Reading with Style discussion

I completed Spring Cleaning task 15.10 Nonfiction by reading "Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society" by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.

Task Points: 15
Style: 0
Grand Total: 105

OMG! My readerboard score and the score I've added up on my own spreadsheet are the same! it's like a miracle! (smile) Every once in a while, I do add correctly! I'm so proud of myself!

Rebekah wrote: "OMG! My readerboard score and the score I've added up on my own spreadsheet are the same! it's like a miracle! (smile) Every once in a while, I do add correctly! I'm so proud of myself!"

-- Good Going Rebekah. :-)

Rebekah, I can't rely on myself, that's why I have a spreadsheet to do the adding for me. ;-)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rebekah, I can't rely on myself, that's why I have a spreadsheet to do the adding for me. ;-)"

I hate to tell you this, Elizabeth , but I copied your spreadsheet and I STILL get confused! lol

Liz M wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 10.6: Lab lit
Cannery RowJohn Steinbeck

This also fits task 10.8, popular penguins. That means you can get 5 more style points for C..."

There's a popular Penguin Book for every Task except 10.5 and 10.10. Of course 10.1 and 20.10 are based on the individual so there may or may not be a Penguin for those two tasks. Thanks, Coralie! Combo points are great!

I really liked it but it is definitely not for everyone since it's slow moving.

Krista wrote: "Tammy wrote: "First Post of the Season

20.9 Krista's Peace Corps Task

Eventide by Kent Haruf (who served in Turkey)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 20"

Hi Tammy..."

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I completed Spring Cleaning task 15.5 Supernatural by reading "Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society" by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.

Task Poin..."

Jayme, in the Spring Cleaning Q&A thread, Sam said the first 7 tasks should be fiction. Do you want to use this book for 15.10 General Non-fiction instead?

10.9 Pi Day Cat Among the Pigeons


+10 Task
+ 5 Series (Poirot #33)
+ 5 Oldie (pub 1959)

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 85

Liz M wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I completed Spring Cleaning task 15.5 Supernatural by reading "Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society" by Jason Ha..."

sure, that will be fine.

20.6 pre century poetry

The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë- Emily Bronte (book published in 1995- poems published in and around 1845)
+20 task
+10 Oldies
+10 Canon

task total = 40

15.7 Drama/Play
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
+15 task
+5 Oldie (1953)

task total = 20

20.4 poet’s non poetry Them by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 task
+10 canon
+5 Jumbo (508 pages)
+5 oldies (1969)
+5 combo (10.2)

task total = 45

Grand total = 120 points

Task 15.3 Spring Cleaning - Fantasy
The Princess and the Goblin (Lexile 1030)

+15 pts Task
+ 5 pts Pub in 1872

20 pts - Task Total
300 pts - Grand Total

Task 10.7 Scrabble Task

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

I can spell knot with the letters.

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 50

15.2 Spring Cleaning - Science Fiction

Mockingjay Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins

Points This Task: 15
Tasks Completed: 2
Total Points: 35
Books Read: 2

Task 15.2 Spring Cleaning - Science Fiction

Dune by Frank Herbert

I read the Kindle version which was 544 pages and it was written in 1955.

+ 15 Task Points
+ 5 more than 500 pages
+ 5 written prior to 1980

Total Task Points: 25
Grand Total: 25

20.2A- Rhymes: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (Late/Kate)

+20 Task
+15 Combo (20.8- the title's a quote from Sonnet 73 by Shakespeare; 10.6- the POV of the first quarter and a bunch of other characters are research scientists involved with cloning; 10.4- where)
+5 Oldies (Publ 1976)
Task Total = 40

Grand Total = 140

**Repost with book and author for 10.8 task**

Spring Cleaning
15.1 Mystery/Thriller

Charade by Sandra Brown

+15 Task

RWS
10.8-Popular Penguins

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

+10 Task
+10 Oldies (pub 1865)
Task Total: 20


Post Total: 35
Grand Total: 35

Spring Cleaning

15.2 Science Fiction- Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb

Task Total=15
Grand Total = 75

Spring Cleaning

15.10 – General Non-Fiction

Women Who Read are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann

I couldn't resist this title and it was great art and reading!

