Winter 14/15 RwS Completed Tasks - Winter 14/15

[Tobey]

I had one more book to add but had day surgery yesterday so won't get around to posting it. I wanted to thank all the mods for all their hard work and am looking forward to the Spring Challenge! I'll be laid up so hope to get lots of reading in!

Tobey

[Rebekah]

20.9 Respect Elders
Sorrow by Claribel Alegría Born 1924)

+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.5, 10.6 - Spanish)
+10 pts - Non Western (Nicaragua)

Task total - 40 pts
Grand Total - 490 pts

[Rebekah]

10.8 Two for one
The Modern Griselda (79 p) & Castle Rackrent (87 p ) both by Maria Edgeworth

+10 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.4 - Ireland, 20.7- MG 1804 & CR 1800, 20.8 - born in England but immigrated to Ireland as a child, 20.9 - b.1768 d 1849) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ed...
+15 pts - Oldies

Task Total - 45 pts
Grand Total- 535 pts

[Rebekah]

20.8 Exiles & Immigrants
David Golder by Irène Némirovsky
Ukraine - France

+20 pts- task
+10 pts - Combo (20.1, 20.2)
+10 pts- - Oldies (pub 1929)
+10 pts- Non-Western

Task total:-50
Grand Total - 585 pts

That's it I guess. I started reading War and Peace and was excited about the big points but since I haven't gotten past the first quarter of it, I don't think I'll get it finished today! (smile)
Great tasks. I just wish I could have finished them all. I had some great ones on my worksheet that I hope I can fit in later. Thanks, ladies!

[Claire]

20.4 - 1001

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

+20 task
+10 combo (20.9 - Respect Elders, 10.2 - Nutcracker)
+10 non-western
+5 oldies

task total: 45
grand total: 710

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

20.6 Jewish
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
Review: The concept of this book got me through some rough, for me, passages early in de Waal's story. He traces the story of his family through a collection of Japanese netsuke, small carvings. My art history education is not quite up to the author's assumptions. For instance, the seccesionist school of artists was unknown to me.
De Waal's ancestors were wealthy Jews, the Ephrussi, who's fortune was founded in Odessa grain trading. The family spread to banking in Paris and Vienna. De Waal has deftly picked up details from his family history that give me a real feeling for what life was like for wealthy assimilated Jews in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Christian lady's maid, Anna, who stayed in the Ephrussi Vienna Palais through WWII will haunt me as it seems to have haunted de Waal. Well worth reading.
+20 task listed 16 times as Jewish
+10 review
Task total 30
Grand Total: 285

[Cory Day]

15.9 (round 2) N-L

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

+30 Task

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1970

[Norma]

A to Z

15.7 - R to G

Ruddy Gore by Kerry Greenwood

+20

Task total: 20
Grand total: 195

[Kate S]

20.10 GoodReads Feature

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

+20 Task

Season Total: 120

[Norma]

A to Z

15.8 - S to F

Sins and Needles by Monica Ferris

+20 task

Task total: 20
Grand total: 215

[Norma]

A to Z

15.9 - T to D

The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver

+30 task

Task total: 30
Grand total: 245

[Norma]

A to Z

15.10m - W to B

The Winner by David Baldacci

+30 task
+100 bonus

Task total: 130
Grand total: 375

[Cory Day]

15.10 (round 2) O-K

One Con Glory by Sarah Kuhn

+30 Task

Task Total: 30
Completion Bonus: 100
Grand Total: 2100

[Cory Day]

10.8 Two for One

Ghosts by Paul Auster (97 pg)
and
Dirty Cop by Kyle Adams (4,590 words=15 pages)

Review: I snuck Ghosts in under the wire, since I don’t expect next season to include a spot for a book under 100 pages. I’m not won over by Paul Auster – he’s certainly clever, but I’m not finding his stories either particularly deep or particularly entertaining. I expect others feel differently, or these wouldn’t be basically classics. I think my biggest disappointment is that I don’t “feel” New York in these all that much. This one was, again, a story of someone basically waiting and watching another person, with little language and literature tricks interspersed. Of course, I also read the last 2/3 of it really quickly so I could get this in before bed, so maybe I didn’t give it its due.

Dirty Cop is a short (very short) free story that basically just contains sex. It’s fine and kind of cute, but since I like a heavy dose of romance with my erotic content, it wasn’t a winner for me.

+10 Task
+10 Review

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 2120

And that’s it for me – great challenge, everyone!

[Karen Michele]

Thanks for the great challenge, mods and participants! It's so much fun to be part of such a great group of readers. I'm close, but not quite finished with Kokoro, so my posting is done for the winter season.

[Tuyen]

20.4 - 1001

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

+ 20 task
+ 5 combo (20.9)
+ 5 oldies (1984)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 545

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Great challenge everyone! On to Spring!

[Kate S]

Last Minute Corrections

Rosemary, post 132, +5 Combo 20.8

Valerie, post 828, +10 Combo 20.1 and 20.4

Karen Michele, post 891, +5 Combo 20.1

Karen Michele, post 892, +5 Combo 10.4

Sam, post 901, +5 Combo 20.1

Tuyen, post 930, +10 Combo 10.3 and 10.5