Reading with Style discussion

15.4 SU 24 Decathlon

Task 10.4 High Jump
Rating higher than 4.25

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Grand total: 105

15.5 SU 24 Decathlon

Task 10.9 Javelin Throw
Author initials in JAVELIN THROW

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Grand total: 120

15.17: SP12 Around the World
Read 10 books, set in 10 different countries, with no continent being visited more than twice.

Road No Good by Bridget Isichei
qualifies for New Zealand / Oceania as Isichei was born in New Zealand and it is her nationality BUT is set 95% + in VANUATU

Nth America, 1
Sth America, 2
Africa, 1
Oceania, 2
Asia, 1

+15 task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 350

15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.7
15.21; 15.22;

15.18: SP12 Around the World
Read 10 books, set in 10 different countries, with no continent being visited more than twice.

The Preacher by Camilla Läckberg
Sweden / Europe

Nth America, 1
Sth America, 2
Africa, 1
Oceania, 2
Asia, 1
Europe, 1

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 365

15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.7; 15.8;
15.21; 15.22;

15.5 Sub-Challenge # 1. FA 17 Reading Globally. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.

The Limits by Nell Freudenberger set in French Polynesia (at least 50%, the remainder in New York City.)

Task Total = 15

message by Joanna:

Post 43:
Nick wrote: "Sub-Challenge # 1. FA 17 Reading Globally. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.

15.3 United States. I read [book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?|169..."

+5 Oldies - pub. 1991

makes previous total = 65

Season Total = 80

Countries so far:

Turks & Caicos
Mexico
United States
Antarctica
French Polynesia

Second Sub-Challenge. WI 22-23, Alpha and Omega First and last letter of author's name are different, and no letters repeat.

15.11 OZ: The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio PaZ Octavio Paz

1st pub'd 1951 = + 5

Task Total = 20
Season Total = 100

15.15 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100=299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir

The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch

+15 Task, thE masqueRades Of spRINg

Task total: 15
Season total: 205

15.4 Su 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

Fall 2022:
20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

This year my age will be consecutive digits. Read any book whose original publication year is 2 consecutive digits. (e.g. 1944, 1880, 2006)

Meet Me Under the Ceiba by Silvio Sirias

+15 Task (pub'd 2008)

Season total = 130

Note: Takes place 100% in Nicaragua

15.16 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview
20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities


A Bad Place Alone by J.T. Viner

+15 task - Perth

Task total: 15
Grand total: 165

15.8 WI 22-23 Alpha Omega

Read 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.

The Call by Edith Ayrton Zangwill - E L

+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1924)

Task total = 20
Season total = 210

15.9 WI 22-23 Alpha Omega

Read 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.

James by Percival Everett - P T

+15 Task

Task total = 15
Season total = 225

15.5 SU 2023 Favorites

Read a book that fits a 20-point task from a previous season.

Fall 2017 20.6 Clergy

A clergyman is frequently an important character in Gothic fiction. Read any book where a member of the clergy is a main character. (You are not limited to Christianity for "clergy.")

The Scarlet and the Black: The True Story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, Hero of the Vatican Underground by J.P. Gallagher

+15 Task (biography of a Catholic priest)
+05 Old (1967)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 70+20=90

15.11 FA19 Pick N Mix 2

We have 6 categories (setting, publication date, narrator, genre, title and author name) divided into sub-categories.

The goal is to read 10 books that fit in 10 different sub-categories. No letter can be used more than twice and no number can be used more than twice.

The Coldest Case by Martin Walker

Sub category D2- Genre mystery

Task 15
Season total: 60

15.15 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"
El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Author's last initial: N-O
Page length: 341-380/741-780 (352)
Published date: 1905-1916 (1913)

+15 Task
+5 Old

Post total: 20
Season total: 165

15.2 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview
10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors


Too Good To Be True by Ann Cleeves

+15 task - 112 pgs

Task total: 15
Grand total: 180

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...

Science Fiction
Historical Fiction
Memoir

15.17 - Biography (also autobiography)

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 170

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...

Historical Fiction
Memoir

15.18 - Science Fiction

The Terranauts by T. Coraghessan Boyle

+15 Task
+ 5 Big

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 190

15.7 - FA 23 Celebration of Styles

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Young, born 1989 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_...)

+15 Task

Task total = 15

Points total = 125
FA 23 Celebration of Styles: 7/10
SU 22 BINGO: 1/10

15.6 WI 15-16 Book Dominoes
The Undesirables: Inside Nauru by Mark Isaacs
author's birthplace, UK, is the same as author's birthplace for 15.5 book

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Season total: 180

Note: 95% set in Nauru

15.5 Su 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

Fall 2022:
20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

This year my age will be consecutive digits. Read any book whose original publication year is 2 consecutive digits. (e.g. 1944, 1880, 2006)

The Roar of Morning by Tip Marugg

+15 Task (pub'd 1988)
+ 5 Before 2000

Task total = 20

Season total = 150

NOTE: Set about 60-65% in Netherlands Antilles

15.16 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member

Mad King Robin by James Vella-Bardon

+15 Task, James Vella-Bardon is a goodreads author

Task total: 15
Season total: 220

15.17 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year

77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists by Марічка Паплаускайте

+15 Task, number in title

Task total: 15
Season total: 235

15.18 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year => Wordle

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

+15 Task, author's name = 5 letters

Task total: 15
Season total: 250

15.19 SP 25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year => Wordle => Six

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

+15 Task, read a book with a 6 in first pub. date: 1623
+5 Old

Task total: 20
Season total: 270

15.9 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview
10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors


Lethal by Sandra Brown

+15 task - 472 pgs

Task total: 15
Grand total: 195

15.9 Fall 2023 Celebration of Styles

Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante

1001

15 task
5 oldie
______
20

Running total: 260

15.20 SP25 CYOA, Classics => 100-299 => Wine => Bordeaux => Renoir => Club Member => Year => Wordle => Six => Historical Fiction

Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James

+15 Task, MPG Historical Fiction

Task total: 15
+50 First Subchallenge Completion
Season total: 335

15.21 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth =>

The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes

+15 Task, city name contains all initials of author: DulutH

Task total: 15
Season total: 350

15.6 SU 23 Favorites

Read a book that fits a 20-point task from a previous season.

