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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
20.9 Fathers' Day (set 1904-1954)The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
+20 Task (set during WWII)
+10 Combo (10.8 - born July 31, 1968, 10.9 – published 2013)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 200
10.2 Highly Rated The Crow Road by Iain Banks
+10 Task Katrina rated it 5 stars
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
+ 5 Jumbo (501 pages)
+ 5 Multiple
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 225
10.7 17th CenturyJeanne, fille du Roy/The King's Daughter by Suzanne Martel
+10 Task (set in 1672)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 210
Coralie wrote: "10.2 Highly Rated The Crow Road by Iain Banks
+10 Task Katrina rated it 5 stars
+ 5 Jumbo (501 pages)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 215"
+5 Multiple
Kate S wrote: +5 Multiple"
I forgot all about that one.
From Post 135Deedee wrote: "Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press
Read an earlier book from a series that has a new installment out in 2014.
Expected publication: October 28th 2014 by Pantheon
[book:The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café: N..."
+5 Combo 10.4 approved in Help Thread
Coralie wrote: "10.2 Highly Rated The Crow Road by Iain Banks
+10 Task Katrina rated it 5 stars
+ 5 Jumbo (501 pages)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 215"
+5 Combo 10.3
10.2 – Highly-RatedEvening Class by Maeve Binchy
Ayfer, Lindsey, and Debbie Hoffman rated it 5 stars
+10 task
+5 jumbo (528 pages)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 15
Kate S wrote: "Coralie wrote: "10.2 Highly Rated The Crow Road by Iain Banks
+10 Task Katrina rated it 5 stars
+ 5 Jumbo (501 pages)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 215"
+5 Combo 10.3"
Thanks Kate. I really messed up that one. You have made it look much more respectable.
10.6 Summer SchoolThe Secret History by Donna Tartt on both lists
+20 - Task
+15 - Combos (10.2-Sam, 10.3-b.1963, 10.4)
+ 5 - Jumbo (559 pgs)
Task Total - 40 pts
Grand Total - 135 pts
20.9 - Father's DayThe Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
Takes place in the 1920’s
I’m not counting style points as it has been shelved once as a YA book in BPL.
+20 task
Task total = 20
Grand Total: 55
20.10 - Austria-HungaryLe Routard – Italie du Nord
Travel guide
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Grand Total: 75
20.2 JailedInside: Life Behind Bars in America by Michael G. Santos
+20 Task (26 years in federal prison)
+5 Combo (10.3 - b. 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_...
Task total: 25
Grand total: 170
20.10 - Austria-Hungary - Liz M's Task:Read a book about or set in (more than 75%) Austria-Hungary -- Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.
I read The Life and Music of Bela Bartok by Halsey Stevens. Bartok lived 1881-1936 in Hungary, then until 1945 in America, so 88% in Hungary.
+20 task
Task Total: 20
Grand total: 75
20.4 - Action/Adventure: "It was the day my grandmother exploded." (The Crow Road). -Read one of the 200 Greatest Adventure Novels of All Time.
I read #2 on the chronological list,Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
+20 task
+20 combo (10.2 several 5* ratings -- 10.4 double letter "ll" -- 10.7 MS born Aug. 30 -- 20.6 #59 on the list)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 125
20.2 - JailedWhile Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
+20 Task (POW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vo...)
+ 5 Combo (10.4 - Double Letter)
Task total=25
Grand total=195
20.7Kabuki, Vol. 1: Circle of Blood by David W. Mack
Response to Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey: dystopian future, conspiratorial government controlling citizens through lies
Graphic novel - no styles
+20 task
task total: 20
grand total: 255
20.1 - IndiaThe Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
+20 task
+10 non western
+5 jumbo (561 pages)
+10 combo (10.3 - 1947, 10.7 - June 19)
task total: 45
grand total: 300
10.4 Double Trouble an author with a double letter in their name.Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn FlyNN +combo 10.2 Melanie rated it 5 starshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Total this post: 15
Grand total: 55
10.9 Hot off the pressAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
+5 combo 10.1 Bailey'sshortlist 2014
+10 non western Adiche was born in Nigeria (goodreads page)
Total this post:25
Grand total:80
10.9 - Hot Off the PressGrasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
+10 Task: February 11, 2014
+ 5 Combo: Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated, 5 stars from Joanna
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 95
20.2 JailedThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lexile score 1080
Task +20
Style + 20
(Combos: 20.6 Unfinished #119 on the list, 20.9 Father's Day, takes place between 1942-1944, 10.2 Highly rated, Kiri and two others rated it 5 stars, 20.3 Banned, http://www.postdesk.com/banned-books-... It was banned for portraying Jews, Isreal, and Zionists favorably. Also challenged for offensive sexual references. )
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 85
Karen -- I loved Grasshopper Jungle. Your thoughts?
