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SP 2016 RwS Completed Tasks Spring 2016
Task 20.6-The Bronte SistersRead a book written by an author from a literary family.
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (1994) by Javier Marías; translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Hardcover, 313 pages)
+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.8 – teacher at Oxford)
Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25
Grand Total: 220 + 25 = 245
15.3 Waters of the WorldThe Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
Amazon Basin: Brazil
+15 Task (author born/nationality/setting)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 405
10.2-Single WordPurity by Jonathan Franzen
+10 Task
+ 5 Jumbo (576)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 425
20.6-The Bronte SistersBitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
+20 Task: on the list
+ 5 Combo: 10.7 Rosemary's Task: 4 Letter Names
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 450
20.10 AutoBioMem Elizabeth (Alaska)'s TaskThe Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10. 8 Cory Day's Task: License to Write / 20.5-R.K. Narayan (on list for both)
+10 Not a Novel
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 495
10.6-Book LoversWhat We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
+10 Task (94 shelvings)
+10 Not a Novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 515
20.2 Graham GreeneSomething I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories by Alice Munro
+20 Task
+10 Not a Novel
+ 5 Oldies (1974)
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 315
20.6 - son is Joe HillThe Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
+20 task
+10 not a novel
+10 combo (10.7, 20.5 - poetry, short stories, novels, screenplays)
task total: 40
grand total: 265
10.8 - author is an MDJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
lexile 710, no styles
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 275
20.6 Bronte SistersMidnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
+20 Task (approved in thread message 62)
Task total 20
Grand Total: 130
20.3-Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lexile: 1150
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.5, 20.6)
+5 Oldies (p. 1968)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 150
20.5-R.K. NarayanThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
approval post
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.4 - mystery)
+5 Jumbo (576 pages)
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 370
20.5 R. K. NarayanCrotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo (10.5 -120 pages, 10.7)
+15 pts -Oldies (1831)
Task Total - 45 pts
Grand Total - 155 pts
10.7 4 letter namesA Mammoth Murder by Bill Crider
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo(10.4, 10.8 - retired professor)
Task Total - 20 pts
Grand Total - 175 pts
10.8 Licensed to WriteUncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution by Laurence H. Tribe
+10 task-Tribe is both a lawyer and a professor
+10 Not a novel
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 150
20.2 Graham GreeneAmherst by William Nicholson
+20 task
+10 (10.2 single word)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 165
10.9 - Back To BusinessThe Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease
+10 task
+10 not a novel (non-fiction)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 595
10.2-Single WordSlammed by Colleen Hoover
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+5 Combo (10.8 – social worker and teacher - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen...)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 140
10.4-Popular GenrePirate Vishnu by Gigi Pandian
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 155
Post 350 Rachelccameron wrote: "10.8 License To WriteThe Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver
+10 Task (Lawyer)
+ 5 Combo 10.4 Popular Genre (Mystery)
+5 Combo Narayan (novels, short stories, non-fiction..."
I don't see non-fiction mentioned in the GR author profile. Do you have another reference?
EDIT: Bea was looking out for you, and I have him now.
Post 357 Rebekah wrote: "20.6 Bronte SistersThe Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope by C.W. Grafton (He was the father of mystery writer, Sue Grafton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._G...
+20..."
Surprisingly, there are no genres on this page, so this book doesn't qualify for 10.4.
Post 367 Heather wrote: "10.8 - author is an MDJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
lexile 710, no styles
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 275"
This book is not listed as YA/Juv at BPL, so is eligible for styles regardless of Lexile. Were there styles you wanted to claim?
Post 372 Rebekah wrote: "10.7 4 letter namesA Mammoth Murder by Bill Crider
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo(10.4, 10.8 - retired professor)
Task Total - 20 pts
Grand Total - 175 pts"
A little help here for 10.8, please, as his GR profile has no information.
10.6 - Book loversThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
10 task
15 combos: 10.7, 10.8, 20.5
____
25
Running total 405
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 357 Rebekah wrote: "20.6 Bronte SistersThe Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope by C.W. Grafton (He was the father of mystery writer, Sue Grafton
https://en.wikipedia.or..."
Does that mean no one on Goodreads has shelved it before I did when I read it?
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 372 Rebekah wrote: "10.7 4 letter namesA Mammoth Murder by Bill Crider
+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Combo(10.4, 10.8 - retired professor)
Task Total - 20 pts
Grand ..."
