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WI 10-11 RwS Completed Tasks - Winter
Christy wrote: "Rebekah- I don't think I can use Skippy Dies for 10.6 (Noel) since the author's name has an "l" (Paul Murray). But many thanks for catching the combo points on [book:Life and Times ..."Oh No! My reading skills are becoming as bad as my math skills! Sorry about that!
Christy wrote: "Rebekah- I don't think I can use Skippy Dies for 10.6 (Noel) since the author's name has an "l" (Paul Murray). But many thanks for catching the combo points on [book:Life and Times ..."Yes, just go correct your original message now. I haven't added the points for that book into the scores yet.
Task 20.8 Time Travel: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis+20 Task
+5 Jumbo (578 pages)
Task Total= 25
Grand total= 250
Reading w/Style20.3 – Shortest Day/Month of the Year Numbers by Rachel Ward (Lexile 650, duh!)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 90
Task 20.9 Best of 2010: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach (#41)+20 Task
Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 1910
Finally got through my first two Backpacking through Europe books, as a Land and Sea traveler...Task 15.1 Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece)
task points 15
Task 15.2 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (Italy)
task points 15
style points 10
total points this post = 40
grand total = 315
RwS Task10.5 – New Year’s Resolution:
Best Beginnings #34
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (Publ 1605)
+15 Jumbo (940 pages)
Total: +50
Grand Total: 705
hey, sara Grace! You and I should do a book(S) discussion on this trilogy since we both read them for this challenege. Send me a post to my profile if you think it would be interesting.
I completed task 10.9 Alphabet Soup F-S by reading "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins.Task Points: 10
Style: 10 (Combo-20.1 Not A Creature Was Stirring, post apotylic, Series- book 2 of Hunger Games)
Grand Total: 230
Karen GHHS wrote: "RwS Task10.5 – New Year’s Resolution: Best Beginnings #34
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (Publ 1605)
+15 Jumbo (940 pag..."
15 Oldies points
Liz M wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "RwS Task10.5 – New Year’s Resolution: Best Beginnings #34
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+10 Task
Oh thank you, Liz. I thought it was going to be 50 points and wondered why I only came up with 45. I'll go edit my post!
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (Publ 1605)
+..."
Task 20.5 Here Comes Hanakhah Night by Elie Wiesel
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (20.3 shortest day/month, 20.4 detour to Sweden)
+5 pts oldies (Pub 1958)
35 pts - Task Total
465 - Grand Total
10.2 A Special GiftYou've Been Warned by James Patterson
Given to me by a friend :)
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.6 Noel
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 685
Task 15.5 (5th Itinerary Stop) ItalyBackpacking Tasks, Traveler Type = Land & Sea
5 France -> Italy
The Last Dragon by Silvana de Mari [Shaun Whiteside (Translator)]
Silvana de Mari was born at Caserta, Italy and currently resides "near" Turin, Italy
Lexile Score: 950L
+15 Task
+ 10 Bonus
+ 25 Task Total
Grand Total: 400 + 25 = 425
Backpacking Tasks, Traveler Type = Land & Sea Task 15.10 (10th Itinerary Stop) Russia, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
+ 15 Task
+ 10 Style
Task Total = 25
+ Backpacking through Europe Completion Bonus 100 points
RwS
10.2 A Special Gift
A Christmas present – Animal Dreams
+ 10 Task
Task Total = 10 points
10.10 Group Read
The Remains of the Day
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Combo (10.6 No El, 10.7 Booker Prize)
Task Total = 20 points
20.4 A Short Detour to Sweden
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
+ 20 Task
+ 5 combo (10.6 No El)
+10 Canon
+ 5 Oldies (1957)
+ 5 Jumbo (542 pages)
Task Total = 45 points
Grand Total = 1205
Task 20.1 - Post-Apocalyptic FictionThe Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham #21 on the Goodreads Post-Apocalyptic List
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.6 No El)
+ 5 Oldies (1951)
Task Total = 30 points
Grand Total = 425 + 30 = 455
In Msg 412 -- Rhea wrote: ".... 10.9 - Alphabet Soup: Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber (F-S, Fritz-Swords)+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.1, short stories)
+5 Series (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #2)
+5 Oldies (Publ 1970)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 1145 ..."
