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Summer 2013 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2013
Task 20.6 MLB 32 TeamsThe Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes
*Read a book that the page count includes both a 3 and a 2 *
This book has 320 pages.
+20 task
Task Total = 20 points
Grand Total = 20 points
Task 20.9 Baseball DiamondThe Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
Susanna Kearsley was born in Canada.
+20 task
+5 combo (10.4 U's Have It)
Task Total = 25 points
Grand Total = 45 points
10.3 - Vacation ReadingFrenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
+10 task (creek)
+10 combo (10.4 - U's (dU maurier), 20.8)
+ 5 oldies (pub. 1941)
Task total: 25 points
Grand total: 25
10.4 The U's Have ItA Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow
+10 Task (M u rder)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 10
The U’s have it Ring o'roses by Lucilla Andrews
+ 10 Task (Lucilla)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1973)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 15
20.4 Baseball Hall of FameThe Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 Task
+ 5 Oldies (1988)
Task total=25
Grand total=25
10.9 Design your own task! Read a book that has Fantasy as one of the genres on the book page.
Grimm's Household Stories by Jacob Grimm
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 10
20.8 Baseball Teams A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.1 Sub-sandwiches)
+15 Jumbo (864 pages)
Task total = 40
Grand Total = 40
10.2 Go visit the neighbours The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense by Charlotte Brontë
+ 10 Task (Victorian)
+ 15 Oldies (1833)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 40
10.4 - U's Have ItThe Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
+10 task (bUcolic)
Task total: 10 points
Grand total: 35
20.1 Play Ball!The Natural by Bernard Malamud
+20 Task (shelved 100 times as "baseball")
+15 Combo (20.3 Cy Young Award; 20.6 MLB 32 Teams - 237 pages; 20.10 World Series - nearly all of the book is set in New York and Chicago)
+5 Oldies (1952)
Task total=40
Grand total=65
10.10 In Memory In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.4 � sugar)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1968)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 60
20.6 MLB 32 Teams Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
+20 Task: 237 Pages
+10 Combo: 10.1 Sub-Sandwich / 20.8 Baseball Team(multiple narrators, 9+ characters)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 30
Tanya wrote: "10.9 Design your own task! Read a book that has Fantasy as one of the genres on the book page.
Grimm's Household Stories by Jacob Grimm
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 10"
+10 Oldies (1886)
Coralie wrote: "10.2 Go visit the neighbours The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense by Charlotte Brontë
+ 10 Task (Victorian)
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 25"
+15 Oldies (1833)
10.4 The U’s Have It Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was by Barry Hughart
+ 10 Task (Hughart)
+ 5 Oldies (published 1984)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 75
20.10 World SeriesTriburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld
(set in NYC)
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.8-Baseball Team:multiple narrators, 9+ characters)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 45
10.4 The U's Have itApple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke
mUrder, tUrnover
+10 task
Grand total = 10 points
20.1 Play Ball!The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
+20 task
+5 combo (20.8 - Baseball Team)
+5 jumbo (528 pgs.)
Task total: 30 points
Grand Total: 30 points
20.3 Cy Young AwardStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
+20 task
+10 oldies (pub. 1928)
Task total: 30 points
Grand Total: 60 points
20.4 Baseball Hall of FameSummer by Edith Wharton
+20 task
+10 oldies (pub. 1917)
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 80 points
20.5 Play by Play AnnouncerThe Stranger by Albert Camus
+20 task
+10 combo (20.3 - pub. 1942, 20.6 - 123 pages)
+5 oldies (pub. 1942)
Task total: 35 points
Grand Total: 115 points
20.5 Play by Play announcerOne True Thing by Anna Quindlen
+20 Task (listed as journalist in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ bio)
+10 Combo (10.4 QUindlen; 20.6 MLB 32 Teams - 320 pages)
Task total=30
Grand total=95
10.4 The U’s Have It Blue Sunflower Startle by Yasmin Ladha
+ 10 Task (Sunflower)
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 85
10.4 The U's Have ItPutting Food By by Ruth Hertzberg
+10 Task (Putting, Ruth)
+5 Oldies (published 1975)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
20.1 Play BallMoneyball : The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.5, 20.6 [most popular edition 320 pgs])
Task total: 30
Grand total: 45
20.5 Play by Play announcerLittle Bitty Lies by Mary Kay Andrews
Reference to journalism career:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Task: 20 points
Grand Total: 30 points
20.7 Four BaggerBlack: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker
(on the list given)
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (first part told from view of "Carlos", then "Tom Hunter" and Carlos has another chance to tell what he's thinking during the time he thinks Tom Hunter is dead)
Task - 25 pts
Grand Total - 25 pts
Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Four BaggerBlack: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker
(on the list given)
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (first part told from view of "Carlos", then "Tom Hunter" and Carlos has another chance t..."
