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SU 23 Completed Tasks
15.3 Listopia ChainThe Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
# 77 on “American Literature at the Movies” https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
# 11on “Hard Boiled and Noir Fiction” https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Points: 15
Before 1998: + 5 (1933)
Points This Post: 20
Season Total: 55
10.4 Summertime: 6, 7, 8 letter word in titleInk and Shadows by Ellery Adams
+10 Task, "Shadows"
Task total: 10
Season total: 270
15.4 Listopia ChainThe Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
# 67 on “Hard Boiled and Noir Fiction” https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
# 95 on “Best of the Pulps” https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Task Points: 15
Before 1998: + 5 (1950)
Points This Post: 20
Season Total: 75
15.5 Listopia ChainA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
# 3 on “Best Pulps” https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
# 96 on “Best Science Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Points: 20
Before 1998: + 5 (1912)
Points This Post: 25
Season Total: 100
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 300 Bea wrote: "15.10 Listopia ChainBlankets by Craig Thompson
+15 Task [(#3 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9......"
Oh, I forgot about Bonuses for finishing, Elizabeth! So focused on posting!
Just edited that last post to include bonus, mainly so I will be correct going forward in total points.
20.4 - FavoritesWI 21 22 - 20.3 Frenchman's Creek : read a book featuring pirates
Ana et l'Entremonde by Marc Dubuisson
The book features several pirates, including hero Captain Sam, and villain Barbe Taupe
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 160
10.1 ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; … ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
20.9 Favorites: "Women in Translation" (SP20 20.9: Read a book written by a woman in a language other than English)The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura
+20 Task, she wrote this novel in Japanese
Task total: 20
Season total: 290
20.6 FavoritesKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
+20 pts - task Sp 2015 20.6 Crime listed as genre on book page
Task Total -20 pts
10.7 SummertimeWoke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice by Eric Mason
+10 pts - Task Pub 2018
Task Total -10 pts
20.5 Favorites Verity by Colleen Hoover
+20 Task (SP 19 Moll Flanders: Read a book in which the entirety of the title is a woman's name. This can include a first name or a first name and surname. The woman must be a character in the book)
Verity is the name of one of the main characters.
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 100
100 points (10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
10.2 SummertimeThe Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
+10 task (Number of words in title)
Task total: 10
Season total: 155
20.7 FavoritesGhachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
+20 pts - task SU 2014 20.1 Tea Read a book by an author born in one of the top 5 tea producing countries: China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Turkey.
Task Total - 20 pts
15.3 Listopia ChainThe Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld #1) by Gena Showalter
+15 Task (#99 from previous list: All Time Favorite Romance Novels #89 on new list: The Best Urban Fantasy)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 510
10.5 Summertime- Round 236 Streets by T.R. Napper
100% set in Vietnam
+10 Task (7 letters in setting name)
+100 Finisher
Post Total: 110
Season Total: 620
10.2 - Number of words in title The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
First published in 1950
Task: 10
Bonus: 5
Post total : 15
Season total: 55
10.4 Number of letters in a word in the title Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey
Paperback page count 581
Task: 10
Bonus : 5
Post total : 15
Season total: 70
20.1 Favorites Taken from Spring 2015 20.6 task
Read a book with crime tagged at least 150 times or one of the genres on the book page
Snow by John Banville
Crime is one of the top 3 genre
Task : 20
Post total: 20
Season total : 100
Task 20.6 Favorites - 10 tasks from 10 different seasons – all one task, #20.10
SPRING 2013
20.10 - Elizabeth (Alaska) task - Initially:
Read a book by an author whose given names are usually published as initials only. Examples: V.S. Naipaul, T.C. Boyle, T.S. Eliot.
Author: S.C. Gwynne
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine (2023) by S.C. Gwynne [363.124]
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 130 + 20 = 150
20.8 FavoritesThe House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
+20 pts - task WI 14/15 20.4 1001: In honor of Almost Transparent Blue, Read a book from the 1001-list published in the 1900s.
+ 5 pts - oldies (1908)
Task Total - 25 pts
10.8. Number is in MPE page countA Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
385 pages
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 410
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task 20.1 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
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Costa Book Award for First Novel 2017
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 430
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task20.2 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
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Costa Book Award for Novel 2013
+20 task
+5 Big (531 pages)
Post Total = 25
Season Total = 455
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task20.3 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
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Costa Book Award for Novel 2015
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 475
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3(x2); 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20.9 FavoritesCornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century by Jason A. Robison
20 pts 20.9 Favorites. CorneRSTone
Spring 2012 20.8 - Kate S's task - It's alphabetic
Read a book whose title or author has three consecutive letters in alphabetical order (i.e. fiRST; DEFoe; lAB Coat).
