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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). Trapeze (2012) by Simon Mawer
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 605 + 20 = 625
20.3 Winter's TaleThe Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
+20 Task (listed under Moroccan magic realism from WikiList)
+10 Combo
-10.7 (first published 30 Jan 1985, got it from the library)
-20.4 (b. 1944)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 625
20.8 InformedThree Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
+20 Task (Pakistan and Afghanistan mentioned in several blurbs; book was cleared in the topic thread)
+10 Not-a-novel (biography/memoir)
+5 Combo, 20.4 (Mortenson b. 1957; Relin b. 1962)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 660
10.8 HistoricalI, Claudius by Robert Graves
+10 Task (set between around 11 BC and 41 AD)
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.3 - #14 on list)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 540
10.7 Buy Nothing ChristmasThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba (Lexile score 960)
My Review
+10 Task (first published Feb 29, 2000) library book
+10 Non-Western (Malawi)
+10 Not a Novel (biography)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 305
RwS Task20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees :
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
+ 20 Task: author born in 1962
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 650
RwS Task20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees
A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks
+ 20 Task: Author born 1953
+10 Not a Novel: 5 short stories on similar theme
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 680
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
+20 Task (born 1958)
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 900
20.8 InformedI Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish
+20 Task (Gaza - mentioned in November 2012)
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.10, 20.4 - Izzeldin Abuelaish born 1955)
+10 Non-Western (born in and citizen of Palestine)
+10 Not a Novel (non-fiction)
Task Total: 55
Grand Total: 595
20.4 Plath*Fences by August Wilson
+20 Task (August Wilson born 1945)
+10 Canon
+10 Not a Novel (play)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 635
*edited to change task - totals remain the same
10.1 - Year in ReviewThe Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4: born in 1958)
Task total = 15
Points total = 120
Deedee wrote: "Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). Trapeze (2012) by Simon Mawer
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 605 + 20 = 625"
Oooo. What did you think of this one? I read Mendel's Dwarf by the same author a while ago and really liked it. I keep thinking I should pick up one of his other books.
15.5 NYCSomeday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (Lexile 1010), pub. 5-9-2007
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (90% set in NYC, 20 pages spent in D.C.)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 700
20.4 Winter TreesNo Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Lexile 850)
+20 Task (b. 1953)
+5 Combo (10.7--pub. 1 Feb 2012, checked out from library)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 725
20.9 PennedThe Gypsies: And Other Narrative Poems by Alexander Pushkin
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Non-Western (Russia)
+10 Not-a-Novel (poetry)
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 775
RwS Task:20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees :
It's Fine By Me: A Novel by Per Petterson
+20 Task: Petterson was born in 1952
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Yours, Mine and Ours: Me
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 715
20.10 - UndauntedThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
+20 task
+5 combo (20.9 - 19th)
+10 canon
Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 35
20.5 - In Honor of Winter in MadridChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Originally in Spanish
+20 task
+10 combo (20.3 - In honor of Winter's Tale, 10.6 - Nobel Prize)
+10 Non-Western
Task total: 40 points
Grand total: 75
Task 10.2-January is Yours, Mine and Ours MonthThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Task +10
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 10
10.2 Yours, Mine and OursI Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives by Helena Halperin
+ 10 pts - Task
+ 10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total -
Grand Total -
Anika wrote: "20.3 Winter's TaleThe Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
+20 Task (listed under Moroccan magic realism from WikiList)
+10 Combo
-10.7 (first published 30 Jan 1985, got it from the library)
-20.4 (b..."
+10 Non-Western
From Post 546 Mike wrote: "15.2 Location, Location, Location
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (Entire story takes place in London)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 265"
Mike-I show your previous total at 245 (post 532), add 40 points in this post puts your new total at 285. Thanks.
20.1 If on a Winter's Night a TravelerA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.3 - #3, 20.6 - #30)
+10 pts - Canon
Task Total - 40 pts
Grand Total -
Joanna wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). Trapeze (2012) by Simon Mawer
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 605 + 20 = 625"
Oooo What did you think of this one?..."
