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SP 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2015
10.7 – WeirdAuthority by Jeff VanderMeer
Shelved weird 34 times
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.8 ; 20.2)
Task total = 20
Points total = 205
20.10 CanonicalThe Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
task +20
combo +5 (10.4- Christa)
+100 imaginary points for slogging through this unenjoyable book.
total = 25
grand total = 980
Task 20.3 – ParisBook is set in Paris (100%).
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (2014) by Ronald C. Rosbottom (Hardcover, 480 pages)
+20 Task
+10 Non-fiction
Task Total: 20 + 10 = 30
Grand Total: 625 + 30 = 655
Kate S wrote: "From Post 788Heather wrote: "10.3 - Kate S
The Peripheral by William Gibson
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 605"
Sorry, Heather, I did read this, but not be..."
Feh. No biggie, though. It only took me like a day and a half to read. I'll find something else.
Kate S wrote: "From Post 794Krista wrote: " 10.6 Women's Ed
Prince of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman
(JD degree from Rutgers)
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 585"
+5 Combo..."
Thanks for catching that! I'll gladly adjust my score up by an additional 5 points. :-)
I have my new total as 665.
Marie wrote: "20.9 - Nameless Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - Krista ; 10.8)
Task total = 30
Points total = 150"
Hi Marie:
I've marked this book as 'To-Read', but I haven't actually read it yet, so I can't be used for 10.3 Combo points.
Thanks! -Krista
20.6 CrimeDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
task +20
combo +10 (10.8- http://bookriot.com/2014/04/07/maggie... - on the bonus list; 10.9)
RwS finish +100
Megafinish +200
total= 330
grand total = 1310
ahhhhhh...now I can turn my attention to my huge backlog of New Yorkers and other magazines.
Ed wrote: "20.6 CrimeDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
task +20
combo +10 (10.8- http://bookriot.com/2014/04/07/maggie... - on the bonus list; 10.9)
RwS ..."
Enjoy your free time -- for a few weeks anyway. :-)
Great job on the mega finish!
15.8 Reading Globally: North AmericaUnited States (A, B, C)
A Taint In The Blood by Dana Stabenow
+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 680
15.9 Reading Globally: South AmericaChile (A, B)
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
(I loved this book! It had the original poems, written in Spanish, side-by-side with the English translations. I don't think that this qualifies for pre-1990 Style points. All these poems were published before 1990, but this book, which was a selection of poems culled from many earlier books, was published after 1990.)
+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 695
15.10 Reading Globally: Asia - WesternAfghanistan (A, C)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Sub-Total = 710
Reading Globally Completion Bonus = 150
Grand Total = 860
20.3 ParisMurder in the Marais by Cara Black
+20 task
+10 combo (10.1, 20.6)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 495
Krista wrote: "Kätlin wrote: "Krista wrote: "10.4 ScrabbleNeil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris
'PATRICK'
+10 Task
+10 Style: Not A Novel (Me..."
Oooh, even better, as I can imagine how funny it must be to have him use his voice for this :)
Kätlin
Reading globally:15.8 - Oceania
Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington (A, B, C in Australia)
+15 task
+5 non-fiction (memoir, autobiographical)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 190
20.3 ParisThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.7)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 210
10.3 Borrowing from the ModsBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Krista, you have this on your read list, but no date set, so I am guessing it was prior to March 1st cut off ?
+10 task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 460
Amanda wrote: "10.3 Borrowing from the ModsBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Krista, you have this on your read list, but no date set, so I am guessing it was prior to March 1s..."
Hi Amanda:
Yes --- I read it before joining Goodreads. You can claim 10.3 task combo points for this using me. I just added my best guess as to the year it read it on my Goodreads entry. :-)
Krista wrote: "Hi Amanda:Yes --- I read it before joining Goodreads. You can claim 10.3 task combo points for this using me. I just added my best guess as to the year it read it on my Goodreads entry. :-) "
Fabulous, thanks :)
Was going to read it for my second read through of Reading Globally, but I'll be lucky to make it through the first round, and this one has to get back to the library, so was glad to find a home for it.
10.4 – Scrabble!The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer
+10 Task: crusade
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 1335
10.6 - Women's Ed:Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
+10 Task: PhD in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania: http://www.elizabethwein.com/biography
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 1345
20.6 - CrimeGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
+20 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.1 - Fall 2014 -Sam, 10.7, 10.8 - booksonthenightstand #304 , 10.9)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 585
Post 852 Ed wrote: "20.6 CrimeDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
task +20
combo +10 (10.8- http://bookriot.com/2014/04/07/maggie... - on the bonus list; 10.9)
RwS ..."
I'm so sorry, Ed. This is YA Assignment at BPL with a Lexile of 660. Task, but no styles. Of course your finish points are still good - great, in fact!
From Post 839Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.4 Scrabble
Elementary: All-New Tales of the Elemental Mastersby Mercedes Lackey
Elementary
Task +10
Style +15 (Combo-10.9 Tried and True 3.97 rating and 631,761 ra..."
Sorry, Jayme, this is appears to be a collection of short stories in which Mercedes Lackey is the editor, not the author. This book does not qualify for 10.9.