Which task for the combo?
20.6 32 MLB TeamsThe Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore
+20 Task (320 pages)
+10 Combo (10.4 Supremes; 20.8-shifting perspectives and plenty of characters)
Post Total: 30
20.8 Baseball TeamUnder the Dome by Stephen King
+20 Task (shifting perspectives and about 3 pages worth of named characters listed in the beginning of the book)
+25 Jumbo (1074 pages)
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 115
10.6 Reading is RewardingYou & Me: A Novel by Padgett Powell
+10 Task (2011 Winner)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 125
20.8 Baseball TeamParis: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
+20 Task (shifting POV, more than 9 characters)
+5 Combo (10.4 Rutherfurd)
+15 Jumbo (over 800 pages)
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 165
10.10 In MemoryCinderella and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis
+10 Task
+15 Combo (20.3 - 1896; 20.5 - listed as journalist in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ bio; 20.10 - 62% of book is set in New York City)
+10 Oldies (1896)
Task total=35
Grand total=130
20.9 Baseball DiamondHunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley
+ 20 Task (born in Australia)
+ 5 Combo (10.4 � hUnting)
+ 5 Oldies (1979)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 115
20.5 Play by Play AnnouncerThey Eat Puppies, Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
+20 Task (Journalism reference: Christopher Buckley)
+10 Combo (10.4 - Buckley; 20.10 - Washington D.C.)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 30
20.8 Baseball TeamAbhorsen by Garth Nix Lexile 890
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.9 born in Australia)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 140
10.1 - Sub-SandwichThe Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
+10 task
+10 combo (10.4 rUssell, 20.8 ensemble)
Task total: 20 points
Grand total: 55
Cy YoungThe Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4 Musa, 20.8, multiple viewpoints, 2 pages of named characters)
+10 Oldie (1933)
+15 Jumbo (824 pages)
Task Total = 55
Grand Total = 55
20.10 World SeriesDangling Man by Saul Bellow
+20 task
+10 combo (20.3 - pub. 1944, 20.9 - born in Canada)
+5 oldies
Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 160 points
20.5 Play by Play AnnouncerShort Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
+20 Task GoodReads bio and
+5 Combo 10.4 "...Curtis"
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 35
Tanya wrote: "10.9 Design your own task! Read a book that has Fantasy as one of the genres on the book page.
Grimm's Household Stories by Jacob Grimm
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 10"
+5 Combo 20.3-published during Cy Young's lifetime
Joanna wrote: "10.4 The U's Have ItPutting Food By by Ruth Hertzberg
+10 Task (Putting, Ruth)
+5 Oldies (published 1975)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15"
+5 Combo 20.9-author born in Canada
In post #26 I claimed One True Thing by Anna Quindlen. D wrote: "20.5 Play by Play announcer
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
+20 Task (listed as journalist in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ bio)
+10 Combo (10.4 QUindlen; 20.6 MLB 32 Teams - 320 pages)
Task total=30
I just noticed this book is on Stephen King's list. Could I claim the 5 combo points for 10.2 Go visit the neighbors? That would bring my current total to 135.
Thanks.
D wrote: "In post #26 I claimed One True Thing by Anna Quindlen. D wrote: "20.5 Play by Play announcer
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
... just noticed this book is on Stephen King's list. Could I claim the 5 combo points for 10.2 Go visit the neighbors? That would bring my current total to 135."
Yes, we'll get you those points next time - probably won't show up on the Readerboard until next Sunday, though.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yes, we'll get you those points next time - probably won't show up on the Readerboard until next Sunday, though. "Thanks, Elizabeth. Not sure how I missed it originally.
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Reading w/Style (RwS) Sample Completed Tasks Post:
20.8 - Baseball Team
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
+20 task
+15 combo (10.4 - U's, 10.8 - Family Saga, 20.3 - Cy Young Award: pub. 1901)
+10 oldies
+10 jumbo (731 pages)
Task total: 55 points
Grand total: 245
(This assumes mid-challenge, and that you had previously posted 190 points)