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20.7 ShakespeareKing Lear by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.6 Characters
+25 Oldies
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 75
15.1 RG: 100,00-249,999The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
+15 Task
+5 NF
Task total: 20
Season total: 90
Thanks, itpdx, for adding this to the All-Star list...it wasn't really on my radar before seeing it there and I LOVED it!
20.7 ShakespeareProspero's Daughter by Elizabeth Nunez
+20 Task -- re-telling of The Tempest
+10 Combo (10.2; 20.6 at least nine named characters)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 95
20.1 Iris MurdochThe Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
pub. 1980
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6)
+5 Oldies
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 30
10.7 Summer ShortsLyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
+10 task
+15 pub 1798
Task total: 25
Grand total: 90
15.1 RG5,000 - 9,999 ratings
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
+15 Task (6,611)
+15 Styles: Before 1995, Big, Nonfiction
Task total = 30 (first post)
10.6 Lifetime AchievementWarlight by Michael Ondaatje
+10 task (St Louis Award)
+10 combo 20.5, 20.6
Task total: 20
Season total: 125
15.1 - Rating Game25,000-74,999 rating
14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson
+15 Task (27,828)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
15.3 - Rating Game250 - 999
For Sale In Palm Springs by Albert Simon
+15 task (566)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 45
10.7. Summer shortsThe Ballad of Reading Gaol and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (36 pages + 78 pages = 114 pages)
+10 task
+15 Combos 10.4, 20.2, 20.6
+10 young author
+10 Oldie (published 1896 and 1893)
task total: 45
season total: 190
20.3 A Severed HeadCorelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
see post 2 in task help thread regarding approval
20 task
5 oldie
15 combo 20.1, 10.2, 20.6
______
40
Running total: 110
20.5 LondonThe Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
+20 Task (Harrow-Weald, Greater London)
+25 Combo (10.3, 10.4 Catching Up On Classics, 20.3 theatre review, 20.4, 20.6 Character List)
+ 10 Oldies (1918)
Points this post: 55
RwS total: 55
RG total: -
Season Total: 55
10.1 Design Your Own TaskMy task (posted in the help thread) is to read a non-fiction book.
Contented Dementia by Oliver James
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 70
20.7 ShakespeareThe Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.6 11 significant named characters)
+25 Oldies (1593)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 120
20.10 HistoricalRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
20 pts 20.10 Historical
10 pts Oldies
5 pts 10.4 Visiting
5 pts 10.5 D Day
5 pts 10.9 All Star Reads
5 pts 20.1 Iris Murdoch
5 pts 20.3 Severed Head
5 pts 20.4 Black Prince
5 pts 20.6 Characters (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...)
5 pts 20.8 Revisit a Friend
Task total: 70 pts
Season Total: 125 pts
Mary wrote: "20.10 HistoricalRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
20 pts 20.10 Historical
10 pts Oldies
5 pts 10.4 Visiting
5 pts 10.5 D Day
5 pts 10.9 All Star Reads
5 pts 20.1 Iris..."
Mary, 20.8 Revisit a Friend can't be used for combo. To keep all of your 70 points (good job!), you could move this book to 20.8 and claim 20.10 as a combo.
20.8 Revisit a FriendBeneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
Last summer I read Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
+20 task
+5 combo (20.6)
Task total: 25
Season total: 45
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Mary wrote: "20.10 HistoricalRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rats, can't read! -- let's try it your way! :) Thanks!
REVISION TO POST 68
20.8 Revisit a Friend
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
20 pts 20.8 Revisit a Friend
10 pts Oldies
5 pts 10.4 Visiting
5 pts 10.5 D Day
5 pts 10.9 All Star Reads
5 pts 20.1 Iris Murdoch
5 pts 20.3 Severed Head
5 pts 20.4 Black Prince
5 pts 20.6 Characters (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...)
5 pts 20.10 Historical
Task total: 70 pts
Season Total: 125 pts
10.8 SeriesStrong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
+10 Task (thanks for the recommendation, Rosemary...what a great story and great characters!)
+10 Oldies (pub. 1930)
+20 Combo (10.3, 10.9, 20.1, 20.6)
Task total: 40
Season total: 130
15.2 RG: 10,000-14,999The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 145
Anika wrote: "10.8 SeriesStrong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
+10 Task (thanks for the recommendation, Rosemary...what a great story and great characters!)..."
Glad you liked it! I was hesitating between that one and a couple of others of hers :)
20.5 LondonThe Transference Engine by Julia Verne St. John
+20 task
+5 combo (20.6)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 115
Task 10.5 D-DayRead one of the top 100 from the list Best Beginning or one of the top 200 from the list Best Ending .
