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15.17 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author Edition A5. Author publishes using initials and surname
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
15 task
_____
15
Running total: 360
15.23 FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category: lost in translation
Bot voor bot
Kathy Reichs
How it fits: I read the Dutch version of the English book
15 points + 5 points old (1997) + 5 points big (509 p.)
Total: 310 points
15.24FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category: lost in translation
Bot voor bot
Kathy Reichs
How it fits: I read the Dutch version of the Swedish book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...)
15 points
Total: 325 points
15.18 BINGO Summer 2022On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
15 pts 15.18 BINGO B4 Before: Historical Fiction
Total Task: 15 pts
Total Season: 145 pts
O75 15.11
O68 15.12
O65 15.13
O69 15.14
O63 15.15. BINGO 5 Os
B3 15.16
I21 15.17
B4 15.8
15.25FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Anita Witzier
Category: not a novel
How it fits: collection of 60 thank you letters to people in her life
15 points
Total: 340 points
15.22 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Genre: Memoir
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 345
15.4 SU 18 Listopia TagRead 10 books found on 10 different Listopia lists using different list 'tags' for selection.
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
52 Book Club 2024: #11 Starting With The Letter "K"
Tag: 52
Task +15
Big +5
Task total: 20
Season total: 95
message by Rosemary:Post 216 Nick wrote: "Second Sub-Challenge. WI 22-23, Alpha and Omega First and last letter of author's name are different, and no letters repeat.
15.12 FT: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
..."
+5 Big - the MPE has 669 pages
New Total = 125
15.13 Second Sub-challenge. Winter 2022-23 Alpha and Omega-- My Original Thinking --The book I am basing this sub-challenge around is The Deluge by Stephen Markley. At 896 pp, I want to feature it.
I finally got it all read.
SY Stephen MarkleY The Deluge by Stephen Markley
Letters used so far: F O S T Y Z
Task Points = 15
896 pp = + 5
Task Total = 20
Season Total = 145
15.14 Second Sub-Challenge. Winter 2022-23 Alpha and OmegaDN Diane KeatoN Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton
Letters used so far: D F N O S T Y Z
Task Total = 15
Season Total = 160
Sub-Challenge # 1. FA 17 Reading Globally. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.15.6 Greece -- Outline by Rachel Cusk
Task: +15
Grand Total: 175
Countries so far:
Turks & Caicos
Mexico
United States
Antarctica
French Polynesia
Greece
15.15 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
Lost in Translation - 1, Non Western, 1001, Canon, Not a Novel - 1, Aged - 1, Young-2
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars
+15 Task (Not a Novel)
Season total = 200
NOTE: This takes place about 95% in Guyana.
15.23 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"Cold Blood (Aidan Snow #1) by Alex Shaw
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 360
15.19 BINGO Summer 2022Death of Mr. Dodsley by John Ferguson
15 pts 15.19 BINGO I30 Book pub'd in the 30s, any century
5 pts Old
Total Task: 20 pts
Total Season: 165 pts
O75 15.11
O68 15.12
O65 15.13
O69 15.14
O63 15.15. BINGO 5 Os
B3 15.16
I21 15.17
B4 15.18
I30 15.19
15.8 SU 23 FavoritesRead a book that fits a 20-point task from a previous season.
FA 23 20.9 Popular Science
In honor of Ed Yong, read a book with an MPG of Science and has a rating of at least 3.75.
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
+15 Task MPG Science/4.15
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 125+15=140
15.24 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"Daughters of Flood and Fury (Stormbringer #2) by Gabriella Buba
Genre: Fantasy
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 375
15.16 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Sartoris by William Faulkner
Author's last initial: E-F
Page length: 461-500/861-900 (467)
Published date: 1929-1940 (1929)
+15 Task
+5 Old
Post total: 20
Season total: 395
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.
15.8 Walter Scott Prize (Historical Fiction) (winners and nominees)
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
+15 Task: Nominee 2019
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 275
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.
15.9 National Book Award (US - winners only)
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
+15 Task: Winner 2019
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 290
15.7 FA 24 Scrabble1 point U1 - Published in the 10s in any century
Emma by Jane Austen
Published in 1815
+15 task
+ 5 old
Task total: 20
Season total: 215
15.26FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Wij
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Category: 1001 books
How it fits: on the list of 1001 books
15 points + 5 old (1924)
Total: 360 points
15.27FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
De stilte van de witte stad
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
Category: lost in translation
How it fits: translated from Spanish
15 points + 5 big (522 p.)
Total: 380 points
15.28FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
De logeerkamer
Helen Garner
Category: old
How it fits: author born in 1942
15 points
Total: 395 points
15.23 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St. Marie => TorontoSitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
+15 Task, ToRonto
Task total: 15
Season total: 415
15.17 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Constable on the Hill (Constable Nick Mystery #1) by Nicholas Rhea
Author's last initial:P-Q-R
Page length: 181-220/581-620 (189)
Published date: 1977-1988 (1979)
+15 Task
+5 Old
Post total: 20
Season total: 415
15.15 Second Sub-Challenge. Winter 2022-23 Alpha and OmegaAR -- Alison WeiR Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir.
