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SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014
Task 15.7 Nebula Award for Best Novel (1983)
No Enemy but Time (1982) by Michael Bishop
+15 task
+5 before 1990
Task Total: 15 + 05 = 20
Grand Total: 610 + 20 = 630
EoP , Round 215.1 ManBooker 2011
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
+15 pts - task
Grand total - 1815 pts
Post 913 Rebekah wrote: "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 - Not a Novel
+10 pts - Oldie..."
This is a work of fiction in spite of the "Autobiography" in the title and does not qualify for Not-A-Novel points.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 913 Rebekah wrote: "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 - No..."
We'll, I'll be! Sneaky fellow!
Heather wrote: "10.7Shift by Hugh Howey (Silo #2)
+10 task
+10 jumbo (608 pages)
task total: 20
grand total: 1455"
Sorry, Heather, the most popular English-language print edition of this book has only 448 pages, no jumbo points. I have recorded it as 20.8, so I think there will be no change in points here.
From Post 900Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "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"
+5 Combo 20.3 (Italy)
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.1 Shakespeare's BirthdayOur Town by Thornton Wilder, published 1938
+20 Task
+5 combo, 10.2, a play
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Oldies, (1864-1938)
Task total: 45
Grand ..."
+5 Combo (10.5)
Liz M wrote: EotP Completion Bonus: 150 points"Way to Go, Liz!
Coralie wrote: "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..."
Three EotP Finishes! Very impressive!
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..."
Congrats, Nick!
Heather wrote: "10.7Dust by Hugh Howey (Silo #3)
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 1465"
This appears to fall into the same category as Shift and does not qualify for this task. Sorry.
10.1 Square PegDrood by Dan Simmons
+10 task
+10 Jumbo (775 pages)
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 1720 points
Kate S wrote: "Heather wrote: "10.7Dust by Hugh Howey (Silo #3)
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 1465"
This appears to fall into the same category as Shift and does not q..."
yargh. any suggestions where it might fit or am I out of luck on this one?
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayMildred Pierce by James M. Cain
+20 Task (1892-1977)
+ 5 Oldies (1941)
Task total=25
Grand total=1030
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayA Heritage and Its History by Ivy Compton-Burnett
+20 task (1884-1969)
+10 combo (10.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_..., 10.8 pub.1959)
+ 5 oldies (1959)
Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 1590
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayThe Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
+20 task (1916-2014)
+ 5 combo (10.8 pub.1979)
+ 5 oldies (1979)
+ 5 jumbo (513 pages)
Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 1625
Kate S wrote: "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
G..."
Missed this one, thanks Kate!
10.4 - Romeo and JulietA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#62 on the list
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.2, 10.3)
Task total = 20
Grand Total: 340
10.8 War of the RosesThree Tales by Gustave Flaubert
+10 Task (pub date 1876)
+10 Not-A-Novel (short stories)
+10 Oldies
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 755
20.8 Spring FlingStuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander
+20 pts - Task
Task Total - 20 pts
Grand Total -
20.1 Shakespeare’s birthdayAnne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
Lexile 930
+20 task (b1874, d1942)
+10 Oldies (pub 1917)
Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 1750 points
15.8 - Eyes on the Prize Atonement by Ian McEwan 5/18/14
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2002), Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2002)
+15 Task
+10 Multiple awards
Task total: 25 points
EotP Total: 165
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1210
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1475
20.8 - Spring FlingEleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
+20 Task (Kinds)
+ 5 Combo (10.8 - 1962)
+10 Not-A-Novel (short stories)
+ 5 Oldies
Task total=40
Grand total=1070
10.5 othelloFunny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
+20 pts -task
Task total - 20 pts
Grand total -
10.10 Group ReadsAmongst Women by John McGahern
+10 Task
And I cut it close, but that's my RwS finish
+100
Grand Total: 1535
Task 15.4Man Booker Prize -- 1985
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
+15 Task
+5 Pre-1990
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 165
10.3 Julius CaesarThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
+10 Task -- Shelved as Historical Fiction 1040 times
+5 Combo (20.8 -- light)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 180
20.1 Shakespeare’s birthdayLittle Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lexile 850
+20 task (b1867, d1957)
+5 Oldies (pub 1941)
Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 1775 points
20.1 Shakespeare’s birthdayThe Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck
+20 task (b1892, d1973)
+5 Combo (10.8 - pub 1962)
+5 Oldies
Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 1805 points
20.10 - I Love NYCThe Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+20 Task (http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-dia...)
