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20.8 FavoritesThe Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
20 pts 20.8 Favorites. See
Winter 14/15 20.9 - Respect Elders - Kate S's Task:
Read a book by an author who lived at least 80 years. For example, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Alison Lurie, and Herman Wouk.
Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 160 pts
Tasks used Round 1
Post 23: Spring 2013 20.5
Post 76 : Summer 2014 20.9
Post 142: Spring 2019 20.2
Post 158: Winter 18-19 20.10
Post 183: Fall 2022 20.9
Post 212: Fall 2020 20.3
Post 253: Winter 21/22 20.8
Post 256: Winter 14/15 20.9
20.4 FavoritesThe Famous DAR Murder Mystery by Graham Landrum
+20 pts - Task (20.10 Mystery, WI 22-23)
+ 5 pts - Oldies (pub 1992)
Task Total -25 pts
10.5 - SummertimeThe Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
From author's GRs profile: "The Cat Who books center around the life of former newspaper reporter James Qwilleran, and his two Siamese cats, KoKo and Yum Yum in the fictitious small town of Pickax."
+10 task (6 letters in Pickax)
+ 5 oldies (first published 1966)
Task total = 15
Season Total = 190
20.3 FavoritesThe Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Spring 2016 20.2 Graham Greene
read any book written by a Fellow of the Royal Society of literature.
+20 task
Season total: 95
10.1 SummertimeNumber of letters in author's first or last name
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
Last name = 6 letters (FINKEL)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 10
10.2 SummertimeNumber of words in title
The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Alice Kimberly
Title has 6 words.
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 20
10.4 SummertimeNumber of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle)
The Lake House Secret by Debra Burroughs
Secret = 6 letters
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 30
10.5 SummertimeNumber of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Setting = Vietnam (7 letters)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 40
10.7 SumertimeNumber is in original pub date
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
Publication date = 1879 (7 & 8 in date)
+10 Task
+5 Oldie
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 55
10.8 SummertimeNumber is in MPE page count
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Page count = 287 pages (7 & 8 in page count)
+10 Task
Task Total : 10
Season Total: 65
10.9 SummertimeAuthor first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)
Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman
Author last name (Hillerman) starts with H.
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 75
10.10 SummertimeTitle begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). [Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored.]
Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs
Title begins with F.
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 85
10.6 SummertimeNumber is in year of Author birth
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Author year of birth = 1962 (6)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 95
Task 10.5 Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)
Seven letters in setting: IRE LAND
Lake of Sorrows (Nora Gavin #2) (2004) by Erin Hart
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 100 + 10 = 110
15.3 - Listopia ChainThe Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
#57 on previous list -- 2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year: /list/show/1...
#9 on next list -- Rom Coms with Illustrated Covers: /list/show/1...
+15 task
Task total = 15
Season Total = 205
Post 128 Ann wrote: "20.220.7-Single Word Fall 2017
Read a book with a one word title. No leading articles or sub-titles allowed for this one.
Wintersteel by Will Wight
+20 task
Sea..."
+5 Big
15.6 Listopia ChainThe One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
#80 on previous list: /list/show/1...
#6 on this list: /list/show/1...
20 task
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20
Running total: 305
20.5 FavoritesThe Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
FA 2017 20.5 Old (Main story set 100 years or more before publication of book)
+20 task (set in 16th Century)
Task total: 20
Season total: 145
20.6 FavoritesLinnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge
SU 2012 Literature Map
Go to Literature Map and type in an author whose work you read this spring (March, April, May). Read a book by another author who comes up on the literature map.
Elizabeth Goudge is on Rumer Godden's map and I read Black Narcissus last season.
+20 Task
+5 Old (1964)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 110+25=135
10.4 Summertime: 6, 7, 8 letter word in titleHallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott
+10 Task, "Anyway"
Task total: 10
Season total: 260
10.10 Summertime -Title starts with F, G, HHow to Stitch an American Dream: A Story of Family, Faith and the Power of Giving by Jenny Doan
+10 pts - task
10.10 Summertime- Round 2Foul Play Suspected by John Wyndham
+10 Task (Title begins with F)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 490
15.1 - Listopia ChainDemon Copperhead
#1 in /list/show/1...
Task total = 15
Points total = 110
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10.8. Number is in MPE page countLe Baron perché by Claire Martin
136 pages
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 120
10.1 ; 10.2 ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; 10.8 ; � ; 10.10
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10.9. Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)Petit éloge de la médiocrité by Guillaume Meurice
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 130
10.1 ; 10.2 ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; �
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Marie wrote: "20.3 - FavoritesLe cas Malaussène I : Ils m'ont menti by Daniel Pennac
+20 Task (Spring 2023 - 20.6 Award - read a book written by an award winning - Grand Prix Me..."
