Reading with Style discussion

From Post 951

Rosemary wrote: "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 (19..."

+5 Combo 10.5

From Post 963

Rosemary wrote: "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,..."

+20 Combo 10.2, 10.5, 10.9, 20.1

From Post 966

Deedee wrote: "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..."

+10 Young

From Post 969

Joanna wrote: "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"

+5 Combo 20.6

From Post 971

Denise wrote: "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"

+5 Combo 20.6

From Post 975

Rachel wrote: " 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 10.3

10.7 Summer Shorts (Mary's Task)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.1 - published 1922)
+10 Young (age 44 at death)
+10 Oldie (1922)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 315

10.10 Group Reads

Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

+10 Task
+15 Combo (10.6 - Golden PEN Award, 20.1, 20.5)
+ 5 Oldie (published 1981)

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 345

15.5 Ratings Game

1000 - 4999 ratings

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

+15 Task (rating 4350)
+ 5 Non-Fiction

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 365

20.4 The Black Prince

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.1)
+10 Oldie (pub. 1939)

Task Total: 40
Season Total: 405

From Post 1008

June wrote: "10.1- Design Your Own Task
Read a book planned from a previous season challenge
Fall 2018- 9,10,11

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Task : 10
Oldies: Fir..."

+5 Combo 20.1

From Post 1028

Norma wrote: "20.6 - Characters

Worthy Brown's Daughter by Phillip Margolin

+20 task
+5 multiple

Task total: 25
Grand total: 1275"

+5 Combo 10.3 10.2

20.6 Characters

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

+20 Task (Wikipedia list 11 named characters)
+10 Combo (20.1, 20.4)
+ 5 Oldie (1984)

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 440

20.6 Characters

The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
lexile 800

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.2, 10.3, 10.8, 20.5)
+5 Multiple
+5 Jumbo
+10 Young

Task total: 60
Grand total: 1300

20.1 Iris Murdock (published 1919-1999)
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Published 1974

+20 task
+5 combo 10.3
+5 oldies
+5 multiple
Task total: 35
Season total: 485

20.5 London

The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton

20 pts 20.5 London
5 pts 10.3 Summer 2017
10 pts Oldies

Task total 35 pts
RWS Finish 100 pts
Mega Finish 200 pts

Season total 2805 pts

Mary wrote: "20.5 London

The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton

20 pts 20.5 London
5 pts 10.3 Summer 2017
10 pts Oldies

Task total 35 pts
RWS Finish 100 pts
Mega Finish..."

Amazing, Mary! Well done.

Mary wrote: "

RWS Finish 100 pts
Mega Finish 200 pts"

Congratulations! Well done!

15.10- 250,000 or more ratings

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Task= 30
Old=5
Task Total: 35
Finisher Bonus=100
Mega-Finish Bonus= 200

Grand Total= 2570

Completed Tasks: (48)
✔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); 15.10 (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

Ed wrote: "

Finisher Bonus=100
Mega-Finish Bonus= 200"

Congratulations! Well done!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ed wrote: "

Finisher Bonus=100
Mega-Finish Bonus= 200"

Congratulations! Well done!"

Thanks! I've got one more book to finish for the season.... maybe two.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ed wrote: "

Finisher Bonus=100
Mega-Finish Bonus= 200"

Congratulations! Well done!"

Ed—
Congratulations on your finish! Great job!

Mary wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ed wrote: "

Finisher Bonus=100
Mega-Finish Bonus= 200"

Congratulations! Well done!"

Ed—
Congratulations on your finish! Great job!"

Thanks...you too Mary, Anika and Valerie!

Ed wrote: "15.10- 250,000 or more ratings

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Task= 30
Old=5
Task Total: 35
Finisher Bonus=100
Mega-Finish Bonus= 200

Grand Total= 2570

Completed Tasks: (..."

Congrats! Well done!

20.1 Iris Murdoch

The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

20 task
5 multi (#7!!!)
5 oldie
10 combo 20.2, 20.6
_____
40

Running total: 1655

20.6 Characters

Sink or Swim: Or Harry Raymond's Resolve by Horatio Alger Jr.

