SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014 Showing 851-900 of 1,052

[Karen Michele]

EotP

15.7 2009 California Young Reader Medal

Sold by Patricia McCormick

+15 Task
Grand Total: 1355

[Sam]

10.1 - Square Peg
(to replace Message 85)

Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson

no change to points.

[Sam]

20.5 - Otello

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

+20 task

Post total: 20
Grand total: 200

[Katy]

Eyes on the Prize

15.3 - 2014 - Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 145 points

[Jenifer]

15.3 1972 - California Young Reader Medal

Watership Down by Richard Adams

+15 task
+5 before 1990

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 100

[Jenifer]

15.4 1963 - Gold Dagger

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

+15 task
+5 before 1990
+10 Multi Award/Somerset Maughaum Award

Task Total = 30

Grand Total = 130

[Jenifer]

20.8 Spring Fling

The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village That Restored Them All by Don Wallace (this was an ARC)

+20 task
+10 not-a-novel

Task Total = 30

Grand Total = 160

[Nick]

EotP



15.10 - 1999 Macavity Award: Blood Work by Michael Connelly

+15 task

This completes the Eyes on the Prize sub-challenge.
Publication dates from 5 decades:
1966 Dune
1976 A New Life of Anton Chekhov
1980 The Transit of Venus
1999 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Blood Work
2012 Nanjing Requiem

My other four books were from a 6th decade, the 2000's.



Task Total: 15 points
Completion of EotP bonus: 150
Grand Total: 355 points

[Kate S]

From Post 841

Marie wrote: "10.8 - War of the Roses

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Published in 1977

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7)
+5 Oldies (1977)

Task total = 20

Grand Total: 325"

+5 Combo 20.4

[Kate S]

From Post 844

Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "10.4 Everyone Should Read

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Lexile 880)

+10 Task
+15 Oldies (published 1847)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1340"

+5 Combo 10.3

[Kate S]

Rosemary wrote: "20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

+20 task (1771-1832)
+ 5 combo (10.4)
+15 oldies (1819)
+ 5 jumbo (544 pages)

Task total: 45 points
Grand total: 1455"

+5 Combo 10.3

[Kate S]

Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "20.3 Venice

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

+20 Task (translated from Italian)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1972)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1615"

+5 Combo (10.8-publication date)

[Kate S]

Rebekah wrote: "20.1 Shakespeare's birthday
King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

+20 pts - task
+15 pts - combo (10.2, 10.4, 10.8)
+25 pts - oldies
+10 pts - not novel

Task tot..."

+5 Jumbo (507 pages in MPE)

No, sorry, VI is not the same as sixth for the purpose of this challenge.

[Kate S]

Karen GHHS wrote: "10.6 - Lady Macbeth:

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

+10 Task: Women and Mental Illness #43
+ 5 Oldies (1972)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1340"

+5 Combo 10.8-publication date

[Kate S]

Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "15.10 - 2009 – Independent Foreign Fiction Prize – Longlist –HHhH by Laurent Binet

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
EotP Completion Bonus: 150
Grand Total: 1505"

Congratulations on your Prize Completion, Cory!

[Kate S]

From Post 850

Karen GHHS wrote: "EotP

15.6 2013 Walter Scott

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

+15 Task
Grand Total: 1305"

+10 Multi (also won Man Asian Award)

[Karen Michele]

Kate S wrote: "From Post 850

Karen GHHS wrote: "EotP

15.6 2013 Walter Scott

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

+15 Task
Grand Total: 1305"

+10 Multi (also won Man Asi..."

Oh, yay! Thanks, Kate-- sorry to give you extra work!

[Cory Day]

Kate S wrote: "Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "15.10 - 2009 – Independent Foreign Fiction Prize – Longlist –HHhH by Laurent Binet

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
EotP Completion Bonus: 15..."

Thanks! And thanks for finding some extra points for me too ;)

[Liz M]

15.9 - 1995 - Somerset Maugham:
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

+15 task
+10 multi-award (also IMPAC award)

Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 705 points

[Liz M]

In post 142, Liz M wrote: "10.08b - War of the Roses
(published 1955-1987)

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Task Total: 30 points..."

I am moving The Autumn of the Patriarch from 10.8 to 15.10.

15.10 - 1975 - PEN Translation
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

+15 task
+5 pre-1990

Task Total: 20 points
EotP Completion Bonus: 150 points

Grand Total: 705 - 30 + 20 + 150 = 845

[Rebekah]

Kate S wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "20.1 Shakespeare's birthday
King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

+20 pts - task
+15 pts - combo (10.2, 10.4, 10.8)
+25 pts - oldies
+10 pts - not..."

You know, I saw that the MPE had >500 but it must have been an edition with lots and lots of pictures or maybe a long prologue and commentary. Either way, I read it on Kindle and it only took a little over a day to read it and I was still living my life as parent, wife and I have never read a jumbo book that quickly. I know the rules, but I just couldn't bring myself to take credit.

[Coralie]

15.10 1994 World Fantasy Award Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
EotP Completion Bonus 150 points
Grand Total: 1700 points

That should finish me with Eyes on the Prize. I have really enjoyed it and found lots of new awards and authors. Thank you.

