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SP 2016 RwS Completed Tasks Spring 2016
20.10 AutoBioMemThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9)
+10 Not-A-Novel
+20 Jumbo (929 pages)
Task total: 55 pts
Grand total: 145 pts
10.3-Bailey's PrizeElizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.4-Popular Genre /10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 830
20.5-R.K. NarayanNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
+20 Task: on list
+10 Combo: 10.2-Single Word / Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 865
Task 10.4 Popular GenreRead a book with "mystery" listed as the first genre on the book's main page.
Sprinkle with Murder (Cupcake Bakery Mystery #1) (2010) by Jenn McKinlay (Goodreads Author) (Mass Market Paperback, 222 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.7 “Jenn”)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 295 + 15 = 310
10.4 – Popular genreMurder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver
10 task
5 multiple
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15
Running total: 485
Post 531 Joy wrote: "20.10 AutoBioMemLittle Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living by Jason Gay
+20 task
+5 multiple (second book for 20.10)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 90"
I'm sorry, Joy. This is not classified as auto/bio/mem at either BPL or at WorldCat. It does not qualify for 20.10.
10.4-Popular GenreThe Poet by Michael Connelly
+10 Task
+ 5 Jumbo (510)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 885
20.5-R.K. NarayanWhere Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
+20 Task: recently approved in help thread
+10 Oldies (1905)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 920
15.4 Waters of the WorldWinter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold
NORTH SEA
claiming for Denmark - born and nationality
Task total: 15
Grand total: 800
10.7 4 Letter NamesThe Green Pearl by Jack Vance
+10 Task (Jack)
+5 Multiple
+5 Oldies (published 1985)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 475
From Post 528Joy wrote: "10.2 Single Word
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 20"
+5 Combo 20.5
From Post 536Bea wrote: "10.5 Novellas
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
+10 task
+5 combo (20.5)
+5 multiple
Points: 20
Grand Total Points: 360"
+5 Combo 10.4
From Post 544Valerie wrote: "20.6 - The Bronte Sisters
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
20 task
5 oldie (1965)
10 combo 20.5, 10.7
____
35
Running total: 470"
+5 Combo 10.8
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.5 R. K. NarayanThis is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism by Herman Wouk Son is Joseph Wouk
+20 Task
+10 Combo, 10.7 and 20.6, 4 letter name & Bronte
+5 Not a novel ..."
FYI: Not a Novel is worth 10 points, so your score will be 5 points higher than you have reported.
From Post 552Beth wrote: "20.3-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
+20 task
+10 oldies (1871)
+5 combo (20.5, first line of profile)
Task total: 35
Grand tot..."
+5 Combo 10.5
From Post 559Louise Bro wrote: "10.4 Popular genre
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
"Mystery" is the top genre.
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.7 ("Emma"))
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 60 pts"
+5 Combo 10.3
Karen Michele wrote: "20.5-R.K. NarayanNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
+20 Task: on list
+10 Combo: 10.2-Single Word / Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Grand Total:..."
+5 Combo 10.8
Heather wrote: "15.4 - Germany – Rhine River basinThe Trial by Franz Kafka
+15 task
task total: 15
grand total: 370"
I am sorry, Heather, Kafka wrote in German, but he was neither born nor a resident of Germany. Did you mean Austria?
From Post 527Joy wrote: "10.1 Square Peg
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
+10 task
Task total: 10
Grand total: 10"
+10 Not a Novel
From Post 530Joy wrote: "20.10 AutoBioMem
Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2, 10.4)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 65"
+10 Not a Novel
From Post 541Bea wrote: "20.8 A Nod to Tristram Shandy
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
+20 Task
Points: 20
Grand Total: 450"
+5 Oldies
From Post 542Rachelccameron wrote: "20.6 Bronte Sisters
The Mist by Stephen King
Son is Joe Hill
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 Four Letter Name
+5 Combo 10.8 Teacher
+5 Combo 20.5 Novels, Short ..."
+5 Oldies
15.7 - Waters of the WorldFictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Atlantic Ocean: Argentina
+25 Task (author born/nationality)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 845
Thanks for the extra points for 536 and 541, Kate.
Kate S wrote: "Heather wrote: "15.4 - Germany – Rhine River basinThe Trial by Franz Kafka
+15 task
task total: 15
grand total: 370"
I am sorry, Heather, Kafka wrote in German, but ..."