Hi Rhea:
You've already used the (F-S) letter combo once for this task. ( 4 Bodies And A Funeral by Stephanie Bond. )
The task rule states, "You can repeat this task as many times as you wish but you may only use each pair once."
Sorry, I can't count the points for the book posted here. If you can find another task where it will fit, please add it in a new message.
Thanks! -Krista
Adjusted Grand Total = 1120
In Msg 415 -- Tammy wrote: "10.6 - Noel, Noel: ....20.9 Best of 2010: Worth Dying For
Task Total = 20
Posting Total = 40
Grand Total = 245..."
Worth Dying For is #15 in the Jack Reacher series.
+ 5 Series Style Points
Adjusted Posting Total = 45
Adjusted Grand Total = 250
In Msg 424 -- Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I completed task 20.7 Goodbye, So Long, Good Riddance. I read "Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society" by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. This is a nonfiction book about aTask Points: 10
Style Points: 0
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 190 ..."
Hi Jayme:
This is a 20 point task.
Adjusted Task Points: 20
Adjusted Grand Total = 200
10.6 Noel Noel Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese+10 Task
+ 5 Jumbo, 667 pages
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 100 (!)
Krista wrote: "In Msg 424 -- Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I completed task 20.7 Goodbye, So Long, Good Riddance. I read "Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society" by Jason Hawes and G..."I typed it down as a 20 point task but didn't add it right. Thanks for catching that. :)
Task 20.7 Goodbye, So Long, Good Riddance: Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town About the Meth problem in Olewein Iowa in the first decade of the 2000s.Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 270
Thanks Krista for catching the extra points on my earlier post!
In Msg 429 -- Karen GHHS wrote: "Backpacking Tasks, Traveler Type = Land & Sea Task 15.10 (10th Itinerary Stop) Norway:
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
....
And this completes my wonderful Backpacking Across Europe journey! "
Congrats on completing your backpacking journey Karen!!
In Msg 438 -- Rachel wrote: "READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OHI completed...
15.2 Backpacking Through Europe
Itinerary: Land and Sea
Stop #2: Sweden
I read Depths.
+15 Task
Task Total=15
TOTAL POINTS=90"
Land & Sea Travelers start earning the 10 bonus Style points with their second book.
+10 Style Points
Adjusted Total Points = 100
In Msg 446 -- nsfancy wrote: ....Task 10.9 Alphabet Soup Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (G-T)
Task points 10
+20 Series ( Discworld series, 4th read this challenge) ..."
Way to work in those Series points! I *think* you're the first person to work four books in a series into a single challenge.
In Msg 474 -- Coralie wrote: "Backpacking Tasks, Traveler Type = Land & Sea Task 15.10 (10th Itinerary Stop) Russia, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
+ 15 Task
+ 10 Style
Task Total = 25
+ Backpacking through Europe Completion Bonus 100 points ..."
Hi Coralie:
Congratulations on your swift backpacking trip through Europe. I hope you enjoyed the jaunt. :-)
Task 10.3 V-Day: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier+ 10 Task
+ 15 Combo (10.5 Best Beginning, 10.6 No "L", 20.3)
+ 5 Oldies (Publ 1938)
Task Total = 30
Some books really DO deserve to be called "Classic". This was so much more interesting/suspenseful than I had anticipated. I'd been meaning to read this for so long. I'm glad I finally worked it into a challenge.
Task 20.5 Put on your yarmulke..:
Patrimony : A True StoryPhilip Roth
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.3, Shortest Day - 1 Word Title)
+ 10 Cannon
Task Total = 35
I really enjoyed this book too.
Task 15.5 Backpacking through Europe, stopping in France.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
+15 Task
+10 Style
Task Total = 25
(I'm afraid I'm not going to make it all the way through Europe by the end of the challenge!)
New Points Posted = 90
Grand Total = 385
Krista wrote: "In Msg 412 -- Rhea wrote: ".... 10.9 - Alphabet Soup: Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber (F-S, Fritz-Swords)+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.1, short stories)
+5 Series (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #2..."
Sorry, I missed that part of the task. I'll use it for 10.1 instead.
