Task Overview

[Rosemary]

10.1 Pick a Year
Pick any year and read a book first published in that year. Tell us the year chosen when you post. This task may be repeated up to three times, but you must use the same year every time. This task cannot be used for combo points.

10.2 April Showers
Read a book with "shower" or "drizzle" found somewhere in the text. Please provide a quote when claiming your book.

10.3 The Oscars
The Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, are presented in March. Read a book with all the letters of OSCAR in the title.

10.4 Spring Festivals: Vesak
In honor of Vesak, a Buddhist festival commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha, celebrated this year on May 1, read a book set at least 51% in one of these countries with large Buddhist populations: China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, South Korea.

10.5 All Fools' Day
To celebrate April 1st, read a book that has an MPG of Humo(u)r, Comedy, or Satire.

10.6 Formal Introduction (Anika's task)
Read a book whose title contains a character’s first and last name.

10.7 International Awards (Claire's task)
Read a book originally published in a language other than English that has won an award in a country where English is not an official language.
When you post, please name the book's original language and at least one award that qualifies it for this task. If the award is not listed on the book's Goodreads page, please ask in the task thread before claiming.

10.8 Graphic (Marie's task)
Read a graphic novel, or if less than 100 pages, read two or more graphic novels by the same author that add up to more than 100 pages. If graphic novels aren't your jam, read a book whose title (excluding subtitle) includes all the letters of GRAPHIC. This task cannot be used for combo points.

10.9 Who’s the Narrator? (Karen Michele's task)
Choose a book from one of these lists of narrators:
Unreliable Narrators (first two pages only):
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
Unnamed Narrators
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Unique Narrators (first two pages only)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Please say which list your book is from when you post.

10.10 Group Reads
Read one of the following books OR any book by the author of one of these books recommended by fellow RwS readers:
Anika: Heart the Lover by Lily King
Apple: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Joanna: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Rosemary: The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
Denise: The Grand Banks Café by Georges Simenon
Valerie: When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén
Kathleen: A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland - trigger warning: some difficult topics
Deedee: The Warehouse by Rob Hart

[Rosemary]

20.1 National Book Critics Circle Award
This season, we're celebrating authors born in 1926 - a bang-up birth year for award-winning authors. In honor of winners John Updike and Hilary Mantel, read any book which has won a NBCC Award (any category).
You can find the list at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa... and click through to the different categories) or scroll through the list here.
Winners only, no nominees/finalists.
When claiming, please say which category and year your book won.

20.2 PEN Awards
In honor of winners John Updike, John Fowles, John Knowles, and Jan Morris, read a book originally published in one of the languages (other than English) that gives PEN awards other than for translation: Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, German, or Norwegian.

20.3 CWA Diamond Dagger
In honor of lifetime achievement winners Ed McBain and H.R.F. Keating, read a book from a series that has at least 10 books.
To calculate the number of books in a series for this task, we will count any .5 etc books listed in the GR series page. Upcoming books will be counted if they have a title and description in GR.

20.4 SFF Hall of Fame
In honor of Philip K. Dick, Anne McCaffrey, Richard Matheson, and Poul Anderson, read a book by an author who has been inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_...

20.5 Governor General's Award
In honor of Margaret Laurence, one of Canada's important 20th century authors, read a book by an author born in Canada or set at least 75% in Canada.

20.6 Pulitzer Prize
In honor of John Updike, Harper Lee, and Alison Lurie, read a book by an author whose first and last initials are found in PULITZER or whose first name is John, Harper, or Alison.

20.7 That’s Life! (Owlette's task)
Read a book with MPG of autobiography, memoir, or biography.

20.8 Books in Books (Apple's task)
Read a novel in which at least one other real book is mentioned, and tell us which book(s) you find (title and author). The mentioned book(s) must be in the main text of the novel, not in notes, introductions, or on other pages before or after. We'll be keeping a list of the books we all find and using them in a future task, so the more, the better!

20.9 Birds Return (Joanna's task)
I love seeing the birds come back as the weather warms up. Read a book about birds, bird watching, or with the word "bird" or the name of a bird in the title. Plurals and possessives work, no other variations. Bird names on the following list are preapproved. For others, please ask in the task thread before posting.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

20.10 Paris in the Springtime (Rosemary's task)
Read a book where a character spends time in Paris, or a book whose author was born in France.