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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
20.6 - The Winter of Our Discontent The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
+20 task
+5 combo (10.3 - Modern Library)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 35 points
Grand Total: 70 points
10.9 Not a Random PenguinHeft: A Novel by Liz Moore
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
+10 task
+5 combo (10.7 Buy Nothing Christmas: published January 2012, borrowed from library)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 15
Kate S wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "20.6 Winter of Our DiscontentSay You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan - #71 on list
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.2 - Them)
+10 pts - Non- Western (Nigeria)
Task Total - 35 pts..."
Yeah! Thanks! I also want to say I highly recommend this book.
Task 10.1 Year in ReviewThe Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
+10 Task (read in Fall 2012)
+ 5 Jumbo (503 pages)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15
15.2 LLL - Paris 1831-1910The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 55
my review
20.4 - Brands was born in 1953The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands
+20 Task
+10 Bonus - Not a Novel
+10 Bonus - Jumbo for 718 Pages
Grand Total = 40
10.1 Year In Review
by Mohsin HamidRebekah read and posted this book in Fall 2011 challenge.
Task +20
Style +10 Non Western-The author is born in Pakastan and I believe currently resides there now.
Total: 30
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.1 Year In Review by Mohsin HamidRebekah read and posted this book in Fall 2011 challenge.
Task +20
Style +10 Non Western-The author is born in ..."
Sorry, Jayme. This task required the book to have been read during the Winter 11-12, Spring 12, Summer 12, or Fall 12 challenges.
Hamid also does not qualify for non-Western as he has dual citizenship in both Pakistan and Britain.
ok I will dig deeper. Though I asked in the question and answer thread and Christine told me it fit for 10.1.
Okay I like to modify my post.10.7 Buy Nothing Christmas
by Mohsin Hamid.I borrowed this from the library o it was free and also it says on the Goodreads page it was first published in Jnuary 2007.
Total 10
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.1 Year In Review by Mohsin HamidRebekah read and posted this book in Fall 2011 challenge.
Task +20
Style +10 No..."
Elizabeth, Liz gave this author of dual citizenship, Pakastani / British the go ahead as qualifying for non- western in post 14 under General Questions.
okay so I am confused.How about:
by Mohsin Hamid10.7 Buy Nothing For Christmas-I borrowed this from the library. Also it was first published in January 2007.
Style: +10 Non Western per post 14 of the General Questions pre approved by Liz.
Book Total: 20
Grand Total: 20
20.5 - Winter in MadridThe House of Impossible Loves by Cristina López Barrio
(I listened to the German audiobook; this book was originally written in Spanisch: "La casa de los amores imposibles")
+ 20 Task
Grand Total: 35
RwS10.5 World Thinking Day - 1984 by George Orwell
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Combo (10.3)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=25
Location Location LocationArchaeologist
Location: London
15. 1
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 35 points
10.9 NOT a Random PenguinThe Living Dead 2 by John Joseph Adams
published by Nightshade Books
+10 task
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 55 points
Location: San Francisco, CaliforniaYears: 2012-1933
15.1 Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot (2012)
Setting: San Francisco
My Review
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 75
20.4 Winter TreesThe Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (born 1962)
+20 pts - task
+5 Pts - combo with 20.7 (2011)
Task total - 25 pts
grand total - 115 pts
Location: New York CityYears: 1925 to 2012
15.2 Unnatural Acts by Stuart Woods
+15 task
+25 bonus
Task total: 40
Grand total: 55
15.2 - New York CityYears: 2011 to 1920
Published 2007
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (Set in Manhattan; a few trips, but spanning no more than a few pages total)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 55
RwS Task10.9 - Cory Bigler’s task – NOT a Random Penguin:
Published by McSweeney's:
Great book about all of the oddities of Victorian London explained by a scientist originally printed during his lifetime, 1826 - 1880.
Curious Men by Frank Buckland
+10 Task
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 60
Task 10.7 – Buy Nothing ChristmasThe Family Tree by Ilsa Evans
Book was first published 1 Feb 2009 and I won this book via giveaway hosted on a book blog earlier this year.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (Task 20.4 (Winter Trees) -author born January 21, 1960)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 50
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid10.7 Buy Nothing For Christmas-I borrowed this from the library. Also it was first published in Ja..."
