Reading with Style discussion

Post 844 Valerie wrote: "10.5 D-Day

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

10 task
5 jumbo
20 combo 10.2, 10.4, 10.9, 20.6
______
35

Running total: 1075"

I don't see this on the bookshelf of either group (10.4). Have I missed something?

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 844 Valerie wrote: "10.5 D-Day

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

10 task
5 jumbo
20 combo 10.2, 10.4, 10.9, 20.6
______
35

Running total: 1075"
..."




No, I haven't got a clue what I was thinking!? So -5 for me.

15.9 RG

250,000 or more ratings

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

+30 Task
+5 Jumbo

Task total: 35
Grand total: 615

20.5 London

Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8, 20.6)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 645

15.7 RG (Round 2)
250,000+ Ratings

Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher

+20 Task

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1,160

20.7 Shakespeare

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

+20 Task (Taming of the Shrew)
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.8, 20.6)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 680

20.1 Iris Murdoch
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple #9) by Agatha Christie
published 1962

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Combo (10.8; 20.6)
+5 Oldies

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,200

20.6 Characters

The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber

+20 task
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 25
Season total: 850

20.9 Apollo 11 (Kate S's Task)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1) by Liu Cixin
Shelved as Space 60x

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1,220

Task 20.1 Iris Murdoch
Read a book published during Iris Murdoch's lifetime (1919-1999)

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) by Orson Scott Card (Paperback, 402 pages)

+20 Task
+10 Combo (#10.3 no “I”, #20.6 >9 named characters)
+05 In-depth

Task Total: 20 + 10 + 05 = 35

Grand Total: 435 + 35 = 470

20.6 Characters

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Young (born 1986)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1455

From Post 807

Tien wrote: "10.3 Summer 2017
The Complete Autobiography (Janet Frame Autobiography #1-3) by Janet Frame

+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+5 Combo (20.6)
+5 Oldies (books were published from 1..."

+5 Combo 20.1

From Post 815

Ed wrote: "20.3 D-Day

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Task=20
Combo=10 (10.5; 20.6)
Multiple=5
Oldie=10 (1904)
Task Total: 45

Grand Total= 1830

Completed Tasks: (43)
✔10.1 (15); 10...."

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 830

Mary wrote: "20.4 Black Horse

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

20 pts. 20.4 Black Horse
5 pts 10.3 Summer 2017
5 pts 20.6 Characters
10 Young
15 pts Oldies
5 pts Jumbo

Task total : ..."

+5 Combo 10.4

From Post 836

Coralie wrote: "20.9 Apollo 11

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

+20 Task
+5 Combo 20.6
+5 Multiple
+10 Young (born 1969)

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 1400"

+5 Combo 10.8

20.1 Iris Murdoch

The Clocks by Agatha Christie

+20 Task (1963)
+10 Combo (10.8, 20.6)
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Oldies

Task total = 40

Season total = 825

15.2 RG (Round 2), 5,000-9,999

Unqualified by Anna Faris

+15 Task
+5 Non-Fiction

Task total: 20
Season total: 1700

50.1 Project RwS, Guam

Keeper of the Night by Kimberly Willis Holt

+50 Task
+5 Combo, 20.6

Task total: 55
Season total: 1755

50.1 St. Pierre et Miquelon
The Black Joke by Farley Mowat

Task=50
Combo=15 (10.3;20.1; 20.6)
Multiple=5
Oldie=5 (1962)
Task Total: 75

Grand Total= 1955

Completed Tasks: (45)
✔10.1 (15); 10.2 (10); 10.3 (25); 10.4 (40); 10.5 (35); 10.6 (40); 10.7 (20); 10.8(30); 10.9 (20); 10.10 (35)
15.1 (15); 15.2 (15); 15.3(25); 15.4 (20); 15.5 (20); 15.6 (25); 15.7 (25); 15.8 (25); 15.9 (35)
20.1 (35); 20.2 (50); 20.3 (35); 20.3(2x)(45);20.4 (45); 20.5 (40), 20.6 (40);20.6 (2x)(35);20.7 (50);20.8(45); 20.10 (20);
50.1(65); 50.1 again (60); 50.1 (3rd time)(70); 50.1 (4x)(70); 50.1 (5x)(75); 50.1 (6x)(75); 50.1 (7x)(70); 50.1 (8x)(75); 50.1 (9x)(60); 50.1(10x)(60); 50.1 (11x)(60); 50.1(12x)(60); 50.1 (13x)(60); 50.1 (14x)(65); 50.1 (15x)(75)

