SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014 Showing 301-350 of 1,052

[Denise]

20.4 - Hamlet

Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom

+20 Task (on Philosophical Novels list)
+10 Not-A-Novel (296.7 A at BPL)

Task total=30
Grand total=340

[Rosemary]

20.8 - Spring Fling

The Cut-throat Celts by Terry Deary

+20 task (Celts)
+10 not a novel (history)

Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 255

[Karen Michele]

20.4 – Hamlet:

The Immoralist by André Gide

+20 Task: #145 Best Philosophical Literature
+10 Combo: 10.5 Twelfth Night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_... / 20.1 Shakespeare’s Birthday(1869-1951)
+10 Oldies(1902)

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 580

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

15.5 EotP
2012-Man Booker
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
+15 Task
+10 also Bailey's Women's Prize
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 145

[Coralie]

20.1 Shakespeare’s Birthday
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

+20 task (born 1954 died 2013)

Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 325 points

[Coralie]

20.2 The Henrys
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

+20 task (shelved 61 times as War)

Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 345 points

[Anika]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

The Spirit Level and The Haw Lantern: Poems by Seamus Heaney

+20 Task (born 1939, died 2013)
+10 Not-a-Novel (poetry)

Task Total = 30

Grand Total = 125

[Heather]

10.3 - 1,110 times

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

+10 task
+10 oldies (1929)
+20 combo (10.4, 20.1 - 1898-1970, 20.2 - 781 times, 20.8 - Front)

task total: 40
grand total: 440

[Heather]

10.9

Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove

+10 task
+5 jumbo (576 pages)

task total: 15
grand total: 455

[Rebekah]

20.2 The Henrys (War)

Henry V by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.1)
+10 Not-a-Novel (play)
+25 Oldies (published 1600)


Task Total: 65
Grand Total - 495

[Rebekah]

Kate S wrote: "From Post 237

Rebekah 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 ..."

Yeah!

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

EoTP
15.1 2012 LA Times Book Prize-Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

Task +15
+10 other awards (Bailey's, National Book Award, Samuel Johnson Award))
+5 nonfiction
Total: 30
Grand Total: 40

[Kate S]

Louise wrote: " 20.4 Hamlet

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (# 153 on the first list)

Task total: 20 pts

Grand total: 50 pts "

+5 Combo 10.7

[Kate S]

Heather wrote: "10.8

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

+10 task
+5 oldies
+25 jumbo (1188 pages)

task total: 40
grand total: 400

Ow. just...ow."

+15 Combo (10.4, 10.7, 20.4)

[Kate S]

Rebekah wrote: "20.2 The Henrys (War)

Henry V by William Shakespeare

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.1)
+10 Not-a-Novel (play)
+25 Oldies (published 1600)


Task Total: 65
Grand Total - 495"

+5 Combo 10.4

[Kate S]

Coralie wrote: "20.1 Shakespeare’s Birthday
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

+20 task (born 1954 died 2013)

Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 325 points"

+5 Oldies (1988)

[Kate S]

10.2 Actor/Writer

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

+10 Task (play)
+25 combos (10.4, 10.6, 20.1 1564-1616, 20.2, 20.4)
+10 not a novel (play)
+25 oldies (published 1606)

Post Total: 70
Season Total: 155

[Kate S]

10.4 Romeo and Juliet

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.8-pub 1980)
+5 Oldies (1980)
+5 Jumbo (647 pages)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 180

[Kate S]

20.2 The Henrys

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.8)

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 210

[Kate S]

20.8 Spring Fling

Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen

+20 Task

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 230

[Kate S]

15.3 EotP

1960 Pulitzer Bio

Charles Sumner & the Coming of the Civil War by David Herbert Donald

+15 Task
+5 Non Fiction
+5 Before 1990

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 255

[Isabell]

20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday

King Lear by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

+ 20 Task
+ 25 Oldies (pub. 1605)
+ 10 Not-a-Novel (play)
+ 10 Combo
10.2: play
10.4: #422

Task Total: 65
Grand Total: 155

[Isabell]

20.2 - The Henrys

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Shelves 31 times as war

+ 20 Task
+ 5 Oldies (pub. 1945)
+ 10 Combo
10.4: #6
20.4: #74 on Philosophical Literature list

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 190

[Isabell]

20.8 - Spring Fling

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

"front"


+ 20 Task
+ 10 Oldies (pub. 1928)
+ 20 Combo
10.3: shelve 1110 times as Historical Fiction
10.4: #93
20.1: 1898 - 1970
20.2: shelved 783 times as War

Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 240

[Joanna]

10.7 Brave New Worlds

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

+10 Task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 140

[Joanna]

10.10 Group Reads

Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey

+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7)
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 20
Grand total: 160

[Heather]

20.4

The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave

+20 task

task total: 20
grand total: 440

[Heather]

20.7 - Riffle, WV (i'm from near Charleston, WV)

Men in Black: The Secret Terror Among Us by Gray Barker

+20 task
+10 not a novel
+5 combo (20.8 - black)

task total: 35
grand total: 475

[Heather]

20.10 - Melville House

Definitely Maybe by Arkady Strugatsky

+20 task

task total: 20
grand total: 495

edited to add that I no can has html, but the book is on their website.

