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15.1 Listopia ChainPod by Laline Paull
+15 Task (#4 on first list)
Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2023
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 55
10.10 Summertime - Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabetGiantess: the story of the girl who traveled the world in search of freedom by J.C. Deveney
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 75
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20.2 FavoritesTo Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
+20 Task (Spring 2023: 20.3 POV
In honor of Alexandria Quartet, read a book told through multiple point of views (POVs). Three stories and different main characters)
+. 5 Big (720p)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 80
Post 103 Karen Michele wrote: "15.4 Listopia ChainPod by Laline Paull
+15 Task (#4 on first list)
Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2023
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 Task
..."
Is this your first post for Listopia Chain?
Task 10.8 Number is in MPE page countPagecount: 226
Games and Rituals: Stories (2023) by Katherine Heiny (Hardcover 226 pages)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 40 + 10 = 50
Post 58 Norma wrote: "10.5 - SummertimeDeath In The Dark by Emily Kimelman
+10 task - 6 letters in setting - Mexico
Task total: 10
Grand total: 20"
I'm sorry, Norma. The MPE for this title has just 97 pages.
Death In The Dark
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 103 Karen Michele wrote: "15.4 Listopia ChainPod by Laline Paull
+15 Task (#4 on first list)
Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2023
https://www.goodreads...."
Yes, it is my first post for the chain. Sorry - I see I numbered it 15.4. I goofed because I copy -pasted Kate's example and then didn't change the number. Should I edit the task post?
Karen Michele wrote: "Should I edit the task post?"Yes, thank you. Kate hasn't gotten to it yet.
20.1 FavoritesSP 2014 Task 20.2: Tagged War at least 25 time
Genghis: Birth of an Empire tagged War 56 times
+Task 20
+ Big 5 (528 pages) MPE Mass Market Paperback
Total Task 25
Season Total 80
20.3 Favorites - BoomerThe Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
fall 2019 task 20.4 read a book written by a baby boomer (born 1946-1964)
b. 1958
20 task
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20
Running total: 115
20.1 FavoritesThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
+20 pts - Task (WI 19-20 Decade)
Task Total - 20 pts
10.8 SummertimeDemon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
+10 pts - task (MPE - 546 pages)
+5 pts - big
Task Total - 15 pts
10.2 SummertimeAn Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
+10 pts - Task (title has 8 words)
Task Total - 10 pts
10.4 SummertimeCursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items by J.W. Ocker
+10 pts - task
Task Total - 10 pts
15.3 ListopiaDark Age by Pierce Brown
#59 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#481 on new list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4893
+15 Task
+5 Big (700+ pages)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 110
20.4 FavoritesThe Effing List by Cherise Sinclair
Summer 2019 - 20.6 Characters - 9+ named characters
+20 Task (loads of named characters, partly because this is book 14 in an ongoing romance series, so all sorts of past couples make appearances in this book)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 130
15.1 Listopia ChainThe Rope by Nevada Barr #510 on
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 pts - Task
Task Total - 15 pts
15.2 Listopia ChainThe Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
#75 on previous list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#82 on new list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Total - 15 pts
20.4 FavoritesThe Setons by O. Douglas
Winter 2022-23 - Task 20.1 Birthdays - Read a book published between the birth years of our honored authors, 1913-1952.
+20 Task (pub 1917)
+ 5 Before 1998
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 160
20.5 FavoritesThe Bookseller's Tale by Ann Swinfen
Fall 2021 - Task 20.3 Ratings - read a book with an average rating of 4.0 or higher.
+20 Task (rating 4.13)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 180
15.3 Listopia ChainBefore She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
#6 on previous list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#8 on new list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 pts - Task
20.3 FavoritesMink River by Brian Doyle
Rating of 4.17 stars
+20 task (FA 21 20.3 Ratings - average rating of 4.0 or higher)
Task total: 20
Season total: 90
10.2 SummertimeAugust Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White
+10 Task (7 words in title)
+100 Finisher Bonus
Post Total: 110
Season Total: 320
Favorites20.2 FA 1220,
20-8 Krista’s Choice: “Just the Facts Ma’am” Non-Fiction over 200 pages
The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty by Philip Jett 320 pages
+20 Task
Task total 20
Season Total 100
20.220.7-Single Word Fall 2017
Read a book with a one word title. No leading articles or sub-titles allowed for this one.
