Reading with Style discussion

Kazza wrote: "Task 10.4 - Say what?
What the World will look like when all the water leaves us by Laura Van Den Berg

+10 Task

Task 10.6 - Lab Lit
Prey by Michael Crichton

Congratulations! Hasn't this been a great season? Keep reading, everyone!

Task 10.3 Cyberpunk

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

+10 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1939)
+5 Combo (10.8)
+5 Series (Philip Marlowe)

Task total: 25
Grand total: 715

I just added the Summer Challenge info in the Summer Challenge folder.

It's a short one, so I'll share it here too ----

School's Out for the Summer! The Reading with Style Summer Challenge will be a bit lower key this quarter. (Even moderators need a break once in awhile.)

Think of this as a DIY challenge. :-)

There are no formalized tasks for the Summer Challenge. Simply read any book you'd like in June, July and August.

Task Points
You can claim 10 points for any book read and posted in the Summer Challenge Completed Tasks folder in June, July, and August.

Summer Style Points
5 Review points for any 100+ word review posted when claiming points in the Completed Task folder
5 Oldies points for any book written prior to 1950
5 Jumbo points for any book that has 500+ pages

Scoring is on the honor system this quarter. Particpants can keep track of their own scores as and include them in their Completed Task messages. No Readerboard will be maintained this quarter. It's summer! Enjoy your time away from structure. Go wild, read whatever your heart desires.

We will be back with a structured challenge in the fall. We'd really like to hear from you about task ideas for the Fall Challenge. Keep posting your ideas on the Task Ideas folder.

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

10.9 Pi Day

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

+10 Task
+5 Series (#1 in Pink Carnation series)

Task Total= 15
TOTAL POINTS= 515

Task 10.5 I'm telling
The Sisters Brothers: A Novel by Patrick deWitt

+10 pts - Tasks

10 pts - Task Total
1870 pts - Grand Total

ERIN C.

20.3 Iambic

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.2 Italo Calvino)
+5 Oldies (p.1982)
+10 Canon

Task Total= 40
Grand Total= 535

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

15.9 Spring Cleaning

Memoir

Under the Tuscan Sun

+15 Task

Task Total= 15
TOTAL POINTS= 530

Task 20.7: Post 19th Century Poetry

I read 100 Selected Poems and Erotic Poems both by E.E. Cummings to total 196 pages

+20: task

RwS TOTAL: 415

Camille wrote: "Task 20.7: Post 19th Century Poetry

I read 100 Selected Poems and Erotic Poems both by E.E. Cummings to total 196 pages

+20: task

RwS TOTAL: 415"

I think you can get Oldies style points on this one too...check the original year published...??

Deana wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 20.7: Post 19th Century Poetry

I read 100 Selected Poems and Erotic Poems both by E.E. Cummings to total 196 pages

+20: task
..."

YAY! +5 Oldies (pub 1959)
my RwS TOTAL: 420

Thanks, Deana!!

Task 20.5 Epic Poetry Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Task points 20
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (1313)
+5 Series (#1 of the Divine Comedy)
+10 Combo (10.8 Popular Penguin, 20.6 Poetry before 1900)

Task total 60
Total points 815

Task 20.2 Rhymes Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb (Robin-Assassin)

Task points 20
+10 Jumbo (752 pp)
+10 Series (second read of the Farseer Trilogy)

Task total 40
Total points 855

Task 20.10 Potent Potables The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Task points 20
+5 Series (Kingkiller Chronicle #2)
+25 Jumbo (1088 pp)

Task total 50
Total points 905

And I believe that wraps it up for me!

RwS bonus 100
Mega Finish 200

Total points 1205

As always my heartfelt thanks to those that make this adventure in reading possible.
I understand your decision to take the summer off and I wish you a carefree summer full of great books. But don't forget to come back! I, for one, will be haunting the virtual halls come August, waiting for the first hints of the Fall challenge.

Task 20.5 Epic Poetry

The Battle of Marathon: A Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6)
+15 Oldies (originally published 1820)

Task total: 40

Task 20.8 Quotable Quotes

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The title is derived from a quotation in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in which Lt. Henry states, "I had made a separate peace," with his adversaries in World War I. The phrase also appears in the preface to Chapter VI of Hemingway's In Our Time, where Nick Adams states, "Senta. You and me we've made a separate peace."

+20 Task
+5 Oldies (originally published 1959)

Task total: 25

RwS bonus: 100
Mega Finish: 200

Total points: 1080

I'm so pleased to have managed to finish one of these, especially before we go on break for the summer. Hooray!

Congrats, Joanna! Enjoy your summer!

20.9 Peace Corps Option B - China The Good Earth


+20 Task
+ 5 Series (#1 House of Earth)
+10 Oldie (pub 1931)

Task Total = 35

Grand Total = 655

Task 20.7 Poetry written after 1900

I read Love Songs (my edition had 107 pages) by Sara Teasdale.

