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SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014
10.9 - All the World's His Stage: Read a book that includes Shakespeare as a character.Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer 4/27/14
Lexile 950
William Shakespeare is a major character in this novel.
+10 task
Task total: 10 points
EotP Total: 25
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1060
RwS Bonus: 0
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1085
15.2 1991 John Florio Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino+15 task
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 1190 points
20.5 OthelloCorona by Bushra Rehman
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 http://www.examiner.com/article/bisex...)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 225
20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday:The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
+20 task (1892-1975)
+5 oldies (pub. 1945)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 505
10.8 - War of the Roses:The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
+10 task (pub. 1766)
+15 oldies
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 530
EotP15.7 - 2008 nominee -- Agatha Award. I read A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen.
+15 task
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 150 points
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
+20 Task (1888-1959)
+ 5 Oldies (1939)
Task total=25
Grand total=1005
20.7 - Local TalentThe Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
(born in Ottawa, ON, where I currently live.)
+20 task
+5 oldies (published 1985)
+20 combo (10.4 - #81 on list; 10.7 - dystopia; 10.8 - published 1985; 20.4 - philosophical novel)
Post total: 45
Grand total: 180
Task 15.3 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
1976 winner
A New Life of Anton Chekhov (1976) by Ronald Francis Hingley (Hardcover, 358 pages)
+15 task
+5 before 1990
+5 nonfiction
Task Total: 15 + 05 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 400 + 25 = 425
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayIn Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez
1927 - 2014
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 - 1962)
+10 Non-Western (colombian)
+5 Oldies (1962)
Task total = 40
Grand Total: 235
20.8 - Spring Fling:Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
+20 Task: thEft swOrds
+ 5 Jumbo: 694 pages
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1035
20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
+20 Task (1866-1941)
+5 Combo (20.10 http://www.nybooks.com/books/browse/?...)
+10 Oldie (1922)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 585
20.8 Spring FlingBlind Eye by Stuart MacBride
+20 task
- 15 (jumbo points taken in error post 473, 477 and 478)
Task total: 5
Grand total: 110
20.8 Spring FlingSecond Watch: A J. P. Beaumont Novel by J.A. Jance
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 140
15.3 EotPBailey's Women's Prize 2014 shortlist (Pub 2013)
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 190
15,10 EotP -NBCCA 2009Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
+15 pts - Task
+10 pts - Multi (ManBooker and Bailey's)
+100 pts - Completion
Task Total - 125 pts
Grand Total - 1005 pts
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
+20 Task (1866-1941)
+5 Combo (20.10 http://www.nybooks.com/books/browse/?......"
Wasn't this a sweet book? Did you read about the author? Katherine Mansfield was her cousin, she had an affair with H G Wells and E M Forster and Hugh Walpole were tutors to her children! I'd love to have visited that household!
Kate S wrote: "10.8 War of the RosesDangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
+10 Task (publication year)
+5 Combo (10.6)
+15 Oldies (1782)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 805"
Kate doesn't this qualify for 20.1? The author was born in 1741 and died in 1803
15.7 - National Book Award 1974Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
+15 task
+5 pre 1990
task total: 20
grand total: 925
15.9 - Tiptree 1996The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
+15 task
+5 pre 1990
+10 multiple (Nebula)
task total: 30
grand total: 970
15.10 - Campbell 1975Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
+15 task
+5 pre 1990
task total: 20
EotP completion bonus: 150
Megafinish bonus: 200
grand total: 1340
10.2 - Actor/WriterHamlet by William Shakespeare
+10 task
+10 combo (10.4, 20.1)
+10 not-a-novel (play)
+25 oldies (1602)
Task total: 55 points
Grand total: 735
Norma wrote: "10.5 Twelfth NightRed Mist by Patricia Cornwell
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 105"
+5 Jumbo (most popular edition is 512 pages)
Sarah wrote: "10.7 Brave New WorldAllegiant by Veronica Roth
Task total = 10
Grand Total = 360"
+5 Jumbo (526 pages in Most Popular Edition)
ETA: this also qualifies as +5 Combo (20.2-shelved 69 times as 'war).
This book has a lexile score of 830.
EotP 15.2 - Man Book Prize Winner 2011The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 4/30/14
+15 task
Task total: 15 points
EotP Total: 40
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1060
RwS Bonus: 0
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1100
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "15.5 EotPOrbis Pictus Award, 1990
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz, pub. 1948, lexile 1030.
+15 Task
+5 Not a novel
+5 Pub. before 1990
Task total: 25
Grand Tot..."
+10 Multiple (also awarded Boston Globe-Horn Award)
Congratulations to Elizabeth and Rebekah on your award winning reading!! Hope you enjoyed your choices.
Rebekah wrote: "15,10 EotP -NBCCA 2009Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
+15 pts - Task
+10 pts - Multi (ManBooker and Bailey's)
+100 pts - Completion
Task Total - 125 pts
Grand Total - 1..."
The completion bonus this season is 150!
Rebekah wrote: "Kate S wrote: "10.8 War of the Roses[Kate doesn't this qualify for 20.1? The author was born in 1741 and died in 1803
Yes, it does. I am not great at updating my posts after correcting my own errors in the database and updating my spreadsheet. I have been close a few times to posting messages to myself...
Kate S wrote: "I have been close a few times to posting messages to myself... "
I just talk to the computer and hope for voice recognition.
Kate S wrote: "Sarah wrote: "10.7 Brave New WorldAllegiant by Veronica Roth
Task total = 10
Grand Total = 360"
+5 Jumbo (526 pages in Most Popular Edition)
ETA: this also qua..."
WOW - thanks for catching that. It was so much fun to read, I didn't realize how long it was! LOL =)
15.7 - 1969 - TiptreeThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
+15 task
+10 also Nebula prize
+ 5 pre-1990
Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 765 points
15.9 EotP2006-Dayton Literary Peace Prize NF runner up
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild
+15 Task
+10 (also finalist for NBA nonfiction)
+5 Nonfiction
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 270(?)
? my total doesn't match current reader board
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Kate S wrote: "I have been close a few times to posting messages to myself... "
I just talk to the computer and hope for voice recognition."
Mine just gives me the silent treatment
Kate S wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Kate S wrote: "10.8 War of the Roses[Kate doesn't this qualify for 20.1? The author was born in 1741 and died in 1803
Yes, it does. I am not great at updating my posts after co..."
I just wanted to make sure you didn't miss any points as you are always catching them for me like in the completion bonus :)
10.4 Romeo and JulietInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
+10 task (#235 on list)
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 1210 points
20.2 - The HenrysThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
lexile 1080
+20 task (shelved as War 605 times)
+5 combo (10.4 - #5 on list)
+10 not-a-novel
+5 oldies (listed as first published 1942, though I thought it was 1947)
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 105
10.6 Lady MacbethThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 275
15.3 2012 Walter Scott Toby's Room by Pat Barker+15 task
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 1225 points
20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayThe Joy of Life by Émile Zola
+20 Task (1840 - 1902)
+ 5 Combo (10.8)
+10 Oldie (pub 1884)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 620
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Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.8 Spring Fling
Lent and Easter Wisdom from Thomas Merton: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together with Thomas Merton's Own Words by Thomas Merton
+20 Task, (Words)
+10..."
It appears all of these writings were published during Merton's lifetime, we have therefore included 5 oldie points.
ETA: this also means it qualifies for a combo with 10.8-publication year. We are using a publication date of 1968