Well, crud. I was looking at something else - brainfart there. Would Austria still count for this one? I'm unsure because it's listed in the countries on the right of the wiki article, but not the Rhine basin list.
Heather wrote: "Would Austria still count for this one? I'm unsure because it's listed in the countries on the right of the wiki article, but not the Rhine basin list. "Yes, it works for Rhine basin. We will score it for Austria-Rhine unless we hear differently.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Heather wrote: "Would Austria still count for this one? I'm unsure because it's listed in the countries on the right of the wiki article, but not the Rhine basin list. "Yes, it works for Rhine ba..."
Works for me. I didn't have anything else for Austria.
Waters of the World15.7 Pacific Ocean: Peru
The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
+25 (author born in/nationality/setting)
Total Points So Far: 275
20.10 AutoBioMemOut of Africa by Isak Dinesen
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.7, 20.4 - d. 1962, 20.6 - help thread)
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Oldies (1937)
Task Total = 60
Grand Total = 450
10.8 – License to writeBloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
10 task (he was approved, is a MD)
10 not a novel (short stories)
____
20
(revised) Running total: 510
15.4 WotWRhine River Basin
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( born in Germany / German )
+15 task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 590
20.5-R.K. NarayanWar All the Time by Charles Bukowski
+20 task (post 175)
+10 not-a-novel (poetry)
+ 5 oldies (1984)
+ 5 multiple
Task total=40
Grand total=1105
Task 10.1 Square PegThe Forever Queen (The Saxon Series #1) (2004) by Helen Hollick (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 635 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Jumbo 500-699 Pages: 5 Points
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 310 + 15 = 325
20.8 Tristam ShandyThe Counterfeiters by André Gide
+20 - Task
+20 - Combo (10.7, 20.4 - 1951, 20.5 , 20.6)
+10 - Oldies (1925)
Task total - 50 pts
Grand total - 430 pts
20.5-R.K. NarayanDusk by F. Sionil José
+20 Task (approved in message 328 of help thread)
+10 combo (10.2, 10.7 Jose)
+5 oldies (1984)
+5 multiple (8th claim for 20.5)
Points this post: 40
Grand Total: 620
I am showing 10 more points on my spreadsheet than on the readerboard (I have 820 up to post 566). Not sure what is wrong because it's a while since I checked it. I've searched the threads and I don't see any posts where you've corrected my points downward, only up.Could it be post 504 where I posted my task 15.6, and claimed 25 points because it's the 6th book, but you might have recorded 15 like the earlier books?
20.5-R.K. NarayanVarious Miracles by Carol Shields
+20 task (on approved list)
+10 combo (10.8 -post 159; 20.6 - post 133)
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
+ 5 oldies (1985)
+ 5 multiple
Task total=50
Grand total=1155
10.7 Four Letter NamesThe Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.8 author is a teacher per GR description)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1989)
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 25
Grand total: 255
Rosemary wrote: "I am showing 10 more points on my spreadsheet than on the readerboard (I have 820 up to post 566). Not sure what is wrong because it's a while since I checked it. I've searched the threads and I do..."Yes. 15.6 is worth 15 points.
Scoring:
15.1-15.6: 15 points
15.7-15.8: 25 points (or 10 point bonus)
15.9-15.10: 35 points (or 20 point bonus)
Oh thank you! I had copied that out wrongly.
20.2 - Graham GreeneGreengates by R.C. Sherriff
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2, 20.5 approved)
+ 5 multiple
+10 oldies (1936)
Task total: 45
Grand Total: 880
10.4 - Popular GenresA Scone To Die For by H.Y. Hanna
+10 task
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 895
15.8 - Waters of the WorldThe Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
North Sea : Germany
+25 Task (author born/nationality/set)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 920
20.7-David Bowie1984 by George Orwell
+20 Task
+5 Oldies
+15 Combo (20.4 -died 1950; 10.8 - approval; 20.5 - approval)
Task total: 40
Season Total: 835
10.2-Single WordRaelia (The Medoran Chronicles #2) by Lynette Noni
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - "Noni")
+5 Multiple
Task total: 20
Season Total: 855
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+15 Task
Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 90 pts