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Completed Tasks
15.11 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionB2: Author born 1914-18 OR 1939-45 > born 1941
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen
15 task
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15
This is my carry over book.
15.1 SU 23 FavoritesUsing Task 20.2 Bechdel Test from WI 24-25
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Grandmother and young granddaughter talk to each other about nature and life.
+15 Task
+5 Old (1972)
Post total: 20
Season total: 20
15.1 SU24 Olympic ScavengerThe Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn (carryover book, finished 49% last season)
BASKETBALL Option A, characters engage in the sport you're claiming: the missionaries play basketball at the church on their day off
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
15.2 SU24 Olympic ScavengerTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (had to speed listen to it to finish in time for book club...my library audio version finally arrived the day of book club yesterday. do not recommend listening to this one at 2x speed :-( was not nearly as satisfying as reading the actual book)
FOOTBALL Option B, find the exact word in the text: "Sam left Marx's office and went into his own office, where he was confronted by a Guernica-style massacre of Ichigo merchandise: disembodied heads with bowl haircuts, and chubby limbs, and round childish eyes, and wavews, and boats, and torsos in football jerseys."
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 30
15.1 Fall 2023 Celebration of StylesThe Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
LiT
15 task
5 oldie
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20
Running total: 35
15.2 Fall 2023 Celebration of Styles Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
1001
15 task
5 oldie
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20
Running total: 55
15.1 SU 23 Summertime … and the livin’ is easy Task 10.2 Number of words in title is 6, 7 or 8
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 15
15.1 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors
The Accidental Date: A Reverse Harem Novella by Sadie Somerton - 68 pgs
The Accidental Sleepover: A Reverse Harem Novella by Sadie Somerton - 52 pgs
+15 task - 120 pgs
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
15.3 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview10.1-10.10 Page Count
Read books of varying length written by different authors
Somewhere Safe by Molly Black
+15 task - 153 pgs
Task total: 15
Grand total: 30
15.11 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
Unlucky 13 by James Patterson
+15 task - San Francisco
Task total: 15
Grand total: 45
15.1 WI 22-23 Alpha OmegaRead 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.
Thrush Green by Miss Read - M D
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1959)
Task total = 20
Season total = 20
15.1 WI 15-16 Book DominoesThe Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
first book for this sub-challenge could be anything which I will be linking in the next task's book
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 15
15.1 FA 24 ScrabbleTile: 5 points K1 - Title Word Ends in K
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
+15 task
+ 5 old (published 1814)
Task total: 20
Season total: 20
15.1 - FA 23 Celebration of StylesLa Terre verte by Alain Ayroles
Not a novel (graphic novel)
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Points total = 15
15.3 Fall 2023 Celebration of StylesThe Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
Young
15 task
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15
Running total: 70
15.1 Summer 2023 Favorites Read 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.
NOTE: The bonuses for this challenge allowed us to repeat tasks.
Fall 2022:
20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task)
Read a book in which the author's initials appear in alphabetical order. Double letters do not count. Authors who work: Dean Koontz, José Saramago, Anne Rivers Siddons.
Pynter Bender by Jacob Ross
+15 Task
Note: This book is set 100% in Grenada and turns that country green.
15.4 Fall 2023 Celebration of Styles Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin
Young
15 task
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15
Running total: 85
15.12 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
Ice Blue by Emma Jameson
+15 task - London
Task total: 15
Grand total: 60
15.11 FA 2015 Travel the United StatesRead books set in 10 different states.
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Set in MD.
Task total: 15
Season total: 35
15.2 WI 22-23 Alpha OmegaRead 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 Death Watcher by Chris Carter - C R
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 35
15.1: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 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.
Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
Not a Novel
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15
15.1;
15.11: SP12 Around the WorldRead 10 books, set in 10 different countries, with no continent being visited more than twice.
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
Australia, Oceania
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 30
15.1;
15.11
15.2 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.
List tasks will work as the list is now. If the task required prior approval, posting a link in the Completed Tasks thread when you claim the book will be sufficient. Older seasons especially may have links to outside sources that no longer work. Please post an updated link for these tasks or ask in the Help thread.
Fall 2022 20.8 Soup's On! (Owlette's Task)
Read a book where one of the characters makes, serves, or eats soup. Quoting the text is not mandatory, but please let us know what kind of soup. "Soup" also includes chili, stew, or chowder.
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
p. 70 "Maisie prepared a supper of thick oxtail soup and bread,..."
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 20+15=35
Forgot to type the season for Favorites (SU 23).
15.2: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 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.
The Yield by Tara June Winch
Young, born 1983
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 45
15.1; 15.2;
15.11
15.1 SU 18 Listopia TagRead 10 books found on 10 different Listopia lists using different list 'tags' for selection.
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Eliot Stein
List: How We See the World Tag: social-science
+15 task
Season total: 15
15.5 Fall 2023 Celebration of StylesWe'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
LiT
15 task
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15
Running total: 100
15.2 Su 23 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.
Fall 2022:
20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task)
Read a book in which the author's initials appear in alphabetical order.
The Blood Strand by Chris Ould
+15 Task
Season total = 30
Note: This book takes place entirely in the Faroes Islands.
Post 29 Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "15.1 Spring 2021 Growing GenresStrands of Bronze and Goldby Jane Nickerson
Task +15
Grand total 15"
Jayme, please would you give us more information in your posts? We need to understand the task or challenge and how your book fits.
