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SP11 Reading w/Style Completed Tasks
20.8 Quotable Quotes The Sound and the Fury+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.4 Poet's Non-Poetry)
+10 Canon
+10 Oldie (pub 1929)
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
(Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5)
Task Total = 45
Grand Total = 135
Reading with StyleTask 10.7 Scrabble
I have read Something Blue by Emily Griffin.
S-B-E-G= begs (yes, it's the same as the last one I read for this task! LOL!)
10 points
+ 5 points series (2nd book in the series, but read for the same task)
= 15 points
Total RWS points = 90
Reading with StyleTask 20.10 Potent Potables
I have read The Memorist by M.J. Rose.
20 points
+ 5 series points
= 25 points
Total RWS points = 115
Task 15.6 Romance Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
15 task points
+5 bonus (published in 1936)
Taksk 15.8 Biography
Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
15 task points
+5 bonus (published in 1969)
+5 bonus (614 pages)
total this post = 45
grand total = 70
20.6 Pre-20th C PoetryLove Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.8 Popular Penguins
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies published ~1600
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 315
Rachelccameron wrote: "20.6 Pre-20th C PoetryLove Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.8 Popular Penguins
+5 Combo Iambic
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies ..."
Not to pick on you, but I'd count "poems" as 2 syllables instead of one.
Task 15.2 - Sci FiThe Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
+15 pts - Task
+5 pts - Oldies (pub 1957)
20 pts - Task Total
380 pts - Grand Total
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "20.8 Quotable Quotes The Sound and the Fury+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.4 Poet's Non-Poetry)
+10 Canon
+10 Oldie (pub 1929)
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in th..."
>GRIN< Thank you Elizabeth! That book/quote is my favorite example of a book title quoting another work of literature.
Liz M wrote: ">GRIN< Thank you Elizabeth! That book/quote is my favorite example of a book title quoting another work of literature. "LOL It wasn't that I thought you would question it that I included the quote. The book so completely fulfills the entire quote that I couldn't resist. And thank you for the task. This was only my second Faulkner, but based on it, I have set up an entire shelf to see how many I can fit into my life. He won't be something to 'taste' too often, though.
20.1 AlliterationThe Last Light of the Sun
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Jumbo (512 pages)
Task Total = 25 points
Grand Total = 85 points
Joanna wrote: "Rachelccameron wrote: "20.6 Pre-20th C PoetryLove Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+5 Combo 10.8 Popular Penguins
+5 Combo..."
Oh good point I've always said it as one but it definitely has 2. I'll edit my post and fix my speech impediment :P
Liz Vegas wrote: "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 t..."
1845 = 15 oldies points.
And them is the third book of the Wonderland Quartet, + 5 series points.
Jackie wrote: "Spring Cleaning 15.2 Science Fiction- Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb
Task Total=15
Grand Total = 75 "
This book appears to be a mystery, not science-fiction. Do you want to claim it under another task? It fits 10.7 Scrabble or 10.1 Reuse a winter task (No "L")?
Camille wrote: "Task 15.1: Mystery/ThrillerThe 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"
Camille, the 15-point tasks are a sub-challenge with slightly different rules (I know this is confusing for new-comers, so no worries). The 15-point tasks don't have a series bonus, just +5 for >500 pages and +5 books published prior to 1985.
Do you want to use it for 15.1 for 20 points (15 task +5 page-length) or for 10.1 Reuse a winter task (winter task 20.9) for 30 points (10 task +5 combo 10.4, +10 series, +5 jumbo)?
I may never get the hangof all This! LOLI would like to use it for the 10.1: reuse task. Thanks for the Help!
So spring cleaning challenges don't get bonuses??
Camille wrote: "I may never get the hangof all This! LOLI would like to use it for the 10.1: reuse task. Thanks for the Help!
So spring cleaning challenges don't get bonuses??"
Camille, it took me all of the first challenge I did (Fall 2010) to pretty much figure it out. I kept messing up. So don't worry and things get tweaked at each challenge so it might look confusing when you first start out. I STILL can't do simple addition and keep my scores straight!
For Spring Cleaning Challege Sam said he would give bonuses for a book if it was over 500 pages and/or published before 1980.
