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Su 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2015
10.2 SubtitlesScatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 165
Kate S wrote: "From Post 359Phoebe wrote: "10.1 Square Peg
Lifelogging. Wie die digitale Selbstvermessung unsere Gesellschaft verändert by Stefan Selke
This title appears to have a sub-title. Should it be moved to 10.2 or is this not really a sub-title?
It is a subtitle, but I thought it doesn't qualify because an English version does not exist...
If it does qualify then please count it for 10.2! Thank you!
Task 20.2 - Awards:Read a book that has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award OR the American Book Award .
2007 Winter Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (2006) by Ben Fountain
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: Short Stories
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 215 + 30 = 245
10.9 - Diverse GenresTortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction genre, main characters are "paesanos"- people of mixed backgrounds.... apparently Mexican, Portuguese, Spanish and Indian. (Their English is mixed with Spanish words.)
task +10
grand Total = 595
Time Traveler15.3 Pub 2013, Born 1956
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 700 (I think with the +10 for non western from post 361 / 409? Thanks for that!)
20.9 - Novel Lives - Kate S's Task:Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
+20 Task: Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckle plus many others were real people.
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 720
20.3 - Post-modernThe Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 740
10.9 Diverse GenresMalice: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino
Genre = Mystery
+10 Task
+10 Style: Non-Western (Japanese)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total: 180 + 20 = 200
20.5 Post-ColonialInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
+5 Combo (20.2, PEN/Hemingway winner in 2000)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 200
15.3 10-20 Time TravellerSilence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason
Book Publ: 2001 Author Born: 1961
+15 Task
+10 Task Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total: 200 + 25 = 225
20.3 Post ModernMoral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
+20 Task
+10 Style: Not-a-Novel (Short Stories)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total: 225 + 30 = 255
15.4 – 10-20 – Time TravelerDevil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon
+15 Task
+10 Time Traveler Bonus
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 250
20.6 - Under 31The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
+20 task (born 1966, pub. 1993)
+ 5 combo (20.3 post-modern)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
Task total=35
Grand total=385
10.2 SubtitlesLongitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel
+ 10 task
+ 10 not a novel
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 375
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
+10 pts - task
+. 5 pts - combo (10.5 India)
+. 5 pts - jumbo (522 pgs)
+ 10 pts - non western
Task Total - 30 pts
Grand Total - 250 pts
10.5 Summer Solstice - India
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.9 - hist. fic., 10.10)
+ 5 pts - Jumbo (522)
+10 pts - Non Western
Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 255 pts
15.2 - Time TravelerNight Hawk by Beverly Jenkins
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25 points
Grand total: 135 points
10.4 TBR RouletteThe Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
+10 task
+5 oldie (pub 1978)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 275
10.6 - WILLARaising Wrecker. by Summer Wood by Summer Wood
(WILLA Literary Award for Comtemporary Fiction 2012)
+10 task
Task total: 10
RwS total: 100
10-20 total: 90
Grand Total: 190
15.5 - Time TravelerStories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
b. 1971, pub. 2011
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task total: 25
Grand total: 115
15.6 - Time TravelerChanges by Jim Butcher
b. 1971, pub. 2010
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task total: 25
Grand total: 140
20.10 Books in booksfrom post 950 (on May 18, 2015) I read: The Paris Wife
This book was specifically mentioned:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
20 task
10 oldie (pub. 1926)
10 combo (10.8 "sun", 20.6 (he was 27 yo when published)
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40
Running total 275
20.8 - A Funny StoryTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
+20 task
+10 not a novel
+25 oldie (1601)
Task total: 55
Grand total: 470
20.10 Books in BooksA Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
+20 Task (from Station Eleven, read for Spring challenge, posted on 4/28/15)
+10 Not-a-Novel
+25 Oldies (pub. 1600)
+5 Combo (20.8, shelved as "comedy" 216 times)
Task Total = 60
Grand Total = 260
From Post 398Katy wrote: "10.3 Twists
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
+10 task (#46 on list)
+5 jumbo (509 pages)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 100"
+5 Combo 20.7-Big Books currently #173 on the list
Phoebe wrote: "It is a subtitle, but I thought it doesn't qualify because an English version does not exist...If it does qualify then please count it for 10.2! Thank you! "
From the FAQs " If there is no English edition, eligibility will be determined on a case by case basis." I will accept this title for 10.2.
