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WI 21-22 Completed Tasks
20.7 John AdamsLogic of the Heart by Patricia Veryan
+20 Task set 1818
+5 combo 20.2
+10 Aged
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 910
10.9 Discovery Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
a nice intersection of my interests in science (in general, biology in particular), and feminism
10 task
5 combo 10.6
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15
Running total: 710
20.8 - Dead SeaKISS (A Friends-to- Lovers Billionaire Romance): A Winter's Tale Series Book I by Kristi Tailor
+20 task - KT
+5 10.8
Task total: 25
Grand total: 570
20.4 Day of the JackalShadows in Death by J.D. Robb
❄️ MPG Thriller ❄️
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo [10.7 - mystery & science fiction]
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 495
10.4 VocationThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
+10 Task (lots onboard the Literary Apothecary and in other bookshops)
+10 Lit (original German)
Task total = 20
Season total = 875
10.10 Group ReadsThe Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
10 pts 10.10 Group Reads
5 pts 10.6 NYE Countdown TIME
5 pts 10.7 Genre Rich SCIENCE FICTION CULTURAL
Task total. 20 pts
Total Season: 815 pts
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 … 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 10.10
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 … 20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 … … … … … …
20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)Murder Most Fancy (Indigo #2) by Kellie McCourt
author's initials, KM, found in Khirbat quMran
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 - 100% AU)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1,140
Task 10.8 Singles (Rosemary's Task)Read a book with a one-word title (no subtitles) or a book whose author has just one name (for example Homer, Stendhal, Colette, Saki).
Bull (2017) by David Elliott (Young Adult)
Low Lexile so no styles.
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 305 + 10 = 315
15.8 CiV 10The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
+65 Task G-H, 101-140/501-540, and 1918-1932
Points this post: 65
RwS total: 95
CoA total: 290
Season Total: 385
.... .... .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 .... ....
20.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... 20.8 .... ....
CiV 15.1Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
276p.; pub. 2017
S-T-U
261-300/661-700p.
pub. 2008-2022
Task=15
Task Total=15
Grand Total= 140
20.8 Dead SeaThe Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
+20 Task A and H both in KHIRBAT QUMRAN
+5 Combo 20. 4 Day of the Jackal - thriller
Task Total: 25 pts
Grand Total: 120 pts
15.5 CiV 10The Ambassadors by Henry James
+35 Task I-J-K, 101-140/501-540 pages (528), and 1903-1917
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 605
20.8 Dead SeaOne Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.6 hour)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 635
15.8 - CiV 10 Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
{L-M} {141-180/541-580} {1903-1917}
Post Total: 65
Season Total: 560
Post 554 Norma wrote: "20.8 - Dead SeaKISS (A Friends-to- Lovers Billionaire Romance): A Winter's Tale Series Book I by Kristi Tailor
+20 task - KT
+5 10.8
Task total: 25
Grand total:..."
To all: the MPE has no subtitle, etc. as does the link in this post. Yes, it counts for 10.8.
10.8 SingleCrush by Frédéric Dard
+10 Task
+15 Combo 10.7 - mystery/cultural, 20.2, 20.4)
+10 LiT (French)
+10 Aged (1921-2000)
Task total = 45
Season total = 920
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomThe Lives of Things by José Saramago
+20 Task 1896 ratings, pub 1978
+10 Aged
+10 LiT published in Portuguese
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 950
10.2 ShortArcana - vol. 01/4: Le coven du tarot by Serena Blasco
120 pages
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 415
… ; 10.2 (x3) ; … ; 10.4 ; … ; 10.6 (x4) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; …
10.3 LocationThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Set in Dublin, Ireland
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - hour: t h e p u ll o f the sta r s ; 10.7 - historical, cultural)
+10 Lost in Translation (written in english, first language is french)
Task total = 30
Season total = 445
… ; 10.2 (x3) ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; … ; 10.6 (x4) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; …
15.9 CiV 10The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker
+75 Task V-W-X-Y-Z , 461-500/861-900, and 2008-2022
Points this post: 75
RwS total: 95
CiV total: 365
Season Total: 460
.... .... .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 ....
20.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... 20.8 .... ....
20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
+20
+10 Combo (10.6 Hour, 10.7 Historical/Cultural )
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 125
CiV total: 365
Season Total: 490
.... .... .... .... .... 10.6 .... 10.8 .... ....
