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Karen GHHS wrote: "Task 20.5 will always get +5 combo points for either 20.6 or 20.7.Thanks for these combo points! I didn't even think about that...."
Neither did I. I had to go back & add 5 points to my score as well. >grin<
Task 10.9 Pi DayThe Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit by Taras Grescoe
+10 Task
+5 Combo (20.2 fruit-pursuit)
Post total: 15
Grand total: 220
Task 15.3 Fantasy Gloriana, Or The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock15 task points
+5 bonus (pub'd 1978)
Task 20.10 Potent Potables Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
20 task points
total this post = 40
grand total = 145
I forgot to add +5 Combo points for Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare for 20.4 A Poet's Non-Poetry. Could I add them now, please?+5 Missed Points
RwS Task
20.3 � Iambic Pentameter
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.9 Krista’s Choice (Botswana)
+ 5 Series: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #4
Task Total: 30
Points this Post: 35
Grand Total: 580
In Msg 399 -- Ellen wrote: "10.1 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: 20.3 � Shortest Day/Month of the Year: Candide by Voltaire+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (1759)
Task Total: 35
10.3 - Cyberpunk!: [book:The Big Sleep|20..."
Hi Ellen:
For the Spring Cleaning tasks (15.x Series) there is a different set of Style Points than those that can be used for the Reading with Style (RWS) tasks.
Spring Cleaning Style Points
+5 Oldies if book is published before 1980
+5 Jumbo if book is more than 500 pages.
The maximum points possible for any 15 point task is 25 points. I don't believe that Liz has posted your points yet, so it might be easiest for her if you just correct your original post (Msg #399).
Karen GHHS wrote: "I forgot to add +5 Combo points for Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare for 20.4 A Poet's Non-Poetry. Could I add them now, please?+5 Missed Points..."
Absolutely! I will add to your score the next time around.
Task 10.4 who, what, when , why or how? The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator by Tarquin Hall+10 pts - Task
+10 pts - Series (Vish Puri #2, Other book in series used for task 20.10)
20 pts - Task Total
670 pts - Grand total
Liz M wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "task 20.10 Potent PotablesThe Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall"
Unfortunately this book cannot be used for 20.10 as it works for 10.7 - S..."
Whoops! I didn't even notice that! I was thinking there were no vowels, overlooking poor little "of". Can I use it for Scrabble then? I haven't done that task yet.
Task 10 .7 - Scrabble
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin HallT, C, O, T, M, S, T, H
Moths, scot,cots,moth,cot,tots,shot,hot,most,host,cost etc..
+10 pts -Task
+5 pts - Series (Vish Puri #1)
15 pts - Task total
650 pts - Grand Total
Krista wrote: "In Msg 399 -- Ellen wrote: "10.1 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: 20.3 � Shortest Day/Month of the Year: Candide by Voltaire+10 Task
+10 Canon
+15 Oldies (1759)
Task Total: 35
10.3 -..."
Thank you for pointing that out. I'll keep that in mind next time. Post corrected.
15.3 FantasyThe Swan Maiden by Jules Watson
+15 Task
+5 Jumbo (540 pages)
Task total = 20
Grand total = 35
20.4 I read "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. Her name was mentioned on the approved list.Task Points: 20
Style: 15 (Oldies, 1963, Combo 20.8 Post 20th Century Poet, 10.2 Women's History)
Grand Total: 330
RwS Task 10.10 Group ReadA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
+10 Task
+15 Jumbo (807 p)
+5 Series (#1 Fire and Ice)
Task Total: 30
Spring Cleaning Task 15.8
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Post Total: 45
Grand Total: 815
(while Reading the Man has over 650 pages, almost 200 pages are notes, index, and bibliography, which I can't even pretend to have read all the way through, so not claiming the jumbo bonus on this book)
Spring Cleaning15.1 Mystery - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Points This Task: 15
Tasks Completed: 6
Total Points: 90 (revised due to previous error)
Books Read: 6
READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OHI completed...
20.1 Alliteration
Silent in the Sanctuary
+20 Task
+5 Series (Lady Julia Grey #2)
+5 Jumbo (over 500 pgs.)
Task Total=30
TOTAL POINTS=190
RwS Task10.1 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
I redid '10.2 � A Special Gift from Reading with Style' A- Read a book that you received as a holiday gift.
Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
+10 Task
+15 Series (Book 10 & my 3rd book this challenge)
+5 Combo (20.1- Same Consonant)
Task Total = 30
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
Spring Cleaning
15.3 Fantasy
I read Enchanters' End Game by David Eddings
+15 Task
Total Task = 15
New Grand Total = 150
Arow, I loved the Carrot Cake Murder and that whole series. :)
Liz M wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Task 20.6 - Poetry before 1900 A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
+20 pts - Task
+10 pts - Oldies (pub 1885)..."
I am going to disallow style points for this b..."
