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20.8 Favorites, Round 2 Spring 2019 - Task 20.2 - Rebecca - Read a book by a female author born in the UK between 1901 and 1950 inclusively.
Statues in a Garden by Isabel Colegate
+20 Task (born in London, UK, 1931)
+ 5 Before 1998 (1964)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 745
10.3 - SummertimeInvisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
🏖 8 words in subtitle 🏖
+10 task
Task total = 10
Season Total = 325
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task20.4 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
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Hugo Award for Best Novel 2015
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 495
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 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
Set in SYDNEY
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 505
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)Braised Pork by An Yu
Set in BEIJING
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 515
10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last nameThe Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
+10 task
Post Total =10
Season Total = 525
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6; ...; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
Post 411 Apple wrote: "10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)Braised Pork by An Yu
Set in BEIJING
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 51..."
You posted this option in your Post 410. Did you mean to also post a finisher's bonus in that post? You cannot repeat an option before completing all of them.
10.7. Number is in original pub dateMistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton
First Published 2006
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 535
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.6. Number is in year of Author birthThe Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Born 1969
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 545
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
10.7 Original pub. DateThe Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
pub. 2017
10 task
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10
Running total: 355
10.2. SummertimeI Never Thought of It That Way by Monica Guzmán
+10 Task: Number of words in title (7)
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 255
10.5 SummertimeMeet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander
+10 Task: Number of letters in setting, city/state/country:
Ashland or Oregon
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 265
10.1 Summertime Round #2Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
+10 pts - task Jennifer 8 letters
Task Total - 10 pts
20.4 FavoritesThinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity by Leah Myers
Winter 18-19 20.10 Over and Under rating over 3.75 under 1001 ratings
+20 currently 4.03 rating with 224 ratings
Season total: 125
15.7 - Listopia ChainThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
#59 on previous list -- [ATY 2022] Next in Series: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#5 on next list -- Best of Margaret Atwood: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
+20 task
Task total = 20
Season Total = 345
20.6 FavoritesThe Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Fall 2021 20.3 Ratings
In honor of Stanislaw Lem's birthday, read a book with an average rating of 4.0 or higher.
+20 Task: Rating 4.55
+. 5 Big: 724 Pages
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 290
20.2 Favorites Taken from Summer 2017 task 20.3 : Read a book with historical fiction genre on book main page
The Long Song x Andrea Levy
Task: 20
No bonus
Post total : 20
Season total 120
20.3 Favorites Taken from Winter 2017-2018
Task 20.1 - Lifetime : Read a book written by an author born during Muriel Spark lifetime (1918- 2006)
Born on June 16, 1967 (source - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice...)
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President x Candice Millard
Task: 20
Post total: 20
Season total : 140
10.3 Number of words in subtitleA History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land by Adam Shoalts
10 task
____
10
Running total: 365
20.8 FavoritesShanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal #1) by A.Y. Chao
+20 Task (WI 20-21 - set in Jazz age, 1920s)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 675
20.9 FavoritesThe Chateau by Tiffany Reisz
WI 17-18 - 20.1 Lifetime - author born 1918-2006
+20 Task (auth b. 1975)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 360
20.10 FavoritesDouble Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story by Ally Carter
SP 22 - 20.4 The Reivers - book whose focus is theives
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 380
+100 Finisher - 10 different seasons
Grand total: 480
20.1 Favorites - Round 2Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
SU 20 - 20.6 Latin America - set 75% in Latin America or author born in Latin Am. country
+20 Task (auth. b. in Mexico)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 500
15.9 ListopiaExit West by Mohsin Hamid
#81 on previous list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#171 on new list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task total: 30
Grand total: 530
10.2 - SummertimeThe Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
🏖 7 words in title 🏖
+10 task
Task total = 10
Season Total = 355
20.2 Favorites round #2MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
+20 pts - task -SU 12 20.1 Make Me Laugh
Read A Black Comedy Or Satirical Novel from one of the following lists: The Blackest Black Humor, Black Comedy Books, Best Dark Humor (top 51 books), OR Satirical Novels (from Satirical List)
Task Total - 20 pts
20.6 FavoritesThe Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
+20 Task (Summer 2017, 20.3 Historical -MPG Historical)
Season total = 270
10.7 Summertime- Pub date round #2Where the Ghosts Are: Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses by Hans Holzer
+10 pts - task (1984)
+ 5 pts - oldies
Task Total - 15 pts
15.1 Listopia - Round #2Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation by Danny Katch
#56 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Total - 15 pts
20 Point Tasks, Round 2, All One Task20.5 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
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2014
+20 task
Post Total = 20
Season Total = 565
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; ...;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
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.Gilgamesh by Joan London
+10 task
+100 finisher bonus
Post Total = 110
Season Total = 675
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 (x2); 10.6 (x2); 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
Task 15.2 Listopia Chain –A House with Good Bones (2023) by T. Kingfisher (Hardcover 247 pages)
+15 Task: #69 on list Most_Anticipated_Book_Releases_2023
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
#84 on list 2023 Releases That I'm Excited About
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 205 + 15 = 220
10.7Number is in original pub date
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War by Neal Bascomb - Published 2018
+10 Task
Season Total 235
20.9 Favorites, Round 2 Summer 2016 - Task 20.1 - South America - Read a book by an author born in South America.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
+20 Task (born in Brazil)
+ 5 Before 1998 (1881)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 770
20.10 Favorites, Round 2 Fall 2019 - Task 20.4 - Boomer - read a book written by a baby boomer (born 1946-1964)
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
+20 Task (born 1956)
+100 Completion bonus, 10 tasks from 10 different seasons
Post Total: 120
Season Total: 890
20.8 Favorites I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
+20 Task (FA 19 Boomer: In honor of The Line of Beauty (2004 winner), read a book written by a baby boomer (born 1946-1964)
Julia Glass DOB 1956
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 160
100 points (10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)
20.3- Winter 2011-1210.5- Read a book that has fewer than 1,000 ratings on goodreads.
