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Cheryl, I haven't added these books to your score yet, but see my comments below about specific books. Thanks, -Krista In Msg 623 - Cheryl wrote: "10.6 Author Memoirs
Now I See The Moon by Elaine Hall
+10 Task
+10 Combo Also fits 10.8, 20.8
Task Total 20
Grand TOtal 1020
+10 Task
+ 0 Combo
Task Total 10
Grand Total 1030
This book doesn't qualify for a Task 10.6. Task 10.6 needs to be a memoir about what a person does for work. I don't think that Geraldine Brooks is Islamic for her career.
10.7 Flashlight Worthy 7 Beach Reads You Can Grab Off OF Your Tween's Shelf
Fire by Kristin Cashore Lexile 870
+10 Task
Task Total 10
Grand TOtal 1040
10.8 Moon in the Title or On the Cover
+10 Task
+ 0 Combo
Task Total 10
Grand Total 1050
10.10 Group Reads
Nine Parts Of Desire The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
+10 Task
+ 0 Combo
Task Total 10
Grand Total 1060..."
You can use Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women for Task 10.10. In addition you can claim Combo points for Task 20.8 with it. Here's the updated scoring for this title:
+10 Task
+ 5 Task 20.8 (Just the Fact Ma'am)
Task Total 15
In Msg 639 -- Norma wrote: "10.1 – Football Season?
A Catskill Eagle by Robert B Parker
Task Points - 10
+5 Series Points (Spencer #12)
Adjusted Total Points -
Welcome Norma! I've added 5 Series style points to your scoring of A Catskill Eagle. -Krista
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10.2 – Literature Map
Charlaine Harris November 25 - Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse #2)
Task Points - 10
Second in a series - 5
Literature map - 5
Total Task Points - 20
Total Points - 50
Literature Map - JA Jance - Charlaine Harris
Shakespeares's Landlord
Task Points - 10
First in a series -m 5
Birthday in November - 5
Total task points - 20
Total Points - 30
Which author are you using for your Literature Map? It need to be an author that you read in June, July or August. You'll use the same author's map throughout this season. Each author found on the map can only be used once for this task.
You can only use one book by Charlaine Harris for this Task. Please let me know which which author you are using for your Literature Map -- and which of the Charlaine Harris books you are going to use for this task.
Thanks! -Krista
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Please double check your scoring. I see a couple more books in your subsequent posts that are books in a series but you haven't claimed Series points for them. I'll wait to tally your points until you've had time to review your posts and added the series points. It's easier to do it that way rather than to go back and forth with messages trying to get all the tallies correct.
I just noticed that in this message -- your last book in this message (#639) qualifies for Combo points with the Harvest Moon Task (10.8) since the book has a moon on the cover. Please adjust the score for this book also.
I've only added the first book from your first messge (#639) to your point tally. Post a new message to let me know when you've made the corrections and additions to your other books. Then I'll go back and tally up those points.
In Msg 641 -- Norma wrote: "15.1-15.10 - Reading through Time15.1 - 1951 - 2000
Sweet and Deadly by Charlaine Harris (1981)
Task Points - 15
Total task points -15
Total Points - 100
15.2..."
Hi Norma: Are you a Constant Traveler? (Did you read these books in chronological order?) Let me know so I can give you the correct bonus points for the books. Thanks! -Krista
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Also, I think that you can claim +10 SERIES points for the Robert Parker ("Taming a Seahorse") book you're using for Task 20.7 in this post. I believe it's the second "Spenser" series book you've read for different tasks this challenge. Please adjust that score and let me know when you're done so I can tally the points for you.
Thanks -Krista
In Msg 642 - Erin wrote: "20.5 Freedom SeasonThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
This book takes place in New Orleans, LA, the American South.
+20 Task points
+10 Canon
+5 Combo Task 20.2 Banned Books (I read this book for the Banned Books task.)
Task Total=
Adjusted Grand Total=
10.3 Fall Birthdays - Naked in Death by J.D. Robb born Oct 10+10 (Task)
+5 (Series - #1 in "In Death Series")
Task Total=15
Grand Total=85
Liz M wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "10.5 City LightsParis to the Moon by Adam Gopnik"
+5 combo 20.8 Just the facts"
Thanks, Liz! It's good to know someone is watching your back! (smile)
Krista wrote: "In Msg 604 - Rebekah wrote: "10.5 City LightsParis to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 - Shine on Harvest Moon)
15 - Task Total
375 - Grand Total"
Liz is rig..."
