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10.4 Book Lover's DayPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
#50 on the list
task=10
female author=10
WC=10
task total=30
grand total= 625
15.4- Listopia TagShadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
This is #33 on /list/show/1...
Tag: ancient-history
Task: 15
Female author: 5
Post total: 20
Season total: 425
10.4 Book Lover's DayA Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
+10 Task (#123 on the list)
+10 Female
+5 Jumbo (579 pages)
+10 Combo (10.9; 20.4)
Task total: 35
Season total: 560
10.2 JulyParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 885
10.5 InfernoNeed to Know by Karen Cleveland
+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1285
10.9 Emily Bronte (Rosemary's Task)Beartown by Fredrik Backman
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.7 Not Quite Jumbo
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1305
15.10 Listopia TagAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano
This edition:
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions can be found on this list: Best Cozy Mystery Series with the tag of: cozy
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Listopia Tag Finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Season Total: 1620
20.9 Tom Wolfe (Kate S's Task) Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.6 Cloud Atlas /10.7 Not Quite Jumbo / 10.9 Emily Bronte
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1660
Karen Michele wrote: "Listopia Tag Finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200"
Congratulations! Well done!
30.1 Island HoppingReal Crime Island Time: The Dark Side of Rarotonga's Cook Islands Paradise
setting: Cook Islands
+30 Task
+5 Multiple
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 925
15.7 Listopia TagThe Martian by Andy Weir
+15 Task (from this Listopia: /list/show/4... , using the tag “elite-list�)
Task total: 15
Season total: 575
20.4 The Piano TeacherLess Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
20 task
5 combo 10.9
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25
Running total: 640
Post 649 Ed wrote: "20.2 Track of the CatRevenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto 66X as Western
(Hmmm...I'm not sure if this qualifies for styles.... although, the book location is..."
Ed wrote: "20.2 Track of the Cat
Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto 66X as Western
(Hmmm...I'm not sure if this qualifies for styles.... although, the book location is..."
Yes, you saw it right. This is YA at BPL with no Lexile and does not qualify for styles.
Task 15.6 Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone (2012) by Stefan Kiesbye
List:
Eye Catching Titles
84th out of 262 books � 207 voters as of August 7, 2018
Tags:
titles
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 280 + 15 = 295
Congratulations, Karen Michele!20.1 Gemini
Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
+20 Task
+10 Female author
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 590
20.6 Winter's TaleSchindler's List by Thomas Keneally
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3, (LA Times), 10.7, 20.7)
+10 Canon
Task Total = 45
Season Total = 380
15.10 Listopia TagThe Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
#3 Best Books to Become an Informed Voter /list/show/1...
tag: democracy
+15 task
+ 5 over 500 pages
+ 5 published 1787
+ 5 not a novel
+100 sub-challenge finish
Task total: 130
Season total: 605
10.1 PossessionAn Argument Open to All: Reading "The Federalist" in the 21st Century by Sanford Levinson
Task total: 10
Season total: 615
20.2 Track of the CatClose Range by Annie Proulx
+20 Task (69 times as Westerns)
+10 Female
Task Total = 30
season total = 410
10.3 AwardsThe Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2016)
860L
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - 410 pages)
+10 Female
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 925
10.5 InfernoThe Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris
+10 task
+5 combo (10.9)
+10 female
+5 multiple
Task total: 30
Season total: 315
15.10 Listopia TagFalling Man by Don DeLillo
Can be found on this list /list/show/2... (#5) with the tag of: new-york
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Finisher: 100
Season Total: 1080
20.7 AmbassadorThe Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head
+20 pts -Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.2,10.8R,10.9)
+10 pts - Female Author
+ 5 pts - Multiple
Task Total - 50 pts
Season Total - 1150 pts
15.2 Listopia TagThe Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society by Jasper Ridley
#363 /list/show/3... Tag - "secret"
The list edition and the one I read and posted are the same
+15 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Non-fiction
Task total - 20 pts
Season Total - 1170 pts
Rebekah wrote: "30.1 Island HoppingDeath by Desire by Jaden Skye
SAINT BARTHÉLEMY
+30 - Task
+10 - Female Author
+5 - Multi
task Total - 45 pts
Season Total - 640 pts"
I just realized this fit's Karen Michele's task as one of the least populated countries. Is it too late to claim the extra 5 combo points?
