Reading with Style discussion

10.4 Visiting

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

+10 Task
+25 Combo (10.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... , 20.6)
+ 5 Oldies (1961)

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 735

10.10 Group Reads

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.6)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 755

15.8 Ratings Game 5000 - 9999

Edge of Evil by J.A. Jance

Task total 20 pts
Season total 2075 pts

20.6 Characters

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

20 pts 20.6 Characters
5 pts Multiple

Task Total 25 pts
Season total 2100 pts

15.9 RG
15,000-24,999
Honolulu by Alan Brennert

+30
Season total: 275

Kate S wrote: "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"

Thank you :)

20.4 The Black Prince
Regeneration (Regeneration #1) by Pat Barker

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3; 20.1 - pub 1991; 20.10)
+5 Oldies

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,375

15.9 Ratings Game >250000

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

30 pts 15.9 RG
5 pts Big
5 pts Nonfiction

Task Total 40 pts

Season total 2140 pts CORRECTED TOTAL

Task 20.6 Characters
Read a book with at least 9 named characters.

Oleander Girl (2013) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 289 pages)

+20 Task
+ 05 In-Depth

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 495 + 25 = 520

20.6 Characters

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott

+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+5 Combo (10.7)

Task total: 30
Season total: 2130

Can't read my own notes sometimes, had 20.6 written down. Thanks for catching the error.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 923 Norma wrote: "20.8 - Revisit a Friend

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter

+20 task
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.8)
+10 young
+5 multiple

Task total: 45
Grand total: ..."

20.6 - Characters

Fatal Error by J.A. Jance

+20 task
+10 Combo (10.3, 10.8)
+5 multiple

Task total: 35
Grand total: 1215

20.3 A Severed Head

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

The lexile for this book is 790, but I think it is "grandfathered in" as a non-YA book because of preivous claims, so I'm adding style points. Please let me know if that's wrong!

+20 Task https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.6)
+ 5 Oldies (1963)

Post Total: 35
Season Total: 790

20.1 Iris Murdoch

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

20 task
5 multi
5 oldie
5 combo 20.6
_____
35

Running total: 1505

15.9 RG (Round 2)
75,000 - 99,999 Ratings

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

+30 Task

Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1,405

Task 20.6 Characters
Read a book with at least 9 named characters.

The Final Reveille (Living History Museum #1) (2015) by Amanda Flower

+20 Task
+05 Combo (#10.3 no “I”)
+05 In-Depth

Task Total: 20 + 05 + 05 = 30

Grand Total: 520 + 30 = 550

10.1 Design Your Own Task

Read a book that has won a Science Fiction or Fantasy award (Hugo, Locus, Nebula, Grand prix de l’imaginaire…)

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Nebula + Locus awards

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.6 - Patricia, Laurence, Roberta, Serafina, Mr Rose, Isobel, Milton, Ernesto, Peregrine,...)

Task total = 15

Points total = 120

15.10 RG (Round 2)
10,000 - 14,999 Ratings

The Year I Met You by Cecelia Ahern

+30 Task
+100 Finisher

Post Total: 130
Season Total: 1,535

20.3 A Severed Head

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.1)
+5 oldies (1966)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 900

10.5 D-Day

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

+10 task (#54 Best Ending list)
+30 combo (10.8, 20.1, 20.3-stage play, 20.4, 20.6, 20.10)
+10 oldies (1926)

Task total=50
Grand total=1455

10.9 All Star Reads

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa

+10 task
+ 5 combo (10.3)

Task total=15
Grand total=1470

15.9 RG

100,000 - 249,999 (208,899 ratings today)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

+30 task
+ 5 old (1920)

Task total=35
Grand total=1505

50.1 French Southern Territories

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell by John Conroy Hutcheson

50 pts. 50.1 French Southern Territories see discussion thread and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kergu...
5 pts 10.3 Summer 2017
5 pts 20.6 Characters
5 pts Multiple
10 pts Oldies

Task total: 75 pts

Season total 2215 pts

Anika wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "50.1 Group Project
Sierra Leone
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

+50 pts - Task
+5 pts. - Combo (20.6)
+5 Pts - Multi

Task Total - 60 pts
Season..."

Sorry! I didn’t see your question until tonight? So did you make your packing lighter? I did like it. I gave it 5 stars and shelved it under “disturbing”, “social justice”, “current events”, “environmental” and “”books I highly recommend”. It is a bleak though. I listened to it as an audiobook that was read by the author. I often do that with books written by authors that originate from another country or book set in another country. Not always the author reading it though. I like to hear the voice of character, with the proper accents and because they correctly pronounce the names of people and places. I think that was another reason I enjoyed it so much. But I like to listen to Dickens, Austen and the Brontes with a British reader. Two of my favorite audio readers for these classics are Nadia May and Simon Vance.
I’ve digressed. Did you read A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier ?

10.1 Choose Your Own Task

My task is to read a book I've owned for over a year.

