Reading with Style discussion

15.2 Waters of the World

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The South China Sea: China

+15 Task

Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 90 pts

20.10 AutoBioMem

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9)
+10 Not-A-Novel
+20 Jumbo (929 pages)

Task total: 55 pts
Grand total: 145 pts

10.3-Bailey's Prize

Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey

+10 Task
+10 Combo: 10.4-Popular Genre /10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 830

20.5-R.K. Narayan

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task: on list
+10 Combo: 10.2-Single Word / Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 865

Task 10.4 Popular Genre
Read a book with "mystery" listed as the first genre on the book's main page.

Sprinkle with Murder (Cupcake Bakery Mystery #1) (2010) by Jenn McKinlay (Goodreads Author) (Mass Market Paperback, 222 pages)

+10 Task
+05 Combo (#10.7 “Jenn”)

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 295 + 15 = 310

10.4 – Popular genre

Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver

10 task
5 multiple
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15


Running total: 485

15.4 - Germany – Rhine River basin

The Trial by Franz Kafka

+15 task

task total: 15
grand total: 370

Post 531 Joy wrote: "20.10 AutoBioMem

Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living by Jason Gay

+20 task
+5 multiple (second book for 20.10)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 90"

I'm sorry, Joy. This is not classified as auto/bio/mem at either BPL or at WorldCat. It does not qualify for 20.10.

10.4-Popular Genre

The Poet by Michael Connelly

+10 Task
+ 5 Jumbo (510)
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 885

20.5-R.K. Narayan
Uprootedby Naomi Novik

Task +20
Style +5 Combo 10.2
Book Total: 25
Grand Total: 155

20.5-R.K. Narayan

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

+20 Task: recently approved in help thread
+10 Oldies (1905)
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 920

10.4-Popular Genre

Quinn Checks In by L.H. Thomson

+10 task
+5 multiple

Task total: 15
Grand total: 785

15.4 Waters of the World

Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold

NORTH SEA
claiming for Denmark - born and nationality

Task total: 15
Grand total: 800

10.7 4 Letter Names

The Green Pearl by Jack Vance

+10 Task (Jack)
+5 Multiple
+5 Oldies (published 1985)

Task total: 20
Grand Total: 475

From Post 528

Joy wrote: "10.2 Single Word

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

+10 task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 20"

+5 Combo 20.5

From Post 536

Bea wrote: "10.5 Novellas

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

+10 task
+5 combo (20.5)
+5 multiple

Points: 20

Grand Total Points: 360"

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 544

Valerie wrote: "20.6 - The Bronte Sisters

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

20 task
5 oldie (1965)
10 combo 20.5, 10.7
____
35

Running total: 470"

+5 Combo 10.8

Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "20.5 R. K. Narayan

This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism by Herman Wouk Son is Joseph Wouk

+20 Task
+10 Combo, 10.7 and 20.6, 4 letter name & Bronte
+5 Not a novel ..."

FYI: Not a Novel is worth 10 points, so your score will be 5 points higher than you have reported.

From Post 552

Beth wrote: "20.3-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

+20 task
+10 oldies (1871)
+5 combo (20.5, first line of profile)

Task total: 35
Grand tot..."

+5 Combo 10.5

From Post 559

Louise Bro wrote: "10.4 Popular genre

Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey

"Mystery" is the top genre.

+10 task
+5 Combo (10.7 ("Emma"))

Task total: 15 pts
Grand total: 60 pts"

+5 Combo 10.3

Karen Michele wrote: "20.5-R.K. Narayan

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task: on list
+10 Combo: 10.2-Single Word / Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 35
Grand Total:..."

+5 Combo 10.8

Heather wrote: "15.4 - Germany – Rhine River basin

The Trial by Franz Kafka

+15 task

task total: 15
grand total: 370"

I am sorry, Heather, Kafka wrote in German, but he was neither born nor a resident of Germany. Did you mean Austria?

From Post 527

Joy wrote: "10.1 Square Peg

Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell

+10 task

Task total: 10
Grand total: 10"

+10 Not a Novel

From Post 530

Joy wrote: "20.10 AutoBioMem

Wildflower by Drew Barrymore

+20 task
+10 combo (10.2, 10.4)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 65"

+10 Not a Novel

From Post 541

Bea wrote: "20.8 A Nod to Tristram Shandy

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

+20 Task

Points: 20

Grand Total: 450"

+5 Oldies

From Post 542

Rachelccameron wrote: "20.6 Bronte Sisters

The Mist by Stephen King

Son is Joe Hill

+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.7 Four Letter Name
+5 Combo 10.8 Teacher
+5 Combo 20.5 Novels, Short ..."

