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Summer 2013 RwS Completed Tasks - Summer 2013
20.6 MLB 32 TeamsStalking the Others by Jess Haines
+20 Task (352 pages)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 260
20.8 Baseball TeamRemember When by Nora Roberts
+20 Task (5+ perspectives, 20+ named characters)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 270
10.2 NeighborsInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
+10 Task (on the Books Stephen King Recommends list)
+5 Combo (20.8 � 4+ perspectives and >9 named characters) *Note: another post claimed 20.5 combo but I was led to understand from the 20.5 help thread that it would not count*
+25 Jumbo (1079 pages)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 310
10.9 Design your own task! (Read a book that is related to its author's TED Talk.)Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
+10 Task (Sheryl Sandberg did a TED Talk about the need for female leadership, which is also what the book is about - see help thread for links)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 320
20.2 General ManagerWaiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
+20 Task (on both lists)
+5 Oldies (pub 1980)
+10 Combo (10.6, 20.9 � Coetzee was born in South Africa)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 365
20.5 Play by Play announcer Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
+20 Task ()
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 195 points
10.4 The U's Have ItA Foreign Country by Charles Cumming
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 -- from multiple pov's, well more than 9 named characters)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 125
20.5 Play By Play AnnouncerSticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy by Emily Bazelon
+20 Task (her GR bio references this but her is clearer)
+5 Combo (10.4 -- U in "bullying")
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 150
20.8 Baseball TeamThrone of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
+ 20 Task
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 800
10.2 Visit the Neighbors (Victorians)Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
+10 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.7 poetry)
+ 5 pts - Combo (20.3 - 1894)
+10 pts - Oldies (1894)
Task Total -
Grand Total - 200 pts
20.8 Baseball TeamThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
+20 Task (3 pov's and many more than 9 named characters)
+5 Combo (10.4 EUgenides)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=50
20.5 Play by Play announcer -Maya's Notebook: A Novel by Isabel Allende
+20 Task:
From Wikipedia with cited sources: "As a journalist, she once sought an interview with Pablo Neruda, a notable Chilean poet. While Neruda accepted the interview, he told her that she had too much imagination to be a journalist and should be a novelist instead".[10]
"In Allende's time in Venezuela, she was a freelance journalist for El Nacional in Caracas from 1976 to 1983" [21]
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 495
10.4 The U's Have ItThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
+10 Task (Julian)
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 830
10.5 Smithsonian DayThe Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.4-Autobiography)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 845
20.1 Play Ball!One Last Strike by Tony La Russa
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6-432 pages in MPE)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 870
20.4 CooperstownCanon
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
+20 Task (NYC List)
+20 Combo (10.4-Hurston; 20.3-1937; 20.6-235 pages in MPE; 20.10-set in Florida)
+10 Oldies (pub 1937)
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 920
Task 10.4 The U's Have ItThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The second letter in the author's last name is a "u"
+10 task
+5 combo (10.2 Go Visit the Neighbors-Victorians list)
+15 Oldies (published in 1844)
+25 Jumbo (1276 pages)
Task Total = 55 points
Grand Total = 100 points
Task 20.8 Baseball TeamCan You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.2, Victorian)
+10 Oldies (pub 1865)
+15 Jumbo (848 pages)
Task Total = 50
Grand Total = 160
Rebekah wrote: "10.2 Visit the Neighbors (Victorians)Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
+10 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.7 poetry)
Task Total - 15 pts
I didn't know if this qualifies for Oldies. The Poet d..."
While the GR database will continue to carry this at the recent date, RwS has decided that all of these poems were published at or near Rossetti's death and will carry her death date for pub date. Yippee! You get the 10 oldies points!
20.8 - Baseball Team Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Really good read, by the way -- I reviewed it here. Amazing backstory of course, and you read with that in mind, but also a good story in its own right.
+20 task (many named characters, at least 10-12 perspectives)
+5 combo (10.4 - U's)
Task total: 25 points
Grand total: 175
Coralie wrote: "10.1 Sub SandwichBreakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
+ 10 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1958)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 785"
Sorry, Coralie, Breakfast at Tiffany's is shelved as YA Assignment at the BPL and does not currently have a lexile score. This does not qualify for style points.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "10.2 Visit the Neighbors (Victorians)Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
+10 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.7 poetry)
Task Total - 15 pts
I didn't know if this qualifies for Ol..."
