SP 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2015 Showing 551-600 of 1,046

[Cory Day]

20.2 Series

The Year We Hid Away by Sarina Bowen

+20 Task (The Ivy Years approved in help thread)
+5 Combo (10.8 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20...)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 525

[Cory Day]

20.2 Series

The Understatement of the Year by Sarina Bowen

+20 Task (The Ivy Years approved in help thread)
+5 Combo (10.8 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20...)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 550

[Cory Day]

15.3 - Africa

This Earth, My Brother by Kofi Awoonor

+15 Task (A: born in Ghana, B: Ghanaian)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1972)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 570

[Cory Day]

10.8 Podcasts

Static by L.A. Witt

+10 Task (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20...)

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 580

[Cory Day]

10.4 Scrabble

Against the Dark by Carolyn Crane

+10 Task (against)

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 590

[Cory Day]

10.4 Scrabble

Love Lessons by Heidi Cullinan

+10 Task (lessons)
+5 Combo (10.8 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/po...)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 605

[Cory Day]

15.4 – South America

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

+15 Task (A: born in Brazil, B: Brazilian)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1972)
+5 Non-fiction

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 630

[Kate S]

itpdx wrote: "15.7 South America-Chile
The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta

+15 Task
Grand Total: 305"

+5 Published before 1990

[Kate S]

Jenifer wrote: "Task 10.1 Rants and Raves

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

*reviewed by Joanna during the Winter 14/15 challenge/post #817

+10 Task
+5 Combo w/ 10.9 (Average ratin..."

+15 Prizeworthy (ALA Alex, Macavity, Agatha)

[Kate S]

Cory Day wrote: "10.8 Podcasts

Static by L.A. Witt

+10 Task (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20...)

Task ..."

+5 Prizeworthy Elise Rolle

[Kate S]

Sam wrote: "20.9 - Nameless

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

+20 task
+10 jumbo
+10 prize worthy (Quill Award, Hopwood Award)
+5 combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/...-..."

Sorry, the Quill Award does not meet the criteria for Prize Worthy

[Kate S]

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.6 - Women's Ed:
Read a book written by a woman who has earned a doctorate (not an honorary degree).

Mary Beard: Beard received an MA at Newnham and remained in Cambridge fo..."

+5 Combo 10.4-POMPEII

[Kate S]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.8 Podcast Reading
Heart-Shaped Boxby Joe Hill
The link can be found here from Book Riot dated 10/21/2014 http://bookriot.com/2014/10/21/175-fa...

..."

+5 Combo 10.9

[Kate S]

Claire wrote: "20.6 Crime
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

+20 task
+10 combo (10.1 - reviewed in post #506 during winter challenge; 10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/..."

+5 Combo 10.9

[Kate S]

From Post 529

Amanda wrote: "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..."

+5 Combo 10.4-Scrabble

[Karen Michele]

10.2 – Women's Lit:

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.9 – Tried and True: Average rating: 4.16 · 109,542 ratings
+10 Prize-Worthy: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction (2004), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Overall (2005)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 890

[Coralie]

15.9 Caribbean

Pao: A Novel by Kerry Young

+15 task (Jamaica)

Task total: 15
Grand Total: 950

[Anika]

10.8 Podcast reading

You by Caroline Kepnes

+10 Task ( Books on the Night Shelf episode 309)

Task Total = 10

Grand Total = 130

[Ed]

15.9-Reading globally: Middle East- Israel A, B & C

How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz

+15 task
+5 non-fiction

total= 20
grand total= 415

[Jama]

20.6 Crime
The Bat by Jo Nesbø

20 pt. task
+10 combo (10.1, 10.9)
+10 prizes (Riverton Prize, Glass Key Award)


task total: 40
Grand total: 270

[Deedee]

Task 10.8 – Podcast

From Podcast Bookrageous Episode 76:

Get in Trouble (2015) by Kelly Link (Hardcover, 336 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 “Trouble”)
+10 Not-a-novel: Short Stories

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 10 = 25

Grand Total: 420 + 25 = 445

[Kazen]

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.8 – Podcast

From Podcast Bookrageous Episode 76:

Get in Trouble (2015) by Kelly Link (Hardcover, 336 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 “Trouble”)
+10 Not-a-..."

+5 combo (10.2 - Girl Canon list)

Sorry if non-mods aren't supposed to point out combos, but I'm so excited I spotted one! :)

[Deedee]

Kazen wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Task 10.8 – Podcast

From Podcast Bookrageous Episode 76:

Get in Trouble (2015) by Kelly Link (Hardcover, 336 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.4 “Trouble”)
+10 Not-a-..."

+5 combo (10.2 - Girl Canon list)

Sorry if non-mods aren't supposed to point out combos, but I'm so excited I spotted one! :)..."

Wow, thanks!! I completely missed that combo! :0)

[Krista]

10.1 Rants and Raves

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Review posted by Amanda 2014/2015 Winter Challenge Msg #745

+10 Task
+10 Combo 10.4 'Station', 10.8 Podcast http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/...
Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 370

[Krista]

10.2 Women's Lit
(Girl Canon list)

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

+10 Task
+20 Combo 10.3 - Liz Read, 10.6 Law Degree from the Sorbonne (Encyclopedia Britannica link: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...) 20.9 - Nameless, 20.10 Female Canon Author)
+15 Prize-Worthy - Prix Goncourt (1984), Prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway (1986), Scott Moncrieff Prize (1986)
+10 Canon
Task Total = 55

Grand Total = 425

[Krista]

20.9 Nameless
Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.4 'Nowhere'
+10 Not a Novel (Short Stories)
Task Total = 35

Grand Total = 460

[Krista]

20.10 Canonical
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

+20 Task
+35 Combo (10.2, 10.3 Sam, 10.9, 20.1, 20.4, 20.5, 20.7)
+ 5 Jumbo
+10 Canon
Task Total = 70

Grand Total = 530

[Karen Michele]

20.8 - Spring Break! - Ed’s Task:

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman

+20 Task: BPL 910.41
+10 Not a Novel (nonfiction)

Task Total: 30
RwS Finish: 100

Grand Total: 1020

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

15.1 Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance by Garrison Keillor

The author lives and is a citizen of the US.

