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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
10.7 Summer CelebrationsThe Rocks Remainby Gavin Maxwell Born in July
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Double Trouble
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 1265
10.7 Summer CelebrationsRaven, Seek Thy Brother by Gavin Maxwell Born in July
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Double Trouble
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 1285
10.4 Double TroubleJourney to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson Lexile Score 860
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.2 Highly Rated by Kendyl
+ 5 Combo 20.9 Fathers Day. Based in 1910
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 1310
10.4 Double TroubleThe Hit by David Baldacci
+10 task
+5 (10.2 Highly rated)
+5 (10.3 Baby Boomer - 1960)
+5 (10.5 Sounds of Summer)
+5 (10.7 Summer Celebrations - August)
+5 (10.9 Hot off the press - pub 2013)
+5 jumbo
Task total: 40
Grand total: 330
10.4 Double TroubleThe Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen
+10 task
+5 (10.3 Baby Boomer - 1953)
+5 (10.7 Summer Celebrations - June)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 25
Grand total: 355
10.2 Highly RatedA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
+10 Task Deedee rated it 5 stars
+5 Multiple
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 1210
20.3 - BannedThe Trial by Franz Kafka
+20 Task: burned in Nazi Germany
+15 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated by Kama https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_... / 10.7 - Summer Celebrations (July 3) / 20.6 - Unfinished #75
+10 Canon
+ 5 Multiple
Task total: 50
Grand Total: 1365
10.2 - Highly-ratedTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
7/31/14
Rebekah and Angelbris rated it 5-stars
Task: 10
Multiple: 5
Task total: 15
AtA Total: 240
AtA Familiar Faces Completion Bonus: 50
RwS Total: 535
Grand Total: 825
20.10 - Austria-HungaryDeath in Venice by Thomas Mann 7/31/14
This book takes place in Italy.
Combos:
10.2 - Joanna, Nanci, and Alyona rated it 5 stars
10.4 - Author Thomas Mann
10.7 - Author born June 6, 1875
Task: 20
Combos: 15
Task total: 35
AtA Total: 240
AtA Familiar Faces Completion Bonus: 50
RwS Total: 570
Grand Total: 860
Task 10.2 Highly ratedShreya Pamulapati rated it 5 of 5 stars
Ian Jones rated it 5 of 5 stars
Jae rated it 5 of 5 stars
The Martian (2012) by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 369 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Multiple
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 455 + 15 = 470
Task 20.2 - Jailed-Read a book written by an author who was imprisoned at some point in their life. Please provide a link when posting a book for this task.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_D...
In the section: Pamphleteering and prison
“After his three days in the pillory, Defoe went into Newgate Prison. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, brokered his release in exchange for Defoe's co-operation as an intelligence agent for the Tories.”
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe (Paperback, 254 pages)
+20 Task (#20.2 jailed)
+20 Combo (#10.2 (highly rated), #10.8 (17th Century), #20.5 (Financial fiction), #20.6 (unfinished -- #164))
+10 Canon
Task Total: 20 + 20 + 10 = 50
Grand Total: 470 + 50 = 520
Combos:
10.2 Highly-rated:
Kama rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shin rated it 5 of 5 stars
Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars
Bill rated it 5 of 5 stars
Satenik rated it 5 of 5 stars
Ricky D. Gonzalez rated it 5 of 5 stars
Marlene Slade rated it 5 of 5 stars
Madhubrata Bhattacharya rated it 5 of 5 stars
Zaduzbina rated it 5 of 5 stars
Rahnuma Siddika rated it 5 of 5 stars
Isaac rated it 5 of 5 stars
Indhira rated it 5 of 5 stars
Trisha rated it 5 of 5 stars
Rita rated it 5 of 5 stars
10.8 - The 17th Century (1601-1700)
The first sentence: “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of good family, tho’ not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.” The rest of the book follows the next 50+ years, ending before 1700.
20.5 - Financial Fiction:
The Financial Fiction Genre
From the Chaucer to the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
20.6 - Unfinished:
On July 25, 2014 it was #164 on the list
Task 15.5 Author to Author15.5 Georges Simenon
Tropic Moon (1933) by Georges Simenon
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 520 + 25 = 545
20.8 Great OutdoorsGalápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
+20 task (shelved 20 times as nature)
+15 combo (10.2(by Mai), 10.4 (voNNegut) , 20.2 (PoW))
Task total: 35 pts
Grand total: 240 pts
Task 15.6 Author to Author15.6 Georges Bernanos
Mouchette (1937) by Georges Bernanos (Paperback, 156 pages)
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 545 + 25 = 570
20.4 - Action/Adventure: The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
#45 on list
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 - Jayme VA rated 5 stars)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1,005
20.5 Financial FictionBright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
+20 Task (Social Commentators, Journalists and Educators)
+10 Combo (10.2 - Sam rated it 5 stars, 10.3 – born in 1955)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 1240
