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Karen GHHS wrote: "RwS Tasks10.5 � I’m Tellin�
Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
10.9 � Colleen’s 1st Place Task Pi Day
The Piper's Son by [autho..."
I just edited this post to include the rhyme combo for the author Melina Marchetta. I don't know if you have looked at it yet so I just wanted to let you know. The post is #538.
Liz M wrote: "Erin wrote: "ERIN C.20.1 Alliteration
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.2 rhyming '..."
Sorry, guess I forgot that the subtitles counted. Yep, I'll just take 20 points w/ task 20.2 then!
Then my grand total will be 325
ERIN C.15.1 Mystery/Thriller
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters
+15 Task
+5 (p. 1973)
Task Total= 20
Grand Total= 345
15.1 Spring Cleaning - MysteryThe Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
+15 pts - Task
+5 pts - first pub. in 1919
20 pts - Task total
830 pts - Grand Total
Task 20.10 Potent PotablesTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Series
25 pts - Task Total
855 pts - Grand Total
20.3 Iambic PentameterThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 Pi Day)
+5 (1st in series)
Task total = 30
Challenge total = 170
Task 15.7 DramaPrometheus Bound and Agamemnon by Aeschylus
(together these plays add up to more than 100 pages)
15 task points
+5 bonus (written approx. 458 BC)
total this post = 20
grand total = 240
15.9 Spring Cleaning MemoirPicking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life's Weeds by Sarah Cunningham
15 Task
Task Total: 15
10.7 - Karen's 3rd Place Task- Scrabble
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
TBOCCH- spells HOT
10 Task
+ 5 Series (Book 3 in the Aurora Teagarden series)
Task Total: 15
20.3 - Iambic Pentameter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.1)
+ 5 Series (Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Task Total: 30
20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke
20 Task
+ 20 Series (Book 11 of Hannah Swensen- 4th book claimed)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 250
This is my first post here, so let's see if I do this correctly.20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (pub 1866)
+5 Jumbo (522 pages)
Task total: 45
TOTAL POINTS: 45
Caroline wrote: "This is my first post here, so let's see if I do this correctly.20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+..."
First of all, welcome! I hope you find this challenge as fun and addictive as the rest of us.
Your format & math are perfect. Unfortunately, because this book fits task 10.7 - Scrabble (C,A,P,F,D can spell "fad"), it cannot be used for 20.10.
Let us know if you'd like to use it for task 10.7 instead.
Task 10.2 Women's History"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
Task Points: 10
Style: 10 (Canon Toni Morrison)
Grand Total: 410
Task: 20.5 - Epic PoetryRead an work of epic poetry.
I read:
Beowulf: A Verse Translation (850 A.D.) by Unknown, Michael Alexander (translator)
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Style: Combo (also fits 10.8 Popular Penguins)
+ 10 Style: Canon
+ 15 Style: Oldies -151+ years old: 15 points (1859 and older)
Task Total: 20 + 5 + 10 + 15 = 50
Grand Total: 380 + 50 = 430
10.4 Say WhatThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
+10 Task
+5 Series (Millenium)
+5 Jumbo (503)
Task Total: 20
20.10 Sam's Choice
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (1868)
+5 Jumbo (added-see post 567)
Task Total: 45
Post Total: 65
Grand Total: 500
Denae wrote: "20.10 Sam's ChoiceThe Moonstone
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (1868)
Task Total: 40"
+ 5 Jumbo
Sweet :) I'll edit the post.
10.8 Popular PenguinsCasino Royale by Ian Fleming
+10 Task
+5 Oldies - published 1953
+5 Series - The Original James Bond #1
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 680
RwS Tasks10.3 � Cyberpunk!
Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
10.4 � Say what?
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Too new for a lexile score - book #1 was 830
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo 20.1 Alliteration
+ 5 Series: If I Stay #2
Task Total: 20
Points this Post: 30
Grand Total: 890
Task 10.8 - Coralie's 2nd Place Task Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (pub. 1726)
Task 15.2 - Spring Cleaning: Science Fiction:
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
+15 Task
Task 15.7 � Spring Cleaning: Drama:
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
+15 Task
+5 (pub.1895)
Task 20.2 - Rhymes
A) - A word in the title rhymes with the author's name :
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Four rhymes with Lore and book is YA with 700L
+20 Task
+5 Series
Total this post: 95 points
Total to date: 405 + 95 = 500 points
In Msg 557 -- Shannon wrote: "20.3 Iambic PentameterThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
20 Task
+5 Combo (10.9 Pi Day)
+5 (1st in series)
Task total = 30
Challenge total = 170"
+5 Combo for task 10.6 - Flavia is a chemist!
