Reading with Style discussion

Spring Cleaning
15.1 Mystery/thriller
Falco on His Metal: Venus in Copper / The Iron Hand of Mars / Poseidon's Gold

+ 15 Task
+5 Jumbo (1029 pages)
Task Total = 20 points

15.10 General Non-fiction
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

+ 15 Task
Task total = 15 points

Reading with Style
10.3 Cyberpunk
The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch
Completing The Book of the New Sun which I began earlier in the year with Shadow & Claw

+ 10 Task
+ 5 Oldies (1982/1983)
+ 5 Series (there is a sequel)
Task Total 20 points

20.1 Alliteration
Cannily, Cannily

+20 Task Points
Task Total = 20 points

20.5 Epic Poetry
The Song of Roland

+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.6 pre-1900 poetry)
+ 15 Oldies
+ 10 Canon
Task Total = 50 points

Grand Total = 440 points

Kazza wrote: "Task 10.8 - Coralie's 2nd Place Task
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (pub. 1726)..."
+10 Oldies.

This book was published in either 1881 or 1883.

Camille wrote: "Task 20.6: Pre-20th Century Poetry

I read The Complete Poems of John Keats

+20:task
+5:combo (popular penguin)
+15:oldie (pub 1820)
+40:total task

Rws TOTAL: 285"

+10 Canon points

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Krista, I want to switch books. I want to swap "I Am Number Four" from Spring Cleaning 15.2 Science Fiction and claim 20.2 option A. word from book title rhymes with author's name. In the 15.2 slot I want to put "Unwind" by Neal Shusterman...."

410
+25 (20.2 claim I Am Number Four)
-15 (15.2 remove I Am Number Four)
-15 (10.1 remove Unwind)
+15 (15.2 claim Unwind)
=420

As of post 600, I have your Grand Total as 435.

10.7 Scrabble Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

n-c-a-t: can, cat, ant, act, tan, cant

+ 10 Task

Grand Total = 410

Liz M wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Krista, I want to switch books. I want to swap "I Am Number Four" from Spring Cleaning 15.2 Science Fiction and claim 20.2 option A. word from book title rhymes with..."

At post 600, I added task 15.9 Spring Cleaning Memoir with "Breaking Night" which make my new total 450. Just letting you know.

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "At post 600, I added task 15.9 Spring Cleaning Memoir with "Breaking Night" which make my new total 450. Just letting you know...."

What I was trying to show in post 604, is that after post 575 I have your Grand Total as 420 (not the 435 posted, I think you forgot to subtract the 15 points from claiming Unwind for task 10.1).

Then, 420 plus 15 points claimed in post 600 results in 435.

got it, I will go with the 435 then.

10.1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - (Sam's 20.9 - Best of 2010): Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

#52 on the 2010 list - Excellent Book that I highly recommend.

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 160

15.3 Fantasy

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

+15 Task

Grand Total: 695

20.2 Rhymes

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

+20 Task
+5 Series (Thursday Next)

Task Total: 25

20.4 A Poet's Non-Poetry

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies

Task Total: 40

Grand Total: 565

Krista wrote: "I'm adding 5 combo points to Karen GHHS and my point total. We both read Beowulf, and didn't claim Combo points for Task 10.8

Karen's orignal post for Beowulf was msg #338
Karen, your new Gran..."

Thanks for the Popular Penguins points for Beowulf, Krista!

Also, I forgot that Winterlong,although not listed as a series, says in the description on goodreads and at the back of the book that there is a sequel, so I'd like to add those 5 points if it does indeed count as a series.

Winterlong

Thanks so much for checking!

15.8 - Biography - King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror & Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
+15 Task
Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 325

RwS Task 20.3 Iambic Pentameter
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.8 Popular Penguins)
+5 Oldies (pub 1985)

Spring Cleaning Task 15.10 General Nonfiction
All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! by Mel Bartholomew
+15 Task

Post Total: 45
Grand Total: 935+45=980

RwS Tasks

20.1 – Alliteration

The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8 Australia’s Popular Penguins
+10 Oldies: 76 to 150 years old: 10 points(1878)
Task Points: 35

20.1 – Alliteration

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

+20 Task
+ 5 Series: Sherlock Holmes #1
+10 Oldies: -76 to 150 years old: 1887
Task Total: 35

20.2 – Rhymes

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore Lexile 700

A) – A word in the title rhymes with the author’s name Four/Lore

+20 Task
+ 5 Series: Lorien Legacies #1
Task Total: 25

20.7 – Post-19th Century Poetry

Carver: A Life in Poems 97p. of poetry &
A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors 15p. of poetry by Marilyn Nelson

+20 Task
Task Total: 20

Points this Post: 115
Grand Total:
1065 or 1070 (if Winterlong series points accepted)

Two more!!

