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15.10 LLL - New OrleansNine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum pub Feb 2009
+15 pts - Task
+40 pts - Location Bonus
+100 pts - Sub Challenge Complete Bonus(read in Chron. order)
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Task total - 40 pts
Grand Total - 1395 pts
Very good, Rebekah. Excellent! I hope you can get back to your neglected family now. ;-)Oh - and the mega finish is 200 points!
Thanks! I did it with >24 hrs to spare! That may be a first for me! Especially since I had to read an extra book since that one LLL book ended up being in Brazil too much. It ended up I got 20 extra points and finished another book sitting on my shelf. Now my family won't be neglected until the end of May. (smile)
10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month:Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 240
20.4 - William Kent Krueger is born in 1950 according to GooglePurgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 435
20.4 – Winter TreesBedrock by Lisa Alther
+20 Task (born in 1944)
http://www.lisaalther.com/biography.html
Task total=20
Grand total=405
Tien wrote: "20.5 In honor of Winter in Madrid :Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Book originally written in Spanish
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 –born 1942)
+10 Non –Western (Peru)
Task Total = 35 points
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Sorry, Tien, Isabel Allende has U.S. citizenship and is considered a Western author.
Arow wrote: "10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month:I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family by Kate Gosselin
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 215"
+10 Not a novel (non-fiction)
15.9 LLL-ChicagoSin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (90% set in the city of Chicago)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1145
15.10 LLL ChicagoThe Litigators by John Grisham
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (90% set in Chicago)
+100 LLL Archeologist bonus
Post Total: 140
Season Total: 1285
10.10 Group ReadOystercatchers by Susan Fletcher
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7-borrowed from library, published Feb 2007)
+100 RwS Finish
+200 Mega Finish
Post Total: 315
Season Total: 1600
Congrats on the LLL finish and the mega finish Kate! Great job!
Kate S wrote: "Post Total: 315Season Total: 1600"
nice score!
20.4 Winter TreesSarah by Marek Halter
+20 Task (author born in 1936)
+10 Combo
-10.7 (pub. 1-1-2003, library book)
-10.8 (the story of Sarah and Abraham, from the book of Genesis in the Old Testament...don't know approx. what year B.C.E. that is, but know it's early enough to qualify for this task :-) )
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 1590
Congratulations to everyone on a fantastic winter challenge!
20.4 – Winter TreesA Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
George R.R. Martin was born in 1948
+20 Task
+20 Jumbo (969 pages)
Task total = 40
Points total = 170
20.10 – UndauntedEthan Frome by Edith Wharton
Although I enjoyed other books by Edith Wharton, I've always avoided reading Ethan Frome as the plot wasn't tempting to me. I actually quite liked it, especially the ending.
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 190
10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month:Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 –born 1957)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task Total = 25 points
RwS Finish = 100 points
Mega Finish = 200 points
Grand Total = 1,255 points
20.10 UndauntedThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy*
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.9 - Penned)
+10 Non-Western
+10 Canon (short novels)
Task Total: 45 points
Grand Total: 890 points
*Although I had enjoyed War & Peace and Anna Karenina, I had been avoiding this novella for a long time, dreading it's antagonistic views on love/marriage. And even with this task as motivation, it still took two tries and over a week to read the first 60 pages.
20.7 - NotableBuilding Stories by Chris Ware
+20 Task (graphic novel)
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 910 points
Liz M wrote: "20.7 - NotableBuilding Stories by Chris Ware
+20 Task (graphic novel)
Did you enjoy this box of goodies, Liz?
LLL London
15.10 Published 2010 Lexile 1130
Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper
+15 Task
+25 Bonus: there are two short sections in Surrey, but not more than 10%(18 pages/ 309 total, Phew!
Task Total: 40
Archeologist Bonus: 100
Mega Finish Bonus: 200
Grand Total: 1565
Congratulations also so Kate, Tien and Anika! If I missed anyone along the way, I'm sorry and congratulations to you as well!