Edwin: High King of Britain by Edoardo Albert

(purchased April 2018)

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.6 >9 named characters)

Task total: 15
Season total: 790

15.10 RG
100,000-245,999
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

+30 task
+5 nonfiction
+5 old (1985)
Task total: 40
Completion bonus: 100
Season total: 415

15.7 RG
1,000 - 4,999
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller (4340 ratings)

+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - non- fiction

Task total - 25 pts
Season Total 1140 pts

50.1 Project RwS, Niue

Niue of Polynesia: Savage Island's First Latter-Day Saint Missionaries by Robert Maurice Goodman

+50 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Combo (10.2, 20.6)

Task total: 65
Season total: 2195

50.1 British Indian Ocean Territories
set in the Chagos Islands which are part of the British Indian Ocean Territories

A Chagos Story by Vinod T. Fullee

Task=50
Multiple=5
Combo= 5 (20.6)
Task Total: 60

Grand Total= 2235

Completed Tasks: (47)
✔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); 50.1(16x)(65); 50.1 (17x)(60);

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

20.6 Characters

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch

+20 Task (lots and lots and lots of them!)
+ 5 Combo (10.2)
+10 Young (b. 1970)

Task total = 35

Season total = 950

Task 15.8 The Ratings Game

250,000 or more ratings

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) by Yuval Noah Harari (translated from Hebrew) (Hardcover, 443 pages) [909]
Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize Nominee (2015)

+20 Task
+05 Non-Fiction

Task Total: 20 + 05 = 25

Grand Total: 550 + 25 = 575

20.8 Revisit a Friend

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain (1936) 115 pages, play review https://sdgln.com/entertainment/2013/...

The other book by James M. Cain I read was The Postman Always Rings Twice in January of 2019.

+20 Task
+15 Combos 20.1 Irish Murdoch, 20.3 (play), 20.6 Characters
+10 Oldie

Task 45 points
Season Total 1135

20.1 Iris Murdoch

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

20 task
5 multi
5 oldie
15 combo 10.4, 10.6, 20.6
_______
45

Running total: 1550

15.10 RG

> 250,000 ratings

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

+30 task
+ 5 non-fiction (1920)

Task total=35

+100 finishers bonus

Grand total=1640

10.10 Group Reads
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

+10 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (20.6)

Task Total - 15 pts
Season Total - 1155pts

*I read in the acknowledgments, the author mentions a book she drew from that was one of our Group Reads books from 2015, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

From Post 918

Rachel wrote: "20.6 Characters

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

+20 Task
+5 Multiple

Task total: 25
Season total: 725"

+10 Young

From Post 921

Katy wrote: "20.4 The Black Prince

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

+20 task
+25 combo (10.8 - #4 in Poirot series; 20.1 - 1926; 20.3 - play here; 20.6; 20.10)
+10..."

+5 Combo 10.5

From Post 931

Rebekah wrote: "50.1 Group Project
Sierra Leone
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

+50 pts - Task
+5 pts. - Combo (20.6)
+5 Pts - Multi

Task Total - 60 pts
Season Total - 1115 pts"

+10 Young

Anika wrote: "Mods, you're gonna hate me. I'm moving all of my books from my second round of RG , because I don't think I'll finish it and it's worth so many more points as straightforward tasks. I'm sorry I did..."

I don't hate you. I do believe I got all of these moved. Thank you for including the original post number.

From Post 943

Coralie wrote: "10.2 Jackson’s Dilemma

Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress

+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.3
+5 Multiple

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 1715"

+5 Combo 10.8

From Post 950

Rosemary wrote: "10.2 Jackson's Dilemma

Nefertiti's Heart by A.W. Exley

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.6)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 695"

+10 Young

10.10. Groupreads

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

10 pts. 10.10 Groupreads
5 pts 20.6 Characters

Task total. 15 pts
Season total 2230 pts

50.1 Project RwS, Croatia

Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters by Jennifer Wilson

+50 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Combo: 10.2, 20.6

Task total: 65
Season total: 2260

And thank you, Kate, for being so understanding of that giant mess i made of things—you’re the best!

10.7 Summer Shorts

Sunrise at Campobello - A Play in Three Acts by Dore Schary

Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill

10 Pts 10.7 Summer Shorts
5 pts Iris Murdoch
5 pts Multiple
5 pts Oldies

Task total 25 pts
Season Total. 2255 pts

Corrected post # 959. Should be 15.9 not 15.8

Sorry for the error!

Kate S wrote: "From Post 931

Rebekah wrote: "50.1 Group Project
Sierra Leone
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

+50 pts - Task
+5 pts. - Combo (20.6)
+5 Pts - Multi

Task Total ..."

Thanks, Kate for catching that. I keep forgetting about that style!

15.8 RG
75,000 - 99,999
Pines by Blake Crouch

+20 pts - Task
Season Total - 1180 ?

If you are looking for a book for next season challenge, this one fits a sub challenge for unreliable narrator and two Season Tasks, Non- Linear and Speculative Fiction

50.1 Project RwS

Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

+50 Task (set in Sierra Leone)
+5 Combo 20.6
+10 Young (born 1980)

Task Total: 65
Season Total: 1785

20.5 London
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

+20 task
+15 combo 20.6, 10.2, 10.3
Task total: 35
Season total: 450

20.9 Apollo 11

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

+20 task (163 shelvings)
+10 combo (20.1, 20.6)
+ 5 oldies (1988)

Task total=35
Grand total=1675