Spring Cleaning Task 15.5 - Supernatural

A House-Boat on the Styx (1895) by John Kendrick Bangs
(notable "shades" or souls meet at a club located on a house-boat on the Styx, piloted by Charon, and have witty discussions)

+ 15 Task
+ 5 Style (written prior to 1980)

Task Total: 20


AND


Task 20.3 - Iambic Pentameter

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
2 1 3 1 1 1 1

+ 20 Task

Task Total: 20


Grand Total: 450 + 20 + 20 = 490

Karen GHHS wrote: "although not listed as a series, says in the description on goodreads and at the back of the book that there is a sequel"

If there's a sequel, is that enough for a series? If so, I'd also like to claim +5 series points for Plainsong, which I posted for 20.9 at Post #591.

Task 20.7 Post-19th Century Poetry

Bow and Waiting for a Hero by Penelope Austin

+20 Task

Task total: 20

Task 10.8 Popular Penguins

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

+10 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Oldies (published 1965)

Task total: 25

Grand total: 510

Hey -- just realized that I can claim combo points! See: Post 0616, I claimed book:

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans

The front page has a poem:

I'm Sick of mediating with your worst self
On behalf of your better selves

I am sick
Of having to remind you
To breathe
Before You suffocate
Your own fool self

-- Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem"

The combo: Task 20.8 - Liz's Choice: Quotable Quotes

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Adjusted Grand Total: 490 + 5 = 495

20.5 Epic Poetry
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation

+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.6 pre-1900 poetry)
+ 15 Oldies
Task Total = 40 points

Grand Total = 480 points

20.8 Quotable Quotes

"The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursela LeGuin

Task Points: 20

Style Points: 15 (Combo 10.6 Lab It, one of the main characters was a scientist, 20.4-Ursela LeGuin wrote some poetry, Oldies-published 1971)

Grand Total:470

11 more tasks to finish

10.8 Popular Penguins - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

+10 (Task)
+10 (Canon)
+5 (Oldies - my edition was published in 1961)

Task Total=25
Grand Total=235 pts

Tobey wrote: "10.8 Popular Penguins - Treasure Island (my edition is hard to find a link for) by Robert Louis Stevenson

+10 (Task)
+10 (Canon)
+5 (Oldies - my edition was published in 1961)
..."

+10 Oldies points (pub. 1883)

The oldies points refer to the original publication date of the work, not a specific edition's publication date (for most of us it would be rather difficult to get a hold of an edition published in, say, 1883).

FYI, if your book has an ISBN number on the back cover or copyright page, typing it into the search box in the add book/author popup will bring up that specific edition.

Thanks Liz, I wasn't sure which date you wanted me to use. So I'm adding another 5 points to my score then?

My ISBN to match has no cover pictured which is why I left it blank. Its very unsightly to click on it. :-)

Tobey wrote: "Thanks Jane, I wasn't sure which date you wanted me to use. So I'm adding another 5 points to my score then?

My ISBN to match has no cover pictured which is why I left it blank. Its very unsig..."

If you have access to a scanner, you can scan the cover yourself and get a picture added by a librarian. Let me know if you'd like more info.

If you have access to a scanner, you can scan the cover yourself and get a picture added by a librarian. Let me know if you'd like more info.

Now that I could do with a scanner. Sure, I'd love more info, thanks Joanna!

Task 20.10: Sam's Choice: Potent Potables

I read Irreplaceable by Stephen Lovely

+20: task

RwS total: 315

Task 10.5 I'm Tellin'

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell

+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (529)

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 580

RwS Tasks

10.9 – Colleen’s 1st Place Task Pi Day

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

+10 Task
Task Total: 10

20.1 – Alliteration

A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
Lexile 940

+20 Task
+ 5 Series: The Queen’s Thief #4
Task Total: 25

20.4 – A Poet’s Non-Poetry

Walter Dean Myers has published at least 2 books of poetry:
Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices (Bank Street College of Education Claudia Lewis Award

I read his novel in verse:
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers

+20 Task
Task Total: 20

20.9 – Krista’s Choice:

B. Botswana

The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith

+20 Task
+10 Series: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #5, 2nd Task= 10 Points

Task Total: 30

Points this Post: 30+20+25+10=85
Grand Total: 1150 or 1155(pending Winterlong decision)

Here's some more info on my claim for Winterlong as the first book in a series. Here are the two books on Elizabeth Hand's blog listed as part of the series:

Æstival Tide
Icarus Descending

Hope this helps!