Kate S wrote: "Arow wrote: "10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month:I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family by Kate Gosselin
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 215"
+10..."
THANK YOU! I completely forgot that 'Not a novel' was a style category this time around. I will update my total to show the additional +10 for that.
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_La...
Born: 1949
Pirates (1995) by Linda Lael Miller
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1015 + 20 = 1035
Karen GHHS wrote: "Did you enjoy this box of goodies, Liz?"At times I enjoyed it very much -- one of those "right story at the right time" experiences. The Branford Bee segments were tedious. But I still want to spend some time going back through all the various items and piecing how they all fit together, now that I've read them all. So, overall good.
Karen GHHS wrote: "Archeologist Bonus: 100
Mega Finish Bonus: 200"
Nice finish, Karen!
Task 15.5Location, Location, Location
Location:London, UK
“Archeologist”
Publication: 1722-2012
1982: The London Embassy by Paul Theroux
+15 Task
+25 Bonus Points (within 10 miles)
Task Total = 15 + 25 = 40
Grand Total: 1035 + 40 = 1075
And that will be it for me. Thanks to the moderators for all that they do!
Yay, Karen!! Even with the "interference" of life and a conference, I knew you'd get your LLL completed, thus completing your MegaFinish :-) Nicely doneAnd Kate! Woo hoo on that awesome score!
10.6 - In honor of the Nobel PrizesMosby's Memoirs and Other Stories by Saul Bellow
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total=20
Grand total=425
Anika wrote: "Yay, Karen!! Even with the "interference" of life and a conference, I knew you'd get your LLL completed, thus completing your MegaFinish :-) Nicely doneAnd Kate! Woo hoo on that awesome score!"
Thanks, Anika,
I had to do some shuffling, but that's all part of the game!
Congrats, Karen, Rosemary, Anika, Kate S and all the other mega finishers. I think the winter challenges are always the hardest since Feb gives us one less day than any of the other seasons to complete the challenge soooo Good For YOU!!!!!
I've got one last book. I've been working one it all month off and on but I did make it! 20.6 The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
+20 pts - Task
+10 combo - 10.2 (Our), 10.6- won in 1962
Task Total - 30 pts
Grand Total - 1425 pts
Thanks, Rebekah <3 Congrats on getting that last book in!! How did you like Winter of Our Discontent? I've had it on my "to read" shelf for years but always feel a little intimidated by it....
Location, Location, Location: PittsburghTime Period: 1955-2011
15.10 - Pittsburgh Noir by Kathleen George, ed (orig pub 2011)
Setting: Pittsburgh
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (set entirely within 6 miles of Pittsburgh, except a brief flashback to WWII making up <10% of one story)
Task Total: 40
+100 Archeologist Bonus
+200 Mega Finish
Grand Total: 1410
And another mega finisher! Wow - congratulations, Cory!
Anika wrote: "Thanks, Rebekah <3 Congrats on getting that last book in!! How did you like Winter of Our Discontent? I've had it on my "to read" shelf for years but always feel a little intimidated by it...."At first it was kind of slow and I kept finding other books to fit the tasks that it would fit. It was also an audible book and those take longer. This is the only time I appreciate our orthodontist is almost an hour away! I ended up giving it 5 stars.. I love Ethan's double talk and dry humor, that keeps people guessing if he is serious or not. His nicknames for his wife are the most creative I have ever heard and he doesn't use the same one twice. I also really like books that have twists towards the end. I really like Steinbeck but I always have to get past the first chapter until I start loving it.
20.7 Notable BooksTo a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
+20 Task (2011 nonfiction list)
+10 Combo (10.7 published Jan. gift) 20.4 born 1936
+10 Not-a-novel nonfiction
Task total: 40
Grand Total: 435
Congratulations to everyone who "played" in the Winter Challenge. On to Spring!
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To a Mountain in Tibet (other topics)Pittsburgh Noir (other topics)
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Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell orn 1956
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 740