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SP 2016 RwS Completed Tasks Spring 2016
10.4 popular genreRoyal Blood by Rhys Bowen
10 task
5 combo 10.7
5 multi
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20
Running total 810
This task is like ?name your poison? to an addict for me! I'm very close to having all of the tasks done... except I keep getting sidetracked by mysteries!
20.2 Graham GreeneBurnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.9)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 680
10.5-NovellasRu by Kim Thúy
+10 Task: top English Edition, 141 pages
+ 5 Combo: 10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1555
10.9 Beth's Task: Back to BusinessMade to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1570
20.5-R.K. NarayanZorro by Isabel Allende
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.2-Single Word
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1600
20.9 Tournament of Books Kate's TaskAll The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
#6 on 2015 list
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4; 107 - EVIE)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1,905
15.9 Waters of the World-round 2
Last Words from Montmartre by Qui Miaojin
Philippine Sea: Taiwan
+15 Task (author birthplace & nationality)
+20 Bonus
Task total: 35
Season Total: 1,940
20.5 R.K. NarayanAt Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
+20 task (approved)
+5 oldie (pub 1957)
+5 multiples
Task total: 30
Grand total: 720
10.10 - Group ReadsA Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
I really enjoyed this too!
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.7 Phil)
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 2120
10.7 Four LettersThe Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz.
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20
Total Points So Far: 530
20.2 - Graham GreeneThe Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.5 on list)
+ 5 multiple
+ 5 jumbo (576 pages)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 2155
15.10 Waters of the World-round 2
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
Baltic Sea: Sweden
+15 Task (author birthplace & nationality + setting)
+20 Bonus
Task total: 35
+100 Completion
Season Total: 2,075
20.6-The Bronte SistersThe Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.7, 10.8, 20.5)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 50
Season Total: 2,125
15.9 Waters of the worldEnduring Love by Ian McEwan
North Sea (set, author born+ citizenship)
35 task
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35
Running total 845
20.3-Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPeriodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
+20 task
+10 not-a-novel
+5 multiple
Task total: 35
Grand total: 1895
20.6-The Bronte SistersWhy We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
One of his daughters - Bernice A. King - wrote Hard Questions, Heart Answers and a few other books
+20 task
+5 combo (10.7)
+10 not-a-novel
+5 multiple
+5 age (1963)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 1940
10.4 Popular GenreRaining Cats & Dogsby Laurien Berenson
Task + 10
Multiple +5
Book Total: 15
Grand Total: 225
10.6 Book LoversThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.7, 10.8, 20.5)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 1060
20.2 - Graham GreeneThe Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
+20 task
+ 5 combo (20.5 on list)
+ 5 multiple
+ 5 oldies (1950)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 2190
Post 1076 Nick wrote: "10.7 Four LettersThe Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz.
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20
Total Points So Far: 530"
Trying to determine if this was orignally written in English or Spanish, I learned he is an MD. Combo points for 10.8.
20.5 - R.K. NarayanAfter the Quake by Haruki Murakami
+20 task
+ 5 multiple
+10 not a novel (short stories)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 2225
20.5-R.K. NarayanSaints and Strangers by Angela Carter
+20 Task
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Oldies (1985)
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 1640
10.6 Book LoversWhen Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
+ 10 task (tagged 84 times as Books About Books)
+ 5 combo (10.8 - she is a lawyer according to her bio)
+ 10 not a novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 705
20.5 Bronte SistersBroken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
+20 Task (approved in thread)
+5 combo 20.6 (approved in thread)
+5 multiple
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 865
10.1 Square PegLe mal par le mal by Jérôme Camut
+10 Task
+15 Jumbo (816 pages)
Task total = 25
Points total = 75
15.1 - Waters of the World Baltic - Sweden
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Fits A, B and C
Task total = 15
Points total = 90
15.2 - Waters of the World Pacific Ocean - USA
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Fits A, B and C
Task total = 15
Points total = 105
15.3 - Waters of the World Atlantic Ocean - France
Le calice jusqu'à la lie by Jérôme Camut
Fits A, B (for both authors) and C
Task total = 15
Points total = 120
Coralie wrote: "10.3 Bailey's PrizeFugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
+10 Task (1997 winner)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 1035"
+5 Combo 10.7-Anne
Karen Michele wrote: "10.5-NovellasRu by Kim Thúy
+10 Task: top English Edition, 141 pages
+ 5 Combo: 10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1555"
+10 Combo 10.8, 10.2
Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 Beth's Task: Back to BusinessMade to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
Task To..."
