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Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Poetry after 1900Tellico Blue by George Scarbrough
+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (20.2 Rhymes. Both Tellico and Scarbrough is pronounced with a long "o" at...
1910 Points - Grand Total "
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Oops.... (can you guess what's coming?) :-)
Previous Grand Total Msg 891 = 1905 + 30 (this post)
New Grand Total = 1935
In Msg 898 -- Deedee wrote: "Task 15.3 - Fantasy ...
And, I've completed the Spring Cleaning Set of T..."
Congratulations on finishing the whole challenge! I've adding the Spring Cleaning and Mega Finish bonuses to your score. Wa-hoo for you!!
In Msg 900 -- Karen GHHS wrote: "Spring Cleaning 2 Who's Counting?15.5 � Supernatural
The Lost Saint by Bree Despain
15.9 � Memoir
Townie: A Memoir by [author:Andre Dubus III|978...
I think I'm going to finish--- I'm reading my last Who's Counting book now! ....."
Keep reading, keep reading --- I know you can do it!!
And now it's about time that I post some new points...10.7 - Karen's Scrabble: Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken This was a squeaker, but I was able to form the three letter word 'gad' from this book/author combo.
+10 Task
+ 5 Series (#1 Dragon Kin series)
Task Total = 15
20.1 - Alliteration: Barn Blind Jane Smiley (No my favorite Jane Smiley by a long shot!)
+20 Task
Task Total = 20
20.2 - Rhyme Time: You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
This book just blew me away. It really brought closer to home the true sacrifice military service men and women AND their families make especially in these times of multiple deployments. Thanks for suggesting this as a Group Reads! It was so appropriate for Memorial Day.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.4, Say What, 10.10 Group Reads)
Task Total = 30
20.6 - Pre 20th Century Poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8, 20.1)
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (pub 1609)
Task Total = 55
Spring Cleaning - Final Task!!
15.9 Biography or Memoir - West with the Night by Beryl Markham (This was a really great read!)
+15 Task
+ 5 Oldies (pub 1942)
Task Total = 20
+150 Spring Cleaning Completion Bonus
Grand Total = 780
I've just updated the Readerboard scores through message #905 --- AND ---- inducted our first player into the Hall of Fame. Good going Kate!!
Task 10.8 Australia's Popular PenguinsSeven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
+10 - Task
+10 - Oldies (pub 1894)
20pts - Task Total
1955pts - Grand total
Task 20.2 RhymesDo Dead People Watch You Shower?: And Other Questions You've Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium
+20 pts Task (do/you/to)
1975 pts - Grand Total
I thought , oh good, a question for Say What? task. Then I realized it didn't have the right words. Fortunately I noticed the rhyming words in it! lol
20.10 Potent Potables:Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (published 1913)
+5 Series (In Search for Lost Time)
Task Total: 45
Completed Task 10.8 Popular Penquins by reading "Persuasion" by Jane Austen.Task Points: 10
Style: 25(oldies +15(1818), Canon +10)
Grand Total: 765
Last post for this challenge probably
Task 20.1 AlliterationI read Photo Finished by Laura Childs
20 points
+5 series (2nd book in the series this challenge, but they were for the same task)
= 25 task points
Total RWS points: 640
I will get one more in for sure...maybe two...depending on how much pool time I get in today and tomorrow...Ha! Ha! Happy Memorial Day, all!
Two more ....Task 10.3 - Cyberpunk!
Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
+ 10 Task
Task Total: 10
Task 20.2 - Rhymes
Read a book that meets one of the following criteria:
A) - A word in the title rhymes with the author's name
Daughter, Marillier
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) by Juliet Marillier
+ 20 Task
+ 05 Style: 2. Series (5 points):
+ 05 Style: 5. Jumbo (5 to 25 points): -500 Pages: 5 Points
Task Total: 20 + 5 + 5 = 30
Grand Total: 1170 + 10 + 30 = 1210
Maybe one more post for this challenge ... maybe ....
It's been fun! :0)
Task 10.6 ScientistI read The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver. The main character is a psychologist/criminologist.
10 points
+ 5 series points (second book in the series this challenge, but for the same task)
= 15 task points
Total RWS Points: 655
READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OHI ccompleted...
15.8 Spring Cleaning
Biography
Edith Wharton
+15 Task
+5 Spring Cleaning bonus points (over 500s pgs)
15.10 Spring Cleaning
General Non-fiction
Cinderella: A Casebook
This is a book of scholaraly articles about the classic fairy tale.
+15 Task
And with that, I completed "Spring Cleaning", so that is another 150 pts!