As of June 5, 2019:
Best Beginning : #52
Best Ending : #185
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) and Terry Pratchett (Paperback, TV Tie-In, 384 pages)
Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1991)
World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1991)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (#20.1(pub. 1919-1999), #20.6(>=9 named characters))
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: (1944-1994)
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 00 + 25 = 25
20.2 Oxford AuthorsCrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
20 task
10 oldie
15 combo 10.3, 20.1, 20.6
_____
45
Running total: 155
10.2- Jackson's DilemmaThe Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Combo- 5 (10.3)
Post total: 13
Season total: 30
10.7- Summer ShortsCaribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories by Stewart Brown
Combo-5 (20.1- published in 1990)
Post: 15
Season total: 45
10.7- Summer ShortsCaribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories by Stewart Brown
Combo-5 (20.1- published in 1990)
Post: 15
Season total: 45
20.1 Iris MurdochNo Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings by Raymond Carver
+20 task (1992)
+15 combo (10.3, 10.7, 20.6)
+ 5 multiple
+10 young (1938-1988)
+ 5 oldies
Task total=55
Grand total=140
20.7 Shakespeare Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
(Retelling of The Tempest)
+20 - Task
+20 - Combo (10.3, 10.6, 10.8, https://www.goodreads.com/series/158687 20.6 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hag-Seed)
Task Total - 40 pts
Season Total - 95 pts
20.8 Revisit a Friend (Lynn's Task)Lovesick Braves by Pamela Sanderson
+20 Task -- I first read the author in November 2018
+15 Combo (10.3 no I; 10.8 series; 20.6 at least nine named characters)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 130
15.1 Ratings Game25,000 - 74,999 Ratings
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
+15 Task (49,982 ratings)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 15
Look at me - posting in the first month of the season challenge!
15.2 Ratings Game250 - 999 Ratings
Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason by Anne Roiphe
+15 Task (290 ratings)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 30
Post 76 Deedee wrote: "Task 10.5 D-DayRead one of the top 100 from the list
Best Beginning
or one of the top 200 from the list
Best Ending
.
As of June 5, 2019:
Best Beginning
: #52
Best Ending
: #185
[b..."
Terry Pratchett is shown as the first author on nearly all of the covers and we carry this title under his name. Am adding this to 10.3 for No I.
20.1- Iris MurdochSheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon
Task : 20
Combo- 10 (10.2, 20.6)
Oldies: 5- published in 1988
Jumbo- 5 MPE: 506 pages
Post total: 40
Season total: 85
15.1 - Ratings GameBirds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear
● 1,000 - 4,999
●1,427 ratings 09 june 2019
task: +15
bonus: +5 (nonfiction)
task total: 20
season total: 20
15.2 - Ratings GameRules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
● 250 - 999
● 304 ratings 09 june 2019
task: +15
task total: 15
season total: 35
20.6 - CharactersMorning Glory Circle by Pamela Grandstaff
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.8)
+5 multiple
Task total: 35
Grand total: 105
20.6 - CharactersIris Avenue by Pamela Grandstaff
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.8)
+5 multiple
Task total: 35
Grand total: 140
10.7 Summer ShortsThe Monster, And Other Stories by Stephen Crane
+10 task (3 short stories)
+10 combo (10.3, 20.6)
+10 young (1871-1900)
+10 oldies (1898)
Task total=40
Grand total=180
50.1 Project RwSArmenia
An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
+50 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.1 pub'd 1965)
+ 5 Oldies
Task total = 60
Season total = 75
(There may be more than 9 named characters, but too few prominent enough for me to claim another combo for 20.6.)
20.3 Severed HeadWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher
Approved in help thread
+20 task
+10 (10.2, 20.6)
+10 young (https://www.huffpost.com/author/ian-d...)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 155
From Post 46Joanna wrote: "10.5 D-Day
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.3)
+10 Young
+10 Oldies (pub. 1915)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 50"
+5 Combo 10.4
From Post 52Karen Michele wrote: "20.7 Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.6 Characters
+25 Oldies
Task Total: 50
Season Total: 75"
+5 Combo 10.4
From post 72Anika wrote: "10.8 Series
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
+10 Task (thanks for the recommendation, Rosemary...what a great story and great characters!)
+10 Oldies (pub. 1930)
+20..."
+5 Combo 20.2
From Post 79June wrote: "10.7- Summer Shorts
Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories by Stewart Brown
Combo-5 (20.1- published in 1990)
Post: 15
Season total: 45"
Post 80 is a duplicate. I have ignored it, but if there should be another book/task there, please make a new post for us.
Also, +5 Oldies and +5 combo 10.3
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.4 The Black Prince
+10 Oldies (1800 / 1892): -76 to 150 years old: 10 points (1869-1943)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 25