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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
Location, Location, Location: PittsburghTime Period: 1955-2012
15.3 - The Spencers of Amberson Avenue: A Turn-of-the-Century Memoir by Ethel Spencer (orig pub 1983)
Setting: Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (fewer than 10 pages take place outside of the neighborhood)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 430
20.4 Winter Trees
by Sarah Darer LittmanBorn 1963
Book Total: 20
Grand Total:70
Location, Location, LocationLocation: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Publication: 1957 – 2010
“Archaeologist”
15.10 Death by the Book (Jack Susko #1) by Lenny Bartulin –pub. 2010
+15 Task
75% of book set in Sydney & Northern Suburbs (within 10 mi); 5% in Bowral (85 mi), & 20% near Stanwell Park (34 mi) – Not sure if this book qualifies for any bonus points.
+100 “Archaeologist”completion Bonus
Task Total = 115 points
Grant Total = 655 points
Location: New York CityYears: 1925 to 2012
15.10 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
+15 task
+5 bonus
+100 Archeologist bonus
Task total: 120
Grand total: 480
Tien wrote: "75% of book set in Sydney & Northern Suburbs (within 10 mi); 5% in Bowral (85 mi), & 20% near Stanwell Park (34 mi) – Not sure if this book qualifies for any bonus points...."Since 95% of the book takes place within 34 miles, this book earns +5 bonus points
Congrats on your Archeologist finish!
Norma wrote: "+100 Archeologist bonus"Excellent work!
Congrats to all 3 LLL finishers!
+100 Archeologist bonusCongratulations to Tien and Norma! Nice going!
Yeah for the sub shall engle finishers!
Phoebe wrote: "20.8 – Kate S's task - InformedDas letzte Testament by Sam Bourne
("The Last Testament")
+20 task
The book is about finding the "last testament" -> Abraham's testament. During the peace negotiat..."
Phoebe is this book printed in English as well?
15.2 NYCDelirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas, pub. 1978
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (100% NYC)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 475
15.3 NYCMurder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson, pub. 1999
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (100% set in NYC)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 515
15.4 NYCThe Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York edited by Jacquelin Cangro, pub. 2006
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (only 4 pages discussed the Moscow subway as means of comparison to the NYC subway system; otherwise, it was all NYC)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 555
20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesShadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card (830L)
Orson Scott Card was born on August 24, 1951
+20 task
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 105
20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesDead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris was born on November 25, 1951
+20 Task
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 125
RwS Task10.8 - Deedee’s Task – Historical Reading:
The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
+10 Task: 12th Century
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Yours, Mine and Ours: Her
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 535
Tien wrote: "20.8 – InformedThe Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 – born 1961)
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total = 35 points
Grand Total = 445 points"
Don't know if you already caught this, but you should also get +5 combo points for 10.6 (he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009)
10.7 - Buy Nothing ChristmasThe Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
wikipedia: "[...] first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 [...]"
+ 10 Task (I borrowed the book from my local library;)
Grand Total: 595
Task 10.2 January is Yours, Mine and Ours MonthWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
+10 Task
Grand Total: 480 + 10 = 490
Task 15.3Location, Location, Location
Location:London, UK
“Archeologist”
Publication: 1722-2012
15.3 Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (1950) by Barbara Comyns
Setting:
(80%) London
(20%) A countryside manor in Bedfordshire – 47 miles away from London
+15 Task
+05 Bonus Points (within 75 miles)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total: 490 + 20 = 510
RwS Task20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees
The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg
+20 Task: Peter Hoeg was born in 1957
+ 5 Jumbo 512 pages
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 560
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.4 Winter Trees by Sarah Darer LittmanBorn 1963
Book Total: 20
Grand Total:70"
I have been unable to locate a site for her birthday - how did you determine this?
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesThere but for the by Ali Smith
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+20 Task (born 1962)
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 755
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.4 Winter Trees by Sarah Darer LittmanBorn 1963
Book Total: 20
Grand Total:70"
I have been unable to locate a site for h..."
I went on her website and it said she was born the year JFk was assassinated. I wikipediaed John F. Kennedy and wikipedia said JFk was assassinated in the year 1963.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.4 Winter Trees by Sarah Darer LittmanBorn 1963
Book Total: 20
Grand Total:70"
I have been una..."