20.9 Tom WolfeCode Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
+20 Task
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.5--pub. 2017; 10.7--416 pages)
Task total: 40
Season total: 615
20.7 - AmbassadorMurder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood
+20
+5 repeat
+10 female author
Task total: 35
Grand total: 410
10.7 - Not Quite JumboThe Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.9)
+5 repeat
Task total: 20
Grand total: 430
10.7 - Not Quite JumboThe Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.9)
+5 repeat
Task total: 20
Grand total: 450
10.7 - Not Quite JumboDeadline by Sandra Brown
+10 task
+10 female
+5 repeat
Task total: 25
Grand total: 475
20.7 AmbassadorThe Smell of Apples by Mark Behr
+20 Task (born in Tanzania)
+15 Combo 10.3, 10.9, 20.4
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1120
10.5 InfernoSabrina by Nick Drnaso
+10 Task (pub 2018)
Points this post: 10
RwS total: 10
ListTag total: -
Season Total: 10
Listopia Tag15.4
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
Best Urban Fantasy series, #9 on list, tag urban fantasy
Task +15
Grand Total: 150
15.5 Listopia tagHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Tag: best
#10626 on this list /list/show/1...
+15 task
+5 not-a-novel
Task total =20
Grand total = 830
From Post 633Karen Michele wrote: "10.5 Inferno
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1205"
+5 Combo 20.4
Anika wrote: "Kidding! Just realized I actually wanted to claim this one for 20.5! Please swap it for me on the official spreadsheet. Sorry and thank you."Swapped.
From Post 664June wrote: "15.4- Listopia Tag
Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
This is #33 on /list/show/1...
Tag: ancient-history
Task:..."
Sorry, June, listopia tasks (the 15-pointers) are not eligible for the female author bonus this season.
From post 667Karen Michele wrote: "10.5 Inferno
Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
+10 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1285"
+5 Combo 20.4
From Post 670Karen Michele wrote: "20.9 Tom Wolfe (Kate S's Task)
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.6 Cloud A..."
+5 Combo 10.5
From Post 672Tien wrote: "30.1 Island Hopping
Real Crime Island Time: The Dark Side of Rarotonga's Cook Islands Paradise
setting: Cook Islands
+30 Task
+5 Multiple
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 925"
This looks like a good fit for 20.9, +5 Combo
15.8 Listopia TagBeware of God: Stories by Shalom Auslander
+15 Task (from this Listopia: /list/show/2..., using the tag "short-stories"
+5 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 20
Season total: 655
20.3 Gold CoastBarking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle
+20 Task (Los Angeles gangs)
+15 Combo: 10.5, 10.9, 20.9 (approved)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 645
15.8 Listopia TagThe Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
That edition is #36 on list: /list/show/1...
tag: downton-abbey
+15 Task
+ 5 pre-1981
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 610
20.6 Winter's TaleJuly's People by Nadine Gordimer
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.7)
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task total = 40
Season total = 450
10.9 Emily BronteWinning Colors by Elizabeth Moon
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.7
+10 Female author
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1150
15.3 Listopia TagFire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
#28 on this list /list/show/1...
Tag - read-so-far
+15 - Task
+ 5 - Non Fiction
Task total - 20 pts
Season Total - 1185 pts
15.4 Listopia TagMy Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
#90 on this list
/list/show/8...
Tag - 1933
+15 - Task
+ 5 - Non Fiction
+ 5 - before 1980 (1933)
Task total - 25 pts
Season Total - 1210 pts
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
+20 - Task
+5 - Combo 10.4
+10 - Female Author
+25 - Jumbo (1006 pages)
Task 60 points
Season Total = 210