Task +15
Grand Total: 240

[Ed]

20.9 Nameless Narrator

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

task +20
combo +20 (10.3- read by Sam 4/14/13; 10.8- Book Riot 50 9/24/12 http://bookriot.com/2012/09/24/the-bo... ; 20.7; 20.10)
+10 canon

total= 50
grand total= 465

[Deedee]

Task 10.4 – Scrabble!

ORPHEUS

The Last Song of Orpheus (2010) by Robert Silverberg

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 450 + 10 = 460

[Deedee]

Task 15.03 Reading Globally

EUROPEAN UNION
United Kingdom

Fits A, B, and C.

The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit (2013) by Graham Joyce

+15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 460 + 15 = 475

[Liz M]

20.7 - Penguin

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

+20 task
+25 combo (10.1 Cory Day post 739, 10.3 Sam, 10.9, 20.4, 20.10)
+5 jumbo (507 pp)
+10 canon

Task Total 60
Grand Total: 310

[Liz M]

20.10 - Canonical

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

+20 task
+10 not-a-novel (extended essay)
+15 combo (10.1 - Ed's post 581, 10.2, 20.7)

Task total: 45
Grand Total: 355

[Liz M]

15.7 - Africa

Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden

+15 task
+5 pre-1990 (pub. 1986)

Task total: 20
Grand Total: 375

[Cory Day]

I’d like to shift Against the Dark from message 586 to 20.2 (approved in the help thread):

20.2 Series

Against the Dark by Carolyn Crane

+20 Task (Associates Series)
+5 Combo (10.4 - against)

Revised Task Total: 25
Revised Grand Total: 650

[Cory Day]

I’d like to shift Love Lessons from message 587 to 20.2 (approved in the help thread):

20.2 Series

Love Lessons by Heidi Cullinan

+20 Task (Love Lessons Series)
+10 Combo (10.4 – lessons, 10.8 - http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/po...)

Revised Task Total: 30
Revised Grand Total: 665

[Cory Day]

10.8 Podcasts

Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan

+10 Task (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20...)
+5 Combo (archers)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 680

[Kätlin]

Reading globally:
15.5 - Asia Eastern

The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian (A, B and C in China)

+15 task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 135

[Ed]

10.5 Nebula

The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany - won Nebula in 1968

I should get extra points because this is the worst book I have ever read! and it won an award!!! incredible.

Task +10
Combo +5 (20.4)
prize-worthy +5 (Nebula 1968)

total= 20
grand total= 485

[Claire]

thanks Kate!

Kate S wrote: "Claire wrote: "20.6 Crime
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

+20 task
+10 combo (10.1 - reviewed in post #506 during winter challenge; 10.8 - http://booksonthe..."

[Claire]

10.4 - Scrabble

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

+10 task
+10 combo (10.1 - Rants and Raves, reviewed by Amanda in 2014/15 Winter Challenge Msg #745; 10.8 - Podcast: http://booksonthenightstand.com/2015/...)

task total: 20
grand total: 295

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Post 607 Krista wrote: "10.2 Women's Lit
(Girl Canon list)

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

+10 Task
+20 Combo 10.3 - Liz Read, 10.6 Law Degree from the Sorbonne (Encyclopedia Britannica link: htt..."

The Scott Moncrieff Prize is an award for translation, so doesn't apply. The other two claimed awards are good.

[Coralie]

20.7 Penguin

Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.1, 10.4-Lescaut, 20.3, 20.4)

Task total: 40
Grand Total: 990

[Kate S]

Kazen wrote: Sorry if non-mods aren't supposed to point out combos, but I'm so excited I spotted one! :) "

No worries, Kazen. All members should feel free to point out extra combos. One of my favorite things about this group is how helpful we are. :)

[Kate S]

From Post 597

Christine wrote: "10.8 Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman. http://bookriot.com/2015/02/09/book-r...

+10 task
+10 co..."

+5 Combo 10.1 Reviewed in Winter

[Kate S]

Krista wrote: "10.2 Women's Lit
(Girl Canon list)

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

+10 Task
+20 Combo 10.3 - Liz Read, 10.6 Law Degree from the Sorbonne (Encyclopedia Britannica link: htt..."

+10 Combo 20.4-Guardian, 10.1-Winter

[Kate S]

Krista wrote: "20.9 Nameless
Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo 10.4 'Nowhere'
+10 Not a Novel (Short Stories)
Task Total = 35

Grand Total = 460"

This book is so new, it has not been shelved at the BPL yet, and WorldCat does not have enough information. It looks like it is a novella told in vignettes similar to Invisible Cities as opposed to a collection of short stories. For now, we are not including Not-a-Novel points for this one, sorry.

[Kate S]

Karen Michele wrote: "20.8 - Spring Break! - Ed’s Task:

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman

+20 Task: BPL 910.41
+10 ..."

+5 Combo 10.1-Winter

Congratulations on you RwS Finish!!!

[Kate S]

Cory Day wrote: "I’d like to shift Against the Dark from message 586 to 20.2 (approved in the help thread):

20.2 Series

Against the Dark by Carolyn Crane

+20 Task..."

Got it. Thank you for including the original post number, much appreciated.