Thanks, Krista! Does your brain get tired from working all this out? My brain gets tired just watching you work it all out! (smile)
Task 20.6 Multi-cultural SaesonOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
+20 - Task
+10 - Combo (10.7 flashlight worthy -John Irving's favorites, 20.7 reunification -Colombia 1967)
+10 - Canon
+10 - LiT (spanish)
50 pts - Task Total
430 pts - Grand Total
20.1 Monsterfest Redux The Witches of Eastwick+20 task
+15 combo (10.2 lit map of Anne Tyler; 10.5 City - Eastwick, RI; 20.7 Unification, pub 1984, American)
+10 canon
Task Total = 45
Grand Total = 475
Krista wrote: "In Msg 606 -- Liz M wrote: "20.1 – Monsterfest redux: Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
+20 Task
+15 combo* (10.2 - Lit map of Lev Tolstoi; 10.3 - 11/11/1821; 10.9 - AK..."
Some chapters, knowing it was worth 65 points was the only thing that kept me going. ;) Excellent, difficult book. Glad I read it, but should have known more about Russian history for it to make sense.
20.8 – Just the Facts: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
+20 Task
+10 combo (20.4 - memoirs of her life managing an African farm; 10.7 - flashlightworthy)
Task Total = 30
10.9 – Also know as: The Lonely Girl by Edna O'Brien also published as Girl With Green Eyes
+10 task points
+5 combo (20.7 - Ireland, 1962)
+5 series (Country Girls trilogy #2)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 880
20.8 Just the FactsWhy Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years by Jimmy Carter
+20 - Task
+15 - Combo(10.3 Oct 1, 10.6 memoirs of farming,naval officer,nuclear sub capt,sm bus owner,Ga state legis.,Ga Governor 20.5 Georgia)
+5 - Series(followed by 3 more books of memoirs about Presidency, Peacemaker,Humanitarian)
40 Task Total
470 Grand Total
I finished task 10.10 Group Read. I chose "Dracula" by Bram Stoker.Task Points: 10
Combo +10 (20.10 Part A #1 on the list, Fall Birthday)
Canon +10
(500pp)=30
Total Points: 130
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I finished task 10.10 Group Read. I chose "Dracula" by Bram Stoker"+5 combo points for Fall Birthday.
Which edition did you read that had 500+ pages? I thought it was a relatively short book....?
Krista wrote: "In Msg 545 -- Cheryl wrote: "Readerboard: CHeryl TXReading Through Time
Traveler Type=Constant
15.1 Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer by Jeffry D. Wert ....
15.6 ..."
I am a Time Leaper because I did not read them in order--sorry for the confusion
And I am adding Paradise Lost by John Milton for Task # 15.7
Krista wrote: "In Msg 619 -- Cheryl wrote: "10.2 Literature Map Original Author Was Cecily von Ziegesar--I forgot to tell you in the previous postAlphas by Lisi Harrison Lexile Not Available
+10 Task
+ 5 Se..."
I have deleted the duplicates I think.
I have more to post but I think it will be easier on both of us if I just wait for you to update through my last post and then I will know what my grand total is. Thank you for being so patient. I know I will do better in the next challenge.
Liz M wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I finished task 10.10 Group Read. I chose "Dracula" by Bram Stoker"+5 combo points for Fall Birthday.
Which edition did you read that had 500+ pages? I thought i..."
Most of the books had 448pp. The range was 448 to one book had 576pp. I will go with the 44pp book so drop the +5 for jumbo and I thought Stoker had a fall birthday so I will swap for the +5 Fall Birthday.
Readerboard Name Cheryl TXI am going to post some more but I have no idea how many points I have, so I will just post the task amount
10.1 Football Season
Power Slide by Susan Dunlap
+10 Task
Task Total 10
10.2 Literature Map (Author Cecily von Ziegesar
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray Lexile 760
+10 Task
Task Total 10
All American Girl by Meg Cabot Lexile 880
+10 Task
+ 5 Series
Task Total 15
Smack by Melvin Burgess Lexile 750
+10 Task
Task Total 10
Sun-Kissed by Melissa de la Cruz Lexile 910
+10 Task
+ 5 Series
Task Total 15
3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows by Ann Brashares Lexile 700
+10 Task
Task Total 10
Born Blue by Han Nolan Lexile 720
+10 Task
Task Total 10
10.5 City Lights
Salvation City by Sigrid nunez
+10 Task
Task Total 10
10.4 Flashlight Worthy
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver Lexile not Available
+10 Task
Task Total 10
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Lexile 740
+10 Task
Task Total 10
20.1 Halloween Adjective or Ward
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
+20 Task
Task TOtal 20
Monster High by Lisi Harrison Lexile not Available
+20 Task
Task TOtal 20
20.3 Anthology or Collection of Short Stories
Stories for the HEart compiled by Alice Gray
+20 Task
+ 5 COmbo Also fits 20.8 N/F 242
Task Total 25
RwS Tasks10.2 – Literature Map
Map Author:Lisa McMann
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott Lexile 890
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.3 Fall Birthdays (September 28)
+ 5 Series (Book 1 in 'The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel' series)
20 Points
20.10 – Late One Night….
