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WI 21-22 Completed Tasks
15.2 - CiV 10Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum
{S-T-U} {261-300/661-700} {1888-1902}
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 35
10.6 NYE CountdownThe Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry #3) by Sujata Massey
TIME can be found in ThE boMbay prInce
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 - mystery & cultural; 20.4)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 185
15.2 CiV A-B, 101-140/501/540, 1873-1887
Milly Darrell by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
+20 Task
Season total = 135
10.3 LocationThe Marmalade Files (Harry Dunkley #1) by Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann
Approx. 90+% set in Australia
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - Time found in ThE Marmalade fIles; 20.4)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 205
10.6 NYE CountdownA Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
"TIME" found in "a lIfE on our planeT: My..."
Task=10
Aged=10
Post Total =20
Grand Total=35
10.9 DiscoveryWorld War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One by Sanjay Gupta
+10 task (interest in healthcare and biology)
+ 5 combo 10.6 NYE Countdown (second)
Task total: 15
Season total: 90
20.8 Dead Sea - authors initials found in "KHIRBAT QUMRAN"The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
+20 task
Post total: 20
Season total: 20
Welcome, Sue! You can include any books you've read since December 1 in this season's challenge.
10.6 NYE Countdown - contains "time"The Christmas House by Victoria James
+10 task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 30
10.7 - science fiction, mysteryThe Maze Runner by James Dashner - low lexile, no styles
+10 task
Task total: 10
Season total: 80
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20.4 Day of the JackelCastle Shade by Laurie R. King
20 pts 20.4 Day of the Jackel
5 pts 10.7 Genre Mystery Historical
Task total. 25 pts
Total Season: 85 pts
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15.3 CiVS-T-U, 141-180/541-580, 1933-1947
Signed, Picpus by Georges Simenon
+25 Task
Season total = 160
10.9 Discovery The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics by Stephen Breyer
10 pts 10.9 Discovery (Interest: History)
5 pts 10.2 Short
5 pts 10.6 NYE Countdown
10 pts Aged
Task total. 30 pts
Total Season: 115 pts
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15.3 CiV 10The Little Company by Eleanor Dark
+25 Task C-D, 301-340 pages, and 1933-1947
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 185
10.3 - IrelandThe Wish List by Eoin Colfer
low lexile, no styles
+10 task
Task total: 10
Season total: 90
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10.10 Group ReadsJamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
+10 task
+10 combo 20.4, 20.7 (the setting on Goodreads says Cornwall 1820. I am guessing that someone tied the year to the King’s proclamation establishing the coast watch)
+10 elderly
Task total: 30
Season total: 95
20.6 Hidden figuresThe Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.7, 10.10
+5 jumbo 576 pages
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 220
10.7 Genre-Rich (Coralie's Task)Hunting Prince Dracula (Stalking Jack the Ripper #2) by Kerri Maniscalco
YA - 820L
historical & mystery
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 - author's initials, KM, found in Khirbat quMran)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 220
10.1 List LoversResurrection Bay (Caleb Zelic #1) by Emma Viskic
Davitt Award (list)
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - 100% Australia; 10.7 - mystery & cultural; 20.4 - thriller)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 245
10.5 ZaneThe Sentence. Louise Erdrich
+10 task
+5 - combo (10.4)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 65 (includes 5 previously missed points)
10.5;10.6;10.8
20.7;
15.2 Christmas in Vegas 10The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
C-D
101-140/501-540
1948-1962
20 task
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20
Running total: 245
10.1 - List #106 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Task: 10
Combo: 10 (10.7; 20.4)
Post total: 20
Season total: 95 (noted loss of 10 for post with Skyward and gain of 10 for Aged in Zane)
10.7- Genre RichThe Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Historical and cultural on main page
Task: 10
Lost in translation:10 Book first published in German, my first language is English
Aged: 10 born in 1944
Post total: 30
Season total: 125
10.6- NYE CountdownHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Word found : HOUR
Task: 10
Post total: 10
Season total: 135
20.8 Dead SeaUnder the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.6 hour)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 110
10.5 ZaneEyes of the Hawk by Elmer Kelton
+10 task
+5 combo 20.2
+10 elderly
Task total: 25
Season total: 120
10.1 List LoversNational Book Awards 2021
https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-p...
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total:160
10.1 List LoversNational Book Awards 2021
https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-p...
Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek
+10 Task
+10 Lost in Translation
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 180
20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
+20 Task: There is enough text here to claim it for the task, but I will not claim styles. It fits the task as there is even some "information" about how Father Christmas got his surname.
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 230
20.9 Madame BovaryMr. Bedford and the Muses by Gail Godwin
+20 task
+10 combo (10.6-HOUR, 20.2)
+10 aged (1937-living)
Task total=40
Season total=190
20.4 Day of the JackalKilling Floor by Lee Child
+20 task (thriller genre)
+5 Jumbo (524 pages in MPE)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 35
10.6 NYE CountdownThe Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
+10 task (time)
Task total: 10
Season total: 100
Task 10.4 VocationRead any book that takes place in a library or bookstore OR a biography/memoir of a bookstore owner or librarian.
This is set in a bookstore named "The Cookbook Nook"
Final Sentence (Cookbook Nook Mystery #1) (2013) by Daryl Wood Gerber
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.4 MPG “thriller”)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 35 + 15 = 50
Task 20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)Read a book in which the author's first and last initial can be found in "KHIRBAT QUMRAN". Letters may only be used as often as they appear in those two words.
KhirbAt qumran
Mind Over Murder (Raven's Nest #1) (2011) by Allison Kingsley
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 set in bookstore)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 50 + 25 = 75
10.2 ShortByobu by Ida Vitale
+10 Task
+10 Aged
+10 Lost in Translation
Post Total: 30
Adjustments: 10
Season Total: 270
Post 119 Heather wrote: "10.3 - IrelandThe Wish List by Eoin Colfer
low lexile, no styles
+10 task
Task total: 10
Season total: 90
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Heather, this doesn't have a YA/Juvenile shelving at BPL. Are there styles you can claim for this?
15.1 -CiVFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
MPE: 433 (421-460/821-860); Published in 1874, G-H
Post: 15
Season total: 150
15.4 CiVOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
+30 Task A-B, 381-420/781-820 pages and 1993-2007
Points this post: 30
RwS total: -
CoA total: 90
Season Total: 90
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20.4 Day of the JackalCold Mourning (Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery #1) by Brenda Chapman
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - mystery & cultural)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 270
10.2 ShortThe Unfortunate Traveller; Or, the Life of Jack Wilton by Thomas Nashe
+10 Task (the linked edition with 136 pages was confirmed as the MPE)
+10 Combo (10.6 hour, 20.8)
+10 Canon
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 140
20.3 Frenchman’s CreekThe Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 240
10.5 ZaneCreede of Old Montana by Stephen Bly
+10 task
+10 Aged (Author 1944)
Post total: 20
Season total: 50
Sue wrote: "10.5 ZaneCreede of Old Montana by Stephen Bly
+10 task
+10 Aged (Author 1944)
Post total: 20
Season total: 50"
I'm sorry, Sue. Stephen Bly doesn't qualify for the Aged style because his lifetime was 1944-2011, or just 67 years. I was hoping to make up for at least part of these points with Jumbo, but the MPE is Large Print, so doesn't qualify. I don't see another style.
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+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.8)
+10 Aged (1840-1920)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 85