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Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Elizabeth, they have got to be joking! Unless they consider the King JMes Bible YA. What the book is, is an edited version of the King James Gospels, without the ..."I agree, Don, and I just finished a long post on the "Suggestion Box" thread. I know the mods have to have some way to decide that isn't arbitrary. It's such a complicated and sometimes controversial issue!
Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Elizabeth, they have got to be joking! Unless they consider the King JMes Bible YA. What the book is, is an edited version of the King James Gospels, without the ..."Lol, Don! I don't think I'm known for taking judgement graciously when i think I am right! Must be the Texan in me! "Remember the Alamo!" and all that. I was thinking of e-mailing BPL about their calling KJV Bible verses as YA. When Kate Vaiden was erroneously not listed as a winner on the National Book Critic Circle's web page, I contacted them and they changed it. Maybe I shoiuld have been a lawyer!(smile)
We appreciate the desire to have discussion on this subject. However, we need to keep this thread primarily for completed tasks, so I encourage you to comment on Karen's post in the Suggest Box thread or in the Socializing thread.
RwS Tasks20.8 - Kate S’s task – Serially
Dickens from the linked list:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.7 The Past is a Foreign Country(UK, Male, Died 1870) / 20.9 Fatherly (Dickens, Jr.)
+ 5 Jumbo 505 pages
+15 Oldies 1861
Task Total: 50
20.10 - Liz M’s task – Modernly
From the linked lists:
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.9 Fatherly
+10 Oldies (1920)
Task Total: 35
20.10 - Liz M’s task – Modernly
From linked lists:
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
+20 Task
+ 5 20.9 Fatherly
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Oldies (1929)
Task Total: 45
Points this Post: 130
Grand Total: 1515
Anika wrote: "20.7 Poet's Non-PoetryMeasure for Measure by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+20 Oldies (pub. 1623)
+10 Combo
-10.7 (English male, d. 1616)
-20.6 (M..."
Measure for Measure was originally published in 1604, giving you +25 Oldies, instead of +20.
15.9 TDoSAmy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
rated 5 stars by Elizabeth (Alaska) and Rebekah
Task total=45
Grand total=700
RwS Tasks10.10 Group Read
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
+10 Task
20.6 Alliteration
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
+20 Task
20.8 Serially
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7, 20.9)
+25 Jumbo (1017 pages)
+15 Oldies (pub 1853)
Post Total: 100
Season Total: 1685
20.9 FatherlyA Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
+20 Task (daughter of Leslie Stephen)
+ 5 Combo (20.10 modernist writer list)
+10 Not a novel
+ 5 Oldies 1937-87 (pub.1953, written 1918-41)
Task total = 40
Grand total = 1605
TDoS Task15.9 9th Book
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Rated 5 Stars by Liz Vegas and Anika
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 1560
RwS. 20.7 Poet's non-poetry. Henry V by William Shakespeare
+20 task
+5 combo (10.7)
+10 not a novel
+25 oldie (1599)
Task total 60
Total points = 825 + 5 + 60 = 890
And by my calculations that completes RwS summer 2012 for me!
Bonus points 100
Total points 990
+20 task
+5 combo (10.7)
+10 not a novel
+25 oldie (1599)
Task total 60
Total points = 825 + 5 + 60 = 890
And by my calculations that completes RwS summer 2012 for me!
Bonus points 100
Total points 990
nsfancy wrote: "And by my calculations that completes RwS summer 2012 for me!Bonus points 100
Total points 990 "
Whoo Hoo!!! Congratulations!
20.9 FatherlyA Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.10)
+10 Oldie
+10 Not-A-Novel
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 945
TDoS TaskCongratulations nsfancy!
15.10 10th Book!
Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
Rated 5 Stars by Anika
+ 45 Task
+100 Completion Bonus
+200 Mega Finish
Points this Post: 345
Grand Total: 1905
Huge congrats to nsfancy and Karen GHHS!!!15.9 TDoS
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
5-star rated by Deedee and Butterflycager
Task Total = 45
+5 re: message 846 (thanks, Kate :-) )
Grand Total = 1845
20.5 Making History Het einde van Napoleon, Waterloo 1815 by Luc De Vos
+ 5 combo ( 10.2 - 2 ratings)
+10 not-a-novel
+20 task about the battle of waterloo in 1815 :)
Task Total = 35
previous total = 540
Grand total = 575
RwS Task20.9 - Elizabeth (Alaska)’s task – Fatherly
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.7 The Past is a Foreign Country (Male, Died 1870, France) / 20.8 Serially
+10 LiT
+15 Oldies (1844)
+ 5 Jumbo (598 p)
Task Total: 60
Grand Total: 1965
10.7The Past Is A Foreign CountryThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(I read an ebook version, read 44% of the book before the challenge)
+10 task (Twain died April 21, 1910; American born author - Austrian-born me; Twain=male - me=female)
+10 oldies (1876)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 100
Karen GHHS wrote: "+100 Completion Bonus+200 Mega Finish
Points this Post: 345
Grand Total: 1905 "
Very nice, Karen - another great finish!
