Reading with Style discussion

It's okay Camille,
we all help each other.

Camille wrote: "UGH! I'm so confused by all the discussion boards:

Here I go again....
Task 10.4-Say what?: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

+10 Task
+5 Series ..."

you got it now, Camille! *thumbs up!*

Spring Cleaning Task 15.10--General Non-fiction

The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives by Cheryl Jarvis

15 task points

30 Total points

RWS Task 10.7--Scrabble

Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

S-B-E-G = BEGS

Task: 10 points
+ 5 points (Series: Darcy & Rachel)
= 15 Task points

Total points 45

15.1 Mystery/Thriller The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams


+ 15 Task

Grand Total = 35

RwS
Task 10.8 Australia's Popular Penguins
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldie (published 1847)
+5 Jumbo (511 p)
Task total: 40

Task 20.7 Post 19th Century Poetry
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

+20 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Oldie (published 1959)
Task total: 35

Task 20.10 Sam's Choice
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory

+20 Task
+5 Series (#2 Cousins' War)
Task Total: 25

Post Total: 100
Grand Total: 200

Spring Cleaning
15.2 Science Fiction

Cities in Flight by James Blish

+15 task
+5 bonus (published 1962)
+5 bonus (608 pages)

grand total = 25

Erin wrote: "ERIN C.

10.1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams...

Erin, What Winter Challenge task are you reusing? Please repost this task when you get a chance. Without this task, I show your grand total as 25 points.

Nicholle wrote: "+5 Combo (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Winter Task 10.9 - Alphabet Soup, M-Z or G-T)..."

Oh no! I am sorry you looked at all the winter tasks for combo points; 10.1 cannot be used as combo points for other tasks (because it would be too much work and too confusing to track).

As of post #36, I show your Grand Total as 20 points

Camille wrote: "UGH! I'm so confused by all the discussion boards:

Here I go again....
Task 10.4-Say what?: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

+10 Task
+5 Series ..."

Camilla,

Welcome! And thank you for your patience/persistence in getting the posting format right. You linked to the hardcover edition of this book. I am assuming you read the e-book (which has the 471 pages you mentioned). Since that edition is the only edition with >500 pages, I am giving you the 5 jumbo points.

As of post #50, I show your grand total as 20 points.

Liz M wrote: "Camille wrote: "UGH! I'm so confused by all the discussion boards:

Here I go again....
Task 10.4-Say what?: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

+10 Task
..."

Thanks! I'm reading all my books on Nook, so I'll try to find the ebooks next time I post. THANKS again for all the help!!

Liz M wrote: "Rachelccameron wrote: "20.4 Poet Non-Poetry
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare..."

For the sake of consistency, in the future I..."

Hey Liz,

Sorry about that! The editions I read actually did have more than 100 play- only pages. I guess I just linked the wrong edition. Next time I will specify!
I love him too! :)

20.8 Quotable Quotes

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

from a Langston Hughes poem... deliberately quoted as it is printed on the first couple page

+20 Task
+5 Combo : 10.2 Jury of Her Peers
+5 Oldies Published 1959

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 170

I completed 20.1 Alliteration by reading "Blueberry Muffin Murder" by Joanne Fluke.

Task Points: 20
Style: Series: 10 (Series, book 3 in the series, 2nd one this challenge)
Grand Total: 55

Rachelccameron wrote: "Sorry about that! The editions I read actually did have more than 100 play- only pages. I guess I just linked the wrong edition. Next time I will specify!..."

No worries. Shakespeare is especially difficult to know the text length as the books can range from an 80-page Dover thrift edition to a 450-page Arden edition for the same play.

20.5 Epic Poetry:
The Aeneid by Virgil

+20 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (published before 1860)

Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 45

Task 10.6 Lab Lit: Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld (Lexile 810L)

+10 Task ( Dr. Barlow- biologist)
+5 Series (Book 2 of 'Leviathan' series)
Task Total= 15

Task 20.1 Alliteration: Club Cupid by Stephanie Bond

+20 Task
Task Total= 20

Task 20.2 Rhymes: The Magic Knot by Helen Scott Taylor

+20 Task (Option A (Knot - Scott))
+5 Series (Book 1 of 'The Magic Knot' series)
Task Total= 25

Task 20.9 Krista's Choice: Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

+20 Task (Dominican Republic)
Task Total= 20

Grand Total= 80

Task 15.5 Supernatural

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

+15 Task

Task 10.7 Scrabble
TSQSAA = SAT

The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen

+10 Task

Grand Total = 25

Task 20.1 Alliteration: Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting

+20 Task (No Lexile)
Task Total= 20

Task 20.1 Alliteration: Finding Family by Gina Wilkins

+20 Task
Task Total= 20

Grand Total= 120

10.4 Say What? Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon by Nick Trout

+10 pts - Task (has "where" in title)

10 pts - Task Total
105 pts - Grand Total

10.7 - Karen's 3rd Place Task
Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa
Tiles: D-L-A-C-T
Words: cat, tad, lad, cad

+10 Task

15.4 - Historical Fiction (spring cleaning):
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

+15 Task

20.8 - Liz's Choice: Quotable Quotes
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Quote from “Sailing to Byzantium” (poem) by William Butler Yeats; from first stanza: "That is no country for old men...”

+20 Task

Total: 45 points

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Task 20.1 - Alliteration

+20 Task
+10 Oldies (1925)
+10 Canon
+5 Combo (Task 10.8 - Coralie's 2nd Place Task, Popular Penguins)

Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 65

Nicholle wrote: "Also, I just want to point out that I think I'm five points shy on the Readerboard, though I may be wrong, so feel free to correct me!..."

Nicholle, please see my post #59 which explains the discrepancy.

