SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014 Showing 751-800 of 1,052

[Rosemary]

15.9 - 1986 - International IMPAC Dublin

The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq

+15 task
+ 5 pre-1990

Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 850 points

[Liz M]

20.10 - I Love NYC:
The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger

+20 task
+15 combo (10.8 - pub. 1957, 20.1 1895-1998, 20.8 - Glass)
+5 oldies

Task total: 40
Grand Total: 680

[Rebekah]

20.6 The Tempest
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.2-drama, 20.1 - b.1888 d.1953, 20.8)
+10 pts - not a novel
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1941)

Task Total -50 pts
Grand Total - 1175 pts

[Deedee]

Task 20.8 - Spring Fling

Read a book with a title which contains a 5 (or more) letter word with only one vowel.

BLOWS

K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist (2009) by Peter Carlson (Hardcover, 327 page)

+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel (Non-fiction)

Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30

Grand Total: 425 + 30 = 455

[Joanna]

20.9 Battle of the Wilderness

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 430

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

+20 Task (crOss)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1165

[Cory Day]

15.8 - 1928 – Hawthornden Prize – Winner – Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

+15 Task
+5 Oldies

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1185

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane

+20 Task (wrOng)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1205

[Cory Day]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

Seven Guitars by August Wilson

+20 Task (born 1945, died 2005)
YA no Lexile, no style

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1225

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

+20 Task (stArs)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1245

[Rosemary]

10.6 - Bad Girls

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lexile 730

+10 task

Task total: 10 points

RWS completion bonus: 100

Grand total: 960

[Rosemary]

15.10 - 2002 - Baileys/Orange Prize

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points

EotP completion bonus: 150
Mega finish bonus: 200 :)

Grand Total: 1325 points

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Congrats, Roaemary, on your Mega Finish!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Rosemary wrote:

"EotP completion bonus: 150
Mega finish bonus: 200 "

Well done!

[Karen Michele]

Well, I have been terrible about congratulating finishers this time! A belated "way to go!" To all of you!

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

20.7 - Local Talent

Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter 5/10/14

This author was born in Indian Creek, Texas, and I'm a born New Yorker now living in San Antonio, Texas.

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 published 1962, 20.1 author lived 1890-1980)
+5 Oldies (published 1962)
+5 Jumob (512 pages)

Task total: 40 points

EotP Total: 40
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1210
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1350

Definitely not my favorite book, but it did give me a RwS Finish!

[Coralie]

20.8 Spring Fling
Worlds by Joe Haldeman

+20 task (worlds)
+5 Combo (10.8)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1981)

Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 1340 points

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

EotP
15.10 2012-Pulitzer for Biography winner
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
+15 Task
+5 Nonfiction
Task Total: 20
Completion bonus: 150
Grand total: 440

[Coralie]

15.7 2009 Rosenthal Family Foundation In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 1355 points

[Rebekah]

20.9 Battle in the Wilderness
Shiloh by Shelby Foote

+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1952)

Task Total - 25 pts
Grand Total - 1200 Pts

[Coralie]

20.6 Tempest
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

+20 task
+5 Combo (20.1 – 1882-1941)
+ 10 Oldies (published 1925)

Task Total: 35 points
Grand Total: 1390 points

[Kazen]

20.2 The Henrys
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

+20 task - shelved as war 239 times
+5 combo - 10.4, #329 on the list
+5 combo - 20.1, Mary Ann Shaffer 1934-2008
+5 combo - 10.3, shelved as historical fiction 3,386 times

Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 140 points

eta: missed combo

[Kazen]

20.8 Spring Fling
Bound by Night by Amanda Ashley

+20 task - "night"

Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 160 points

eta: new total

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

15.3 - Eyes on the Prize

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann 5/11/14

Samual Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Short List 2009

+15 Task
+5 Non-fiction

Task total: 20 points

EotP Total: 60
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1210
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1370

[Deedee]

Task 15.4

Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (1987–2011)
Best books by region - overall & regional winners
1990 regional winner – Africa

Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Paperback, 256 pages)

+15 task
+5 before 1990

Task Total: 15 + 05 = 20

Grand Total: 455 + 20 = 475

[Rosemary]

20.2 - The Henrys

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Graphic novel, no style points

+20 task (shelved as War 143 times)

Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 1345

[Rosemary]

20.10 - I Love NYC

An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

+20 task http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints...
+ 5 combo (10.8 B, pub. 1955)
+ 5 oldies (1955)

Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 1375

[Sarah A.]

