Krista’s Comments (group member since Jul 24, 2010)

Krista’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

My last points claimed for this challenge....

Task 20.4: A Poet's Non-Poetry - Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
+ 20 Task
(Darn, I couldn't find any Style points for this one.)

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 800

That's my best Grand Total since I became gainfully employed again last year. Wa-hoo!

Rebekah wrote: "I'm going to copy my reading hero, Karen, and try doing some more of the SRC tasks and am glad to post the same books here for points. I was looking forward to finally getting to create a task, bu..."

Don't worry. If you qualified to create a task based on your completion of the Spring Challenge, we'll be looking for that task from you for the Fall Challenge. :-)

I've just updated the Readerboard scores through message #905 --- AND ---- inducted our first player into the Hall of Fame. Good going Kate!!

And now it's about time that I post some new points...

10.7 - Karen's Scrabble: Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken This was a squeaker, but I was able to form the three letter word 'gad' from this book/author combo.
+10 Task
+ 5 Series (#1 Dragon Kin series)
Task Total = 15

20.1 - Alliteration: Barn Blind Jane Smiley (No my favorite Jane Smiley by a long shot!)
+20 Task
Task Total = 20

20.2 - Rhyme Time: You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
This book just blew me away. It really brought closer to home the true sacrifice military service men and women AND their families make especially in these times of multiple deployments. Thanks for suggesting this as a Group Reads! It was so appropriate for Memorial Day.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, Say What, 10.10 Group Reads)
Task Total = 30

20.6 - Pre 20th Century Poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8, 20.1)
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (pub 1609)
Task Total = 55

Spring Cleaning - Final Task!!
15.9 Biography or Memoir - West with the Night by Beryl Markham (This was a really great read!)
+15 Task
+ 5 Oldies (pub 1942)
Task Total = 20

+150 Spring Cleaning Completion Bonus

Grand Total = 780

In Msg 900 -- Karen GHHS wrote: "Spring Cleaning 2 Who's Counting?

15.5 – Supernatural

The Lost Saint by Bree Despain

15.9 – Memoir

Townie: A Memoir by [author:Andre Dubus III|978...

I think I'm going to finish--- I'm reading my last Who's Counting book now! ....."

Keep reading, keep reading --- I know you can do it!!

In Msg 898 -- Deedee wrote: "Task 15.3 - Fantasy

...
And, I've completed the Spring Cleaning Set of T..."

Congratulations on finishing the whole challenge! I've adding the Spring Cleaning and Mega Finish bonuses to your score. Wa-hoo for you!!

Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Poetry after 1900
Tellico Blue by George Scarbrough

+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (20.2 Rhymes. Both Tellico and Scarbrough is pronounced with a long "o" at...

1910 Points - Grand Total "
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Oops.... (can you guess what's coming?) :-)

Previous Grand Total Msg 891 = 1905 + 30 (this post)
New Grand Total = 1935

In Msg 892 -- Rebekah wrote: "Krista wrote: "In Msg 879 -- Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.2 Rhymes
What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel by Amy Scheibe
.....
I put that on my post but I still have 1870 on my spreadsheet so i had put my total for Post 891 as 1880! See I can't even get 2 out of 3 right!
..."

It's okay, you can sure read like the Dickens, that that's what this challenge is about! :-)

Congratulations to nsfancy and Joanna for completing all the Spring Challenge tasks with terrific style. :-)

Way to get those Mega Finish bonus points!!

In Msg 879 -- Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.2 Rhymes
What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel by Amy Scheibe

+20 pts - Task (Do/You)
+5 pts - Combo (10.4 Say What?)

25 pts - Task Total
1995 pts - Grand Total "

Hi Rebekah, I have your Grand Total = 1895 The total from your last post was 1870.

In Msg 861 - nsfancy wrote: "Task 20.5 Epic Poetry Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Task points 20
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (1313)
+5 Series (#1 of the Divine Comedy)
+10 Combo (10.8 Popular Penguin, 20.6 Poetry before 1900)

Task total 60
..."

Hey way to maximize those Style points! 60 points for one book. Wowie!

In Msg 849 -- Kazza wrote: "Task 10.4 - Say what?
What the World will look like when all the water leaves us by Laura Van Den Berg

+10 Task

Task 10.6 - Lab Lit
Prey by Michael Crichton...

Total this post: 360 points
Grand Total:1,115 points

Woo Hoo! ..."

Double Woo-hoo! All the book points were correct. Your Grand Total as of message number 849 is 1,115

Good going!!

In Msg 840 -- Tobey wrote: "SC

Task 15.2 Science Fiction - Wheels within Wheels by F. Paul Wilson

+15 Task

Total Points=15
Grand Total=300"

+ 5 Oldies Style Points - Originally published in 1978

That brings my current point tally as of this message to 295 points

In Msg 832 -- Denae wrote: "10.3 Cyberpunk

Count Zero by William Gibson

+10 Task
+5 Series (Sprawl)

Task Total: 15 .....


Reading With Style Completion Bonus: 100

Post Total: 245

Grand Total: 1160 ..."

Hi Denae:
+ 200 Mega Finish Bonus Points as you've now completed all the tasks in both the Spring Cleaning and RwS challenges.

Adjusted Grand Total = 1360

Way to go to get the whole enchilada done!

In Msg 827 -- Kate S wrote: "RwS Task 10.2 Women's History Month
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (pub 1911)
+10 Canon
....

Grand Total: 1585+80=1665 ..."

+ 5 Combo points w/Ethan Frome as Elizabeth pointed out in Msg 828 this book could also work for task 20.4 (Poet's Non Poetry)

Adjusted Grand Total as of Msg 827 = 1670

In Msg 826 -- Liz M wrote: "Tammy wrote: "15.2 Science Fiction: Robopocalypse

Post total..."

Tammy wrote: "15.2 Science Fiction: Robopocalypse
Post total: 40
Grand Tot..."

+5 oldies points (pub 1985)
..."

I've added the extra 5 Oldies Style Points that Liz pointed out in this message. Your new Grand total as of Msg 826 = 255

In Msg 822 -- Liz Vegas wrote: "20.9 Host country - Ethiopia
Cutting for Stoneby Abraham Verghese
+20 task
+10 jumbo

30 task total

225 grand total"

Hi Liz: I have your new Grand Total = 230

In an earlier Completed Task message you only claimed 10 Oldies points for a book that was worth 15 Oldies points. (Original message number 161)

In Msg 814 -- Rhea wrote: "Task 15.10- General Non-Fiction: On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (Won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)
.....
+150 Spring Cleaning Completion Bonus

Grand Total = 600 ..."

Congratulations on completing the Spring Cleaning portion of the challenge!

In Msg 813 -- Deana wrote: "Spring cleaning
Task 15.7 Drama

.....
**I think I have finished spring cleaning for the 150 point bonus***

Total RWS Points: 535**I think**

..."

Hi Deana: Yes, you have completed the Spring Cleaning portion of the challenge. You score as of this message is correctly stated at 535 points.

Congratulations!

In Msg 812 -- nsfancy wrote: "Task 10.7 Scrabble The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (totem)

Task points 10
Total points 735


Task 10.8 Popular Penguins Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Task points 10
+10 Oldies (1889)
+5 Combo (20.2 Rhymes Jerome-Jerome)

Task total 25
Total points 760

..."
As Liz pointed out, the combo points for rhyming Jerome with Jerome are disallowed.

Your total points as of Message 812 = 755