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15.20 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionA1. Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters
Fool's Gold by Maro Douka
15 task
5 oldie
100 2nd finish
______
120
Running total: 515
Task 15.07 Summer 2024 Olympic ScavengerHORSE
Option B
p. 127: “A few of my students – the loners and the misfits, the ones without a gang of friends to HORSE around with in the hall – were already at their desks, and more started trickling in by twos and threes, nodding at me as they entered but seldom answering my ‘Good morning’.”
Three Days in June (2025) by Anne Tyler
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 110 + 15 = 125
15.16 Second Sub-Challenge. Winter 2022-23 Alpha and OmegaVL -- Vaclav HaveL The Garden Party and Other Plays by Václav Havel
Letters used so far: A D F L N O R S T V Y Z
Task Points + 15
Oldie + 5 (1st pub'd 1967)
Task Total = 20
Season Total = 210
15. 31 WI 10-11 How to Play "Backpacking through Europe"
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Air traveler
Markering
Fríða Ísberg
Set in Iceland
15 points
Total: 545 points
15.22 - FA 21 How to Play Counting on AuthorsRead 10 books by 10 different authors* where the letters (no spaces or punctuation counted) in the entire published name are:
9 or fewer letters
10 letters
11 letters
12 letters
13 letters
14 letters
15 letters
16-17 letters
18-19 letters
20 or more letters
All the Shiny Things by Robin Mahle
+15 task - 10 letters
Task total: 15
Grand total: 310
15.23 - FA 21 How to Play Counting on AuthorsRead 10 books by 10 different authors* where the letters (no spaces or punctuation counted) in the entire published name are:
9 or fewer letters
10 letters
11 letters
12 letters
13 letters
14 letters
15 letters
16-17 letters
18-19 letters
20 or more letters
Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
+15 task - 11 letters
Task total: 15
Grand total: 325
15.16 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 - 1, 1001, Canon, Not a Novel - 1, Aged - 1, Young-2
The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud
+15 Task (Non Western, Daud being born/citizen of Brunei Darussalam)
Season total: 230
Note: set 100% in Brunei Darussalam
And a further note, even though this turns this country green, I can recommend this to those of you who lean toward folk tales. I loved it, and I'm not a reader of that genre.
Task 15.08 Summer 2024 Olympic ScavengerROWING
Option B
Quoting Charles Babbage’s Autobiography:
p. 105:
“I was very fond of boating, not of the more manual labour of ROWING, but the more intellectual art of sailing.”
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age (2013) by James Essinger [510.92]
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 125 + 15 = 140
Sub-Challenge # 1. FA 17 Reading Globally. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.15.7 Cocos (Keeling) Islands -- The Clunies-Ross Cocos Chronicle by John C Clunies-Ross
Task: +15
Grand Total: 225
Countries so far:
Turks & Caicos
Mexico
United States
Antarctica
French Polynesia
Greece
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Post 293 Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "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 ..."Got it now! Thank you!
Post 297 Claire wrote: "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/......"
+5 Old (2000)
15.17 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
Garden Of Lies by Jemma Stark
+15 task - New Orleans
Task total: 15
Grand total: 340
2nd Game SU 19 Ratings Game15-7 1000-4,999 Ratings
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Don Robertson
1,201 Ratings
Task 15
Oldie 5 (published 1965)
Task Total 20
Season Total 160
2nd Game SU 19 Ratings Game15-19 250 - 999 Ratings
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 byRick Atkinson
Note: rating of 615, at start of the book confirmed in message 51 in Questions
Task Points 15
Big 5 (880 pages)
Total Task 20
Season Total 180
Rosemary wrote: “‘+5 Old (2000)” Thank you. I changed the following posts with the correct counting of points.
15.15 Fall 2013 Pick ‘n’ MixFor this challenge, there are 6 categories (A-F) each divided into 6 sub-categories (1-6). For each task, read a book that fits a sub-category. No letter and no number can be used more than twice. Used so far, including this task: A C D E F 1 2 3 5 5 so these remain: A B B C D E F 1 2 3 4 4 6 6.
