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Rhea wrote: "20.9B- Krista's Choice: Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng (Set in China)

+20 Task ..."

+5 oldies (pub 1983)

Liz M wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "20.1 � Alliteration
Love & Lies: Marisol's Story by Ellen Wittlinger

+20 Task..."

Unfortunately, this book does not work as the subtitle contains two non-alliterative words. L..."

Oh, ok, sorry. I didn't think about the subtitle on this one. I don't think it fits anywhere else, though, so I'll subtract the points. I do both The Seasonal Reading Challenge and this one, so I try to count as many as possible for both challenges, so I still got to use it for the SRC.

Task 10.1 Recycle (Task 10.7 of Winter Challenge. Winner of Man-Booker Prize in 1981)

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Canon
+5 pts - Oldie (forst pub. in 1980)
+5 pts - Jumbo Read (647 pgs)

30 pts - Task Total
100 pts - Completion of RwS!
1090 pts - Grand Total

Congratulations, Rebekah!

I actually posted before I had completed my post. Here is the completed post
RwS Task 10.3 Cyberpunk
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1939)
+5 Combo (Popular Penguin)
+5 Series (Marlowe #1)

Task 10.10 Group Read
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1972)

Spring Cleaning
Task 15.5 Supernatural
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1976)

Task 15.6 Romance OR Horror
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
+15 Task

Task Total: 75
Spring Cleaning Finish: 150
Mega Finish: 200
Post Total: 425
Grand Total: 1470

Kate wrote: "RwS Task 10.3 Cyberpunk
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
+10 Task"

Kate, you're slipping. ;)

+5 combo (10.8 popular penguins)
+5 series (Marlowe)
+5 oldies (pub 1939)

>grin< Good to know it was a mis-post.

Marie wrote: "15.7 � Drama : The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (1946)
Task Total = 20 points..."

Marie, first of welcome! I'm glad you are joining us & finding so many tasks to fit your books into. As Joanna mentioned, deciphering the rules of this challenge can be, well, challenging.

Unfortunately, 15.7 Drama is reserved for plays, screenplays, and scripts, so The Member of the Wedding does not qualify for this task. It does qualify for 10.2 Women's History Month. Let me know if you'd like to use it for that task or if you find another place for it.

Deana wrote: "Spring cleaning
Task 15.2 Science Fiction

I read 5 ebooks to meet this task. I hope that is acceptable. Each book was between 37 and 40 pages.

Precipice
[book:Purgatory|901..."

Unusual, but acceptable. Thank you for noting the page counts.

Karen GHHS wrote: "RwS Finish: 100
Mega Finish: 200
Points This Post: 340
Grand Total: 1550 - edited to 1530..."

Wow. Just wow. Congrats! I feel like this is the point where i am supposed to insert animated balloons or clapping bunnies or something. However, I'll leave up to your imagination.

Very impressive!

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "15.8 Spring Cleaning Biography-"The Shirley Temple Story" by Lester David and Irene David

Task Points: 15
Style: 5 (published before 2000 (1983)
Grand Total: 480"

For spring cleaning, the bonus points are for books published prior to 1980.

My bad so back to 475.

Denae wrote: "What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson..."

And what a great quote from Hamlet: "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause."

Rebekah wrote: "100 pts - Completion of RwS!
1090 pts - Grand Total ..."

Woohoo! Now that you're done with the fun reading, it's time to finish the housework; only one book to go!

Kate wrote: "Spring Cleaning Finish: 150
Mega Finish: 200
Grand Total: 1470..."

Holy cow! So many super-readers today! Congrats!

RwS

20.1 Alliteration - Reservation Road (MTI) by John Burnham Schwartz

+20 Task

SC

15.10 General Non-Fiction - Africa United by Steve Bloomfield

+15 Task

Total Points=35
Grand Total=285 pts

Tobey,
Spring Cleaning tasks and Reading With Style tasks can't be counted at the same time. You will have to chose.

Completed task: Krista's Choice.

Option B: "Tears of the Giraffe" by Alexander McCall Smith. It takes place in Botswana in Africa.

Task Points: 20
Style Points: 5(Series #2 of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)
Grand Total: 535 (going off last readerboard update of 495)

Liz M wrote: "Marie wrote: "15.7 � Drama : The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (1946)
Task Total = 20 points..."

Marie, first of welcome! I'm glad you are joining us & finding so ma..."

Hello! Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the numerous mistakes...
Ok for using The member of the wedding for 10.2. So I've edited message 684 to remove it from Spring Cleaning, and I'm adding it here :

RwS

10.2 - Women's History Month : The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (1946)

Post total = 15 points

Grand Total = 165

Well, they were all the same series (#1, #2, etc.)...and once I did the first one, I wanted to finish them. When I dounloaded the books--didn't know they were these itty bitty things! Thanks so much!

Liz M wrote: "Deana wrote: "Spring cleaning
Task 15.2 Science Fiction

I read 5 ebooks to meet this task. I hope that is acceptable. Each book was between 37 and 40 pages.

Precipice
[book:Purga..."

20.9 Peace Corps (C-Haiti) Island Beneath the Sea


+20 Task

This book takes place in Saint-Domingue, and includes the successful slave uprising which gave birth to the modern nation of Haiti.

Grand Total = 485

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Tobey,
Spring Cleaning tasks and Reading With Style tasks can't be counted at the same time. You will have to chose."