10.3 Cyberpunk!
The Difference Engine
+10 Task
20.9 Krista's Choice-Peace Corps
The Painted Veil
Country: China
+20 Task
+10 Oldies (published 1920's)
Task Total= 225
TOTAL POINTS= 795
WOW!! I finished the entire Challenge this season!!! YAY! I really wanted to do that at least once, and I made it! I know I probably missed some points along the way somewhere, but I am glad I can I finished! And I got to some amazing books this season, too!
Task 10.7 Scrabble The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdochletters: T-G-A-I-M
my word: gait
10 task points
+5 style points - jumbo (528 pages)
total this post = 15
grand total = 455
Task 10.5 I'm Tellin'Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird by Vivian Vande Velde
920 Lexile Score
+10 pts -Task
1985 points - Grand Total
Krista wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "20.7 Poetry after 1900Tellico Blue by George Scarbrough
+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (20.2 Rhymes. Both Tellico and Scarbrough is pronounced wi..."
This summer, I will get my husband to double check my math! I usually short change myself on points so I won't feel so bad if I mess up than if i gave myself too many! (smile)
Task 20.2 RhymesSex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
+20 Task (vile-verile)
Grand total: 1135
Task 10.1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Emma by Jane Austen
(I didn't participate to the winter challenge, so I hope it still count ; I'm using it for task 10.6 � Noel, Noel)
+10 Task
+5 Jumbo (my edition was 505 pages or so)
+15 Oldies (1815)
+10 Canon
Task total : 40
Grand total : 215
Gee, Joanna, that sounds like a VERY interesting book! I love the title. (smile)
My last points claimed for this challenge....Task 20.4: A Poet's Non-Poetry - Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
+ 20 Task
(Darn, I couldn't find any Style points for this one.)
Task Total = 20
Grand Total = 800
That's my best Grand Total since I became gainfully employed again last year. Wa-hoo!
10.5 - Brother/Sister: Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser+10 Task Points
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (pub. 1900)
+10 Jumbo (752)
(40 points)
10.6 - Lab Lit: Ape House - Sara Gruen
(main character is a scientist/researcher who works with apes)
+10 Task Points
10.10 - Group Read: Room - Emma Donoghue
+10 Task Points
20.6 - Pre-20th Poetry: Songs of Love and Grief: A Bilingual Anthology in the Verse Forms of the Originals - Heinrich Heine
+20 Task Points
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (all poems published prior to 1855)
(45 points)
Spring Cleaning:
15.6 - Romance: The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
+15 Task Points
+5 Oldie (1977)
+5 Jumbo (688)
(25 points)
15.10 - Non-Fiction: Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America - Matt Taibbi
+15 Task Points
New Points: 145
Grand Total: 265
My final post for this challenge:Task 20.1 Alliteration
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
(Lexile 690, so no style points)
+20 Task
Grand (final) total: 1155
Rebekah wrote: "Gee, Joanna, that sounds like a VERY interesting book! I love the title. (smile)"Heh. Dirty laundry is always interesting. The same author wrote Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge, but the book about the queens was substantially better written and better organized.
Task 20.3 Iambic Pentmeter Perfume by Patrick Süskind
+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (10.8 Austrailian popular Penguins)
+5 pts - Oldies (first pub in 1985. Just barely made it!)
30 pts - Task Total
2015 pts - Grand Total. My A - challenge was to read enough to 2000pts! Yeah!
Joanna wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Gee, Joanna, that sounds like a VERY interesting book! I love the title. (smile)"Heh. Dirty laundry is always interesting. The same author wrote [book:Sex with Kings: 500 Years ..."
There was one about the presidental hanky-panky thru the years too that sounded good. I think it came out about the time of the Bill Clinton affair as advertised by Ken Starr. smile. I want to look that one up too. History can be so much more entertaining than fiction sometimes, right?
And now I am done!Spring Cleaning 2 Who's Counting?
15.4 � Historical Fiction
The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
RwS
10.6 � Lab Lit
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld Lexile 810
+10 Task
+ 5 Series Leviathan #2
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 1795
Rebekah- Congratulations on accomplishing such a lofty goal!Karen-Welcome to the Hall of Fame!
Do I make it in time to count?10.10 Group Reads - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
+10 Task
+10 Canon
+5 Oldies (publ 1938)
Task Total=25
Grand Total=325 pts
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I put that on my post but I still have 1870 on my spreadsheet so i had put my total for Post 891 as 1880! See I can't even get 2 out of 3 right!
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It's okay, you can sure read like the Dickens, that that's what this challenge is about! :-)