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Favorites20.3 Summer 2013 20.5 an author that has earned a living as a journalist
Verification of author's profession:
https://www.latimes.com/people/bill-p...
Paradise Found: A High School Football Team's Rise from the Ashes
Task Points 20
Total Points 115
15.8Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
#20 prior list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#5 new list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
+30 task
+5 oldie (1996)
Task total = 35
Season total = 220
10.2 SummertimeJust One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
+10 Task - 6 words in title
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 240
10.10 SummertimeThe Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
+10 Task - Title begins with F/G/H, not counting leading article
+ 5 Before 1998 (1948)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 255
15.5 Listopia ChainThe Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
#41 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#70 on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
20 task
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20
Running total: 250
20.5 FavoritesWinter '19-'20 Stand up for your rights. Read a book (fiction or non-fiction) where someone faces discrimination (racial, gender, religious, age, sexual orientation etc.).
All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King
+20 Task (described in GR book summary)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 110
Trying for 10 different tasks from 10 different seasons
20.6 FavoritesLegacy of the Dead by Charles Todd
20 pts 20.6 Favorites
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 pts
Season total: 120 pts
Tasks used Round 1
Post 23: Spring 2013 20.5
Post 76 : Summer 2014 20.9
Post 142: Spring 2019 20.2
Post 158: Winter 18-19 20.10
Post 183: Fall 2022 20.9
Post 212: Fall 2020 20.3
10.6. Number is in year of Author birthSeduced by Moonlight by Laurell K. Hamilton
Born 1963
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 250
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...
20.9 Winter 20-21: 20.5 AfricaIn honor of Chinua Achebe, read one of the top 225 books from the list Africa (fiction and nonfiction).
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
# 13 on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
+20 task
+5 Before 1998
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 275
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; ...
20.10 Fall 2021: 20.2 Anti-heroIn honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, read a book from one of these anti-hero lists. Best Anti-heroes in Books (Top 150)
The Best Anti-heroes (Top 150)
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
#10 on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
+20 task
+5 Before 1998
+Bonus 100 points: 10 tasks from 10 different seasons
Post Total = 125
Season Total = 400
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9
10.1 Summertime- Round 2The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
+10 Task ("7" letters in author's first name)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 425
10.3 Summertime: 6, 7, 8 number of words in subtitleGlass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës by Isabel Greenberg
Task total: 10
Season total: 70
10.5 Summertime: 6, 7, 8 letters in setting locationThe Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
+10 Task, set 100% in Vermont
Task total: 10
Season total: 80
10.10 Summertime: Title begins with F, G, H, (ignoring leading articles)The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
+10 Task, "Hand"
Task total: 10
Season total: 90
20.3 Favorites: "Myra Breckenridge" (SP19, 20.5: LGBTQ+ protaganist)This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
+20 Task, Sylv and Autumn are a couple and two of the four POVs
Task total: 20
Season total: 110
20.4 Favorites: "Gemini" (SU18, 20.1: Based on Greco-Roman myth)Ithaca by Claire North
Task total: 20
Season total: 130
20.5 Favorites: "Books in Books" (SU15, 20.10: Read a book that was mentioned in a novel you read for the Spring or Summer 2015 challenges. I read/claimed Station Eleven in Spring 2015)Hamlet by William Shakespeare
+20 Task, Hamlet mentioned multiple times in Station Eleven
Task total: 20
Season total: 150
15.1 ListopiaSomething New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
#56 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/287
Task total: 15
Season total: 165
15.2 ListopiaEmbroideries by Marjane Satrapi
#22 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/287
Also, #22 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Task total: 15
Season total: 180
20.5 - FavoritesWolfsong by T.J. Klune
FA 16 task 20.8: J.D. Salinger Amanda's Task: author who publishes using their initials rather than first name
+20 task
+ 5 big (736 pages)
Task total = 25
Season Total = 175
10.4 Summertime: Number of letters in a title wordA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
+10 task (Canticle has 8 letters)
+ 5 before 1998 (published in 1959)
Task total: 15
Season total: 125
10.4 Summertime- Round 2The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
+10 Task ("7" letters in word in title, SOCIETY)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 435
10.8 Summertime- Round 2Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy #1) by J.M. Miro
672 pages
+10 Task ("7" in number of pages)
+5 Big
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 450
10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last nameSwamp: A Summer in the Bayou by Johann LOUIS G.
