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Winter 2012/13 Rws Completed Tasks - Winter 12/13
10.1 - Year in ReviewReady Player One by Ernest Cline
(read several times in summer TDOS)
+10 Task
Task Total =10
Grand Total = 110
10.8 - Historical ReadingThe Venus Throw by Steven Saylor
+10 Task
+5 Combo - 20.4 (Saylor was born in 1956 according to Google)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 115
RwS20.4 Winter Trees
The Perfect Hope by Nora Roberts
+20 Task (born in 1950 as per GR database)
Task Total=20
Grand Total=95 pts
Task 20.8: 2012 World News Blurb Non-FictionThe Change Maker: Preserving the Promise of America by Al Checchi
+20: task
+5: combo (20.4--born in 1948)
+10: style (not-a-novel)
Task total: +35
RwS TOTAL: 185
Location: LondonYears: 1825-1997
15.5 - The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
Setting: entirely in London
Published: 1965
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+15 Task
+25 Bonus
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 535
20.4 Winter Trees (Sylvia Plath's lifetime)The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry.
My Review
+20 Task Barry born about 1948 Times-Picayune article
+5 Combo 20.8 (about the US)
+10 Not-a-novel (nonfiction)
+5 Jumbo (560 pages)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 210
Location:Edinburgh, UK
Publication: 1961-2010
(post 18 Real estate Listing)
15.6 One Good Turn (Edinburgh)
+15 task
+25 bonus
task total=40
Grand total=205
Publication: 1961-2010
(post 18 Real estate Listing)
15.6 One Good Turn (Edinburgh)
+15 task
+25 bonus
task total=40
Grand total=205
RwS20.1 In Honor of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+20 Task (self-reflective list)
+10 Canon
+10 Combo (10.5-off list, 20.5-originally written in Spanish)
+20 Jumbo (982 pages in most popular edition)
Task Total: 60
Season Total: 350
RwS20.7 Notable
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
+20 Task (2012 list)
+5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 385
LLLLocation Chicago
1905-2011
15.4 The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (takes place completely in Chicago)
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 425
10.3 - Library Lover's Month1984 by George Orwell
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Canon
+ 5 Combo (10.5)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 280
15.8 Location location location:NYC
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr., pub. 1978
+15 task
+25 bonus (91% takes place entirely in NYC, but the last 20 pages contain a road-trip).
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 360 points
Task 20.10 – Liz M's task - Undaunted:Read a classic book (published before 1950) that you find intimidating.
I find poems, especially long poems, intimidating. For this task I read a long poem that I’ve been meaning to read since the 1970s:
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Hardcover, 126 pages)
Bloom’s Canon, http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html, lists “Selected poems” of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow without stating WHICH poems. Since Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie is a major poem, I’m guessing it would be included in Bloom’s “Selected poems” category, but if not just let me know.
+20 Task
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points): (Poem)
+10 Style:4. Canon
Task Total: 20 + 10+ 10 = 40
Grand Total: 270 + 40 = 310
20.8 – InformedFirst Person by Vladimir Putin
+20 Task (Putin mentioned in Feb., March, and May)
+ 5 Combo (20.4 - born 1952 in Leningrad)
+10 Non-Western (Russia)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total=45
Grand total=125
RwS Task20.6 – In honor of The Winter of Our Discontent :
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
+20 Task: #31 on list and task title
+10 Combo: 10.2 Yours, Mine and Ours: Our / 10.6 Nobel Prizes
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 470
RwS Task20.9 – Elizabeth (Alaska)’s task – Penned:
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
+20 Task: on the provided list
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 490
Anika wrote: "20.6 Winter of Our DiscontentA Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
+20 Task (#51)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+5 Combo, 20.4 (b. 1953)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 285"
+5 Combo 10.2
15.7 LLL: New York Citypublished 1998
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (set entirely in New York City)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 325
15.8 LLL: New York Citypublished 1997
Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith by Joel Kostman
+15 Task
+25 Bonus (set entirely in New York City)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 365
10.2 Yours, Mine and OursMy Journey to Appalachia: A Year at the Folk School by Eleanor Lambert Wilson
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total - 20 pts
Grand Total - 255 pts
The readerboard says it's updated through post 335, but shows me at 260 points.I think I had posted 285 at that point:
Post 7 - 15
Post 77 - 40
Post 94 - 35
Post 120 - 40
Post 209 - 35
Post 219 - 40
Post 299 - 40
Post 301 - 40
Please let me know if I've miscalculated somewhere.