Elizabeth, when I started you had given a link so we could look and download your spreadsheet. It really helped me a lot but I can't remember what group we were in when you did that. It might help Camille.
For all of use who read or now reading Room, I received a message that there would be an on-line Q&A March 21-25.Here is the link
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/4...
I'm such an author groupie that I've already joined a session that had featured Amy Greene I kicked myself because I found I had missed a session with Margaret Atwood in Sept.
15.3 - Fantasy The Witch’s Boy by Michael Gruber+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Total Points = 50
In post 179 Krista wrote: "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 Ad...
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.) :-)
"
Uh... double oopses! :P
However I think I'll stick to the new post, as I've done some tweaking since then, and everything fits nicely.
So I'll use this post:
Spring Cleaning Sub-Challenge
15.1 - Mystery/Thriller: Pars vite et reviens tard by Fred Vargas
+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 55
Rachelccameron wrote: "10.6 Lab LitThe 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 sk..."
The title paraphrases a line from the poem: "The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag..." so no combo points on this one.
Rachelccameron wrote: "20.1 AlliterationV for Vendetta by Alan Moore
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 255"
This was first published in 1982: +5 oldies points.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Here is the link to a blank spreadsheet for this challenge:https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k..."
Thanks for This! I had already created one, too, and it was almost identical. :)
Shannon wrote: "Spring Cleaning15.1 Mystery: Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Task points 15 + 10 page bonus (534pp) = 25
Total points = 25"
The page bonus for the 15 point tasks is only 5 points. I have your grand total as 35 bpoints as of post 194.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "*I am not sure if I get both oldies points for the two books but I thought it was worth a shot...."Nice try, but no ;)
Since you needed two books to get the task points, they essentially count as one book & only earn style points once.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "20.8 Quotable Quotes The Sound and the Fury+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.4 Poet's Non-Poetry)
+10 Canon
+10 Oldie (pub 1929)
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in th..."
If the task requirement is that the quote has to be an exact match with the book title ---- I don't think this book works based on the quote provided.
Title: The Sound and the Fury
Quote: "And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. "
(Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5) (Copied from Elizabeth's original post, Msg 202)
If other books aren't being allowed because of small discrepencies between the titles and the quotes, (See Msg 223) I'm not sure that this one is allowable either. Is there perhaps another quote that is an exact match to this title?
Liz, I know you're the task owner for this task. I'm just trying to understand the reasoning that went into allowing this book and not others.
Spring CleaningTask 15.4 - Historical Fiction:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
+15 Task
+ 5 Jumbo (512 pages)
Task Total = 20
RwS
Task 20.3 Iambic Pentameter: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 Lab Lit, 10.9, Pi)
+ 5 Series
Task Total = 35
Grand Total = 105
Deana wrote: "Reading with StyleTask 10.7 Scrabble
I have read Something Blue by Emily Griffin.
S-B-E-G= begs (yes, it's the same as the last one I read for this task! LOL!)..."
Unfortunately, 10.7 can only be used once. Maybe you can use this for 10.1 Reuse a Winter Challenge task?
Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.6 Poetry before 1900Shakespeare's Sonnets
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Canon
+15 pts - Oldies
45 pts - Task Total
185 pts - Grand Total"
+5 combo for 10.4 Popular Penguins
Krista wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "20.8 Quotable Quotes The Sound and the FuryIf the task requirement is that the quote has to be an exact match with the book title ---- I don't think this book works based on the quote provided.
If other books aren't being allowed because of small discrepencies between the titles and the quotes, (See Msg 223) I'm not sure that this one is allowable either...."
Thanks for keeping me honest. This is one of the books I had in mind when devising the task, so when scoring, I didn't even notice that it didn't meet the criteria I had set. (I skipped right over those extra "the"s).
Elizabeth, would you like to use it for task 20.4?
10.7 Scrabble: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah EquianoTiles: T,I,N,O,T,L,O,O,E,O,G,V,T,A,O,E can spell TEETOLING, VEGETATION, or VIGNETTE, or a gazillion other words (I used the internet to cheat, cause I knew there bigger words than OGLE)
+10 task
+15 oldies (pub. 1789)
Task Total: 25 points
Grand total: 70 points
Yes, Liz, that would be fine. I noticed the discrepancy, too.