+5 Oldies

15.7 - Waters of the World

Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Atlantic Ocean: Argentina

+25 Task (author born/nationality)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 845

Thanks for the extra points for 536 and 541, Kate.

Kate S wrote: "Heather wrote: "15.4 - Germany – Rhine River basin

The Trial by Franz Kafka

+15 task

task total: 15
grand total: 370"

I am sorry, Heather, Kafka wrote in German, but ..."

Well, crud. I was looking at something else - brainfart there. Would Austria still count for this one? I'm unsure because it's listed in the countries on the right of the wiki article, but not the Rhine basin list.

Heather wrote: "Would Austria still count for this one? I'm unsure because it's listed in the countries on the right of the wiki article, but not the Rhine basin list. "

Yes, it works for Rhine basin. We will score it for Austria-Rhine unless we hear differently.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Heather wrote: "Would Austria still count for this one? I'm unsure because it's listed in the countries on the right of the wiki article, but not the Rhine basin list. "

Yes, it works for Rhine ba..."

Works for me. I didn't have anything else for Austria.

Waters of the World

15.7 Pacific Ocean: Peru

The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa

+25 (author born in/nationality/setting)

Total Points So Far: 275

20.10 AutoBioMem

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.7, 20.4 - d. 1962, 20.6 - help thread)
+ 5 Multiple
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Oldies (1937)

Task Total = 60

Grand Total = 450

15.2 Mediterranean Sea

Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau

France

+15 Task

Grand Total: 255 pts

10.8 – License to write

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam

10 task (he was approved, is a MD)
10 not a novel (short stories)
____
20

(revised) Running total: 510

15.4 WotW

Rhine River Basin
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( born in Germany / German )

+15 task

Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 590

20.5-R.K. Narayan

War All the Time by Charles Bukowski

+20 task (post 175)
+10 not-a-novel (poetry)
+ 5 oldies (1984)
+ 5 multiple

Task total=40
Grand total=1105

Task 10.1 Square Peg

The Forever Queen (The Saxon Series #1) (2004) by Helen Hollick (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 635 pages)
+10 Task
+05 Jumbo 500-699 Pages: 5 Points

Task Total: 10 + 05 = 15

Grand Total: 310 + 15 = 325

20.8 Tristam Shandy
The Counterfeiters by André Gide

+20 - Task
+20 - Combo (10.7, 20.4 - 1951, 20.5 , 20.6)
+10 - Oldies (1925)

Task total - 50 pts
Grand total - 430 pts

20.5-R.K. Narayan

Dusk by F. Sionil José

+20 Task (approved in message 328 of help thread)
+10 combo (10.2, 10.7 Jose)
+5 oldies (1984)
+5 multiple (8th claim for 20.5)

Points this post: 40
Grand Total: 620

I am showing 10 more points on my spreadsheet than on the readerboard (I have 820 up to post 566). Not sure what is wrong because it's a while since I checked it. I've searched the threads and I don't see any posts where you've corrected my points downward, only up.

Could it be post 504 where I posted my task 15.6, and claimed 25 points because it's the 6th book, but you might have recorded 15 like the earlier books?

20.5-R.K. Narayan

Various Miracles by Carol Shields

+20 task (on approved list)
+10 combo (10.8 -post 159; 20.6 - post 133)
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
+ 5 oldies (1985)
+ 5 multiple

Task total=50
Grand total=1155

10.7 Four Letter Names

The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean

+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.8 author is a teacher per GR description)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1989)
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 25
Grand total: 255

Rosemary wrote: "I am showing 10 more points on my spreadsheet than on the readerboard (I have 820 up to post 566). Not sure what is wrong because it's a while since I checked it. I've searched the threads and I do..."

Yes. 15.6 is worth 15 points.

Scoring:

15.1-15.6: 15 points
15.7-15.8: 25 points (or 10 point bonus)
15.9-15.10: 35 points (or 20 point bonus)

Oh thank you! I had copied that out wrongly.

20.2 - Graham Greene

Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

+20 task
+10 combo (10.2, 20.5 approved)
+ 5 multiple
+10 oldies (1936)

Task total: 45
Grand Total: 880

10.4 - Popular Genres

A Scone To Die For by H.Y. Hanna

+10 task
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 15
Grand Total: 895

15.8 - Waters of the World

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll

North Sea : Germany

+25 Task (author born/nationality/set)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 920

20.7-David Bowie
1984 by George Orwell

+20 Task
+5 Oldies
+15 Combo (20.4 -died 1950; 10.8 - approval; 20.5 - approval)

Task total: 40
Season Total: 835

10.2-Single Word
Raelia (The Medoran Chronicles #2) by Lynette Noni


+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - "Noni")
+5 Multiple

Task total: 20
Season Total: 855