Reading with Style discussion

Task 15.10 General Non-Fiction: The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

On my post 264 I would like to add 5 points for series as pointed out by Liz - Thanks Liz!

Task Total 15
Series for prior post: 5
Grand Total: 90

10.9 Pi Day

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

10 task points
+10 published 1913 = 20

Total points = 85

Spring Cleaning

15.6 - Romance or Horror (I chose Romance!)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

+ 15 Task
+ 5 "Oldies" (first published in 1855)
Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 150

Liz M wrote: "Rachelccameron wrote: "10.4 Say What?
- WHO
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

+10 Jumbo - 724 pgs."

The edition you linked only has 503 pgs. I assume..."

Ok I'll start doing that. Wasn't sure how to get that on the link. Yes, I read the 724 edition.. I've just been posting the pages to the edition I've read. Thanks!

Task 15.2 Science Fiction

The Shore of Women by Pamela Sargent

+15 Task

Grand total = 165

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

10.2 Women's History Month

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

+10 Task
+10 Oldie

Task Total=20
TOTAL POINTS=160

Rachel wrote: "READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

10.2 Women's History Month

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories"

I see you gave this 5 stars - thanks for bringing this to my attention, I've added it to my ever-expanding Wish List.

20.2 Rhymes
The Feel Of Steel
+ 20 Task
Task Total = 20 points

Grand Total = 265 points

RwS Task 10.10 Group Read
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (676 pgs)
Task Total: 15

Task 20.5 Epic Poetry
Paradise Lost by John Milton
+20 Task
+15 Oldies (pub 1667)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 45

I believe this also gives me the RwS Finish
+100

Post Total: 160
Grand Total: 750

I made an error in post 240. Quotable Quotes (Liz's Choice) is Task 20.8, not 20.9 as I labeled it. Sorry about that

I completed 10.9 Pi Day. I read "Key Lime Pie Murder" by Joanne Fluke.

Task Points: 10

Style: 15 (Series, 9 book in the series)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 255

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I completed 10.9 Pi Day. I read "Key Lime Pie Murder" by Joanne Fluke.

Task Points: 10

Style: 25 (Series, 9 book in the series, I read 5 books from this series in this challenge)

Task Total: 35
..."

I believe you are only up to 15 series points, as the series books need to be read for the RwS portion of the challenge & need to be read for distinct tasks.

Post 97: 15.1 Fudge Cupcake Murder +0 series points
Post 16: 20.1 Strawberry Shortcake Murder +5 series points
Post 64: 20.1 Blueberry Muffin Murder +0 series points
Post 296: 20.1 Cherry Cheesecake Murder +0 series points
Post 126: 20.10 Sugar Cookie Murder +10 series points
Post 361: 10.9 Key Lime Pie Murder +15 series points

I altered my score to match yours

Spring Cleaning
15.10 - General Non-Fiction: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan

+15 Task
Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 110

Task 10.9 Life of Pi: The Pianist

What a powerful book.

Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 100

Task 20.10 Sam's Choice

Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos

(I don't really recommend this one.)

+20 Task
+5 length (560pgs)

Task total: 25

Task 15.9 Memoir

Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes by Ted Conover

Task total: 15

Grand total: 205

Task 10.3 - Cyberpunk!

Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner

+ 10 Task

Task Total: 10

Task 15.4 - Spring Cleaning - Historical Fiction

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran

+ 15 Task

Task Total: 15

Task 20.6 - Pre-20th Century Poetry
Read a book of poetry written before 1900.

Favorite Poems Of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

+ 20 Task
+ 10 Style: Oldies - (1860-1934 (10 points) )
+ 10 Style: Canon
+ 10 Combo: (Task 10.2 Woman's History Month lists: Emily Dickinson - Poems; and Task 20.2 Rhymes A) - A word in the title rhymes with the author's name : The author's name "Emily Dickinson" is also in the title)

Task Total: 50

Grand Total: 185 + 10 + 15 + 50 = 260

10.6 Lab Lit
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

+10 pts - Task
+5 pts Oldies (pub 1959)

15 pts = Task Total
610 pts - Grand Total

I completed task 20.1 Alliteration with "Carrot Cake Murder" by Joanne Fluke.