20 pts. 20.6 characters
5 pts Multiple
10 pts Oldies

Task total 35 pts
Season total. 2840 pts

20.5 Characters

A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell

+20 Task
+10 Young
+5 Multiple
+5 Combo 10.3

Task total: 40
Season total: 2370

20.5 London:

Drood by Dan Simmons

+20 task
+10 jumbo (MPE 775 pages)
+5 combo (20.6 Characters)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 80

10.5 D-Day
White Fang by Jack London
#47 on Best Beginning

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.3; 20.1 - pub 1905; 20.6)
+10 Young
+10 Oldies

Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,665

15.7 RG

100,000-249,999 Ratings

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

+20 Task (147, 114 ratings)
+5 Nonfiction

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 675

15.8 RG

1000-4999 ratings

Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lexile 810

+20 task (2559 ratings)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 695

20.6 - Characters

Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

+20 task
+5 Combo (10.8)
+5 multiple
+5 missed combo on post 1028

Task total: 35
Grand total: 1440

15.9 RG
10, 000 - 1 4,999
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump 14,303

+30 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Non Fiction
+ 5 pts. - Old (1987)

Task Total - 40 pts
Season Total - 1360 pts ?

20.2 Oxford Authors

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3, 20.1, 20.6)
+10 Oldies (1938)

Post Total: 45
Season Total with all the combos Kate has found for me :) 870

20.8 Revisit a Friend

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

+20 Task (first read May 2019)
+10 Young (born 1971)
+5 Multiple

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1915

15.1 RG
2nd round

fewer than 250 ratings

The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver by Chan Koonchung

+15 Task (127 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1930

15.2 RG
2nd round

250-999 ratings

The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe

+15 Task (275 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1945

15.3 RG
2nd round

1,000 – 4,999 ratings

The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak

+15 Task (2332 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1960

15.4 RG
2nd round

15,000 to 24,999 ratings

Breath by Tim Winton

+15 Task (15,442 ratings)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1975

50.1 RwS Project
Chad
African Rice Heart by Emily Star Wilkens

+ 50 pts - Task
+10 pts - young (in first chapter, author states she is 22 and will work for 6 months in Chad. Later she states it is her 23 rd birthday, shortly before she leaves Chad in 2009)
+ 5 pts - multi

Task Total - 65 pts
Season Total - 1425 pts ?

20.6 - Characters

Left for Dead by J.A. Jance

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

Task total: 35
Grand total: 1475

Mary wrote: "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://..."

I wanted to ask you if you thought this would work for next season’s Shipwrecked! Task? I see it is a free downloadable ebook. Did you enjoy it? Did it have a lot of nautical jargon? You can answer in the Shipwrecked! Task thread to keep from filling up the Completed Tasks thread.

Ratings Game

15.8 75,000 - 99,999

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

+20 Task
+ 5 Non Fiction
+ 5 Oldies

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1080

Coralie wrote: "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"

We have a “Book Chat” discussion thread under Member’s Corner. I’d like to know what you thought of the book.

Ratings Game

15.9 250 - 999 / Pre-approved

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

+30 Task

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1110

15.10 RG
250 -999

The Trump Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen by Gene Stone
387 ratings

+30 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - non fiction
+100 pts - Sub Challenge Completion Bonus
+200 pts - Mega Finish Bonus

Task total - 335 pts
Season Total - 1760 pts ?

20.6 Characters

Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.3 Summer 2017
+ 5 Multiple

Task Total: 30
Season Total: 1140

Hi Kate - starting with this post, I forgot all about multiple points, so there are 7 posts all together missing that 5 points, or 35 points. I am adding them to comment 1104.

10.3 Summer 2017

The Wall by John Lanchester

+10 Task

Season Total: 1150

10.7 Summer Shorts (Mary's Task)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.2 Oxford
+10 Young
+10 Oldies 1896 and 1894

Task Total: 35
Season Total: 1185

10.7 Summer Shorts (Mary's Task)

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee

+10 Task

Season Total: 1195