+15 Task
Task Total: 15

RwS Tasks

20.1 – Alliteration

Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami

I love Murakami, although it's always a bit of a strange experience!

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.2 Rhymes)
+ 5 Series (The Rat #4)

Task Total: 30

20.2 – Rhymes

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Grey rhymes with Bronte.

+20 Task
+15 Oldies: 151+ years old: 15 points (1847)
Task Total: 35

Poor Anne didn't make the canon, but I enjoyed the book!

Points this Post: 35 + 30 + 15 = 80
Grand Total: 165

Task 20.9 - Peace Corps
Doctor Slaughter by author:Paul Theroux

+20 pts - Task(author served in Malawi
+5 pts - Combo(@0.2 doctor/slaughter)
+5 pts - Oldies (pub. 1984)

30 pts - Task total
330 pts - Grand Total

Task 10.9 - Pi Day The Prince and the Pilgrim by Mary Stewart

+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.1 Alliteration)
+5 Series (Arthurian Saga #5)

Task Total=20
Grand Total=100

Spring Cleaning

15.7 Drama

Le Cid by Pierre Corneille

+15 Task
+5 Style pre-1980 (1636)

Task Total: 20

RWS

20. 8 Quotable Quotes

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (KnowledgeNotessn InvClassNum is by Tom Stoppard

** my copy was 135 pages**

+20 Task - quoting Hamlet
+5 Oldies -published 1966

Task Total: 25

Post Total: 45
Grand Total: 215

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

Liz M wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rachel wrote: "READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

20.3 Iambic Pentameter
William and Kate"

I guess I'm confused about this task. I thought the title needed to ..."

THANKS for catching that and pointing it out, Liz! I just saw that the GoodReads system is no longer listing the full title!

Yes, I am claiming 20.3 for William and Kate: A Royal Love Story using the FULL title!

Now for my new points!

I completed...

15.1 Spring Cleaning

Mystery:
Silent in the Grave.

+15 Task
+5 Bonus-book is more than 500 pgs.

Task Points=20
TOTAL POINTS=85

Task 15.1: Mystery/Thriller
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larssen

+15: task
+10: third in series
+5: over 500 pages
+30: total task

60: RwS total

20.10 Potent Potables
Little, Big
+ 20 Task
+ 10 Canon
+ 5 Oldies (1981)
+ 5 Jumbo (538 pages)
Task Total = 40 points

Grand Total = 60 points

20.10 The Painted House by John Grisham

This book does not fit any other 10/20 point task.

+20 task

Grand total = 140

10.7 Scrabble
There's Nothing to Be Afraid Of by Marcia Muller

+10 Task (you could spell tab, bat, boat...)
+5 Oldies (published 1985)
+5 Series (#6 Sharon McCone series)
Task Total = 20 points

20.3 Iambic Pentameter
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
+20 Task
Task Total = 20 points

Grand Total = 40 points

Krista wrote: "Potjy wrote: "Reading w/Style (RwS)

20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables: Pars vite et reviens tard by Fred Vargas

+20 Task
+ 5 Series (Book 4 in Commissaire Adamsberg series)
Task Total = 25
..."

So have we had word from Sam yet as to whether or not we can also drop Karen's 'Scrabble' task as one of the current challenge task the books for his task can't fit? This book fits the Scrabble task."

Oooops, sorry. I'd read that the scrabble task couldn't be used for combo points, and jumped to the (wrong) conclusion. Here I repost it as 15.1. Sorry for the inconvenience.


Spring Cleaning Sub-Challenge

15.1 - Mystery/Thriller: Pars vite et reviens tard by Fred Vargas
+15 Task
Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 55

Potjy wrote: "Krista wrote: "Potjy wrote: "Reading w/Style (RwS)

20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables: Pars vite et reviens tard by Fred Vargas

+20 Task
+ 5 Series (Book 4 in Commissaire Adamsberg series)
Tas...

Oooops, sorry. I'd read that the scrabble task couldn't be used for combo points, and jumped to the (wrong) conclusion. Here I repost it as 15.1. Sorry for the inconvenience. "

I really was asking whether we'd heard from Sam yet. I have a book that doesn't fit anything but the Scrabble task, and I'd really like to use it for Sam's task. I wasn't trying to say you couldn't use the book there. (I was hoping it would be accepted.) :-)

10.6 Lab Lit

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

Flavia de Luce is a chemist and a lot of science is discussed.. she also uses her chemistry skills to solve the case.