F1 (F=Translated from, 2=Russian/Czech/Polish/Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
+15 Task (Czech)
+5 Old (1979)
Post total: 20
Season total: 170
15.16 Fall 2013 Pick ‘n’ MixFor this challenge, there are 6 categories (A-F) each divided into 6 sub-categories (1-6). For each task, read a book that fits a sub-category. No letter and no number can be used more than twice. Used so far, including this task: A C C D E F 1 2 3 4 5 5 so these remain: A B B D E F 1 2 3 4 6 6.
C4 (C=Page Length, 4=250-350 pages)
Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life by Shigehiro Oishi
+15 Task (256 pages)
Post total: 15
Season total: 185
15.14 Fall 2016 How to Play Half and Half
Author first name and surname initials must be in the same half of the alphabet, first name initial appearing earlier than surname initial
The Golden Gate
Amy Chua
15 points
Total: 560 points
15.10 SU24 Olympic ScavengerTENNIS, Option A: Read a book where a character engages in the activity.
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks
+15 Task, the author plays the entire Moldovan National Football Team at tennis
Task total: 15
+100 Second sub completion
Season total: 530
15.31 SP20 BlackjackTo make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.
Sunrises to Santiago: Searching for Purpose on the Camino de Santiago by Gabriel Schirm
4 of clubs: main page genre: adventure, western, mystery, thriller: ADVENTURE
6 of clubs: author first, middle or last name is exactly 6-letters long: SCHIRM
Q of diamonds: set (75%) in any Western European country: 98% in SPAIN=
20 point hand
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 545
15.32 SP20 BlackjackTo make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary
9 of spades: Book published in a year ending in 9: 2019
10 of clubs: Original published date is in the 10s: 2019 =
19 point hand
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 560
15.33 SP20 BlackjackTo make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.
Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen Rubin
2 of clubs: has 200-299 pages: 272 pages
5 of clubs: MPG of science: PSYCHOLOGY (was cleared in original thread for this task)
K of spades: has a title word ending in -ing: "EXPLORING" =
17 point hand
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 575
15.17 FA 2015 Travel the United StatesRead 10 books, each set in a different US state.
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
Set in CA.
+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1954)
Task total: 20
Season total: 235
15.1 FA23 A Celebration of Styles Read 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.
Mrs. Pollifax Pursued by Dorothy Gilman
+15 Task (Aged - author born in 1923 and died at 88 years old)
+5 Old (1995)
Post total: 20
Season total: 20
15.2 FA23 A Celebration of Styles Read 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.
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
+15 Task (Young - born in 1978 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_F...)
Post total: 15
Season total: 35
15.3 FA23 A Celebration of Styles Read 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.
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
+15 Task (Lost in Translation - trans from Swedish to English)
Post total: 15
Season total: 50
15.4 FA23 A Celebration of Styles Read 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.
Coming Home by Brittney Griner
+15 Task (Young - author born in 1990 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittne...)
Post total: 15
Season total: 65
15.11 FA15 Travel the USRead 10 books, each set in a different US State or Washington, DC. The setting will be more than 50% in the designated state.
Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita
+15 Task (set in Alaska)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 80
15.12 FA15 Travel the USRead 10 books, each set in a different US State or Washington, DC. The setting will be more than 50% in the designated state.
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh
+15 Task (set in Texas)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 95
15.13 FA15 Travel the USRead 10 books, each set in a different US State or Washington, DC. The setting will be more than 50% in the designated state.
Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson
+15 Task (set in Massachusetts)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 110
15.14 FA15 Travel the USRead 10 books, each set in a different US State or Washington, DC. The setting will be more than 50% in the designated state.
Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay
+15 Task (set in California)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 125
15.17 Second Sub-Challenge. Winter 2022-23 Alpha and OmegaJU -- Jean CocteaU The Difficulty of Being by Jean Cocteau
Letters used so far: A D F J L N O R S T U V Y Z
Task Points + 15
Oldie + 5 (1st pub'd 1947)
Task Total = 20
Season Total = 245
Sub Challenge #3Celebration of Styles from Fall 2023 by Elizabeth
Read 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
Styles for this sub-challenge:
Lost in Translation
Non Western
1001
Canon
Not a Novel
Aged / 70 or older
Young / 50 or younger
15.21 - Not a Novel
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 485
Sub Challenge #4Growing Genres from SP 23 by Kate
Pick your favorite genre and spend some time seeing how it has grown over the years.
Read 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.
