SP 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2014 Showing 401-450 of 1,052

[Kate S]

From Post 393

Arow wrote: "EotP
15.2 - 1987 - Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

+ 15 Task
+ 5 pre-1990 (1985)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 60"

+10 Multi Award (Commonwealth)

[Karen Michele]

Great job, Coralie!

[Tanya]

20.7 Local Talent

Shadowland by Alyson Noel

+20 Task (author born in Orange County, CA. I live in Orange County)

Grand Total = 110 points

[Deedee]

Task 20.10 - I Love NYC:

Joseph Conrad
Born: in Berdichev (formerly Poland), Ukraine : On: December 03, 1857
Died: August 03, 1924


Freya of the Seven Isles (1910) by Joseph Conrad (Paperback, 118 pages)

+20 task (Melville House: http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/freya-o... )
+05 Combo (#20.1 b. 1857 d. 1924)
+10 Oldies -76 to 150 years old: (1864-1938)

Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 = 35


Grand Total: 235 + 35 = 270

[Anika]

20.8 Spring Fling

Life Is Short But Wide by Life Is Short But Wide

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 165

[Liz M]

20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

+20 task (1890-1979)
+10 combo (10.6, 10.8 - pub. 1966)
+10 non-Western
+5 oldies

Task total: 45 points
Grand Total: 180 points

[Liz M]

15.1 - 2001 - Premio Valle-Indian
Soldiers of Salamis: A Novel by Javier Cercas

+15 Task
+10 Multi-award (also Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)

Task total: 25 points
Grand Total: 205

[Liz M]

15.2 - 2002 - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Snow by Orhan Pamuk

+15 task

Grand Total: 220 points

[Liz M]

20.1 - Shakespeare's Birthday
The Guiltless by Hermann Broch


+20 task (1886-1951 - his GR author profile is incorrect)
+5 oldies (pub. 1950)

Task total: 45 points
Grand Total: 245 points

[Rebekah]

15.6 NAtional Book Award - NF 1989
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

+15 pts - Task
+10 pts - Multi Award (Cornelius Ryan)
+ 5 pts - Non Fiction
+ 5 pts - Oldies

Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 610 pts

[Rosemary]

Liz M wrote: "15.2 - 2002 - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Snow by Orhan Pamuk

+15 task

Grand Total: 220 points"

How did you like this, Liz? I am about 1/3 of the way through for the same prize and finding it tough going so far :(

[Liz M]

Rosemary wrote: "How did you like this, Liz? I am about 1/3 of the way through for the same prize and finding it tough going so far :( ..."


It's definitely a tough read. I didn't like it until further in to the book, when there are fewer long-winded diatribes. I also read it a couple weeks back when it was grey and cold and gloomy, so that helped somehow.

[Deedee]

Task 10.5 - Twelfth Night:
In honor of Twelfth Night, read a book by an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) author. Please provide a link when posting a book for this task.

If you scroll down, Manda Scott discusses “coming out” as a lesbian in this article:

http://janebled.webs.com/apps/blog/en...

“Manda:
I knew I was gay sometime when I was 8 or 9…..”

Hen's Teeth (Kellen Stewart #1) (1996) by Manda Scott

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 270 + 10 = 280

[Sarah A.]

10.1 Square Peg

Cleanby Alejandro Junger

+10 task
+10 not a novel
+10 non-western author (from Uruguay)

Task total = 30
Grand total 200

[Denise]

15.10 (EotP) - 1991 - Gold Dagger

King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine

+ 15 Task
+150 EotP Completion

Grand total=575

[Amanda]

20.6 Tempest

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

+ 20 task
+ 5 Oldies ( 1939-1989 )
+ 10 Non Western
+ 15 Combo ( 10.4, 10.8, 20.1)

Task total: 50
Grand Total : 135

[Liz M]

10.8 - War of the Roses
Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

+10 task (pub. 1977)
+10 non-Western
+5 oldies

Task total: 25
Grand Total: 270

[Anika]

15.2 EotP

2011--Michael L. Printz Award (runner-up)--The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (Lexile 840)

Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 180

[Karen Michele]

20.4 – Hamlet:

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

+20 Task: on Philosophical Novels list
+10 Combo: Combo: 10.4 Romeo and Juliet / 20.1 – Shakespeare’s Birthday (1898 - 1963)
+ 5 Oldies (1942)

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 645

[Coralie]

15.1 1958 Miles Franklin Award To the Islands by Randolph Stow

+15 task
+5 published before 1990

Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 685 points

[Liz M]

15.3 - 1965 - Rosenthal Award
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

+15 task
+5 pre-1990

Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 290 points

[Denise]

