book written by an author who has more or less permanently settled in a country other than his/her homeland (the country of his/her original citizenship). Or read a fiction or non-fiction account of an immigrant or political exile's experiences.
20 pts 20.10 Favorites Born in the UK now lives in Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_B...
Task total: 20 pts
Bonus: 10 tasks different seasons 100 pts
Season total: 610 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
Post 709: Winter 14/15 20.8