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10.9 ScandinaviaLocked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen
+10 task (takes place in Denmark)
+5 jumbo (512 pages)
+5 combo (20.4 - MPGs mystery and crime)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 205
10.10 Group ReadsThe Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
+10 task (author of Yellowface)
+5 jumbo (545 pg)
+5 combo (20.2 - Rin and her female roommates often discuss survival at the academy)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 225
15.6 Broken Book Report I. Read a book originally written in a different language than the one your BBR was originally written in.
BBR Book Sharpe's Rifles by written in English
The Royal Succession by Maurice Druon originally written in French
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acc...
+15 Task
Season Total 530
Broken Book Report - second time15.4 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task D: Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR.
5th Horseman by James Patterson - 2000's
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 860
20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DemilleSnow Flower and the Secret Fanby Lisa See
20+ works
Task +20
Combo (10.1-Historical, Historical fiction) +5
Book Total: 25
Grand Total: 385
10.8 TheatreMary Stuartby Friedrich Schiller
10 pts. 10.8 Theatre
15 pts Oldies
Task Total: 25 pts
Season total: 385 pts
Post 557
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.3 … … 10.6 10.7 10.8 … …
… 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … …
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 … … … …
20.3 Edna O'BrienThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Edna and Mademoiselle Reisz talk about their passions for art and music.
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.5 Theater (the book was adapted into a play)
+10 oldie (published in 1899)
Task total: 35
Season total: 485
10.4 Poll 3: Is that a holiday?Merlin, Intégrale Tome 1
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
+50 Halfway finish (10 points task)
Points total = 645
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 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 (x4) ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
15.5 BBRBBR book = The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
B. Read a book with a character or by an author who shares the same last name as a character from your BBR.
Tookie (Lily Florabella Truax Beaupre) · Pollux · Hetta · Jackie Kettle · Roland Waring · Jarvis · Flora (Lily Florabella Truax)
Flora (Lily Florabella Truax) - Eileen Truax
How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States by Eileen Truax
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Grand total = 885
15.6 BBRBBR book = The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
D. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR.
Contemporary
Playground by Richard Powers
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Grand total = 905
15.7 BBRBBR book = The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
E. Read another book by the same author who wrote your BBR.
Contemporary
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Grand total = 925
15.8 BBRBBR book = The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
F. Read a book with a top-three MPG which is also a top-three MPG of your BBR.
Fiction / Fantasy / Magical Realism
Fantasy:
Weyward by Emilia Hart
+25 Task
Task total = 25
Grand total = 950
15.9 BBRBBR book = The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
H. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
2 Words (I hope the subtitle doesn't count)
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
+25 Task
Task total = 25
Grand total = 975
15.10 BBRBBR book = The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
J. Choose a RwS member who has also read your BBR, and read a book from that member's "favorites" shelf or that the member rated 5-stars.
Rated 5 stars by Kristina Simon
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
+30 Task
Task total = 30
BBR Completion = 100
Grand total = 1105
10.4 Penguin Awareness DayDucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Graphic novel - no styles
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 700
20.8 International Women's YearThe Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
+20 Task (2021 Women's Prize nominee)
+5 Combo (20.2 - lots of conversations between the twins, between mother and daughter in more than one generation)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 725
+50 Halfway finish - 20pt tasks
Grand total: 775
20.9 That's Not How It HappenedBlood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
+20 Task (wiki lists this series)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 795
20.3 Francine Pascal + Nelson DemilleThe Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
20 task
10 aged
10 combo 20.2 (Lucille and Maddy reminisce about their childhoods); 20.7 Gordon - Arthur's cat who is his last link to his deceased wife and plays an important role later in the novel
_______
40
Running total: 840
20.10 The ____ of ______The Case of the Carnaby Castle Curse by P.J. Fitzsimmons
20 task
10 combo 20.4 (myst + hist myst), 20.7 Buns the crow helps Anty on more than one occasion - including leading him to safety
______
30
Running total: 870
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.6, 20.2)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 1025
20.10 The ...... of ...... The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.9 set in Denmark, 20.2, 20.4 mystery & crime)
+10 Aged (born 1950)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 1070
Post 538:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson DeMille
Arrow's Fallby Mercedes Lackey
20+ books written
Task +20
Combo +10 (10.3 10.1)
Aged +10
Oldies +5
Book Total: 45
Grand Total: 360"
Task 10.3 can't be used for combo with another task.
Task 556:Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "20.3 Franscine Pascal and Nelson Demille
Snow Flower and the Secret Fanby Lisa See
20+ works
Task +20
Combo (10.1-Historical, Historical fiction) +5
Book Total: 25
Gra..."
This does not seem to be a combo with 10.1, which requires an MPG of Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, or Science Fiction.
I also don't think that Lisa See qualifies for 20.3. As far as I can tell, she has only published 12 books.
It seems like this book fits under 20.2, so that's where I've scored it.
10.8 TheaterMr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...
"In 1946 it was dramatized for the stage under the same title"
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.4 mystery, historical fiction, & crime)
+10 Oldies (1943)
Post total = 25
Season total = 785
Post 534:Anika wrote: "10.3 New Year's Resolution
Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Rosita Arvigo
+10 Task, my NYR is to work towards completion of the group Countries of the W..."
+5 Oldies
10.8 TheaterGlengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
+10 Task (play)
+5 Oldies (1983)
+10 Aged (b. 1947)
+10 Combo (20.1, 20.3)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 830
10.10 Group ReadsAnnihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.2 - narrator and another character talk about what is happening; 20.3)
Task total: 20
+50 Halfway finish - 10pt tasks
Grand total: 900
Task 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:Read any book by any author who has published more than 20 books
I count 30 books by bell hooks.