Joanna wrote: "The readerboard says it's updated through post 335, but shows me at 260 points.I think I had posted 285 at that point:
Post 7 - 15
Post 77 - 40
Post 94 - 35
Post 120 - 40
Post 209 - 35
Post 219 ..."
Yes, thank you. We missed your bonus in Post 301. We'll correct that next session.
10.2 PronounsI'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (1000 Lexile)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 215
20.2 - The Winter War (Westerns)The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
+20 task
+15 combo (10.3, 10.6, 20.6)
+10 canon
Task total: 45 points
Grand Total: 405 points
Task 10.4 – Grimm’s Fairy TalesThe Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
Book approved in help thread comment #53
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 160
Task 10.1 - Year in ReviewDeath Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Read by Christin for Fall 2012: Task 20.8 Veteran
+10
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 170
Location: New York CityYears: 1925 to 2012
15.6 Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
+15 task
+5 bonus (Trenton New Jersey)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 240
Location: New York CityYears: 1925 to 2012
15.7 The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
+15 task
+25 bonus
Task total: 40
Grnad total: 280
Re: post 261The Lexile score for Days of Blood & Starlight is available now and is sitting at exactly 800, so I'd like to claim an additional 5 points for task 10.1: a jumbo book at 517 pages.
Grand Total 495
Task 20.9: 19th Century AuthorI read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
+20: task total
RwS TOTAL: 225
10.1 Year in ReviewDays of Blood & Starlight
+10 task (Posted in the Fall 2012 completed task thread by Isabell, post 1016)
+5 Jumbo (517 pages - Lexile score 800)
total task = 15 points
Grand total = 205 points
10.10 Group ReadsMemoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
+10 pts - Task
Task Total - 10 pts
Grand Total - 265 pts
Thanks, Rosemary!
What a wonderful story
Task 20.4 Read a book whose was author born during Sylvia Plath's lifetime (1932-1963). Silence of the Grave (Reykjavík Murder Mystery #4) by Arnaldur Indriðason (translated by Bernard Scudder)
+20 Task
Grand Total: 310 + 20 = 330
10.1 Year In Review
by Maggie StiefvaterTask +10
Grand Total: 50
20.4 - Winter TreesThe Secret Servant by Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva was born in 1960 according to Google.
Task: 20
Grand Total: 135
Task 20.4 Winter TreesDie Trying by Lee Child
+20 Task (Author was born in 1954 according to his website)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 75
20.10 Undaunted - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 - #88 on the list)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=120 pts
Task 20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
+20 (Suzanne Collins was born in 1962).
Task total = 20
Grand Total = 65
Task 20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
+20 (Suzanne Collins was born in 1962).
Task total = 20
Grand Total = 85
Task 20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
+20 (Suzanne Collins was born in 1962).
Task total = 20
Grand Total = 105
10.1 Year in ReviewThe Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
+10 Task (read in Fall 2012 by Isabell and Karen GHHS)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 115
Karen GHHS wrote: "RwS Task20.6 – In honor of The Winter of Our Discontent :
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
+20 Task: #31 on list and task title
+10 Combo: 10.2 Yours, Mine and Ours: Our / 10.6 N..."
Unfortunately, this is listed as YA Assignment at BPL and has a 770 Lexile.
-10 Combo
20.4 – In honor of Winter TreesShadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (860L)
Orson Scott Card was born on August 24, 1951
+20 task
+5 combo (10.7 - written in December 2000)
Task total: 25 points
Grand total: 65
Camille wrote: "Task 20.9: 19th Century AuthorI read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
+20: task total
RwS TOTAL: 225"
+10 Canon
Location, Location, LocationLocation: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Publication: 1957 – 2010
“Archeologist”
15.3 The Eye of the Storm by
Patrick White –pub. 1973
+15 Task
+5 Bonus Points (Approx. 75% of book set in Sydney, 20% of book set in Wollongong aka “Gogong” which is 82km / 41mi from Sydney, and 5% overseas)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 190
10.2 Yours, Mine and Ours MonthThe World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
+10 Task (ours)
+10 Not a novel (memoir)
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 555
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Hopeless by Colleen Hoover (published December 2012, checked out from library as ebook)
+10 task
task total = 10
grand total = 190