A. Horror Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 Fall Birthday(October 16), 10.4 One Hit Wonders, Only Novel)
+10 Canon
40 Points
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 595
RtT - Constant Traveler15.3 - 1850-1900
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Pub 1880, Lex 960
+15 Task
+10 Bonus
+25 Task Total
520 - Grand Total
10.3 – Fall Birthday: The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino (10/15/1923)
+10 Task
+10 combo (10.2 - Lit map of Lev Tolstoi; 20.3 - Italy, 1977)
+10 Translation (Italian)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 910
Rebekah wrote: "RtT - Constant Traveler15.3 - 1850-1900
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Pub 1880, Lex 960
+15 Task
? - Bonus
I'm confused about the bonus points. This is my 3rd book in RtT...."
Constant Traveller = +10 point bonus for books 2-10 read in chronological order.
20.3 The Season of Shorter DaysAdrenaline 2000: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival 2000 Edited by Clint Willis
+20 Task points
+5 Combo (20.8 @ 360pp.)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=550
Task 10.8B Shine on Harvest Moon: Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
+10 Task Points
+5 Series Points (League Series)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 425
Task 10.8B Shine on Harvest Moon: Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon
+10 Task Points
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 435
Oops! I just corrected my addition on post 676. If you've already counted it, I put 30 points for The Picture of Dorian Gray instead of the 40 I earned.Thanks!
Task 10.3 - Fall Birthdays: Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman's birthday is November 10, 1960. Happy birthday, Mr. Gaiman!
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 100
Task 20.8 - Just the FactsSeeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society by Jason Hawesand Grant Wilson
+20 Task
+10 Combo(10.6 Work Memoir,20.3 about 37 "case histories" written alternatively between the two authors)
475 Grand Total
30pts Task Total
550 Grand Total
Task 10.1 Football Season Arsene Lupin in the Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc
Task points 10
+10 LiT (French)
+5 Series (Arsene Lupin series)
+5 Combo (10.3 Fall B'day Nov 11, 1864)
Task Total 30
Total points 740
Task points 10
+10 LiT (French)
+5 Series (Arsene Lupin series)
+5 Combo (10.3 Fall B'day Nov 11, 1864)
Task Total 30
Total points 740
Task 15.9 RtT The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task Total 25
Total points 765
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task Total 25
Total points 765
ERIN MN20.5 - Freedom Season
Fatally Frosted - Jessica Beck
*Set in South Carolina
+20 task
+5 series
= 25 points
20.8 - Non-Fiction
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Anthony Bourdain (288 pages)
+20 task points
20.8 - Non-Fiction
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All - Marilyn Johnson (272 pages)
+20 task points
25+20+20 = 65
TOTAL POINTS = 210
Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.8 - Just the FactsSeeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society by Jason Hawesand Grant Wilson
+20 Task
+10 Combo(1..."
There is a series?????? I <3 Ghost Hunters!!!!
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.8 - Just the FactsSeeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society by Jason Hawesand Grant Wilson
+20 Task..."
The book I posted about was like a sequel to the first book I read, Ghost Hunting. The authors are writing about cases they have investigated. Now they have a new book called Ghost Hunt. On TAPS website it states it is a "tween novel" but when I saw the authors discussing the book on video at the Amazon site, it sounded like more of the same as the previous books, that these too, are actual cases the authors have checked out. It seems like a plan to continue writing books about their experiences to go along with the TV series.
I really wasn't sure about it being a real series but I thought "what the heck? Krista can always tell me if it counts or not."
Oh and here is the web site for Grant and Jason's talk about the new book.
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Hunt-Chil...
I've down loaded a sample on my Kindle so I'll post something after I have read it.