[Rebekah]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare

+20 pts - task
+15 pts - combos (10.2, 10. 4, 10.8)
+25 pts - oldies
+10 pts - not novel

Task total - 70 pts
Grand total - 1765 pts

[Norma]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

Crimson Joy by Robert B. Parker

+20 task
+5 oldies

Task total: 25
Grand total: 205

[Rosemary]

Kate S wrote: "Rosemary wrote: 20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

..."


+5 Combo 10.3"

Thanks Kate! I had this marked on my spreadsheet, but when I was claiming the task I looked at the main book page where it says only 72 times, so I thought I couldn't claim it - I should have looked at the linked list!

[Rosemary]

20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday

Parents and Children by Ivy Compton-Burnett

+20 task (1884-1969)
+ 5 combo (10.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...)
+ 5 oldies (1941)

Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 1555

[Karen Michele]

20.3 - Venice

The Other Story by Tatiana de Rosnay

+20 Task: takes place in Italy on an island off Tuscany

Grand Total: 1390

[Joanna]

I'd like to move a book.

In Post #217, I posted A Midsummer Night's Dream to task 20.1.

I'd like to move that to 10.2.

Move total: -10
Grand total: 435

[Joanna]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Lexile: 920

+20 Task (1860-1937)
+5 Combo (10.4)
+10 Oldies (1911)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 470

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

Trust Me by Jeff Erno

+20 Task (trUst)
+5 Combo (10.5 – “When I was a teenager, coming out as gay seemed impossible to me, and because of the fact that I did not begin to openly acknowledge my sexual orientation until my twenties, I regretted my hypocrisy” http://www.reviewsbyjessewave.com/201...)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1650

[Cory Day]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+25 Oldies (pub. 1599)
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.4)
+10 Not-a-Novel

Task Total: 65
Grand Total: 1715

[Deedee]

Task 15.6

Newbery Medal Winners
1945

Rabbit Hill (1944) by Robert Lawson
Lexile: 1020L

+15 Task
+05 Pre-1900

Task Total: 15 + 05 = 20

Grand Total: 590 + 20 = 610

[Heather]

10.7

Shift by Hugh Howey (Silo #2)

+10 task
+10 jumbo (608 pages)

task total: 20
grand total: 1455

[Heather]

10.7

Dust by Hugh Howey (Silo #3)

+10 task

task total: 10
grand total: 1465

[Rebekah]

Nick wrote: "EotP



15.10 - 1999 Macavity Award: Blood Work by Michael Connelly

+15 task

This completes the Eyes on the Prize sub-challenge.
Publication dates from 5 decades:
1966..."

Congratulations, Nick!

[Joanna]

Heather wrote: "10.7

Shift by Hugh Howey (Silo #2)

+10 task
+10 jumbo (608 pages)

task total: 20
grand total: 1455"

Oh...if Shift is on the 10.7 list, I'd like to claim an extra +5 to my post 405 where I claimed it for 20.8. Also, Heather should get +5 for combo with 20.8.

[Karen Michele]

EotP

15.8 2006 Agatha

The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

+15 Task
+10 Macavity Award 2007

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1415

[Karen Michele]

10.7 - Brave New Worlds

The Death Cure by James Dashner

+10 Task: on list

Grand Total: 1425

[Liz M]

Joanna wrote: "Oh...if Shift is on the 10.7 list, I'd like to claim an extra +5 to my post 405 where I claimed it for 20.8. Also, Heather should get +5 for combo with 20.8...."

Unfortunately, Shift is not included on the linked list for 10.7 - Brave New Worlds (just Wool is included).

Heather, let us know if you want to shift Shift to task 20.8.

[Anika]

15.3 EotP

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2006

+15 Task
+5 Nonfiction

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 340

[Heather]

Liz M wrote: "Joanna wrote: "Oh...if Shift is on the 10.7 list, I'd like to claim an extra +5 to my post 405 where I claimed it for 20.8. Also, Heather should get +5 for combo with 20.8...."

Unfortunately, Shif..."

I guess I misunderstood Liz's clarification on the forum question for my task. yes, go ahead and move it to 20.8 - gives me more points anyways.

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

20.8 Spring Fling
Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris by Bonnie Henderson

+20 Task
+10 Not-a-novel (nonfiction)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 495

[Rebekah]

205 Othello
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (20.1 - b.1871 d.1938)
+10 pts - Not a Novel
+10 pts - Oldies (pub 1912)

Task Total - 45 pts
Grand Total - 1810 pts 1800 pts

[Kate S]

15.2 EotP

2005 Bollinger

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

+15 Task
+10 Multi (Bailey's)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 835

[Kate S]

15.3 EotP

1941 Hawthornden

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

+15 Task
+5 Before 1990

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 855

[Kate S]

20.9 Wilderness

The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn (840 Lexile)

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.8
+5 Oldies (1983)

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 885

[Kate S]

10.7 Dystopia

The Circle by Dave Eggers

+10 Task
+5 Jumbo

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 895

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

The Masterpiece by Émile Zola

+20 Task (1840-1902)
+ 5 Combo (10.8 pub 1886)
+10 Oldies

Task Total = 35

Grand total = 725

[Kate S]

10.6 Lady Macbeth

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.2-play, 10.3, 10.4, 20.1)
+10 Not-a-Novel (play)
+5 Oldies

Post Total: 45
Season Total: 945

[Kate S]

10.3 Julius Caesar

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

+10 Task
+15 Jumbo (800+ pages)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 970