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SP 2015 RwS Completed Tasks - Spring 2015
20.5 - GerminalThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
+20 task (#3 on list)
+15 combo (10.3 - read by Liz M in 2006, 10.9 - Average rating: 4.23 · 2,151,718 ratings, 20.4)
+5 Prize-worthy (Exclusive Books Boeke Prize 2004)
Task total: 40
Grand total: 130
10.2 - Women's Lit The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (lex 920)
+10 task (#23 on guardian list)
+10 combo (10.3 - read by Sam, 10.4 - railway)
Task total: 20
Grand total:150
Rebekah wrote: "10.7 - Weird Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
(on page 6 of the book's genre's - 14 users)..."
Rebekah, the link you provided is not to a podcast. However, it has been discussed in this podcast:
http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...
Kate S wrote: "From Post 46Coralie wrote: "10.8 Podcast Reading
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
+10 task (episode 19)
+ 5 prize worthy (Ditmar award 2013)
Task ..."
I think the World Fantasy Award was for a different version. It was first published as a shorter work and I think this is what won that award, while the longer version won the other two (hence the difference in dates).
10.9 – Tried and TrueThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
+10 Task: Average rating: 3.90 · 135,373 ratings
+10 Not a Novel
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 375
20.3 - Paris La Curée The Kill by Émile Zola
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 20.1 - Zola (1872) / 20.2 - Series
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 405
20.4 GuardianBright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
+20 task
+5 nameless (20.9)
+5 borrow from the mods: Liz M read Jan 2013
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30
Running total 225
Task 20.2 SeriesCress by Marissa Meyer (lexile 840)
*From the Luncar Chronicles series (approved in the task thread)*
+20 task
+5 combo (10.9 - 4.22/364,503)
+5 jumbo (550 pages)
Task Total = 30 points
Grand Total = 85 points
Task 10.6 - Women's Ed:Read a book written by a woman who has earned a doctorate (not an honorary degree). Please provide a link when claiming points for this task.
Goodreads says about Phyllis Eisenstein: ”For more than a dozen years she has been a member of the faculty of Columbia College Chicago,…” but never says directly that she has a Ph.D. Anyways, here’s the book I read:
Born to Exile (Tales of Alaric the Minstrel #1) (1978) by Phyllis Eisenstein (Paperback, 251 pages)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 180 + 10 = 190
20.6 - CrimeThe Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
+20 Task: crime is listed as a genre on the book's page
+15 Combo: 10.1 (message 640: by Karen Michele on Feb 04, 2015), 10.3 (Sam, Aug 2014), 10.8 (BOTNS #291)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 110
15.3 Reading GloballyEurope - Russia
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin
+15 task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 135
From Post 86Coralie wrote: "20.6 Crime
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
+20 task (shelved 410 times as crime)
+15 Combo (10.4 - Maltese, 10.9 – 3.97 rating, 20.4)
+10 canon
Task total: 45
..."
Sorry, Coralie, but I do not see this listed on the canon.
From Post 75Valerie wrote: "10.7 Weird
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
shelved as weird 7x
+10 task
+5 borrow from mods: Krista read Mar. 2012
+5 jumbo - 512 pgs
+10 prizeworthy (as pe..."
Sorry, Valerie, the most popular edition of this book has only 378 pages and is not eligible for jumbo points.
From Post 71Ed wrote: "10.7 – Weird
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
+10 task
+10 combo (10.8 podcast, see http://bookriot.com/2012/10/25/there-......"
+5 Combo 20.4 Guardian
It also appears you have linked an article on Book Riot, not a podcast. House of Leaves was mentioned in Episode 27 of The Writer and the Critic, so you are still good.
From Post 87Heather wrote: "20.4
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
+20 task
+15 awards
+5 jumbo (637 pages)
+5 combo (10.9 - 3.93 and over 900k, 10.3 - Liz)
task total: 45
grand total: 275 (e..."
+5 Combo 20.10-Atwood is on the canon
From Post 93Tobey wrote: "10.9 Tried and True
Never Go Back by Lee Child (author has a rating of 4.04 and 758,620 reviews when I checked)
+10 Task
Task Total=10
Grand Total=30"
+5 Combo 20.6-Crime
10.1 Rants and RavesA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
+10 task (reviewed in winter)
+5 Combo (10.3 – Elizabeth (Alaska) read 2013)
+10 Canon
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 285
10.9 - Tried and TrueThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Average rating 4.0 with 406,726 ratings
+10 task
+25 combo (10.2 - Women's Lit, 10.3 - Borrowing from the Mods (Liz), 20.4 - The Guardian, 20.5 - Germinal; 10.1 - Rants and Raves: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
task total: 35
grand total: 135
10.4 The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
+10 task (Origins)
+10 not a novel
task total: 20
grand total: 345
15.3 - Central America: MexicoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
+15 task
+5 pre-1990 - published 1989
task total: 20
grand total: 365
Task 10.4 – Scrabble!DOROTHY
Farewell, Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker #1) (2013) by Ellen Meister (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 308 pages)
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 190 + 10 = 200
Task 20.6 - Crime – Read a book where “Crime” is listed as one of the genres on the book's page.