Task Points: 20
Style: 0
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 275

Task 15.5: Supernatural

Soulless by Gail Carriger

+15: task

RwS total: 140

Task 20.2 A (Rhyming title & author)

I read Diary of a Mad Fat Girl by Stephanie McAfee...
Ryming: diary, McAfee

20 points for the task
= 180 total RWS points

ERIN C.

15.10 General Non-Fiction

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen

+15 Task
+5 Pages (544pp.)

Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 290

ERIN C.

15.3 Fantasy

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

+15 Task

Task Total= 15
Grand Total= 305

Erin wrote: "ERIN C.

15.3 Fantasy

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

+15 Task

Erin, how did you like this one? I read the first but it didn't do it for me like I thought it would.

Task 20.7 Poetry after 1900
Cures Include Travel by Susan Rich

Since this copy of the book had only 99 pages, I went to her webpage http://poet.susanrich.net/poems/ and read the three poems that were not in the book Cures Include Travel. This was Liz M's suggestion.

+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (20.9 author served in Niger)

25 pts - Task Total
635 pts - Grand Total

task 20.10 Potent Potables
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall

+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - series (Vish Puri #1)

25 pts - Task total
660pts - Grand Total

Liz M wrote: "Krista wrote: "Sam has indicated that the Sookie books are classified as supernatural, not horror..."

nsfancy, I assumed you'd want to use Dead Until Dark for 15.5 Supernatural, keeping the same G..."

Perfect! THanks for watching out for me.

Task 10.2 Woman's Day My Antonia by Willa Cather

Task points 10
+10 Canon
+10 Oldie (1918)
+5 Combo 20.2 Antonia/Willa

Task total 35

Total points 200

Task 20.8 Quotable Quotes Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie

The title of the book in both the UK and US markets is a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in a speech by Brutus in Act IV: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune...". (from Wikipedia)

Task points 20
+5 Oldie (1948)
+5 Series (Poirot)

Task total 30
Total points 230

Task 15.2 SC Sci-fi The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold

Task points 15

Total points 245

Kazza wrote: "20.10 Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke..."

Unfortunately, this book fits 10.7 Scrabble (J, S, A, M, N, S, C can spell 'mass') and can't be used for 20.10.

You haven't used 10.1 - Reuse a Winter Task. I believe this book would fit Winter Task 20.2 Epic Fantasies. Let me know if you'd like to do that or if you want to use if for Spring Cleaning. Thanks!

Rebekah wrote: "Task 10.3 - Cyberpunk
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
+10 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (10.8 Popular Penguins)
+5 pts - series...."

+5 oldies points

Jules wrote: "If at all possible, I'd like to use a book I've read and already claimed points for for a different task.

I've claimed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by [author:M..."

Yes this is okay & I have made the switch.

Kate wrote: "RwS Task 20.2 Rhymes option B
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
+20 Task
+5 Oldies (1974)..."

+5 jumbo points; the edition you linked had 689 pgs & most of the other editions had +500 pgs.

Coralie wrote: "20.1 Alliteration
Voyage to Venus
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Series
+ 5 Oldies (1943)
Task Total = 30 points..."

+5 combo points for 10.6 Lab Lit - Weston is a physicist.

Coralie wrote: "20.2 Rhymes
The City & The City..."

I am waiting for confirmation that this works for Rhymes. The question was first raised regarding Absalom, Absalom! and has not been answered yet. I admit I am partially swayed by laziness -- there are an awful lot of posts including Poems of XX by XX that I would have to go through and correct. If anyone wants to make a case for it please do so here.

ETA: Karen & Deedee, this applies to your posts 367 & 395 as well -- I have not included the combo points & show your totals as 5 points less for the moment.

Karen GHHS wrote: "20.5 – Epic Poetry
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Unknown..."

+5 Combo points for 20.6.

Task 20.5 will always get +5 combo points for either 20.6 or 20.7.

Kate I also gave you the same +5 combo points for The Song of Hiawatha (post 289) & Paradise Lost (post 359).

Shannon wrote: "10.9 Pi Day
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
10 task points
+10 published 1913 = 20

Total points = 85"

+5 series points

Rachel wrote: "10.2 Women's History Month:
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

+10 Task
+10 Oldie
Task Total=20..."

+10 Canon points

Task 15.9: Memoir

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

task total: 15

Rws total: 155

Kate wrote: "...I believe this also gives me the RwS Finish +100 ..."

