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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
10.9 - Hot Off the Press - Cory (Bigler)'s Task:The Immortal Crown (Age of X #2) by Richelle Mead
Published 26th May 2014
+10 task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 25
20.9 - Father's Dayblackout by Connie_Willis
Takes primarily place between 1940 – 1944, except from ~20% that takes place in 2060
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 – Snowtulip ; 10.4)
+5 jumbo (512 pages)
Task total = 35
Grand Total: 35
10.9 - 2013Wise Acres: The Seventh Circle of Heck by Dale E. Basye
YA, no Lexile
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 230
Post 82 Heather wrote: "10.3 - born 1963Lady Friday by Garth Nix
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.7- born July 19)
task total: 20
grand total: 160"
I'm sorry, Heather. I don't know why, but this is the only one of this series that doesn't have a Lexile Score. It is not eligible for style points.
Post 88 Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "20.10 Austria-HungaryZlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović
Task +20
Combo 10.2 Highly Rated Melissa gave it 5 stars +5
Book Total: 25
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I'm sorry, Jayme. This has a YA designation at BPL and a Lexile of 640. It is not eligible for styles.
Post 89 Deedee wrote: "Task 10.4 - Double Trouble: Read a book by an author whose surname has a double letter. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009) by Monique Roffey
Orange Prize ...
Not sure if she qualified for “Non-Western”"
Yes she does, as she has dual citizenship.
10.2 - Highly RatedThe Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
+10 task Jayme and others gave 5 stars
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 95 points
20.5 - Financial Fiction:The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas 6/11/14
Found in the link:
From Chaucer to the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
+20 task
+15 combo (10.2 - Mickey rated it 5-stars, 10.7 Dumas was born July 24, 1802, 10.8 the book was set in the 1670s.)
Task total: 35
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 225
Grand Total: 225
10.2 Highly-rated The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Lexile 950
+10 Task (Rebekah, Jayme (the ghost reader) and others rated it 5 stars)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 160
From Post 99Amanda wrote: "20.1 Tea
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Task : 20
+15 combo ( 10.2 - Anna, 10.3 - 24/11/61, 20.6 #143 )
Task Total : 35
Grand Total : 115"
+10 Non-western
Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 Baby BoomersThe Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block
+10 Task: Block born 1962: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesc...
+ 5 Combo:10.2 Highly-rated: Rated 5..."
+5 Multiple
From Post 85Louise wrote: "10.5 Sound of Summer
The Martian by Andy Weir (nominated in the Science Fiction category)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 ( by Ian Jones) and 10. 7 (https://www.goodread..."
+5 Combo 10.9 (published 2014)
Kate S wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "10.3 Baby BoomersThe Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block
+10 Task: Block born 1962: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesc...
+ 5 Combo:10.2..."
I just remembered these multiple points in the car on the way home. Thanks! I love that addition to our style points.
20.4 - Action/Adventure:Lost Horizon by James Hilton 6/11/14
This book was #94 on the linked list.
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 - Zaduzbina rated it 5-stars, 10.9 - takes place shortly after World War I)
Task total: 30
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 255
Grand Total: 255
20.9 Father's DaySet 1904 - 1954
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Set during WWII 1941 - 1943
+20 task
+5 (10.3 author born in 1964)
+5 (10.2 Katie Montgomery https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5... rated it 5 stars)
Task total: 30
Grant total: 40
10.1 Instant ReplayBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
+10 Task (won the National Book Critics Nonfiction Prize)
+20 Combo (10.2 - itpdx; 10.3 - b. 1964; 10.4 - oo; 10.7 - August)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 65
10.7 Summer CelebrationsDust by Hugh Howey
+10 Task (http://www.hughhowey.com/a-birthdaypa...)