Liz M wrote: "Krista wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "20.8 Quotable Quotes The Sound and the FuryIf the task requirement is that the quote has to be an exact match with the book title ---- I don'..."
Dang. --- I was hoping you'd go to the other way and allow small discrepancies. :-)
Sorry about that Elizabeth!
Liz M wrote: "10.7 Scrabble: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah EquianoTiles: T,I,N,O,T,L,O,O,E,O,G,V,T,A,O,E can ..."
The person who can make the biggest word with their book should get some sort of honorable mention at the end of the challenge. Liz --- I think you'd win it!
Krista wrote: "Dang. --- I was hoping you'd go to the other way and allow small discrepancies. :-) Sorry about that Elizabeth! "
It's OK, Krista. I'm going to be allowed comb points with my rhyming Poirot's to make up for it. ;-)
20.3 Rhymes One, Two, Buckle My Shoe+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.8 Quotable Quotes)
+10 Series (Poirot #22)
+ 5 Oldie (originally pub 1940)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 165
LOL I got deleted from the Readerboard!
RwS Task 10.9 Pi DayPirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
+10 Task
Task 20.9 Quotable Quotes
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
-WB Yeats, "The Second Coming" (quoted on opening page)
+20 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1959)
+10 Canon
Spring Cleaning Task 15.1 Mystery/Thriller
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1939)
Post Total: 65
Grand Total: 390
Karen GHHS wrote: "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
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Karen, where did you find [book:The Summer Book I'd really like to read it but it's not at the library, Half-Price Books, Barnes & Noble, two used books stores I use, nor is it on Book Swap and not even downloadable to Kindle. Am I going to have to delay gratification and order it from Amazon? (like I don't have a stack of books to read for the rest of the tasks!)
Rebekah wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "RwS Tasks:10.10 – Group Reads
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
+10 Task
+ 5 Oldies: 25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1972)
My library had it. It's a little gem - hope you get a hold of it!
Reading w/Style (RwS) 20.1 - Alliteration: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
+20 Task
+ 5 Series (Mickey Haller #1)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 80
Rebekah wrote: "Karen, where did you find The Summer Book I'd really like to read it but it's not at the library, Half-Price Books, Barnes & Noble, two used books stores I use, nor is it on Book Swap and not even downloadable to Kindle. Am I going to have to delay gratification and order it from Amazon?...."I had no idea it would be so hard to find! I got it from the Brooklyn Public Library & it looks like it is available from the Austen Library system, but then you'd have to wait for the inter-library loan which is probably longer than Amazon.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "LOL I got deleted from the Readerboard!"Thats what you get for making such trouble!
Except it wasn't just you, I had a glitch with a concatenate formula & didn't notice that several people were double-listed and several weren't listed at all. >blush< It's all better now, I hope.
Spring Cleaning ChallengeTask 15.8 Biography
I read Unshaken by Francine Rivers for 15 points.
Total RWS points = 115
Reading with Style Task 20.8--Quotable QuotesI read Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread..." Alexander Pope's work An Essay on Criticism.
20 points
Total RWS Points = 135
I checked Book Swap too, but no luck. I guess I'll have to put it in my daily book order. (I wish!)
Liz M wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "LOL I got deleted from the Readerboard!"Thats what you get for making such trouble!"
Knew it must be trouble with you, not me, I never do anything wrong, never had my whole life, not me, unh-uh. ;-)
Truly, scorekeeping on this group must be a challenge in itself. Thanks!
Let's hope I'm doing this right :)RwS
10.7 - Karen's 3rd Place Task (Scrabble)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
T-C-O-M-C-A-D makes CAT, DOT, MAD, COAT
+ 10 Task
+ 15 Oldies (published 1844/45)
+ 25 Jumbo (1,108 pages)
Task Total = 50
20.1 - Alliteration
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
+ 20 Task (Lexile score 1000)
+ 5 Series (Oz #1)
+ 10 Oldies (published 1900)
Task Total = 35
Spring Cleaning
15.4 - Historical Fiction
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
+ 15 Task
GRAND TOTAL = 100
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Task 15.10 - General Non-Fiction - Any non-fiction other than biography or memoir
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson
Task total: 15
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Task 15.2 - Science Fiction -
Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History by Harry Turtledove
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 50 + 15 + 15 = 80