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FA11 Reading w/Style Completed Tasks - Fall 2011
Reading with Style10.9 In 1492. . .
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
+10 Task
+15 Oldies (pub 1886)
20.5 They Read
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
+20 Task
+10 Task (10.2-Arow; 10.3)
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
+20 Task
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2-Denae)
Post Total: 100
Season Total: 1105
I'll go with your figures. (smile) Seems like most of the time i try to cheat myself out of points.Where is my math? Who knows? In fact on my spread sheet I had another different number of 730!Somewhere in the convoluted masses of gray squiggles there are a few errant numerals hiding!
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "You could change it to 10.6 and add on the 10.2 as a combo."I don't think we can get combo points for 10.6
I think you can get combo points if you use the book for task 10.6 but you can't use 10.6 for combo points on other tasks.
Karen GHHS wrote: "First, I'd like to apologize for making so many dumb mistakes with my points this challenge! Most recently, I totally forgot to claim combo points for Lost in Translation for [book:Swallows of Kabu..."For some reason I though you finished long ago and were on your second go-round.
Denae wrote: "I think you can get combo points if you use the book for task 10.6 but you can't use 10.6 for combo points on other tasks."Yep! (and my total for Rebekah includes the +5 combo for 10.2).
Kate S wrote: "The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2-Denae)
"
Originally published in 1981, so also 5 Oldies points
Kate S wrote: "Reading with Style10.9 In 1492. . .
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
+10 Task
+15 Oldies (pub 1886)
..."
This gets only 10 Oldies as the breakdown for that number of points is 1861-1935
So your points for Msg #435 is the same (100), but we got there by different methods.
Yeah, and I made another error on that post: Joan of Arc has +5 Combo for 10.3 so I think all told that puts me at 1110?
Liz M wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "10.2 Highly Rated "Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (off of Rachel Lee's list)Task +10
Review +10
Jumbo + 5 (563pp)
Total: 320 ..."
Unfortun..."
So at post 345, my total is at 345. I thought my total was 295. Then at post 406, I added Beautiful Creatures. So which style points don't count? Just the review points? So take off the Review, that give me 310. Then at post 442, I added Northanger Abbey for 40(Task+20, Combo +5 (10.2 Highly rated), Oldies (1818))=40 So new total is 350. Do you have the correct points with the correct Jayme?
Rebekah wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "First, I'd like to apologize for making so many dumb mistakes with my points this challenge! Most recently, I totally forgot to claim combo points for Lost in Translation for [bo..."I finished the Back to School portion a while ago and I'm on round two of that part, but I hadn't finished all of the other tasks. Sure has been great reading!
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I thought my total was 295. Then at post 406, I added Beautiful Creatures. So which style points don't count? Just the review points? So take off the Review, that give me 310. Then at post 442, I added Northanger Abbey for 40(Task+20, Combo +5 (10.2 Highly rated), Oldies (1818))=40 So new total is 350. Do you have the correct points with the correct Jayme?..."You do not get any style points for YA with a Lexile score below 700, so Beautiful Creatures only receives the 10 task points.
295 +10 +40 = 345.
Liz M wrote: "nsfancy wrote: "BtS 15.8 Foreign Language Reckless by Cornelia Funke..."
In post 132, you claimed:
15.8 Dance Stardance by Spider Robinson
Task points 15
+5 pre 1980..."
Sorry Liz, this book was meant for 15.7 Foreign Language. Slip of the finger there.
In post 132, you claimed:
15.8 Dance Stardance by Spider Robinson
Task points 15
+5 pre 1980..."
Sorry Liz, this book was meant for 15.7 Foreign Language. Slip of the finger there.
Kate S wrote: "Reading with Style10.9 In 1492. . .
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
+10 Task
+15 Oldies (pub 1886)
20.5 They Read
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
..."
How was Joan of Arc? I LOVE Mark Twain but this is one of his books I haven't read. He is known to have thought that this book was his best work ever although the public didn't seem to concur. It's hard to imagine him writing without his brillant tongue-in-cheek observations that make his work so much fun to read!
