Su 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2015 Showing 251-300 of 1,153

[Kate S]

From Post 217

Norma wrote: "10.2 - TBR Roulette

The 13th Juror by John Lescroart

+10 task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 25"

+5 Jumbo (544 pages in MPE)

[Kate S]

From Post 219

Tuyen wrote: "10.4 TBR roulette

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Task total: 10
Grand total: 100"

+10 Oldies (pub 1878)

[Kate S]

Eleanor wrote: "Kate - did you accidentally skip recording my book post 193 or 195? in the total list i am missing 20 points"

I did, I looked right over one of those posts. I have added it now and it should be correct on the next Readerboard update.

[Kate S]

From Post 34

Coralie wrote: "10.7 Multi-Century

The House Girl by Tara Conklin

+10 Task (1852-2004)


Task total: 10
Grand Total: 30"

+5 Combo 10.9 (Historical Fiction, African-American main character)

[Ed]

15.10 Time Traveler

Not My Father's Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming

task +15
bonus +10
completion bonus = 100

total = 125
grand total = 465

[Kätlin]

10.8 - Summertime Heat:

The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake

+10 task
+5 oldies (first published 1970)

Task total: 15
Grand total: 55

[Deedee]

Task 10.8 - Summertime Heat
Read a book that contains at least one of the following words (or the plural form) in the title: Blazing, Bright, Burn, Burning, Fire, Fiery, Heat, Hot, Inferno, Scorch, Scorching, Sun, Sunny, Sunlight, Sunshine.

Bright

And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side (2015) by Dana Perino
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.2 Subtitle)
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-fiction

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 145 + 25 = 170

[Tuyen]

20.4 - The South

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

+ 20 task
+ 10 not a novel
+ 5 oldies (1969)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 145

[Krista]

20.1 Every 25 Years
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

Published 1840

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo 20.6 (Born 1814 - 26 yrs old at publ)
+10 Style: Non-Western
+15 Style: Oldies
Task Total = 50

Grand Total: 105 + 50 = 155

[Louise Bro]

15.1 10-20 Time Traveller

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
born 1971, publ. 2001

+15 Task

Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 15 pts

[Louise Bro]

20.2 Awards

Beloved by Toni Morrison

American Book Award 1988

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.3, 20.5 (shelved 5 times as post-colonial)
+5 Oldie (pub. 1987)

Task total: 35 pts
Grand total: 50 pts

[Lagullande]

15.4 - 10-20 - Time Traveller

Dear Reader by Paul Fournel
Pub. 2012, Born 1947

+15 task
+10 bonus

Task total: 25
RwS total: 70
10-20 total: 90
Grand Total: 160

[Katrina]

20.6 Under 30
The Gracekeepers, Kirsty Logan


http://www.amazon.com/Kirsty-Logan/e/...

Task total: 20
Grand Total: 90

[Katy]

20.6 Under 31

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

+20 task (she graduated college in 2007 according to this link which would make her around 22 then, and the book's publication in 2015 makes her about 29)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 40

[Katy]

10.9 Diverse Genres

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

+10 task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 50

[Katy]

15.1 - 10-20 - Time Traveler

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Pub. 2015, born 1967

+15 task

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 65

[Katy]

20.6 Under 31

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

+20 task (He is cited as being 32 in 2015 in this article and the book was published 3 years ago in 2012)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 85

[Cory Day]

20.2 - Awards
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

+20 Task (Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1982)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 120

[Cory Day]

20.1 - Every 25 Years

The Sandalwood Princess by Loretta Chase

+20 Task (pub. 1990)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1990)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 145

[Cory Day]

15.2 - 10-20 - Time Traveler

Greatshadow by James Maxey

+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 170

[Cory Day]

10.3 - Twists

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

+10 Task (#23 on list)

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 180

[Tanya]

20.8 - A Funny Story

Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich

+20 Task (Comedy:105)

Grand Total = 115 points

[Lagullande]

Hi Christine

Yes, I think it is one of my favourite books so far this year. I was impressed by how much Woodrell got into what is quite a short book, and with such interesting prose. I have added his Winter's Bone to my TBR now.

