FA10 RwS Completed Tasks

[colleen]

Task 20.1 Monsterfest Redux: In the Company of Vampires by Katie MacAlister (Option B - "vampire" in title)

+20 Task
+5 Series (Book 8 of the 'Dark Ones' series)

Task Total= 25
Grand Total= 2525

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I completed task 10.6 What A Way To Make A Living by reading "Freedom Writers" by Erin Gruvell.

Task Points: 10
Style Points: 10 (Combo 20.5 Freedom-the students of Room 203 freed themselves from violence and drug lifestyles, 20.8 Non fiction)

Grand Total: 180

[Shannon SA]

Task 15.3
Constant Traveller

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Task points: 15 + 10 = 25

Total points: 160

[colleen]

Task 20.1 Monsterfest Redux: Tale of the Witch Doll by Mildred A. Wirt (Option B- "witch" in title)(YA - no lexile score)

+20 Task

Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 2545

[Cheryl]

I have one more to add

20.8 Nonfiction 200+ pages

The Lost Dogs by Jim Gorant
The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
+20 Task
Task Total 20
Grand Total 2530

[Rebekah]

RTT 1601 - 1650 8th stop
The Merry Wives Of Windsor by William Shakespeare pub. 1602

+15 pts Task
+10 pts Bonus

25 pts Task Total
920 pts Grand Total

[Karen Michele]

We lost power for a couple of days, so I got some reading done, but couldn't post. Here are some taks I completed:

10.6 – What a Way to Make a Living

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography by Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher tells us which events of his childhood have made their way into his books or into his ideas about therapy, his other job. I hope to read more of his great fiction during the Winter Challenge.

+10 Task

20.5 – Freedom Season

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Lexile 670

+20 Task
+ 0 Series (Book 1 in 'Caster Chronicles' series) Low Lexile

+20

...Lots of Southern flavor in a town where you have to perform in a Civil War reenactment to pass history class!Also, there is a great back-story here that takes place during the Civil War.

Task Totals this Post: 10 + 20 = 30

I must subtract 20 points for Marcelo In The Real World by Francisco X. Stork because Francisco X. Stork was born in Mexico but only lived there until he was 9, so he does not qualify for the task after all.

Gain this Post: 10 Points
Grand Total: 720

[Rebekah]

Rachel wrote: "READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

20.7 Unification Season

I read The Legend Of The Seventh Virgin, published in 1964.

+20 task
+5 combo (Task 10.8 Shine on Harv..."

Victoria Holt AKA Jean Plaidy AKA Phillipa Carr etc.
has a fall birthday! Sept 1

[Cassandra]

Task 10.7 Under the Covers: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (21 Great Books with Just-As-Great Movie Versions)

+10 Task Points

Task Total = 10


Task 20.10A Late One Night...: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (#11)

+20 Task Points
+20 Combo (20.1C, A ghost story; 10.9, The castle of Otranto: a Gothic story and The Castle of Otranto : a gothic novel; 10.5, Otranto; 10.3, born in September)

Task Total = 40


Task 20.1B Monsterfest Redux: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (Witches)

+20 Task Points
+5 Series (Discworld Series)

Task Total = 25

Grand Total = 510

[Erin]

20.7 Unification Season

The Stone Raft by José Saramago p.1980

The other book I read for this task was from America, and this one is from Portugal.

+20 Task Points
+5 Combo (10.3 Saramago born 11/16/1922)
+10 LiT (Translated from Portuguese)

Task Total=35
Grand Total=615

[colleen]

Task 20.3 Season of Shorter Days: The Gift of Love by Lori Foster, et al. (anthology by multiple authors)

+20 Task

Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 2565

[Coralie]

10.2 Literature map
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May

+ 10 Task (literature map of Anne McCaffrey)
+ 5 Series (first of Saga of the Exiles)

Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 905

[colleen]

Task 20.1 Monsterfest Redux: Her Vampire Husband by Michele Hauf (Option B - "vampire" in title)

+20 Task
+5 Series (Book 3 of 'Wicked Games' series)