Confused here...what will I have to choose?

You will have to chose which task you want the book with: task 20.1 Alliteration or task 15.10.

Jayme, she listed 2 books and her post looks correct.

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "You will have to chose which task you want the book with: task 20.1 Alliteration or task 15.10."

I posted 2 different books for 2 different tasks so I think I'm okay with doing that...unless I missed something somewhere... :-)

oh I thought it was for one book.

Task 10.4 Who, What, When, Where, Why...

I read The Cat Who Wasn't There by Lilian Jackson Braun.

15 task points

Total RWS Points: 340

Task 20.3: Iambic Pentameter

I read Changeless: The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger

+20: task
+5: series (#2 Book)
total task: +25

RwS TOTAL: 360

ERIN C.

10.10 Group Reads

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

+10 Task
+10 Jumbo (835pp.)
+5 Series (#1 in Ice and Fire Series)

Task Total= 25
Grand Total= 425

yay Erin!

Erin wrote: "ERIN C.

10.10 Group Reads

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

+10 Task
+10 Jumbo (835pp.)
+5 Series (#1 in Ice and Fire Series)

Task Total= 25
Grand Total= 425"

I think that's 15 points jumbo!

I'm pretty sure this is the only category that this book will fit in:

20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
The Sea by John Banville

+20 Task
Task total: 20 points
Grand Total: 100 points

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Erin wrote: "ERIN C.

10.10 Group Reads

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

+10 Task
+10 Jumbo (835pp.)
+5 Series (#1 in Ice and Fire Series)

Task Tota..."

Doesn't this also get Combo points for being a group read?

yes it does

Completed Spring Cleaning 15.7 Drama/Play "Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare

Task Points: 15
Style: 5 (Published before 1980, (1595)
Bonus: 150 Completed Spring Cleaning 5/9/11

Grand Total: 705

(Prev Points: 535+15+5+150=705)

I am now breathing the rarified air, on top of a Mt Everset of books, with Kate and Karen!

Task 15.10 Spring Cleaning -non-fiction
Cracker Ingenuity: Tips from the Trailer Park for the Chronically Broke by P.T. Elliott

+15 pts - Task
+200 pts - Mega Finish

215 pts - Task Total
1305 pts - Grand Total

Karen GHHS wrote: "Congratulations, Rebekah!"

To You as well!

Task 15.9 Memoir The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong

15 task points
+ 150 Spring Cleaning completion bonus (finally!)

total this post = 165
grand total = 440

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

10.4 Say What?

What Would Audrey Do?

+10 Task

10.1 Reduce Reuse Recycle

Winter Task 10.7 Booker Prize winners

On Chesil Beach

+10 Task

Task Total=20
TOTAL POINTS=365

Rebekah wrote: "I am now breathing the rarified air, on top of a Mt Everset of books, with Kate and Karen!

Task 15.10 Spring Cleaning -non-fiction
[book:Cracker Ingenuity: Tips from the Trailer Park for the Ch..."

I don't have the score sheet in front of me, but presumably you also get the Spring Cleaning bonus as well....?

20.4 - A Poet's Non-Poetry: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Oldies - 1950
Task Total: 35

Grand Total: 380

Edit: I just read someone's post and realized A Doll's House wasn't at least 100 pages long, so I won't be claiming any points for it.

15.1- Mystery/Thriller: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

+15 Task
+5 Bonus (Publ. 1914)
Task Total= 20

Grand Total = 315

I'm just finished classes today so I'll actually have time to read now! No chance of me finishing the tasks in only 20 days though.

20.10 Potent Potables

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

+20 task
+5 Series (#3 Robert Langdon)
+5 Jumbo - 509 pages

Task Total:30
Grand Total: 940

20.8 Quotable Quotes Taken at the Flood


+20 Task
+20 Series (Poirot #27)
+ 5 Oldies (pub 1948)

Task Total = 48

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3

The book has also been published under the title "There is a Tide"

Grand Total = 530

Hey Everyone --- We need to give Liz a big round of applause. She's done such a great job of scorekeeping this quarter. She's getting ready to take a much needed break and (Uh-Oh, I'm picking up the Scorekeeper duties again) I just want to let her know how much we appreciate the time and effort she has put into keeping the group running smoothly this challenge. Thanks Liz!!

Thank you, Liz! Thank you, Krista! Where would we be without you two! (And thanks, Sam, too. ;-) )

Thank you everyone involved for keeping all of this together! I don't even want to imagine the score spreadsheet :-)

Spring Cleaning
15.5- Supernatural
I read City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

+15 Task

Total Task- 15

Grand Total- 295

Thanks Liz! Great job with the new spreadsheet!

I am so grateful for our wonderful volunteer leaders! This challenge is great fun and thanks to Liz for keeping up with us and all the quirks of keeping track!

Thank you Liz and thank you Krista and Sam! Not only do you keep track of the scores, you're nice enough to point out all the points we miss.

>blush< Thank you. Now I can focus on getting ready for my six-week trip to Japan! (The reading list is ready, I just need to worry about getting work documents finalized and oh, maybe pack some cloths to cushion the 14 tree books that don't exist as ebooks).

I won't go so far to say that I enjoy score-keeping, but I do enjoy supporting such a fantastic group & really appreciate how thoughtful & helpful y'all are!