20.3 The Season of Shorter DaysWild: Stories of Survival..(Tr) Edited by Clint Willis
+20 Task points
+5 Combo (20.8 @ 340pp)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=575
Task 10.10 Group ReadKitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
+10 - Task
+5 - Combo (20.7 Japan)
+10 - Style (Lost in Translation)
25 pts Task Total
575 pts Grand Total
Task 10.3 Fall BirthdayOne Day by David Nicholls
(David Nicholls' birthday is in November)
10 Task points
135 Total points
10.8 – Harvest Moon: The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
+10 task points
+5 combo (10.3 - 9/9/1908)
+10 translation (Italian)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 935
I completed task 10.4 One Hit Wonder by reading "Memoirs of A Geisha" by Arthur Goldman.Task Points: 10
Style Point: 0(that I could find)
Grand Total: 140
Task 10.7 Flashlight Worthy: His Monkey Wife by John Collier+10 Task (Was on list "Favorite Reissues of Neglected Books")
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 100
10.5 - City Lights - City of Glass by Cassandra Clare (Lexile 760:L)+10 (Task)
+5 (Series - #3 in The Mortal Instruments)
+5 (Jumbo - 541 pages)
Task Total=20
Grand Total=105
Rebekah wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.8 - Just the FactsSeeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society by Jason Hawesand [auth..."
I read the sample and it is definitely geared for younger folk so I think it doesn't count as the third in this series. There is no lexile score for it. How many do you need for a series to be a series? If it is three, then I need to remove the points.
RTT - 4th book in order 1801-1850Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë pub 1847
+15 pts Task
+10 pts Constant Reader
+25 pts Total
Task 10.4 One hit wonders
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
+10 Task
10 pts Task Total
585 Grand total
25 pts RTT
10 pts 10.4
610 Grand Total
Iloved this book! It's unfortunate we won't read any new books by her as she passed away shortly before publication. Doesn't there seem to be a lot of that going around? Stieg Larsson? Robert Bolano?
Task 10.2 Literature map of Agatha Christie Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Task points 10
+5 Series (Temperance Brennan)
Task total 15
Total points 780
Task points 10
+5 Series (Temperance Brennan)
Task total 15
Total points 780
Task 15.10 RtT Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi (1999)
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task Total 25
Total points 805
And this completes my journey as a constant traveller so I will claim my 100 point bonus.
Total points 905
Thanks Sam, I really enjoyed this trip through the centuries!
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task Total 25
Total points 805
And this completes my journey as a constant traveller so I will claim my 100 point bonus.
Total points 905
Thanks Sam, I really enjoyed this trip through the centuries!
10.3 – Fall BirthdaysForge by Laurie Halse Anderson(October 23) Lexile 820
+10 Task
+ 5 Series (Book 2 (Seeds of America) series)
This is a great historical fiction book about slavery during the Revolutionary War period. It is the sequel to the award winning book Chains.
Task: 15 Points
20.3 – The Season of Shorter Days
Classic Ghost Stories by Dickens, Stoker, Twain, etc.
Excellent!
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.1 Monsterfest Redux C
Task: 25 Points
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 635
10.3 Fall BirthdaysHaze by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
+ 10 Task (born October 19, 1943)
Task Total = 10
10.3 Fall Birthdays
The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
+ 10 Task (born October 19, 1943)
+ 5 Series (Saga of Recluce)
Task Total = 15
10.3 Fall Birthdays
Beirut Blues by Hanan Al-Shaykh
+ 10 Task (born November 12, 1945)
+ 10 Combo (10.1 – Blues, 10.5 – Beirut)
+ 10 LiT (translated from Arabic)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 835
15.3 1851-1900Miss Julie by August Strindberg
Published 1888
+15 Task
+10 Style
Task Total: 25
20.1 Monsterfest Redux
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Post Total: 45
Grand Total: 605
10.1 Football Season - word 'tiger' in the book titleThe Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
+10 task
+5 Combo - fits Task 20.8 as it is a work of non-fiction
Task total: 15
Grand TOTAL: 190
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Death of a Stranger by Anne Perry 10/28
+10 Task
Task Total 10
Grand Total 920 ...
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10.4 One Hit Wonders
Nine Parts of Desire The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
+10 Task
+15 Combo ALso Fits 10.10, 20.8, 10.6
Task Total 25
Grand Total 1000
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Hi Cheryl:
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women doesn't fit for Task 10.4 as it is not Geraldine Brooks only non-ficton book. I'm disallowing the points for this book in this message.
You have also claimed this book for a couple of different tasks in your next message. Per the challenge rules, a book can only be used for ONE task.
10.4 One Hit Wonders
Nine Parts of Desire The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
+10 Task
+15 Combo ALso Fits 10.10, 20.8, 10.6
Task Total 25
Grand Total 1000