Woohoo! Congratulations on completing all 20 RwS tasks. I am so envious of your reading time!

Spring Cleaning
Task 15.5 Supernatural

I read To Kill a Warlock by H.P. Mallory.

15 task points

Total RWS Points: 195

Spring Cleaning
15.7 - Drama - Plays, screenplays, scripts.

I read: Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 224 pages) very entertaining!

+ 15 Task
+ 5 Style (written before 1980)

Task Total: 20

and

15.9 - Memoir
I read: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle which has been on my TBR for a very long time

+ 15 Task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 260 + 20 + 15 = 295

15.6 Spring Cleaning Romance- "Beauty" by Robin MCKinley.

Task Points: 15
Style: +5 (published 1978)

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 295

20.8 Tender Is the Night


 Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
  And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
    Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays
          But here there is no light,
  Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
    Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways

Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.8 Australia's Penguins)
+10 Canon
+10 Oldie

Task Total = 45

Grand Total = 235

Spring Cleaning:

15.1 – Mystery/Thriller

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

+15 Task
Task Total: 15

RwS Tasks

10.7 – Karen’s 3rd Place Task

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin

THCBOTARR makes BOAT

+10 Task
+ 5 Series: Eddie Bear #1
Task Total: 15

10.8 – Coralie’s 2nd Place Task

Read a book from the list of Australia’s Popular Penguins.

The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

+10 Task
+10 Oldies: 76 to 150 years old: 10 points (1888)
Task Total: 20

20.2 Rhymes

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

+20 Task Rhyme: Chuck & Palahniuk
Task Total: 20

20.9 – Krista’s Choice:

B. Albania

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost: A Novel by Ismail Kadare

+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.2 Rhymes: Spring & Spring
Task Total: 25

Points this Post: 25+20+20+15+15=95
Grand Total: 545

Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.6 - Poetry before 1900
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Oldies (pub 1885)..."

I am going to disallow style points for this book. Although it does not have a Lexile score (non-prose), the Lexile site recommends it for children between the ages of 4 and 8, who typically read below the 700 Lexile level.

Rebekah wrote: "task 20.10 Potent Potables
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall"

Unfortunately this book cannot be used for 20.10 as it works for 10.7 - Scrabble. T,C,O,T,M,S,T,H can spell 'moths'. Would you like to use it for this task or use it elsewhere?

Liz M wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "20.5 – Epic Poetry
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Unknown..."

+5 Combo points for 20.6.

Task 20.5 will always get +5 combo points for either 20.6 or 20.7.

Thanks for these combo points! I didn't even think about that.

10.1 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: 20.3 – 10.1 - Turkey Coma: Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
+10 Task
+10 Oldies (1933/1939)
+10 Canon
Task Total: 30

10.3 - Cyberpunk!: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
+5 combo points for 10.8 - Popular Penguins
+10 Task
+5 Series
+5 Oldies (1939)
Task Total: 25

10.7 - Karen's 3rd Place Task: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (1952)
Tiles: T,O,M,A,T,S,E,H
Word: shame
Task Total: 15

15.1 - Mystery/Thriller: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
+15 Task
Task Total: 15

15.7 - Drama: Othello by William Shakespeare
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (1603)
Task Total: 20

15.10 - General Non-Fiction: A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Greenfield
+15 Task
Task Total: 15

20.2 - Rhymes: Zoot Suit and Other Plays by Luis Valdez
+20 Task
+5 Oldies (1979)
Task Total: 25

20.4 A Poet's Non-Poetry: Candide by Voltaire
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (1759)
Task Total: 45

20.4 A Poet's Non-Poetry: Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin
+20 Task
Task Total: 20

20.7 - Post-19th Century Poetry: Crossing State Lines: An American Renga by Bob Holman
+20 Task
Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 30+25+15+15+20+15+25+45+20+20=230

RWS

10.7 Scrabble

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
E +M+ S= Ems
Ems are units for measuring the width of printed matter, equal to the height of the type size being used

+10 Task
+5 Series (twilight #2)
+5 Jumbo - my copy = 629 pgs

Task Total: 20

Spring Cleaning

15.2 Science Fiction
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

+15 task

15.8 Biography
The Cosby Wit by Bill Adler Jr.

+15 Task

Post Total: 50
Grand Total:475