20 points
+ 10 oldies points (originally published in 1917)
=30 task points

Total RWS Points: 590

Hi Guys! Well, the best laid plans and all that have conspired against me to get the scores caught up to date yet. I haven't forgotten about you all -- really! I'll work on the scores tonight, and hopefully get them all caught up over the weekend.

Remember you have until midnight PACIFIC time on Tuesday 5/31 to post your Completed Tasks. I will do a final point tally and update the Readerboard scores again next week after the challenge ends.

Happy Reading!
-Krista

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

10.6 Lab Lit

Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The professor who leads the expedition is a geologist.

+10 Task
+15 Oldie

Task Total= 25
TOTAL POINTS= 555

Spring Cleaning Round 2: Who's Counting?

15.3 – Fantasy

Red Glove by Holly Black

15.7 – Drama

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

+0

RwS Tasks

10.4 – Say what?

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

+10 Task
+10 Series Millenium #2, 2nd Task
+ 5 Jumbo: 500 Pages: 5 Points (630 Pages)
Task Total: 25

20.2 – Rhymes

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10. Lab Lit(one of the main characters is a doctor)
Task Total: 25

Points this Post: 50
Grand Total: 1780

20.7 - Post-19th Century Poetry
I read The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison by Jim Morrison

+20 Task Points
+5 Combo Points (20.3)

Total Task: 25
Grand Total: 325

Spring Cleaning:
15.4 Historical Fiction: A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

Etsuko reminisces about post-WWII Nagasaki and the parallels between a young girl she knew there and her own daughter.

Task Total: 15


15.6 Romance: The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

+5 oldies (pub 1955)
Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 270

Completed Task 10.5 "I"m Telling"- "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" by Ann Brashares

Task Points: 10
Style: 5(Series book #1)
Grand Total: 730

Norma wrote: "20.1 Alliteration - Deadly Decision by Kathy Reichs



Points This Post: 25
Tasks Completed: 12
Total Points: 205
Books Read: 12"

Hi Norma: I have your score at 210 now.

It looks like you were awarded an extra 5 Series Style points for the Richard Castle book posted in message number 666.

Task 20.1 Alliteration

Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.2 Rhymes [Haruki-Murakami])
+10 Series (#4 in the "Rat" series; 2d used in this challenge)

Task total: 35
Grand total: 1115

In Msg 812 -- nsfancy wrote: "Task 10.7 Scrabble The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (totem)

Task points 10
Total points 735


Task 10.8 Popular Penguins Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Task points 10
+10 Oldies (1889)
+5 Combo (20.2 Rhymes Jerome-Jerome)

Task total 25
Total points 760

..."
As Liz pointed out, the combo points for rhyming Jerome with Jerome are disallowed.

Your total points as of Message 812 = 755

In Msg 813 -- Deana wrote: "Spring cleaning
Task 15.7 Drama

.....
**I think I have finished spring cleaning for the 150 point bonus***

Total RWS Points: 535**I think**

..."

Hi Deana: Yes, you have completed the Spring Cleaning portion of the challenge. You score as of this message is correctly stated at 535 points.

Congratulations!

In Msg 814 -- Rhea wrote: "Task 15.10- General Non-Fiction: On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (Won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)
.....
+150 Spring Cleaning Completion Bonus

Grand Total = 600 ..."

Congratulations on completing the Spring Cleaning portion of the challenge!

Task 20.2 Rhymes
What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel by Amy Scheibe

+20 pts - Task (Do/You)
+5 pts - Combo (10.4 Say What?)

25 pts - Task Total
1995 pts - Grand Total
1895 pts - Grand Total

In Msg 822 -- Liz Vegas wrote: "20.9 Host country - Ethiopia
Cutting for Stoneby Abraham Verghese
+20 task
+10 jumbo

30 task total

225 grand total"

Hi Liz: I have your new Grand Total = 230

In an earlier Completed Task message you only claimed 10 Oldies points for a book that was worth 15 Oldies points. (Original message number 161)

Deana wrote: "Spring cleaning
Task 15.7 Drama

I read

The School for Husbands., by Moliere (58 pages)
and
The Pretentious Young Ladies, by Moliere (47 pages)

to complete ..."

Congrats on completing Spring Cleaning!

In Msg 826 -- Liz M wrote: "Tammy wrote: "15.2 Science Fiction: Robopocalypse

Post total..."

Tammy wrote: "15.2 Science Fiction: Robopocalypse
Post total: 40
Grand Tot..."

+5 oldies points (pub 1985)
..."

I've added the extra 5 Oldies Style Points that Liz pointed out in this message. Your new Grand total as of Msg 826 = 255

In Msg 827 -- Kate S wrote: "RwS Task 10.2 Women's History Month
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (pub 1911)
+10 Canon
....

Grand Total: 1585+80=1665 ..."

+ 5 Combo points w/Ethan Frome as Elizabeth pointed out in Msg 828 this book could also work for task 20.4 (Poet's Non Poetry)

Adjusted Grand Total as of Msg 827 = 1670

In Msg 832 -- Denae wrote: "10.3 Cyberpunk

Count Zero by William Gibson

+10 Task
+5 Series (Sprawl)

Task Total: 15 .....