+ 5 Combo (20.1 - 1547-1616)
+25 Oldies (1613)
Task total=50
Grand total=1120
20.8 Spring Fling The Ghost Brideby Yangsze Choo
The word Ghost has five letters with one vowel.
Task +20
Total: 80
10.1 Square PegThe Goldfinch byDonna Tartt
+10 Task
+10 Jumbo(771 pages)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 990
20.3 ItalyThe Passion by Jeanette Winterson
+20 Task (Set in Venice)
+5 Oldies (1987)
+10 Combo (10.5, 10.8 pub date 1987)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1025
20.6 TempestOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.4, 10.8, 20.1)
+5 Oldies
+10 Non-western
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 1065
15.4 EotP1984 Man Booker
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
+15 Task
+5 Before 1990
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1085
10.4 Romeo and JulietWalden by Henry David Thoreau
+10 task (#178 on list)
+15 Oldies (published 1854)
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 35 points
Grand Total: 1840 points
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayGood People . . . from an Author's Life by Jon Hassler
+20 Task (1933-2008)
+10 Not-A-Novel (Can't find this at BPL, but is Biography at Worldcat)
Task total=30
Grand total=1150
15.9 - Eyes on the Prize The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss 5/25/14
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2013)
+15 Task
+5 Non-Fiction
Task total: 20 points
EotP Total: 185
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 1210
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 1495
Post 941 Rebekah wrote: "20.8 Spring FlingStuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total -..."
This has one YA Non-fict label at BPL and has no lexile. I'm sorry, it's not eligible for style points.
Post 945 Rebekah wrote: "10.5 othelloFunny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
+20 pts -task
+10 pts- not a novel
Task total - 30 pts
Grand total - 1875 pts"
Sorry, Rebekah, this is another YA non-fict at BPL without a Lexile score - no styles.
15.10 - Eyes on the Prize Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 5/25/14
Lexile 810
Newbery Medal (1978)
+15 Task
+5 Pre-1990 (pub. 1977)
Task total: 20 points
EotP Total: 205
EotP Completion Bonus: 150
RwS Total: 1210
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 200
Grand Total: 1865
This completes EotP plus my Mega Finish of this great Spring Challenge.
Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "EotP Completion Bonus: 150
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Bonus: 200"
Well done!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 945 Rebekah wrote: "10.5 othelloFunny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
+20 pts -task
+10 pts- not a novel
Task total - 30 pt..."
I didn't even think to look
15.2 EoPDagger 2008
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
+15 pts - task
+ 10 pts - also Macavity
Task total - 25 pts
Grand total - 1880 pts
EotP15.9 1977 National Book Award:
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
+15 Task
+ 5 Pre-1990(1976)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1555
20.8 - Spring Fling:After the First Death by Robert Cormier, low lexile
+20 Task: fIrst
Grand Total: 1575
Heather wrote: "yargh. any suggestions where it might fit or am I out of luck on this one?"Sorry, Heather, I don't see any place for this one.
Karen GHHS wrote: "10.10 Group ReadsAmongst Women by John McGahern
+10 Task
And I cut it close, but that's my RwS finish
+100
Grand Total: 1535"
+5 Combo 20.1 (1934-2006)
20.8 - Spring FlingCeltic Myths and Legends by Charles Squire
I can't discover anything about this author, which is annoying because, with the book first published in 1905, it's very likely he'd have qualified for a 20.1 combo. But I can't find any evidence and there's no information about him in the copy that I have.
+20 task (myths)
+10 not a novel - it's a book about Celtic history and myth
+10 oldies (1905)
Task total: 40 points
Grand total: 1665
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
+10 Task
+10 Jumbo (734 pages)
Task Total: 20
Grandtotal: 275