Here’s the bibliography: https://library.ship.edu/anti-racist-...
Combo:
20.2 Bechdel Test
In her discussion of various types of love, she includes the love between best friends of the same sex/gender.
All About Love: New Visions (1999) by bell hooks (Paperback 238 pages)
Dewey: [306.7]
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#20.2)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1950-2000)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 05 = 30
Grand Total: 425 + 30 = 455
15.3 Broken Book ReportCabane by Abel Quentin
From Circe by Madeline Miller
H. Read a book with the same number of words in the title as your BBR.
Task total = 15
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 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; 20.6 (x4) ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; 20.10
20.5 Tom SpanbauerThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
+20 task (no styles low Lexile)
Season total: 510
20.10 The ____ of ______The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
20 task
5 oldie
10 aged
5 combo 20.3
_______
40
Running total: 910
Post 581:Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.5 Tom Spanbauer
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
+20 task (no styles low Lexile)
Season total: 510"
This book is not shelved as YA at BPL, so the lexile doesn't matter.
15.10 BBRBBR book: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
C - Same city/country - Chicago
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Lexile: 870
+30 Task
+100 BBR finish
+200 Mega finish
Points this post: 330
Grand total: 1230
10.4 Penguin Awareness DayLark Ascending by Silas House
+10 task (lark)
+ 5 combo 20.5 Tom Spanbauer (gay author per Wiki)
+ 5 combo 20.7 Best Friends Forever (a beagle, Seamus, is a major character and is Lark's companion)
Task total: 20
Season total: 505
20.8 International Women's YearThe Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo 20.10
Task total = 25
Season total = 940
NOTE: This takes place in Sierra Leone, and turns that country green.
Joanna wrote: "Post 581:Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "20.5 Tom Spanbauer
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
+20 task (no styles low Lexile)
Season total: 510"
This book i..."
Reposting 581
20.5 Tom Spanbauer
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
+20 task
+5 combo 10.2 Linus takes a train to the village to the island
+5 combo 20.7 Linus takes his cat, calliope, with him to the investigation
+5 combo 20.3
Task total: 35
Season total: 525
10.3 NY Resolutions1001 list
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
10 task
5 oldie
10 aged
5 combo 20.3
______
30
Running total: 940
20.5 Tom Spanbauer:Read a book by Tom Spanbauer or any book by an LGBTQ author.
Het gefluister achter de deur
T.J. Klune 440 p. 23. february 2025 20 points
+ 5 points combo 20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille:
25 points
Total points : 315 points
10.5 New Year, New DateGentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
+10 task (published in 1925)
+ 5 combo 10.2 Holiday Travel (train travel on the Orient Express)
+ 5 combo 10.8 Theater (adapted into several plays per Wikipedia)
+10 aged (author died at age 93)
+10 oldie (1925)
Task total: 40
Half-way finish: 50
Season total: 595
20.5 Tom SpanbauerSwimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
+20 Task
Points this post: 20
RwS total: 305
BBR total: 15
Season Total: 320
10.1 10.2 .... 10.4 .... .... .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
.... 20.2 .... 20.4 20.5 .... .... .... .... 20.10
20.9 That's Not How It HappenedFatherland by Robert Harris
+20 Task (on the Wikipedia list)
+10 Combo (20.3 https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/ro... ; 20.4 historical fiction, mystery, & crime)
+ 5 Oldies (1992)
+50 Halfway finish, 20 pt tasks
Post total = 85
Season total = 870
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMilleMartin Eden by Jack London
+20 Task https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/ja...
+10 Oldies (1909)
Post total = 30
Season total = 900
15.7 BBRBBR When Red Is Black by Qiu Xiaolong
Shanghai Redemption by Qiu Xiaolong
15 pts 15.7 BBR D. Read a book set in the same time period as your BBR.
Task Total: 15 pts
Season total: 400 pts
Post 594
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.3 … … 10.6 10.7 10.8 … …
… 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 … …
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 … … …
20.3 Pascal and DeMille The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout
+20 Task (47 in this series, and others)
+ 5 combo (20.4)
+10 Aged (1886-1975)
+10 Oldies (1946)
Task total = 45
Season total = 985
Task 10.1 Stylish Sci-Fi (Deedee's task):Read a book that has the MPGs of both:
A--"Literature," "Literary," "Literary Fiction," or "Classics;
AND
B--"Fantasy," "Science Fiction," or "Speculative Fiction."
Book includes the following MPG’s:
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead
+10 Task
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1950-2000)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 455 + 15 = 470
I would like to change post 318 to15.2 BBR
BBR book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
C. Set in the same country US
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net by Jessica Calarco
Total stays the same
15.4 BBRBBR book:
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
F. Same MPG nonfiction
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch
+15 task
Season total: 540
20.8 That’s Not How It HappenedThe Big Lie by Julie Mayhew (780 Lexile)
+20 Task, Sidewise Award 2015
+10 Combo: 10.5, pub. 2015; 20.2, most of the characters in this book were female and they talked about many things, including: ice skating, politics, revolution, neighborhood gossip, and so much more
Task total: 30
+50 Halfway Finish, 20-point Tasks
+200 MegaFinish
Season total: 1790
Broken Book Report - second time15.5 - BBR
BBR Book - 1st to Die by James Patterson
Task E: Read another book by the same author who wrote your BBR.
The 6th Target by James Patterson -
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 880
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+10 Non-Western (Chinese author and setting)
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