[El]

15.5 - Time traveler

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
pub 2006 born 1973

+15 task
+10 bonus

Task total: 25
Grand total: 435

[El]

15.6 - Time traveler

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
pub 2008 born 1975

+15 task
+10 bonus

Task total: 25
Grand total: 460

[Kath]

10.1 Square peg

In the Dead of Summer by Gillian Roberts

+10 task

Grand Total 50

[Kath]

10.6 WILLA

Spanish Dagger by Susan Wittig Albert

+10 task
+5 combo (20.4)

Task total 15

Grand total 65

[Kath]

Summertime Heat

Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather

+10 task
+10 not a novel
+10 oldies (p. 1920)

Task total 30

Grand total 95

[Kath]

15.2 Time Traveller

Reclamation by Sarah Zettel

b. 1966, p. 1996

+15 task
+10 bonus

Task total 25

Grand total 120

[Rebekah]

20.10 Book in a Book
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... The main character had to read this book for school

+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Oldies (1874)
+ 5 pts - combo (20.7)

Task Total - 30 pts 35 pts
Grand Total - 110 pts 115 pts

What is it with Thomas Hardy and his femme fatales? Even books with a male in the title is about a women who destroys the lives of herself and men around her. This is the third Hardy book I've read. I haven't read The Return of the Native. Does it have the same storyline? I love his prose but gee whiz!

[Rebekah]

Kath wrote: "10.6 WILLA

Spanish Dagger by Susan Wittig Albert

+10 task

Grand total 60"

don't forget combo points with 20.4. It takes place in a fictional town in Texas

[Kath]

Rebekah wrote: "Kath wrote: "10.6 WILLA

Spanish Dagger by Susan Wittig Albert

+10 task

Grand total 60"

don't forget combo points with 20.4. It takes place in a fictional town in Texas"

Thanks! I guess I think of Texas as "west" so never even thought to check this.
Post edited to include combo.

[Louise Bro]

10.2 Subtitles

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt

+10 Task
+10 Not-A-Novel

Task total: 20 pts
Grand total: 70 pts

[Louise Bro]

20.7 Jumbo Books

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

+20 Task (#11 on the list)
+10 Combo (10.7 (Takes place in 1945 and 1744), 10.9 (Hispanic)
+15 Jumbo (896 pages)

Task total: 45 pts
Grand total: 115 pts

[Ed]

20.9 Novel Lives

It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir by Eduard Limonov

task +20
combo +5 (10.2)
oldie +5 (1979)
non-Western +10

total = 40

grand total = 505

[Amanda]

20.7 Jumbo book

#69 on the list

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

20 task
5 combo (20.3 post modern)
5 jumbo

Task Total : 30
grand Total : 245

[Denise]

20.1 - Every 25 Years

Nemesis by Rosamond Smith

Pub. 1990

+20 task
+5 oldies

Task total=25
Grand total=265

[Beth]

20.4 The South

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

+20 task - >75% set it Louisiana and other Southern states
+10 not a novel (autobiography)
+15 oldies - published 1853

Task total: 45
Grand total: 305

[Connie]

20.3 Post-modern

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

+ 20 task
+ 10 non-Western (Japanese)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 245

[Beth]

15.2 Time-Traveller

Silk Roads and Shadows by Susan Shwartz

+15 task
+10 reading in order

Task total: 25
Grand total: 330

[Kazen]

20.9 - Novel Lives

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata

+20 task (approved here)
+10 non-western
+5 oldie

Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 65 points

[Kazen]

15.1 - 10-20 - Time Traveler

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri

+15 task

Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 80 points

[Joanna]

15.1 - 10.20 - Time Traveler

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 15

[Joanna]

15.2 - 10.20 - Time Traveler

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

+15 Task
+10 Bonus

Task total: 25
Grand total: 40

[Joanna]

15.3 - 10.20 - Time Traveler

Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match by Amy Webb

+15 Task
+10 Bonus

Task total: 25
Grand total: 65

[Karen Michele]

Time - Traveller

15.2 Pub 2014, Born 1960

Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement

+15 Task
+10 Bonus

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 340

[Karen Michele]

20.4 - The South

Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara

+20 Task: Georgia
+ 5 Jumbo: 688 pages

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 365

[Karen Michele]

20.6 - Under 31:

The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

+20 Task: Born 1921, Published 1946
+ 5 Oldies: 1946
+10 Non Western (Russia)

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 400

[Karen Michele]

20.6 - Under 31:

Good-Bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson

+20 Task: Born 1975, Published 1999

Grand Total: 420

[Karen Michele]

20.6 - Under 31:

An Age of License: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley

+20 Task: Born 1985, Published 2014
http://www.lucyknisley.com/about/)

Grand Total: 440