Task Total= 25
Grand Total= 2590

[Bobbie]

10.4 - One Hit Wonder: Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher (only novel published)
+10 task points

10.5 - City Lights: Salvation City- Sigrid Nunez
+10 task points

10.7 - Under the Covers: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
(http://www.flashlightworthybooks.com/...)
+10 task points

20.3 - Shorter Days: Dracula's Guest - Michael Sims
+20 task points

20.8 - Just the Facts: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time - Rob Sheffield
+20 task points

20.8 - Just the Facts: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated - Alison Arngrim
+20 task points
+5 combo points (10.4 only book published)
+25 total points

New points: 95
Grand total: 305

[Tobey]

20.2 Banned Book Week - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (using option B, book is listed at #88)
+20 Task
+5 Combo (Fall Birthday's - Margaret Atwood's birthday is Nov 18)

Task Total=25
Grand Total=175

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

RtT Constant Traveler

15.9 1551-1600 The Spanish Tragedy, pub 1589

+15 task
+10 RtT bonus

Task Total = 25

Grand Total = 610

[Krista]

In Msg 857 - Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I completed task 10.6 What A Way To Make A Living by reading "Freedom Writers" by Erin Gruvell.

Task Points: 10
Style Points: 5 10 (Combo 20.5 Freedom-the students of Room 203 freed themselves from violence and drug lifestyles, 20.8 Non fiction)

Grand Total: 180
..."

Hi Jayme:

This book doesn't qualify for Task 20.5. For Task 20.5, the book either needs to be about the Civil War, or set in the American South. From the book blurb it doesn't look like this book fits either one of requirements.

Adjusted Grand Total = 175

[Krista]

Rebekah wrote: "Rachel wrote: "READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

20.7 Unification Season

I read The Legend Of The Seventh Virgin, published in 1964.

+20 task
+5 combo (Task 10.........

Victoria Holt AKA Jean Plaidy AKA Phillipa Carr etc.
has a fall birthday! Sept 1
...."

I've added the 5 extra Combo points to Rachel OH's score for this book.

Adjusted Grand Total = 220

[colleen]

Task 20.3 Season of Shorter Days: Hot Spell by Emma Holly, et al. (anthology by more than one author)

+20 Task

Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 2610

[Karen Michele]

RtT Task Traveler Type = Constant:

1750-1701 (Task 15.6)

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)

+15 Task
+10 Style Points
Task Total = 25

RwS Task:

10.4 – One Hit Wonders

First and Only Novel (1 short story collection)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

+10 Task

Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 755

[Julie]

20.8 Just the Facts Ma’am: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
+20 Task
+5 Combo: One Hit Wonders (only book)
+5 Combo: Fall Birthdays (Sep 19)
Task Total = 30
Challenge Total = 200

[Liz]

20.8. The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich - David bach

+20task

New total 505

[colleen]

Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays: Morgan by Lori Foster (Birthday - November 14)

+10 Task
+5 Series (Book 2 of 'Buckhorn Brothers' series)

Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 2625

[Liz M]

Liz M wrote: "Task 10.10 – Group Reads: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

+10 Task
+5 Series (Gormenghast #1)
+5 Jumbo (506 pgs)

Task Total = 20..."

I just found The Gormenghast Trilogy on Bloom's Western Canon.

+10 Canon points
New Grand Total: 1275

[PDXReader]

Task 10.9: Also Known As
Let the Right One In (aka Let Me In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Task points 10
Language points 5
Total task points = 15

Task 20.8: Just the facts, ma'am - Read any 200+p NF.
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben McIntyre.
Task points 20
Total task points = 20

Total challenge points: 215

[Liz]

Task 20.4 East of Eden - John Steinbeck (takes place on a farm)
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 - using lit. map of F.Scott Fitzgerald, 10.7 - Flashlight worthy- using Oprah's list)
+ 5 Jumbo (608 pages)

=35 points

Total: 540 points

[Coralie]