Sorry sorry, is it possible to change the 20 point task i used here ? I didn't pay attention to the bonuses, so i'd like to switch to another season's task if you don't mind ?
Here's the task : Fall 2020 - 20.10 Another Birthday?
(the book: Le cas Malaussène I : Ils m'ont menti
by Daniel Pennac, born 1944)
Thanks !
15.2 ListopiaPaladin of Souls
Book is # 45 on list 1 AND #86 ON LIST 2
List 1 /list/show/1...
List 2 /list/show/8...
+15 Task
Season Total 160
15.4 - Listopia ChainHeartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
#91 on previous list -- Rom Coms with Illustrated Covers: /list/show/1...
#55 on next list -- What We've Read So Far in 2023: /list/show/1...
+15 task
Task total = 15
Season Total = 220
20.5 FavoritesThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
+20 pts - Task (Inaugural Booker Prize, 20.1 FA 19)
Task Total - 20 pts
20.7 FavoritesWeb of Desire by Sophie Danson
+20 Task - WI 21-22 - 20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom - <5k ratings, pub 1901-2000 - 9 ratings; pub. 1993
+5 pre-1998
Task total: 25
Grand total: 245
10.4 - SummertimeMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
+ 10 task (6 letters in MAISIE)
Task total = 10
Season Total = 230
20.4 FavoritesThe Empire of Night by Robert Olen Butler
+20 Task (Winter 22-23, 20.10 Mystery, Any book with MPG of Mystery)
Task total = 20
Season total = 175
10.6. Number is in year of Author birthThe March of the Crabs, Vol. 2: The Empire of the Crabs by Arthur de Pins
Born 1977 -
+10 Task
Task total = 10
Points total = 140
10.1 ; 10.2 ; � ; � ; � ; 10.6 ; � ; 10.8 ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; �
20.1 ; 20.2 ; 20.3 ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; � ; �
15.1 Listopia ChainDucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
+15 Task (#237 on /list/show/2...)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 110
15.2 Listopia ChainThey Called Us Enemy by George Takei
+15 Task [(#18 on /list/show/2...) #14 on /list/show/8...]
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 125
15.3 Listopia ChainThe Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
+15 Task [(#18 on /list/show/8...) #12 on /list/show/3...]
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 140
15.4 Listopia ChainMonstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
+15 Task [(#42 on /list/show/3...) #18 on /list/show/2...]
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 155
15.5 Listopia ChainJane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt
+20 Task [(#34 on /list/show/2...) #97 on /list/show/1...]
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 175
15.6 Listopia ChainFun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
+20 Task [(#17 on /list/show/1...) #16 on /list/show/1...]
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 195
15.7 Listopia ChainAs the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
+20 Task [(#48 on /list/show/1...) #47 on /list/show/1... (A comic by an LGBTQIA creator)]
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 215
15.8 Listopia ChainFrench Milk by Lucy Knisley
+30 Task [(#31 on /list/show/1...) #50 on /list/show/8...]
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 245
15.9 Listopia ChainThis One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
+30 Task [(#7 on /list/show/8...) #14 on /list/show/9...]
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 275
15.10 Listopia ChainBlankets by Craig Thompson
+40 Task [(#3 on /list/show/9...)]
+ 5 Big (582 pages)
Task Total: 45
Finisher Bonus: 100
Season Total: 420
15.5 - Listopia ChainLost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
#93 on previous list -- What We've Read So Far in 2023: /list/show/1...
#9 on next list -- [ATY 2023] Book by an Author You've Read: /list/show/1...
+20 task
Task total = 20
Season Total = 250
Post 269 Deedee wrote: "Task 10.5 Number of letters in setting, city/state/country (Setting is at least 51%)
Seven letters in setting: IRE LAND
Lake of Sorrows (Nora Gavin #2) (2004) by [author:Erin Hart..."
+5 Big
Post 278 Tien wrote: "10.10 Summertime- Round 2Foul Play Suspected by John Wyndham
+10 Task (Title begins with F)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 490"
+5 Before 1998
Post 300 Bea wrote: "15.10 Listopia ChainBlankets by Craig Thompson
+15 Task [(#3 on /list/show/9...)]
Task Total: 2..."
+5 Big
Also, this looks like you should get the Finisher's Bonus
+100
Task 20.5 Favorites - 10 tasks from 10 different seasons � all one task, #20.10
FALL 2022
20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task
This year my age will be consecutive digits. Read any book whose original publication year is 2 consecutive digits. (e.g. 1944, 1880, 2006)
Original publication year: 2022
Invisible Things (2022) by Mat Johnson
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 110 + 20 = 130
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The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
+20 Task (Winter 20/21, 20.10 Winner of the MWA Grandmaster Award)
+5 Before 1998 (1971)
Task total = 25
Season total = 155