+10 task
+5 Combo 20.8: quotes a Sir Walter Raleigh poem... as listed on the first page
+5 Series

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 235

Task 15.1: Mystery/Thriller
I read Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke

+15 Task

Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 40

RwS Task 10.3 Cyberpunk
Neuromancer by William Gibson
+10 Task
+5 Series (#1 in Sprawl Trilogy)
+5 Oldie (written 1984)
Task Total: 20

Task 10.6 Lab Lit
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (written 1818)
+5 Combo (Popular Penguin)
Task Total: 40

Task 20.4 Poet's Non-Poetry
Tambourines to Glory: A Novel by Langston Hughes
+20 Task
+5 Oldies (written 1958)
Task Total: 25

Post Total: 85
Grand Total: 325

Rachel wrote: "THANKS for catching that and pointing it out, Liz! I just saw that the GoodReads system is no longer listing the full title!..."

Sadly, I counted the shorter title on my fingers twice to make sure it didn't have the correct number of syllables before I looked at the book's page. (My excuse: it was early & the coffee hadn't kicked in yet).

20.1 Alliteration

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

+20 Task

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 255

Task 15.7 Drama
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

+15 pts - Task
+5 pts - Oldies (first pub 1952)

20 pts - Task Total
350 pts - Grand Total

I completed 10.7 Scrabble by reading "Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey. My titles were D,A,M,C. I spelled the word mad.

Style: 10(Series, book 1 of The Harper Hall of Per, Oldies, first published in 1976)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 125

Task 15.10 General Non-Fiction

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Task total: 15

Task 20.6 Pre-20th Century Poetry

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám

+20 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (published in English in 1859)

Task total: 45

New points: 60
Total points: 115

RwS Tasks:

10.10 – Group Reads

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

+10 Task
+ 5 Oldies: 25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1972)

Task Total: 15 Points

20.2 – Rhymes

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico

+20 Task
+ 5 Oldies: 25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1958)

Task Total: 25 Points

Points This Post: 40
Grand Total: 205

10.10 Group Reads

Room by Emma Donoghue

+10 Task

task Total:10
Grand Total: 265

20.6 Pre 20th Century Poetry-"Poems of Emily Dickinson" complied by Helen Plotz. Poems originally published in 1890.

Task Points: 20
Style: 20 (10 Oldies 1860-1934), (10 Canon)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 165

15.5- Supernatural: Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

+15 Task
Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 155

Task 15.3: Fantasy
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

+15: task

RwS total: 75

Spring Cleaning

15.1 Mystery: Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn

Task points 15 + 10 page bonus (534pp) = 25

Total points = 25

Spring Cleaning

15.4 HF: The Wilding by Maria McCann

Task points = 15

Total points = 40

20.7- Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale (Poetry published in 1920)

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2, on the Women's History Month help thread as “Sara Teasdale - Poems”)
+10 Oldies (Publ 1920)
Task Total = 35

Grand Total= 190

Task 10.5 I'm Telling
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler

10 pts - Task Total
360 pts - Grand Total

Spring Cleaning

15.1 Mystery/Thriller - Echo Burning by Lee Child

+15 Task

Task Total=15
Grand Total=115

20.7 Post 20th Century Poetry- I chose Sylvia Plath and read "Winter Trees" (64pps) and "Ariel" (85Pp) for a combine of 149pp.

Task Points: 20
Style: (5, Oldies 1971, 1961,) (Combo 5 Womens History Month, she was mentioned on the list)

Grand Total: 195

Task 10.4 Say What? The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton

Task points 10
+10 Canon
+10 Oldie (1908)
+5 Combo (20.4 poet's non-poetry)

Task total 35

Total points 90

Task 10.5 I'm telling The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler

Task points 10
+5 Oldie (1949)
+5 Series (Philip Marlowe)
+5 Combo (20.2 Rhyme sister/chandler)

Task total 25

Total points 115


Task 20.9 C Mexico Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Task total 20

Total points 135