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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
10.6 Summer SchoolPnin by Vladimir Nabokov
+10 Task-Favorite Novels about Professors list
+10 Combo (10.2 Jutta Ortlepp rated it 5*; 20.3-Author list)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 110
10.7 Summer CelebrationsCrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
+10 Task (July 26-according to GR Author profile)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 120
10.8 17th CenturyThe Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
+10 Task (setting)
+15 Combo (10.2 Mickey rated it 5*; 10.7-July 24; 20.5)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 145
10.9 Hot off the PressesOrfeo by Richard Powers
+10 Published 2014
+10 Combo (10.3 and 10.7 b June 18, 1957 according to GR Author Profile)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 165
20.4 Action/Adventure Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
+20 Task (#192 on list)
+15 Combo (10.3 & 10.7- born June 22, 1947, 10.8 (approved by Theresa-OctoberLace))
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 390
20.7 Call and ResponseIn response to Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
approved here; posts #41 & 43 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Shakespeare Secret by J.L.Carrell (AKA Interred with Their Bones )
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.3 - 1962 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer... , 10.4)
Task Total - 30 pts
Grand Total - 165 pts
10.9 - 2013Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
+10 task
+5 combo (10.4)
task total: 15
grand total: 340
10.6 Summer SchoolPossession by A.S. Byatt
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (555 pages)
+20 Combo (10.2 - Katrina rated it 5 stars, 10.4, 10.8 – born 8/24/1936, 20.6 - #122 on list)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 265
Post 236 Ismaa wrote: "10.2 Highly RatedThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
+ 10 Task Highly rated by Sally & Mx.Shining
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Double Trouble
+ 5 Combo 20.1 T..."
I can't find that he has dual citizenship, so we do not have him classified as non-western. If you can find documentation of dual citizenship, we will be happy to correct this.
20.4 Action AdventureMoby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
+20 pts - Task
+25 pts - Combo (10.2 - Liz M, 10.4, 10.7- 1 August, 20.6- #4 on list and I can really see why, 20.8 - shelved 17 times under nature)
+10 pts - Canon
+ 5 pts - Jumbo (625 pgs)
Task total - 60 pts
Grand Total - 225 pts
10.9 Hot off the PressWe Were Liars by E. Lockhart
+10 Task (published 2014)
YA, no Lexile yet
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 275
Can I add +5 multiple to the first book (Skin Game, post 65) I claimed for this task, since this one doesn’t have a Lexile?
Task 10.4 - Double Trouble: Read a book by an author whose surname has a double letter. Combos:
Heather (DeathByBook) rated it 5 of 5 stars
Baby Boomer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Li...
January 31, 1959
Charm City (Tess Monaghan #2) (1997) by Laura Lippman
+10 Task (#10.4 double letter)
+10 Combo (#10.2 Highly rated, #10.3 Baby Boomer)
+05 Multiple
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 125 + 25 = 150
10.8 - The 17th Century (1601-1700)Bundori (Sano Ichiro #2) by Laura Joh Rowland
Note: Set in the year 1689 (Medieval Japan)
+10 task
+5 combo (10.3 born in 1954 ~not sure if this is reliable)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 155
20.5 - Financial Fiction: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
+20 task
+5 Combo (10.2 - rated 5 stars by Mickey, Theresa~OctoberLace & Branko Jovanovski)
+5 Combo (10.7 - born July 24, 1802)
+5 Combo (10.8 - set in 1672)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 190
20.2 - JailedFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
written whilst author was in debtor's prison: wikipedia
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Lisa rated 5 stars & 20.3 - banned book)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 220
20.9 Father’s DayBomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
+20 Task (set between 1943 and 1950)
+5 Combo (10.7)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 415
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 236 Ismaa wrote: "10.2 Highly RatedThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
+ 10 Task Highly rated by Sally & Mx.Shining
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Double Tr..."
Got it Elizabeth. I added it with the assumption he is , but shall I will go with your decision and delete the points.
Thanks
Author to Author2nd-4th books = 20 points
15.3 I read The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol.
Task Points = 20 points
Total Points = 175
10.1 Instant Replay (Bailey's women prize)The Goldfinch byDonna Tartt
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.2 Highly Rated (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...)
+ 5 Combo 10.3 Baby Boomer. Author born in 1963
+5 Combo Sounds of Summer
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Double Trouble. Tartt
+ 5 Combo 10.9 Hot Off the Press. Jan 2013
+ 10 Jumbo Pages: 771
Task Total = 45
Grand total = 210
20.9 - Father's DayThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters
+20 Task (takes place during 1941-1947)
+5 Combo (10.2 - Katrina rated 5-stars)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 25
10.9 - Hot Off the PressYou Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
+10 Task (published 2014)
+5 Combo (10.3 - born 1961)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 40
20.9 - Father's DayThe Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
+20 Task (takes place post-WWII/early 1950s)
+5 Style (Multiple - completed task in post 282)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 65
15.3 - AtASuicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories by Michael Connelly
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 55
10.2 Highly-ratedCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
+10 Task: Rated 5 stars by Calli and others
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 190
10.4 Double TroubleCookie Dough or Die by Virginia Lowell
+10 Task: loweLL
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (A Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery book 5, to be published July 1, 2014)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 210
10.7 Summer CelebrationsThe Beggar's Opera by John Gay
+10 Task (June 30, 1685)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 20
20.10 Austria-HungaryThe Reluctant Heiress by Eva Ibbotson
+20 Task (set in Austria)
YA no Lexile – no style
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 295
20.6 UnfinishedThe Plague by Albert Camus
+20 Task (#128 on list)
+10 Combo (10.2 – Frankie rated in 5 stars, 20.9 – set in 194-)
+5 Multiple
+10 Canon
Task total: 45
Grand Total: 460
10.4Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.9 - book 6 due to be published 2014)
task total: 20
grand total: 360
20.9 Father's Day I read The Stranger by Albert Camus, first published in 1942, takes place contemporary with writing.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 Nanci gave it 5*'s here.)
+10 Non-Western, Camus born in Algeria (Africa)
+10 Canon
Points This Post: 45
Grand Total: 220
Task 10.5 - Sounds of Summer: 2014 Audie award category: DRAMA
Oliver Twist (1839) by Charles Dickens (Paperback, Penguin Classics, 554 pages)
Rated 5-stars by another RwS group member:
Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars
Jayme VA rated it 5 of 5 stars
Marco P. G. 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
Buddhi rated it 5 of 5 stars
Baniza rated it 5 of 5 stars
Dan's Obsessions rated it 5 of 5 stars
+10 Task (#10.5 Sounds of Summer)
+10 Combo (#10.2 Highly rated, #20.6 Unfinished #135 on June 20, 2014)
+05 Jumbo 500-699 Pages
+10 Canon
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 +10 = 35
Grand Total: 150 + 35 = 185
Post 278 Coralie wrote: "20.9 Father’s DayBomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
+20 Task (set between 1943 and 1950)
Task total: 20
Grand ..."
found his birthday as July 13, 1968
+5 combo 10.7
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
I read When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead for Summer’s 10.1. Stead’s book uses Wrinkle’s tesseracts / time travel throughout.
+20 task
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 45