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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
Task 10.08 -- The 17th Century (1601-1700) Read a biography of Daniel Defoe (b.1660 – d.1731)
Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures (1998) by Richard West
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 610 + 10 = 620
10.9 Hot off the pressesThe Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
+10 Task, published 2014
+10 Combo (10.7 Summer Celebrations, 10.4 Double Trouble)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 110
15.1 AtA - Second chain https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
+15 task
Grand Total: 895 points
20.10 Austria-HungaryDas Urteil und andere Prosa by Franz Kafka
+20 task (Kafka -> Prague, Czech Republic)
+15 combo 20.6 (#74), 20.3 (burned in Nazi Germany), 10.7 (July)
+ 5 combo 20.9 (during 1904-1954 -> Kafka wrote these texts between 1906-1914, apart from "in the penal conoly" it is clearly set around the time he wrote it)
+10 canon
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 105
15.7 AtAOrchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy by Eric Hansen
+25 task
Task total: 25
Grand total: 255
10.4 Double TroubleStandup Guy by Stuart Woods
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.9 Hot off the Press)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 20
Grand total: 410
10.4 Double TroubleCarnal Curiosity by Stuart Woods
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.9 Hot off the Press)
+5 multiple
Task total: 20
Grand total: 430
10.4 Double TroubleThe Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen
+10 task
+5 Combo (10.3 Baby Boomer 1953)
+5 Combo (10.7 Summer Celebrations)
+5 multiple
Task total: 25+Grand total: 455
10.1 - Nebula awardThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
+10 task
+10 combo (10.2 - multiple people, 10.3 - 1963)
task total: 20
grand total: 805
20.6 - unfinished #80The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
lexile 990
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2 - multiple, 20.3 - banned, 20.4 - #17)
+10 canon
task total: 45
grand total: 895
Post 989 Deedee wrote: "Task 10.08 -- The 17th Century (1601-1700) Read a biography of Daniel Defoe (b.1660 – d.1731)
Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures (1998) by [author:Richard ..."
+5 Combo 10.7 - born July 18, 1930
20.9 - Father's DayThe Hive by Camilo José Cela
+20 task (takes place after 1939 but before 1945)
+10 canon
+5 multiple
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 590
10.9 - Hot Off the PressDrowned by Nichola Reilly ~pub. 2014
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 1,480
20.6 - Unfinished: Dune by Frank Herbert (800L)
#45 on list
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Nick & few others rated 5 stars; 20.4 - #163)
+5 Multiple
+5 Jumbo (604 pages)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 1,520
From Post 984Tien wrote: "10.2 - Highly-rated:
I Robot by Isaac Asimov (820L)
Rick F and a few others rated book 5 stars
+10 Task
+10 Non Western - Belarus
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 25
Grand Tot..."
Sorry, Tien, Asimov was a US citizen and does not qualify as a Non Western author.
From Post 986Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.4 Action/Adventure
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, Rated 5 stars by Scythe
+20 Task
+10 Combo, 10.2 & 20.9
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 710"
+10 Canon
From Post 990Ashley wrote: "10.9 Hot off the presses
The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
+10 Task, published 2014
+5 Combo (10.7 Summer Celebrations)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Grand Total:..."
+5 Combo 10.4 Patchett
Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "20.8 - Great OutdoorsGalápagos by Kurt Vonnegut 8/10/14
This book has been shelved as Nature 20 times.
Combos:
10.2 - Mai rated it 5-stars
10.3 - Double Trouble - V..."
Congrats on your Mega Finish, Theresa!
20.9 Fathers DayThe Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
+20 task (over 75% of the book takes place between 1932 and 1937)
+15 combo 10.2 ( Donna Jo and others)
10.3 born 1951 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel...
