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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
10.10 Group ReadsMemoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks (Rosemary's book)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 170
Location: New York CityYears: 1925 to 2012
15.5 The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
+15 task
+25 bonus
Task total: 40
Grand total: 220
Location: Barcelona, Spain Years: 1945-2008
Historian
15.1 Nada by Carmen Laforet
Setting: Barcelona
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15
Location: Barcelona, Spain Years: 1945-2008
Historian
15.2 Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Setting: Barcelona
+25 Points
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 40
20.4 Winter TreesConfessor by: Terry Goodkind
Terry Goodkind born 01/14/1948
+20 Task
+ 5 Jumbo [602pp]
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 65
Location: LondonYears: 1825-1997
15.3 - The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
Setting: London and a fictional country town
Published: 1936
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+15 Task
+ 5 Bonus (Liz M said fictional town is assumed to be within 75 miles)
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 405
Happy New Year everybody!
10.7 Buy Nothing ChristmasCode Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
+10 Task (published in Feb. 2012 and gotten from the library)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 105
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.8 Kate S's Task InformedWhy the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage by Meic PearseBorn 1955. Approved in help thread 20.8, post 32
+20 Task
+10 Not a novel
+10 Com..."
Sorry, Don, 10.9 cannot be claimed as a combo
20.2 The Winter War--Best WesternsLittle Big Man by Thomas Berger
My Review
+20 Task #14 on the Best Westerns list
Task total:20
Grand Total: 170
20.10 – Liz M's task - Undaunted: I have been avidoing this one becasue I attempted to read LOTR and could not finnish it, so I was very hesitatant to attempt reading The Hobbit. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
+20 Task
+5 combo(10.5 - In recognition of World Thinking Day)
Total Points: 25
Grand Total: 60
15.7 - Location location locationNYC
The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle, pub. 1974
+15 task
+25 bonus (all but a 4-page trip to NJ was in NYC)
Task Total: 40 points
Grand total: 320 points
20.6 – In honor of The Winter of Our Discontent The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
+20 Task
Task Points: 20
Grand Totals: 80
20.6 The Winter of Our Discontent: Poetic TitleThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
+20 task (#94)
+10 combo (20.4: b. 1946 and 20.7: 2011)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 150
Task 10.9 Read a book published by a small/independent press.Published May 1st 2012 by small/independent press Night Shade Books.
The Black Opera by Mary Gentle (Paperback, 516 pages)
Mary Gentle was born: March 29, 1956
+10 Task
+05 Style:1. Combo (5 points) (20.4 born 1932-1963)
+05 Style:5. Jumbo (5 to 25 points): -500 Pages: 5 Points
Task Total: 10 + 05+ 05 = 20
Grand Total: 240 + 20 = 260
Location: LondonYears: 1825-1997
15.4 - Patience by John Coates
Setting: entirely in London
Published: 1953
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 445
Task 20.10: Daunting Classic, pub before 1950I read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
+20: task
+5: combo (10.6--won Nobel Prize in 1954)
Task total: 25
RwS TOTAL: 130
RwS Task10.7 Buy Nothing Christmas
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, 1020 Lexile
+10 Task (published in Feb. 2012, from the Gig Harbor High School Library)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 400
We read the same book, Katy! Did you like it? I sure did.
RwS Task10.6 In Honor of the Nobel Prizes
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
+10 Task: Kipling - Winner of 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature
+10 Not a Novel: Short Stories
+10 Canon
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 430
10.3 Library LoversThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
+10 Task (#56 on list)
+5 Combo (10.7 - first published February 1930 - http://januarymagazine.com/features/h... - and borrowed from the library)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 185
20.7 New York Times Notables1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart (2011 Non-Fiction Notable Book)
+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 100
20.10 UndauntedAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
+20 pts - Task
+05 pts - Combo (20.9)
+10 pts - Canon
+10 pts - Non-Western
+20 pts - 942 pages
Task Total - 65 pts
Grand Total - 215 pts
10.7 - Buy Nothing ChristmasYou Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem
(published in January, was given as a gift)
+10 task
+5 combo (10.2 - Yours, Mine and Ours)
Task total: 15
GRAND TOTAL: 40
15.2 - Location, Location, LocationThe War of the Worlds - HG Wells
+15 task
+5 location (Woking, ~30mi from London)
Task total: 20
GRAND TOTAL: 60
20.1 - If On A Winter's Night A TravelerWonder Boys - Michael Chabon
+20 task
+5 combo (20.4 - Winter Trees)
Task total: 25
GRAND TOTAL: 85
Karen GHHS wrote: "RwS Task10.7 Buy Nothing Christmas
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, 1020 Lexile
+10 Task (published in Feb. 2012, from the Gig Harbor High School Library)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 400
W..."
I did, Karen, I liked it a lot! I thought it was really compelling.
