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WI 21-22 Completed Tasks
20.9 Madame Bovary Baking With Kafka by Tom Gauld
+20 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 20
Season total = 225
… ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
Task 20.4 Day of the JackalRead a book with a main page genre of "thriller".
As of today "thriller > mystery thriller" is bottom MPG.
Death Crashes the Party (A Liv And Di In Dixie Mystery #1) (2015) by Vickie Fee (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 285 pages)
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 200 + 20 = 220
Post 333 Kim wrote: "20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Read any book by one of these pulp fiction authors.
The Roman Hat Mystery. Ellery Queen
+20 task
+20 combo (10.6-Time, 10.7-..."
Sorry, Kim, this doesn't work for 10.6. I looked (at least 3 times!) and there is no "I" in the title.
Post 343 Kim wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsFirekeeper's Daughter. Angeline Boulley
+10 task
+10 combo (20.8, 20.4)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 290
10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;1..."
I'm sorry, Kim. This is a YA Fiction at BPL and has a Lexile of 720. Task, but no styles.
http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary....
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 333 Kim wrote: "20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Read any book by one of these pulp fiction authors.
The Roman Hat Mystery. Ellery Queen
+20 task
+20 co..."
Oops. Sorry
10.1 List LoversRead a book from: Books About Bookstores
The Bookshop of Second Chances. Jackie Fraser
+10 task
+10 combo (10.6 Second, 10.4)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 290 - 15 pts in error
Corrected Season Total: 275
10.1;10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9;10.10
20.1;20.7;20.9;20.10
10.1 List LoversRead a book from: Books About Bookstores
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. Gabrielle Zevin
+10 task
+5 combo (10.4)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 290
10.1;10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9;10.10
20.1;20.7;20.9;20.10
20.8 Dead SeaThe Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 – mystery & Science Fiction
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 605
10.6 NYE CountdownLes sentiments du prince Charles by Liv Strömquist
Time: Les sen time nts du prince Charles
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 235
… ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; 20.9 ; …
20.2 Keys to the KingdomSilenced by L.T. Meade
20 pts 20.2 Keys to the Kingdom
5 pts 10.8 Singles
Task total. 25 pts
Total Season: 465 pts
10.1 … 10.3 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
20.1 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 … … … … … …
10.5 ZaneThe Professor's House by Willa Cather
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Combo (10.6 – hour)
Post total: 25
Season total: 25
Claimed to date:
- - - - 10.5 - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
15.1 CiV 10Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (684 pages, pub’d 1915)
+15 Task (L-M, 261-300/661-700, 1903-1917)
Post total: 15
Season total: 40
Claimed to date:
- - - - 10.5 - - - - -
15.1 - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
10.1 List LoversPromise at Dawn by Romain Gary (List: 1001 books)
+10 Task
+10 Lost in Translation (translated from the French)
+5 Combo (10.6 – time)
Post total: 25
Season total: 65
Claimed to date:
10.1 - - - 10.5 - - - - -
15.1 - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
20.9 - Madame BovaryJane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
+20 task
+5 Combo - 20.4
Task total: 25
Grand total: 365
10.8 SinglesDarkness by Karen Robards
+10 task
+ 5 combo (thriller 20.4)
Post total: 15
Season total: 200
20.1 - Maid in WaitingThe Blackhouse by Peter May
+20 task
+10 Combo (10.7 - CUL, MYS; 20.4)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 405
.10.6 - NYEShorestone Murders. Book #1 of Detective Isobel Hester series by Karina Evans
+10 task - hour
Task total: 10
Grand total: 415
20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)Lori by Robert Bloch
+20 task
+20 combo (10.8, 20.2, 20.4, 20.8)
+10 aged (1917–1994)
Task total=50
Season total=525
Task 10.6 NYE CountdownRead a book in which all of the letters of one of the following words can be found in the title (including sub-titles): Time, Clock, Watch, Hour, Minute, Second
SECOND =
Super volCaNOEs: what they reveal about earth and the worlds beyonD
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond (2021) by Robin George Andrews (male) (Hardcover, 336 pages) [551.21]
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#20.8 "KHIRBAT QUM RA N”)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 220 + 15 = 235
20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)The Heartwood Hotel by Kerry McGinnis
author's initials, KM, found in Khirbat quMran
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 - 100% AU)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 945
10.7 - Genre-Rich (Coralie's Task)Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
❄️science fiction, mystery ❄️
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo [10.6 - time]
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 280
From Post 120Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
Jamaica 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 ..."
