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SP 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2015
20.5 - Germinal Red Rising by Pierce Brown
+20 Task: main character starts out working in the mines of Mars and then fights to help this group of miners, the Reds. If the Mars setting doesn't work, just let me know.
+ 5 Combo: 10.8 – Podcast Reading (Books on the Nightstand #303: http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 710
20.5 - Germinal Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
+20 Task: takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, a town built around silver mining. The mining magnates fund politicians and appear in the story demanding "their way" with those politicians. If this isn't enough about mining, just let me know.
+20 Combo: 10.4 – Scrabble! / 10.6 Women's Ed (She holds a Ph.D. in Paleoanthropology from the University of Michigan) / 10.8 – Podcast Reading: Books on the Nightstand #318: http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/... / 10.9 – Tried and True (Average rating: 4.02 · 110,706 ratings)
+ 5 Jumbo (592)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 755
10.4 ScrabbleLyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written by Doris Kearns Goodwin
+10 Task
+5 combo 10.6 Bio from web page
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 265
15.7 Reading Globally - Europe/IcelandJar City by Arnaldur Indriðason (Qualifies for A, B and C)
+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 315
Christine wrote: "The reader board has me at a total of +310. I think I only have 300 points."Looking through your posts, it appears you may have missed this note.
15.1 Reading GloballyEurope: Albania
The Successor by Ismail Kadare
+15 Task (criteria A&C)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 40
15.2 Reading GloballyS. America: Brazil
Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
+15 Task (criteria A,B,&C)
+5 Before 1990 (1969)
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 60
20.6 CrimeA Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases by Ann Rule
+20 Task (crime on main page, 137 times shelved as crime)
+5 Combo (10.9-4.01 avg over 100,000 ratings)
+10 not-a-novel
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 95
20.2 SeriesThe Secret Place by Tana French
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.1, and 20.6-crime on main page)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 125
10.4 ScrabbleThe Great Bazaar and Brayan's Gold by Peter V. Brett
+10 Task (Brayan's)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 745
10.9 Tried and TrueBlack Orchid by Neil Gaiman
Graphic Novel
+10 Task (rating 4.13)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 755
10.10 - Group readsAll the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
+10 Task
+15 Combo: 10.3 - Kate S Jan '15 / 10.4 – Scrabble! (singing) / 10.8 Podcast Reading: Dear Book Nerd #24 http://bookriot.com/2014/12/09/dear-b...
+15 Prizeworthy ( European Union Prize for literature 2014; Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2014; Jerwood Fiction Prize )
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 795
10.1 - Rants and Raves:The Martian by Andy Weir
+10 Task: Krista, Winter 2014, 516
+10 Combo: 10.4 – Scrabble! / 10.8 – Podcast Reading ( Books on the Nightstand #321: http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/...)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 815
10.5 NebulaDune by Frank Herbert
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 BOTNS#128 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/..., 10.9)
+15 Prize worthy (Nebula, Hugo, Seiun)
+5 Jumbo (604 pgs)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 335
10.4 Scrabble!Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
+10 task (hanging)
+10 not a novel (memoir)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 295
Post 479 Karen Michele wrote: "20.8 - Spring Break! - Ed’s Task:A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
+20 Task: travel on main page, 733 users
+ 5 Combo: 10.1 Rants and Raves (Toby, Fall 2014, 739)
+ ..."
Karen, this is classifed as 944.9 at BPL, so does not qualify for 20.8 (must be 910-919).
Katy wrote: "10.4 Scrabble!Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
+10 task (hanging)
+10 not a novel (memoir)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 295"
+5 Combo (10.8 - http://bookriot.com/2014/04/28/book-r...)
Cory Day wrote: "Katy wrote: "10.4 Scrabble!Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
+10 task (hanging)
+10 not a novel (memoir)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 295"
+5..."
Thanks Cory!
20.2 SeriesFroi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta
Lexile 770
+20 Task (#2 Lumatere chronicles)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 775
10.7 WeirdThe Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
+10 Task (shelved 6 times)
+5 Combo (10.8 episode 2)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 790
10.8 podcastsNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
http://bookriot.com/2013/10/08/116-fa...
task +10
combo +10 (10.3 Sam read 11/10/13; 10.4 stories)
not a novel +10
canon +10
total = 40
grand total = 365
From Post 494Karen Michele wrote: "10.1 - Rants and Raves:
The Martian by Andy Weir
+10 Task: Krista, Winter 2014, 516
+10 Combo: 10.4 – Scrabble! / 10.8 – Podcast Reading ( Books on the Nightstand..."
+5 Prizeworthy-ALA Alex Award Winner
From Post 482itpdx wrote: "10.4 Scrabble
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written by Doris Kearns Goodwin
+10 Task
+5 co..."
+10 Not a Novel
From Post 495Joanna wrote: "10.5 Nebula
Dune by Frank Herbert
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 BOTNS#128 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/......"
Sorry, Joanna, the Seiun appears to be crowd sourced and does not qualify for prize worthy
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 479 Karen Michele wrote: "20.8 - Spring Break! - Ed’s Task:A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
+20 Task: travel on main page, 733 users
+ 5 Combo: 10.1 Rants and ..."
Karen, I have recorded this as 10.1 for now.