Challenge total = 170
In Msg 559 -- Arow wrote: "..... 20.3 - Iambic PentameterThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
20 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.1)
+ 5 Series (Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 250 ..."
Task 20.3
+ 5 Oldies (Published 1979)
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20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke
20 Task
You've already used Candy Cane Murder for Task 20.10. You can't repeat the task when claiming Series style points. (See msg #417) If you can find another task that will work for this book that you haven't alread used for this series, please repost it and we'll add the series points back in.
Updated Task Total: 20
Updated Grand Total = 235
I thought you couldn't repeat 20.10 anyway.
Krista, I want to switch books. I want to swap "I Am Number Four" from Spring Cleaning 15.2 Science Fiction and claim 20.2 option A. word from book title rhymes with author's name. In the 15.2 slot I want to put "Unwind" by Neal Shusterman.Task 20.2 "I Am Number Four" by Pittacus Lore
option A
Task Points 20
Style: 5 (Series book 1)
Book Total 25
Task 15.2 "Unwind" by Neal Shusterman
Task Points: 15
Grand Total: 435
410-15=395
395+15+25=435
Krista wrote: "You've already used Candy Cane Murder for Task 20.10...."Or I typoed the spreadsheet....
Liz M wrote: "Caroline wrote: "This is my first post here, so let's see if I do this correctly.20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+20..."
Sounds good, so that would make my task total 35 and my grand total 35.
Each challenge I am trying to read at least one big book, and I just finished:20.1 � Alliteration
World Without End by Ken Follett
+20 Task
+ 5 Series: The Pillars of the Earth #2
+25 Jumbo: 1000+ Pages: 25 Points (1014 Pages)
Task Total: 50
Points this Post: 50
Grand Total: 940
20.3 Iambic Pentameter Perfume: The Story of a Murderer+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.8 Australia's Popular Penguins)
+ 5 Olide (pub 1985)
Task Total = 30
Grand Total = 400
Karen GHHS wrote: "Each challenge I am trying to read at least one big book, and I just finished:20.1 � Alliteration
World Without End by Ken Follett
+20 Task
+ 5 Series: The Pillars of ..."
Karen: How did you like this. This book is one of the ones currently stacked on my ironing board. It's been stacked there awhile. I really liked The Pillars of the Earth. (And I hate to iron, so the ironing board is a perfect place for it. :-)
Krista wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "Each challenge I am trying to read at least one big book, and I just finished:20.1 � Alliteration
World Without End by Ken Follett
I liked it a lot. It wasn't quite as good as Pillars of the Earth, but still very enjoyable. I read Pillars a long time ago, so it felt like a different story to me -- I know it has been criticized as just being a re-telling of the original 200 years later, but I didn't notice that.
+20 Task
+..."
Liz M wrote: "Krista wrote: "You've already used Candy Cane Murder for Task 20.10...."Or I typoed the spreadsheet...."
Hello! I just checked my post from 417 and this is what I wrote:
20.1- Alliteration
I read Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke
+20 Task
**no series points as I have already used this author for this task
Total Task= 20
So I would like to keep the Candy Cane Murder under 20.1 with no series points as it does not qualify for 20.10 as it fits into 20.1.
I would like to keep my posting that I made in 559 if you both agree with the above.
20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke + 20 series points
Let me know if I have missed something.
Thanks for keeping track of everything :-)
Spring CleaningTask 15.8--Biography/Autobiography
I read Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan. This is his story of how he answered his call to missionary work, his experiences as he matured in the ministry, and how he has influenced the growth of GFA.
15 task points
= 240 total RWS Points
Spring Cleaning
Task 15.3 Fantasy Storm Front by
Jim Butcher
Task points 15
Total points 410
Task 15.6 Romance To Weave a Web of Magic by Claire Delacroix
Task points 15
Total points 425
Task 15.3 Fantasy Storm Front by
Jim Butcher
Task points 15
Total points 410
Task 15.6 Romance To Weave a Web of Magic by Claire Delacroix
Task points 15
Total points 425
RwS Task 10.10 Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Task points 10
+5 Jumbo (688)
Task total 15
Total points 440
Thanks Coralie, it is a wonderful book!
