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SU 2014 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2014
Author to Author sample completed post:15.3 - AtA:
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement by Anthony Powell
+20 task
Grand Total: 560
10.4 Double TroubleThe Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon
+ 10 task
+ 10 combo ( 10.2 - Plyush rated it 5 stars, 10.3 - born 1962 )
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 20
This is my first time attempting anything besides the 15 point sub-challenge. Cross fingers.10.1 Instant Replay
My favorite award, of this or any list, is the Nebula Award. I began this book a week before the challenge started, reading 200 pages, then yesterday stayed up all night finishing it.
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (2012 Nebula Winner)
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (561 pages)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15
Post 4 Nick wrote: "This is my first time attempting anything besides the 15 point sub-challenge. Cross fingers.10.1 Instant Replay
My favorite award, of this or any list, is the Nebula Award. I began this book a w..."
Hope you have fun "branching out!"
+5 combo for 10.2, Deedee rated it 5-stars.
20.3 - Banned:Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 6/1/14
This book is on the linked list of banned books.
+20 task
+20 combo (10.2 - Avory rated it 5-stars, 10.7 Author born 8/22/20 (GR page), 20.4 - Action/Adventure, 20.6 - Unfinished)
Task total: 40
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 40
Grand Total: 40
10.9 - Hot Off the Press:The Bees by Laline Paull 6/2/14
This book was published May 6, 2014.
+10 task
+5 combo (10.4 Double Trouble)
Task total: 15
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 55
Grand Total: 55
Note: As of today, this is listed at BPL as FIC PAULL, with no assignment, YA, etc.
20.6 UnfinishedGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
+20 Task (#163 when I checked)
+15 Combo (10.2 - 5-star Ravyn, 10.3 - b. 1948, 10.4 - double TT)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 35
20.5 - Financial FictionSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 Katrina gave 5 stars, 10.3 born 1957)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 30
10.4 - EllisonThe City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 10
10.3 - born in 1963Mister Monday by Garth Nix
+10 task
+5 combo (10.7-born July 19)
task total: 15
grand total: 25
10.3 - born in 1963Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.7 - born July 19)
task total: 20
grand total: 45
10.1 Instant Replay Bailey's Prize 2014A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
10.2 Highly RatedAcross a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund
+10 Task (Rusty Nugent rated it 5 stars)
+5 Combo (10.9 – published 2013)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15
20.7 Call and ResponseThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
+20 Task (I read Across a Star-Swept Sea, which is a retelling of this book)
+10 Combo (10.2 - Paula rated it 5 stars, 20.4)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 45
20.4 Action/AdventureThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
+20 Task (#36 on the list)
+5 Combo (10.2, rated 5 stars by 10 members, including Tien and Cory Day)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 25
Anika wrote: "- 10.4, Baroness Emmuska Orczy..."For 10.4 the double letter must be found in the surname, and there are none in Orczy.
20.9 - book starts in 1941, last murder is in the mid 50's near the end of the book.Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
+20 task
+5 combo (10.4)
task total: 25
grand total: 70
10.2 - Highly-ratedQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
+10 Task (10.2 - Isabell rated it 5-stars)
Task total=10
Grand total=10
10.6 - Summer SchoolThe Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
+10 Task (#60 on Novels about Professors list)
+10 Combo (10.2 - Rosemary rated it 5-stars; 20.3 - Banned)
Task total=20
Grand total=30
10.3 - born in 1963Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix
+10 task
+5 multiple
+5 combo (10.7- born July 19)
task total: 20
grand total: 90
10.3 Baby BoomerThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ( born 1963 )
+ 10 task
+ 20 combo ( 10.2 - Emily Green rated it 5 stars, 20.6 )
task total : 20
grand total : 40
10.4 Double TroubleThe Circle by Dave Eggers
+10 task (Eggers)
+10 combo (10.2 - Tanya rated it 5-stars, 10.9 - pub. 2013)
+5 jumbo (508 pages)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 25
20.2 JailedFontamara by Ignazio Silone
The book tracks the impact of facism on a peasant community in Italy in the 1930's
Over the course if his lifetime, Silone spent time in prison in Italy, France, Spain, and Switzerland:
20 task
+10 combo ( 20.9, 20.10)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 30
10.7 Summer Celebrations:The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
+10 task (born August 22)
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 25
20.6 :Unfinished The Road by Cormac McCarthy
+20 task (#110 on list)
+10 combo (10.2 - Tien (among others) rated it 5 stars, 10.4 double c)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 55
20.9 - Father's Day:The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 6/4/14
This book takes place in the 1940s.
