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RwS Tasks:10.1 – Football Season?
The Demon's Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan Lexile 810
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3 Fall Birthdays (September 21))
+ 5 Series (Book 2 in 'The Demon's Lexicon' series)
Task Total: 20 Points
10.2 – Literature Map
Lisa McMann is the author for my Literature Map
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles No Lexile Available
+10 Task
Task Total: 10 Points
RtT Task, Traveler Type = Constant:
1800-1751 (Task 15.5)Candide by Voltaire (1759)
+15 Task
+10 Style Points
Task Total = 25
Task Total = 55
Grand Total = 690
RTT 1701 - 1750 Constant Traveler 6th stopPamela: Or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson (1740)
15 Task
10 Bonus
25 Task Total
695 = Grand Total with the 5 added points for TGL&PPS- Harvest Season
Task 20.5 Freedom Season The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Task points 20
+10 Canon
+5 Combo (Banned Book)
Task total 35
Total points 940
And so it is done! And with two weeks to spare - last challenge went down to the wire to get that last book in :)
+200 Mega finish
Total points 1140
Task points 20
+10 Canon
+5 Combo (Banned Book)
Task total 35
Total points 940
And so it is done! And with two weeks to spare - last challenge went down to the wire to get that last book in :)
+200 Mega finish
Total points 1140
nsfancy wrote: "Task 20.5 Freedom Season The Awakening by Kate Chopin.....And so it is done! And with two weeks to spare - last challenge went down to the wire to get that last book in :)
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Good going! Congratulations on completing the whole enchilada, and getting it done two weeks earlier than last quarter's challenge! -Krista
READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OHI completed...
10.1 Football Season
I used "swans" and read Swan Island.
15.2: Reading Through Time 1900-1950
Designation: Time Leaper
I read: The Blue Castle, published in 1925.
Task Totals= 25 points
TOTAL POINTS= 155
RtT: Time leaper (for my 2nd time through)Task 15.3 1851-1900: She by H. Rider Haggard (publ. 1887)
+15 Task
Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 1930
Task 20.5 Freedom Season: I'll Be Slaying You by Cynthia Eden (set in Louisiana and Texas)+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 Shine On Harvest Moon - moon on the cover in upper left)
+5 Series (Book 2 of 'Night Watch' series)
Task Total= 30
Grand Total= 1960
Task 10.2 Lit Map (Kelley Armstrong): Masques by Patricia Briggs+10 task
+5 series (Book 1 of 'Sianim' series)
Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 1975
Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays: Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts (Birthday October 10)+10 Task
+5 series (Book 4 of the 'Bride' quartet)
Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 1990
20.1 Monsterfest Redux:A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 Just the facts)
Task Total = 25
Challenge Total = 170
20.4 Harvest SeasonThe Red Pony
+ 20 Task Lexile 820
Task Total = 20
20.9 Scandinavian Noir
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9 Also published as The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest)
+10 Lost in Translation (Swedish)
+ 10 Jumbo (743 pages)
Task Total = 45
Grand Total = 900
I know I'm stretching it a bit here, but I thought it was interesting that different publishers couldn't agree on where to put the apostrophe.
Julie wrote: "20.1 Monsterfest Redux:A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill"
+ 5 combo points for 20.8 Just the facts
20.5 Freedom SeasonGone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
+20 Task Points
+10 Combo Points (10.3 Fall Birthdays - 11/8/1900; 10.4 One Hit Wonder)
+25 Jumbo (1024 pages)
Total = 55 points
Grand Total = 675 points
10.3 Fall BirthdaysBeau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
+ 10 Task (born November 1, 1875
+ 5 Series (first of Beau trilogy)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 915
Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays: Ice by Stephanie Rowe (Birthday - October 23)+10 Task
+5 Series (Book 1 of 'Alaska' series)
Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 2005
10.3 Fall BirthdaysChrist the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice (Oct 4)
+10 (Task)
+5 (Series - Christ the Lord #1)
Total Task Points=15
Grand Total=120
Liz M wrote: "Julie wrote: "20.1 Monsterfest Redux:A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill"
+ 5 combo points for 20.8 Just the facts"
Oh thanks Liz! I updated my post (#766)
Krista wrote: "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 p..."