I understand where you are coming from Liz, but I'd like to point out that The Happy Prince and Other Tales(The happy prince and other Stories wasn't listed) which was written in the same time period is also recommended for 4 - 8 yr olds with a Lexile Score of 900. A Light in the Attic has no Lexile score but recommends up to age 17, yet having read both books to my children, the vocabulary required more thought and explanation of the descriptive language of Victorian times compared to the relatively "easy" to understand poems with the very late 20th century verse of Silverstein.
Here are two fairly comparable poems about a child's imagination;(Both of the other books mentioned have been used for Spring's Challenge tasks)
Picture puzzle Piece
from A Light in the Attic
by Shel Silverstein
One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.
Little Land
from A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert L Stevenson
When at home alone I sit
And am very tired of it,
I have just to shut my eyes
To go sailing through the skies--
To go sailing far away
To the pleasant Land of Play;
To the fairy land afar
Where the Little People are;
Where the clover-tops are trees,
And the rain-pools are the seas,
And the leaves, like little ships,
Sail about on tiny trips;
And above the Daisy tree
Through the grasses,
High o'erhead the Bumble Bee
Hums and passes.
In that forest to and fro
I can wander, I can go;
See the spider and the fly,
And the ants go marching by,
Carrying parcels with their feet
Down the green and grassy street.
I can in the sorrel sit
Where the ladybird alit.
I can climb the jointed grass
And on high
See the greater swallows pass
In the sky,
And the round sun rolling by
Heeding no such things as I.
Through that forest I can pass
Till, as in a looking-glass,
Humming fly and daisy tree
And my tiny self I see,
Painted very clear and neat
On the rain-pool at my feet.
Should a leaflet come to land
Drifting near to where I stand,
Straight I'll board that tiny boat
Round the rain-pool sea to float.
Little thoughtful creatures sit
On the grassy coasts of it;
Little things with lovely eyes
See me sailing with surprise.
Some are clad in armour green--
(These have sure to battle been!)--
Some are pied with ev'ry hue,
Black and crimson, gold and blue;
Some have wings and swift are gone;--
But they all look kindly on.
When my eyes I once again
Open, and see all things plain:
High bare walls, great bare floor;
Great big knobs on drawer and door;
Great big people perched on chairs,
Stitching tucks and mending tears,
Each a hill that I could climb,
And talking nonsense all the time--
O dear me,
That I could be
A sailor on a the rain-pool sea,
A climber in the clover tree,
And just come back a sleepy-head,
Late at night to go to bed.
10.8 Popular PenguinsSeven Little Australians
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Oldies (1894)
+ 5 Series
Task Total = 25 points
Grand Total = 270 points
Liz M wrote: "Kazza wrote: "20.10 Sam's Choice: Potent Potables Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke..."
Unfortunately, this book fits 10.7 Scrabble (J, S, A, M, N, S, C can spell 'mass') and can'..."
Ooh, I didn't catch that! Sorry! Yes, please I'll use it for 10.1 so...
10.1 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (20.2 Epic Fantasies)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - Scrabble: JAM, SCAM, SCAN, etc)
+25 Jumbo (1,024 pages)
10.10 Group Reads
Room by Emma Donoghue
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - Scrablle: RED)
15.1 Spring Cleaning - Mystery / Thriller
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
+15 Task
15.9 Spring Cleaning - Memoir
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
+15 Task
20.1 - Alliteration
Shrouded in Silence by Robert L Wise
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - Scrabble: SWIRL)
This Post: 115 points
Total to date: 220 points
Spring Cleaning 15.2 : SciFiFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
15 + 5 (published in 1954) = 20 task points
Total points = 130
Task 20.10: Potent PotablesI read Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook, which I received as a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ giveaway.
It was very good and I recommend it! Such a sweet picture of what it's like for the ones who die and the ones left behind.
+20: task
RwS total: 175
Camille wrote: "Task 20.10: Potent PotablesI read Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook, which I received as a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ giveaway.
It was very good and I recommend it! Such a ..."
Hi Camille:
I don't think this works for Sam's 20.10 task. For task 20.10 the book can't work for any other 10 or 20 point task. This book works for Karen's task 10.7; the "Scrabble" task.
Hi! The Readerboard has me at 290, and my total was 295. I'm assuming that one of the combos in post 0367 for Favorite Poems Of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson were rejected and that is why my total is 290.Anyways, I've finished another book and it's time to claim another task :0)
Task 10.1 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
I redid Winter Challenge Task 20.2 � "While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads"
Forget fantasies of dancing candied fruit...read about swords and horses instead! Choose one of the top 50 books from Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ' list of best epic fantasies.
and I read
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) (2007) by Patrick Rothfuss (Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author) (Hardcover, 662 pages)
+ 10 task
+ 5 Style: Series (5 points)
+ 5 Style: Jumbo > 500 Pages: 5 Points
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 290 + 20 = 310
Coralie wrote: "10.8 Popular PenguinsSeven Little Australians
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Oldies (1894)
+ 5 Series
Task Total = 25 points
Grand Total = 270 points "
Did you like this? I got a free download on Kindle for it
Task 15.7 DramaI read four plays by Euripides. I read them on my kindle, so I can't count the pages exactly, but looking at the equivalent print editions makes it pretty certain that it's more than 100 pages.