10.4 Romeo and Juliet

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

+10 task
+10 not a novel

Task total = 20
Grand Total = 390

[Karen Michele]

20.3 - Venice

The Serpent of Venice: A Novel by Christopher Moore

+20 Task: takes place in Venice and is based on The Merchant of Venice and Otello it was a great romp that fit the challenge well!

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1230

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

15.4 - Eyes on the Prize

Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan 5/11/14

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Runner Up for Fiction 2009

+15 Task
+10 Multiple - PEN/Open Book Award Winner 2009

Task total: 25 points

EotP Total: 85
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1210
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1395

[Kate S]

Rebekah wrote: "20.9 Battle in the Wilderness
Shiloh by Shelby Foote

+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1952)

Task Total - 25 pts
Grand Total - 1200 Pts"

+5 Combo 20.1 (196-2005)

[Kate S]

Coralie wrote: "20.6 Tempest
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

+20 task
+5 Combo (20.1 – 1882-1941)
+ 10 Oldies (published 1925)

Task Total: 35 points
Grand Total: 1390 points"

+15 Combo: 10.4, 10.5, 10.6

[Coralie]

You can tell that was a last minute addition to my planned reading, coming after I had checked all the lists.

[Cory Day]

15.9 - 1997 – Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography – Winner – Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - Lexile 1110

+15 Task
+10 Multiple Prizes (Los Angeles Times Book Prize Biography)
+5 Not-a-Novel

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1275

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison

+20 Task (brIght)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1295

[Kate S]

Rosemary wrote: "15.10 - 2002 - Baileys/Orange Prize


EotP completion bonus: 150
Mega finish bonus: 200 :)

Grand Total: 132..."

Way to go, Rosemary! Congrats!

[Kate S]

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "
Definitely not my favorite book, but it did give me a RwS Finish! "

Congratulations, Theresa!

[Kate S]

itpdx wrote: "Completion bonus: 150"

Congrats on your EotP Finish!

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

Spark by Brigid Kemmerer

+20 Task (spArk)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1315

[Marie]

20.10 - I Love NYC

Freya of the Seven Isles by Joseph Conrad
http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/freya-o...

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1: Joseph Conrad 1857 –1924)
+10 Combo (1910)

Task total = 35

Grand Total: 270

[Marie]

10.6 - Lady Macbeth

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

#49 in Women and Mental Illness

+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.4 ; 20.1: Kate Chopin 1850-1904; 20.10: http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-awa...)
+10 Oldies (1899)

Task total = 35

Grand Total: 305

[Coralie]

20.8 Spring Fling
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

+20 task (Ghosts)
+10 Not-a Novel (short stories)

Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 1435 points

[Heather]

20.1 - 1882-1973

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

+20 task
+5 combo (10.4- #7)
+10 oldies (1937)

task total: 35
grand total: 1430

[Nick]

EotP



15.8 - 1999 Duff Cooper Prize. I read King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild.

+15 task
+5 nonfiction



Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 170 points

[Jama]

20.1 2 century Authors
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy (1828-1910)

20 point task
+25 combo (10.3, 10.4, 10.8, 20.2, 20.4)
+25 jumbo
+10 oldies (1868)
+10 non western

Task total: 90
Grand total: 190

[Anika]

10.8 War of the Roses (B)

Sula by Toni Morrison

+10 Task (pub. 1973)

Task Total = 10

Grand Total = 315

[Coralie]

15.8 2010 PEN/Open book Oil on Water: A Novel by Helon Habila

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 1450 points

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

15.5 - Eyes on the Prize

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett 5/12/14

Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1998)

+15 Task

Task total: 15 points

EotP Total: 100
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1210
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1410

[Rebekah]

10.4 Romeo & Juliet
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (20.1- b.166? d.1731, 20.4 - #164)
+20 pts - Oldies (1719)

Task Total - 40 pts
Grand Total - 1245

[Rebekah]

Kate S wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "20.9 Battle in the Wilderness
Shiloh by Shelby Foote

+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1952)

Task Total - 25 pts
Grand Total - 1200 Pts"

+5 Combo 20.1..."
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