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SP 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2015
20.8 Spring Break!Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
(One of Mark Twain's travelogue books was on the linked list.)
+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.1, 20.4, 20.7)
+10 Canon
Task Total = 45
Grand Total = 955
Reading Globally15.7 European Union: Italy
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1360
20.6 - Crime One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
+20 Task: Crime on main page
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1380
15.6 – North America - USALast Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
+15 Task (A, B, C)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1000
15.7 – Eastern Asia - ChinaThe Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
+15 Task (A, B)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1015
Task 10.1 Rants and RavesWinter 14/15 #368
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen (2014) by Charlie Lovett
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 655 + 10 = 665
15.6 - Caribbean - Trinidad and Tobago a+bA Writer's People: Ways Of Looking And Feeling by V.S. Naipaul
+15 task
+ 5 non-fiction
Task total:20
Grand total:685
15.7 - Middle East a+b+c IranThings I've Been Silent About: Memories by Azar Nafisi
+15 task
+5 non-fiction (biography)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 705
10.4 – Scrabble!A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets by James Bowen ("streets" being a 7-letter word)
+10 task
+10 not-a-novel (non-fiction: memoir, autobiographical)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 225
20.2 - SeriesThe Turmoil by Booth Tarkington (part 1 of the Growth Trilogy)
+20 task
+5 combo(10.4 turmoil)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 730
10.10 - Group ReadsThe Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
+10 Task
+10 Prize Worthy (DSC; Paris Review)
+30 Combo (10.3 - Elizabeth, 10.9, 10.1, 10.6, 10.8, 10.4)
Task total: 50
+100 RwS Finish
Grand total: 880
20.1 ZolaThe Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
+20 Task (pub. 1881)
+5 Combo (20.8)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 240
20.2 SeriesFairest by Marissa Meyer
+ 20 Task
+ 10 Combo
- 10.4
- 10.9 ( 4.22 avg rating, 407,599 ratings)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 270
20.6 - CrimeThe Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
+20 Task (crime is listed as a genre on the book's page)
+10 Combo
-10.1 (message 640: by Karen Michele on Feb 04, 2015)
-10.8 (BOTNS #291)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 300
Task 20.9 – NamelessMentioned on linked list and, indeed, the narrator of this novel remained nameless.
Old School (2003) by Tobias Wolff (Hardcover, 195
pages)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2004)
California Book Award Silver Medal for Fiction (2003)
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee (2003)
+20 Task
+15 Prize-Worthy
Task Total: 20 + 15 = 35
Grand Total: 665 + 35 = 700
15.8 - Asia East Japan a,b,cDance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
+15 task
+5 pub 1988
Task total: 20
Grand total: 900
10.4 – Scrabble!Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth
+10 Task: midwife
+10 Not a Novel (memoir)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1400
20.8 - Spring Break! - Ed’s Task:Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World by Lynne Martin
+20 Task: BPL 910.4
+10 Task (non fiction)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 1430
20.3 Paris Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
+20 Task
+5 combo 20.6
+10 not a novel (nonfiction)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 435
Valerie wrote: "20.4 GuardianA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
+20 task
+5 prize
____
25
Running total: 500"
+5 Combo 20.7
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.5 GerminalThe Odyssey by Homer, 560 pgs
+20 Task
+5 Combo, 10.4
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Canon
+5 Jumbo
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 560"
+5 Combo 20.7
Deedee wrote: "Task 20.9 – NamelessMentioned on linked list and, indeed, the narrator of this novel remained nameless.
Old School (2003) by Tobias Wolff (Hardcover, 195
pages)
PEN/..."
Sorry, Deedee, only prize winners qualify for the prize-worthy style points. Nominees do not count.
10.3 Borrowing from the ModsWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
+10 task (Kate)
+15 combo (10.1, 10.5, 10.8)
+10 prize winners (PEN/Faulkner, California Book Award)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 530
10.9 Tried and TrueThe Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
+10 task (Average rating: 4.21 · 154,867 ratings)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 540
Kate S wrote: "Deedee wrote: "Task 20.9 – NamelessMentioned on linked list and, indeed, the narrator of this novel remained nameless.
Old School (2003) by Tobias Wolff (Hardcover, 1..."
LOL by the time I figure the prize-worthy points out it will be the summer challenge.
700 - 15 = 685
Task 10.9 – Tried & True
Average Rating at least 3.90 AND at least 100,000 ratings.