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 - Tanya rated it 5-stars, 10.7 Author born 7/21/66)
Task total: 30
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 85
Grand Total: 85
20.3 BannedThe Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
On banned books list ---- Lexile 820
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.2-Rosemary,10.6 )
Task total - 30 pts
Grand Total - 30 pts
20.8 - 115 timesThe World Without Us by Alan Weisman
+20 task
+5 combo(10.3 - born 1947)
task total: 25
grand total: 115
10.4 Double TroubleThe Hit by David Baldacci
Task +10
Combo +25 (10.2 Katy rated it 5 stars /group/show_...)
(10.3 Baldacci Born 1960)
(10.5 2014 Audie Winner for thriller/suspense)
(10.7 Baldacci born August 1960)
(10.9 published 2013)
Jumbo +5 (576 pgs)
Task total = 40
Grand total = 55
10.9 - Hot Off the Press - Cory (Bigler)'s Task:I read Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty, first pub'd in 2013.
Task +10
Previous Total: 20
Grand Total: 30
20.4 Action / AdventureFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Task + 20
+ 20 combo (10.2 - Avory, 10.7 - August 22, 1920, 20.3 -Banned books, 20.6 - 197 on list )
Task total : 40
Grand total : 80
20.7 - Call and Response:The Known World by Edward P. Jones 6/6/14
I read The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom for the RwS Spring Challenge. Both books explore the culture of slavery in America prior to the Civil War.
Sources vary on the author's birthday, some saying 1950, some 1951. Barnes and Noble places it at October 5, 1950, as shown .
+20 task
+10 combo (10.2 - Krista and Deedee rated it 5-stars, 10.3 Author born 1950)
Task total: 30
AtA Total: 0
RwS Total: 115
Grand Total: 115
10.4 Double TroubleQuantum Leap: The Wallby Ashley McConnell
The author's last name has a double n and a double ll in it.
Task : 10
Grand Total:10
10.1 Instant Replay Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
+10 Task
This is one of a couple of books that I really wanted to read for EotP but couldn’t because its Lexile was too low., they both won the Printz award (among others).
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 65
Task 15.1 Author to AuthorZoe Wicomb
Playing in the Light: A Novel (2006) by Zoe Wicomb
+15 Task
Grand Total: 00 + 15 = 15
20.9 Father's Day12 Edmondstone Street by David Malouf
This non-fiction piece primarily recalls the author's youth in the pre-war years.
Points this post: 20
Total points:30
10.10 - Group readsAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Lexile 830
+10 Task
+25 Combo (10.2 - Elizabeth rated it 5-stars; 10.7 - born June 22, 1898; 20.3 - both Banned and Burned; 20.6 - #265 on Unfinished list; 20.9 - set during WWI)
Task total=35
Grand total=80
10.4 - Double TroubleThe One by Kiera Cass
+10 task (ss)
+5 combo (10.9 - published in 2014)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
10.9 Hot off the Press The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
+10 Task (published 2013)
+ 5 Combo (10.2-Kendyl rated it 5 stars)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 100
Liz M wrote: "Anika wrote: "- 10.4, Baroness Emmuska Orczy..."For 10.4 the double letter must be found in the surname, and there are none in Orczy."
I should pay closer attention when reading the tasks :-) thanks for bringing that to my attention!
20.9 Father's DayZ: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
+20 Task (takes place from 1918-1948)
+ 5 Combo (10.9: pub. 26 March 2013)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 50
10.3 Baby BoomerThe Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan
+10 Task: Egan was born in 1954-read for my face to face staff book group
Grand Total: 10
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Reading w/Style (RwS) Sample Completed Tasks Post:
20.7 - Call & Response:
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
I read Memoirs of a Revolutionary for Spring's 20.10. Both books are about the Russian Revolution & it's aftermath. Elizabeth approved this pairing in the help thread.
+20 task
+20 combo (10.2 - Lisa rated it 5-stars, 20.3 - Banned books list, 20.6 - Unfinished, 20.9 - Father's Day)
+10 non-Western
+10 Canon
+5 multiple (second time completing this task)
+5 jumbo (592 pages)
Task total: 70
Grand Total: 540
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