Kate S wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 479 Karen Michele wrote: "20.8 - Spring Break! - Ed’s Task:A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
+20 Task: travel on main page, 733 users
..."
Yes, that would be fine to move it to 10.1.
I have my score as 805 then with -15 for A year in Provence and +5 for The Martian. Is that what you have? Thanks to both Elizabeth and Kate. I don't know what I was thinking on the "travel on the main page" - must have been thinking SRC or something;). I think when I decided to read it, I looked at the best travel writer's page, saw Peter Mayle's name at the top (but it turns out he was a judge and not on the list of authors) and then didn't double check carefully. Not that you need all of those details, but it makes me feel better when I do something weird like that ;)
Karen Michele wrote: "I think when I decided to read it, I looked at the best travel writer's page, saw Peter Mayle's name at the top (but it turns out he was a judge and not on the list of authors) and then didn't double check carefully. Not that you need all of those details, but it makes me feel better when I do something weird like that ;)"I love this - thanks for sharing. (I thought maybe you were thinking it was like the Crime task.)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "I think when I decided to read it, I looked at the best travel writer's page, saw Peter Mayle's name at the top (but it turns out he was a judge and not on the list of authors..."That's possible, too! :)
From Post 495Joanna wrote: "10.5 Nebula
Dune by Frank Herbert
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 BOTNS#128 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2011/......"
+5 Combo 20.4-Guardian
Task 20.1 Zola Read a book originally published during his lifetime: 1840-1902.
A Woman's Life (1883) by Guy de Maupassant
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.3 Elizabeth (Alaska)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 345 + 25 = 370
10.8 - PodcastLetters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
+10 task (DBSA podcast #123)
+5 combo (10.4 - letters)
Task total: 15 points
Grand total: 170 points
10.9 – Tried & TrueThe Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Average rating: 3.96
255,095 ratings
+ 10 Task
+ 15 Combo (10.1 - RwS Completed Tasks - Fall 2014 - message 358 ; 10.3 - Sam ; 10.8 - http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereade...)
+ 5 Jumbo (640 pages)
Task total = 30
Points total = 30
Reading Globally15.4 South America: Argentina
The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
+15 Task
+ 5 Pre 1990 (1948)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 825
10.7 WeirdAnnihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
10 pt. task
+20 combo (20.2, 10.5, 20.9, 10.8 - http://bookrageous.podbean.com/e/book...)
Task total: 30
Grand total 230
Task 10.10 Group ReadsAll the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.4 – Scrabble! (Singing) / 10.8 Podcast Reading: Dear Book Nerd #24 http://bookriot.com/2014/12/09/dear-b... (I've already used Kate as Mod for 10.3 Combo points)
+15 Prize Worthy (European Union Prize for literature 2014; Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2014; Jerwood Fiction Prize)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 350
20.3 ParisThe Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 820
10.7 WeirdGood Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
+10 task
+ 10 combo ( 10.4 "Accurate" - full title is "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch "; 10.9 - rating 4.26 with 230,563 ratings)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 285
10.8 PodcastThe Sculptor by Scott McCloud
+10 Task (books on the nightstand)
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 100
10.4 - ScrabbleA Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
+10 task (Friends)
+10 not-a-novel
Task total: 20
RwS total: 220
Reading Globally total: 40
Grand Total: 260
Reading Globally15.5 Europe: Turkey
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
+15 Task
= 5 Pre 1990: 1983
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 845
Task 20.5 - GerminalThis novel was on the list of BPL List Strikes and Lockouts -- Fiction< a>.
In Dubious Battle (1936) by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 355 pages)
This is a YA Assignment at BPL, with no Lexile. Task, but no styles.
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 370 + 20 = 390
10.4 ScrabbleWill Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan - "Grayson"
+ 10 task
+ 15 combo (10.9 - 3.93 rating, 156,100 ratings; +10 prizeworthy Milwaukee County Teen Book Award (2011),Children's Choice Book Award for Teen Choice Book of the Year (2011) )
Task Total : 25
Grand Total : 310
10.5 NebulaAmong Others by Jo Walton
+10 Task (2011)
+5 Combo (10.8 Galactic Suburbia: Episode 40)
+15 Prize-Worthy (Hugo, Nebula, British Fantasy)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 850
Amanda wrote (Post 454): "10.3 Borrow from the ModsAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green
(borrowed from Kate S, read April 2012)
+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.9)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total : 265"
Please take 5pts of my total as the above is not eligible for combo points, the rating is actually only 3.72, not 3.90
Grand Total : 310-5 = 305
Amanda wrote (Post 520): "10.7 WeirdGood Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
+10 task
+ 10 combo ( 10.4 "Accurate" - full title is "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prop..."
Please add +5 combo - 10.1, Winter post 141.
Grand Total : 310
Totally missed this one earlier, but confirming all my reading spreadsheets and found :10.1 Rants and Raves
Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming - Winter, post 606
So good I quickly borrowed the audiobook for my husband, which he thoroughly enjoyed also.
+10 task
+10, Not A Novel
Task Total : 20
Grand Total: 330
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A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
+20 Task: travel on main page, 733 users
+ 5 Combo: 10.1 Rants and Raves (Toby, Fall 2014, 739)
+ 5 Prize-Worthy: Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (1995)
+10 Not a Novel (non fiction)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 685