10.2 – Highly-ratedSomething Rotten by Jasper Fforde, Marie & Rachel gave it 5 Stars
‘Something Rotten’ by Jasper Fforde is the fourth installment of the Thursday Next Series and is my second favourite after the first story. Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed book two and three but they were missing that underlining charm that ‘The Eyre Affair’ and ‘Something Rotten’ carry.
‘Something Rotten’ follows Thursday two years after ‘The Well of Lost Plots’. She has spent the last two years raising her son Friday within fiction. She has reached the point where she feels strong enough to return to the outland world and try to get her eradicated husband back.
The storyline is incredibly brilliant and original. I cannot think of other stories where the reader will encounter Hamlet trying to live amongst civilization, a gorilla as a babysitter, a crazy politician trying to burn all books that are Danish, Neanderthals playing croquet and groups of cloned Napoleon’s fighting against groups of cloned Waterloos!
As with the other books in this series, as soon as I finished book four I needed to immediately start book five. I foresee myself being very sad when this adventure ends.
+10 Task Points
+10 Review
+5 Combo Points (10.3 Metafiction)
Total Task Points 25
10.2 – Highly-rated
Baby Proof by Emily Giffin, Erin (NY) gave it 5 Stars
+10 Task Points
Total Task Points 10
10.6 – Fall Freebies
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
+ 10 Task Points
Total Task Points 10
10.6 – Fall Freebies
Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
+ 10 Task Points
Total Task Points 10
10.3 – Meta-reading
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.2 Highly Rated- Marie gave 5 Stars)
Task Total 15
New Grand Total = 210
15.9 – Gym, HealthShakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris
The murder in this story takes place at Lily Bard's gym. Lily Bard spends a lot of time working out and taking classes. She talks about your body's fitness level and it is a large part of her life.
+15 Task
Task Total 15
New Grand Total = 225
20.9 IMPAC AwardsThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
+20 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo(10.2 Highly rated by Shannon & Jennifer N.,10.7 Moslem Mindset,20.2 You read)
+10 pts - Review
45 pts - task total
795 pts - Grand Total ??
Review
This was a quick read, but the style was intriguing. The reader is drawn in as the narrator uses the second person as though the reader is the character in the story to whom he is speaking, presumably an armed(?) American man on possibly nefarious business in Lahore, Pakistan. The narrator has seemingly by accident noticed the foreigner in a market café and spends the evening telling his story of living the American dream, experiencing “third culture” syndrome, belonging to two yet not either culture at one time. Following the attacks of Sept 11 and when a crisis between his country and India develops that he feels the USA has a strong hand in, he is affected in a profound way that totally changed his outlook after the Sept 11 attacks and the subsequent American invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq. A lot of suspicion is felt on both sides. As he recounts his tale, he stops to ask “you” if you are comfortable or comments on your body language, hinting that he sees that you are armed without being direct. So much tension and the ending doesn’t relieve it. Is he a terrorist or a friendly man that once lived in your country and wants you to understand the feelings of his people? Or for that matter is the “you” a hit man of some sort? Draw your own conclusions.
Does anyone know if this gets LiT points? I saw it was first published in Jan 2007 but Harcourt did not publish it until April 2007. I also read that parts of it were previously published in the Paris Review which I assume is a French periodical?
It was short-listed for the Booker, and one of the rules of qualification includes:c) No English translation of a book written originally in any other language is eligible
Thanks, Elizabeth! Wasn't sure because of the different publication dates but the story itself would make more sense being written in English in the first place.
Rebekah wrote: How was Joan of Arc? I LOVE Mark Twain but this is one of his books I haven't read. He is known to have thought that this book was his best work ever although the public didn't seem to concur. It's hard to imagine him writing without his brillant tongue-in-cheek observations that make his work so much fun to read!Obviously, this is a different kind of book for Mark Twain. He clearly had to do far more researching about a different time and place outside his comfort zone. I found the story to be very readable and curious to read more about Joan of Arc. I was not left with the impression I had just read the best book ever written by Mark Twain, nor will I be in a huge hurry to re-read this particular novel. There were some slow parts in the book and at times it seemed a bit far fetched for me, but I think Mark Twain fans should read it at least once.