So if this is for Spring 23 Growing Genres, you could post:
"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."
Then tell us which genre you are reading, and the publication date of the book.
We'll need this in every post, please!
15.11 WI 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionRead 10 books by different authors. Each author must fill a different criterion.
A2. Author's Name contains no letter L
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 50
15.3: FA23 Celebration of StylesRead 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.
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
Not a Novel, 2
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 60
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
15.11
15.3 SU24 Olympic ScavengerThe Winners by Fredrik Backman
HOCKEY Option A, read a book where a character engages in the listed activity: there is SO MUCH hockey played in this book, the third in a trilogy about two hockey towns and their hockey teams.
+15 Task
+5 Big, 673 pages
Task total: 20
Season total: 50
15.3 Favorites SU 23Read 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.
WI 21-22 20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)
In honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gustave Flaubert and his most popular title, Madame Bovary; read a book with a surname in the title (not sub-title). The surname must refer to a character in the book. Possessives and plurals will be accepted.
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
+15 Task MC Satoru Morisaki is the proprietor of the bookshop.
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 35+15=50
15.12: SP12 Around the WorldRead 10 books, set in 10 different countries, with no continent being visited more than twice.
Streetwise by Mohamed Choukri
Morocco, Africa
+15 task
+5 oldies (1992)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 80
15.1; 15.2; 15.3;
15.11; 15.12
Repost15.1 Spring 23 Growing Genres
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.
Strands of Bronze
and Goldby
Jane
Nickerson
Genre: Fantasy
Published 2013
Task +15
Grand total:15
Sub-Challenge # 1. Reading Globally. Fall 2017. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.15.1 Turks & Caicos I read Blood and Belonging by Vicki Delany
This book will be added to the Countries of the World under Turks & Caicos.
I am going to try for all seven continents by using an Oceania country for Australia/Oceania (since to use Antarctica, you have to use Antarctica, and Australia also begins with an A) -- but that's for the future. Turks & Caicos is, I believe considered North America since it's in the Caribean. No mind because my next entry will be in Mexico.
Task: + 15
Grand Total: 15
Sub-Challenge # 1. Reading Globally. Fall 2017. Each book set in a different country. Each country begins w a different letter.15.2 Mexico I read Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas.
Task: +15
Grand Total: 30
Countries so far:
Turks & Caicos
Mexico
Sub-Challenge 1 Half and Half -Authors whose first initial of their first name and first initial of their surname are in the same half of the alphabet15.1 A Perfect Red by
Amy Butler Greenfield
Task Total 15
Season Total 15
15.1. Spring 2013 How to Play 20th Century That's SO 20th Century: Read 10 books originally published in any 10 consecutive years from 1901-2000 with no author being read more than twice.
A Chronologician must read the books in chronological order, starting with either the first published book and reading forwards or the last published work, reading backwards. This reader will receive 10 bonus points for every book completed after the first book (i.e., books 2-10). At the end of the reader's decade, he/she will receive a 150-point bonus if all ten years have been completed in order.
A Chaostician can start with any year and read the ten books in any order. This reader will receive 10 bonus points for every book completed after the fifth book (i.e., books 6-10). This reader will receive a 50-point bonus if ten consecutive years have been completed.
The Citadel by A.J. Cronin
I am reading 1937-1946
15 pts 15.1 1937
5 pts Old
Total Task: 20 pts
Total Season: 20 pts
15.2 FA24 ScrabbleTile: 1 point E1 - Author's First Name Starts With E
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
+15 task
+ 5 Old (published in 1863)
Task total: 20
Season total: 55
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 Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? by Molly Ivins
Task: +15
Grand Total: 45
Countries so far:
Turks & Caicos
Mexico
United States
Sub-Challenge 1 Half and Half -Authors whose first initial of their first name and first initial of their surname are in the same half of the alphabet 15.2 -A-M, first half of alphabet
A Gift of Dragons by Anne McCaffrey
Points this task 15
Season Total 30
15.1 SU 24 DecathlonTask 10.5 400m
Read a book with 400-499pp.
Flashlight by Susan Choi
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 15
15.2 SU 24 DecathlonTask 10.6 Hurdles
Paired genres--choosing Thriller<-->Nonfiction
Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger by Rob King
+15 Task (nonfiction)
Post total: 15
Grand total: 30
15.12 Winter 19/20 CYOA - Author EditionA2. Author's Name contains no letter L
The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich by P.J. Fitzsimmons
15 task
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15
Running total: 115
15.2 WI 15-16 Book DominoesButter by Asako Yuzuki
publication date of 2017 is within same decade of 15.1 book (2018)
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 30
15.11 Fall 2023 Celebration of StylesRead 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.
Lost in Translation, Non Western, 1001, Canon, Not a Novel, Aged, Young-1
Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
+15 Task
+ 5 Before 2000 (1890)
Task total: 20
Season total: 50
Sub Challenge #1 Eyes 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.
15.1 The Stella Prize (Australia, for women writers) (winners and nominees)
The Strays by Emily Bitto
+15 Task: Winner 2015
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15
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If using an outside source to qualify a book for points, please be sure to post in the questions thread prior to posting in this thread.
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15.4 SU 24 Decathlon
Task 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.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
+15 Task
+5 Big (1216 pages)
+5 Old (1954)
Post total: 25
Season total: 70 (assuming 3 previous claims of 15 pts each)