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CYOA Sample Post15.4 CYOA-Author has 4 letters in first or last name
Watchers by Dean Koontz
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 380 (assumes a previous season total of 365)
15.1 CYOA, A4 (double letter in name)Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow (my carry-over book, read 51% today)
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
10.10 Group ReadsAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Task=10
Combo= 15 (10.1-Elizabeth; 10.2; 10.9-1929)
LiT=10
Oldie=10 (1929)
Task Total=45
Grand Total=45
Tasks completed=1
10.10 (45)
10.1 5-Star ReadsSantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris
+10 Task /group/show_...
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
Post total: 15
Season Total: 15
20.3 She WritesThe Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
+20 Task -- written by a woman with a woman (seventeen year old girl) main character
+10 Combo (10.2 Raven; 10.9 published 2016)
+10 Female
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 40
10.9 Play the NumbersA Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
Published 2012
+10 Task
+10 Female
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 20
15.1 CYOA - C4 (author has published in at least 3 forms)The Vows of Silence (Simon Serrailler #4) by Susan Hill
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 35
10.7 Alphabet DaysThe Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
+10 task
+15 combo 10.2 Anniversary, 10.5 most recently published, 20.3 She writes
+10 Female author
Task total: 35
Season total: 35
20.8 Taming A Sea-Horse by Robert B. ParkerFirst published in 1986
+20 task
+5 oldies
Task total =25
Grand total = 25
10.9 Play the NumbersYou Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke
+10 Task (pub 2016)
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)
+10 Female Author
+10 LiT (German->English)
Points this post: 40
RwS total: 40
CYOA total: -
Season Total: 40
15.2 CYOA, B4 Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
+15 Task (b. 1883, d. 1957)
Task total: 15
Season total: 30
10.4 GeniusOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
(#187 on Post Modern Genius list)
YA, Low Lexile, no styles
Task total: 10
Season total: 45
15.1 A3 author uses three namesEarth, Grass, Trees and Stone by Mary Anne Morefield
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
20.6 Stand Up for Your RightsPebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
+20 Task The discrimination faced by the Earthmen was a major theme in this book.
+5 Oldies (1950)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 25
15.1 CYOA A1A1 - Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters.
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
+15 task
Task total=15
Grand total=15
20.2 Freedom seasonA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
20 task
5 oldie
10 combo 10.1 (Ed), 10.2
____
35
Running total 50
15.1-A2. Author's Name contains no letter LThe Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie
Task=15
Task Total=15
Grand Total=60
Tasks completed=2
10.10 (45)
15.1
15.3 CYOA, C3 Author has published for 20+ yearsMom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 45
15.2 CYOA - C5 (author is a journalist)Who's Afraid? (Supernatural Sisters #1) by Maria Lewis
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 50
20.5 sense of placeNW by Zadie Smith
Nominee for 2013 Ondaatje Prize
+20 task
+10 female author
+5 combo 10.1 - Whitney rated it 5 stars in 2017
+5 combo 10.2
+5 combo 10.8
+5 combo 10.9 - published 2012
+5 combo 20.7 - takes place solely in London
Task total: 55
Grand total: 70
20.6 Stand Up For Your RightsJane, the Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault
The narrator, a teenage girl, is ostracized and bullied, supposedly because of her weight, and she is finding solace in Jane Eyre.
+20 Task
(no style points as it is a graphic novel)
Task total = 20
Points total = 20
10.8 Single Word TitleJunky by William S. Burroughs
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.1 /group/show_... ,
10.5 , 10.7 J&W)
+ 5 Oldies (1953)
Post total: 30
Season Total: 45
20.7 Island DreamsThe Case of the Missing Boyfriend by Nick Alexander
+20 Task (set about 90% in the UK)
+10 Combo (10.1 /group/show_... , 10.9 2011)
Post total: 30
Season Total: 75
20.8 Unification SeasonThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
+20 Task (1979)
+ 5 Combo (10.1 /group/show_... )
+ 5 Oldies
Post total: 30
Season Total: 105
15.1 CYOAB2 Author born 1914-18 or 1939-45
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler (born 1941)
Task total: 15
Season total: 60
20.4 Poet's non-poetryThe Fur Person by May Sarton
Could this book be any more charming???!!! Thanks Anika + Elizabeth!
20 task
10 female
5 oldie
5 combo 10.1 (Anika)
____
40
Running total: 90
20.6 Pale Kings And Princes by Robert B. ParkerTakes place in the fiction town of Wheaton, Maine who’s is about 1/3 Colombian. There’s a big cocaine problem in this town and basically that and all of the crime and violence in this town is blamed on the Colombian population, even though the white cops are also a big part of the problem. There’s also a young man treated very poorly because he has a learning disability.