I am a constant traaveller and have read the books in order
Krista wrote: "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 Po..."
Not sure what happened when I posted these task but here is what it should be
10.2 Literature Map read JA jance last challenge, read Charlene harris's Shakespear's Landing for this challenge.
10.3 fall birthday - charlene harris - read Living Deadly in Dallas for this challenge.
15.4 Reading through Time - Constant traveller1801 - 1850 The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (1846)
Task points 15
+ 10
total task points 25
total points 110
Task 10.1 Australian Football Season The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
+10 - Task
+5 - Combo (10.3, birthday is Oct. 2)
+10 - Canon
25 pts Task Total
720 pts Grand Total
I completed task 20.5 Freedom Season by reading "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. It is set in Jackson, Mississippi.Task Points: 20
Style:0
Grand Total: 160
I've just joined this challenge, so I'm just retrofitting what I read this season to the challenge tasks.Task 20.4 Harvest Season The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
+20 Task
20 pts Task Total
Task 20.8 Just the Facts The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 - takes place mostly on family farm in Malawi)
25 pts Task Total
20.8 Just the Facts The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, only book by this author; 10.5 City Lights - Gander)
30 pts Task Total
75 Grand Total
Task 20.8 Just the Facts The Emotional Life of the Toddler+20 Task
20pts Task Total
Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays Back When We Were Grownups
+10 Task (Tyler's birthday is 10/25)
10pts Task Total
Task 20.8 Just the Facts Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4 - takes place on her family's tobacco farms)
25pts Task total
130 Grand Total
Task 10.2 Literature Map -- using Mark Kurlansky (read Salt: A World History over the summer)Book: Pinball, 1973
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.7 Unification Season, published 1980)
+5 Series (Second Book in "Trilogy of the Rat")
+10 Translation (from Japanese)
30pts Task Total
Task 20.7 Unification Season Hear the Wind Sing (Published 1979)
+20 Task
+10 Series (first in the "Trilogy of the Rat")
+5 Combo (10.2 Literature Map, Mark Kurlansky)
+10 Translation (from Japanese)
45 pts Task Total
Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays Brisingr
Lexile: 1050
+10 Task (Paolini's birthday is 11/17)
+5 Series
+10 Jumbo (book is over 700 pages)
25pts Task Total
230 Grand Total
Joanna wrote: "Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays Back When We Were Grownups +10 Task (Tyler's birthday is 10/25)
..."
This is an Anne Tyler I haven't yet read. Looks like a good one!
Task 20.8 Just the Facts Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages+20 Task
20pts Task Total
Task 10.7 Flashlight Worthy, Can't Put Down Teen Books
Rules
Lexile: 780
+10 Task
10pts Task Total
Task 20.1(B) Monsterfest Redux Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 Just the Facts)
25pts Task Total
285 Grand Total
Task 10.4 One Hit Wonders The Lotus Eaters+10 Task (debut novel)
10pts Task Total
Task 10.4 One Hit Wonders The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse
+10 Task (only speculative fiction book)
10pts Task Total
Task 20.8 Just the Facts The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
+20 Task
20pts Task Total
325 Grand Total
Task 20.3 Season of Shorter Days Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade+20 Task (This is nonfiction, but still counts, right?)
+5 Combo (20.8 Just the Facts)
25pts Task Total
15.1 Constant Traveller, First Stop The Tesseract
Published 1998
15pts RtT Total
Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays Mockingjay
Lexile: 800
+10 Task (Collins' birthday is 11/21)
+5 Series
15pts Task Total
380 Grand Total
Whew! I hope I did that right. I may finish a couple more by the end of the month. But it was sort of fun to review the list to see if I could make things fit. I have a few books that I couldn't figure out a way to include...I'll think about those a bit more.
That's alot of books Joanna:)
Elizabeth (Alaska)::I started putting the link or cover. Is is coming up when you look at it? You seem to know a lot about how things work and I don't want to bother the Moderators any more than I have already.
Thanks for your help.
Cheryl
Cheryl wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska)::I started putting the link or cover. Is is coming up when you look at it? You seem to know a lot about how things work and I don't want to bother the Moderators any more t..."
yes, you've been linking to the cover and those show up. Either the cover or just the book title work wonderfully and make things easier. Hope you're feeling more comfortable with it all.
