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SU 19 Completed Tasks
15.1 Ratings Game The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis
Fewer than 250 ratings
108 ratings as of June 10th
Task Total = 15 pts
Season Total = 65 pts
10.7 Summer ShortsThe First Hurt: Stories by Rachel Sherman
+10 Task
+10 Young (b. 1975)
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.6)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 85
20.8 Revisit a FriendThe Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
+20 Task (read The Fifth Season last season, first by this author)
+10 Young
+10 Combo (20.6, 10.8)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 125
10.2 PossessivesNot His Dragon by Annie Nicholas
+10 task
+5 combo (20.6)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 170
15.1 Ratings Game Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
10,000 - 14,999
as of posting: 14,705
15 task
5 oldie
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20
Running total: 175
15.1 RG1,000 - 4,999 ratings
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
+15 task
+ 5 non-fiction
Task total=20
Grand total=200
15.2 RG75,000 to 99,999
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
91,444 ratings
+15 task
+5 nonfiction
+5 large - 818 pages
Task total: 25
Grand total: 195
20.10 HistoricalFludd by Hilary Mantel
+20 task
+10 combo (20.1, 20.6)
+ 5 oldies (1989)
Task total=35
Grand total=235
20.10 HistoricalTriple Jeopardy by Anne Perry
20 pts 20.10 Historical
5 pts 10.3 Summer 2017
5 pts 10.8 Series
5 pts 20.5 London
5 pts 20.6 Characters
Task total: 40 pts
Season Total: 165 pts
15.2 Ratings Game 250 - 999 ratings
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (612 ratings)
+15 pts
Task Total = 15 pts
Season Total = 80 pts
10.8 Series (Beth's Task)Sweetheart Braves by Pamela Sanderson
+10 Task -- third in a series
+10 Combo (10.3 no I; 20.6 at least nine named characters)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 150
15.1 RG25,000 - 74,999
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 135
20.9 Apollo 11The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
20 task
10 young
5 combo 10.3
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35
Running total: 210
20.3 A Severed HeadThe Old Maid by Zoë Akins
A play based on the novel
The Old Maid: The 'Fifties by Edith Wharton
20 pts 20.3 Severed Head
5 pts 20.1 Iris Murdoch
5 pts 20.6 Characters
10 pts Oldies
Task total: 40 pts
Season Total: 205 pts
15.1 RG100,000 - 249,999 ratings
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
+15 Task -- 160,439 ratings
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 165
15.2 Ratings Game10,000 - 14,999
The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
+15 Task
+ 5 Before 1995 (1979)
Task total = 20
Season total = 110
20.3 A Severed HeadSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
+20 Task ()
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.4 Catching Up On Classics)
+25 Oldies (1397)
Points this post: 55
RwS total: 110
RG total: -
Season Total: 110
10.3 Summer 2017Crossroads in Time by Sarah Woodbury
+10 Task
+ 10 Combo (10.8 - After Cilmeri #3; 20.6 - more than 9 named characters)
Task total: 20
Season total: 105
20.1 Iris MurdochSherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair by David Stuart Davies
Published 1991
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.6 - more than 9 named characters)
+ 5 Oldies (1991)
Task total: 30
Season total: 135
20.9 Apollo 11Armada by Ernest Cline
+20 Task (shelved as "space" 73 times)
+5 Combo (20.6)
+10 Young (b. 1972)
Task total: 35
Season total: 185
10.3 Summer 2017The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua
Task Total 10 pts
Season total: 215 pts
20.10 Historical WomenThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.6, 10.7)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 155
10.3 - Summer 201715th Affair by James Patterson
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.8)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 155
20.10 HistoricalNew Boy by Tracy Chevalier
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.6, 20.7)
Task total: 30
Season total: 215
10.4 Visiting Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, 224 pages. On the Catching Up with Classics (and lots more!) Bookshelf.
+10 task
+15 Combo (20.1 Iris Murdoch, 20.3 Severed Head, 20.6 Characters)
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+5 Oldie 1989
30 task
220 season total
20.7. ShakespeareTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
20 pts. 20.7 Shakespeare
5 pts. 10.4. Visiting
5 pts. 20.6 Characters
25 pts Oldies
Task Total: 55 pts
Season total: 270 pts
10.2 Jackson's DilemmaThe Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
+10 task
+ 5 combo 10.3
Task total: 15
Season total: 160
10.3 Summer 2017The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.6)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 45
15.1 RG< 250
Tadaima! I Am Home: A Transnational Family History by Tom Coffman
+15
+5 nonfiction
Task total: 20
Season total:90
Task 15.1 The Ratings Game10,000 - 14,999
Paris in Love (2012) by Eloisa James (Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author) (Hardcover, 272 pages) [813.54]
Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2012)
+15 Task
+05 Non-fiction
Task Total: 15 + 05 = 20
Grand Total: 30 + 20 = 50
Task 10.7 Summer ShortsA Book of Essays:
Thick: And Other Essays (2019) by Tressie McMillan Cottom (Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author) (Hardcover, 248 pages) [301.092]
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 50 + 10 = 60
10.10 Group ReadsAmerican Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.6 at least nine named characters)
+10 Young (b. 1984)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 190
10.1 Design Your Own Task:The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
My task: read a book that's on my Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ "to-read" shelf and was added before the start of the summer season. This one was shelves as "to-read" on September 8, 2014!
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 10
15.2 RGfewer than 250 ratings (8 ratings)
The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler by
Jenny McMorris
+15 task
+ 5 non-fiction
Task total=20
Grand total=255
15.1 RG15.1 100,000 - 249,999
Becoming by Michelle Obama
+15 Task
+ 5 Non-Fiction
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 120
20.4 The Black PrinceThe Devil's Pool by George Sand
+20 Task
+15 Combo: 10.2 Jackson's Dilemma / 20.6 Characters / 10.3 Summer 2017
+15 Oldies (1846) -151 to 250 years old: 15 points (1769-1868)
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 170
20.9 Apollo 11 (Kate S's Task)The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 190
20.9 Apollo 112001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
20 pts 20.9 Apollo 11
5 pts. 10.3 Summer 2017
5 pts 20.1 Iris Murdoch
5 pts Oldies
Task total. 35 pts
Season total 305 pts
20.2 Oxford AuthorsThe Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.6-many more than nine significant named characters)
Task total=25
Grand total=280
15.2 Ratings Game10,000-14,999 ratings
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis (10,420 ratings)
Task total: 15
Season total: 175
15.1 Ratings Game 5,000 - 9,999 ratings
Rocannon's World (Hainish Cycle #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin (9,635 ratings)
+15 task
+5 Oldie (1966)
20 task
240 Season total
10.8 Series (Beth's Task)Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn
+10 Task (previously read #16 in series)
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.1)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 50
10.8 Series (Beth's Task)Grave Dance by Kalayna Price
+10 Task (previously read #1 in series)
+5 Combo (20.8)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 70
10.8 Series (Beth's Task)City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
+10 Task (previously read #1 in series)
+5 Combo (10.3)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 90
10.8 Series We Were Killers Once by Becky Masterman (Brigid Quinn #4)
+10 Task
+5 Bonus - 10.3 No I in Author's Name
Task Total = 15
Season Total = 95
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Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night by James Patterson
Anthology of short stories. Way more than 9 named characters.
I'm assuming does not count for 10.3 as it is only edited by Patterson and some of the contributors have I's in their names.
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 Summer Shorts
+5 Jumbo - 568 Pgs
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 35 pts
Grand Total: 55 pts