20.6 Multicultural Season
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

+ 20 Task
+ 5 combo (10.5 City Lights)
+ 5 Series (Eagle and Jaguar series)
+ 10 LiT (Spanish)

Task Total = 40

20.7 Unification Season
New Patches for Old
+20 Task (Australia, 1977)
Task Total = 20

20.7 Unification Season
The Fountains of Paradise

+20 Task (UK 1979)
Task Total = 20


Grand Total = 985

[Karen Michele]

RtT Task, Traveler Type = Constant

1700-1651 (Task 15.7)

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn1688

+15 Task
+10 Style Points
Task Total = 25

RwS Tasks

10.5 – City Lights

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

+10 Task

10.8 Shine on Harvest Moon

M Is for Magic by Neil GaimanLexile 880



+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3 – Fall Birthdays (November 10)

Task Total: 15 Points

20.8 “Just the Facts Ma’am”

These are essays about David Sedaris' family (nonfiction)

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

I also read a book under the 200 page limit that I recommend but cannot claim for points:

Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau

+20 Task

20.9 – Sam’s Choice: Scandinavian Noir

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

+20 Task
+10 Lit (translated from Swedish)

+30 Points

Task Total = 105
RwS Completion! 100
Points this Post: 205
Grand Total = 955

Now, to try to finish RtT...

[Krista]

In Msg 879 -- Liz M wrote: "Liz M wrote: "Task 10.10 – Group Reads: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

+10 Task
+5 Series (Gormenghast #1)
+5 Jumbo (506 pgs)

Task Total = 20..."

I just found The Gormenghast Trilogy on Bloom's Western Canon.

+10 Canon points
New Grand Total: 1275 ..."

Hi Liz: Good catch! I've updated your score. As of this post it is 1275 as you've shown.

nafancy also read "Titus Groan" for the Group Reads task. I'm adding the 10 Canon Style points to her score also.

nsfancy's Adjusted Grand Total as of this message = 1350

[Krista]

In Msg 880 - Miss GP wrote: "Task 10.9: Also Known As
Let the Right One In (aka Let Me In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Task points 10
Language points 5 10
Total task points = 15 20 .............

Total challenge points: 215
..."

You get 10 Style points for Lost in Translation (Foreign Language) not the 5 shown here.

Adjusted Total Challenge Points: 210

[Krista]

In Msg 883 -- Karen GHHS wrote: "RtT Task, Traveler Type = Constant ....

20.9 – Sam’s Choice: Scandinavian Noir

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

+20 Task
+5 Series Combo points
+10 Lit (translated from Swedish)
+30 Points

Task Total = 105
RwS Completion! 100
Points this Post: 205
Grand Total = 955
..."

+ 5 Series Combo points for Faceless Killers

Adjusted Grand Total = 960

Congrats on completing all the Reading with Style tasks!

[[deleted user]]

Krista wrote: "In Msg 879 -- Liz M wrote: "Liz M wrote: "Task 10.10 – Group Reads: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

+10 Task
+5 Series (Gormenghast #1)
+5 Jumbo (506 pgs)

Task Total = 20..."

I just found Th..."

Thanks! I wonder how many time I have looked at that list and still missed Mr. Peake.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

RtT Constant Traveler


15.10 1500-1550 The Prince, pub 1532

+ 15 Task
+ 10 RtT Bonus
+100 RtT Completion Bonus

Task Total = 125

Grand Total = 735


I'm hopeful to get in one more book before the end of the Challenge Tuesday evening.

[[deleted user]]

Task 10.1 Football Windy City Blues (V.I. Warshawski Novels by Sara Paretsky

Task points 10
+10 Combo (10.2 Map of Agatha Christie, 10.5 City Lights)
+5 Series (VI Warshawski)

Task total 25
Total points 1375


Task 20.1 Monsterfest Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle

Task points 20
+5 Combo (10.3 Fall B'day Oct 1, 1960)
+5 Series (Devil's Point #1)

Task total 30
Total points 1405

Task 20.8 Just the Facts Agility Right from the Start by Eva Bertilsson

Task points 20

Task total 20
Total points 1425

[colleen]

Task 10.3 Fall Birthdays: Surrender of a Siren by Tessa Dare (November 9)

+10 Task
+5 Series (Book 2 of 'Goddess' trilogy)

Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 2640

[Karen Michele]

Krista wrote: "In Msg 883 -- Karen GHHS wrote: "RtT Task, Traveler Type = Constant ....

