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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014

Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success by Chris Matthews
+10 task
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 345

The Diviners by Libba Bray
(low Lexile)
+20 Task (takes place in 1920s)
Grand Total = 240 points

15.7 Honoré de Balzac
Pere Goriot (1834) by Honoré de Balzac; translated by Ellen Marriage (Paperback, 352 pages)
Lexile: 1180L
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 630 + 25 = 655

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Lexile 990
+20 task
+20 combo (10.2 Harold and others gave 5 stars, 10.7 born July 24 1802, 10.8 set in the 1620s, 20.4)
+10 jumbo (704 pages)
Task total: 50
RwS finish: 100
Mega finish: 200
Grand Total: 1265 points

Landline by Rainbow Rowell
+10 task
+10 combo (10.2 Erin NY gave 5 stars, 10.9 pub 2014)
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 1290 points

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
+20 Task (born India, July 11, 1956)
+15 Combo (10.2 Deedee, 10.3, 10.7)
+10 Non-Western
Task Total = 45
Grand total = 655

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
+10 Task (Katy and others)
+10 Combo (10.3 and 10.7 - August 27, 1959)
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=25
Grand total=1045

Drowned by Nichola Reilly ~pub. 2014
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 1,480"
+5 Combo 10.4 Reilly
ETA: +5 Multiple

The 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 To..."
Sorry, Tien, the most popular edition of this book has only 448 pages, not jumbo.

Die 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"
Sorry, Phoebe, the most popular edition of this book has only 384 pages, not jumbo.

Coralie wrote: "20.3 Banned
The 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..."
+5 Combo 10.6-on listopia list #61

Sam wrote: "10.9 - Hot Off the Presses:
Landline - Rainbow Rowell
+10 task
+5 combo (10.4 - double Ls)
Post total: 15
Grand total: 145"
+5 Combo 10.2 (Erin NY)

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press
Landline (2014) by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 308 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 double “ll”)
+05 Multiple
Tas..."
+5 Combo 10.2 (Erin NY)

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris
+10 task
+15 combo (10.2 - 5 stars by Katy; 10.3 - born 1957; 10.9 - published 2013)
Post total: 25
Grand total: 310

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
+10 task
+15 combo (10.2 - 5 stars by Joanna; 10.3 - born 1959; 10.7 - born in August)
Post total: 25
Grand total: 335

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
+20 task
Post total: 20
Grand total: 355

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
+20 task
+10 non-western
+5 combo (10.2 - 5 stars by Joanna)
Post total: 35
Grand total: 390

Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
+20 Task (set in Vienna)
+10 Combo (10.4 – bb, 20.9 – set in 1911)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 1795

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
+10 task
+15 combo (10.3 - 1955, 20.3 - banned, 20.6 - #185)
task total: 25
grand total: 1000

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
+10 Task (p. 2014)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 120

Time and Again by Jack Finney
+10 Task: rated 5 stars by Vennie and others https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 Double Trouble (fiNNey)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 1405

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
+10 Task: rated 5 stars by Jayme VA and others https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (2014)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1420

Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
+10 Task: born in 1952
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 Double Trouble(hoFFman)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1435

A Cookie Before Dying by Virginia Lowell
+10 Task: loweLL
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (A Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery book 5, published July 1, 2014)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1460

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
+10 Task: finalist for fiction
+10 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated by Cindie Harp and others https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_... / 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (2013)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1480

The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
+10 Task: birthdate: June 21, 1948
+10 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated by Rosemary https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_... / 10.3 Baby Boomers (1948)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1500

Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
+10 Task: published May 27, 2014 and takes place in the Yaak in Montana where we go each summer.
Grand Total: 1510

In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez
+10 Task
+10 Nonwestern
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1530

The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+20 Task: http://listverse.com/2008/08/08/10-li...
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 Double Trouble (sAAvedra)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1555

The Coffee Trader by David Liss
+20 Task: Historical Fiction Blurb
+15 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated by Rick F https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_... / 10.4 Double Trouble(liSS) / 10.8 - The 17th Century (1601-1700)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 1590

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
+20 Task: Call: Crocodile on the Sandbank from summer and approved in help thread
+10 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated by Lisa https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_... / 10.3 Baby Boomers (1962)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1620

The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
+20 Task: Call: Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club from Spring 2014 and approved in help thread
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1640

Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
+20 Task: 1940s
+15 Combo: 10.3 Baby Boomers (1953) / 10.4 Double Trouble (blOOm) / 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (July 29, 2014)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 1675

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
+20 Task: 1920s, 30s & 40s
+10 Combo: 10.3 Baby Boomers (1947) / 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (April 22, 2014)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1705

Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll
+20 Task: over 75% in Vienna, Austria
+10 Combo: 10.3 Baby Boomers (1949) / 10.4 Double Trouble (caRRoLL)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1735

The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+20 Task: http://listverse.com/2008/08/08/10-li...
+ 5 Combo: 1..."
+10 Canon - it's one of the Exemplary Stories

The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+20 Task: http://listverse.com/2008/08/08/10-li......"
Oh, great - thank you!

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
+10 task (born in 1960)
+ 5 multiple (post 793)
+10 combo (10.2 highly rated, 10.9->2013)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 145

Grand Total: 1825

Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton
+30 Task
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 325

1. there's a +5 for combo 10.4 re post #1,006 (Nichola Reilly)
2. there's a -5 for jumbo (popular ed. doesn't qualify)
So in total, there is nil change to my Grand Total which should still be 1,555?
Sorry for missing those 2 points above, by the by
& thanks, Kate, for catching them :)
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The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
+20 task (set entirely in Italy)
+20 combo (10.2 - Karen Michele; 10.3 - born in 1960; 10.7 - born in August; 10.9 - published 2013)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 330