Camille wrote: "Task 20.10: Daunting Classic, pub before 1950I read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
+20: task
+5: combo (10.6--won Nobel Prize in 1954)
Task total: 25
RwS TOTAL: 130"
This is also on the canon for 10 style points
Rebekah wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 20.10: Daunting Classic, pub before 1950I read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
+20: task
+5: combo (10.6--won Nobel Prize in 1954)
Task total: 25
RwS TOTAL: 130"
Th..."
YAY! Thank you!
RwS Task10.4 - In celebration of the first volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson 850 Lexile
+10 Task: Fairy Tales/65 Users and Fairy Tale Retellings /20 Users
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 440
A Peter Pan Retelling: Told by Tinkerbell with Tiger Lily as the main character and Peter Pan and the pirates, of course!
15.5 LLL - New YorkPublished June 2001
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40
Grand total: 245
20.3 In Honor of Winter's TaleThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+20 Task (on the Japanese list)
+ 5 Combo (20.4 born 1949)
+10 Non-Western
+ 5 Jumbo (611 pages)
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 485
15.6 LLL - New YorkPublished 2001
Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40
Grand total: 285
Erin wrote: " Location: Barcelona, Spain Years: 1945-2008
Historian
15.2 Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Setting: Barcelona
+25 Points
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 40"
Erin, I believe this should have a task total of 40. You get 15 points for the task and 25 bonus points for the book being set entirely in Barcelona. This is how I have scored it for now, please let me know if you meant something else. Thanks
20.5 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (originally written in Spanish and set entirely in Columbia) +20 task
+10 Canon
+10 Non Western (Columbia)
+20 combo
20.6 #19 on list
20.3 on Columbia magic realism list
10.7 from library and originally published ub Spanish Dec. 1985 (enotes.com/love-time) first English publication was Jan 1988 (wiki)
10.6 Garcia Marquez was a Nobel Prize Winner
task total = 60
grand total = 180
Camille wrote: "Task 20.10: Daunting Classic, pub before 1950I read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
+20: task
+5: combo (10.6--won Nobel Prize in 1954)
Task total: 25
RwS TOTAL: 130"
+10 Combo as this also qualifies for tasks 10.3 and 20.6
Liz Vegas wrote: "20.5 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (originally written in Spanish and set entirely in Columbia) +20 task
+10 Canon
+20 combo
20.6 #19 on list
20.3 on Columb..."
+10 Non-Western
Nice way to rack up the points!
Kate S wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 20.10: Daunting Classic, pub before 1950I read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
+20: task
+5: combo (10.6--won Nobel Prize in 1954)
Task total: 25
RwS TOTAL: 130"
+1..."
WOW! I'm super excited over this one! Thx!!
RwS10.2 Yours, Mine and Ours
Me & My Sisters by Sinéad Moriarty
+10 Task
Task Total=10
Grand Total=65 pts
RwS10.9 Not A Random Penguin
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
+10 Task (http://quirkbooks.com/page/about)
Task Total=10
Grand Total=75 pts
10.9 Not a Random PenguinSelected Poems by Octavio Paz
+10 Task (New Directions Publishing)
+10 Canon
+10 Non-Western (Mexico)
+10 Not-a-Novel (poetry)
+10 Combo
-10.6 (1990 Nobel winner)
-20.5 (originally written in Spanish)
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 250
re: post 13***changing task for this book from 20.6 to 20.7***
20.7 Notable
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
+20 Task 100 Notable list for 2011
+10 Combo
-20.4, author born in 1946
-20.6 (#89)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 250
20.6 Winter of Our DiscontentA Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
+20 Task (#51)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Combo, 20.4 (b. 1953)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 285
Kate S wrote: "Erin wrote: " Location: Barcelona, Spain Years: 1945-2008
Historian
15.2 Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Setting: Barcelona
+25 Points
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 40"
Erin, I belie..."
Thanks! I didn't know the 25 was the bonus beyond the 15 you get for simply completing the task. I'll update my scoring!
10.3 Library's best novelsThe Moviegoer by Walker Percy (# 60 on Novels List)
+10 pts - Task
+ 10 pts - canon
Task total - 20 pts
GRand Total - 235 pts
Location, Location, LocationLocation: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Publication: 1957 – 2010
“Archeologist”
15.2 Careful, He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott –pub. 1963
+15 Task
+25 Bonus Points (95% of the story is in Sydney suburbs approx. the Neutral Bay / Edgecliff areas which are < 10 mi from Sydney CBD)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 150
20.6 PoeticEverything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (950 Lexile)
+20 Task (#6 on list)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 205
10.3 Library Lovers' MonthRagtime by E.L. Doctorow
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+10 Task
Task total: 10 points
Grand Total: 495
Task 10.5 - Read one of the top 250 on the Most Influential Books list.#188 as of January 4, 2013
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne (translated by William Butcher)
+10 Task
Grand Total: 260 + 10 = 270
15.7 LLL ParisA Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant, pub 1883
+15 Task
no bonus, mostly takes place in a Chateau near Yport, 110 miles from Paris; some action on Corsica is less than 10%
Grand Total = 230
my review
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+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total:35