10.2 – Literature MapI am using Joanne Fluke as the author. I have claimed combo points using J.K Rowling in post 60 but I have not claimed Task points for 10.2 with her so I believe this is a valid entry.
I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.7 Childrens Books- The Complete Harry Potter Series), 20.2- entire Harry Potter series is on challenged list)
+20 Series (this is the 4th Harry Potter book I have read this challenge)
+10 Jumbo (766 pages)
40 Task Points
Total Points = 390
Task 10.3 Fall birthday The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King Birthday Sept 19, 1952
Task points 10
+5 Series (Mary Russell)
Task total 15
Total points 1155
Task points 10
+5 Series (Mary Russell)
Task total 15
Total points 1155
Task 20.2 Banned Book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Task points 20
+5 Series (Tom Sawyer)
+10 Canon
+15 Combo (20.5 American south, 10.3 Fall B'day Nov.30, 1838, 10.2 Literature map of Agatha Christie)
Task total 50
Total points 1205
Task points 20
+5 Series (Tom Sawyer)
+10 Canon
+15 Combo (20.5 American south, 10.3 Fall B'day Nov.30, 1838, 10.2 Literature map of Agatha Christie)
Task total 50
Total points 1205
Krista, I am moving a book, originally posted in msg #200:+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 - Literature map of Lev Tolstoi)
+10 Canon
+10 Lit (Translated from Russian)
Task Total: 45 points
Task 10.2 Literature map of Lev Tolstoi:
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 - Monsterfest)
+10 Canon
+10 Lit (Translated from Russian)
Task total: 35
Task 10.10 – Group Reads: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
+10 Task
+5 Series (Gormenghast #1)
+5 Jumbo (506 pgs)
Task Total = 20
Previous total: 935
935 -45 +35 +20
Grand Total: 945
RtT Constant Traveler15.7 1651-1700 The Princesse de Clèves, pub 1678
+15 Task
+10 RtT Bonus
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 525
This was such a surprise that I might find a sentence or two to put in the review section. Sam, without Reading through Time, I'd likely never have heard of this and certainly never have read it, and that would have been my loss. So, thank you!
Task 20.5 Freedom Season: The Keepers (Silhouette Nocturne #97) by Heather Graham (set in Louisiana)+20 Task
+5 Series (Book 1 of 'Keepers')
Task Total= 25
Grand Total= 2030
10.3 – Fall BirthdaysA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Birthday: November 30
+10 Task
+10 Canon
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 710
Task 10.2 Lit Map (Kelley Armstrong): Restoree by Anne McCaffrey+10 Task
Task Total= 10
Grand Total= 2040
Joanna wrote: "I've just joined this challenge, so I'm just retrofitting what I read this season to the challenge tasks.Task 20.4 Harvest Season [book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society|2728527..."
Joanna, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is the book I used for 10.5, one hit wonders. You could add that for combo points.
Task 10.3 Author Birthdays Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Nov.18+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 Lit. Map for John Irving, 20.7 Reunification, Canada 1972)
+10 Canon
30 pts - Task Total
750 pts - Grand Total
Task 15.2 1901-1950 Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
+15 Task
+10 Style
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 630
Reading through Time - Constant Traveler15.2: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
+25 points
10.6 - Work: Adventures in the Screen Trade - William Goldman (Memoir about career as a screenwriter)
+ 10 Task Points
+ 5 Jumbo Points (594 pages)
Task Points: 15
10.9 - A.K.A.: The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle (A.K.A. The Sign of the Four)
+ 10 Task Points
+ 5 Series Points (Sherlock Holmes #2)
Task Points: 15
New Points: 55
Grand Total: 610
Task 20.5 Freedom Season: Star Island by Carl Hiaasen (set in Florida)+20 Task
Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 2060
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+20 Task
+ 5 Series Series: In American History
Task Total 25
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+20 Task
+ 5 Series Series: In American History
Task Total 25
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+ 5 Series Series: In American History
Task Total 25
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+20 Task
+ 5 Series Series: In American History
Task Total 25
Now I am DONE posting. :)