250,000 or more ratings
✔100,000 - 249,999
✔75,000 - 99,999
✔25,000 - 74,999
✔15,000 - 24,999
✔10,000 - 14,999
✔5,000 - 9,999
✔1,000 - 4,999
✔250 - 999
✔fewer than 250 ratings

15.8 RG (Round 2)
25,000 - 74,999 Ratings

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

+20 Task

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1,245

Task 10.3 Summer 2017
Read any book by an author whose name as published contains no letter I.

The Hanging Of Father Miguel (1989) by M.A. Armen

+10 Task
+05 Oldies -25 to 75 years old: (1944-1994)
+05 In-depth

Task Total: 10 + 05 + 05 = 20

Grand Total: 470 + 20 = 490

15.5 RG
25,000 - 74,999
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

+15 pts - Task
Season Total -1020 pts (Going by readerboard score to add this task)

20.6 Characters

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Low Lexile

+ 20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 620

20.6 Characters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Lexile 880

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5 Best Ending #8; 10.8 #4 in series)
+ 10 Jumbo
+ 5 Multiple

Task total: 45
Season total: 665

15.3 RG (Round 2), 1,000-4,999

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeanne Brennan

+15 Task
+5 Non-Fiction

Task total: 20
Season total: 1775

15.4 RG (Round 2), 100,000-249,999

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

+15 Task
+5 Old

Task total: 20
Season total: 1795

20.6 Characters

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (YA, but lexile = 1050)

+20 Task
+5 Deep dive
+5 Combo (10.8, third in the series)
+10 young (born 1983)
+10 Jumbo (748 pages)

+50 task
_________
320 Season total

10.6 Author Lifetime Awards

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

+10 task (St. Louis Literary Award)
+20 combo (10.3, 10.8, 20.6, 20.7)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 525

20.9 Apollo 11 (Kate S's Task)
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Task=20
Combo=25 (10.3;10.4,10.5,20.3*,20.6)
*-see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... - "2004–2005: H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, a site specific theatre adaptation by Canadian playwright Ian Case staged in and around Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia."
Oldie=10 (1898)
Task Total: 55
RwS Finish bonus=100

Grand Total= 2110

Completed Tasks: (45)
✔10.1 (15); 10.2 (10); 10.3 (25); 10.4 (40); 10.5 (35); 10.6 (40); 10.7 (20); 10.8(30); 10.9 (20); 10.10 (35)
15.1 (15); 15.2 (15); 15.3(25); 15.4 (20); 15.5 (20); 15.6 (25); 15.7 (25); 15.8 (25); 15.9 (35)
✔20.1 (35); 20.2 (50); 20.3 (35); 20.3(2x)(45);20.4 (45); 20.5 (40), 20.6 (40);20.6 (2x)(35);20.7 (50);20.8(45); 20.9 (55);20.10 (20);
50.1(65); 50.1 again (60); 50.1 (3rd time)(70); 50.1 (4x)(70); 50.1 (5x)(75); 50.1 (6x)(75); 50.1 (7x)(70); 50.1 (8x)(75); 50.1 (9x)(60); 50.1(10x)(60); 50.1 (11x)(60); 50.1(12x)(60); 50.1 (13x)(60); 50.1 (14x)(65); 50.1 (15x)(75)

