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SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014
15.1 - 2006 - NBCC FictionThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
+15 task
+10 multi-award (also Man Booker and Baileys)
Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 110 points
15.2 - 1997 - Bailey'sAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
+15 task
+10 multiaward (Scotiabank Giller, Bailey Women's)
task total: 25
grand total: 320
10.5 - Twelfth NightThe Flaneur by Edmund White
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_W...
He also talks about his sexuality and mentions some of his male partners in the book.
+10 task
+10 not a novel (non-fiction)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 130
10.5 – Twelfth Night:Astray by Emma Donoghue
+10 Task: Goodreads profile
+10 Not a Novel: short stories
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 510
20.7 Local TalentAt Risk byPatricia Cornwell
She was born in Miami, Florida. I live in Fort Lauderdale, Fl
+20 Task
Task Total - 20
Grand total - 115
Task 20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday: Read a book by an author who was born in one century and died in the next.
William Shakespeare
Born: in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom On: January 24, 1564
Died: April 23, 1616
King Lear (1605) by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 285 pages)
#10.4: Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once.
On March 20, 2014: #424
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.2 play, #10.4)
+10 Not-a-Novel (play)
+25 Oldies -400+ years old: 25 points (1613 and older).
Task Total: 20 + 10 + 10 + 25 = 65
Grand Total: 135 + 65 = 200
10.1 - Square Peg: Read a book that does not fit any of the other Reading with Style 10 or 20-point tasks. The Nun by Denis Diderot 3/21/14
This book does not fit any other categories in the RwS Spring 2014 Challenge.
+10 task
+15 Oldie (pub 1792)
Task total: 25 points
EotP Total: 0
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 640
RwS Bonus: 0
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 640
20.7 Local TalentCarol Matas is from Winnipeg, Manitoba and that is where I was born and still live.
http://carol.carolmatas.com/carol-mat...
Cloning Miranda by Carol Matas
no lexile but I would doubt its over 800
+20 task
Grand Total: 130 points
20.4 HamletFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (#10 on Phil Lit List)
+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.4 -#16 on list, 10.7-1950's, 20.1 - 1920-2012)
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1953)
Task Total - 40 pts
Grand Total - 425 pts
15.2 - 2010 - Bollinger Everyman WodehouseDiamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray
+15 task
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 145 points
Hi, I'm a Newbie, so if I make an errors, please help a girl out! :)10.5 Twelfth Night
ChériCheri by Colette
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+ 10 Task
+10 Oldies ( 76-150 years old )
Task Total = 20
Grand total = 20
15.6 (EotP) - 1990 - Hawthornden - (also James Tait Black - Biography) The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin+15 Task
+15 bonus points (non-fiction; two awards)
Task total=30
Grand total=310
20.1 - Shakespeare's BirthdayThe Two Mrs Abbotts by D.E. Stevenson
+20 task (lived 1892-1973)
+ 5 oldies (1943)
Task total: 25 points
Grand total: 170
20.10 - I Love NYCA House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Since these are small independent American publishers and I live on a different continent, I was stunned and delighted to find I had one of the actual NYRB editions on my physical TBR shelf already! So although there are other titles on the lists that I have in different editions, I had to read this one for the task :)
+20 task http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints...
+15 combo (10.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_... , 10.8 (b) pub 1966, 20.1 lived 1884-1969)
+ 5 oldies (1966)
Task total: 40 points
Grand total: 210
15.5 1967-Rosenthal Family PrizeA Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates
+15 Task
+ 5 Bef 1990
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 170
10.6 Lady Macbeth (Femme Fatales)Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
+10 Task (#13 on women and mental illness list)
+10 Oldies (published 1925)
+10 Combo (20.1 – born 1882, died 1941; 20.6 – takes place on the day of Clarissa’s party)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 360*
*I added +5 Combo Points for 10.4 to Henry VI, Part 1 in post 186, putting my prior total at 330. Let me know if I’ve got any math wrong. Thanks!
20.5 Otello (Minority)Night Broken by Patricia Briggs
+20 Task (narrated entirely by Mercy, who is half Native American)
+5 Combo (20.8 – nIght)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 385
15.3 - 1943 – Newberry Medal – Winner – Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Lexile 840)+15 Task
+5 published 1943
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 405
10.5 Twelfth Night (LGBT)Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire
+10 Task (McGuire is bisexual - http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com...)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 415
15.4 - 2012 – World Fantasy Award – Winner – Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 430
20.1 BirthdayNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
1919-2010
+20 task
+10 not a novel - short stories
+ 5 oldies - published 1948
Task Total: 35 points
Grand Total: 165 points
20.5 OthelloThe Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
+20 task (white protagonists in Rhodesia)
+10 Non-western (born in Zimbabwe living in South Africa)
Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 305 points
15.3 - 1998 - Somerset Maugham AwardOnce in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
+15 task
This is non-fiction - she actually starts the acknowledgements section saying, "This is a work of non-fiction" but it's not in the Brooklyn Library system at all so I guess I can't claim non-fiction bonus points. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_A...