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (Toby Peters #2) (1977) by Stuart M. Kaminsky
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 200 + 20 = 220
20.6 CrimeThe Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon
+20 Task (Mystery > Crime on book page)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 165
20.6 CrimeDeath of a Pirate King by Josh Lanyon
+20 Task (Mystery > Crime on book page)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 185
20.6 CrimeThe Dark Tide by Josh Lanyon
+20 Task (Mystery > Crime on book page)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 205
10.8 PodcastsRainey Royal by Dylan Landis
+10 Task (http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 225
15.2 Reading GloballyMy Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
Middle East Iran
+15 task
+5 first published 1973
+5 509 pages
Task total 25
Grand total: 130
10.7 WeirdInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.1, 10.3 (Liz M), 10.4, 10.9)
+10 Not a novel
+10 Canon
Task total: 50
Grand total: 190
20.9 NamelessNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.1, 10.9, 20.4)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 225
Post 125 Krista wrote: "20.6 CrimeThe Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith
Category of Mystery>Crime on book's main page.
+20 Task
(I couldn't find any other bonus poin..."
I'm sorry, Krista, I don't see Crime on the book's genre section.
15.3 Reading Globally- North AmericaWho Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore A, B & C in USA
task +15
grand total= 150
Kate S wrote: "From Post 54Tobey wrote: "10.4 Scrabble
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.3,10.8 http://bookrageous.podbean.com/e/book......"
Yes Kate, thanks! I totally meant 10.1. My task total should remain the same.
However, in post 181, you added +5 for a Combo to my score so I should have a running total of 35 now.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 125 Krista wrote: "20.6 CrimeThe Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith
Category of Mystery>Crime on book's main page.
+20 Task
(I couldn't f..."
I'm afraid I've been doing that task wrong, in that case, since she checked in the thread and Mystery > Crime was approved (and even for that book specifically)... I've claimed a few under that designation but since the Readerboard isn't posted yet I haven't seen if all my points have been accepted.
From Post 101Amanda wrote: "10.5 Nebula
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
+ 10 task points
+ 10 combo (10.7, 20.4)
+ 5 Jumbo (529 pgs)
+ 5 Prizeworthy ( British Book Awards, Literary Fiction, 2005 h..."
+5 Prizeworthy also won the Geoffrey Faber award
From Post 108Karen Michele wrote: "10.8 – Podcast Reading - Cory Day’s Task:
Redeployment by Phil Klay
+10 Task: Book Riot #95: http://bookriot.com/2015/03/02/book-r......"
+5 Prize worthy, also won the NBCC Phil Leonard award
Cory Day wrote: "I'm afraid I've been doing that task wrong, in that case, since she checked in the thread and Mystery > Crime was approved (and even for that book specifically)... I've claimed a few under that designation but since the Readerboard isn't posted yet I haven't seen if all my points have been accepted. "
I don't think you've been doing it wrong, although that book was not approved in the task thread. Liz simply answered that what Krista was looking at was correct.
BUT, I swear, when I looked at that page this morning, Crime wasn't on the genre list. (Now it is, she says, as she hangs her head.)
Kate S wrote: "From Post 101+5 Prizeworthy also won the Geoffrey Faber award '
Thanks Kate, strange that I didn't see it on the cover or on any of the pages ...
10.8 Podcast ReadingThe Dinnerby Herman Koch
You can find the book in this podcast http://bookriot.com/2014/01/20/book-r.... It is in the Tournament of Books finalists.
Task +10
Grand Total: 105
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 125 Krista wrote: "20.6 CrimeThe Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith
Category of Mystery>Crime on book's main page.
+20 Task
(I couldn't f..."
Hi Elizabeth: I just checked again. "Mystery > Crime" is shown third from the bottom of the Genre list for the book. Maybe that pesky genre appears and disappears for this book. :-)
Whew, sounds like it's passed now though. LOL Thanks!
10.10 Group ReadsAll the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
+10 task
+10 Combo ( 10.3 - Kate S Jan '15, 10.4)
+10 Prizeworthy ( European Union Prize for literature 2014; Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2014)
Task Total : 30
Grand Total: 170
Reading globally:15.2 - European Union
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
+15 task (A, B and C in United Kingdom)
+5 oldies (first published 1957)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 85
20.1 - Zola:Silas Marner by George Eliot
+20 task
+15 combo (20.4-Guardian, 20.7-Penguin, 20.10-Canonical)
+10 canon
Task total: 45
Grand Total: 45
15.1 - OceaniaThe Whispering Wall by Patricia Carlon
+15 task
+5 pre-1990 (pub. 1969)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 65
15.3 European Union/IrelandMother Ireland: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien (Ireland: A & C)
+15 Task
+ 5 Non-Fiction (Memoir/Essays)
+ 5 Pre-1990 (Published 1976)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 160
15.4 Middle East/IsraelRhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz (Israel: A, B & C) Published 2007
+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 175
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+ 20 task
+ 10 not-a-novel (autobiography)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 90