20.5 - Othello

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Task total=20
Grand total=595

[Rosemary]

20.2 - The Henrys

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Canon

+20 task (shelved as war 58 times)
+10 combo (10.8(b) 1957, 20.1 1890-1960)
+10 non-western (Russian author)
+ 5 oldies (1957)
+ 5 jumbo (592 pages)

Task total: 50 points
Grand total: 465

[Rosemary]

20.6 - Tempest

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

+20 task (approved in help thread)
+10 non-western (approved by Liz here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... )

Task total: 30 points
Grand total: 495

[Karen Michele]

10.5 – Twelfth Night:

More Than This by Patrick Ness

+10 Task: 3rd paragraph of biography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_...

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 655

[Nick]

EotP



15.4 - 1980 winner - National Book Critics Circle Award - The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

+15 task
+5 before 1990



Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 80 points

[Rebekah]

10.7 Brave New World
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.8 -pub 1985, 20.2 war x396)
>+ 5 pts - Oldies

Task Total - 25 pts 10 pts
Grand Total - 635 pts 620 pts

[Rebekah]

20.7 Local Talent - Texas
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

+20 pts - Task (born in Waco, TX)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ma...
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.2- acted in several movies and wrote the screen plays)
+10 pts - Not a novel (autobiography)

Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 670 pts 655 pts

[Coralie]

10.8 War of the Roses
The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher (1922-1912)
Published 1967, Lexile 920

+10 task
+10 Combo (10.7, 20.1)
+5 Oldies

Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 710 points

[Kate S]

15.4 EotP

1994 Agatha Award

She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

+15 Task
+10 Multiple

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 280

[Kate S]

15.5 EotP

1996 Bailey's

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

+15 Task

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 295

[Kate S]

15.6 EotP

1988 Arthur Ellis

Swann by Carol Shields

+15 Task
+5 Before 1990

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 315

[Kate S]

15.7 EotP

1983 Winifred Holtby

Waterland by Graham Swift

+15 Task
+5 Before 1990

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 335

[Kate S]

15.8 EotP

2001 LA Times

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

+15 Task
+5 NF

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 355

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

15.7 1957 - National Book Award for Fiction

The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

+15 Task
+ 5 before 1990 (1957)

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 220

[Sarah A.]

15.3 2007 Somerset Maugham Award

The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore

Task total = 15

Grand total 215

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Post 437 Rebekah wrote: "10.7 Brave New World
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.8 -pub 1985, 20.2 war x396)
+ 5 pts - Oldies

Task Total - 25 pts
Grand Total - ..."

I'm sorry, Rebekah. This book has a YA Assignment designation at BPL and a Lexile of only 780. Counts for task, but not styles.

[Denise]

10.6 - Lady Macbeth

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

+10 Task (#60 on Women and Mental Illness list)
+10 Not-A-Novel (Biography at BPL)

Task total=20
Grand total=615

[Anika]

10.10 Group Read

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.2: shelved as "war" 55 times)

Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 195

(Thank you, Connie, for choosing this! I absolutely LOVED it...one of the best books I've read in the past year)

[Anika]

10.3 Julius Caesar

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

+10 Task (shelved as "Historical Fiction" 839 times)

Task Total = 10

Grand Total = 205

[Connie]

(Thank you, Connie, for choosing this! I absolutely LOVED it...one of the best books I've read in the past year)

Anika, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It was one of my favorites too.

[Cory Day]

10.7 Dystopia

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 545

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

A Night Like This by Julia Quinn

+20 Task (nIght)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 565

[Cory Day]

20.1 Shakespeare's Birthday

Emma by Jane Austen

+20 Task (born 1775, died 1817)
+5 Combo (10.4)
+5 Jumbo (512 pg)
+15 Oldies (pub. 1815)

Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 610

[Cory Day]

20.8 Spring Fling

Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart

+20 Task (stArt)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 630

[Cory Day]

20.6 Tempest (1 Day)

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn

+20 Task (the entire story takes place during one night)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 650

[Louise Bro]

20.5 Othello

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

+20 task

Task total: 20 pts
Grand total: 75 pts

[Kate S]

From Post 432

D wrote: "20.5 - Othello

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Task total=20
Grand total=595"

+10 Not a Novel (play)
+5 Combo (10.2)
ETA +5 Oldies (1959)
ETA2 +5 Combo 10.8B-publication year

[Coralie]

15.2 2008 Commonwealth Writers Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lexile 1090

+15 task

Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 725 points

[Louise Bro]

15.1 EotP: 2005 - Nebula Awards Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

+ 15 Task

Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 90 pts