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 95
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10.4. Number of letters in a title word A Good American - 8 letters
Points this task 10
Season Total 145
10.3 Number of words in subtitleOf Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest by Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
+10 task
Season total: 75
10.1 Summertime: 6, 7, or 8 letters in author's first or last nameThe Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
Task total: 10
Season total: 190
15.3 Listopia ChainWinter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
+15 Task (#100 on previous list: Most Brilliant Historical Novels https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2... and #11 on current list: Spain https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
+ 5 Big (528 pgs)
Task total = 20
Season total = 130
10.5 number of letters in settingThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin - Nigeria
+10 pts - task
Task Total - 10 pts
10.3 Summertime- Round 2Change Your Life: Awaken your potential and live your dreams by Zoe Bosco
+10 Task (7 words in subtitle)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 460
10.7 SummertimeA Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma
+10 Task - 6/7/8 in original publication date - 2007
+100 Summertime finisher bonus
Post Total: 110
Season Total: 365
20.7 FavoritesTell No One by Harlan Coben
Winter 2021-22 - Task 20.4 The Day of the Jackal - Read a book with a main page genre of "thriller".
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 385
20.8 FavoritesThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Fall 2020 - Task 20.5 Wine - Read a novel where a character(s) drink wine.
"Celia came over and handed me the bottle of wine. I took it and sipped from it." p 110
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 405
20.9 FavoritesLessons in Power by Charlie Cochrane
Spring 2021 - 20.9 Series - Read the first book in a new series, or use this season to continue a series you have previously started.
+20 Task (next in previously started series)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 425
20.6 Favorites: "Yours, Mine, and Ours" (SP17 20.8, Read a book where a character is taken up by a new author.)Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein
+20 Task, all of the major characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet are re-imagined in this book
Task total: 20
Season total: 210
20.7 Favorites: "U.S." (SU16 20.7, Read a book whose author has initials that exactly match US State Abbreviations.)The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
+20 Task, AR=Arkansas
Task total: 20
Season total: 230
10.1 SummertimeBirnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
+10 Task: 10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name (Eleanor)
Task total: 10
Season total: 160
20.4Reaper by Will Wight
20.8 My Cup of Tea (Owlette's Task)
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. See help thread for ideas.
“She downed another cup of tea.” P 225
+20 task
Season total = 240
15.9Kodi by Jared Cullum
#60 prior list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
#92 new list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
+30 task
Season total = 270
20.5 FavoritesBoomer Fall 2021
read a book by an author born 1946-1964
The Hills Have Spiesby Mercedes Lackey
Task +20
Grand Total: 90
15.5 Listopia ChainHer Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
#39 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/549
#211 on new list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+20 Task
+5 500+ pages (508 pp)
+5 pre-1998 (pub 1990)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 220
20.8 Favorites: "Spring Fling" (SP14 20.8, Read a book with a title which contains a 5 (or more) letter word with only one vowel.)Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen
+20 Task, "First"
Task total: 20
Season total: 250
10.4 SummertimeThe Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
+10 Task: 10.4. Number of letters in a title word (sausage)
Task total: 10
Season total: 170
10.7 SummertimeKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo
+10 Task: 10.7. Number is in original pub date: 2016
Task total: 10
Season total: 180
20.7 FavoritesWell, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto
+20 Task (WI 19-20 - 90% set in SE Asia - Indonesia)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 480
20.3 FavoritesDeath in Kenya by M.M. Kaye
+20 pts - task (SU 2019 - Historical (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Read a book by any of these Women historical novelists. )
+ 5 pts - oldies (pub 1958)
Task Total - 25 pts
20.7 FavoritesThe Girl by the Bridge by Arnaldur Indriðason
20 pts 20.7 Favorites
Winter 21/22 20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)
I recently watched a fascinating documentary about the Dead Sea Scrolls. February 7 marks the 75th anniversary of this amazing find in the caves of Khirbat Qumran in Palestine.
Read a book in which the author's first and last initial can be found in "KHIRBAT QUMRAN". Letters may only be used as often as they appear in those two words.
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 140 pts
Tasks used Round 1
Post 23: Spring 2013 20.5
Post 76 : Summer 2014 20.9
Post 142: Spring 2019 20.2
Post 158: Winter 18-19 20.10
Post 183: Fall 2022 20.9
Post 212: Fall 2020 20.3
Post 253: Winter 21/22 20.8
20.8 Favorites - ShakespeareFool by Christopher Moore
Summer 2019 task 20.7 Read any Shakespeare play or a re-telling of a Shakespeare work ( = King Lear)
20 task
5 oldie
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25
Running total: 285
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#9 on previous list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#96 on new list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Total - 30 pts