Reading with Style discussion

Post your completed tasks here. In order to better manage our score keeping: PLEASE ONLY POST ONE BOOK PER MESSAGE.

Please use the add book/author link for the book titles. When claiming combo points, tell how the book qualifies, and, if requested in the task description, provide a link.

Reading w/Style (RwS) Sample Completed Tasks Post:

20.10 - Undaunted
Complete Prose Fiction by Alexander Pushkin

+20 task
+5 combo (20.9 - 19th C)
+10 non-Western
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
+10 canon
+5 jumbo (545 pages)

Task total: 60 points
Grand total: 365

(This assumes mid-challenge, and that you had previously posted 305 points)

Location, location, location sample post:


Location: London
Years: 1837-1925

15.6 - The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
setting: Woking, 31 mi from London

+15 task
+5 bonus

Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 385 points

(This assumes mid-challenge, and that you had previously posted 365 points)

LLL

Location: London
Years: 1843 - 2009

15.1 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Setting: London

I loved starting the challenge and my journey to London with this favorite!

+15 Task
Task Total: 15

Grand Total:15

Task 10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month

The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
(low lexile so no style points)

+10 Task

Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 10

20.7 Notable Books
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
My Review
+20 Task (on the 2012 non-fiction list)
+10 not-a-novel (non-fiction)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 30

Location: New York City

15.1 - The Sleepless Nanny by Christa Charter

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Grand total: 15

Location: London
Years: 1843-2011

15.1 - A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

+15 task

Task total: 15
GRAND TOTAL: 15

20.2 The Winter Wars
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

+20 pts Task - (# 10 on GoodReads List)
+5 pts - Combo -(20.4 Author born in 1933)

Task Total - 25 pts
Grand Total - 25 pts

Location: Nuremberg
Years: 1908 - 2012 (going from 2012 backwards)

15.1 Die Paten vom Knoblauchsland by Jan Beinßen
Setting: Nuremberg

+ 15 Task

Grand Total: 15

20.6 The Winter of Our Discontent

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

+20 Task (#89)
+10 Combo
-20.4, author born in 1946
-20.7, 100 Notable list for 2011

Task Total = 30

Grand Total = 30

10.1 Year in Review

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

My review:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

+10 Task (read in Fall 2012 by D)
+ 5 Jumbo (503 pages)

Task Total: 15 points

Grand Total: 15

Location:Edinburgh, UK
Publication: 1961-2010
(post 18 Real estate Listing)

15.1 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Edinburgh)
+15 task

task total=15
grand total=15

10.1 Year in Review

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

+10 Task (read in Winter 2011/2012 by Deedee

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 10

10.7 Buy Nothing Christmas

Ways To Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
Lexile 580, no style points

My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

+10 Task (borrowed from library, published 7 January 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_...)

Task total: 10 points
Grand Total: 25

Location: London
Years: 1825-1997

15.1 - The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary by Samuel Pepys
Setting: London
Agreed on the Q&A thread to count the publication date as 1825 when the diaries were first published.

My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

+15 Task

Task total: 15 points
Grand Total: 40

LLL

Location: London
Years: 1843 - 2009

15.2 The End of the Affair by Graham GreenePublished: 1951
Location: London

+15 Task
+25 Bonus

Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 55

10.1 Year in Review

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

+10 Task (mentioned in Fall 2012)
+5 Jumbo (509 pages)


Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15

10.7 Buy Nothing Christmas

The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson-borrowed from the library, published January 2012-according to GoodReads or February 2012 according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ber...)

+10 Task

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 25

20.6 Season of Our Discontent

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

+20 Task-on list
+5 Combo 10.7-borrowed from library published January 1964-Goodreads or December 1964 Wikipedia-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moveab...
+10 Not a novel (autobiography)

Post Total: 35
Season Total: 60

10.8 DeeDee's task - Historical Reading
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Claudius was Roman Emperor from 41 - 54 AD

+10 pts - task
+10 pts - combo (10.2, 10.3 - #14 on novels list)

task total - 20 pts
grand total - 45 pts

Historian
Location: London
1843 - 2012

15.9 Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman

+15 task

Task points: 15
Challenge points: 15

Location: New York City
Years 1925 to 2012

15.1 The Replacement Wife by Eileen Goudge

+15 task

Task points: 15
Grand total: 15

Task 20.4 Shadows of the Empireby Steve Perry

+20 task (Perry was born in 1947)
+5 combo (10.7, library book - first published Dec. 1996-Wikipedia)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 25

20.9 - Penned (19th C authors)

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

+20 task

Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 20 points

It's been a while since I've participated in a challenge. Please, someone check behind me! I'm glad to be back! Thanks!!

Task 10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month

When it Happens to You by Molly Ringwald

+10 Task
+10 Style: Not-a-Novel (short stories)

Task Total = 20
RwS Total = 20

10.8 Historical Reading
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

My Review
+10 Task (Cleopatra lived in the first century BCE)
+10 Combo 20.7 (2010 nonfiction) 20.4 (Stacy Schiff was born 1961)
+10 not-a-novel (biography)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 60

Camille wrote: "It's been a while since I've participated in a challenge. Please, someone check behind me! I'm glad to be back! Thanks!!