20.9 – Sam’s Choice: Scandinavian Noir

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

+20 Task
+5 Series Combo points
+10 Li..."

Thanks for catching the series points for me, Krista!

[Rebekah]

RTT 1551 - 1600 Constant Traveler
Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe pub 1563 but revised 1570
(Can you believe people were burned at the stake for reading just The Lord's Prayer in English!)

15 pts -Task
10 pts -Bonus
25 pts -Task Total

945 Grand Total

[Allie]

10.10 Group Reads

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks

+10 Task Points
+10 Combo (10.3 Fall Birthday - 9/14/1955; 20.8 Just the Facts)

Total = 20 Points
Grand Total = 695 points

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I completed task 10.3 Fall Birthdays by reading "The Lady and the Unicorn" by Tracey Chavalier. Her birthday is October 19, 1962.

Task Points: 20
Style: 0
Grand total: 195

[colleen]

RtT: Time Leaper (second pass)
Task 15.2 1901-1950: The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. Wirt (pub. 1942)

+15 Task

Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 2655

[Christy]

Task 10.2 Lit Map (I used Dave Eggers). I read Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.

task points = 10
style points = 5 (jumbo +500 pages)

Task 10.5 City Lights. I read Salvation City by Sigrid Nunez.

task points = 10

total points this post = 25
grand total (and I'm done!) = 330

[Liz M]

Karen GHHS wrote: "Hi Krista,
I wasn't sure where to ask this, but did you know we now have two run-off polls going? I think the other one was posted by Sam a couple of days ago. It's poll #3 on the polls list. I vot..."

Um, it's actually Poll #1 and Poll #3. I voted. Twice.

[Rebekah]

RTT - Constant Traveler
1500 - 1551 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli pub 1532

15 pts - Task
10 pts - Bonus
100 pts RTT completion Bonus
200 pts - Mega Finish Bonus

325 pts - Total
1245 pts - Grand Total

Woo-Hoo!
I still have an audiobook I'm about to finish and another book-book. Hope I can get it all done in the next 30 hours!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Karen GHHS wrote: "Hi Krista,
I wasn't sure where to ask this, but did you know we now have two run-off polls going? I think the other one was posted by Sam a couple of days ago. It's poll #3 on the polls list. I vot..."

I'm only voting in Sam's. It came out first, and I figured Krista would just delete the other one.

[Karen Michele]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "Hi Krista,
I wasn't sure where to ask this, but did you know we now have two run-off polls going? I think the other one was posted by Sam a couple of days ago. It's poll #3 on t..."
You were right -- the extra poll is gone. I'm going to delete my messages about it so as not to confuse things and "muddy up" the thread.

[Krista]

Karen GHHS wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "Hi Krista,
I wasn't sure where to ask this, but did you know we now have two run-off polls going? I think the other one was posted by Sam a couple of d..."

Sorry about the confusion guys! I didn't see Sam's run-off poll out there before I posted the duplicate. If you haven't done it yet, go VOTE on the new run-off poll. Right now it's still pretty close.

[Karen Michele]

RtT Tasks, Traveler Type = Constant

1650-1601 (Task 15.8)

Othello by Shakespeare 1622

+15 Task
+10 Style Points
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 985

[Coralie]

10.3 Fall Birthdays
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville

+ 10 Task (born on October 14, 1950)

Task Total = 10


20.3 The Season of Shorter Days
Worlds Of Honor

+ 20 Task
+ 5 Series (Worlds of Honor series)

Task Total 25

RwS Finish 100

Grand Total = 1120

[Norma]

15.5 Reading through time - Constant traveller
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
Task point

[Norma]

15.5 posting continued
task points 15
constant traveller 10
total task 25

total points 225