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Su 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2015
20.7 - Jumbo Books:Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
task +20 (#3 on the list)
combo +5 (10.3)
oldie +15 (1847)
jumbo +5 (507p)
total + 45
grand total = 1450
15.10 Time TravelerBirdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
+15 task
+10 bonus for reading in order
Task total: 25
Time-traveler bonus: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Grand total: 1305
Beth wrote: "Time-traveler bonus: 100Mega Finish: 200"
Well done!
Beth wrote: "15.10 Time TravelerBirdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
+15 task
+10 bonus for reading in order
Task total: 25
Time-traveler bonus: 100
Me..."
Congrats
20.10 - Books in BooksMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
task +20 (see Books in Books posts #93, #166- it was also mentioned in Disgrace but I apparently forgot to post that at the time.)
oldie +15 (1856)
total + 35
grand total = 1485
20.8 funny storyHow to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
+20 pts - task
+ 5 pts - combo (10.10)
+10 pts - not a novel
Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 1055 pts
20. 10. Books in BooksKing Lear by William Shakespeare
mentioned in Look Homeward, Angel
+20 pts - task
+25 pts - oldies (1604)
+10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total - 55 pts
Grand Total - 1110 pts
20.4 The SouthYou Won’t Remember This: Stories by Kate Blackwell
+20 Task (over 75% set in North Carolina & Virginia)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 720
10.10 Group ReadsConfessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years by Thomas Mann
+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts - "Oldies" 1954
Task Total - 15 pts
Total Points So Far: 180
This completes my little "mini-task" of reading all the Group Reads. They were great choices. Thanks folks!
15.6 10-20 Time TravelerSaint Maybe by Anne Tyler
pub 1991, born 1941
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 480
10.9 Diverse genresThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
10 task
_____
10
Running total: 525
15.10 10-20 Time TravelerThe Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
pub. 2006, b. 1969
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
+100 Completion Bonus
Total: 125
Grand total: 340
Nick wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsConfessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years by Thomas Mann
+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts - "Oldies" 1954
Task Total - 15 pts
Total Points S..."
Good for you, Nick! I almost always aim to do this too unless it is a book I've recently already read. Although I try to read as many as I can, I've never made it yet. I hope we do another "make your own task" task. I made it to read books from our book shelf and I still have many more to catch up on!
You're right, our members pick some outstanding books to share!
20.10 Books in booksJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Mentioned in The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (post 168)
+20 task
+10 combo (10.3 (#31 on the list) & 20.7 (#3 on the list)
+15 oldie (orig. pub 1847)
+5 jumbo (507 pages)
Task total: 50 pts
Grand total: 335 pts
20.8 A Funny StoryGuards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
+20 Task (shelved 277 times)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 730
15.8 - 10-20 - Time Traveler list #3The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
task +15
bonus +10
total + 25
grand total = 1510
From Post 831Beth wrote: "10.7 Multi-Century
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Is that a unique subtitle for a +5? It seems generic"
I will take it. +5 Combo 10.2
From Post 841Rebekah wrote: "20.2 Awards
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
(American Award - 1985)
+20 pts - task
+10 pts - combo (10.9 - Chippewa, 20.3)
+10 pts - Not a Novel
+ 5 pts - Oldies (p. 1..."
This appears to be a novel in stories, not a collection of short stories, sorry no not a novel.
But +5 Combo for 20.6
Claire wrote: "10.2 - SubtitlesBlackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 110"
+10 Not a Novel
Valerie wrote: "10.7 Multi-centuryOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10 task
5 oldie (1967)
5 non-western
5 post-modern
_____
25
Running total 515"
+5 Combo 20.5-Post Colonial
Rebekah wrote: "20. 10. Books in BooksKing Lear by William Shakespeare
mentioned in Look Homeward, Angel
+20 pts - task
+25 pts - oldies (1604)
Task Total - 45 pts
Grand..."
+10 Not a Novel (play)
From Post 687Coralie wrote: "20.2 Awards
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
+20 Task (American Book Award 2013)
+5 Combo (20.3)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 505"
+5 Combo 10.9 (see post 870)
Beth wrote: "RwS Finish: 100 !!! :)"Congratulations, Beth!