[Joy]

15.3 - 1998 - Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: (65 + 15) 80

[Joy]

15.4 - 2010 - National Book Award for Nonfiction - Just Kids by Patti Smith

+15 Task
+5 Nonfiction

Task total: 20
Grand total: (80 + 20) 100

[Sarah A.]

15.2 Boston Globe Horn Book award 1969
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

+15 task
+5 pre-1990
task total: 20
grand total:140

[Sam]

20.6 - Tempest

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
(Takes place over a morning - 3AMish-7AMish)

+20 task

Post total: 20
Grand total: 70

[Sam]

10.4 - Twelfth Night

All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_... - Lives with his partner)

+10 task

Post total: 10
Grand total: 80

[Coralie]

15.7 2013 Gold Dagger The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 365 points

[Liz M]

Heather wrote: "20.10 - Melville House

Definitely Maybe by Arkady Strugatsky

+20 task

task total: 20
grand total: 495

edited to add that I no can has html, but the book is on the..."

http://www.mhpbooks.com/?s=definitely...

[Deedee]

Task 20.3 - Venice:
Read a book where 90% of it is set in Italy

The Detour (2012) by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 200 + 20 = 220

And, possibly, 20.5 as a combo. The novel is told first-person by a young German soldier who spent two weeks during 1938 in Northern Italy. It is definitely the case that “the narrator is an ethnic/racial minority in the country in which the book is set “ Most of the other characters are Italian. It’s a judgement call so I’ll leave it up to the moderators if the combo works or not. (if yes, then the total is +5!)

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

20.2 - The Henrys: Read a book shelved as war at least 25 times.

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin 3/27/14

This book has been shelved as War 80 times.

+20 task
+25 Jumbo (1,016 pages)

Task total: 45 points

EotP Total: 0
EotP Completion Bonus: 0
RwS Total: 685
RwS Bonus: 0
Mega Bonus: 0
Grand Total: 685

[Rosemary]

10.3 - Julius Caesar

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

+10 task (619 times)
+ 5 jumbo (515 pages)

Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 270

[Marie]

10.1 - Square Peg

My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) by Luisa Weiss

+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel

Task total = 20

Grand Total: 120

[Joy]

15.5 - 2011 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: (100 + 15) 115

[Anika]

10.5 Twelfth Night

A Thousand Mornings and Thirst by Mary Oliver

+10 Task (Mary Oliver was with her partner, Molly Malone Cook, for over 40 years)
+10 Not-a-Novel (poetry)

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 145

[Rebekah]

20.5 Othello
Staying On by Paul Scott

+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Oldies (1977)

Task Total - 25 pts
Grand Total - 520

[Emily]

[Coralie]

20.10 I Love NYC
The New Life by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

+20 task (NYRC http://www.nybooks.com/search/?q=new+...)
+10 Combo (20.1, 20.3)
+10 Not-a Novel (poetry)
+25 Oldies (published 1293?)

Task Total: 65 points
Grand Total: 430 points

[Denise]

15.7 (EotP) - 2010 - Agatha Award shortlist

The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard

+15 Task

Task total=15
Grand total=355

[Rosemary]

15.4 - 1980 - Man Booker

Rites of Passage by William Golding

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 285 points

[Rebekah]

Rosemary wrote: "15.4 - 1980 - Man Booker

Rites of Passage by William Golding

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 285 points"

Rosemary, was this book anything like Lord of the Flies?

[Denise]

15.8 (EotP) - 2004 - James Fenimore Cooper Prize

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

+15 Task

Task total=15
Grand total=370

[Rosemary]

Rebekah wrote: "Rosemary, was this book anything like Lord of the Flies?"

I thought it was brilliant but very different. In fact all 3 of Golding's books that I've read have been very different - the other one, which I also loved, was The Inheritors.

But I suppose they are all about small groups of people isolated from the mainstream in some way. And some kind of fatal cruelty develops in all of them ... so maybe they are not as different as I thought!