Karen GHHS wrote: "Here's some more info on my claim for Winterlong as the first book in a series. Here are the two books on Elizabeth Hand's blog listed as part of the series:

Æstival Tide
[book:Icaru..."

Sorry, I've been working 10-12 hour days and will work Sunday, so while I've been reading posts, I haven't always had time to respond. Thanks for the extra information, though!

No problem, Liz-- I'm on spring break so I really feel for you working those hours and volunteering here. Thanks!

Denae wrote: "Task 10.5 I'm Tellin'

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell"

Denae - How did you like this? I have a copy sitting at home that I've been meaning to read for a long time.

ERIN C.

10.6 Lab Lit

Kraken by China Miéville

The main character is a Curator who specializes in preserving mollusks at the National Museum in London.

+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (509 pp.)

Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 400

Christy wrote: "Denae wrote: "Task 10.5 I'm Tellin'

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell"

Denae - How did you like this? I have a copy sitting at home th..."

I really enjoyed it. Its subject matter may have been the most fascinating I've ever read in a biography. The story is amazing. The biographer occasionally veered a little bit into being an apologist, which could be frustrating, and she sometimes outpaced the story, but overall it's good. I've been recommending it to people.

20.2 Rhymes

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

+20 Task
+5 Series (Peter Grant)

Task Points: 25

Grand Total: 605

20.7 - Post-19th Century Poetry: The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez
+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 345

Spring Cleaning
15.3 Fantasy - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix



15 task total

10.9 Pi Day - A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden Mystery, #2)



10 task
+5 series
15 task total

Points This Post: 30
Tasks Completed: 11
Total Points: 170
Books Read: 11

This post should have come before my last post. Sorry for the confusion.

Spring Cleaning
15.4 Historical Fiction - The Help by Kathryn Stockett

15.5 Supernatural - Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

20.10 Potent Potables - Heat Wave by Richard Castle


Points This Task: 50
Tasks Completed: 9
Total Points: 140
Books Read: 9

Task 15.9 Spring Cleaning - memoirs
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen

+15 pts - Task
+5 pts - Oldies (first pub. in 1937)

20 pts - Task Total
920 pts - Grand Total

A beautiful book! Quite different than what I expected after seeing the movie.

15.9 Memoir Memory Palace


Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 425

Task 10.1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

FINALLY, I have finished task 15.4 Backpacking through Europe (stop in the U.K.). I have been trying to read this book for almost 4 months!!! In the last challenge, I could not get started!

I read Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

10 task points
+ 10 Canon
+ 15 Oldies (published in 1837)
+ 5 Jumbo (mine had 550 pages)
=40 total task points

Total RWS points: 280

10.2 - Women's History Month
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin

+10 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies

15.10 - General Non-Fiction: (True Crime)
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

+15 Task

Total this post: 45 points
Total to date: 545 points

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

20.7 Post-19th Century Poetry

Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917

+20 Task
+10 Canon

15.5 Spring Cleaning

Supernatural

A Discovery of Witches

+15 Task

Task Total= 45
TOTAL POINTS= 335

Hey Rachel:

How did you like A Discovery of Witches? It's on my TBR shelf. I'm wondering if it should stay there.....

Thanks! -Krista

10.5 - I'm Tellin'

I read My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

+10 task points

Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 260

Arow wrote: "10.5 - I'm Tellin'

I read My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

+10 task points

Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 260"

That is a great book. :)

Krista wrote: "Hey Rachel:

How did you like A Discovery of Witches? It's on my TBR shelf. I'm wondering if it should stay there.....

Thanks! -Krista"

I hear alot of people like it.

Task 20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables

Drowning Towers (1987) by George Turner (Paperback, 387 pages)
Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel (1988)

+ 20 Task

Grand Total: 495 + 20 = 515

Spring Cleaning Task 15.10 Timbit Nation: a Hitchhiker's View of Canada by John Stackhouse

Task points 15

+150 Bonus points (Housework is done!)

Total points 605