Kate S wrote: "Obviously, this is a different kind of book for Mark Twain...."And make sure you give yourself +10 points for a review.
Liz M wrote: "Kate S wrote: "Obviously, this is a different kind of book for Mark Twain...."And make sure you give yourself +10 points for a review."
Although my response to another reader's inquiry was not intended as a "review", I will take the 10 points!
Kate S wrote: "Liz M wrote: "Kate S wrote: "Obviously, this is a different kind of book for Mark Twain...."And make sure you give yourself +10 points for a review."
Although my response to another reader's inq..."
(smile) Thanks for the review!
10.10 Group ReadBossypants by Tina Fey
Review
After reading about the sorrow of Palestine and the destruction of the American Indian and their way of life, I was ready for something to make me laugh and Tina Fey delivered. I highly recommend the audiobook which Fey herself narrates. This causes one to feel they are in a tete-a-tete with the comedian. Her views on sexism, working moms, gay marriage etc, is related in such a way that while it doesn’t necessarily lighten the subject, it does mock the stereotypes while causing one to LOL. Not sure if this is a spoiler but the book includes the now iconic, original skit with her Sarah Palin persona in full glory in her non-debate with the Hilary Clinton character. (Sorry mind is blank and can’t remember that actress’s name right now and since it is an audiobook, can’t quickly look it up.)
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 highly rated by Kate S. and others, 20.1 I read)
+10 Review
30 pts Task total
780 pts - Grand total
Rebekah wrote: "10.10 Group ReadBossypants by Tina Fey
Review
After reading about the sorrow of Palestine and the destruction of the American Indian and their way of life, I w..."
Amy Poehler :)
15.7 Foreign Languages
The Fire Engine That Disappeared byMaj Sjöwall and Per Wahloo
(translated from Swedish)
+15 task
+5 oldies (pub. 1969)
20.10 Monsterfest III
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Not recommended for ex-smokers, this made me miss cigarettes. This is told first person from the monster’s perspective until the very end where it switches. Its a strange thing to read because you want to sympathize with the narrator yet he’s a monster, but then he also finds himself disgusting, but then he keeps doing monstrous things. I found it intriguing and fairly well written (except for the overuse of my least favorite word for female genitalia) until the very end. The last couple of chapters switch viewpoint, and without getting too spoiler-y, let me just say that I think that was a bit of cop out on the author’s part.
+20 task
+10 review
Post total=50
Grand total=535
The Fire Engine That Disappeared byMaj Sjöwall and Per Wahloo
(translated from Swedish)
+15 task
+5 oldies (pub. 1969)
20.10 Monsterfest III
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Not recommended for ex-smokers, this made me miss cigarettes. This is told first person from the monster’s perspective until the very end where it switches. Its a strange thing to read because you want to sympathize with the narrator yet he’s a monster, but then he also finds himself disgusting, but then he keeps doing monstrous things. I found it intriguing and fairly well written (except for the overuse of my least favorite word for female genitalia) until the very end. The last couple of chapters switch viewpoint, and without getting too spoiler-y, let me just say that I think that was a bit of cop out on the author’s part.
+20 task
+10 review
Post total=50
Grand total=535
Leigh wrote: "15.7 Foreign LanguagesThe Fire Engine That Disappeared byMaj Sjöwall and Per Wahloo
(translated from Swedish)
+15 task
+5 oldies (pub. 1969)
20.10 Monsterfest III
..."
So what happened to the fire engine? What a curious title! (smile)
Rebekah wrote: "So what happened to the fire engine? What a curious title! (smile)"
The real one went to the wrong part of the city and the toy one got put in the handy man's tool box. ;)
The real one went to the wrong part of the city and the toy one got put in the handy man's tool box. ;)
15.1 MathBorn on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
+15 Task
+5 Nonfiction
Task total: 20
20.6 Unreliable Narration
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
I enjoyed this book and the audiobook edition that I listened to was a lovely way to experience the creepy story. I can't believe I've never read this book and maybe never read anything by Henry James before. This is one of those books that I feel like I must have read, but the book and story weren't actually familiar once I started listening.