I selected Mystery:
Shadow of the Solstice by Anne Hillerman 2025
The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen 2017
Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec 2012
To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming 2005
Shadow Prey by John Sandford 1990
Those Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith 1967
A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie 1953
A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey 1936
The Red House Mystery by A A Milne 1922
15.31 - 1979
Split Second by David Baldacci
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (512)
+ 5 Old
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 510
15.22 Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22Decade using = 2001 to 2010
The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas
2006 CWA International Dagger
15 task
5 oldie
_____
20
Running total: 535
15.8 Scrabble FA 20241 point tile I4 - Illness
Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
The play is about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
+15 task
+ 5 oldie (published in 1993)
Task total: 20
Season total: 255
I would like to edit this to:
15.8 Scrabble FA 2024
1 point tile A6 - Author Last Name Has No A
I forgot that the illness book needed to be from the genre list.
The points should be the same. I also left an edit note on post #367 in case you already counted the points. Thank you.
15.18 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury
Author's last initial:A-B
Page length: 301-340/701-740 (313)
Published date: 1941-1952 (1947)
+15 Task
+5 Old
Post total: 20
Season total: 470
15.18 WI 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionRead 10 books by different authors. Each author must fill a different criterion.
C2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Carson McCullers, Muriel Spark, or Iris Murdoch
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (on Emile Zola's map)
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (544 pages)
+ 5 Old (1929)
Task total = 25
Season total = 390
15.19 WI 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionRead 10 books by different authors. Each author must fill a different criterion.
C3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more).
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/ja...
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 405
15.21 FA 19 Pick 'n Mix 2The 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.
B4. Published 1851-1900
Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
+15 Task (1879)
+ 5 Old
Task total = 20
Season total = 425
Sub-Challenge # 1. FA 17 Reading Globally. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.15.8 Bangladesh -- Lajja: Shame by Taslima Nasrin
Task + 15
Oldie (1st pub'd 1993) + 5
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 265
Countries so far:
Turks & Caicos
Mexico
United States
Antarctica
French Polynesia
Greece
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Bangladesh
15.32 WI 10-11 How to Play "Backpacking through Europe"
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Air traveler
Ooit gelukkig
Nico Dijkshoorn
Set in the Netherlands
1. Iceland
2. The Netherlands
15 points
Total: 575 points
15.10 Favorites SU 23Read a book that fits a 20-point task from a previous season.
WI 20-21 20.9 Nieces (Kate S's Task)
My nieces (ages 6 and almost 10) are in love with a couple of series. Both of them are about books (color me in love!) In honor of their reading preferences (aka the books I read aloud every day):
Read a book shelved as "books about books" at least 60 times.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
+15 Task (485 times)
+50 Subchallenge #1 finish
Task Total: 65
Season Total: 155+65=220
15.23 Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22Decade using = 2001 to 2010
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
2003 Jerusalem Prize
15 task
5 oldie
_____
20
Running total: 555
15.17 Fall 2013 Pick ‘n’ MixFor this challenge, there are 6 categories (A-F) each divided into 6 sub-categories (1-6). For each task, read a book that fits a sub-category. No letter and no number can be used more than twice. Used so far, including this task: A B C C D E F 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 so these remain: A B D E F 1 2 4 6 6.
B3 (B=Publish Date, 3=1951-1975)
Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien
+15 Task (1962)
+5 Old (1962)
Post total: 20
Season total: 205
15.18 Fall 2013 Pick ‘n’ MixFor this challenge, there are 6 categories (A-F) each divided into 6 sub-categories (1-6). For each task, read a book that fits a sub-category. No letter and no number can be used more than twice. Used so far, including this task: A A B C C D E F 1 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 so these remain: B D E F 2 4 6 6.
A1 (A=Setting, 1=North America)
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
+15 Task (set 100% in North America - mostly in Crosby, Maine)
Post total: 15
Season total: 220
15.27 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"The Burning Island by Jock Serong
Genre: Historical Fiction
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 485
15.34 SP20 BlackjackTo make a "hand" combine two to five cards so that the sum for any book totals 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. Careful! You can use a card only once.
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
8 of spades: author born in a country starting with "I": IRAN
Ace of diamonds: 75-199 pages: 100 PAGES =
19 point hand
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 590
15.24 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => PittsburghBad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay
+15 Task, pittsburGH
Task total: 15
Season total: 605
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+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 365