20.9 - Father's DayBlackout by Connie Willis
+ 20 Task -- set mostly 1940 – 1944, except for bits that take place in 2060
+10 combo (10.2 – Snowtulip; 10.4)
+5 jumbo (512 pages)
Task total = 35
Grand Total: 70
10.2 Highly RatedThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Lexile 850
+10 Task (Alicia Gordon, among others)
+10 Combo (10.4, 10.7 - as cited here)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 90
10.7 - Summer Celebrations Is everyone Hanging out Without Me ? by Mindy Kaling
Born in June 24, 1979
+10 task
+5 combo (10.2 – Ashlee)
Task total = 15
Grand Total: 90
10.5 Sounds of SummerMaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
(On sci-fi list)
10 pt. task
+ 10 combo (10.4, 10.9)
20 - task total
Grand total: 50
Heather wrote: "Kabuki, Vol. 1: Circle of Blood by David W. MackResponse to Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey: dystopian future, conspiratorial government controlling citizens through lies..."
I'm sorry Heather, but I don't believe these two works are closely linked enough for this task -- please see Jama's posts about other dystopian novels.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Combos: 20.6 Unfinished #119 on the list, 20.9 Father's Day, takes place between 1942-1944, 10.2 Highly rated, Kiri and two others rated it 5 stars, 20.3 Banned, http://www.postdesk.com/banned-books-... It was banned for portraying Jews, Isreal, and Zionists favorably. Also challenged for offensive sexual references. )..."Jayme, FYI, for 20.3 we are only accepting authors/books on lists linked in the task (which is not the one to which you have linked): http://www.banned-books.org.uk/all
The Diary of a Young Girl is on the list we provided, but if you were planning on reading other books for this task, you might need to double-check the correct lists.
Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 - Hot Off the PressGrasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
+10 Task: February 11, 2014
+ 5 Combo: Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated, 5 stars from Joanna
https://www.good..."
Maybe 10 more combo points here?:
I don't see his date of birth on his Goodreads profile, but found this page on Worldcat which contained this link Library of Congress Authority File under "Useful Links" toward the bottom of the page, listing a complete date of birth.
Would that be sufficient documentation for Summer Birthday and Boomer tasks?
(I just borrowed this book from Overdrive and am going to give it a try, based on Joanna's recommendation.)
Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 - Hot Off the PressGrasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
+10 Task: February 11, 2014
+ 5 Combo: Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated, 5 stars from Joanna
https://www.good..."
This link to the 5-stars is fine because we recognize Joanna, but we really need the link to be on the groups bookshelf search showing the person is a group member and has rated 5-stars.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "10.9 - Hot Off the PressGrasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
+10 Task: February 11, 2014
+ 5 Combo: Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated, 5 stars from J..."
Ok on the link to the group page. I'll do that in the future. Thanks for the birthday links - I checked my own public library for authority, but didn't even think to try the library of congress when it wasn't listed!
Joanna,
I liked it a lot, but it wasn't quite up to 5 stars for me. I was expecting some kind of twist, and I think my expectations were just a bit too high. It would be awesome for high school boys, though!
20.2 JailedHole in My Life by Jack Gantos
lexile 840
+20 Task (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gantos)
+10 Combo (born July 2, 1951-10.3, 10.7)
Task Total = 30 points
Grand Total = 50 points
Karen Michele wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Thanks for the birthday links - I checked my own public library for authority, but didn't even think to try the library of congress when it wasn't listed!"I've had pretty good luck finding stuff on LOC. We'll see whether or not the mods find the info acceptable.
Post 179 Heather wrote: "20.1 - IndiaThe Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
+20 task
+10 non western
+5 jumbo (561 pages)
+10 combo (10.3 - 1947, 10.7 - June 19)
task total: 45
grand total: 300"
+5 Combo 10.2 5-stars by Burke Burke
Ppost 189 Jama wrote: "10.5 Sounds of SummerMaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
(On sci-fi list)
10 pt. task
+ 10 combo (10.4, 10.9)
20 - task total
Grand total: 50"
+5 Combo 10.2 5-stars by Tanya
10.9 -2013Parasite by Mira Grant
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 jumbo (512 pages)
task total: 20
grand total: 305
Liz M wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Combos: 20.6 Unfinished #119 on the list, 20.9 Father's Day, takes place between 1942-1944, 10.2 Highly rated, Kiri and two others rated it 5 stars, 20.3 Banned, htt..."So are you deducting the combo points for 20.3?
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "So are you deducting the combo points for 20.3? ..."No.
I just wanted to make sure you were looking at the correct list if you decide to read another book for this task.
10.1 Instant ReplayWhen You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
+10 task (Newberry Medal, 2010 and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry, 2010)
+5 combo (10.2 – Emilia rated it 5 stars)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 30
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June Fourth Elegies by Xiaobo Liu
+20 Task
+ 10 combo (10.3 born 1955, 20.1 born in china)
+ 10 Non-Western
Task total: 40
Grand Total: 200
Thanks to itpdx for the suggestion.