Unfortunately, the goodreads database has a bad habit of defaulting to Jan. 1st if no specific date is entered for the book, as discussed in the help thread for this task.
This book appears to have been first published in March 2007.
So does this book fit any Winter RWS task? Otherwise, I read it for nothing.
Jayme - you may want to double-check, but it may work for 10.9, no?
Christine, I went back and double checked on the 10.1 and saw it was Winter 2011. So I can use it for 10.9?
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Christine, I went back and double checked on the 10.1 and saw it was Winter 2011. So I can use it for 10.9?"I thought Winter 2011-2012 was OK...so it could be 10.1, Jayme, couldn't it?
I will doubler check again.
The first entry that someone read it was Fall 2011 so it won't work for 10.1.
Okay I looked over 10.9 and all the major Publishing presses and its imprints. The publisher of the book isn't a part of those.10.9 Not A Penguin
by Mohsin Hamid.Publisher-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Task+10
Grand Total: 10
20.4 Winter TreesThe Ladies of Grace Adieu: And Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
+20 Task (Clarke was born in 1959)
+10 Not-a-novel (short stories)
+5 Combo (10.4 - shelved 25 times as fairy-tales)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 90
Task 20.9 PennedA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5- #64 on list, 10.7- published Dec 1843, picked up at library)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 55
Task 20.7 Read a book from the New York Times 100 notable books from 2011 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) by Stephen Greenblatt (Paperback, 356 pages)
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2012)
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2011)
Stephen Greenblatt was born on November 07, 1943
+20 Task
+05 Style:1. Combo (5 points) (20.4 born 1932-1963)
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points) (Non-fiction)
Task Total: 20 + 05 +10 = 35
Grand Total: 45 + 35 = 80
Location: NurembergYears: 1908 - 2012 (going from 2012 backwards)
15.2 Frauentormauer by Stefanie Mohr (published 2011)
Setting: Nuremberg
+ 15 Task
+ 25 Proximity Bonus
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 95
Location: LondonYears: 1825-1997
15.2 - Round About A Pound A Week by Maud Pember Reeves
Setting: London
Published: 1913
My review: 5 stars
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 120
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesThe Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+20 Task (born 1954)
+ 5 Jumbo (535 pages)
Task total: 25 points
Grand Total: 145
Task 20.1 – In honor of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:Read a novel about writers found on the linked lists.
Anita Desai was born on June 24, 1937
The Zigzag Way: A Novel by Anita Desai
+20 Task
+05 Style:1. Combo (5 points) (20.4 born 1932-1963)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 80 + 25 = 105
Task 10.4 Grimm's Fairy TalesScarlet by Marissa Meyer
(shelved over 5 times as fairy tale retelling)
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 20 pts
10.2 - Yours, Mine and OursThis Is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 25
Tanya wrote: "Task 10.4 Grimm's Fairy Tales10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month..."
Tanya,
Please only post one book per message. When you have a moment, please shift one of these books to a new post.
Thanks!
Location:Edinburgh, UK
Publication: 1961-2010
(post 18 Real estate Listing)
15.3 Quite Ugly One Morning (Edinburgh)
+15 task
+25 bonus
task total=40
grand total=95
Publication: 1961-2010
(post 18 Real estate Listing)
15.3 Quite Ugly One Morning (Edinburgh)
+15 task
+25 bonus
task total=40
grand total=95
15.1 - Location, Location, Location: LondonOliver Twist by Charles Dickens
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 55
15.3 LLL - Paris, 1846Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (takes place entirely in Paris)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 95
5 stars! my review
15.2 LLLSetting: NYC
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, pub. 1925
+15 task
+25 bonus (entirely set in NYC)
Task Total: 40 points
Grand Total: 110 points
10.2 Yours, Mine and OursMy Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+10 Task (I, you)
Task total: 10 points
Grand Total: 155
10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours MonthDead to You by Lisa McMann
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 30 pts
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Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan - #71 on list
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.2 - Them)
+10 pts - Non- Western (Nigeria)
Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 8..."
This is listed as a collection of short stories, +10 Not a Novel.