10.9 first published 2013
+5 multiple
Task total: 40
Grand total: 295
10.2 Highly RatedThe Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
+10 Task (5-star by Donna Jo Atwood)
+15 Combo (10.3 - b. 1951; 10.9 - pub. 2013; 20.9 - set in the 1930s)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 560
20.9 - Father's DayThe Godfather by Mario Puzo
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 - Harold & few others rated 5 stars)
+5 Multiple
+5 Jumbo (595 pages)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 1,555
20.5 - Financial FictionThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Lisa and others; 20.3)
Task total=30
Grand total=875
20.3 - Banned books list:Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2 - Lisa rated it 5-stars, 20.6 - Unfinished, 20.9 - Father's Day)
+10 non-Western
+10 Canon
+5 multiple (second time completing this task)
+5 jumbo (592 pages)
Task total: 65
Grand Total: 655
10.5 Sounds of SummerDavid and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
+10 task (nonfiction award winner)
+15 combo (0.3 - born 1963; 10.4 - ll; 10.9 - published 2013)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 280
10.9 Hot Off The PressThe Word Exchange by Alena Graedon
Task Total: 10 (published 2014)
Grand Total: 290
Task 10.7 - author born in one of the "Summer months" -- June, July, or AugustAuthor: Victoria Schwab
http://veschwab.wordpress.com/about/bio/
Birthday: 7.7.87
The Archived (The Archived #1) (2013) by Victoria Schwab (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 328 pages)
Young Adult – Low Lexile
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 620 + 10 = 630
20.3 BannedThe Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Lexile 820
+20 Task (on the banned list)
+5 Combo (10.2 – Rosemary rated it 5 stars)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 1710
10.3 Baby BoomerWaiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes
+10 Task (born 1959)
+5 Combo (20.9 – set during Spanish Civil War)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 1730
10.5 Sounds of SummerThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 – Cindie Harp rated it 5 stars, 10.9 – published 2013)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 1755
10.4 - Double TroubleCaptive by Leda Swann
+10 task (two n's)
+5 multiple
Task total: 15
Grand total: 250
20.6 - UnfinishedNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
+20 Task (#202 on list)
+ 5 Combo (10.2 - Rebekah and others)
Task total=25
RwS Finish=100
Grand total=1000
10.2 Highly RatedThe Cereal Murdersby Diane Mott Davidson
Rated 5 stars by Deedee
Style +10 (Multiple, 10.3 Baby Boomer-author born 1949)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 185
20.9 Father's DayAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (over 93 % (yes, I did the math... Yes, I judge me too.) of the book takes place between 1934 and 1945)
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2 (Karen Michele), 10.4 (doeRR), 10.9 (published 2014))
+5 jumbo (530 pages)
Task total: 40 pts
Grand total: 305 pts
Sooo good, might have to change my rating to 5 stars!
10.7. Summer CelebrationDie rote Couch by Irvin D. Yalom
+10 task (born in June)
+ 5 combo (10.2)
+ 5 jumbo (520 pages)
Tast Total: 20
Grand Total: 125
10.4 - Double TroubleMy Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9 - June 3rd, 2014)
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=20
Grand total=1020
20.6 - UnfinishedBleak House by Charles Dickens 8/16/14
This book is #131 on the list of unfinished books..
Combos:
10.2 - Elizabeth (Alaska) and several others rated it 5-stars
+20 task
+5 combos (10.2)
+5 multiples
+10 Canon
+25 Jumbo (1,017 pages)
Task total: 65
AtA Total: 240
AtA Familiar Faces Completion Bonus: 50
RwS Total: 885
RwS Bonus: 100
Mega Finish Bonus: 200
Grand Total: 1475
20.7 Call and ResponseThe Root Cellar by Janet Lunn
+20 Task (Response to Kindred – approved by Jama in help thread)
+5 Combo (10.4 – luNN)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1525
20.4 ActionAbove Suspicion by Helen MacInnes
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4 – maciNNes, 20.9 – set 1939)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 1560
10.1 Instant ReplayLord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
+10 Task (1996 RITA for best historical)
+5 Combo (10.3 – born 1949)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1580
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Task total = 20
Grand total = 675