I liked it OK. It was an espionage novel, not a romance. Once I got over that expectaion I liked the novel. The author says he was inspired by women who actually did this kind of espionage in World War II.
20.9 PennedSentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
+20 Task
+10 Canon
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 315
my review
10.4 In Honor of Grimm's Fairy TalesElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lexile 670
+10 Task (Retelling, shelved 57 times http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/f...)
Task total: 10 points
Grand Total: 910
20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesTell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
Born February 21, 1962
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 145
20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesDeadlocked by Charlaine Harris
Born November 25, 1951
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 165
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me (2012) by Geert Wilders
+20 Task
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points):
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 625 + 30 = 655
20.2 WesternsTrue Grit by Charles Portis (800 Lexile)
+20 Task (#2 on best westerns list)
+5 Combo (20.4 - Charles Portis born 1933)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 660
15.2 LLLNew Orleans
The Voodoo Queen by Robert Tallant (pub 1956)
+15 pts - Task
+25 pts - Bonus (Takes place in The French Quarter)
Task Total - 40 pts
Grand Total -
10.7 Buy Nothing ChristmasGolden Fool by Robin Hobb
+10 Task (book published in December of 2003 and was lent to me by a friend)
+5 Combo (20.4 - author born in 1952)
+10 Jumbo (709 pages)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=195 pts
20.4 – Winter Trees The Red House by Mark Haddon
+20 Task (Mark Haddon born September 26, 1962)
Task total=20
Grand total=260
Rebekah wrote: "10.2 Yours, Mine and OursI Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives by Helena Halperin
+ 10 pts - Task
+ 10 pts - Non Western (Kenya)
+ 10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total..."
Sorry, Rebekah, Non-Western refers to the author, not the book. It appears Helena Halperin is a US citizen. Thanks.
Norma wrote: "20.4 Winter TreesL.A. Requiem by Robert Crais born 1953
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 600"
+5 Jumbo (most popular edition has 539 pages)
Kate S wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "10.2 Yours, Mine and OursI Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives by Helena Halperin
+ 10 pts - Task
+ 10 pts - Non Western (Kenya)
+ 10 pts - Not a N..."
whoops!
I've gone back and edited my last three posts
10.6 Nobel Prize WinnerMiramar by Naguib Mahfouz 1988
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Non Western (Egypt)
+10 pts - canon
Task total - 30 pts
Grand Total - 615 pts
10.4 Grimm's Fairy TalesPrincess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George (Lexile 830)
+10 Task (shelved as Fairy Tale Retellings by 64 users)
+5 Combo (10.7--pub. 20 Jan 2009, library book)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 800 (re: post 607, thanks for seeing the +10 for me Kate!)
20.4 - Winter TreesThis Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
+20 task (born 1941)
+5 combo (10.7 - January release, library book)
+10 not-a-novel
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 220
20.3 - In honor of Winter's Tale :The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 – about writers)
+10 Non-Western
+10 Cannon
Task Total = 45 points
Grand Total = 785 points
20.10 - Liz M's task - Undaunted:A couple of years ago I started this book and put it back down (according to GR, I left off at about 32%)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 - #174)
Task Total = 25 points
Grand Total = 810 points
10.6 Nobel PrizeSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Lexile 1010
+10 Task (won the Literature prize in 1946)
+10 Combo (10.5 #239, 10.8 set during the lifetime of the Buddha, approx 250 BCE)
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 930
10.7 - Buy Nothing ChristmasSparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
1st published on February 1945 (according to Wikipedia)
I read an old 70's edition that I borrowed from one of my relatives (I don't remember who...)
Task total = 10
Points total = 115
RwS Task20.7 - Sara Grace's Task - Notable:
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
+20 Task: on the 2012 list
+ 5 Combo: Yours, Mine, Ours: her, you
+10 Not a Novel: short stories
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 750
20.2 The Winter WarThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
+20 Task (#36 on list of Best Westerns)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 820
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). Bedlam Burning by Geoff Nicholson
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 655 + 20 = 675
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Task Poinnts: 20
Style: 0
Grand Total: 90