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15.19 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
Law of Five by Robin Mahle
+15 task - San Diego
Task total: 15
Grand total: 370
15.20 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
Full Sun by Iain Kelly
+15 task - Glasgow
+100 finishing bonus
Task total: 115
Grand total: 485
15.17 Celebration of StylesRead 10 books by 10 different authors where each would qualify for one of the below RwS styles.
Lost in Translation - 2, Non Western - 1, 1001, Canon, Not a Novel - 1, Aged - 1, Young-2
Zama by Antonio di Benedetto
+15 Task (LiT - Spanish)
+ 5 Before 2000 (1956)
Task total = 20
Season total = 250
This takes place in Paraguay, but you can rest assured it would never ever be a group read from me.
15.32: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - FavouritesRead 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.
Winter 2015-16 20.7 Feminism (Louise Bro's Task)
In February it is 60 years since Judith Butler was born and 10 years since Betty Friedan died.
Read One of the top 300 books from this list of feminist fiction.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
#240
+15 task
+5 oldies
Post Total:20
Season Total: 550
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23;
15.31; 15.32;
15.33: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - FavouritesRead 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 2017 20.8 Mother-Daughter (Amanda's Task):
My daughter's birthday is September 1st, my mother's birthday would have been October 3. Read a book about mother daughter relationships. This book can be fiction or non-fiction, but a mother daughter relationship must be central to the story. If the relationship isn't clear from the description on Goodreads, please post the connection in the appropriate task thread.
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
+15 task
+5 oldies
Post Total:20
Season Total: 570
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33;
15.24: WI 13/14 Travel the Pacific RimRead 10 books, from 10 different countries according to the list in post 2.
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon
Cambodia
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 585
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33;
15.34: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - FavouritesRead 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.
Spring 2014 20.8 - Spring Fling - Kate S's Task: Read a book with a title which contains a 5 (or more) letter word with only one vowel. For example: Oliver Twist (twist), A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (short), The First Man in Rome (first).
The End of All Things by John Scalzi
Things
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 600
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33;15.34;
15.35: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - FavouritesRead 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.
Summer 2014 20.8 - A Funny Story - Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task:
Read a book shelved as comedy at least 40 times.
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Shelved as comedy 190 times
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 615
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35;
15.36: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - FavouritesRead 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.
Winter 2010-11 20.8 - Krista's Choice: The Time of Your Life
New Year's Eve is often a time when people look back and review events that occurred during the past year and look forward to imagine how they can shape the upcoming year. In honor of that tradition, read a Time-Travel book. The character(s) in the book must actually do some time-traveling.
About Time by Jodi Taylor
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 630
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36
15.24 Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22Decade using = 2001 to 2010
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Hugo Award for Best Novel (2008)
15 task
______
15
Running total: 570
15.9 Scrabble FA 20243 point tile C2 - MPG Classic
Perestroika by Tony Kushner
+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1993)
Task total: 20
Season total: 275
15.25 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => NashvilleThe Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour
+15 Task, naShVille
Task total: 15
Season total: 620
15.2 - 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
A Word With The Dead by Rhys Dylan
+15 task - 9 or fewer letters
Task total: 15
Grand total: 500
15.5 Fall 2010 Reading Through TimeTask 15.4 1801-1850
Read a book originally published 1801-1850.
A New Home, Who'll Follow? by Caroline Kirkland
+15 Task (1839)
+5 Old (1839)
Post total: 20
Season total: 240
15.25 Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22Decade using = 2001 to 2010
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
2005 Cartier Diamond Dagger
15 task
5 oldie
_____
20
Running total: 590
I would like to edit post # 337 to:15.8 Scrabble FA 2024
1 point tile A6 - Author Last Name Has No A
Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
+15 task
+ 5 oldie (1993 pub)
Task total: 20
Season total: 255
I also made an edit note on post # 337. Thank you.
15.18 FA 2015 Travel the United StatesRead 10 books, each set in a different US state.
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow by John Cheever
Set in NY.