10.2 Underrated - fewer than 250 - 4 ratingDrama in the Mother Lodeby Albert Simon
+10 task
20.2 A. Scandinavian Noir (Fall 2010, 20.9)
The Dogs of Rigaby Henning Mankell
+20 task
+5 combo 20.4 literature map
20.4 Literature Map (Fall 2010, 10.2) - Michael Connelly - Janet Evanovich
Two for the Dough
+20 task
20.4 Literature Map (Fall 2010, 10.2) - Michael Connelly - David Baldacci
Hour Game
+20 task
20.4 Literature Map (Fall 2010, 10.2) - Michael Connelly - Henning Mankell
The White Lioness
+20 task
20.4 Literature Map (Fall 2010, 10.2) - Michael Connelly - James Patterson
Step on a Crack
+20 task
Post total: 115
Grand total: 650
20.4 - Literature MapInsurgent by Veronica Roth
+20 Task (Using the lit map of Scott Westerfeld)
Task Total: 20 points
Grand Total: 285
Norma wrote: "10.2 Underrated - fewer than 250 - 4 ratingDrama in the Mother Lodeby Albert Simon
+10 task
20.2 A. Scandinavian Noir (Fall 2010, 20.9)
The Dogs of Rigaby Henning Mankell
+20 task
+5 combo 20.4..."
Norma, unfortunately 20.4 is not a claim-able combo: you can combo books claimed for 20.4, but can't use 20.4 for combo points with another task.
Now the good news, The Dogs of Riga, qualifies for +10 lost in translation (unless you read it in Swedish)
+5 Jumbo for White Lioness
+5 Jumbo for Hour Game
Norma wrote: "10.2 Underrated - fewer than 250 - 4 ratingDrama in the Mother Lodeby Albert Simon
+10 task
20.2 A. Scandinavian Noir (Fall 2010, 20.9)
The Dogs of Rigaby Henning Mankell
+20 task
+5 combo 20.4..."
Also +5 Combo for White Lioness for 20.2A
Phoebe wrote: "10.7The Past Is A Foreign CountryThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(I read an ebook version, read 44% of the book before the challenge)
+10 task (Twain died April 21, 1910; American bor..."
+5 Combo 20.9
10.1 Square PegHiroshima by John Hersey
+10 Task
+10 Not-A-Novel
+5 Oldies (pub 1946)
10.5 Teddy Bear's Picnic
The Lady in the Lake
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.2, 20.6)
+5 Oldies (pub 1943)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 1735
15.10 TDoSThe Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
5-star rated by Butterflycager
Task Total = 45
TDoS Finish = 100
Grand Total = 1990
15.8 - TDoS Book 8The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Rated 5 stars by Lisa Sokol and Morgan Barry
+ 45 Task
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 500
Anika wrote: "15.10 TDoSThe Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
5-star rated by Butterflycager
Task Total = 45
TDoS Finish = 100
Grand Total = 1990"
Congratulations, Anika! Isn't that a mega finish for you with the extra 200 points, too? That's the only way I jumped ahead of you for about 5 minutes when I got my mega finish;)
Anika wrote: "Task Total = 45TDoS Finish = 100
Grand Total = 1990 "
Excellent! and Double Excellent if that means, like Karen says, it's a Mega Finish!
15.7 TDoS - Book 7Angelmaker, given 5-stars by Miss GP and Rick F.
Task total - 30 pts
Grand total - 180 pts
Congratulations Anika! And Karen, I think I missed yours, well done!
20.8 SeriallyThe Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
+20 Task
+10 Lost in Translation
+ 5 Oldies (pub 1946)
+ 5 Jumbo (544 pages)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 535
my review
20.4 Literature Map based on Jeffrey EugenidesThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
My Review
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.10, 20.7, 10.6 [won Governor General's Award 1985])
+5 Oldie (published 1985)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 800
20.6 Alliteration
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
+20 task (YA-assignment, lexile 630, no style points)
+20 task
20.8 Serially
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
published in London Evening News
+20 task
+10 oldies (pub. 1926)
post total=50
grand total=610
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
+20 task (YA-assignment, lexile 630, no style points)
+20 task
20.8 Serially
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
published in London Evening News
+20 task
+10 oldies (pub. 1926)
post total=50
grand total=610
Karen GHHS wrote: Congratulations, Anika! Isn't that a mega finish for you with the extra 200 points, too? That's the only way I jumped ahead of you for about 5 minutes when I got my mega finish;)
I had my mega finish last month...this was my 2nd completed round of TDoS, so it's just the completion bonus this time round. (At least, I think I can still claim the completion bonus for the second go-round?)
