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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
20.5 Winter in MadridThe Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
+20 Task (originally written in Spanish)
+5 Combo (10.7-published December 2011, borrowed from the library)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 170
15.2 Location, location, locationChicago
Native Son by Richard Wright
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 210
10.5 World Thinking DayThe Art of War by Sun Tzu
+10 Task (#16)
+ 10 Non-Western (China)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Combo
-10.8, pub. -400
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 100
(Can I also claim combo points for 10.7, even though the original text is over 2000 years old? my edition was published Jan 2005, got it from my library)
Anika wrote: "(Can I also claim combo points for 10.7, even though the original text is over 2000 years old? my edition was published Jan 2005, got it from my library) ..."For 10.7, the original publication date should be used, not the edition publication date.
15.3 Location, location, location: New York City
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, pub. 1934
+15 task
+25 bonus (set in NYC)
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 150 points
15.4 Location, location, location: New York City
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon, pub. 1946
+15 task
+25 bonus (set in NYC)
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 190 points
Location: New York CityYears: 1925 to 2012
15.4 Espresso Shot by Cleo Coyle
+15 tsk
+25 bonus
Task total: 40
Grand Total: 155
Kate S wrote: "From Post 70Camille wrote: "Task 10.1: YEAR IN REVIEW
I read The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
+10: task
RwS TOTAL: +40"
+5 Combo 20.4 Mitch Albom born in 1958"
THANK YOU!!
20.7 Notable (2012)Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
+20 task
+5 combo (20.4: b. 1948)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 65
10.2 PronounsMy Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 - born in 1954)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 70
****Updating post because it does not fit 10.2 Pronouns - Will use for 20.4 for 20 points, giving me 5 more than originally mentioned. Will update total on January 24 post****
Post #135: +10 Non Western
Grand Total: 110 + 10 = 120
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963).
One for the Books by Joe Queenan
+20 Task
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points):
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 120 + 30 = 150
Task 10.1 - Year in ReviewRead a book posted in one of the last four RwS challenges. This task can be completed three times. This task cannot be claimed as combo points.
I read a book from Fall 2012:
Fall 2012 Season Post #23
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
+ 10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 150 + 10 = 160
20.8 InformedA London Girl of the 1880s by Molly Hughes
+20 Task (approved in help thread)
+10 Not a novel (memoir)
Task total: 30 points
Grand Total: 250
20.9 PennedKing Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Lexile 1230
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+20 Task
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 270
15.5 Location,location, locationNew York City
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes, pub. 1957
+15 task
+25 bonus (set entirely in NYC)
Task Total: 40 points
Grand Total: 230 points
20.4 Winter TreesThe Geneva Trap by Stella Rimington
+20 Task (born 1935)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 40
10.1 Year in ReviewGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
+10 Task (claimed in Fall 2012 by Jenifer, among others)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total = 50
20.6 The Winter of Our DiscontentSay You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
+20 Task (on the list, #71)
+5 Combo (10.2 - them)
+10 non-Western (Nigerian)
+10 not-a-novel (stories)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 95
Task 10.7: Buy Nothing ChristmasI read Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly
+10: borrowed from library
+5: combo--20.4 born 1943
TOTAL: 15
Rws TOTAL: 105
Camille wrote: "Task 20.4: Author born 1932-1963I read Life of Pi by Yann Martel
+20: task
Rws TOTAL: 90"
**I think I can add +5: combo--20.4: born in 1963
Someone, please let me know so I can correct my totals.
Camille wrote: "**I think I can add +5: combo--20.4: born in 1963Someone, please let me know so I can correct my totals. "
Sounds right - when Kate does the scorekeeping next, she will verify it. Might not be until after Christmas now, though.
Camille wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 20.4: Author born 1932-1963I read Life of Pi by Yann Martel
+20: task
Rws TOTAL: 90"
**I think I can add +5: combo--20.4: born in 1963
Someone, please let me know so I can..."
Sorry, you claimed Life of Pi for 20.4, you can't get combo points for the task you are posting.
Sara Grace ('00-'05) wrote: "20.10 – UndauntedAbsalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
This one of my husbands favorite books and is known as Faulkner's most difficult novel. It was a doozy. Really ground my reading progress to ..."
+5 Combo 10.6-Pulitzer Winner
10.4 Grimm's Fairy TalesElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
This book was listed on Fairy-Tales list (#2) and on Fairy Tale Retellings list (#4).
I really enjoyed this book, which surprised me.