+10 Combo (10.2 - Beckie Tomlin; 10.9 - pub. 2013)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 85
10.9 Hot off the PressGlory in Death by J.D. Robb
+10 Task (#38(!) in the series published 2014 Concealed in Death)
+15 Combo (10.2 - Jackie; 10.3 - b. 1950; 10.4 - bb)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 110
Message #112: (yeah!)Non-western Monique Roffey
Grand Total: 50 + 10 = 60
Task 10.2 Highly rated
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (2007) by Nina Burleigh
Donna Jo Atwood rated it 5 of 5 stars
Nick rated it 5 of 5 stars
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 60 + 10 = 70
10.2 Highly RatedThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Connie N. rated it 5 stars.
Lexile score 850
Task +10
Style Points:+5 Combo 10.4 Double trouble 2 e's in Green.
Book Total: 15
Grand Total: 45
20.3 - Banned authorThe Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
+20 task (Nazi book burning)
+5 combo (20.10 - Austria-Hungary)
+10 canon
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 35
10.2 - Highly-rated:His Illegal Self by Peter Carey 6/12/14
Christy rated it 5-stars
+10 task
Task total: 10
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 265
Grand Total: 265
Task 10.9 - Hot Off the PressRead an earlier book from a series that has a new installment out in 2014.
Expected publication: October 28th 2014 by Pantheon
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #15)
For Combo points:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande...
Born: 24 August 1948
RWS members who rated this book 5* includes:
Jayme(the ghost reader) rated it 5 of 5 stars
Rebekah rated it 5 of 5 stars •
Book Read:
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #2) (2000) by Alexander McCall Smith
+10 Task (#10.9)
+15 Combo (#10.2 rated 5*; #10.3 born 1948; #10.7 born in August)
Task Total: 10 + 15 = 25
Grand Total: 70 + 25 = 95
Task 15.1 Author to AuthorAfter putting in Nathaniel Philbrick, I came up with Hampton Sides. I read
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
+15 Task
Total: 40 + 15 = 55
Task 10.3 Baby Boomer:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libba_Bray
(born Martha E. Bray; March 11, 1964)
The Diviners (The Diviners #1) (2012) by Libba Bray
Lexile 730L so no Style points
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 95 + 10 = 105
10.3 - Baby BoomerNick Hornby born April 1957.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 10
20.2 - Jailedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_S....
In 1967 he was picked up for heroin possession and served two months in the Los Angeles County jail.
The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr.
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 30
10.2 - Highly-rated:Silas Marner by George Eliot 6/13/14
Mickey and Jacki Lyon rated it 5-stars
+10 task
+5 multiple
+10 Canon
Task total: 25
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 290
Grand Total: 290
10.2 - Highly-rated:A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 6/14/14
Lisa and Jacki Lyon rated it 5-stars
+10 task
BPL Assignment, Lexile under 800, so no style points
Task total: 10
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 300
Grand Total: 300
20.6 - Unfinished:Lord of the Flies by William Golding 6/14/14
#47 on the linked list
+20 task
BPL Assignment, Lexile under 800, so no style points
Task total: 20
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 320
Grand Total: 320
10.4 Double TroubleHeaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
+10 Task (phiLLips)
+10 Combo (10.2 - Connie N. rated it 5 stars, 10.3 – born 1948)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 115
10.8 Summer BirthdayMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
+10 Task (born August 15, 1933)
+5 Combo ( Tien rated it 5 stars)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 150
20.9 - Father's DayThe Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
set during Prohibition, i.e. sometime between 1920 and 1933
+20 task
+10 combo (10.4, 20.2 "Hammett served time in a West Virginia federal penitentiary" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell...)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 125 points
20.4 - Action/AdventureDune by Frank Herbert
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 Lisa and others gave 5 stars, 20.6)
+ 5 jumbo (604 pages)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 160 points
10.3 - Baby BoomerDirty Work by Larry Brown
+10 Task (born July 09, 1951)
+ 5 Combo (10.7 - born in July)
Task total=15
Grand total=170
20.6 UnfinishedThe Alchemist by The Alchemist
Task + 20
Style +10 non-western (brazilian)
Combo: +20
+5 10.2:Don(the book guy)
+5 10.3:Born 1947
+5 10.7:Born August 24
+5 20.2 http://www.biography.com/people/paulo...)
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 105
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Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø
+10 task (born 1960)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 35