From Post 843Marie wrote: "20.8 - Spring Break!
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle
915 on BPL
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 120"
+10 Not a Novel
Kate S wrote: "From Post 839Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.4 Scrabble
Elementary: All-New Tales of the Elemental Mastersby Mercedes Lackey
Elementary
Task +10
Style +15 (Combo..."
Sorry about that,
20.10 CanonicalMorning in the burned house by Margaret Atwood ( Atwood is on the list with Surfacing )
+20 task
+10 not a novel (poetry)
+5 prizeworthy ( Trillium Book Award 1996)
+10 combo ( 10.4 "Morning, 10.9)
Task Total = 45
Grand Total = 505
10.8 PodcastsA Most Personal Property by Darrah Glass
+10 Task (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/po...)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 955
20.2 SeriesThe Shameless Hour by Sarina Bowen
+20 Task (Ivy Years series)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 975
10.8 PodcastsMoving in Rhythm by Dev Bentham
+10 Task (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/po...)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 985
10.8 Podcast ReadingA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
+10 task (http://bookriot.com/2015/05/04/the-bo...)
+10 jumbo (720 pages)
task total: 20
grand total: 340
From Post 834Ed wrote: "20.4 Guardian
Dubliners by James Joyce
task +20
combo +10 (10.3 read by Elizabeth 6/2010; 10.8 http://bookriot.com/2013/10/08/116-fa... )
no..."
I'm really sorry, Ed. This title is not on the Guardian list. I have currently moved it to 10.3-Elizabeth (as you have already used the combo) with a combo for 10.8.
Anika wrote: "20.3 ParisThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.7)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 210"
+5 Combo 10.4-PHANTOM
From Post 831Amanda wrote: "10.9 Tried and True
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
+ 10 task
+ 5 combo (10.3 - Sam)
+5 Jumbo
+15 prizeworthy
Task Total : 35
Grand Total : 425"
Sorry, Amanda, you have already used your 10.3 combo for Sam this season in post 28
Wow..I wonder how that happened. I must have confused it with Finnegan's Wake. At least I have time to read another. Thanks.Kate S wrote: "From Post 834
Ed wrote: "20.4 Guardian
Dubliners by James Joyce
task +20
combo +10 (10.3 read by Elizabeth 6/2010; 10.8 http://bookriot.com/2013/10/08/116-fa......"
20.7 Penguin ClassicPersuasion by Jane Austen
+20 Task
+20 Combo (Combo 10.1 Theresa-October Lace; Fall 2014 Msg 576, 10.9 - 4.07 Avg rating w/3.4M ratings, 20.4, 20.10
+10 Canon
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 910
20.4 GuardianNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.1-Laguallande W#340; 10.9, 20.1, 20.9)
+10 Canon
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 560
20.6 - CrimeElizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
+20 task (main page genre = Mystery>Crime)
+10 combo (10.4 - Scrabble: Missing, 10.8 - Podcast:BOTNS 316 )
+5 prize worthy (Costa Book Award for First Novel)
Task total: 35
RwS total: 475
Reading Globally total: 55
Grand Total: 530
Reading globally:15.9 - Middle East
The Gardener of Baghdad by Ahmad Ardalan (A, C in Iraq)
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 205
Almost there! :)
10.3 - Kate SThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
+10 task
+25 combo (10.1 - reviewed Winter 2014, 10.2 - Girl Canon, 10.9 - 4.0, 400k+, 20.4 - family and self section, 20.5 - #33)
task total: 35
grand total: 710
edited to change task
15.2 - Africa a+b+c NigeriaThere Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
+15 task
+5 non-fiction (biography)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 605
15.3 - Central America a+b+c - MexicoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
+15 task
+5 pub 1989
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 625
15.4 - Europe a+b+c - NorwayAshes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by Per Petterson
+15 task
+5 pub 1987
task total: 20
Grand total: 645
15.5 - South America a+b+c - ColombiaNo One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
+15 task
+5 pub 1961
task total: 20
Grand total: 665
20.4 - GuardianThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
task +20
combo +10 (10.8 - http://bookriot.com/2012/07/10/the-gr... ; 20.7)
Western Canon +10
total = 40
and I think I lost 20 points by incorrectly posting Dubliners in this category which has now been switched to 10.3. BUT, I reinstate my
RwS finish +100
Megafinish +200
which I think puts my grand total at 1330.
Kate S wrote: "From Post 843Marie wrote: "20.8 - Spring Break!
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle
915 on BPL
+20 Task
Task total = 20
Points total = 120"
+10 No..."
The book is actually a graphic novel, so I don't think I should have those 10 "Not a novel" points
10.8 – title hereAcceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
http://sfsqueecast.com/2014/11/episod...
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 (24 times) ; 20.2)
Task total = 20
Points total = 220
20.6 – CrimeThe Girl on the Trainby Paula Hawkins
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.1 - reviewed in post #506 during winter challenge; 10.8 ; 10.9 - Average rating: 3.90 · 147,548 ratings)
Task Total = 35
Points total = 255
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
+10 Task
+25 Combo (10.3 - Kate S ; 10.7 - 53 times ; 10.8 ; 20.2 ; 20.9)
Task total = 35
Points total = 185