+10 Not a Novel
Beth wrote: "20.3-Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPeriodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
+20 task
+10 not-a-novel
+5 multiple
Task total: 35
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+5 Combo 10.7-Hugh
From Post 113Joanna wrote: "20.2 Graham Greene
Visitors by Anita Brookner
+20 Task
+5 Combo - 10.2
Task total: 25
Grand total: 120"
+5 Combo 10.8
From Post 1070Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 Beth's Task: Back to Business
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
Task To..."
+5 Multiple
Rosemary wrote: "It doesn't look like I'll be reading any old, jumbo or not-novel square pegs now, so I'll pick from the regular ones I've read in the season for the mega finish!10.1 - Square Peg
Task total: 10
RWS finish: 100
Mega finish: 200"
Congratulations on some great reading, Rosemary!
Deedee wrote: "Task 15.10- Waters of the WorldBaltasar and Blimunda (1982) by José Saramago; translated by Giovanni Pontiero; (Paperback, 346 pages)
+100 point for completing Waters of the World
+25 point : all books were originally written in languages other than English
+50 point: all books originally published in 1991 or earlier"
Well done, Deedee!
itpdx wrote: "20.1 William ShakespeareA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
+100 RwS completion bonus."
Congratulations on your RwS completion, itpdx!
Tien wrote: "15.10 Waters of the World-round 2
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
Baltic Sea: Sweden
+100 Completion"
Impressive, Tien! Nicely done.
Thanks for the points, Kate! Congrats, finishers!
Congratulations to all the finishers!
Task 20.8 A Nod to Tristram Shandy#153 on the list as of May 23, 2016.
Colors Insulting To Nature (2004) by Cintra Wilson (Paperback, 353 pages)
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 865 + 20 = 885
one more book to go for a mega-finish!
15.10 Waters of the worldThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Russia, Black Sea: born, nationality, set
35 task
100 completion bonus!!!!
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135
Running total 980
I'm on my last book for the whole challenge! Yippee!
15.8 Waters of the WorldMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Rhine River Basin: France
Published 1856, Original language French
+15 Task (author born/nationality/setting)
+10 Bonus
Task Total: 25
15.9 Waters of the WorldNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Pacific Ocean: Japan
Published 1987, Original language Japanese
+15 Task (author born/nationality/setting)
+20 Bonus
Task Total: 35
15.10 Waters of the WorldFaceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Baltic Sea: Sweden
Published 1991, Original language Swedish
+15 Task (author born/nationality/setting)
+20 Bonus
Task Total: 35
+100 Bonus for completion
+25 Bonus for all books originally written in language other than English
+50 Bonus for all books originally published 1991 or earlier
Waters of the World bonuses: 175
Grand Total: 1235
Yippee!
20.5-R.K. NarayanThird Daughter by Susan Kaye Quinn
long fiction, like this novel
Books written includes a non-fiction on Indie Author Survival Guide
Short stories including in this book among others Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (second one down in detail)
+20 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.7)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 1975 (including Kate's adjustment from post 1099)
20.2 Graham GreeneStrangers by Anita Brookner
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2, 10.8 - help thread)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 715
10.3 Bailey's PrizeThe Siege by Helen Dunmore
+10 task (nominee 2002)
+15 combo (10.8, 20.2, 20.5)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1260
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+10 task (Bali)
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 2100