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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
Kazen wrote: "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 Rubi..."
Sorry, Kazen, 10.1 can not be claimed as a combo.
Bea wrote: "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..."
Sorry, Bea, 10.1 can not be claimed as a combo
Kate S wrote: "Kazen wrote: "10.7 - Buy Nothing ChristmasSorry, Kazen, 10.1 can not be claimed as a combo.
Eep, I totally missed that - my apologies!
20.5 Winter in MadridSorrow by Claribel Alegria
+20 Task
+10 Non-Western (Nicaragua)
+10 Not-a-Novel (poetry)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 860
10.6 NobelTwenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
+10 Task-1931
+10 Not a Novel (non fiction)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 885
20.4 Winter TreesBridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
+20 Task (author born 1949)
+5 Jumbo (528 pages in most popular edition)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 910
10.8 Historical ReadingCleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
+10 Task (Cleopatra lived in the first century BCE)
+10 Combo
-20.7 (2010 nonfiction)
-20.4 (author born 1961)
+10 not-a-novel (biography)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 890
10.5 World Thinking DayMacbeth by William Shakespeare
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - canon
+10 pts - Not a Novel
I thought I was doing a -re-read from high school days when I went through a Shakespeare period. AS I got into it, I realized I had never actually read this play before. I guess because the story and so many lines are so familiar, my mind was tricked.
Task Total - 30 pts
RWS Completion Bonus - 100 pts
Grand Total - 860 pts
and that completes this part of the challenge for me!. Now 6 LLL books to go!
Congratulations Rebekah and good luck with those LLL books! You can do it! :)
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). Born: 1960
And Then Life Happens: A Memoir (2012) by Auma Obama (translated from the German by Ross Benjamin)
+20 Task
+10 Style:2. Non-Western (10 points):
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points):
Task Total: 20 + 10 + 10 = 40
Grand Total: 715 + 40 = 755
20.5 Winter in Madrid100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
+20 Task (originally written in Spanish)
+5 Combo (10.7 - won in 1971)
+10 Nonwestern
+10 Canon
+10 Not a novel (poetry)
Task total: 55
Grand total: 850
15.6 LLLLocation: Nuremberg
Die Dirne und der Bischof by Ulrike Schweikert (set in Würzburg, 67 miles from Nuremberg)
+ 15 Task
+ 5 Bonus
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 665
15.7 LLLLocation: Nuremberg
Nebelschleier by Ella Danz (set in Coburg, 68 miles from Nuremberg)
+ 15 Task
+ 5 Bonus
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 685
20.5 Winter in Madrid - The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón+20 Task (story set in Barcelona)
+5 Combo (10.7 - published in Jan and I borrowed it from a friend)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=225
Congratulations, Rebekah!
Congratulations to all who have finished parts of the challenge!10.7 - Isabell’s Task – Buy Nothing Christmas
From the Pierce County Library and first published December 6, 2012:
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
+10 Task
Grand Total: 760
20.9 – Elizabeth (Alaska)’s task – Penned:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
+20 Task
+ 5 Jumbo (535 pages)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 785
Location: LondonYears: 1825-2005
15.9 - Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
Setting: entirely in London
Published: 1999
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 1040
10.3 - Honor Library Lover's MonthA Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy
+ 10 Task (#87 on Non-Fiction List)
+ 10 Not-A-Novel (Essay)
Task total=20
Grand total=305
20.9 PennedThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
+20 Task
+10 Non-Western
+10 Canon (short novels)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 535
my review
10.9 Not a Random PenguinLady Rose and Mrs. Memmary by Ruby Ferguson
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+10 Task (published by http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/ )
Task total: 10 points
Grand Total: 1050
20.4 Winter TreesExecutive Privilege by Phillip Margolin born 1944
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 640
10.8: Historical ReadingI read Unveiled: Tamar by Francine Rivers
+10: task
+5: combo (20.4--author born 1945)
Task total: +15
RwS Total: 320
Task 10.8 Read a work of fiction set before 1500 A.D.Setting specifically given as: “the autumn of 1483”
The Tintern Treasure (Roger the Chapman #21) (2012) by Kate Sedley
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 755 + 10 = 765
10.3 Library Lovers MonthSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Lexile 850)
+10 Task (#18 on Board's List of Top 100 Novels)
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 900
15.6 NYCI Speak of the City: Poems of New York edited by Stephen Wolf, pub. 8-3-2007
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (100% about NYC)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 940
20.7 - NotableThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
+20 Task (on list for 2011)
+10 Combo (20.4 born 1946, 20.6 #89 on list)
Task total: 30 points
Grand Total: 745 points
20.1 - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
+20 task
Grand Total: 765 points
15.5 LLL - New OrleansViolin by Anne Rice 1997
+15 pts - Task
See my question under the LLL help thread
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesAmerican Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill by Anne Sebba
My Review
+20 Task (born 1951)
+10 Not a Novel (biography)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 375
Rebekah wrote: "15.5 LLL - New OrleansViolin by Anne Rice 1997
+15 pts - Task
See my question under the LLL help thread"
Rebekah, I'm sorry but with 14% of the book being set in Brazil, it does not count for LLL.
