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15.4 A Counting Game20th Century Male
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Task: 15 (4 word title)
Season Total: 335
Assumes mid-season post with a prior total of 320.
15.1 A Counting Game21st Century Female
Steel by Carrie Vaughn
YA with 800L
Published 2011
Task: 15 (1 word title)
Season Total: 15
15.1 A Counting Game20th Century - Female Authors
Reading in numerical order ascending
Curtain by Agatha Christie
+15 Task (one word title)
Season Total: 15
15.10 Counting I am going for numerical order, descending, published in the 21st century, by male authors.
Working GlobeSmart: 12 People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders by Ernest Gundling
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
20.6 Young MenThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
+20 task
+5 jumbo
Task total: 25
Season total: 25
10.2 No O The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
+10 task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 30
20.3 HistoricalThe Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
US (Alaska)
20 task
10 comb 20.8, 20.1 (approved)
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30
Running total: 30
10.3 U's Have It On the Ragged Edge of Medicine: Doctoring Among the Dispossessed by Patricia Kullberg
+10 task
+5 combo 10.2
task total: 15
Season total: 40
15.2 A Counting Game20th Century - Female Authors
Titles in numerical order
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
+15 Task (2 word title)
Season Total:30
10.2 No OHedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
task= 10
oldie= 10 (1890)
task total= 20
grand total= 35
(Set in Norway)
15.10 A Counting Game19th Century Male
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray
Task: 15 (10 word title)
Season Total: 15
set in UK
20.3 HistoricalSalt Houses by Hala Alyan
Set in multiple countries
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.2
Task total: 25
Season total: 25
15.2 A Counting Game21st Century Female in Numerical Order
The Bungalow by Sarah Jio
Published 2011
Task: 15 (2 words title)
Season Total: 30
NOTE: setting was roughly 52% in Bora Bora, French Polynesia.
10.6 AnagramsTitle has 6+ letter word made from READING WITH STYLE
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Word: THINGS
+ 10 task
+ 5 combo (10.3)
Task total: 15
Season total: 15
Task 20.8 Frosty June?The Frozen Deep (1857) by Wilkie Collins
+20 Task (#20.8 Frosty)
+05 Combo (#20.3 historical)
+15 Oldies -151 to 250 years old: (1766-1865)
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 15 = 40
Grand Total: 00 + 40 = 40
15.3 A Counting Game20th Century - Female Authors
Titles in numerical order
The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
+15 Task (3 word title)
Season Total: 45
10.1 Instant ReplayThe Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse
(Set in more than one country)
+10 task - fits last season task 10.3 English Language
+10 oldies (pub 1917)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 20
20.3 HistoricalMrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
(Set in UK)
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.2)
+10 oldies (pub 1939)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 55
20.4 TrilogiesThe New Policeman by Kate Thompson
Low lexile
Described as "New Policeman or Liddy trilogy" under Children's Novels here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Th...
(Set in Ireland)
+20 task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 75
20.4 Trilogies A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
+20 Task
+5 Combo, 10.2
+5 Jumbo
Task total: 30
Season total: 30
15.5 A Counting Game21st century - female authors
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
+15 Task
Season total: 15
20.2 - Canadian WomenDamaged by Pamela Callow (Ontario)
+20 task
+5 Combo (20.10)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 40
10.3 U's Have ItEucalyptus by Murray Bail
eUcalyptus / mUrray
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.3)
Task: 20
Season Total: 65
20.10 Debut! (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
approval
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 - ARTIST)
+10 Oldies (pub. 1916)
Task: 35
Season Total: 100
15.1 A Counting game read in order (ascending)
Homecoming by Belva Plain
15 task
___
15
Running total: 75
Task 10.5 Always a BridesmaidRead any work which has been nominated for (short or longlisted, runnerup, etc.) at least one award, but has never won any award. Awards must appear in the awards section on the GR book page.
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays (2009) by Chinua Achebe [823.914]
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for NonFiction (2010)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.2 No O)
+10 Non-Western Author (Nigeria)
Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25
Grand Total: 40 + 25 = 65
10.7 Marked Name (Anika's Task)Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
task= 10
combo= 10 (10.2; 10.9-actor- the book is about the making of the play...not the play itself.)
task total=20
grand total=75
(setting entirely in the USA)
Post 15 Connie wrote: "20.3 HistoricalSalt Houses by Hala Alyan
Set in multiple countries
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.2
Task total: 25
Season total: 25"
This is Alyan's debut novel, and, although one of her poetry books has a mere 88 pages, RwS has always treated poetry somewhat different as to book length. The other two books of poetry are longer than 100 pages, and I will allow this for 20.10.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 15 Connie wrote: "20.3 HistoricalSalt Houses by Hala Alyan
Set in multiple countries
+20 task
+ 5 combo 10.2
Task total: 25
Season total: 25"
This is Aly..."
Thanks, Elizabeth. Could I please change it to:
Task 20.10 Debut
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
+20 task
+10 combo 20.3, 10.2
Task total: 30
Season total: 30
15.4 A Counting Game20th Century - Female Authors
Titles in numerical order
Strong Women Stay Young by Miriam E. Nelson
+15 Task (4 word title)
Season Total: 60
20.1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by John TiffanyTask + 20 (From the Can't Wait Books 2016 list #8)
Style+ 10 (10.3 U's Have It, Cursed, 20.6 Young Men-Albus Potter is under 18 and a male main character)
Book Total: 30
Grand Total: 30
15.1 ACGMale, 20th Century, Numerical order
Burr by Gore Vidal
+15 Task
Grand total = 15 (I'm on the board!)
Setting: USA
20.6 Young MenThis Census-Taker by China Miéville
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.5, 10.7)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 50
Edited to change 10.6 to 10.7 in combo.
15.9 A Counting Game20th Century Male
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Task: 15 (9 word title)
Season Total: 65
Set in Japan
15.5 A Counting Game20th Century - Female Authors
Titles in numerical order
A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris
+15 Task (5 word title)
Season Total: 75
20.8 Frosty June Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
+20 task
+15 Combo (previously confirmed the first 2) 20.1 Popular Lists, 20.2 Historical, 10.2 no O in author’s name
Task Total = 35
Season Total = 110
Natalie *Amberjune* wrote: "20.3 Historical From Post 6
Girl at War by Sara Nović
+20 task
Season total: 20"
+5 Combo 10.7
10.9 The ARts Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes
+10 task
+5 Combo 20.2 Historical, (approved)
Task Total = 15
Season Total = 125
Task 10.2 No ORead any book by an author whose name as published contains no letter O.
The Refugees (2017) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 65 + 10 = 75
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20.3 Historical
Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes by Luo Guanzhong
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3)
+10 Non Western
+ 5 Multiple
+25 Oldies (pub 1360)
+25 Jumbo (2339 pgs)
Task Total = 90
Season Total: 320
Assumes mid-season with a prior point total of 230