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 ....
20.1 .... .... .... .... .... .... 20.8 20.9 ....
Task 15.5{N-O} {181-220/581-620} {1948-1962}
The Suffrage of Elvira (1958) by V.S. Naipaul (Paperback, 206 pages)
+35 Task
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 315 + 35 = 350
10.4 VocationThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (much of the novel takes place in the labyrinthine and mysterious monastic library)
+10 Task
+10 Lost in Translation (from the Italian)
+10 Aged
+5 Jumbo (536 pages)
+5 Combo (10.7 – Historical, cultural, mystery)
Post total: 40
Season total: 195
Claimed to date:
10.1(2x) - - 10.4 10.5 10.6(2x) 10.7 - - -
15.1 15.2 - - - - - - - -
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20.2 Keys to the KingdomEve's Diary by Mark Twain
+20 Task, first pub 1905 with 2,101 ratings
+10 Aged, 1835-1910
+20 Combo: 10.2--109 pages; 10.5; 20.8; 20.10
Task total: 50
Season total: 420
20.3 Frenchman's CreekHoward Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Season total: 440
20.10 PulpSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
+20 Task
+10 Aged, 1920-2012
+15 Combo: 10.4--the two main locations (which essentially represent heaven and hell respectively) are the library and the carnival; 10.6--time = ThIs coMEs; 20.8
Task total: 45
Season total: 485
15.5 CiV10The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, pub 1969, 470 pages
E-F/461-500, 861-900/1963-1977
+35 Task
Task total: 35
Season total: 520
15.6 CiV10Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, pub 2006, 296 pages
L-M/261-300, 661-700/1993-2007
+40 Task
Task total: 40
Season total: 560
10.9 DiscoveryQuilting Is My Therapy: Behind the Stitches with Angela Walters by Angela Walters
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.2--144 pages; 10.6--time = Is My ThErapy
Task total: 20
Season total: 580
10.2 ShortDu Côté de L’Olympe by Denis Lindon
128 pages
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 455
… ; 10.2 (x4) ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; … ; 10.6 (x4) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; …
20.10 PulpThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.9)
+10 Lost in Translation (written in english, first language is french)
+10 Canon
Task total = 45
Season total = 500
… ; 10.2 (x4) ; 10.3 ; 10.4 ; … ; 10.6 (x4) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; 10.10
15.1 ; 15.2 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; 20.5 ; … ; 20.7 ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; 20.10
Update to Post 511:The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
+10 LiT (original language French)
This post: 10
Grand total: 160
20.2 Keys to the KingdomTopping from Below by Laura Reese
+20 Task (pub. 1995; 1734 ratings)
+10 Combo (10.6 - Time, 20.4 - Thriller MPG)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 190
20.6 Hidden FiguresRead a book that has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1973)
The Water is Wide. Pat Conroy
+20 task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 415
10.1;10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9;10.10
20.1;20.2;20.3;20.4;20.6;20.7;20.8;20.9;20.10
20.4 Day of the JackalThe Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 hour, 10.7 mystery/historical, 20.8)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 670
20.9 Madame BovaryJennings Goes to School by Anthony Buckeridge
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.2, 20.8)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 710
20.9 Madame BovaryHercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
+20 Task
+20 Combo: 10.6--time = hErcule chrIsTMas; 20.4; 20.5; 20.10
Task total: 40
Season total: 620
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 528 Karen Michele wrote: "10.7 Genre-Rich (Coralie's Task)The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
+10 Task: Historical + Cultural
+. 5 Combo: 10.2 Short
Task Total:..."
Thanks! I changed my post around to claim the book for 20.6 - I hope that won't mess anything up. Let me know if I need to claim it differently.
20.5 WheelsBeyond This Place by A.J. Cronin
+20 task
+15 combo (10.6-SECOND, 20.2, 20.4)
+10 aged (1896–1981)
Task total=45
Season total=800
20.5 WheelsThe Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
+20 task
+10 combo 10.6 NYE Countdown (hour); 20.7 John Adams (set around 1825 per Wikipedia)
+ 5 jumbo (576 pages)
Task total: 35
Season total: 380
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+20 Task
+10 combo 10.8, 20.2
+10 Aged
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 875