20.4 A Poet's non-Poetry
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

+20 pts- Task
+5 pts - Combo (10.2 Women's History Month)
+5 pts - Oldies (Pub in 1963)

30 pts - Task Total
135 pts - Grand Total


I think I looked real good this time but I didn't see it on the canon which surprised me. Of course it's bedtime so who knows? I might not even be awake right now and am typing in my dreams!

20.1 Alliteration - A Match for Melissa by Kathryn Kirkwood
A Match For Melissa

Task Points 20
Total Points 20

Task 20.2 Rhymes: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean

+20 Task (B - adored, lord)
+ 5 Series (Book 2 of 'Love By Numbers')
+ 5 Combo (10.4 Say What "when")
+ 5 Combo (20.1 Alliteration W W L L)

Task Total= 35

Grand Total= 155

Task 20.3- Iambic Pentameter: Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook (211123)

+20 Task
Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 75

Spring Cleaning Tasks

15.5 – Supernatural

Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith

+15 Task Total

15.6 – Romance OR Horror

Romance:

American Music by Jane Mendelsohn

+15 Task Total

15.7 – Drama

The Tempest by Shakespeare

+15 Task
+ 5 Published Before 1980 (1609)

+20 Task Total

Total Points: 50
Grand Total: 50

And away we go...

Task 15.4 Historical Fiction Blackout by Connie Willis

Task points 15
+5 (512 pages)

Task total 20
Total points 20



Task 15.9 Memoir House Calls by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost by Keith Billington

Task points 15

Total points 35

Task 15.7 Drama Pygmalion and Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

Task points 15
+5 pre-1980

Task total 20

Total points 55

RwS
Task 10.7 Karen's Task: Scrabble
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Scrabble Tiles: TMOLDD
Word: MOLD
+10 Task

Task 20.9 Krista's Choice option A
The ZinZin Road by Fletcher Knebel

+20 Task
+5 Oldie (published 1966)

Post Total: 35
Grand Total: 235

Task 10.6: Lab lit
Cannery RowJohn Steinbeck

+10 task

RwS total=30

Liz M wrote: "Nicholle wrote: "+5 Combo (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Winter Task 10.9 - Alphabet Soup, M-Z or G-T)..."

Oh no! I am sorry you looked at all the winter tasks for combo points; 10.1 cannot be used as ..."

Ok, that's fine! I don't think it says that on the Challenge page, it just says it can't be repeated. Thanks for clearing that up!

Liz M wrote: "Erin wrote: "ERIN C.

10.1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams...

Erin, What Winter Challenge task are you reusing? Please repost thi..."

Got it. Here is my repost...

10.1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This was from the winter task 10.5 New Year's Resolution. This is the first book on the Goodreads list of best beginnings.

+10 Task
+5 Series (#1 in the Hitchhiker Series)
+5 Oldies (p.1979)
+5 Combo (20.1)

Task Total: 25

20.1 Alliteration

Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.9 part B: this book takes place in Georgia)

Task Total: 25

Points this post: 50
Grand Total: 75

Task 10.4 - Say what? Read a book with “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” “why,” or “how” in the title.

Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt (Paperback, 206 pages)

+10 Task
Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 40 + 10 = 50

Spring Cleaning
15.9 Memoir Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog by Susannah Charleson

Task Total=15
Grand Total = 50

Task 20.2 Rhymes
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

+20 pts - Task (How/Now)
+10 pts Combo (10.4 "How" in title, 10.8 Pop.Penguin)

30 Pts - Task Total
165 pts - Grand Total

10.2 - Women's History Month: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

+10 Task
+5 Oldies (1937)
+10 Canon

Task Total = 25

Grand Total = 35

Task 20.1 Alliteration: Boys in Blue (Bachelors At Large) by Rebecca York

+20 Task

Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 175

Task 10.6 Lab Lit: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

+10 Task (Sax Russell - physicist)
+5 Series (Book 1 of the 'Mars' trilogy)
+5 Jumbo (572 pp)

Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 195

ERIN C.

20.3 Iambic Pentameter

The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen

+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.5)

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 100

Task 15.3 Fantasy

Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 40

Spring Cleaning Task 15.1--Mystery/Thriller

I read Indulgence in Death (In Death, #31) by J.D. Robb for

15 task points

= 60 total RWS points

Spring Cleaning

15.9 – Memoir

How It Looks Going Back by Doris Knowles Pulis

This was great fun to read because it is about the author's life growing up in The Yaak in Montana where we rent a cabin every summer for two weeks and just get away from it all(no electricity and a "privy" just like when she grew up there).

+15 Task

Total This Post: 15 Points
Grand Total: 65

Spring Cleaning
15.3 Fantasy
Gardens of the Moon
+ 15 Task
+5 Jumbo (702 pages)

Task total = 20 points

Spring Cleaning
15.3 - Fantasy: Last of the Wilds - Age of Five 2 by Trudi Canavan

+ 15 Task
+ 5 Pages (577)

Total this Post: 20 points
Grand Total: 65 points

Spring Cleaning 15.1 Mystery/Thriller: "Fudge Cupcake Murder" by Joanne Fluke

Task Point: 15
Grand Total: 70

ERIN C.

20.2 Rhymes

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

The author's name, Italo Calvino, rhymes

+20 Task
+5 Oldies (p. 1957)
+10 Canon

Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 135

Spring Cleaning Task 15.6--Romance or Horror

I read Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas.

15 task points

= 75 Total RWS Points

READERBOARD NAME; Rachel OH

I completed...

20.6 Pre-20th Century Poetry

John Donne's Poetry.

+20 Task
+15 Oldie (written in the 1600s)
+10 Canon

Task Total= 45
TOTAL POINTS=45