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 225 points
10.9 – All the World’s His Stage:The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett
+10 Task: about Shakespeare and he is a minor character.
Grand Total: 520
20.5 – Otello:Behind the Eyes by Francisco X. Stork
+20 Task: narrated by Mexican-American main character
Grand Total: 540
From Post 225Ismaa wrote: "20.9 - The Battle of the Wilderness
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.3 Julius Caesar, Shelved 3156 times
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Romeo & Juliet, a..."
+5 Combo 20.1 (1900-1949-the way we're using centuries, she was born 1801-1900 and 1901-2000, thus different centuries)
From Post 237Rebekah wrote: "10.6 Lady MacBeth
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare # 15 on Bad Girls List
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combos (10.2, 20.1)
+10 pts - Not a Novel
+25 pts - Oldies ..."
+5 Combo (10.4)
From Post 244Heather wrote: "20.8 - worlds
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
+20 task
+10 oldies (1897)
+5 combo (20.1)
task total: 35
grand total: 260"
+10 Combo (10.4 and 20.2)
From Post 248Rachelccameron wrote: "20.2 War
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Lexile 800
shelved as such over 300 times
+20 task
+5 combo 10.7 Dystopia
Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 110 points"
+5 Combo (10.4)
Sarah wrote: "20.7 Local TalentAt Risk byPatricia Cornwell
She was born in Miami, Florida. I live in Fort Lauderdale, Fl
+20 Task
Task Total - 20
Grand total - 115"
+5 Combo 10.5
Amanda wrote: "Hi, I'm a Newbie, so if I make an errors, please help a girl out! :)10.5 Twelfth Night
ChériCheri by Colette
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1......"
Welcome, Amanda.
+5 Combo (20.1-Colette lived from 1873-1954)
Cory (Bigler) '00-'05 wrote: "10.6 Lady Macbeth (Femme Fatales)Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
+10 Task (#13 on women and mental illness list)
+10 Oldies (published 1925)
+10 Combo (20.1 – born 188..."
+10 Combo (10.4, 10.5)
From Post 223Ismaa wrote: "20.7 - Local Talent - Isabell's Task:
A God in Every Stoneby Kamila Shamsie
The author was born in Karachi, Pakistan where I currently reside. GR's profile only sa..."
+10 Non-Western
From Post 236Shellee wrote: "10.7 Brave New Worlds
The Circle byDave Eggers
+10 Task
Grand Total = 10 points"
+5 Jumbo (508 pages in most popular edition)
Rosemary wrote: "20.10 - I Love NYCA House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Since these are small independent American publishers and I live on a different continent, I was stunne..."
This will not change your score, but I wanted to make sure your recorded combo points and mine match at the end. This book has an original publication date of 1935, so it does not qualify for 10.8, but it does qualify for 10 Oldies points instead of 5.
From Post 219Jama wrote: "20.10 nyrb
http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints...
The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays by Vasily Grossman
+20 task
+ 10 not a novel
+ 10 non w..."
Yes, it qualifies for +5 Oldies, also +5 Combo (10.8-publication year)
Kate S wrote: "This will not change your score, but I wanted to make sure your recorded combo points and mine match at the end. This book has an original publication date of 1935, so it does not qualify for 10.8, but it does qualify for 10 Oldies points instead of 5. "Thanks Kate! Don't know where I got 1966 from *scratches head*
Rosemary wrote: "Kate S wrote: "This will not change your score, but I wanted to make sure your recorded combo points and mine match at the end. This book has an original publication date of 1935, so it does not qu..."No problem. Maybe an edition publication date?
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "I seemed to have gained 5 points on the readerboard that I can't account for. I show by my accounting that I should only have 75."Don, that is my error. Your total is correct.
Kate S wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Hi, I'm a Newbie, so if I make an errors, please help a girl out! :)10.5 Twelfth Night
ChériCheri by Colette
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1......"
Thank you! I didn't even think to check that one out!
Kate S wrote: "Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "I seemed to have gained 5 points on the readerboard that I can't account for. I show by my accounting that I should only have 75."Don, that is my error. Your total is ..."
Like Don, I received 5 extra points but knowing my history, I'm assuming it is my mistake. (smile)
20.8 Spring Fling Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
+20 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1986)
+5 Combo (10.8: published 1986)
Task total: 30 pts
Grand total: 30 pts
20.4 Hamlet Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (# 153 on the first list)
Task total: 20 pts
Grand total: 50 pts
10.10Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey
+10 task
+5 jumbo (509 pages)
+5 combo (10.7)
edited - forgot my own task!
task total: 20
grand total: 345
15.3 - World Fantasy 1978Our Lady Of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
+15 task
+5 pre 1990
task total: 20
grand total: 365
10.8Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
+10 task
+5 oldies
+25 jumbo (1188 pages)
task total: 40
grand total: 405
Ow. just...ow.
Rebekah wrote: "Like Don, I received 5 extra points but knowing my history, I'm assuming it is my mistake. (smile) "
See Kate's Post 286!
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The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.5, Winterson is lesbian)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 95