250,000 or more ratings
✔100,000 - 249,999
✔75,000 - 99,999
✔25,000 - 74,999
✔15,000 - 24,999
✔10,000 - 14,999
✔5,000 - 9,999
✔1,000 - 4,999
✔250 - 999
✔fewer than 250 ratings

10.8 Series

Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb

+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.3, 20.1, 20.6)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 705

10.6- Author Lifetime Awards

Winner of Irish PEN

The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
Task: 10
Post total: 10
Season total: 535

20.4- The Black Prince

#92 on list- Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Task: 20
Combo-5- 20.1
Oldies: 10 first published in 1939

Post total: 35
Season total: 570

15.5 RG (Round 2), 250,000+

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

+15 Task

Task total: 15
Season total: 1810

15.6 RG (Round 2), 25,000-74,999

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

+20 Task

Task total: 20
Season total: 1830

20.4 The Black Prince

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

20 task
10 oldie
15 combo 10.4, 20.1, 20.5, 20.6
_____
50

Running total: 1120

Rws Finish: 100
Megafinish: 200

______
Running total: 1420

Valerie wrote:

"Rws Finish: 100
Megafinish: 200"

Congratulations! Well done!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Valerie wrote:

"Rws Finish: 100
Megafinish: 200"

Congratulations! Well done!"

Thanks! Two clunkers near the end made it a real challenge! ;)

20.10 Elizabeth’s Task
The Doctor's Family by Mrs. Oliphant

+20 pts -Task
+15 pts - Combo (10.2, 10.8 - The Chrobicles of Carlingford, 20.6)
+15 pts - Oldies (1863)

Task total - 50 pts
Season Total - 1070 pts

Valerie wrote: "20.4 The Black Prince

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

20 task
10 oldie
15 combo 10.4, 20.1, 20.5
_____
45

Running total: 1115

Rws Finish: 100
Megafinish: 200

______
..."
Way to go!

10.6 Author Lifetime Awards
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.3; 20.1 - pub 1975; 20.5; 20.6)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1975)

Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1,285

20.6 Characters

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

+20 task
+ 5 multiples

Task total: 25
Season total: 875

20.3 A Severed Head
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
approval

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3; 20.1 - pub 1966; 20.6)
+5 Oldies (pub. 1966)

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,325

In post #856 I have claimed The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple #9) by Agatha Christie for 20.1
Can I please move this book to:
20.10 Historical (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)

Points will be:

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.8; 20.1 - pub 1962; 20.6)
+5 Oldies

Total: 40 (points total is exactly the same as in post #856 so no change in season total to date

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Valerie wrote:

"Rws Finish: 100
Megafinish: 200"

Congratulations! Well done!"

Woo hoo, Val! Nice finish!

Thanks, Rebekah + Anika! :)

From Post 882

June wrote: "20.4- The Black Prince

#92 on list- Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Task: 20
Combo-5- 20.1
Oldies: 10 first published in 1939

Post total: 35
Season total: 570"

+5 Combo 10.3

From Post 871

Deedee wrote: "Task 10.3 Summer 2017
Read any book by an author whose name as published contains no letter I.

The Hanging Of Father Miguel (1989) by M.A. Armen

+10 Task
+05 Oldie..."

+5 Combo 20.1

Tien wrote: "In post #856 I have claimed The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple #9) by Agatha Christie for 20.1
Can I please move this book to:
20.10 Historical (Elizabet..."

Moved

Congrats!


Valerie wrote: "20.4 The Black Prince

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

20 task
10 oldie
15 combo 10.4, 20.1, 20.5, 20.6
_____
50

Running total: 1120

Rws Finish: 100
Megafinish: 200

_..."

Valerie wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Valerie wrote:

"Rws Finish: 100
Megafinish: 200"

Congratulations! Well done!"

Thanks! Two clunkers near the end made it a real challenge! ;)"

Ed wrote: "Congrats!


Valerie wrote: "20.4 The Black Prince

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

20 task
10 oldie
15 combo 10.4, 20.1, 20.5, 20.6
_____
50

Running total: 1120

Rws Fi..."


Thanks, Ed!