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 180 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
Post 256: Winter 14/15 20.9
Post 332: Spring 2012 20.8
20.10 FavoritesThe Dragon King's Palace by Laura Joh Rowland
20 pts 20.10 Favorites Japan published 2003 Setting 17th centuary Japan
Winter 11/12 20.4 - In honor of A Christmas Carol, read a novel that looks forward to the future,
OR a novel that looks backward to the past. The time in which the book is set should be at least 25 years before/after the year of publication
Task total: 20 pts
Bonus 10 tasks 10 seasons: 100 pts
Season total: 300 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
Post 256: Winter 14/15 20.9
Post 332: Spring 2012 20.8
Post 333: Winter 11/12 20.4
20.5 FavoritesThe Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 by Jess Walter
+20 task (WI 19-20) - 20.9 anthology or collection of stories that includes (non-introductory) writing by more than one author)
Task total=20
Season total=105
15.10 Listopia ChainIn a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
#35 on previous list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+40 pts - task
+100 pts - finish bonus
Task Total - 140 pts
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 300 Bea wrote: "15.10 Listopia ChainBlankets by Craig Thompson
+15 Task [(#3 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9......"
Isn’t 15.10 worth 40 points?
Rebekah wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 300 Bea wrote: "15.10 Listopia ChainBlankets by Craig Thompson
Isn’t 15.10 worth 40 points?"
Oh, geez...I didn't realize that the points differed per task grouping for this challenge. I will need to redo my points count. Thanks for catching that Rebekah.
10.3 SummertimeDucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
+10 Task: Number of words in subtitle (6)
Task total: 10
Season total: 190
15.3 Listopia ChainThe Green Road by Anne Enright
+15 Task: #40 on previous list: Historical Fiction Ireland
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#219 on current list: Books That Deserve a Higher Rating
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 205
20.5 FavoritesThe Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry
+20 Task (Spring 2020: 20.2 August Wilson
Read a book written by one of these African American writers.)
+. 5 Before 1998 (1965)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 230
15.3 ListopiaNimona by N.D. Stevenson
#1 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
also #1 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Task total: 15
Season total: 305
10.9 Author last name begins with GA Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds by Anders Gyllenhaal
+10
Season total: 105
10.10 Title begins with 6th, 7th, 8th letterThe Freedom Writers Diaryby Erin Gruwell
Title starts with F
Task +10
Grand Total: 100
15.6 ListopiaBloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
#79 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#600 on new list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
+20 Task
+5 pre-1998 (pub 1995)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 270
20.8 FavoritesAfter I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
WI 18-19 - 20.1 Winter Birthdays - auth b. Dec/Jan/Feb
Author b. Dec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_...
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 290
20.6 Favorites The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
+20 Task (WI 21-22 Day of the Jackal: Read a book with a main page genre of "thriller")
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 120
100 points (10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
20.6 - FavoritesThe Awakening by Nora Roberts
🏖 1st book in The Dragon Heart Legacy Trilogy 🏖
SU 17 - task 20.4: Trilogies: read a book that is part of a completed trilogy
+20 task
+ 5 big (512 pages)
Task total = 25
Season Total = 275
20.6 FavoritesJoey's Case by K.C. Constantine
+20 task (Spring 2013) 20.10 Initially-author's given names are usually published as initials only
+5 pre-1998 (pub 1988)
Task total=25
Season total=130
20.10 Favorites, "Initially" (SP13 20.10, Read a book by an author whose given names are usually published as initials only.)The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
+20 Task
+100 Bonus, 10 tasks from 10 different seasons (FA18, FA21, SP17, SP20, SP19, SU16, SU18, SU15, SP14, SP13)
Task total: 120
Season total: 425
10.1 SummertimeThe Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
+10 pts - Task
+100 pts - Finish Bonus
Task Total 110 pts
10.9. Author first/last name(F, G, H)The Black Company by Glen Cook
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Before 1998 (1984)
Total Task 15
Season Total 175
15.5 Listopia ChainThe Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
+20 Task (#28 on previous list - Spain https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... #101 on Best World Mysteries https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...)
+5 Big (528 pages)
Task total = 25
Season total = 200
15.7 ListopiaLet's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
#45 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
#174 on new list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 310
15.8 ListopiaHamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
#42 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
#360 on new list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+30 Task
Task total: 30
Grand total: 340
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10.8 Summertime: 6, 7, 8 in MPE page count
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott
+10 Task, MPE page count 176
No change to total. Thank you!