10.1 - Turkey Coma: Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories)
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 F-S Fritz-Leiber)
+5 Series (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #2)
+5 Oldies (Publ 1970)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 1145
15.3 Stop = Sweden The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson+15 task
+10 style (3rd stop land/sea)
= 25 task total
Grand total = 235 points
Reading w/Style 20.4 - A Short Detour to Sweden: Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1968 Nobel Laureate)
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.6, No L)
+5 Oldies (Publ 1947)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 120
Task 20.3 Shortest Day Next by James Hynes
20 task points
5 combo 10.6 Noel
total = 25
grand total = 340
Task 20.9 Best of 2010: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan (#12) (Lexile= 930L)+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 Alphabet Soup (J-W))
Task Total= 25
Grand Total= 1955
Task 20.9 Best of 2010: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (#7)+20 Task
+10 Series (Book 3 of 'Millennium' series; used Book 2 for task 10.9)
+5 Jumbo (563 pp)
Task Total= 35
Grand Total= 1990
20.5 HanukkahDeath of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Oldies (published 1949)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total = 455
Backpacking Through Europe - L&S Traveller15.3 (Destination #3 - United Kingdom) - The Black Sun by James Twining
+15 Task
+10 Style
Task Total=25
Grand Total=225
Task 20.9 Best of 2010: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant (#34)+20 Task
Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 2010
I completed task 10.9 Alphabetically Speaking C-P by reading "The Constant Princess" by Philippa Gregory.Task Points: 10
Style: 0
Grand Total: 240
RwS Tasks10.6 – Noel, Noel:
The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri
+10 Task
Task Total:10
20.2 – “While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads”
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.3, Shortest Day)
Task Total: 25
20.3 – Shortest Day/Month of the Year
Willow by Julia Hoban Lexile 730
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.9, Alphabet Soup F-S)
Task Total: 25
Task Total This Post: 60
Grand Total: 765
10.9 - Cheryl TX's 2nd Place Task - Alphabet SoupF-S
Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
+10 Task
+5 Series (Book 6 in Hannah Swensen)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 135
READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OHI completed...
20.7 Goodbye, So Long, Good Riddance
I read To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight about the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903.
+20 Task
15.3 Backpacking Through Europe
Itinerary: Land and Sea
Stop#3: Germany
I read Siddhartha.
+15 Task
15.4 Backpacking Through Europe
Itinerary: Land and Sea
Stop #4: U.K.
I read Wives and Daughters.
+15 Task
Task Total=50
TOTAL POINTS=140
20.3 Shortest DayFrankenstein by Mary Shelley
+20 task
+5 Combo 10.9 F-S
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies - published 1818
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 735
Task 20.3 One Word Title: Obsession by Tori Carrington+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.6 Noel, Noel)
+5 Series (Book 2 of 'Dangerous Liaisons')
Task Total= 30
Grand Total= 2040
Task 10.3 V-day Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Task points 10
+15 Combo (10.5 best beginning, 10.6 Noel, 20.3 one word)
+5 Oldie (1938)
Task total 30
Total points 480
Task points 10
+15 Combo (10.5 best beginning, 10.6 Noel, 20.3 one word)
+5 Oldie (1938)
Task total 30
Total points 480
Task 15.4 BtE Land & Sea France The English at the North Pole by Jules Verne
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task total 25
Total points 505
Task 15.5 (UK) Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task total 25
Total points 530
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task total 25
Total points 505
Task 15.5 (UK) Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
Task points 15
+10 Style
Task total 25
Total points 530
RwSTask 10.9- Alphabet Soup: Room by Emma Donoghue
+ 10 Task (E-R)
+ 20 Combo (10.7, 10.6, 20.9 (#35 on list) & 20.3)
Task Total=30
Grand Total=255
Backpacking TasksTraveler Type = Land & Sea
Task 15.10 (Last Itinerary Stop - Serbia)
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
+15 Task
+10 bonus
Task total: 25
+100 Well-traveled bonus
Grand Total: 545 points
Backpacking TasksTraveler Type =Air (2nd trip)
Task 15.3 Sweden: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
+15 Task
Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 2055
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