John Scalzi
Redshirts (2012) by John Scalzi
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.8 Podcast Booksonthenightstand BOTNS #268)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Grand Total: 685 + 15 = 700
10.8 Podcast ReadingHow to be both by Ali Smith
http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...
+10 task
+ 10 combo (10.1 - Karen Michelle, Winter 14/15; 10.3 - Kate S, January 2015 )
+ 15 Prizeworthy
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 535
And i am now finished the 10pt tasks! Never finished a section before, so happy with my progress this season.
20.6 CrimePeril at End House by Agatha Christie
shelved 234 times as crime
+20 task
+ 5 combo (10.9)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 560
2.5 - GerminalGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
+20 task
+20 combo (10.8 - BOTN #236, 20.1, 20.4, 20.7)
+10 Canon
+5 jumbo
Task total: 55
Grand Total: 465
15.10 - EuropeThe History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
+15 task
+5 pre-1990 (1989)
Task total: 20
Bonus: 150
Grand Total: 635
15.8 – Oceana – AustraliaGirl Least Likely to Marry by Amy Andrews
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1030
20.6 CrimeOld Poison by Josh Lanyon (32,681 words - https://www.allromanceebooks.com/prod...)
+20 Task (Mystery>Crime on main page)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1050
20.6 CrimeDead Run by Josh Lanyon (40,834 words - https://www.allromanceebooks.com/prod...)
+20 Task (Mystery>Crime on main page)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1070
20.6 CrimeKick Start by Josh Lanyon (37,567 words - https://www.allromanceebooks.com/prod...)
+20 Task (Mystery>Crime on main page)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 1090
20.7 Penguin ClassicMoon Tiger by Penelope Lively
+20 Task
+5 Prize-worthy (Man Booker Prize)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1115
10.8 PodcastsJust This Once by Rosalind James
+10 Task (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/po...)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 1125
10.7 WeirdFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
+10 Task (shelved as weird 22 times)
+5 Prize-worthy (Oregon Book Award for Fiction)
+20 Combo (10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2012/..., 20.4, 20.6 – shelved as crime 183 times, 20.9 – the actual name of the narrator is never told)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 1160
10.1 Rants and Raves Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Elizabeth(Alaska))
+10 task
+15combo (10.6, 10.8, 20.4)
+10 prizeworthy
Task total 35
Grand total 310
podcast http://bookrageous.podbean.com/page/3/
10.2 Women's LitThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
+10 task
+10 combo (20.4, 20.10)
+10 canon
Task total 30
Grand total 340
10.3 Borrowing from the Mods Night Soldiers by Alan Furst. from KateS
+10 task
+5 combo (20.2)
Task total 15
Grand total 355
10.9 Tried and True The Invention of Wingsby Sue Monk Kidd
3.94, 949,316 ratings
Task + 10
Style +5 Combo Rants and Raves by Krista Jan. 22, 2015
Book Total: 15
Grand Total: 320
20.4 - GuardianA Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
+20 task
+5 combo (10.3 Elizabeth(Alaska))
Task total: 25
RwS total: 500
Reading Globally total: 55
Grand Total: 555
15.9 - Asia West India a+cTiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
+15 task
+5 593 pages
Task total: 20
Grand total: 920
20.7 Penguin ClassicsJude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, 20.1)
+10 Canon
Task total = 40
Grand total = 600
20.1 ZolaThérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
+20 pts - Task
+30 pts - Combo (10.4-Scrabble, 20.3 - Paris, 20.4 Guardian, 20.6 -crime, 20.7 - Penguin, 10.3 - borrow from mods Kris S.)
Task Total - 50 pts
Grand Total - 150 pts
10.6 Women's EdScotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 by Jean Stephenson
https://books.google.com/books?id=SDY...
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Not a Novel
Task Total - 20 pts
Grand Total - 170 pts
Goodreads has only one author named Jean Stephenson. This Jean Stephenson is a genealogical scholar. and is dead now. The other jean wrote The Whimsicans , a children's book and is currently living, or I think so because she posted on Amazon that she is the children's author and not the author of the "other books" on her page
From Post 927Deedee wrote: "Task 10.9 – Tried & True
Average Rating at least 3.90 AND at least 100,000 ratings.
John Scalzi
Redshirts (2012) by John Scalzi
+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.8 Podcast Booksonthenightstand BOTNS #268)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15"
+10 Prize-worthy: Locus and Hugo
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Marie wrote: "20.8 - Spring Break!
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle
915 on BPL
+20 Task
e book is actually a graphic novel, so I don't think I should have those 10 "Not a novel" points
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Thanks, Marie. We will correct our records.