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SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014
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
15.3 1972 - California Young Reader MedalWatership Down by Richard Adams
+15 task
+5 before 1990
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 100
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
20.8 Spring FlingThe 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
EotP15.10 - 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
From Post 841Marie 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
From Post 844Cory (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
Rosemary wrote: "20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayIvanhoe 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
Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "20.3 VeniceInvisible 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)
Rebekah wrote: "20.1 Shakespeare's birthdayKing 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.
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
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!
From Post 850Karen 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)
Kate S wrote: "From Post 850Karen 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!
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 ;)
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
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
Kate S wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "20.1 Shakespeare's birthdayKing 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.
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.
20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayKing 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
20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayCrimson Joy by Robert B. Parker
+20 task
+5 oldies
Task total: 25
Grand total: 205
Kate S wrote: "Rosemary wrote: 20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayIvanhoe 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!
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayParents 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
20.3 - VeniceThe Other Story by Tatiana de Rosnay
+20 Task: takes place in Italy on an island off Tuscany
Grand Total: 1390
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
20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Lexile: 920
+20 Task (1860-1937)
+5 Combo (10.4)
+10 Oldies (1911)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 470
20.8 Spring FlingTrust 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
20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayJulius 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
Task 15.6Newbery 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
Nick wrote: "EotP15.10 - 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!
Heather wrote: "10.7Shift 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.
EotP15.8 2006 Agatha
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
+15 Task
+10 Macavity Award 2007
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1415
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.
15.3 EotPThe 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
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.
20.8 Spring FlingStrand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris by Bonnie Henderson
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-novel (nonfiction)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 495
205 OthelloThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (20.1 - b.1871 d.1938)
+10 pts - Oldies (pub 1912)
Task Total - 45 pts
Grand Total -
15.2 EotP2005 Bollinger
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
+15 Task
+10 Multi (Bailey's)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 835
15.3 EotP1941 Hawthornden
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
+15 Task
+5 Before 1990
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 855
20.9 WildernessThe Root Cellar by Janet Lunn (840 Lexile)
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.8
+5 Oldies (1983)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 885
20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayThe Masterpiece by Émile Zola
+20 Task (1840-1902)
+ 5 Combo (10.8 pub 1886)
+10 Oldies
Task Total = 35
Grand total = 725
10.6 Lady MacbethThe 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
10.3 Julius CaesarThe Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
+10 Task
+15 Jumbo (800+ pages)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 970
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15.7 2009 California Young Reader Medal
Sold by Patricia McCormick
+15 Task
Grand Total: 1355