+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1964)
Task total: 20
Season total: 295
Sub-Challenge # 2.15.18 Second Sub-Challenge. Winter 2022-23 Alpha and Omega
I H -- Iris murdocH The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Letters used so far: A D F H I J L N O R S T U V Y Z
Task Points + 15
Oldie + 5 (1st pub'd 1973)
Task Total = 20
Season Total = 285
Sub-Challenge # 1. FA 17 Reading Globally. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.15.9 Peru -- Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
Task + 15
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 300
Countries so far:
Turks & Caicos
Mexico
United States
Antarctica
French Polynesia
Greece
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Bangladesh
Peru
15.19 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 D E F 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 so these remain: B E F 2 6 6.
D4 (D=Author, 4=female, age 40-60 when the book was published)
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
+15 Task (Meg Wolitzer was born in 1959. She was ~44 when the book was published in 2003)
Post total: 15
Season total: 255
15.35 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.
The Collectors by A.S. King (790 Lexile)
10 of spades: short stories or essays: SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Q of clubs: LGBT in genre section of book page: #9 of 10 MPG on book page =
20 point hand
Task total: 15
Season total: 635
15.36 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.
Richard II by William Shakespeare
J of hearts: top 150 on anti-heroes list: #128 ON LIST
Q of spades: book about royalty: RICHARD II was king of England from 1377-1399 =
20 point hand
+15 Task
+5 Old
Task total: 20
Season total: 655
15.26 Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22Decade using = 2001 to 2010
On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
2007 RITA Historical Romance
15 task
_____
15
Running tota: 605
15.5 SU 18 Listopia TagRead 10 books found on 10 different Listopia lists using different list 'tags' for selection.
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen
List: Books That Changed My World
Tag: change
Task: 15
Season total: 125
Task 15.12 Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s 2nd book: Letter L
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) (2013) by Ann Leckie (Paperback 386 pages)
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 140 + 15 = 155
15.15Fall 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
Droom Nummer Negen
David Mitchell
15 points
Total: 590 points
15.33WI 10-11 How to Play "Backpacking through Europe"
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Walvistij
Elizabeth O'Connor
Set on island near Wales , UK
Air traveler
Visited:
1. Iceland
2. The Nettherlands
3. UK
15 points
Total: 605 points
Post 314 Joanne wrote: "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 Tot..."
Joanne, I think something has gone wrong with your task numbering.
Your first subchallenge, FA 2016 Half and Half, should be numbered 15.1 to 15.10. You have claimed 15.1 to 15.4, no problem.
Your second subchallenge, SU19 Ratings Game, should be numbered 15.11 to 15.20. You have claimed 15.11, 15.14, 15.15, 15.16 and this one, where you have put 15.7 but I guess you meant 15.17.
Then in post 315 you have claimed 15.19. But I don't think you have posted 15.12, 15.13 or 15.18...?
To keep things simple, we will use your numbering and enter post 314 as 15.17 and post 315 as 15.19, but you will need to post 15.12, 15.13 and 15.18 before claiming 15.20.
15.20 WI 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionRead 10 books by different authors. Each author must fill a different criterion.
B1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)
National Provincial by Lettice Cooper (born 1897)
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (555 pages)
+ 5 Old (1938)
+100 Finisher bonus for second subchallenge
Task total = 125
Season total = 550
I did not realize they had to be read in order! For Ratings Games. the rules say they can be read in any order.My fault on the post entered as 15-7. It is should be 15-18 (1,193 ratings). I gave the numbers to the entries as they fall in the list. Is that wrong?
This is what I have:
250,000 15-11 The House C/Sea 844, 085
100,000 - 249,999 15-12 190.292
75,000 - 99,999 15-13
25,000 - 74,999 15-14 Butcher Crossing 31,354
15,000 - 24,999 15-15 Here Be Dragons 24,712
10,000 - 14,999 15-16 The Book That Broke the World 11,883
5,000 - 9,999 15-17
1,000 - 4,999 15-18 The Greatest Thing Since 1,193
250 - 999 15-19 The Fate of the day 615
fewer than 250 ratings 15-20
Let me know how I should move forward
Joanne wrote: "I did not realize they had to be read in order! For Ratings Games. the rules say they can be read in any order.My fault on the post entered as 15-7. It is should be 15-18 (1,193 ratings). I gave ..."
No, you didn't need to read them in order. We intended that this summer, the posts would be numbered in the order that the books were read for each challenge, instead of using the task numbers from the original challenges. But I can see it's not 100% clear in the rules, and it won't matter now that we know what you're doing. Carry on as you were, but it might be best if you post 15.20 last, because that's where we'll expect to see the finisher bonus. Sorry for the confusion!