Word Play by Maxwell Nurnberg
no ratings at all.; pub. 1971
Task = 20
pre-1998=5
Task Total=25
Grand Total= 70
Seasons used: 1. Fall 2012; 2. Winter 2020-21.; 3. Winter 2011-12
20.4-Spring 2021 - 20.9 Series (Kate S's task)
Read the first book in a new series, or use this season to continue a series you have previously started.
The Deep End by Jeff Kinney
Task = 20
Task Total=20
Grand Total= 90
Seasons used: 1. Fall 2012; 2. Winter 2020-21.; 3. Winter 2011-12; 4. Spring 2021
20.5Fall 2016- 20.7 The Long Con
#3 on the Corporatocracy: Good, Bad, Truth, Fiction list
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Task = 20
pre 1998=5
Task Total=25
Grand Total= 115
Seasons used: 1. Fall 2012; 2. Winter 2020-21.; 3. Winter 2011-12; 4. Spring 2021; 5. Fall 2016
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "You posted this option in your Post 410. Did you mean to also post a finisher's bonus in that post? You cannot repeat an option before completing all of them."Urgh! I missed that part in the task listing. What is your recommendation, because this impacts multiple posts :(
EDIT: Problem Solved! Not how I planned to spend the morning, and I had just decided not to do the 15 point challenge. Oh well, looks like the rest of the morning is going to be spent making new plans ...
Message 410:Apple wrote: "10.5. Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
Set in SYDNEY
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 5..."
Can I please move post 410 to :
15.1 Listopia
Popsugar 2021 #34 - A Book About a Social Justice Issue #248
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
New Post Total = 15
New Season Total = 660
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 15.1;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
Message 412: Apple wrote: "10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last nameThe Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
+10 task
Post Total =10
Season Total = 525
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10.3; 10.4;..."
Can I please move post 412 to:
15.2 Listopia
Popsugar 2021 #34 - A Book About a Social Justice Issue #5
[ATY 2022] Historical Fiction #19
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
New Post Total = 15
New Season Total = 675
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5 ; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10; 15.1;15.2;
20.1 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20.6WI 22-23 10.4 Twelve- Read a book that has 12 or fewer letters in its title, including leading article if any.
Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney
Task = 20
Task Total=20
Grand Total= 135
Seasons used: 1. Fall 2012; 2. Winter 2020-21.; 3. Winter 2011-12; 4. Spring 2021; 5. Fall 2016; Winter 22-23.
Message 415: Apple wrote: "10.6. Number is in year of Author birthThe Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Born 1969
+10 task
Post Total = 10
Season Total = 545
10.1 (x2); 10.2; 10..."
Can I please move post 415 to :
15.3 Listopia
[ATY 2022] Historical Fiction #90
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021 #96
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
New Post Total = 15
New Season Total = 690
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 (x2); 20.2 (x2); 20.3 (x2); 20.4 (x2); 20.5 (x2); 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; 20.9; 20.9; 20.10
20.9 Favorites - SanctuaryLess by Andrew Sean Greer
spring 18 task 20.3 any author who has won in the novel or fiction category of the Pulitzer Prize
20 task
________
20
Running total: 385
20.8 FavoritesWinter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
+20 task (SP 20) 20.8-character drinks or brews a cup of hot tea
""One more thing," she said, pouring herself some black tea and adding a little sugar." pg. 244
Task total=20
Season total=170
20.6 FavoritesCrossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
WI 13-14 20.10 Between the Wars (author born between 1866-1913)
+20 task (author born 1909)
+ 5 before 1998 (pub 1987)
Task total: 25
Season total: 180
10.8 Summertime round #2The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
+10 pts - task 281 pages
Task Total - 10 pts
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Summer 2017 - Task 20.3 - Historical - read a book with 'historical' listed in the genre list of the book's main page.
The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
+20 Task
+ 5 Before 1998 (1924)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 720