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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
From Post 304Deedee wrote: "Task 10.5 - Sounds of Summer:
2014 Audie award category: DRAMA
Oliver Twist (1839) by Charles Dickens (Paperback, Penguin Classics, 55..."
+5 Combo 20.4-Adventure
From Post 321Debra wrote: "10.4 Double Trouble
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
+10 task
+ 20 combo (10.2 – Piyush and several others rated it 5 stars (5); 20.3 – banned on the grounds that rac..."
+5 Combo 20.6-Unfinished #160 on the list
From Post 331Joanna wrote: "20.9 Father's Day
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
+20 Task
Task total: 20
Grand total: 270"
+5 Combo 10.9-published 2013
15.5 – AtA:The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley (Allyson James, Ashley Gardner)
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 370
From Post 345Coralie wrote: "20.10 Austria-Hungary
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
+20 Task (set in Ukraine)
+15 Combo (10.2 – Lisa gave it 5 stars, 10.3 – born 1977, 20.6 - #129..."
Sorry, Coralie, 1977 does not qualify as a baby boomer (1946-1964)
Shannon wrote: "10.2 Highly RatedA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Rated 5* by Teresa
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 published in 2013)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 55"
+5 Combo 10.3-author born 1956 according to Wikipedia
Task 10.9 - Hot Off the Press Catch up on recent releases by reading a book published in 2013 or 2014
For Combo points:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?82
Birthdate: 27 March 1962
The Dragon Business (2013) by Kevin J. Anderson
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.3 Baby Boomer)
+05 Multilpe
Task Total: 10 + 05 + 05 = 20
Grand Total: 205 + 20 = 225
10.4 Double TroubleThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Lexile 850
+10 Task (double e)
+10 Combo (10.2 – Tien gave it 5 stars, 10.7 – birthday August 24)
+5 Multiple
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 590
20.7 - Call and Response - Jama's Task: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
I read Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope for AtA
+20 Task
+10 combo (10.2 - Sam & several others rated 5 stars & 20.6 - #73 on list)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 325
Revision to post 3210.2 Highly Rated
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
+10 Task (rated 5 stars by Karen Michele)
+10 Canon
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.3)
Task Total:
Grand Total:
Thanks for clarifying about Nabokov!
10.8 - The 17th Century (1601-1700) - I read Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt, which, as the blurb says, deals with historical events of 1612.
Task Points = 10
Combo = 5 (10.4 Sharratt)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 230
20.9 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
+20 task
+5 combo (10.7 - August)
+5 multiple
task total: 30
grand total: 420
20.9 Father's DayWoodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr.
+20 Task (1904 falls about page 85, which is less than 25% of the 736 page book; the book ends with Wilson's death in 1924)
+5 Combo 10.4
+10 Jumbo (736 pgs.)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 70
10.9 - Hot Off the PressWe Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
+10 Task: June, 2014
+ 5 Combo: 10.3 Baby Boomers (1961): this PDF puts her age at 53: http://lauramcbrideauthor.com/wp-cont...
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 395
I rated this one 5 stars - great debut, contemporary fiction.
Task 10.4 - Double Trouble:Combos:
10.2 Highly-rated: Among others:
Jayme(the ghost reader) rated it 5 of 5 stars
10.9 - Hot Off the Press
Read an earlier book from a series that has a new installment out in 2014. For this option, please also post a link to the series book published/to be published in 2014.
Night Broken(Mercy Thompson #8)
Published March 11th 2014 by Ace Hardcover
Book Read:
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson #1) (2006) by Patricia Briggs (Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages)
+10 Task (#10.4 Double Trouble)
+10 Combos (#10.2 highly rated, #10.9 series installment pub. 2014)
+05 Multiple
Task Total: 10 + 10 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 230 + 25 = 255
10.7 Summer CelebrationsHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Lexile 1030
+10 Task (birthday July 31)
+5 Combo (10.2 – Hrishita gave it 5 stars)
+5 Multiple
+5 Jumbo (652 pages)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 615
10.2 - Highly-ratedFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Lexile 990
Rated 5 stars by Anika and others
+10 task
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 265 points
10.4 - Double TroubleAll Clear by Connie Willis
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Katie, Denise ; 20.9 - mainly takes place between 1941 – 1944 except for short passages in 1995 and 2060)
+5 Jumbo (643 pages)
Task total = 25
Grand Total: 115
10.4A Cast-Off Coven by Juliet Blackwell
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.9 - book 6 due out 2014)
task total: 20
grand total: 440
10.9 Hot off the press The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
+ 5 multiple, I completed this task already in post 181
+ 10 combo, 10.2 Melissa gave the book 5 stars,https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
10.3 birthday is 1960https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Total points this post: 25
Grand total:105
10.4Hexes and Hemlines by Juliet Blackwell
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.9 - book 6 due out 2014)
task total: 20
grand total: 460
10.9 - Hot off the PressLife After Life by Kate Atkinson
+10 task (pub. 2013)
+15 combo (10.2 Rated 5 stars by Katy and others, 10.3 born 1951, 20.9 set almost entirely between 1910 and 1947; a very small section, less than 5%, is set in the 1960s)
+ 5 jumbo (544 pages)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 295 points
10.3 Baby BoomerOctober Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman
+10 Task (b. 1955)
No style because no lexile score.
Task total: 10
Grand total: 310
10.7 Summer CelebrationsThe Innocent by David Baldacci
Task + 10
Combo: +5 10.2 (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...)
Combo: +5 10.3 (1960)
Combo +5 10.4 (Baldacci)
Combo +5 10.9 (The Target = third in the series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...)
Task Total =30
Grand Total = 240
Author to Author2nd-4th books = 20 points
15.4 I read Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag.
Task Points = 20 points
Total Points = 250
10.7 - Summer CelebrationsThe Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
+10 Task (Born July 1903)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 55
10.7 - Summer CelebrationsUncommon: An Essay on Pulp by Owen Hatherley
+10 Task (Born July 24, 1981)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 70
20.7 call and responseThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
I read Pym, a response to poe's original work for an AtA task.
20 pt task
+ 10 combo ( jailed for drunkenness 20.2, 20.4)
+10 canon
Task total - 40
Grand total 175
10.9 - Hot Off the PressThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
+10 Task (2013)
+ 5 Combo (10.2 - Ellen Marcolongo and others)
+ 5 Multiple
Task total=20
Grand total=300
10.9 Hot Off the PressInvisibility by Andrea Cremer
No Lexile
+10 Task (published 2013)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 655
From Post 377Nick wrote: "10.8 - The 17th Century (1601-1700) -
I read Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt, which, as the blurb says, deals with historical events of 1612.
Task P..."
According to her library entry at the BPL, Sharratt was born in 1964, +5 Combo 10.3-baby boomer
From Post 394Katrina wrote: "10.9 Hot off the press
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
+ 5 multiple, I completed this task already in post 181
+ 10 combo, 10.2 Melissa gave the book..."
+5 Combo 10.5-finalist in Fiction category
10.10 Group ReadThe Garden of Evening Mists by Twan Eng Tan
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.2-Karen Michele and others rated this 5*
+10 Non-western
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 195
20.1 TeaVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
+20 Task (author born in India)
+15 Combo (10.2-Lisa rated it 5*,20.5, 20.6)
+15 Jumbo (867 pages)
+10 Canon
Post Total: 60
Season Total: 255
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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
+20 Task: #296 on the given list
+15 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated by Ann https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_... 10.3 Baby Boomers (1947) 10.7 - Summer Celebrations (June 28, 1947)
+10 Jumbo (768 pages)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 375