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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
10.7 - Summer CelebrationsThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters 7/13/14
Sarah Waters was born July 21, 1966.
Combos:
10.2 - Katrina rated it 5-stars
20.9 - The book takes place in the 1940s.
Task: 10
Combos: 10 (10.2, 20.9)
Jumbo: 5 (528 pages)
Task total: 25
AtA Total: 125
RwS Total: 400
Grand Total: 525
Post 521 Coralie wrote: "10.7 Summer CelebrationsThe Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=je......"
Coralie, our birthday months are June, July and August. With a September birthday, this does not qualify for 10.7. I don't see a combo for it.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 506 Tien wrote: "20.3 - Banned: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
+20 Task...
Tien, I'm sorry. This is one BPL has as YA Assignment and it's Lexile is 630. OK for the task, but no styles. "
oops, ok, no worries, I didn't even bother to check BPL on this one, sorry.
20.8 - Great OutdoorsThe Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
book shelved as nature, 15 times
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 - Cindie Harp, Anthea & Alexandria rated 5 stars; 10.7 - Author born July 18, 1969 - wikipedia; 10.9 - book pub 2013)
+5 Jumbo (500+ pages)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 680
20.6 - Unfinished: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Position #100 on list
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2 - Davi rated 5 stars; 10.7 - born July 21, 1899; 20.3 - author's book burned; 20.9 - set around 1920s)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 730
10.7 - Summer CelebrationsAllegiant by Veronica Roth
830L
Author born August 19, 1988
+10 Task
+10 combo (10.2 - Katy & few others rated 5 stars; 10.9 - pub. 2013)
+5 Jumbo (500+ pages)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 755
20.10 - Austria-HungaryThe Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
+20 Task: Set in Bosnia and Herzegovina
+ 5 Combo: 10.10 Group Reads
+10 Canon
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 730
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 521 Coralie wrote: "10.7 Summer Celebrations"
Of the many mistakes I've made this season, this must be the stupidest.
I seem to be going through a patch of reading books that don't fit the tasks.
From Post 527Heather wrote: "20.7
Greatfall: The Complete Novel by Jason Gurley
+20 task (response to Wool Omnibus read Spring 2014)
task total: 20
grand total: 500"
+5 Combo 10.9-published 2013
Karen Michele wrote: "20.4 - Action/Adventure: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
+20 Task: on the list
+10 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated, 5 starts from Rick F and others https://www.goodr..."
+5 Combo-20.3 Wells' work was burned in Nazi Germany
Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press Catch up on recent releases by reading a book published in 2013 or 2014
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) by Claire North (Hardcover, 405 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Multiple
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 330 + 15 = 345
Kate S wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "20.4 - Action/Adventure: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
+20 Task: on the list
+10 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated, 5 starts from Rick F and ot..."
Thanks, Kate!
Coralie wrote: "15.10- AtA:The Family from One End Street: And Some of Their Adventures by Eve Garnett
+30 task
+50 Familiar Faces Completion Bonus
Grand Total: 790"
Congrats on your AtA Finish, Coralie!
10.5 Summer SoundsWisp of a Thing: A Novel of the Tufa by Alex Bledsoe
Winner in the fantasy category
+10 task
+5 combo 10.7 originally published 2013
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 85
Kate S wrote: "Coralie wrote: "15.10- AtA:The Family from One End Street: And Some of Their Adventures by Eve Garnett
+30 task
+50 Familiar Faces Completion Bonus
Grand Total: 79..."
Thanks, Kate!
Coralie wrote: "Of the many mistakes I've made this season, this must be the stupidest.I seem to be going through a patch of reading books that don't fit the tasks. ..."
Oh dear. I hope the books have been enjoyable at least!
Sara Grace wrote: "20.6 - Unfinished10.3 - Baby Boomer
10.4.1 - Double Trouble
10.4.2 - Double Trouble..."
Sara Grace, the database we use for score-keeping requires a unique post number for each book. Please repost Detective Inspector Huss, The Children's Book, On Love in individual posts.
20.7 - Call and ResponseThe Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadaré
+20 Task: I read The Bridge on the Drina this season. Kadare's book is a tribute to the first book and has the bridge as a main character in Albania. Approved in the help thread as well.
Grand Total: 755
10.8 Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer+10 pts - task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.2 - Lisa)
+20 pts - Jumbo - 972 pgs (long plane ride and I did read every footnote and even the index!)
Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 285 pts
10.3 Baby BoomerPerfectly Invisible by Michael A. Stackpole
Born 1957: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_...
+10 Task
Task total: 10 pts
Grand total: 135 pts
10.4 Double TroubleThe Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.2 Highly Rated by Anika & Morgan
+ 5 Combo 10.3 Baby Boomer. Patchett born in 1963
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 720
10.3 Baby BoomerEmotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson born in 1951
+ 10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 730
15.9 AtAAn Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
+30 task
Grand Total: 555 points
10.9 - Hot Off the Press Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater, low lexile
+10 Task: July 1, 2014
Grand Total: 785
10.2 - Highly-rated: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Jutta Ortlepp & Keelan rated 5 stars
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 - born 1947)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 770
10.3 - Baby BoomerThe Wizard of Seattle by Kay Hooper
+10 task (born 1958)
+5 combo (10.4 - Hooper)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 110
20.3 Banned The Color Purple by Alice Walker
+20 Task
Lexile 670 – no style
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 415
10.7 17th CenturyMerrie by Vivian Schurfranz
+10 Task (set 1620-1621)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 430
10.7 17th CenturyHeather by Vivian Schurfranz
+10 Task (set 1665)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 445
20.2 JailedAn Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
+20 Task (Etty was interned in Westerbork transit camp and died in Auschwitz)
+10 Combo (10.4 – hiLLesum, 20.9 – written during and about 1941-1943)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 475
10.9 Hot off the PressA Dark and Twisted Tide by S.J. Bolton
+10 Task (pub 2014)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 490
10.4 Double TroubleNobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
+10 Task (phiLLips)
+10 Combo (10.2 - Connie N rated it 5 stars, 10.3 – born 1948)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 515
20.4 ActionThe Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
+20 Task (#200 on list)
+15 Combo (10.2 - C.Nick rated it 5 stars, 10.3 – born 1948, 10.4 – pratcheTT)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 550
10.6 Summer SchoolOld School by Tobias Wolff
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.4 – wolFF, 10.8 – born June 1945)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 575
20.9 Father's DayThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago
+20 Task (set in 1936)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 480
20.8 Great OutdoorsA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
+20 Task (shelved as nature 44 times)
+5 Combo (10.3 b. 1951)
+5 Jumbo (544 pages)
+100 RwS Finish
Post Total: 130
Season Total: 610
20.1 Austria/HungaryThe Cellist of Sarajevoby Steven Galloway
Task +20
Combo:
+5 10.2 (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...)
+5 10.4 (Galloway)
+5 10.7 (Born in July https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...)
Task Total =35
Grand total =325
Task 10.2 Highly ratedI Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson (Mass Market Paperback, 161 pages)
Scythe rated it 5 of 5 stars
Nikki rated it 5 of 5 stars
And others
+10 Task
+05 Multiple
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 345 + 15 = 360
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Robert Teeter & a number of others rated 5 stars; 20.9 - set during the Great Depression 1930s-..."
Tien, I'm sorry. This is one BPL has as YA Assignment and it's Lexile is 630. OK for the task, but no styles.