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15.14 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities
Sins of the Fathers by A.J. McCarthy
+15 task - Montreal
Task total: 15
Grand total: 90
15.4 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors
Blue Murder by Emma Jameson
+15 task - 200 pgs
Task total: 15
Grand total: 105
15.4: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles. ... Your books will fit at least four of the styles, with no more than 5 of any one style.
Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi
Young, 2, born 1978
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 95
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4;
15.11; 15.12
15.5: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles. ... Your books will fit at least four of the styles, with no more than 5 of any one style.
Hard Copy by Fien Veldman
LiT, translated from the Dutch
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 110
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5
15.11; 15.12
15.2 Growing GenresRead 10 books by 10 different authors. All 10 books should be from the same genre. Books must be published no fewer than 5 years apart and
must cover an overall
spread of at least 50
years.
Foundation
by Mercedes
Lackey
Genre Fantasy
Task +15
Grand total: 30
15.11 SU 24 Olympic Scavenger B – athletic
The word athletic in text
p267 Larry had not been athletic
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 30
15.2 - FA 23 Celebration of StylesThe Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Aged - born 1923, died 2014 at 90 years old
+15 Task
+5 Old (First published January 1, 1990)
Task total = 20
Points total = 35
15.3 WI 22-23 Alpha OmegaRead 10 books where the first letter of the author name and the last letter of the author name each uses a different letter of the alphabet. When an author name ends in an initial, the period will be ignored. You may not re-use letters.
Olivia in India by O. Douglas - O S
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1912)
Task total = 20
Season total = 70
15.11 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Murder in Vienna by E.C.R. Lorac
Author's last initial: L-M
Page length: 261-300/661-700 (272)
Published date: 1953-1964 (1956)
+15 Task
+5 Old
Post total: 20
Season total: 50
15.12 FA 2015 Travel the United StatesRead 10 books from 10 different states
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Set in WI.
Task total: 15
Season total: 70
15.6 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors
Y by Mandy Lee
+15 task - 336 pgs
Task total: 15
Grand total: 120
15.13: SP12 Around the WorldRead 10 books, set in 10 different countries, with no continent being visited more than twice.
Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries by Tonya Kappes
USA / North America
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 125
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5
15.11; 15.12; 15.13
15.13 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionC4.Read a book by an author who has published in at least 3 forms (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play, etc)
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
15 task
______
15
Running total: 130
15.3 WI 15-16 Book DominoesFinger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi
Born in Japan: Asako Yuzuki for 15.2 book & above author as per below
https://books.google.com.au/books/abo...
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 65
Note: 100% set in Papua New Guinea
15.12 SU 24 Olympic Scavenger B – basketball
The word basketball in text
Chapter 5 Jo John was a celebrity, a basketball player of amazing ability.
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1998)
Post total: 20
Season total: 50
15.6: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles. ... Your books will fit at least four of the styles, with no more than 5 of any one style.
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
LiT 2, Translated from the Turkish
+15 task
+5 oldies (1943)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 145
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6;
15.11; 15.12; 15.13
15.3 - FA 23 Celebration of StylesLà où dorment les Géants by Maurane Mazars
Young - born 1991 (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurane...)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 50
15.4 SU24 Olympic ScavengerHarry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo
GOLF Option B, find the word in the text: "Gladys followed in the golf cart she uses to get around the farm."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 65
15.11 SP25 CYOA, ClassicsOur Town by Thornton Wilder
+15 Task, read a book with MPG "Classics"
+5 Old, pub. 1938
Task total: 20
Season total: 85
15.12 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
+15 Task, MPE has 298 pages
+5 Old, pub. 1595
Task total: 20
Season total: 105
Tien wrote: "15.11 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Murder in Vienna by E.C.R. Lorac
Author's last initial: L-M
Page length: 261-300/661-700 (272)
Published date: 1953-1964 (1956)..."
When I click on the book details for the book, it shows the author as Martha Bond, not E.C.R. Lorac. Did you mean to attach a different book for this author? Or is this the correct title you read and you need to change your CiV claim to reflect the author's correct last initial?
Sub Challenge #1Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22 by Kate
For tasks 15.1 – 15.10, your task is to read ten award-winning books from the lists on the linked spreadsheet below, without repeating an award.
15.2 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (British, fiction & biography)
Harvest by Jim Crace
+15 Task: Winner 2014
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 30
Sub Challenge #2 Spring Cleaning from Spring 2011 by Sam
Has your TBR shelf become unmanageable? Well, this spring, we're giving you the perfect excuse to dust off some of those books you've always meant to get to but never have. "Spring Cleaning" is about reading ten books from ten different genres. The categories are...
Mystery/Thriller
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Supernatural
Romance OR Horror
Drama
Biography (also autobiography)
Memoir
General Non-Fiction
15.11- Supernatural -
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 45
Sub Challenge #2Spring Cleaning from Spring 2011 by Sam
Has your TBR shelf become unmanageable? Well, this spring, we're giving you the perfect excuse to dust off some of those books you've always meant to get to but never have. "Spring Cleaning" is about reading ten books from ten different genres. The categories are...
Mystery/Thriller
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Romance OR Horror
Biography (also autobiography)
Memoir
General Non-Fiction
15.12 - Drama -
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
+15 Task
+ 5 Old
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 65
Sub Challenge #2Spring Cleaning from Spring 2011 by Sam
Has your TBR shelf become unmanageable? Well, this spring, we're giving you the perfect excuse to dust off some of those books you've always meant to get to but never have. "Spring Cleaning" is about reading ten books from ten different genres. The categories are...