Letters used so far: A D F N O R S T Y Z
Task Total = 15
Season Total = 190
Post 232 Claire wrote: "15.21 FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
Onder vrienden by Linea Maja Ernst "
Claire, you already used this book in post 202. Please make a new post for this task when you're ready with a different book.
Post 235 Joanne wrote: "2nd Game SU 19 Ratings Game 15.15 A book with ratings between 15,000 - 24,999
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman"
+5 Old (1993)
Post 248 Joanne wrote: " Sub Challenge 2 SU 19 Ratings Game15.16- A book that has between 10,000 - 14,999 Ratings
The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence"
I think your total here should be 140:
120 from post 235 + 15 from this post + 5 from my previous post (279) = 140
Sub Challenge #1 CompletedEyes 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.
15.10 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award US, Black authors - all categories (winners and nominees)
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
+15 Task: Nonfiction Nominee 2021
Task Total: 15
Suchallenge Finish #1: 50
Post Total: 65
Season Total: 355
15.8 - FA 23 Celebration of StylesAge of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
non-western – Indian writer, born in India - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepti_...
+15 Task
+5 Big (544 pages)
Task total = 20
Points total = 145
FA 23 Celebration of Styles: 8/10
SU 22 BINGO: 1/10
15.9 - FA 23 Celebration of StylesMarcie - Le point de bascule by Cati Baur
Not a novel (graphic novel)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 160
FA 23 Celebration of Styles: 9/10
SU 22 BINGO: 1/10
In exchange for post 232 15.21
FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category: Young
Wings
Aprilynne Pike
Born in 1980 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprilyn...)
15 points
Total: 270 points
15.18 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionC3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more).
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
15 task
5 oldie
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20
Running total: 380
15.25 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge
Genre: Biography
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 430
Rosemary wrote: "Post 248 Joanne wrote: " Sub Challenge 2 SU 19 Ratings Game15.16- A book that has between 10,000 - 14,999 Ratings
The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence..."
Thanks. made the correction
15.26 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Genre: Drama
+15 Task
+5 Old (pub 1998)
Post total: 20
Season total: 450
15.8 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors
Last Seen by J.T. Ellison
+15 task - 447 pgs
Task total: 15
Grand total: 210
15.5 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors
The Girl in Area One by Eva Blue
+15 task - 260 pgs
Task total: 15
Grand total: 225
15.10 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
+15 task - 960 pgs
+5 +500 pgs
+50 bonus
Task total: 70
Grand total: 295
15.9 SU 23 FavoritesRead a book that fits a 20-point task from a previous season.
FA 18 20.10 Fall Equinox (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Fall Equinox contains all 5 vowels. Read any book whose title contains all of the letters A-E-I-O-U. The book may have a subtitle, but all of the letters should be in the title.
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen
+15 Task On hEr mAjesty's frIghtfUlly
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 140+15=155
15.8 Summer 2023: FAVORITESRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons. You must state the season and the task (number and brief description) when posting your book claim.
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)
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
+15 Task (pub'd 2008)
Season total = 215
I was hoping this was set in Swaziland, but it is set nearly entirely in South Africa.
NOTE to Mods: I see I misnumbered my Post 183, which should have been 15.6. I trust you caught that, but just in case ...
Task 15.06 Summer 2024 Olympic ScavengerBOXING
Option B
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron (Jane Austen Mysteries #10) (2010) by Stephanie Barron (Paperback 339 pages)
p. 76: “His was a raddled and dissipated face, much cragged and lined; he was famous for his patronage of the Fancy – the sport of BOXING – for his military service during the late war in the American colonies; and for his general lack of sense.”
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 95 + 15 = 110
15.2 Spring 2013 How to Play 20th CenturyThat's SO 20th Century: Read 10 books originally published in any 10 consecutive years from 1901-2000 with no author being read more than once
The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer by David Fairchild
I am reading 1937-1946
15 pts 15.2 1938
5 pts Old
Total Task: 20 pts
Total Season: 185 pts
1937. The Citadel by A.J. Cronin
1938. The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer by David Fairchild
15.12 FA19 Pick N Mix 2We 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.
A Chateau Under Siege by Martin Walker
A3-set in France
Sub-categories used F4, D2 and A3.
Task: 15
Season total: 110
15.29 FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS style
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
De countdown
Ken Follett
Category: lost in translation
How it fits: read it in dutch translated from English
15 points + 5 points old
Total: 415 points
15.19 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionA4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
15 task
______
15
Running total: 395
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...
15.20 - Memoir
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Sub Challenge Finish #2: 100
Post Total: 115
Season Total: 470
15.30 FA 23 How to Play Celebration of Styles
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS style
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
De huisgenote
Gemma Rogers
Category: young
How it fits: author was 39 in 2019, so born in 1980,
https://www.rhuncovered.co.uk/crawley...
15 points
+100 points secon challenge completed
Total: 530 points
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Read 10 books by different authors. Each author must fill a different criterion.
B4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00)
Winter in Thrush Green by Miss Read (1913-2012)
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1961)
Task total = 20
Season total = 350