+ 20 task
+ 5 combo with 20.8 (first published in 1987)
+ 5 oldies
Task total = 30
Grand total = 55
20.1 Decade +20Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
#328
Combo Points +45
10.1- Rated 5 stars by Tien
10.6- 479 pages
10.8- single word title
10.9- published 2017
10.10- Group Reads
20.3- Author- Min Jin Lee, Main Character- Sunja
20.5- 20th century Japan (spans 4 generations)
20.6- Discrimination against Koreans in Japan
20.7- Takes place mostly in Japan
Style Points
Female Author +10
Task Total: 75
Season Total: 75
20.8 Unification SeasonDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1) by Douglas Adams
published 1987
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.1 - Rebekah; 20.7 - set in UK)
+5 Oldies
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 85
10.2 ANNIVERSARYAthelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.9 pub 2016, 20.7 UK)
Points this post: 20
RwS total: 60
CYOA total: -
Season Total: 60
10.5 DebutVaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner
(low Lexile)
+10 Task (this is the author’s first and only novel)
Task total: 10
Season total: 55
Valerie! I’m so glad you loved The Fur Person, too :-)
15.2 C3 Veteran AuthorBicycles by Nikki Giovanni
Task total: 15
Grand total: 85
Jackie - that is a stunning quantity of points for one book. Wow.
20.8 Unification SeasonCocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
pub. 1989
Task=20
Combo= 5 (20.3)
Female=10
Oldie=5 (1989)
Task Total=40
Grand Total=100
Tasks completed=3
10.10 (45)
15.1
20.8 (40)
CYOA A4 author has double letter in nameThe Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Task - 15 pts
Season Total - 30 pts
20.4 Poet's Non-PoetryThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
+20 task )
+20 combo (10.1-rated 5 stars by Pam, 10.4, 10.9, 20.7-Scotland)
+15 oldies (1824)
Task total=55
Grand total=70
Beth wrote: "15.2 C3 Veteran AuthorBicycles by Nikki Giovanni
Task total: 15
Grand total: 85
Jackie - that is a stunning quantity of points for one book. Wow."
That was pure luck! I read it for a local book club and figured I’d check to see how many tasks it qualified for, I wasn’t expecting it to tally up that much!
Tien wrote: "15.3 CYOA - A1 (4 letters in author's last name)Red Dust Dreaming by Eva Scott
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 100"
Did you mean a different option/category? The author's name has 3-letters and 5-letters respectively.
Post 27 Rosemary wrote: "20.8 Unification SeasonThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
+20 Task (1979)
+ 5 Combo (10.1 /group/show_......"
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is a and it has no Lexile. Task, but no styles.
10.9 Play the NumbersTiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey
+10 Task published 2019
+5 Jumbo 534 pages
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 40
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Tien wrote: "15.3 CYOA - A1 (4 letters in author's last name)Red Dust Dreaming by Eva Scott
+15 Task
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 100"
Did you mean a different option/category? The author's name has 3-letters and 5-letters respectively."
ack, sorry, I was moving things around on my spreadsheet and yep, messed this up. I'll fix my post, thanks!
20.10 A Winning DecadeThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017)
+20 Task
+25 Combo (10.1 - Joanna; 10.9 - pub 2016; 20.1; 20.2; 20.6)
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 150
20.8 Unification SeasonWhy We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
+20 Task -- published 1963
+15 Combo (10.1 rated 5 stars by Besmala; 10.10 group read; 20.6 about racial discrimination)
+5 Oldies
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 80
Post 34 Anika wrote: "10.5 DebutVaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner
+10 Task (this is the author’s first and only novel)
+10 Female
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.9 pub. 2011)
Task total: 30
Season..."
I'm sorry, Anika. This is a and has no Lexile. Task, but no styles.
15.1 CYOA - C4 - Author published for more than 20 yearsNo Name by Wilkie Collins (5 stars!)
Season total = 15 (first post)
20.3 She writesSisterland by Salla Simukka (advanced reader's copy)
Lexile 700
20 task
10 female writer
10 Lit
5 combo 10.2
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45
Running total: 135
20.3 She WritesNight Waking by Sarah Moss
20 pts. 20.3 She Writes
5 pts 10.2 Anniversary
5 pts 10.9 Play the numbers
5 pts Island Dreams
10 pts Female
Task total. 45 pts
Season total. 45 pts
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20.6 Stand Up
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.1 Jane CK rated it 5 stars
+10 Female Author
+10 LiT
+10 Oldies (1949)
+10 Jumbo (746 pages)
Task Total: 65
Season Total: 325 (assumes a previous season total of 260)