Reading with Style discussion

Decathlon

Although numbered as a regular season, this is like a regular sub-challenge. For each round, you must read for each of the "tasks" without repeating any of them.

The tasks may be completed in any order. The challenge may be repeated any number of times.

10.1 100 metres
Read a book with 100-199 pages in the MPE.

10.2 Long jump
Read a book with a Main Page Genre from the left column of the following list. Nested and composite genres such as "cozy mystery" will work.
Note that for task 10.6 you will need to read a book from the paired genre on the right side of the list. So if your choice is Romance for 10.2, you will need to read a book with MPG Horror for 10.6.
Romance<-->Horror
Science Fiction<-->Classics
Mystery<-->Fantasy
Thriller<-->Nonfiction
Historical Fiction<-->Contemporary

10.3 Shot Put
Read a book with a Rating lower than 3.0 (max 2.99).

10.4 High Jump
Read a book with a Rating higher than 4.25 (min 4.26).

10.5 400 metres
Read a book with 400-499 pages in the MPE.

10.6 Hurdles
Read a book with a Main Page Genre from the right column of the following list. Nested and composite genres such as "urban fantasy" will work.
Note that for task 10.2 you will need to read a book from the paired genre on the left side of the list. So if your choice is Horror for 10.6, you will need to read a book with MPG Romance for 10.2.
Romance<-->Horror
Science Fiction<-->Classics
Mystery<-->Fantasy
Thriller<-->Nonfiction
Historical Fiction<-->Contemporary

10.7 Discus Throw
Read a book from the Discworld series or a book with one of the following words in the title or series name: circle, round, ring, ball, loop, disc, belt.
As long as the word is found intact in the title, it works. So Silent Spring will work for "ring", but Four Ingredient Cookbook will not.

10.8 Pole Vault
Read a book that has won one of the following awards (winners only, not nominees).
When you post, please state which prize the book won, and in which year.

Pulitzer Prize for Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitze...
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitze...
Booker Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_...
Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
National Book Award, all categories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Fau...
Edgar Award for Best Novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_A...
Hugo Award for Best Novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Aw...
Nebula Award for Best Novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_...

10.9 Javelin Throw
Read a book by an author whose initials (all of them as they appear on Goodreads) can be found in JAVELIN THROW. Initials may not be repeated.
Ex. Taylor Jenkins Reid works (TJR); Juan Ramón Jiménez doesn't work (JRJ).

10.10 1500 metres
Read a book with at least 500 pages in the MPE.

Scoring: 10 points per task
Finisher bonus: 100 points

Please ask questions about this subchallenge here in this thread.

Hello ! For 10.3 (and i guess 10.4 as well), do we have to "lock in" the books before reading them, as ratings can change in the meantime, especially when there's not a lot of them ?

Marie wrote: "Hello ! For 10.3 (and i guess 10.4 as well), do we have to "lock in" the books before reading them, as ratings can change in the meantime, especially when there's not a lot of them ?"

It's up to you, Marie - you can, if there are just a few ratings or if it's very close to the limit. Most people have been using the 'General Questions' thread for this, but here would be fine too.