+10 task
No style points since Lexile score is 740.
Total Points: 10
Kate S wrote: "+5 Combo 10.6-
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I kind of read all three books, but the first one was the only one I read in its entirety so that's all I'm claiming. I started skipping the sex scenes in book 2 and was skipping more by book 3. I was interested in the reasons for their success, see review.
+20 Task (born 1963 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._James)
+ 5 Jumbo (most popular print edition has 514 pages)
Task total: 25 points
Grand Total: 295
Finally finished a book this month... Stupid work. 20.9 Penned
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
+20 Task
+10 Non-Western (Russian)
+10 Canon
+20 Jumbo (942 pg)
Task Total: 60
Grand Total: 60
Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "Finally finished a book this month... Stupid work. 20.9 Penned
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
+20 Task
+10 Non-Western (Russian)
+10 Canon
+20 Jumbo (942 pg)
Task Total: 60
Grand Total: 60"
You made it worth your while!
15.6 Location,location, locationNew York City
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, pub. 1961
+15 task
+0 bonus (set New Haven, CT - 81 miles & NYC)
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 245 points
15.2 Location: NYCBreakfast at Tiffany's
+15 task
+25 bonus (set in NYC)
Task total: 40 points
grand total: 80 points
20.3 - Winter's TaleThe Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
+20 task
+5 combo (20.5 - originally written in Spanish)
+10 canon
Task Total: 35 points
Grand Total: 280 points
RwS Task10.5 - In recognition of World Thinking Day, February 22nd,
The Stranger by Albert Camus
+10 Task: #188 on 12/20/12
+ 5 Combo: 10.6 Nobel Prizes 1957
+10 Canon
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 225
RwS Task20.3 – In honor of Winter’s Tale :
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
+20 Task: on magical realism page, Japan
+10 Non western: Japanese
+10 Not a Novel: Short stories
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 265
RwS Task20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees :
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
+20 Task: Stewart O'Nan born 1961
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 285
20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees (repeat)Everyman by Philip Roth
+20 task (Roth born in 1933)
Task total=20
Grand total=65
20.4 In Honor of Winter TreesRefugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
+20 Task (born 1958 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin... )
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 315
10.7 Buy Nothing ChristmasDog on It by Spencer Quinn
+10 Task (first published February 10, 2009 and borrowed from the library)
+5 Combo (20.4 - Quinn is a pen name of Peter Abrahams, who was born in 1947)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 75
Task 10.3 - Honor Library Lover's Month (February) by reading the Modern Library Board's Lists for best novels or best nonfiction.Modern Library Board's Lists best nonfiction.
#49
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (1962) by Edmund Wilson (Paperback, 848 pages)
+10 Task
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points):
+15 Style: 5. Jumbo (5 to 25 points): -800 Pages: 15 Points
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 25 = 45
Grand Total: 160 + 45 = 215
Task 20.8 InformedRandom Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
+20 Task (Nonfiction about the Bronx [part of New York City]--NYC is mentioned in the May 2012 blurb; also, the book is about poverty in the United States--U.S. is mentioned in several blurbs)
+10 Not-a-novel (nonfiction)
+5 Combo (10.7 - published in Jan. 2003; given to me by a friend of the author)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 165
10.4 Fairy TalesThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
+10 Task (shelved as fairy-tales 154 times)
+10 Combo 20.4 Carter was born in 1940 10.7 pub January 1979 checked out of the library
+10 Not-a-novel (short stories)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 150
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). The Dream Master (1966) by Roger Zelazny
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 215 + 20 = 235
20.4 Winter TreesThe Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
+20 Task (Boris Akunin was born in 1956 in the Republic of Georgia)
+10 Non-Western (born in Republic of Georgia and lives in Russia)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 105
20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees :Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
+20 Points Task (20.4- Susanna Clarke was born in 1959).
+25 Points Jumbo (1006 pages).
Total: 45 points
Grand Total: 45 points
15.5 LLL Paris - 1880Nana by Émile Zola
+15 Task
+25 (takes place in Paris except for one Chapter in Orleans, less than 10%)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 175
my review
10.1 Year in ReviewWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
+10 task (Summer 2012 by Anika in post #516)
+10 style (Not a Novel: memoir)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 85
HistorianLocation: London
1843 - 2012
15.6 The Hanover Square Affair by Ashley Gardner
Published 2003
+15 task
+25 takes place in London
Task points: 40
Challenge points: 55
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Task Total: 10
Season Total: 145