What, you didn't know he lived in my mom's hometown of Alvin, Texas and taught my cousin at the community college?
No really, I didn't mean to make things harder. I thought that I had read the info on GR but it was in the book itself. Here it is on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_...
Rebekah wrote: "Does that mean no one on Goodreads has shelved it before I did when I read it? "It means that there are no genres on the book page. The requirement for 10.4 is Read a book with "mystery" listed as the first genre on the book's main page. Mystery must be listed second if "fiction" is the topmost genre.
10.5 novellasThe House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green (116 pages)
+10 - task
+15 - combos (10.4, 10.7, 20.4- died in 1935)
+10 - oldies (1905)
Task total - 35 points
Grand total - 210 - 5 ( see post #380)
Adjusted Grand Total - 205 points
10.4 Popular GenreHot Dogby Laurien Berenson
Mystery listed on GR book page 53 users
Task +10
Style +5 Multiple
Book Total: 15
Grand Total: 100
20.5-R.K. NarayanGimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
+20 task
+10 combo (10.8 - post 142; 20.6 - post 115)
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
+ 5 oldies (1957)
+ 5 multiple
Task total=50
Grand total=880
20.5 R.K. NarayanWatchmen by Alan Moore - approved
Graphic novel, no styles
+20 task
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 490
From Post 340Heather wrote: "20.9
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
+20 task
+10 combo (10.7, 20.5 - short stories, poetry, comic books, screenplays, novels)
task total: 30
grand total: 225"
+5 Combo 10.8-approved in help thread
From Post 347Beth wrote: "20.7-David Bowie
1984 by George Orwell
(at bottom of list with number spelled out as nineteen eighty four)
+20 task
+5 oldies
+5 combo (20.4 d.1950)
Task total: 30
Gran..."
+10 Combo 10.8-approved in thread, 20.5-approved in thread
Heather wrote: "20.6 - son is Joe HillThe Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
+20 task
+10 not a novel
+10 combo (10.7, 20.5 - poetry, short stories, novels, screen..."
+5 Combo 10.8
itpdx wrote: "20.6 Bronte SistersMidnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
+20 Task (approved in thread message 62)
Task total 20
Grand Total: 130"
+5 combo 20.5-approved in help thread
Ashley wrote: "20.3-Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lexile: 1150
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.5)
+5 Oldies (p. 1968)
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 35
Gr..."
+5 Combo 20.6-in help thread
Cory Day wrote: "10.2-Single WordGypsy by Carter Scholz
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 120"
+10 Not-a-Novel (short story collection)
Heather wrote: "10.8 - author is an MDJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
lexile 710, no styles
+10 task
task total: 10
grand total: 275"
+5 Oldies
From Post 39Coralie wrote: "20.3 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
+20 Task
+5 combo (20.6-approved in help thread)
+5 oldies (1974)
Task total: 30
Grand Total: 30"
+5 Combo 20.5-GR Profile
20.9 Tournament of BooksHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
+20 Task
+5 combo 20.5 approved in the thread
+5 multiple
Task total: 30
+5 (message 395)
Grand Total: 185
10.2 one word titleVicksburg by Kent Conwell
+10 - task
+15 - combo(10.7, 10.8, 20.5)
Task Total - 25 pts
Grand Total - 230 pts
20.5 R.K. NarayanThe Alchemist: A Graphic Novel by Paulo Coelho
+20 Task (approved in help thread)
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 290
15.3 Waters of the WorldLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
Amazon river (Argentina)
+15 Task (author born /nationality)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 305
10.2 Single WordUprooted by Naomi Novik
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.5 approved in help thread)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 320
10.5 NovellasThe Final Solution by Michael Chabon
+10 task (131 pages)
+10 combos (10.4, 20.5)
Task total: 20
Grand total: 185
15.4 Waters of the WorldPietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
Rhine (Belgium)
+15 Task (author born /nationality)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 335
20.3-Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
+20 Task: approved in help thread
+10 Combo: 10.8 Cory Day's Task: License to Write / 20.5-R.K. Narayan (on the lists)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 545
20.5-R.K. NarayanThe Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories by William Saroyan
+20 Task: on list
+ 5 Combo: 20.6-The Bronte Sisters (on list)
+10 Not a Novel
+10 Oldies (1934)
+ 5 Multiple
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 595
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+10 Task
+5 combo (10.4)
Points this post: 15
Grand Total: 445