Wintersteel by Will Wight
+20 task
Season total = 85
(Corrected task)
Ann wrote: "20.210.2-Single Word Spring 2016
Read a book with a one word title. No leading articles or sub-titles allowed for this one.
Wintersteel by Will Wight
+20 task
S..."
Ann, the 20-point favorites sub-challenge must have been 20-pointers. Can you find another place for this?
EDIT: Yes! Above, in Post #123, Rosemary posted:
Fall 2021 - Task 20.3 Ratings - read a book with an average rating of 4.0 or higher.
Or see Denise’s Post 132 below, which is also a 1-word title task.
15.4 Listopia ChainThe Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
#63 on previous list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#80 on new list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 pts - Task
Task Total - 15 pts
10.9 Author NameAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts - oldies (1931)
Task Total - 15 pts
20.2 FavoritesClue by Michael McDowell
+20 task (Winter 2010-11, Task 20.3 one-word title)
+ 5 before 1998
Task total=25
Season total=45
20.4 Favorites - Single WordMort by Terry Pratchett
fall 2017 task 20.7 title must be single word (no subtitles)
20 task
5 oldie
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25
Running total: 140
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ann wrote: "20.210.2-Single Word Spring 2016
Read a book with a one word title. No leading articles or sub-titles allowed for this one.
Wintersteel by Will Wight..."
Ooops! Thanks for finding a task that worked… post is corrected.
10.7 Summertime- Round 2Mask of Shadows (Mask of Shadows #1) by Linsey Miller
published 2017
+10 Task ("7" in publication date)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 330
10.2. Number of words in titleS'il te plaît, dessine-moi un cachalot by Pome Bernos
8 words
Task total = 10
Points total = 85
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20.5 FavoritesOdalisque by Annabel Joseph
Fall 22 - 20.10 Birthday - pub year has consecutive digit
+20 Task (pub. 2011)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 150
20.6 FavoritesStealing His Thunder by Sparrow Beckett
Sumer 2020 - 20.10 Over Under - Rating over 3.75 with under 1000 ratings
+20 Task (3.84/564)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 170
15.5 listopia chainA Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
#42 on Previous List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#128 on Next List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - pub in 1997
Task Total - 25 pts
15.4Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
#1 prior list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#6 new list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+15 task
Season total = 100
15.1 - Listopia Chain All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
#18 on Good Books that Start with A (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...)
Post 15
Season total: 40
20.3 FavoritesThe Fourth Enemy by Anne Perry
20 pts 20.3 Favorites
Spring 2019 20.2 Rebecca Read a book by a female author born in the UK between 1901 and 50 inclusively
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 60 pts
Tasks used Round 1
Post 23: Spring 2013 20.5
Post 76 : Summer 2014 20.9
Post 142: Spring 2019 20.2
15.1 - Listopia ChainA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
#17 on Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
+15 task
Task total = 15
Season Total = 90
20.3 - Favorites A Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn
FA 17 task 20.10: Uncommon Letter (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task): Q, X, or Z is last letter of author's name
+20 task
Task total = 20
Season Total = 110
20.3 Favorites The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
+20 Task (FA 20 Prolific: 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: 60
100 points (10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
10.9 Summertime- Round 2AWOL (The Timekeepers #3) by Traci Harding
+10 Task (author's last name begins with H)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 340
10.10. Title begins with (F, G, H)Guardians of the West by David Eddings
+10 Task
+5 Oldie (published 1987)
Task Total 15
Season Total 100
10.5 SummertimeBabysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
+10 Task (7 letters in setting - Detroit)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 10
10.6 SummertimeArch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth
+10 Task (author born 1988)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 20
10.9 Summertime Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
+10 task (G first name)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 40
20.5 Favorites - London CallingA Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
summer 2016 task 20.5 #61 on London calling list
20 task
5 oldie
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25
Running total: 165
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+10 Task: Number is in MPE page count: 206
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 40