Anika wrote: "At least, I think I can still claim the completion bonus for the second go-round?..."Yes.
Task 10.2 Underrated (<250 ratings)Days of Grass (1985) by Tanith Lee (Paperback, 250 pages)
+10 Task
+ 05 Style: 4. Oldies - 25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1937-1987)
Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15
Review: Tanith Lee usually writes horror and dark fantasy novels. This one she tries her hand at science fiction. (The goodreads description have a lot of plot spoilers. Fortunately I didn’t read the goodreads description before reading the novel, and so enjoyed the novel more.) The premise: during/shortly after the invasion of Earth by aliens, human survivors went underground to survive. The novel begins 141 years later, and focuses on the eventful life of one young woman who is living underground. Recommended for readers who enjoy non-traditional fantasy novels (even though this one is science fiction, the word choices and plotting is more fantasy than science fiction).
Grand Total: 850 + 15 = 865
20.7 Poet's Non-PoetryThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel
+25 Oldies (pub. 1610)
+5 Combo (10.7)
Task Total = 60
Grand Total = 2050
Now I remember that Anika--- great reading this season!
15.5 TDoSOne of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Lisa Sokol & ButterflyCager
+30 pts - Task
15.6 A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
ButterflyCager and Tien(AKA Kazza)
+30 pts - Task
Total for this post - 60 pts
Grand Total - 955 pts
Ten Degrees of Separation15.7 - 7th book
5 stars by Adam Adkinson and Ravyn
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Lexile 830
+30 task
Grand total = 1635
Ten Degrees of Separation15.9 - 9th book 5-stars by Georges Kariotis, Heather (DeathByBook)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
+45 Task
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 255
20.4 Literature Map Lit map from George R. R. Martin
Complicity by Iain Banks
+20 task
Task total = 20
Grand total = 595
20.2B Edgar Award-winning authorsMonk's Hood by Ellis Peters
(Ellis Peters won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1963)
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Oldies (pub. 1980)
+ 10 LiT (originally English, I read the German translation)
Task Total: 35
20.3 We read
Mastiff by Tamora Pierce
(told in diary entries)
+ 20 Task (low lexile, no style points)
20.3 We read
Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
(told in letters)
+ 20 Task
+ 15 Oldies (pub. 1842)
+ 10 LiT (originally written in French; I listened to the English audiobook)
+ 15 Combo (10.2: 79 ratings, 10.7: Balzac was French male and died in 1850, 20.8: serialized in La Presse, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9m...)
Task Total: 60
Post Total: 115
Grand Total: 1660
Isabell wrote: "20.3 We readLetters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
(told in letters)
+ 20 Task"
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I really like Balzac.
Ten Degrees of Separation sample post:15.10 - 10th book 5-stars by Heather (DeathByBook)
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
+45 Task
Task Total: 45
Completion Bonus: 100
Grand Total: 400
I had a great time completing this sub-challenge; thank you to everyone who came up with such a great idea.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Isabell wrote: "20.3 We readLetters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
(told in letters)
+ 20 Task"
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I really like Balzac."
This was the first book I read by Balzac and I really enjoyed it, so I can certainly recommend it. I'll be reading other books by him.
20.1 Make Me LaughHeart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
+20 task - on Satirical novels list
+ 10 combo (10.7 i'm nz born female; 20.10 )
+ 10 oldies – first published 1925
+ 10 LiT written in Russian, read in English
Task Total = 50
previous 595
Grand total = 645
And only 200 more pages until my task books are complete :D
In Post 883 Rosemary wrote: "Ten Degrees of Separation15.7 - 7th book
5 stars by Adam Adkinson and Ravyn
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Lexile 830
+30 task
Grand total = 1635"
Which book did you read, Rosemary? The link is to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Weird, I know.
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I've been planning on sharing some ideas on YA for future challenges in the "Suggestion Box" since seeing that The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck wasn't eligible for style points because it was shelved YA at BPL. It got me thinking about other possible ways to determine whether a book qualifies for style points that might still work for the moderators and what they are trying to accomplish in their challenge. I'll be posting in the "Suggestion Box" soon so that the discussion doesn't overtake the Completed Task forum.