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Su 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2015
10.7 Multi-CenturySalt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
+10 task - spans from before written history to the present day
+10 not-a-novel
Is that a unique subtitle for a +5? It seems generic
task total: 20
Grand total: 770
10.1 Square PegThe Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
+10 Task
+20 Oldies (published 1764)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 660
15.4 Time travellerHammered by Elizabeth Bear
b. 1971, p. 2004
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total 25
Grand total 260
15.5 Time travellerThe Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
b. 1955, p. 2006
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total 25
Grand total 285
15.6 Time travellerThe Sorcerers' Plague by David B. Coe
b. 1963, p. 2007
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total 25
Grand total 310
15.7 Time travellerTerminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
b. 1957, p. 2008
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total 25
Grand total 335
<15.8 Time travellerAmong Others by Jo Walton
b. 1964, p. 2011
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total 25
Grand total 360
20.1 - Every 25 Years:The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
first published 1890
+20 task
+10 oldies
+5 combo with Odd Twists - #39 on list today
Task total: 35
Grand total: 805
20.4 The SouthAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
(Mississippi)
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.7 mentions slave uprising in Haiti which happened in late 1790's to early 1800's and then mentions it being fifty years after "the War" (civil) which ended in 1865. Also a character who is 80 years old whose father was another character in the book and would have been in late 20's or early 30's when she was conceived and story goes to his early manhood)
+10 pts - Oldies (p. 1936)
Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 815 pts
15.7 Time-TravelerBook of a Thousand Days (Lexile 850) pub. 2007 by Shannon Hale born 1974
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 655
15.6 - 10-20 - Time Traveler list #3The Coma by Alex Garland
task +15
bonus +10
total + 25
grand total = 1380
20.2 AwardsLove Medicine by Louise Erdrich
(American Award - 1985)
+20 pts - task
+15 pts - combo (10.9 - Chippewa, 20.3, 20.6)
+ 5 pts - Oldies (p. 1984)
Task Total - 40 pts
Grand Total -
20.4 - The SouthEnd Zone by Don DeLillo
+20 task (Texas)
+ 5 combo (20.3)
+ 5 oldies (1972)
Task total=30
Grand total=970
15.8 Time TravelerReading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
+ 15 task
+ 10 reading in order
Task total: 25
Grand total: 830
15.5 10-20 time travelerLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
15 pt. task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand total: 220
TBR RouletteThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (#3 on my list)
+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts - (10.9 northeast tribes of the First Nations)
+15 pts - Oldies (p 1826)
Task Total - 30 pts
Grand Total - 885 pts
15.8 Time-LeaperA Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Pub. 2006, Born 1969
+15 Task
+10 bonus
Task Total 25
grand Total 685
15.9 Time TravelerThe Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems by Henry Petroski
+ 15 task
+ 10 reading in order
Task total: 25
Grand total: 855
20.2 AwardsMrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
+ 20 (won PEN/Hemingway Award in 2004)
+ 5 combo (20.4 set in FL and VA)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 595
20.3 Post-ModernKalki by Gore Vidal
+20 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1976)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 710
10.8 - Summertime HeatThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
+10 task
+5 combo (under 31 - born 1899)
+10 oldies (pub 1926)
Task total: 25
RwS Finish: 100 !!! :)
Grand total: 980
20.2 AwardsOpen City by Teju Cole
+20 Task (PEN/Hemingway winner 2012)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 675
10.6 Willa AwardPrayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
(finalist in 2010)
+10 pts - Task
Task Total - 10 pts
Grand Total - 895 pts
20.7 Jumbo BooksCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
+20 task - #77 on list
+5 combo (20.3)
+25 jumbo (1139 pages)
Task total: 50
Grand Total: 460
15.5 10-20 Time TravelerForeign Affairs by Alison Lurie
pub 1984, born 1926
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand total = 455
20.9 - Novel LivesChrysis by Jim Fergus
This books tells the fictional story of Chrysis Jungbluth
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 195
10.4 TBR RouletteN or M? by Agatha Christie
+ 10 task
+ 5 oldies (1941)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 665
10.6 WILLASeance in Sepia by Michelle Black
+10 Task (Contemporary Fiction finalist, 2012)
+5 Combo (10.7--timeline covers from 1870s to 2010s)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 690
Task 10.7 - Multi-Century Timeframe: 1904 to 1914
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (2014) by Leslye Walton
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 410 + 10 = 420
10.2 - SubtitlesBlackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
+10 task
+10 not-a-novel
task total: 20
grand total: 120
10.1 Square PegThe Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Not a novel
+10 pts - Oldies (p. 1906)
Task Total - 30 pts
+100 pts - RWS Completion bonus
Grand Total - 1025 pts
10.4 TBR RouletteThe Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
+10 task
+5 combo (20.1 p.1990)
+5 oldie
+5 jumbo (517 pp)
Task total 25
Grand total 385
15.9 Time travellerThe Human Division by John Scalzi
b.1969, p. 2013
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total 25
Grand total 410
20.2 AwardsThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
+20 task
+10 combo(20.5, 20.6)
+5 oldie (p.1984)
Task total 35
Grand total 445
20.3 Post modernLost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
+20 task
+5 combo (20.8, listed 68 times)
Task total 25
Grand total 470
20.4 - The SouthOne Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
+20 task (Mississippi)
+10 Not-a-Novel (autobiography)
+ 5 Oldies (1983)
Task total=35
Grand total=1005
20.2 Award WinnerThe Round House by Louise Erdrich
+20 task American Book Award 2013
+ 10 combo
*20.3 post modern
*10.9 genre: mystery protagonist: Ojibwe
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 265
10.7 Multi-centuryOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10 task
5 oldie (1967)
5 non-western
5 post-modern
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25
Running total 515
15.7 - 10-20 - Time Traveler list #3Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila
task +15
bonus +10
total + 25
grand total = 1405
10.3 Best TwistsCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.9)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 680
15.5 – 10-20 – Time TravelerStory House by Timothy Taylor
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 385
15.6 – 10-20 – Time TravelerVamped by David Sosnowski
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 410
15.7 – 10-20 – Time Traveler Stone Maiden by Ann Aguirre
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 435
20.8 - ComedyFearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
+20 Task (shelved as comedy 109 times)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 455
10.9 - Diverse GenresMiss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Jonathan Odell
+10 Task (historical fiction, main characters almost all African-American)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 465
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The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
pub 1978, born 1935
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand total = 430