Rebekah wrote: "+100 pts - RWS Completion bonus"Congats on your RwS Finish, Rebekah!
Beth wrote: "Time-traveler bonus: 100Mega Finish: 200"
Nicely done, Beth!
Nick wrote: "This completes my little "mini-task" of reading all the Group Reads. They were great choices. Thanks folks! "Very cool goal, and congrats on completing it!
Task 20.4 – The SouthSet in and around Atlanta, Georgia.
Wedding Belles (Red Hat Club #3) (2008) by Haywood Smith (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 368 pages)
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 420 + 20 = 440
15.7 10-20 Time TravellerEnd of Story by Peter Abrahams
Published 2006 born 1947
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total 290
20.5 Post-colonialThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.9 Loosely based on the life of the desert explorer Laszlo Almasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1...)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 620
Task 15.6 - 10-20 - Time LeaperAuthor birthday: 1928 –1947
Primitive People: A Novel (1992) by Francine Prose (Paperback, 228 pages)
Born: April 01, 1947
Published: 1992
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total: 15 + 10 = 25
Grand Total: 440 + 25 = 465
15.6 10-20 Time TravelerAltered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
15 pt. task
+10 bonus
Task total:25
Grand total: 245
10.1 - Square PegA Sentimental Education by Joyce Carol Oates
+10 task
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
+ 5 oldies (1980)
Task total=25
Grand totalH=1030
20.5 Post-ColonialPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
+20 task (shelved post-colonial 6 times)
+10 combo (10.9 - listed on genre page as historical fiction, author and main characters are both people of color; 20.6 - published 2003, author born in 1977 so she was 26 when the book was published)
+10 non-Western
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 500
20.3 Post-ModernThe Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories by Connie Willis
+20 task
+5 combo (10.2 - not sure if this would count! Let me know if you think it doesn't!)
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 535
10.9 Diverse GenresA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
+10 task (Historical fiction, African-American author and main characters)
+ 5 combo (20.4 set in Louisiana)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 635
20.7 - Jumbo Books:Dr. Thorne by Anthony Trollope
task +20 (#323 on list)
oldie +15 (1858)
jumbo +5 (593p)
total + 40
grand total = 1550
15.7 Time travelerThe Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
born 1978, pub. 2011
15 task
10 bonus
______
25
(corrected) running total: 555
20.8 - A Funny StoryTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
+ 20 task
+ 10 not-a-novel
+ 25 oldies (1602)
Task total: 55
Grand total: 1335
20.7 - Jumbo books The Magus by John Fowles
+20 task #127
+15 combo (10.3 - #110, 20.1, 20.3)
+5 oldies (1965)
+5 jumbo (656)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 1380
20.8 A Funny StoryThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts Oldies (1889)
+ 5 pts - Combo (20.6 b 1859 p 1889)
Task Total - 35 pts
Grand total: 1415
15.8 Time-TravelerThe Breakdown Lane, pub. 2005 by Jacquelyn Mitchard, born 1956
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 745
15.9 – 10-20 – Time Traveler Archangel by Sharon Shinn
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 515
15.9 – 10-20 – Time Traveler Lucien's Fall by Barbara Samuel
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Completion Bonus: 100
Grand Total: 640
10.10 Group ReadsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
+10 task
+5 oldie (p.1961)
Task total 15
Grand total 485
20.4 The SouthThe Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini
+20 task - Virginnia
+5 combo (20.9, novel based on life of Elizabeth Van Lew)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza...
Task total 25
Grand total 515
15.9 - 10-20 - Time Traveler list #3The Cosmology of Bing by Mitch Cullin
task +15
bonus +10
total + 25
grand total = 1575
10.7 - Multi-CenturyUndeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation by Bill Nye
+10 task (from the beginning of the universe - whenever that was - to the present and beyond; lots of coverage of Darwin's work in the 1800's, also evolution theory and application up to the present time and beyond)
+ 5 combo (10.2 - Subtitles)
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total=25
Grand total=1055
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Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 490