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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
20.5 Financial FictionThe Coffee Trader by David Liss
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2-Rick F rated 5*, 10.4, 10.8-setting)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 340
10.2 - Highly-ratedWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
+10 task (Joanna and others gave 5 stars)
+ 5 combo (10.3 born 1964 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Se...)
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 325 points
10.9 - Hot Off the PressShades of Earth by Beth Revis low lexile
+10 Task: Jan. 15, 2013
Grand Total: 405
10.1 Instant ReplayNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
10 task
+15 (10.2 - Rachelcameron, 10.3, 20.6 )
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 180
10.2 Highly RatedMurder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
10 task
+ 5 (20.9)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 195
10.5 - Sounds of Summer: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Nominated for Biography / Memoir
+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.2 - Rebekah rated 5 stars, 10.7 - born July 12, 10.9 - pub October 2013)
+10 Non-Western (Malala born in Pakistan)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 420
15.10 - AtA: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
+30 Task
AtA Completed
+100 NEW FRIENDS
Task Total: 30
Bonus: 100
Grant Total: 550
Congratulations on your AtA finish, Tien!15.7 AtA
They Knew Mr. Knight by Dorothy Whipple
+25 task
Grand Total: 350 points
10.8 17th CenturyThe Way of the World by William Congreve
+10 Task (published 1700)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 65
Task 20.4 - Action/Adventure:-Read one of the 200 Greatest Adventure Novels of All Time.
22. 1891 Arthur Conan Doyle -- The White Company
The White Company (1891) by Arthur Conan Doyle (Hardcover, 366 pages)
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.2: Zaduzbina rated it 5 of 5 stars)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 255 + 25 = 280
10.4 - Double TroubleClockwork by Philip Pullman
Lexile 900
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3 - born October 19, 1946)
Task total=15
Grand total=315
20.9 Austria-HungaryCause for Alarm by Eric Ambler set mostly in Italy
20 task
+ 10 ( 10.7 - June 28 1909, 20.9 - 1938 )
Task Total : 30
Grand Total : 225
10.3 - Baby BoomerMinding by Chris Paling
+10 task (born 1956 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pa...)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 360 points
10.3 - Baby BoomerMontmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale
Lexile 1100
+10 task (born 1953 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_...)
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 375 points
ATA15.5 I read Finding a Form by William H. Gass.
15.5 - 15.7 = 25 points each
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 280
Ismaa wrote: "15.10 AtAHawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
+ 30 Task
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 530"
A completion bonus is due you. Were these Familiar Faces (50 points) or New Friends (100 points)?
Task 20.7 - Call and ResponseCombo:
10.9 Read an earlier book from a series that has a new installment out in 2014.
#4 of the series was published in 2014:
No Job for a Lady (Nellie Bly #4)
20.7 Call and Response:
Last season I read Love and Mr. Lewisham by H.G. Wells;
See: Love and Mr. Lewisham
This season, read The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle.
See: The White Company
Book read for this post:
The Formula for Murder (Nellie Bly #3) (2012) by Carol McCleary (Hardcover, 336 pages)
The second major character in the novel is H.G. Wells; and, Arthur Conan Doyle has an extended cameo in this novel.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.4 double letter; #10.9 new installment)
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 280 + 30 = 310
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ismaa wrote: "15.10 AtAHawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
+ 30 Task
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 530"
A completion bonus is due you. Were these Familiar Faces (50 points) ..."
Familiar Faces Elizabeth, I have read Kate Morton before.
Thanks Rosemary :)
10.9 Hot off the PressThe Girl who Saved the King of Sweden Analfabeten som kunde räkna by Jonas Jonasson Publised Sept 2013
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.3 Baby Boomer. Author born in 1961
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Double Trouble, Jonasson
+ 5 Combo 10.7 Summer Celebration. Author born in July
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 555
AtA Completion BonusFriendly Faces
+ 50 points
Grand Total = 605
10.7 - Summer CelebrationsRules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Lexile 850
+10 Task (born July 12, 1951)
+ 5 Combo (10.3)
Task total=15
Grand total=330
(edited to remove Multiple styles)
10.9 Hot off the PressThe Target by David Baldacci
Task +10
combo +15 (10.3, 10.4, 10.7)
Task Total + 25
Grand total = 265
20.10 Austria-HungaryAlong The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story
by William Blacker
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.3 Baby Boomer. Author born 1961
+ 5 Combo 10.7 Summer Celebration. July
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 635
20.8 - Great OutdoorsThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lexile 970
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 Anika and others gave 5 stars, 10.4 burneTT)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 435 points
10.4 Double TroubleThe Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, 920 lexile
+10 Task: cOOper
+ 5 Combo: 10.2 Highly-rated (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 425
20.9 - Father's DayAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
+20 Task: takes place primarily 1934-1944
+10 Combo: 10.4 Double Trouble (doeRR) / 10.9 - Hot Off the Press (May 1, 2014)
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Jumbo (544 pages)
Task total: 40
Grand Total: 465
I rated this on 5 stars!
10.2 - Highly Rated:The Forever War. - Dexter Filkins
(Rated 5 stars by Bell)
+10 task
+5 combo (10.3 - born ~1961)
Post total:
Grand total: 15
10.3 - Baby Boomer:Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
+10 task
+5 combo (10.2 - Rated 5 stars by Erin (NY))
Post total: 15
Grand total: 30
10.4 - Double TroubleFraud: Essays - David Rakoff
+10 task
+5 combo (10.3 - born in 1964)
Post total: 15
Grand total: 45
10.7 - Summer Celebrations:The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta
+10 task
+15 combo (10.2 - Rated 5 stars by Heather (DeathByBook); 10.03 - born in 1961; 10.4 - double letters)
Post total: 25
Grand total: 70
20.6 - Unfinished:Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
(pg. 389/850 before challenge)
+20 task
+15 jumbo
+15 combo (10.2 - Rated 5 stars by Lisa; 10.3 - born in 1952; 10.9 - Written in My Own Heart's Blood published in 2014)
Post total: 50
Grand total: 135
10.7 - Summer CelebrationsEroma by Piers Anthony
+10 task (born August 6th)
+5 combo (published 2014)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 75
20.9 - Father's DayStoner by John Edward Williams
+20 Task (story runs from 1910 when main character enters college, to 1955 - 8% of the story - 33 pages -happens in 1955)
+20 Combo (10.2 - Dan and others; 10.4 - Williams; 10.6 - #8 on Novels About Professors list; 10.7 - born August 29, 1922)
Task total=40
Grand total=370
An edit to post 459:Zone One by Colson Whitehead is actually 15.3 rather than 15.2
I seem to have missed five points somewhere in my total, so it looks like the Grand total is 200.
20.6 - UnfinishedThe Odyssey by Homer
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 5-stars by Heather(DeathbyBook), Lisa, Bill, Etc)
+10 Canon
+5 Jumbo
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 110 points
Post 457 Sam wrote: "15.1 - AtA: Gillian FlynnSharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
+15 task
Post total: 15
Grand total: 85"
I'm so sorry, Sam. BPL has this catalogued as YA Fiction and there is no lexile. It is not eligible for AtA. Could you read another book by this author in its place? This does qualify for 10.4 Double Trouble.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Lexile: 1030
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 Paula and others rated 5*, 20.5)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 285