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Su 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2015
20.1 Every 25 YearsThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
+20 Task (published 1915)
+ 10 Oldies
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 765
10.10 Group ReadsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (pub. 1961)
Task Total = 15
+100 RwS Finish
Grand Total = 860
Post 915Connie wrote: "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..."
I'm sorry, Connie. This is shelved as YA Assignment at BPL, and has a Lexile of 750. Task, but no styles.
10-20 Time TravelerDeath at La Fenice by Donna Leon
pub 1992, born 1942
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task total = 25
Grand Total = 505
20.4 The SouthThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
+20 Task
+ 10 Combo (10.9, 20.9)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 795
10.10 Group ReadsThree Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
+10 Task
+ 10 Combo (10.9, 20.6)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 815
From Post 895Coralie wrote: "20.8 A Funny Story
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
+20 Task (shelved 277 times)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 730"
+5 Oldies
Joanna wrote: "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"
Congratulations on completing your 10-20 itinerary, Joanna!
Cory Day wrote: "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"
Congrats, Cory Day!
Anika wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (pub. 1961)
Task Total = 15
+100 RwS Finish
Grand Total = 860"
Congrats on your RwS Finish, Anika!
10.10 - Group readsGod Help the Child by Toni Morrison
+10 task
+5 combo (20.3)
+100 RwS Finish
+200Mega Finish
Task Total: 315
grand total = 1890
Grand Total:
15.5 10-20 Time LeaperThe Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
born 1972
published 2014
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 645
10.2 - SubtitlesHammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin
+10 task
+10 Not-a-novel
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 305 points
Task 20.5 Post-ColonialThings Fall Apart (The African Trilogy #1) (1958) by Chinua Achebe
On August 11, 2015: (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
+20 Task (#20.5 Post-Colonial)
+10 Combo (#10.9 diverse, #20.6 (age 28)
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: (1940-1990)
+10 Non-Western
Task Total: 20 + 10 + 05 + 10 = 45
Grand Total: 465 + 45 = 510
10.2 SubtitlesThe Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom by Blaine Harden
+10 Task
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 310
20.10 Books in BooksHamlet by William Shakespeare
+20 Task (from Station Eleven, read for Spring 2015 challenge)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+25 Oldies (1602)
Task Total = 55
Grand Total = 915
20.8 - A Funny Story As You Like It by William Shakespeare
+20 task
+10 not a novel
+25 oldies
Task total: 55
Grand total: 1470
20.8 - A Funny StoryA Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
+20 task
+10 not a novel
+25 oldies
Task total: 55
Grand total: 1525
20.8 - A Funny StoryThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
+20 task (64 times)
+5 combo 10.3 #176
+10 not a novel
+25 oldies
Task total: 60
Grand total: 1585
20.7 - Jumbo BooksThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
+20 task (#157)
+10 oldies (1921)
+10 jumbo(784)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 1625
15.10 - 10-20 - Time Traveler list #3Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
task +15
bonus +10
Time Traveler completion bonus 100
total + 125
grand total = 2005
15.8 - 10-20 - Time TravellerGould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
Pub. 2001, Born 1961
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
RwS total: 160
10-20 total: 165
Grand Total: 325
10.7 - Multi-CenturyThe Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming
Spans the 16th to the 20th centuries
+10 task
+10 not-a-novel
+5 oldies (1970)
+5 jumbo (624 pages)
Task total: 30
RwS total: 190
10-20 total: 165
Grand Total: 355
10.2 - SubtitlesBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
+10 task
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 20
RwS total: 210
10-20 total: 165
Grand Total: 375
10.5 - June SolsticeThe Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas
+10 Task (Thomas born in China)
+5 Combo (romance, Thomas is of Chinese descent)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 655
15.7 10-20 time travelerMy Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
15 pt. task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand total: 270
20.10 Books in BooksWhere Angels Fear to TreadWhere Angels Fear To Tread by E.M. Forster
mentioned in Vanessa and Her Sister
+ 20 task
+ 5 combo ( 20.6 - Forster was 26 when this was published )
+ 10 oldies ( 1905)
Task Total = 35
RWS bonus = 100
Grand Total = 815
My first RWS finish!
20.6 - Under 31The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
+20 task (McCullers wrote this when she was 23)
+10 combo (20.1 - published in 1940; 20.4 - The South - set in Alabama)
+5 oldies (published in 1940)
task total: 35
grand total: 155
10.5 - June SolsticeKeep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
+10 task (India)
+10 oldies (1936)
Task total=20
Grand total=1075
20.7 JumboMetamorphoses by Ovid
#407 on list today
+20 task
+10 not a novel
+25 oldies
+10 jumbo
task total: 65
grand total: 1375
10.2 SubtitlesThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
+10 task
+ 5 jumbo (576 pp.)
+ 10 Not a novel
Task total 25
Grand total 580
20.7 JumboWhen Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
+20 task
+5 combo (20.9)
+10 jumbo (784 pp.)
Task total 35
Grand total 615
15.9 Time travelerWedding Night by Sophie Kinsella
born 1969, pub. 2013
15 task
10 bonus
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25
Running total 605
20.7 Jumbo BooksAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (#314 on list)
+20 task
+ 5 jumbo (530 pages)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 670
15.9 - 10-20 - Time TravellerCocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Pub. 1989, Born 1954
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
RwS total: 210
10-20 total: 190
Grand Total: 400
15.8 10-20 Time TravellerHigh Country: A Novel by Willard Wyman
Published: 2005 born: 1930
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 335
20.8 - a Funny StoryThe Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
+20 task
+5 combo (20.6)
+10 not-a-novel
+25 oldies
Task total: 60
Grand total: 1685
20.5 - Post-Colonial One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
+20 task
+10 combo (10.7, 20.3)
+10 non-western
+5 oldies
Task total: 45
Grand total: 1730
Christine wrote: "Kate S wrote: "From Post 681Christine wrote: "10.9
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
+10 task
+10 non-western
Task total = 20
Grand total = 340"
Sorry, Christ..."
Upon review, we have decided to treat her as an author with dual citizenship and will accept her as non Western.
15.9 Time-TravelerThe Seduction of Water, pub. 2003, by Carol Goodman born 1959
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 940
From Post 100Coralie wrote: "10.9 Diverse Genres
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Lexile 810
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 65"
+10 Non-Western
From Post 273Katy wrote: "10.9 Diverse Genres
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
+10 task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 50"
+10 Non-Western
Ed wrote: "+100 RwS Finish +200Mega Finish"
Way to go, Ed!
Ed wrote: "Time Traveler completion bonus 100"Well done, again!
Amanda wrote: "My first RWS finish! "Congratulations, Amanda!
10.9 Diverse GenresThe Gate by Sōseki Natsume
+ 10 Task (Japanese author, historical fiction)
+ 10 Oldies (published 1910)
+ 10 Non-Western
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 860
Kate S wrote: "Amanda wrote: "My first RWS finish! "Congratulations, Amanda!"
Thank you! Feeling pretty pleased with myself. Will feel even better if I finish the other 4 books I have started and not finished yet ;)
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Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Oldies (p 1883)
Task Total - 30 pts
Grand Total - 1145 pts