20.3 Banned BooksI read In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway.
Task Points: 20
Combo : 10 (10.7 Hemingway born July 21, 20.9 pub'd and set in 1924)
Points this Post: 30
Grand Total: 660
I haven't been online in a while, but have been reading. So I have lots to report...10.10 Group Reads
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Kate S; 10.7 - July)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 355
20.5 Financial FictionSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Katrina; 10.3 - b. 1957)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 440
20.7 Call and ResponseI posted Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald for Task 20.9. That book is about the lives of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Combo (10.2 - Emily Green; 20.9 - set in the 1920s)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 480
20.8 Great OutdoorsThe Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales by Diane Ackerman
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 - b. 1948)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 505
10.8 - The 17th Century (1601-1700)Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady by Sally O'Reilly
+10: set primarily in the early 1600s
+10: Combo: 10.4 Double Trouble(reiLLy) / 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (2014)
+ 5: Multiple
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1390
Heather wrote: "20.5Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne
lexile 1070
+20 task
task total: 20
grand total: 725"
+5 combo 10.2 (by Lisa and others)
Norma wrote: "10.4 Double TroubleThe Hit by David Baldacci
+10 task
+5 (10.3 Baby Boomer - 1960)
+5 (10.7 Summer Celebrations - August)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 310"
+5 Combo 10.2 (by Katy)
Post 829 Heather wrote: "20.2 - arrested and accused of being a British spy in the 1910'sLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 - Ann gave it 5 stars, 20.3 - banned..."
As surprising at it seems, this is a YA Assignment at BPL. Lexile has scored it as 750, so you're OK for the task, but not for the style points.
10.3 - Baby BoomerNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman 8/2/14
Neil Gaiman was born in 1960
Combos:
10.2 - Katrina rated it 5-stars
Task: 10
Combos: 5
Multiples: 5
Task total: 20
AtA Total: 240
AtA Familiar Faces Completion Bonus: 50
RwS Total: 590
Grand Total: 880
10.4 Double TroubleA Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
+10 Task (double T)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 1255
From Post 850Nick wrote: "20.3 Banned Books
I read In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway.
Task Points: 20
Combo : 10 (10.7 Hemingway born July 21, 20.9 pub'd and set in 1924)
Points this Post: 30
G..."
+10 Canon (Hemingway's Short Stories are included)
From Post 837Norma wrote: "10.4 Double Trouble
The Hit by David Baldacci
+10 task
+5 (10.3 Baby Boomer - 1960)
+5 (10.7 Summer Celebrations - August)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 310"
+5 Jumbo (576 pages in MPE)
+10 Combo (10.9-pub 2013 and 10.5)
From Post 810Heather wrote: "20.7
Pandemic by Yvonne Ventresca - read Partials this challenge
no lexile
+20 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.9 - published 2013)
task total: 30
gr..."
Sorry, Heather, Jama has disapproved this combo. This book is also considered a YA book and has not yet been given a lexile score. So, I have recorded it for 10.9 with no styles.
From Post 828Heather wrote: "20.4
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
+20 task
+10 canon
+20 combo (10.2 - Ann gave it 5 stars, 10.4 - Shelley, 10.7 - August 1797, 20.3 - banned)
task total: 50
grand to..."
+10 Combo 10.5 and 20.6
From Post 843Deedee wrote: "Task 10.2 Highly rated
Shreya Pamulapati rated it 5 of 5 stars
Ian Jones rated it 5 of 5 stars
Jae rated it 5 of 5 stars
The Martian (2012) by Andy Weir (Goodrea..."
+10 Combo 10.5 and 10.7
10.5 - Sounds of SummerThe Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
+10 Task (Short Story nominee)
+15 Combo (10.2 - Nick and others; 10.4 - McCullers; 20.9 - 1930's and 40's)
+10 Canon
Task total=35
Grand total=680
10.2 - Highly-ratedI Am Legend by Richard Matheson
+ 10 Task (Andres Santiago and others)
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=15
Grand total=695
20.1 - TeaDivisadero by Michael Ondaatje 8/3/14
Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri lanka.
Combos:
10.2 - Anika rated it 5-stars
10.4 - Double Trouble - Ond aa tje
Task: 20
Combos: 10
Task total: 30
AtA Total: 240
AtA Familiar Faces Completion Bonus: 50
RwS Total: 620
Grand Total: 910
10.4 - Double TroubleA Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 8/3/14
Double digits in Vonnegut.
Combos:
10.2 - Harold rated it 5-stars
20.2 - Jailed - Vonnegut was a POW in WWII.
Task: 10
Combos: 10 (10.2, 20.2)
Task total: 20
AtA Total: 240
AtA Familiar Faces Completion Bonus: 50
RwS Total: 640
Grand Total: 930
10.6 - Summer SchoolWonder Boys by Michael Chabon
+10 task (both lists)
+10 combo (10.2 Lisa and others gave 5 stars, 10.3 born 1963)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 855 points
20.9 Father's DayBlood and Circuses byKerry Greenwood
+20 task (1920's)
+5 (10.3 Baby Boomer - 1954)
+5 (10.4 Double Letters)
+5 (10.7Summer Celebrations)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 390
15.1 AtAAll Clear by Connie Willis
Task Total: 15 points
Grand Total: 200
(incidentally...I don't see my name in post 1 of the approved chains, but Liz cleared my chain in post 64 of the q&a thread...)
10.4 Double TroubleGirl Missing by Tess Gerritsen
+10 task (double r)
+10 combo (10.3 and 10.7 - born June 12 1953 according to this link)
+5 multiple
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 225
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Task +20
+5 Combo (10.2 multiple members https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...)
+5 20.10 (mostly takes place in Poland)
Task total = 30
Grand total =630