D wrote: "20.6 - Under 31The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
+20 task (born 1966, pub. 1993)
+ 5 combo (20.3 post-modern)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stor..."
+5 Combo 20.5-Post Colonial listed 9 times
20.7 JumboBattle Royale by Koushun Takami
20 pt. task
+5 combo 20.6 ( born 1969, published 1999)
+5 Jumbo
+10 non-western
Task total 40
Grand total 70
10.7 MulticenturyThe Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
17th Century to 2008. (Part of the book is a manuscript about historical lore.)
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 285
15.5 Time TravelerHeart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
Born 1972, Pub. 2010
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 190 points
20.6 Under 31I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Publ 2012 Author Born 1997 (15 or 16 years old at publication)
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo Task 10.2 (Subtitles)
+20 Style: Not-a-Novel (Non-Fiction) & Non-Western
Task Total = 45
Grand Total: 255 + 45 = 300
Amanda wrote: "20.5 Post ColonialSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
+ 20 task
+ 5 oldies
+ 10 non-western
addition : also qualifies for combo 10.9 - historical fiction
+ 5 combo
New Grand Total : 380
20.2 - AwardsDreams of Sleep by Josephine Humphreys
+20 task (1985 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award)
+ 5 combo (20.4 set entirely in Charleston, SC)
+ 5 oldies (1984)
Task total=30
Grand total=420
15.8 10-20 Time TravelerEngleby by Sebastian Faulks
pub 2007, born 1953
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 190
20.9 Novel LivesThe Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman
The narrator is Marguerite Gachet, the daughter of Dr Gachet, Vincent van Gogh's physician.
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 305
10.2 SubtitlesStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
+10 Task
+10 Not a Novel
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 235
20.5 - Post-ColonialThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
born 1954, pub. 1984
+20 task (shelved 4 times as post-colonial)
+10 combo (20.2 - 1985 American Book Award; 20.6 Under 31)
+ 5 oldies
Task total=35
Grand total=455
10.7 - Multi-CenturyNo god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
Time span is from Muhammad's birth to 21st century.
+10 task
+ 10 not-a-novel
Task total: 20
Grand total: 270
20.1 Every 25 YearsThe Music of Chance by Paul Auster
+20 Task (published 1990)
+5 Combo (20.3)
+5 Oldies
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 265
15.2 - 10-20 - Time TravelerAuthor Birth Years 1957-1976
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
Pub. 2014, Born 1959
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 145
15.3 - 10-20 - Time TravelerAuthor Birth Years 1957-1976
The Swimmer by Joakim Zander
Pub. 2013, Born 1975
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 170
15.4 - 10-20 - Time TravelerAuthor Birth Years 1957-1976
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Pub. 2012, Born 1963
+15 task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 195
10.2 - Subtitles Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
+10 Task
Grand Total: 750
10.2 - Subtitles The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America by Joseph Bruchac
890 Lexile
+10 Task
+10 Not a Novel (short stories)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 770
15.3 - Time-travelerThe Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made The Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys Through Knowledge by James Burke
+15 task
+10 going in order
Task total: 25
Grand total: 495
10.5 June SolsticeThe Crazed by Ha Jin
China
+ 10 task
+10 combo (10.9 - historical fiction; 20.3)
+10 non-western
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 410
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You Could Be Home by Now by Tracy Manaster
(I can't find her age anywhere online, so don't know if this book would qualify for 20.6)
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 145