SP 20 20.8 My Cup of Tea (Owlette's Task)

Read a novel in which a character drinks or brews a cup of hot tea. Please include the sentence when claiming the book for points.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

+15 Task The MC owns a tea shop. The book has many tea sentences; for example: "Vera nods and takes a sip of her tea." (Ch. 6)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 90+15=105

Task 15.1 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

BASKETBALL
Option B

The Strange Case of Jane O. (2025) by Karen Thompson Walker (Hardback 278 pages)

p. 173: “A group of kids raced by, BASKETBALLS in their arms.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 20 + 15 = 35

15.7 WI 15-16 Book Dominoes
Sky Blue Sky by Mark Warford
author's first name is the same as author for 15.6 book

+15 Task

Post total: 15
Season total: 195

SU 19 Ratings Game- 2nd Challenge

Read 10 books by 10 different authors based on the number of ratings on GoodReads.

15.14

25,000 - 74,999 ratings

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams 31,354 ratings

+ 15 Task
+ 5 Oldie (published 1960)
Task Total 20
Season Total 100

15.5 Su 2023 Favorites

Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.

Fall 2022:
20.10 Birthday (Elizabeth (Alaska's) Task

This year my age will be consecutive digits. Read any book whose original publication year is 2 consecutive digits. (e.g. 1944, 1880, 2006)

Act of Faith by Michael Bowen

+15 Task (pub'd 1993)
+ 5 Before 2000

Task total = 20

Season total = 170

NOTE: Takes place about 85% in Burundi

15.1.
FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Paper Towns
(Lexile 850)
Setting USA
+ 15
Total: 15 points

15.2.

15.1.
FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

2. Dood water Toni Coppers
Setting: Belgium

+ 15
Total: 30 points

15.3.
FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Het sanatorium Sarah Pearse
Setting: Switzerland

15 points
Total: 45 points

15.4
FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Parijs Kiki van Dijk
Setting: France

Points:15
Total 60 points

15.5

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Goede zeden voor mooie meisjes Alexander McCall Smith
Setting: Zimbabwe

15 points
Total:75 points

15.6

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

De gentleman uit Peru André Aciman
Setting: Italy

15 points
Total 90 points

15.7

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Code Rebecca Ken Follett
Setting Egypt

15 points +5 old
Total: 110 points

15.8

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Het mysterieuze Kamogawa Café Hisashi Kashiwai
Setting : Japan

15 points
Total points: 125 points

15.9

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Ik was negen toen ik moest trouwen Nujood Ali 192 p. 4 july

Setting: Yemen

15 points
Total: 140 points

15.11

Fall 2016 How to Play Half and Half

De Kalahari Avondschool Alexander McCall Smith

points: 15 points
Total: 155 points

15.10 Fall 2023 Celebration of Styles

Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster

1001

15 task
5 oldie
50 finisher bonus
______
70

Running total: 330

Styles used list:
1001 = 4
LiT = 2
Aged = 1
Young = 2
NaN = 1

Task 15.2 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

GOLF
Option B

The Factory (2010) by Hiroko Oyamada (female); translated from Japanese by David Boyd

p. 60: “As a rule, the people sitting in chairs at the islands are quiet, but everyone joins the conversation when something like GOLF comes up.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 35 + 15 = 50

Task 15.3 Summer 2024 Olympic Scavenger

WRESTLING
Option B

How to Tail a Cat (The Cats and Curios Mystery #4) (2012) by Rebecca M. Hale (Paperback 298 pages)

p. 274: “She had at first refused to participate in Monty’s ill-conceived rescue operation, but the prospect of at least nominally complying with her uncle’s parting request – combined with the potential spectacle of her gangly-legged neighbor WRESTLING a live alligator – had proved too tempting to resist.”

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 50 + 15 = 65

15.10

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Het geschenk Gaea Schoeters
Set in Germany

15 points + 50 points (first subchallenge done) = 65 points
Total : 220 points

15.16 BINGO Summer 2022

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

15 pts 15.16 BINGO B3 Booker nominee

Total Task: 15 pts
Total Season: 115 pts

O75 15.11
O68 15.12
O65 15.13
O69 15.14
O63 15.15. BINGO 5 Os
B3 15.16

Post 188 Claire wrote: "15.5

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Goede zeden voor mooie meisjes (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #3) by Alexander McCall Smith"

Claire, I believe this book is set in Botswana, not Zimbabwe. You already have Belgium beginning with B so you will need to replace one of them, sorry!

Rosemary wrote: "Post 188 Claire wrote: "15.5

FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter

Goede zeden voor moo..."

I understand your comment. It is a bit strange, but the setting of these books get both Botswana and Zimbabwe (for instance for the first novel in the series). However as I see the point of discussion, I’ll replace it tomorrow by another book.