Task 10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month

When it Happens to You b..."

Welcome back!

15.1 LLL - Paris, 1831-1910

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

+15 Task

Grand Total = 15

my review

20.9 Penned

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

+20 Task

Grand Total: 20 points

20.4 Winter Trees

Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

+20 Task (born 1958)

Grand Total: 20

20.4 In Honor of Winter Trees

Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling

My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

+20 Task (born 1956 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pa... )

Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 60

Location: NYC

15.1 - Washington Square by Henry James, pub. 1880

Task total: 15 points
Grand Total: 35 points

Task 20.5 – In honor of Winter in Madrid:
Read a book originally written in Spanish OR a book set entirely in a Spanish speaking country.

Isabel Allende was born on August 02, 1942

City of the Beasts (Eagle and Jaguar #1) (2002) by Isabel Allende (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Lexile: 1030L

+20 Task
+05 Style:1. Combo (5 points) (20.4 born 1932-1963)

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 00 + 25 = 25

20.4 – Winter Trees

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

+20 task (Lanchester born February 25, 1962 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lan...)

Task total=20
Grand total=20

Task 10.5: World Thinking Day

I read Night by Elie Wiesel

Task: +10
Combo: +5 (10.6-Nobel Prize Winner)
Style: +10 (Not a Novel)

Total: +25
RwS Total: +45

Camille wrote: "Task 10.5: World Thinking Day

I read Night by Elie Wiesel

Task: +10
Combo: +5 (10.6-Nobel Prize Winner)
Style: +10 (Not a Novel)"

Unfortunately, Night is a work of fiction and is YA with a lexile score of 590. It does not qualify for combo or not-a-novel points.

20.4 In Honor of Winter Trees

Up on Cloud Nine by Anne Fine
Lexile 700

My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

+20 Task (born 1947 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Fine )

Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 80

Liz M wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 10.5: World Thinking Day

I read Night by Elie Wiesel

Task: +10
Combo: +5 (10.6-Nobel Prize Winner)
Style: +10 (Not a Novel)"

Unfortunately, Night is a work of fiction and is..."

I am confused about how this book is classified as fiction. Goodreads info lists it as Non-fiction, Autobiography/Memoir, and the URL on the info page says it's a memoir. Can you further explain, please?

Camille wrote: "I am confused about how this book is classified as fiction. Goodreads info lists it as Non-fiction, Autobiography/Memoir, and the URL on the info page says it's a memoir. Can you further explain, please?..."

Apparently, it depends on the library system. Wikipedia classifies it as both autobiography/memoir and novel; the Brooklyn Public Library shelves it in YA Fiction, the Boston public Library shelves it in both YA fiction & YA non-fiction, NY Public Library in non-fiction.

Regardless of whether is is fiction or autobiography, the low-Lexile score makes it ineligible for any of the style points.

Ok, so it does still qualify for task points?

Camille wrote: "Ok, so it does still qualify for task points?"

Yes.

Thank you for all the clarification! Here is my correct repost:

Task 10.5: World Thinking Day

I read Night by Elie Wiesel

+10: task

RwS Total: +20

Task 10.8 – Historical Reading:
Death Comes as The End by Agatha Christie
At the beginning of the book (author’s note), it is stated the setting of this book is 2000 BC Egypt.
+10
Task total = 10

Grand Total = 10

Tien,

Please only one book per post - it is much easier on the database & scorekeeping.

Sorry,

Task 20.4 – In honor of Winter Trees:
The Twelve (The Passage #2) by Justin Cronin
Author born in 1962 (I hope this Wikipedia link is sufficient)
+20
+5 Jumbo (564 pages)
Task Total = 25

Grand Total: 35

Location:Edinburgh, UK
Publication: 1961-2010
(post 18 real estate listing)

15.2 Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin (Edinburgh)
+15 task
+25 bonus

task total=40
grand total=55

20.6 Winter of Our Discontent
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan - #71 on list

+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.2 - Them)
+10 pts - Non- Western (Nigeria)
+10 pts - not a novel

Task Total - 35 pts
Grand Total - 80 pts
Task total - 45pts
Grand total - 90 pts

10.3 Library Lover's Month

The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell

+ 10 task
+ 10 style (non-fiction)

Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 20

Task 10.8 - Historical Reading:
Read a non-fiction history of events that happened before 1500 A.D.

The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (2012) by Anthony Everitt

+10 Task
+10 Style:3. Not-a-Novel (10 points):

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20


Grand Total: 25 + 20 = 45

Camille wrote: "Thank you for all the clarification! Here is my correct repost:

Task 10.5: World Thinking Day

I read Night by Elie Wiesel

+10: task

RwS Total: +20"

Welcome back, Camille! I show your total to be 30 after this post (20-claimed in post 28 plus 10 claimed in post 45)