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "10.2 Visit the Neighbors (Victorians)
Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
+10 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.7 poetry)
Task Total - 15 pts
I didn't know if this qualifies for Ol..."
Rebekah wrote: "10.2 Visit the Neighbors (Victorians)
Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
+10 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.7 poetry)
Task Total - 15 pts
I didn't know if this qualifies for Oldies. The Poet d..."
Yeah!! I'll add the points to my post.
Oh, I can get combo points for 20.3! 1894!Goody!
10.4 The U’s Have itPump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.6 - 239 pages)
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 815
10.2 Go visit the neighborsFound on Bookshelf of: Books Stephen King Recommends
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
+10 Task
Task Total: 10 points
Grand Total: 10
20.6 MLB 32 Teams (page count includes both a 3 and a 2)Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Hardcover - 213 pages
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 - Found on Bookshelf of: Books Stephen King Recommends)
Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 35
20.9 Baseball DiamondThe Calling by Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Books Stephen King Recommends; 20.6 - 326 pages hardcover)
Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 65
20.9 Baseball DiamondThe Chimera Vector by Nathan M. Farrugia
Nathan M. Farrugia was born in Melbourne, Australia
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6 - 362 pages)
Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 90
20.10 World SeriesGabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard
Majority of novel takes place in Toronto
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Books Stephen King Recommends; 20.9 - author was born in Canada)
+5 jumbo (545 pages)
Task Total: 35 points
Grand Total: 125
20.10 World SeriesGabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard
Majority of novel takes place in Toronto.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.2 - Books Stephen King Recommends; 20.9 - author was born in Canada)
Task Total: 30 points
Grand Total: 155
20.10 World SeriesEntwined with You by Sylvia Day
Novel takes place in New York City
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.2 - Books Stephen King Recommends)
Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 180
20.8 Baseball Team The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
+20 Task: Told through 3 povs: Seraphina, Cristina, the murderer and 9+ named characters
+10 Combo: 10.4 U’s Have it!(rUins) / 20.6 MLB 32 Teams, 320 pages
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 545
20.10 World SeriesSisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
+20 Task (Set in St. Louis)
+ 5 Combo (10.4 U's Have it)
Task total=25
Grand total=530
Design Your Own TaskTanya's Task: Read a book that has Fantasy as one of the genres on the book page
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
Lexile too low for combo
+10 Task
Task Total = 10
Grand Total = 205 points
20.9 Baseball DiamondFlying Too High by Kerry Greenwood
+ 20 Task (born in Australia)
+ 5 Combo (20.8)
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 860
20.8 - Baseball TeamThe Redeemer by Jo Nesbø
+20 task (many points of view, plenty of named characters)
+ 5 jumbo (571 pages)
Task total: 25 points
Grand total: 355
20.9 Baseball DiamondThe Door by Margaret Atwood
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.7 Poet's Day)
Task total=25
Grand total=555
20.4 Hall of FameThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 2006 list for Texas
Task total - 20 pts
Grand Total - 230 pts
20.5 Play by Play announcerThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.3 Vacation Reading)
Task total=25
Grand total=580
20.8 Baseball TeamAn Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
+20 Task (Alternating perspectives and many more than 9 named characters)
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 390
*Edit to post 222 � add +5 Combo � 20.6 (320 pg)Grand Total: 395
10.5 August 10 - Smithsonian DayFire Along the Sky by Sara Donati
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 - alternating perspectives and many more than 9 named characters)
+5 Jumbo (655 pg)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 415
20.8 Baseball TeamSome Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
+20 Task (4+ POVs, 12+ named characters)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 435
10.2 Go Visit the NeighborsThe French Lieutenant's Woman
+10 Task (Victorian)
No Lexile currently available, no Style
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 960
20.6 32 TeamsInvisible by Paul Auster
+20 Task (320 pages in MPE)
+10 Combo (20.8-three POVs, more than 8 named characters; 10.4 Auster)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 990
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+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 230