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Romance OR Horror
Biography (also autobiography)
Memoir
General Non-Fiction
15.13 - Mystery/Thriller
You Killed Me First by John Marrs
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 80
15.3 Su 2023 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.
Fall 2022: 20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task)
Read a book in which the author's initials appear in alphabetical order.
The Bone Hacker by Kathy Reichs
+15 Task
Season total: 65
This book takes place about 80% in Turks and Caicos.
15.14 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionC1. Read a book by an author you have not read before
Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic
15 task
5 oldie
____
20
Running total: 150
15.6 Fall 2023 Celebration of StylesThe Potter's Field by Ellis Peters
aged
15 task
5 oldie
_____
20
Running total: 170
15.13 FA 2015 Travel the United StatesRead 10 books, each set in a different US State.
How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
Set in ME.
Task total: 15
Season total: 85
15.5 SU24 Olympic ScavengerAll Systems Red by Martha Wells
CYCLE OR CYCLING Option B, Find the exact word in the text:
"I had worked for some contracts that would have kept me standing here the entire day and night cycle, just on the off chance they wanted me to do something."
Task total: 15
Season total: 120
15.3 Fall 2016 Half and HalfAuthor's Initials are found in the first half of the alphabet
Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
Approved in the Summer Questions discussion
Points this task 15
Season Total 45
15.15 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionC2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: > Muriel Spark
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
15 task
______
15
Running total: 185
15.11 Summer 21 subchallenge summer task overviewIntriguesby Mercedes Lackey
328 pp
300-349
Task +15
Grand total: 45
Anika wrote: "Tien wrote: "15.11 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Murder in Vienna by E.C.R. Lorac
Author's last initial: L-M
Page length: 261-300/661-700 (272)
Published date: 195..."
Apologies, I didn't include the numbers to link to the correct book but I've fixed that now
& thanks, Elizabeth
15.4 WI 15-16 Book DominoesDeadly Rivalry in Tonga by Kerry James
publication date of 2021 is within same decade of 15.3 book (2023)
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 65
Note: 100% set in Tonga
15.4 - FA 23 Celebration of StylesGrandville Mon Amour by Bryan Talbot
Lost in Translation (written in english, native language french)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 65
15.7: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles. ... Your books will fit at least four of the styles, with no more than 5 of any one style.
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
Aged, 86
Young, 2
LiT, 2
Nan, 2
Aged, 1
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 160
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7
15.11; 15.12; 15.13
15.8: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles. ... Your books will fit at least four of the styles, with no more than 5 of any one style.
The Traitor by Jørn Lier Horst
LiT, Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce
Young, 2
LiT, 3
Nan, 2
Aged, 1
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 175
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8;
15.11; 15.12; 15.13
15.16 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionA3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 Names
The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith
15 task
_____
15
Running total: 200
15.12 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1) by P.G. Wodehouse
Author's last initial: V-W-X-Y-Z
Page length: 221-260/621-660 (256)
Published date: 1917-1928 (1919)
+15 Task
+5 Old
Post total: 20
Season total: 85
15.9: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles. ... Your books will fit at least four of the styles, with no more than 5 of any one style.
Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Non Western ,Venzuela
Young, 2
LiT, 3
Nan, 2
Aged, 1
Non Western, 1
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 190
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9;
15.11; 15.12; 15.13
Sub Challenge 115.4 Fall 2016-Half and Half
Sharpe's Company by Bernard Cornwell
Task Total 15
Season Total 60
Sub Challenge #2Spring Cleaning from Spring 2011 by Sam
Has your TBR shelf become unmanageable? Well, this spring, we're giving you the perfect excuse to dust off some of those books you've always meant to get to but never have. "Spring Cleaning" is about reading ten books from ten different genres. The categories are...
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Biography (also autobiography)
Memoir
General Non-Fiction
15.14 - Romance OR Horror - Romance
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 95
Sub Challenge #2Spring Cleaning from Spring 2011 by Sam
Has your TBR shelf become unmanageable? Well, this spring, we're giving you the perfect excuse to dust off some of those books you've always meant to get to but never have. "Spring Cleaning" is about reading ten books from ten different genres. The categories are...
Science Fiction
Historical Fiction
Biography (also autobiography)
Memoir
General Non-Fiction
15.15 - Fantasy -
Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 110
Sub Challenge #1Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22 by Kate
For tasks 15.1 – 15.10, your task is to read ten award-winning books from the lists on the linked spreadsheet below, without repeating an award.
15.3 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (US) (winners and nominees)
The Trees by Percival Everett
+15 Task: Nominee 2022
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 125
15.6 SU24 Olympic ScavengerThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
SWIM OR SWIMMING Option B, Find the exact word in the text:
"He inherited a big old house that he has no interest in--sloping grounds, ponds, a swimming pool."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 135
15.13 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => WineHamlet by William Shakespeare
Gertrude drinks the (poisoned) wine intended for Hamlet during his duel with Laertes.
+15 Task
+5 Old
Task total: 20
Season total: 155
15.12 Fall 2023: Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
Lost in Translation, Non Western, 1001, Canon, Not a Novel, Aged, Young-2
The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović (b. 1980)
+15 Task (Young)
Season total: 80
Set about 75% in Slovenia.
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20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities
Changing Fortunes by Veronica Mixon
+15 task - Orlando
Task total: 15
Task total: 75