The short book, really more of a novella than a full-fledged novel, tells the story of a governess who is either working to protect the children in her care from mysterious ghosts or who is going bonkers. The book leaves it to the reader to decide what exactly happens, which James manages wonderfully.
+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2 Highly-rated, 10.5 Bedtime Stories: Dean Koontz, 20.8 Opera Books, 20.10 Monsterfest III )
+10 Oldies (1898)
+10 Review
Task total: 60
Grand total: 545
10.9 1492The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
Review
This book is definitely written for the YA readership. The story was interesting and the metaphors and symbolism of different ingredients in a dish were particularly novel , but overall many things in the story seemed stretched as far as accuracy is concerned. Although I am not an expert on life in 15th century Venice, some things as a three month apprenticeship to a Master Chef doesn’t seem likely. Weren’t apprenticeships for years? However the story is set in 1998 Venice when a street boy by sheer luck becomes such an apprentice. However in the manner of the DaVinci Code there is a secret society whose sole mission is to preserve writings and knowledge which would be damaging to the Church of that day. The narrator is telling us the story of that critical year, looking back on it as a grown man. I think the book is great for middle and high schoolers but a bit juvenile for adults.
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Review
+5 pts - Combo (20.1 I read)
25 pts - Task Total
100 pts - Completion of RWS challenge
905 - Grand Total
Now back to school to complete my last two classes!
Task 20.4We Read - Epistolary NovelPascali's Island (1980) by Barry Unsworth [Man Booker Prize Nominee - 1980] )(Paperback, 192 pages)
The structure of this novel is that it is a written report by an “informer” to his paymasters in Constantinople.
+20 Task
+05 Style: 4. Oldies (5 to 25 points): -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1936-1986)
Task Total: 20 + 5 = 25
Task 20.8 - Liz’s Task – It ain’t over...
Mozart’s The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna on Sept. 30th, 1791. In honor of this most-performed opera and of my fifth-year working at an opera company
A) Read a book on which an opera is based.
I read:
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Rosemary Edmonds ) (Paperback, Penguin Classic, 1472 pages)
Took me 3 months to read this time --- I had originally read War and Peace when I was a teenager (many years ago), but I think when I was a teenager I skipped the epilogue, since the epilogue is all about Leo Tolstoy’s view of history. The epilogue definitely could have been condensed. Other than that, the novel was amazing. 5*
+20 Task
+05 Style: 1. Combo (5 points): (10.2 (Erin (NY), Sally, Željka))
+10 Style 3. Lost in Translation (10 points):
+10 Style: 4. Oldies -76 to 150 years old: 10 points (1861-1935)
+25 Style: 5. Jumbo -1000+ Pages: 25 Points
Task Total: 20 + 05 + 10 + 10 + 25 = 70
Grand Total: 685 +25 + 70 = 780
20.9 - Reading with IMPACPereira Declares: A Testimony by António Tabucchi
+20 task
+5 combo (20.3 s/he reads)
+10 translation
Task total: 35 points
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
This beautifully written book, by Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, tells the multi-layered stories of two men that had studied in Europe (the north) and returned to Sudan. The narrator, at the beginning of the story, has just returned to his village after completing his studies in England. In his village is a stranger leading a seemingly simple, traditional life. But the narrator learns he, too, has spent years studying and teaching abroad. The stranger tells his story to the narrator one night but the reader only hears some of it. The rest is related by the narrator over several years as incidents in his own life call to mind the stranger's story. This structure allows the author to depict two different paths taken, two different methods of responding to the experiences of alienation in England and the changing social structures of post-colonial Sudan. It is a novel about how all human beings are fundamentally the same, and yet can lead vastly different lives with different consequences.
