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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
20.4 - Winter TreesThe Leopard by Jo Nesbø
+ 20 task (born in 1960 according to his GR bio)
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 215 points
Location: LondonYears: 1825-2005
15.8 - Does My Bum Look Big in This? by Arabella Weir
Setting: over 90% in London
Published: 1997
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 970
20.2 The Winter WarAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Currently #32 on the Best Westerns list
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3)
+5 Jumbo (569 pages)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 345
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesCatalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lexile 580
+20 Task (born 1961 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_H...)
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 990
itpdx wrote: "20.2 The Winter WarAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Currently #32 on the Best Westerns list
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3)
+5 Jumbo (569 pages)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 345
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I hope you liked this one. It's near the top of my (fictitious) Top Ten List.
"I hop..."
My review is kind of lame, so I didn't link it. But, yes, I very much liked it.
20.8 – Kate S's task - Informed A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
+20 task
+5 combo (20.4 - born 1939)
+10 non-Western (Israeli)
+10 not-a-novel
+5 jumbo (560 pgs)
Task total: 50 points
Grand Total: 715 points
15.10 LLL Paris 1831 - 1910The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (takes place entirely in Paris)
Task total = 40
+100 Archeologist bonus
Grand Total = 455
my review
15.3 LLL New OrleansNine Women by Shirley Ann Grau
+15 pts - Task
+25 pts - Bonus (in New Orleans)
Task Total - 40 pts
Grand Total - 655 pts
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "15.10 LLL Paris 1831 - 1910The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
+100 Archeologist bonus"
Excellent! Congrats on finishing!
15.7 LLL Location: ChicagoThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (Set entirely in Chicago)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 825
20.3 Winter's Tale-Magical RealismThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 845
15.3 - Location Location Location - LondonMrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
+15 task
+25 location (set entirely in London)
Post total: 40
Grand total: 125
10.3 - Honor Library Lover's MonthTender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
+10 task
+10 canon
Post total: 20
Grant total: 145
10.9 - Not a Random PenguinDonor - Ken McClure (ebook published by Polygon)
+10 task
Post total: 10
Grand total: 175
20.4 - In Honor of Winter TreesLife As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer (born 1948)
+20 task
Post total: 20
Grand total: 195
10.7 - Buy Nothing ChristmasZone One - Colson Whitehead
(published January 2011, library book)
+10 task
Post total: 10
Grand total: 205
20.2 The Gunslinger by Stephen King (#6 on list) +20 task
+ 10 combo 20.4 (born in 1947), 20.1 (part of Dark Tower series)
Task total +30
Grand total= 300
20.4 Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour - by Robb Walsh+20 task (born in 1952, according to google)
+5 combo (10.7- received as gift, Pub December 2009)
+10 not a novel
Task total = + 35
Grand total = 335
20.7 - NotableWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
+20 task (on the 2012 list)
+5 combo (10.2 - we)
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 250 points
And if you're interested, I thought these stories were REALLY good. I couldn't put it down.
Liz Vegas wrote: "20.4 Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour - by Robb Walsh+20 task (born in 1952, according to google)
+10 combo (10.7- received as gift, Pub December 2009)
Unfortunately, task 10.9 cannot be claimed as combo points.
Katy wrote: "20.4 - Winter TreesThe Leopard by Jo Nesbø
+ 20 task (born in 1960 according to his GR bio)
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 215 points"
+5 Jumbo (most popular edition has 639 pages)
Sam wrote: "10.1 - Year in ReviewThe Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
+10 task
Post total: 10
Grand total: 155"
+5 Combo (10.5 #83 on the list)
Liz Vegas wrote: "20.2 The Gunslinger by Stephen King (#6 on list) +20 task
+ 5 combo 20.4 (born in 1947)
Task total +25
Grand total= 300"
+5 Combo 20.1 (part of the Dark Tower series on the self-reflexive novels)
Task 20.3 Read a novel classified as magical realism on the linked page.Category: "Cuban magic realism novels"
The Island of Eternal Love (2006) by Daina Chaviano (translated from the Spanish by Andrea Labinger) (Hardcover, 318 pages)
+20 Task
+10 Style:1. Combo (5 points each) (20.4 born 1960; 20.5 written in Spanish)
+10 Style:2. Non-Western (10 points):
Task Total: 20 + 10 + 10 = 40
Grand Total: 675 + 40 = 715
Location, Location, Location: PittsburghTime Period: 1955-2011
15.5* - Sons And Daughters Of Labor: Class And Clerical Work In Turn Of The Century Pittsburgh by Ileen DeVault (orig pub 1990)
Setting: Pittsburgh
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (entirely about Pittsburgh)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 700
*edited post 595 to switch Fences from 15.5 to 20.4, so this becomes 15.5
10.4 Grimm's Fairy TalesBeastly by Alex Flinn (3rd book on the fairy tale retellings-list)
+ 10 Task
Grand Total: 605
10.5 World Thinking DayPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
+ 10 Task (# 140 on list)
+ 5 Combo (10.4: shelved 75 times as fairy tale)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 620
10.6 Nobel Prize WinnersThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
+ 10 Task (Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907)
Grand Total: 630
10.8 Historical ReadingDas Gold Von Karthago: Roman by Gisbert Haefs
The book is set in the 3rd century BC.
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.4: Haefs was born in 1950)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 645
20.6 The Winter of Our DiscontentA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
+20 Task (#11 on the list)
+10 Canon
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 155
10.4 Fairy TalesFairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm & Philip Pullman
+10 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (10.5 - #101 in most influential books list )
+10 pts - Canon
+10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 690 pts
20.9 PennedOn the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
+20 Task
+10 Non-Western
+10 Canon
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 495
my review
Task 20.1 In honor of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler :The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine (Novels about writers)
+20 Task
Task Total = 20 points
Grand Total = 830 points
10.7 - Buy Nothing ChristmasThe Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin (published in December, read as a library ebook)
+10 task
+5 combo (10.2 Yours, Ours, and Mine Month - I in the title)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 245 points
10.5 World Thinking DayAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+10 Task (currently #251 but was in the top 250 when I planned it)
Task total: 10 points
Grand Total: 1000
10.5 World Thinking DayThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
+10 Task (was #233 at time I planned it)
+10 Combo (10.1, 20.4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_N...)
+ 5 Jumbo (most popular version has 516 pp.)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 60
20.4 Winter TreesThe Man Who Lied To Women by Carol O'Connell born 1947
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 640
15.4 LLL - New OrleansThe Neon Rain by James Lee Burke (1987)
+15 pts - Task
+ 25 pts - Bonus
Task Total - 40 pts
GrandTotal - 730 pts
20.6 Winter of Our DiscontentSay You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
+20 Task (#78 on the list)
+10 Combo (10.2 [Them], 10.7 [pub. Feb. 2000; received as a gift])
+10 Not a novel (short stories)
+10 Non-Western
Task total: 50
Grand total: 705
20.7 NotableBlue Nights by Joan Didion
+20 Task (2011 list)
+5 Combo (20.4 [born 1934])
+10 Not a novel (memoir)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 740
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/Israel mentioned many times)
+15 Combo (10.2 [I], 10.10, 20.4 [born 1955])
+10 Not a novel (memoir)
+10 Non-Western (Palestinian)
Task total: 55
Grand total: 795
20.7 - NotableThe Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
+20 Task (2011)
+ 5 Jumbo (528 pages)
Task total=25
Grand total=285
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The Reversal by Michael Connelly
+ 20 task (born in 1956 according to his GR bio)
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 195 points