Reading With Style Completion Bonus: 100

Post Total: 245

Grand Total: 1160 ..."

Hi Denae:
+ 200 Mega Finish Bonus Points as you've now completed all the tasks in both the Spring Cleaning and RwS challenges.

Adjusted Grand Total = 1360

Way to go to get the whole enchilada done!

In Msg 840 -- Tobey wrote: "SC

Task 15.2 Science Fiction - Wheels within Wheels by F. Paul Wilson

+15 Task

Total Points=15
Grand Total=300"

+ 5 Oldies Style Points - Originally published in 1978

That brings my current point tally as of this message to 295 points

In Msg 849 -- Kazza wrote: "Task 10.4 - Say what?
What the World will look like when all the water leaves us by Laura Van Den Berg

+10 Task

Task 10.6 - Lab Lit
Prey by Michael Crichton...

Total this post: 360 points
Grand Total:1,115 points

Woo Hoo! ..."

Double Woo-hoo! All the book points were correct. Your Grand Total as of message number 849 is 1,115

Good going!!

In Msg 861 - nsfancy wrote: "Task 20.5 Epic Poetry Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Task points 20
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (1313)
+5 Series (#1 of the Divine Comedy)
+10 Combo (10.8 Popular Penguin, 20.6 Poetry before 1900)

Task total 60
..."

Hey way to maximize those Style points! 60 points for one book. Wowie!

In Msg 879 -- Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.2 Rhymes
What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel by Amy Scheibe

+20 pts - Task (Do/You)
+5 pts - Combo (10.4 Say What?)

25 pts - Task Total
1995 pts - Grand Total "

Hi Rebekah, I have your Grand Total = 1895 The total from your last post was 1870.

Congratulations to nsfancy and Joanna for completing all the Spring Challenge tasks with terrific style. :-)

Way to get those Mega Finish bonus points!!

Krista wrote: "In Msg 832 -- Denae wrote: "10.3 Cyberpunk

Count Zero by William Gibson

+10 Task
+5 Series (Sprawl)

Task Total: 15 .....


Reading With Style Completion Bon..."

Woohoo!!! Thank you for catching that :)

Task 10.5 I'm Telling
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

+10 - Task
1905 - Grand Total

Krista wrote: "In Msg 879 -- Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.2 Rhymes
What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel by Amy Scheibe

+20 pts - Task (Do/You)
+5 pts - Combo (10.4 Say What?)

25 pts - Task Total
1995 pts - Gr..."

I put that on my post but I still have 1870 on my spreadsheet so i had put my total for Post 891 as 1880! See I can't even get 2 out of 3 right!

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

10.7 Karen's Task: Scrabble

A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

The letters: a, c, b, s, e, i
My word: BASIC

+10 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1981)

Task Points= 15
TOTAL POINTS= 570

10.4 Say What? What Is Left the Daughter


+10 Task

Grand Total = 665

This is my final post of the challenge. I loved these tasks, I learned something from not only the books I read, but from the tasks themselves.

Congratulations to all finishers, and especially to those of you who will be entered in our Hall of Fame!

20.7 Poetry after 1900
Tellico Blue by George Scarbrough

+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (20.2 Rhymes. Both Tellico and Scarbrough is pronounced with a long "o" at the end)
+5 pts - Oldies (pub. in 1949)

30 Pts - Task Total
1910 Points - Grand Total (I put this cover because the author is from the same place where my father's family lives and where our cabin is, near Tellico Plains and Tellico River. I just wanted to show how pretty it is there!)

Task 20.1 Alliteration

I read Keepsake Crimes by Laura Childs.

20 points
+ 5 series points
= 25 task points

Total RWS Points: 615

20.8 Quotable Quotes<
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie

+20 Task
+5 Series (Miss Marple)
+5 Oldies (1962)

Task Total: 30

Grand Total: 1390

Task 15.3 - Fantasy

Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! (Magic Kingdom of Landover #1) by Terry Brooks

Task Total: 15

And, I've completed the Spring Cleaning Set of Tasks!

Spring Cleaning Completion Bonus: 150

And, I have scored my first ever Mega Finish

Mega Finish Bonus: 200

Task 20.2 - Rhymes
Read a book that meets one of the following criteria:
B) - A word in the title rhymes with another word in a title
Silver, Lover

The Silver Metal Lover (1981) by Tanith Lee

+ 20 Task
+ 05 Style 4. Oldies: -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1935-1985)

Task Total: 20 + 5 = 25


Grand Total: 780 + 15 + 150 + 200 + 25 = 1170

With only 3 days left, there isn't enough time for me to do the Clean Sweep a second time. I might have one or two more books to post before the end.

15.9 - Memoir: Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (1962)
Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 415

Spring Cleaning 2 Who's Counting?

15.5 – Supernatural

The Lost Saint by Bree Despain

15.9 – Memoir

Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III

+ 0 Points

I think I'm going to finish--- I'm reading my last Who's Counting book now!