Task points 10
+5 Jumbo (688)
Task total 15
Total points 440
Thanks Coralie, it is a wonderful book!
Arow wrote: "Liz M wrote: "Krista wrote: "You've already used Candy Cane Murder for Task 20.10...."Or I typoed the spreadsheet...."
Hello! I just checked my post from 417 and this is what I wrote:
20.1- Al..."
Hi Arow:
Nope, that was a goof on my part. Sorry about that! Liz has this spiffy new spreadsheet that I'm using, and she accidently filled in one of the tasks you'd used this series in as 20.10, not 20.01. Her spreadsheet is so detailed that is has the message number with the entry. My failing was not going to review the original message.
We're good. I'm readjusting your score to include the 20 series points for Cream Puff Murder.
Sorry to have caused you undue stress! :-)
Deedee wrote: "Task: 20.5 - Epic PoetryRead an work of epic poetry.
I read:
Beowulf: A Verse Translation (850 A.D.) by Unknown, Michael Alexander (translator)
..."
+5 Combo Points for Task 20.6
Updated Grand Total = 435
I'm adding 5 combo points to Karen GHHS and my point total. We both read Beowulf, and didn't claim Combo points for Task 10.8Karen's orignal post for Beowulf was msg #338
Karen, your new Grand Total through message 563 = 865.
Krista's original post for Beowulf was msg #533
Krista's new Grant Total through message 563 = 310
+5 Combo Points for Task 20.6 Updated Grand Total = 435
Wow, thanks Krista, I missed that Combo points, glad you caught it :0)
I have another task to claim:
Task 10.7 - Karen's 3rd Place Task Scrabble!
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1) by Mark Hodder
T S A O S H J M H = sat, hat, mat, moat, shot, jot, hot
+ 10 Task
+ 5 Style: Series
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 435 + 15 = 450
Task 20.6: Pre-20th Century PoetryI read The Complete Poems of John Keats
+20:task
+5:combo (popular penguin)
+15:oldie (pub 1820)
+40:total task
Rws TOTAL: 285
Task 20.9 Peace CorpsOption A: Haruf is a former volunteer.
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
I really enjoyed this one, so thanks to everyone who encouraged me to read it earlier in the challenge. Now I need to find a copy of the sequel.
+20 Task
Grand total = 465
ERIN C.20.4 A Poet's Non-Poetry
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
+20 task
+10 Oldies [p.1891]
+10 Canon
Task Total=40
Grand Total= 385
Krista wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "Each challenge I am trying to read at least one big book, and I just finished:20.1 � Alliteration
World Without End by Ken Follett
+20 Task
+..."
Krista, I think it is very clever of you not to waste space! (smile)
Task 15.4 - Historical Novel - Spring CleaningAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
+15 pts - Task
+5 pts - Style first pub in 1920
20 pts - Task Total
875 pts - Grand Total
Task 20.9 Peace CorpsLost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid by J. Maarten Troost
+20pts - Task Total
+5 pts - Combo (20.2 The/He True/To)
25 pts - Task Total
900 pts - Grand Total
Americans (well really everybody) needs to take note of China. They plan to be the next super power and our over lords if possible, but aside from that with the pollution and all, I'll just have to be happy with the TerraCotta Warriors I saw at the museum for now. Don't think I want to vacation there and this i feel after living 8 yrs in India!
Krista wrote: "Arow wrote: "Liz M wrote: "Krista wrote: "You've already used Candy Cane Murder for Task 20.10...."Or I typoed the spreadsheet...."
Hello! I just checked my post from 417 and this is what I ..."
Thanks for double checking it. I can only imgaine how much detail and information is in your tracking spreadsheet :-) I would rather have you double check :-)
Have a good weekend!
20.1 AlliterationThe W ar of the End of the W orld by Mario Vargas Llosa
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Oldies (published 1981)
+5 Jumbo (568 pgs)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 195
10.1 - Reduce, Reuse, RecycleNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Winter's 10.7 Booker Prize)
+10 Task
Task total: 10
Grand Total: 45
Spring Cleaning-15.9 Memoir "Breaking Night" by Liz MurraryTask Points: 15
Style: 0
Grand Total: 450
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20.1 Alliteration
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.2 rhyming 'with' and 'Ma..."
This book does not work for alliteration, as too many words in the subtitle do not begin with "t". See post 12. Would you like to use it for task 20.2 instead?