20.4 - Jean Edward Smith is born in 1932Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
+20 Task
+10 Not a novel
+20 Jumbo (976 pages)
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 355
Task 20.6Read one of the top 100 books with a poetic title.
Book #71
The Joy Luck Club (1989) by Amy Tan
+20 Task
+05 Style:1. Combo (5 points) (20.4 born 1952)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 765 + 25 = 790
15.3 LLLThe Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (Outside of a flashback story set in India in the final pages --a story told by a man sitting in London-- entire book is set in London)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 395
Location: LondonYears: 1825-2005
15.10 - Saturday by Ian McEwan
Setting: entirely in London
Published: 2005
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40 points
LLL archaeologist completion bonus: 100 points
Grand Total: 1190
Rosemary wrote: "LLL archaeologist completion bonus: 100 points"
Yippee! Congratulations!
15.7 NYCThe 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, pub. 12-29-2009
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (100% NYC)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 980
20.3 - Winter's Tale1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
+20 Task (Japanese list)
+10 Combo (20.4, 20.7)
+10 Non-Western (Japan)
+20 Jumbo (945 pgs.)
Task total: 60 points
Grand Total: 845 points
20.6 – In honor of The Winter of Our Discontent :Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
+20 Task: #74 when selected: low Lexile, no style points
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 805
20.7 - Sara Grace’s Task – Notable:Building Stories by Chris Ware
+20 Task: 2012 list: graphic novel, no style points
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 825
Location, Location, Location: PittsburghTime Period: 1955-2011
15.6* - The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (orig pub 1990)
Setting: Pittsburgh
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (set in Pittsburgh except approximately 5 pgs with flashbacks to the South)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 740
*edited post 595 to switch Fences from 15.5 to 20.4 (task + canon + not a novel), and post 666 to be 15.5 - no totals changed
20.1 Novels about WritersThe Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 - Barbara Kingsolver born 1955)
+5 Jumbo (most common edition has 508 pages)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 770
Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "*edited post 595 to switch Fences from 15.5 to 20.4, and post 666 to be 15.5 - no totals changed "Thanks for this note, Cory. We don't go back to prior posts, so editing doesn't change anything from our side. I'm pretty sure with the note, however, that Kate will be able to make the switch.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "*edited post 595 to switch Fences from 15.5 to 20.4, and post 666 to be 15.5 - no totals changed "Thanks for this note, Cory. We don't go back to prior posts, so edi..."
Good to know - if I need to clarify or repost I can - just trying to keep things as clean as possible :)
Yes, it's the alert that you want the switch and which post is involved. I just meant you didn't need to take the extra time to edit. We do record by post number, so that bit of info is essential. ;-)
15.8 NYCThe Ghost of Greenwich Village: A Novel by Lorna Graham, pub. 1-1-2011
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (100% NYC)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 1020
Location, Location, Location: PittsburghTime Period: 1955-2011
15.7 - Bing Crosby's Last Song: A Novel by Lester Goran (orig pub 1998)
Setting: Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (set in Pittsburgh except approximately 9% when Daly takes short trips - and thank goodness the last trip was less than half a page...)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 810
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Task = 20
Grand Total = 305