+10 task
+5 combo (20.5 - They read)
+10 translation
+10 review
+5 oldies (pub. 1969)
Task total: 40 points
Grand Total: 605 points
10.10 Group ReadsBossypants by Tina Fey
Very enjoyable as an audiobook; I think I got more out of it listening than I would have reading the text. Not all authors are good readers, but Tina Fey does a wonderful job with this production. Surprisingly, I enjoyed the parts about her earlier life and her improv comedy work at least as much and maybe more than her description of her work on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. This is a really short book, but makes and excellent light distraction, with occasionally serious musings (e.g., about work and motherhood) thrown in. Reading this makes me want to go back and watch some of the episodes of 30 Rock that I missed.
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 Krista)
+10 Review
Task total: 25
Grand total: 570
10.6 – Fall FreebiesI read Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 235
nsfancy wrote: "Sorry Liz, this book was meant for 15.7 Foreign Language. Slip of the finger there...."And I must have been real tired when I got to this post, it said "foreign language" right there & I didn't realize you meant task 15.7. Ooops!
Rebekah wrote: "25 pts - Task Total100 pts - Completion of RWS challenge
905 - Grand Total ..."
First of all, Woooooohooooo! Congrats on finishing the RwS tasks!
Second of all, you are missing 45 points.
795 (Post 469 total)
+30 (post 476)
+25 (post 483)
+100 (post 483)
=950
20.4 - We readTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Review:This book traces Ned Kelly's life in his own words (imagined). Kelly is a member of an under-class in Australia--his parents were transported from Ireland as criminals. His parents struggle to make ends meet--not always legally and Ned's father, uncles, grandfather end up in jail at various times. His mother seems to be running an illegal still much of his childhood. They are under constant suspicion by the police. After Ned's father dies when Ned is 12, he tries to help his mother prove up their selection (homestead) and stay out of jail himself. But his mother "apprentices" him to a bushranger (highway robber). He ends up in trouble. Sometimes he is wrongly accused; sometimes he takes the blame for others' crimes; sometimes he has committed the crime. But he ends up having the sympathy of many of the struggling locals as he and his gang, including his brother, stand up against the police.
The book is Ned's story of his life that he writes for his infant daughter living in far off San Francisco. Occasionally the writing, in the style of a young man who received little education, is a little challenging to read--little punctuation, incorrect tenses and 19th century Aussie slang that took a little parsing to understand. It is a powerful story of loyalty to family, mates and class.
Task: 20
Combo: 10 (20.9 & 10.2 [Rebekah])
Review: 10
Task Total: 40
Previous Total: 265
New Total: 305
Liz M wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "25 pts - Task Total100 pts - Completion of RWS challenge
905 - Grand Total ..."
First of all, Woooooohooooo! Congrats on finishing the RwS tasks!
Second of all, you are missing 4..."
Liz, what would i do without you???!!!!
Rebekah wrote: "Liz, what would i do without you???!!!!..."Have a lot fewer points :-P
10.7 Muslim MindsetLamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Takes place partly in Afghanistan, as well as Israel/Palestine...it's a little tough to tell, since it takes place in the time of Christ, and the lines are pretty crazy right now.
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.2 [Katie]
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 325
10.5 Bedtime StoriesWhat Work Is by Philip Levine
*****
Amazing. What Work Is is one of my favorite poems, and the book itself is filled with dozens of others that might as well be. Philip Levine has a perfect knack for capturing experiences that I think are common to, or at least feel common to, most people. I've now read this twice and will read it again, probably multiple times. I cannot say I have ever felt anything more than passing interest when someone was named Poet Laureate, but that changed when Philip Levine was named this year. I will definitely read as much more of his poetry as I can find, but I suspect What Work Is will be the book to which I repeatedly turn through the years.