15.31 SU 23 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons. State the season and the task (number and brief description).
SP 23 20.6 Award
Read a book written by an award winning author. The award in this case should be for an author's body of work.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Connie Willis won the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2011
+15 Task
+ 5 Big (578 pages)
+ 5 Old (1992)
Task total = 25
Season total = 575
15.26 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little RockFox & I by Catherine Raven
+15 Task, RoCk
Task total: 15
Season total: 670
15.27 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little Rock => Oklahoma CityEddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
+15 Task, oklahoMa City
Task total: 15
Season total: 685
15.28 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little Rock => Oklahoma City => Kansas CityThe Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
+15 Task, kanSas City
Task total: 15
Season total: 700
15.29 WI23/24 Ticket to Ride, Duluth => Sault St Marie => Toronto => Pittsburgh => Nashville => Little Rock => Oklahoma City => Kansas City => OmahaGoodbye, Paris by Anstey Harris
+15 Task omAHa
Task total: 15
Season total: 715
15.16Fall 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
North Woods
Daniel Mason
15 points
Total: 620 points
15.28 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control by Barbara Ehrenreich
Genre: General Non-Fiction
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 500
15.9 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)
Instruments of Darkness by Robert Wilson
+15 Task (pub'd 1995)
+ 5 Before 2000
Task total = 20
Season total = 270
Sigh. I had every reason to believe this is set in Benin, but, alas, it's over 51% in Togo, a country we've already turned green. 😠
15.29 SP11 "Spring Cleaning"The Blackbird Oracle (All Souls #5) by Deborah Harkness
Genre: Supernatural
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 515
Rosemary wrote: "Joanne wrote: "I did not realize they had to be read in order! For Ratings Games. the rules say they can be read in any order.My fault on the post entered as 15-7. It is should be 15-18 (1,193 ra..."
LoL Rosemary. I am sure your rules were perfectly clear. I am so bad at getting challenge rules right. I can probably read them 10 times and still miss something, or read them differently than anyone else. (Tien can verify, as we belong to another group where I get the ruler slap very often - it's a joke now in the small group) Thanks, though, for being so kind!
15.34WI 10-11 How to Play "Backpacking through Europe"
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Air traveler
Dood van een maestro
Donna LeonVisited:
1. Iceland
2. The Nettherlands
3. Uk
4. Italy
15 points +5 (old)
Total: 640 points
15.11 SU24 Olympic ScavengerThe Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
Surfing - Option A:
Read a book where a person engages in one of the listed activities. For this option, you don't have to find the exact word, so for example running would work for athletics.
We don't need to approve books, but please explain how your book fits the task when you post.
MC Riley tells MC Monica about surfing with his older brothers at Trigg Beach.
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season Total: 220+15=235
15.10 Scrabble FA 24Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
1 point tile I4 - Illness
Book is on the Illness list on the first page - 39X mentioned
For Sub-challenge Completion, Scrabble forms the following words for 34 points:
QUIZ - 22 points
IT - 2 points
CAKE - 10 points
+15 task
+50 first sub-challenge completion
Post total: 65
Season total: 360
15.35 WI 10-11 How to Play "Backpacking through Europe"
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Air traveler
Auguste Corteau Visited:
1. Iceland
2. The Nettherlands
3. Uk
4. Italy
5. Greece
15 points
Total: 655 points
15.25: WI 13/14 Travel the Pacific RimRead 10 books, from 10 different countries according to the list in post 2.
China Dream by Ma Jian
China
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 645
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36
15.26: WI 13/14 Travel the Pacific RimRead 10 books, from 10 different countries according to the list in post 2.
Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby
Australia
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 660
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36
15.27: WI 13/14 Travel the Pacific RimRead 10 books, from 10 different countries according to the list in post 2.
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
Russia
+15 task
+5 old
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 680
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36
15.37: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - FavouritesRead 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.
Summer 2019 20.6 Characters: Read a book with at least 9 named characters.
Killing Time by Jodi Taylor
Mathew Farrell, Jane Lockland, Luke Parrish, Mikey, Grint, Varma, Ellis, North, Commander Hay, Smallhope & Pennyroyal
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 695
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; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27;
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37;
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20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities
The Midnight Witness by Sara Blaedel
+15 task - Copenhagen
Task total: 15
Grand total: 355