+5 Combo 20.3
10.7 Genre RichWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Historical, Cultural
+10 -Task
+10 - Aged (1810-1928 78yrs)
+10 - LiT
+10 - Canon
+25 - Jumbo (1392 pages)
Task total - 65 pts
20.8 Dead SeaThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
+20 task
+5 combo 10.6 TIME
+5 jumbo
Task total: 30
Season total: 260
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomSong for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip
+20 Task 2517 ratings, pub 1998
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 625
20.4 Day of the JackelThe Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
20 pts 20.4 Day od the Jackel
5 pts 10.7 Genre. MYSTERY HISTORICAL
Task total. 25 pts
Total Season: 490 pts
10.1 … 10.3 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
20.1 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 … … … … … …
20.9 Madame Bovary Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 - second : Harry Potter a nd the Chamber o f Sec rets)
+10 Lost in Translation (written in english, 1st language is french)
Task total = 35
Season total = 270
… ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 (x2) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; …
10.7 Genre-RichHiroshima by John Hersey
+10 task (cultural, historical)
+ 5 combo (10.8)
+10 aged (1914–1993)
Task total=25
Season total=550
20.1 Maid in WaitingMolloy by Samuel Beckett
#1 in trilogy
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - Ireland, 10.8, 20.9)
+10 aged ( 1906-1989 83yrs)
+10 Canon
+10 LiT ( originally published in French)
Task Total - 65 pts
15.10 CiVE-F, 381-420/781-820, 1918-1932
Helen Vardon's Confession by R. Austin Freeman
+ 85 Task
+100 CiV Finisher
Task total = 185
Season total = 710
10.1 List Lovers1001 list
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
lexile 1070
10 task
____
10
Running total: 555
10.6 NYE CountdownDepartment of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld
Time: Department of Mi nd-Blowing T h e ories
+10 Task
No style points, graphic novel
Task total = 10
Season total = 280
… ; 10.2 ; … ; … ; … ; 10.6 (x3) ; 10.7 (x3) ; 10.8 (x2) ; 10.9 ; …
15.1 ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; … ; …
… ; 20.2 ; … ; 20.4 ; … ; … ; … ; 20.8 ; 20.9 (x2) ; …
20.1 Maid in WaitingThe Isle of Gold by Seven Jane
+20 task (Daughters Jones Trilogy)
+5 Combo (20.3 PIRATES)
Post total: 25
Season total: 225
10.8 SinglesCandide by Voltaire
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 -129 pg, 20.3- at least 3 times in this short book main characters are captured by pirates and sold as slaves, 20.7- 1759)
+10 Aged (1694-1778 83yr)
+10 LiT
+10 Canon
Task Total-55 pts
10.8 - Singles (Rosemary's Task)Flashback by Nevada Barr
+10 Task
+15 Combo [10.7 - historical, mystery; 20.4 - MPG Thriller; 20.8 - initials NB]
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 305
20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire by Andrew Marshall
Task=20
Post Total =20
Grand Total=75 (not sure if this is correct total...seems I missed a correction or two somewhere)
From Post 319Norma wrote: "20.4 - Day of the Jackal
In Firm Pursuit by Pamela Samuels Young
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 340"
+5 Combo 10.7
From Post 330Connie wrote: "10.2 Short
The Chimes by Charles Dickens
+10 task
+ 5 combo NYE Countdown (time)
Task total: 15
Season total: 205"
+10 canon
From Post 335Tien wrote: "20.5 Wheels
Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot #12) by Agatha Christie
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 - thriller)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 835"
+5 Combo 20.10
From Post 339Tien wrote: "10.5 Zane
The Iron Marshal by Louis L'Amour
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - time found in ThE Iron Marhsal; 20.2 - pub. 1979 | 2,516 rating)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 30
Season..."
+5 Combo 20.10
10.1 List Lovers, "Best Short Stories" ListopiaChristmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
+10 Task
+5 Combo: 10.6 time = chrIsTMas storiEs
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
10.2 ShortThe Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon
+10 Task, 120 pages
+5 Combo: 10.6 time = The carryIng: poEMs
Task total: 15
Season total: 30
10.3 LocationThe Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
+10 Task, 100% set in Ireland
+5 Combo: 10.4
Task total: 15
Season total: 45
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20 pts 20.1 Maid in Waiting
5 pts 10.6 NYE Countdown TIME
5 pts 20.8 Dead Sea
Task total. 30 pts
Total Season: 440 pts
10.1 … 10.3 10.4 … … … … 10.9 …
20.1 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 15.3 … … … … … …