In order to comply with the 100 page minimum for this task I read the following poems as the volume itself is only 96 pages:
Call It Music
Baby Villon
Reading Keats in California
My Poets and The Horse
+10 Task (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni)
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
20.5 They Read
Soulless by Gail Carriger
****
This book brings together so many things I love: kickass female heroines who don't dress like they belong in a film mockery of an S&M video, food, vampires and other such magical types, love, dirty scenes, and the London Season. Didn't see that last one coming, did you? Well, it's true. Gail Carriger manages to fit all these things into Soulless, a book that is more funny than sincere, more romance than steampunk, and less creepy than you might think when you realize what the main couple has to overcome. Basically, I recommend it, despite being skeptical when I picked it up. It's fun in so many ways.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 Highly-rated)
+10 Review
Task Total: 35
Post Total: 55
20.9 Reading with IMPACPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
*****
People of the Book is a stunningly beautiful book about another stunningly beautiful book. It fictionalizes the true story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, a unique, 500-year old version of a book read at Jewish Passover Seders. It illustrates the story of how and why Passover came to be. People of the Book looks at the fascinating story of the Haggadah's travels through the years and creates a story from them. All of the characters are fictional and some of the chapters are admittedly entirely fiction while others contain more factual information. While reading I did not care at all which was which and I am not certain I do now. Geraldine Brooks.ostensibly tells the story of a book, but as the title hints, what she really tells is the story of a people.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 Highly-rated)
+5 Combo (10.7 Muslim Mindset: Large parts set in Sarajevo)
+5 Combo (20.5 They Read)
+10 Review
Task Total: 45
15.8 Art/Music/Dance
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
****
I cannot remember a time in my life when I have not loved music and loved to sing. I was raised in an environment where singing, and singing in front of others was pervasive. That being said, other than voice lessons, I have very little formal knowledge of what music is. I do not play an instrument or read music easily, and I most certainly have never been taught how music impacts the brain. Fortunately for me, in Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Oliver Sacks addresses the latter, and does so in his beautiful flowing style. Somethings I've suspected were confirmed. Other pipe dreams, like that I could someday acquire perfect pitch, were dashed, but that is fine because of how fascinating the book was. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in any facet of music or the workings of the human brain.
+15 Task
+5 Non-fiction
Task Total: 15
Post Total: 60
Grand Total: 1210
20.10 MonsterfestGriftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi
Has "vampire" in the title.
This angry book holds back no opinions, but does an excellent job of clearly explaining the intricate connections and fraud in the financial industry. He has particular vitriol for Goldman Sachs. Listening to this in audio format made it more conversational and made the rage and harsh language more appropriate than I think I would have found it in print. Somehow, having the reader call someone a "jerk-off" or worse seems better read out loud.
I haven't read many of the other books out there about the financial crisis and the real estate market, so I can't offer much comparison, but Taibbi does a nice job of giving enough detail of how the complicated transactions work to make them comprehensible without losing sight of the ultimate problems.
Definitely recommended if you won't be easily offended by the use of curse words.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 Deedee)
+10 Review
Task total: 35
Also, I see someone claimed Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal for 10.7. I claimed it in post 246 for 10.2 and would like to add +5 Combo with 10.7.
Additional points: 5
Grand total: 610
BtS 15.1 Mathematics Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Task points 15
+5 pre 1980
Task total 20
Total points 715
Task points 15
+5 pre 1980
Task total 20
Total points 715
Task 10.2 Highly rated Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (MissGP,Erin)
Task points 10
Total points 725
Task 20.5 They read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Task points 20
+5 Combo (10.2 Donna Jo Atwood)
Task total 25
Total points 750
Task points 10
Total points 725
Task 20.5 They read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Task points 20
+5 Combo (10.2 Donna Jo Atwood)
Task total 25
Total points 750
Rebekah wrote: "10.10 Group ReadBossypants by Tina Fey
Review
After reading about the sorrow of Palestine and the destruction of the American Indian and their way of life, I w..."
I don't think this qualifies for 20.1 stream of consciousness. I know it's written in first person, but isn't she basically telling the story of her life so far?
20.1 Stream of ConsciousnessLet the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
Written in a disjointed, yet excellent stream of consciousness style.
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 345
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Or is the season total 1005?"
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