Thanks, Jayme. I was looking for a date and didn't see one. (I remember what I was doing that day, so I don't have to look it up.)
My mom was 9 years old then. :) When I went on her site it didn't give a date all if said was she was born in the year of JFk assassination. So I had to do some minor detective work :)
Rebekah wrote: "10.7 Buy Nothing ChristmasSpindle's End by Robin McKinley
first pub in January and I "borrowed" the book from my adult daughter's bookshelf.
+10 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (10.4 fairy tale re-tel..."
Sorry, Rebekah, this is listed as YA and does not have a lexile score. It qualifies for the task, but no style points. Thanks.
Camille wrote: "Task 20.3: Magical RealismI read Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
+20: task
+5: combo (10.6: Nobel Prize in 1982)
+5: combo (20.5: originally written in Spanish)
+5: comb..."
20.6 requires a title in the first 100 on the list, Chronicle of a Death Foretold is number 186 and does not qualify. Sorry.
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesThe Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
+20 Task (author born 1947)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 530
20.10 Undaunted The Odyssey by Homer
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Combo (10.5)
+5 Jumbo (560 pages)
+10 Not a novel (poetry)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 580
20.5 Winter in MadridSoltando Amarras: Casting Off by Claribel Alegría
+20 Task
+10 Non-Western (born and lives in Nicaragua)
+10 Not-a-Novel (poetry)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 595
20.4 Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free by Joel Fuhrman.+20 task (born 1953)
+10 not a novel (nonfiction)
task total +30
grand total = 275
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Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Salah Eddine wrote: "heyy i am new here .. can someone please help me to understand these messages !!"I'll send you a private message." okayy thank you very much
Updated Post #178Task Total went from 15 to 20.
That changed my Previous Grand Total of 155 to 160:
20.4 The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (born 1961 according to Google)
Task Total: +20
Grand Total: 180
*I hope I did this in a way that you understand. I apologize for the confusion.
15.1 L L L - New OrleansThe Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life by George W. Cable (pub 1880)
+15 pts - task
Task total - 15 pts
Grand Total - 415 pts
Kate S wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "10.7 Buy Nothing ChristmasSpindle's End by Robin McKinley
first pub in January and I "borrowed" the book from my adult daughter's bookshelf.
+10 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (10.4 f..."
Ok
Anika wrote: "Don't know if you already caught this, but you should also get +5 combo points for 10.6 (he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009) "Thanks, Anika!
20.9 PennedThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
+20 Task
Task Total = 20 points
Grand Total = 680 points
20.7 NotableThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+20 Task (on list for 2011)
+10 Combo (20.4 born 1946, 20.6 #89 on list)
Task total: 30 points
Grand Total: 785
20.3 Winter's Tale1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
+20 Task (Japanese list)
+10 Combo (20.4 [b. 1949], 20.7 [2011 list])
+10 Nonwestern (Japan)
+20 Jumbo (945 pp. in most popular edition)
Task total: 60
Grand total: 425
RwS Task10.7 - Isabell’s Task – Buy Nothing Christmas
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
+10 Task: From the Pierce County Library and first published January 4, 2011:
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 570
20.7 Notable Book (2012)Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel
+15 Jumbo (Listed on GR as 800 pages even)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 225
Task 20.8 Read a non-fiction book about a person or place mentioned in the World News category of these 2012 blurbs.Putin is mentioned in Feb., March, and May
First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin (2000) by Vladimir Putin
+20 Task
+05 Style:1. Combo (5 points) (20.4 born 1932-1963)
+10 Style:2. Non-Western (10 points):
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points):
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 + 10 = 45
Grand Total: 510 + 45 = 555
10.9 Not a Random PenguinLove and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts
+10 Task (published by Twelfth Planet Press - http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/ - pretty much the inspiration for the task)
+10 Not a Novel (short stories)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 450
20.5 Winter in Madrid--originally written in SpanishIsland Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6 born 1942)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 275
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15.2 I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
This is not a typical narrative book and I was not able to keep track of how far characters wandered from San Francisco, so I will not claim any bonus.
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 250