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus
AND
HERACLES
+15 Task
+5 published long before 1980
Task total: 20
Grand total: 255
Rebekah wrote: "Coralie wrote: "10.8 Popular PenguinsSeven Little Australians
Did you like th..."
Hi Rebekah,
Being Australian, I practically grew up on this book. Even so, I still cried at the end. It is interesting to see the way values have changed but people have pretty much stayed the same over the last hundred plus years.
Coralie wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Coralie wrote: "10.8 Popular PenguinsSeven Little Australians
Did you like th..."
Hi Rebekah,
Being Australian, I practically grew up on this book. Even so, I sti..."
I've only been to Australia three times but loved it there. Port Douglas has got to be what heaven is all about. I have a lot of Aussie friends that I met while living in India that I keep in touch with and threaten to come live with from time to time! I read True History of the Kelly Gang for the last challenge because I learned all about him one time when we visited. I'll read that book then. I have also tried to find a copy of Picnic at Hanging Rock to read as well
Task 20.3 Iambic PentmenterMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
+20 pts - Task
+ 5 pts - Combo (10.8 Popular Penguins)
+ 5 pts - series ( first of a trilogy)
+ 5 pts - Oldies (Pub in 1956)
35 pts - Task total
685 ? pts - Grand Total
Reading w/Style (RwS) 10.9 - Colleen's 1st Place Task, Pi Day (March 14): The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.6 - Lab Lit, 20.3 - Iambic Pentameter)
+ 5 Series (Book 1 in Flavia de Luce mysteries)
Task Total = 25
Spring Cleaning Sub-Challenge
15.9 - Memoir: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 150
20.8 Quotable Quotes:The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Ecclesiastes 7:4: Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.4, 10.2)
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (published 1905)
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 155
Task 10.1 Reduce, Reuse, RecycleThe Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
(Winter challenge task 10.7 - Booker prize)
10 task points
new grand total = 155
Krista wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 20.10: Potent PotablesI read Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook, which I received as a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ giveaway.
It was very good and I recom..."
Ok, sorry! I thought since I had already done The Scrabble task that it would count.
Camille wrote: "Krista wrote: "Camille wrote: "Task 20.10: Potent PotablesI read Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook, which I received as a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ giveaway.
It was very good and I recom..."
Ok, sorry! I thought since I had already done The Scrabble task that it would count. ..."
No worries. It's sometimes tricky to understand all the rules for the tasks, especially for a new player. You're doing great!
20.2 � RhymesMatched by Ally Condie
Rhyme: Ally & Condie
+20 Task
+ 0 Style 680 Lexile
Task Total: 20
20.4 � A Poet’s Non-Poetry
War Dances by Sherman Alexie, a book of short stories
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
20.8 � Quotable Quotes
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack’d from side to side:
“The curse is come upon me,� cried
The Lady of Shalott
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.2 Rhymes - side and side
+ 5 Oldies: 25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1962)
+ 5 Series: Miss Marple
Task Total: 35
Points this Post: 35+20+20=75
Grand Total: 655
Coralie, Deedee, Karen & others,I consulted with Sam about the rhyming task regarding Absalom, Absalom!, The City & the City, The Poems of XX by XX, and The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side. Unfortunately, he has decided not to accept repeated words as rhymes.
Task 10.2 - Women's History Month I read:
Summer (1917) by Edith Wharton
+ 10 Task
+ 10 Style: Oldies (5 to 15 points): -76 to 150 years old (1860-1934)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 310 + 20 = 330
Reading with StyleTask 10.6--Scientist
I read The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver for 10 points.
+ 10 task points
+ 5 series points (Lincoln Rhyme series)
= 15 task points
Total RWS points = 210
Liz M wrote: "Coralie, Deedee, Karen & others,I consulted with Sam about the rhyming task regarding Absalom, Absalom!, The City & the City, The Poems of XX by XX, and The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side. Unf..."
Oh, darn! Do you have record of all of mine? I think I've claimed repeated words as combos for rhymes at least 3 times now. I don't use a spreadsheet, but I can try to figure it out on my blog page if you need me to do that.
Karen GHHS wrote: "Oh, darn! Do you have record of all of mine? I think I've claimed repeated words as combos for rhymes at least 3 times now. I don't use a spreadsheet, but I can try to figure it out on my blog page if you need me to do that...."No worries, I haven't awarded the combo points yet, as I was waiting for a response. I'll post a recap this weekend.
Ellen wrote: "10.7 - Karen's 3rd Place Task: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway+10 Task
+5 Oldies (1952)
Tiles: e-d-m-a-
Word: dame
Task Total: 15..."
If you read the edition you linked, the tiles for it are T,O,M,A,T,S,E,H (no 'D') and with them you can spell shame. :D
Task 20.8 Quotable QuotesMother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
+20pts - Task ("You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes".- George bernard Shaw, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk" Deuteronomy 14:21 KJV)
+10pts - Combo (10.10 group Reads, 20.1 Alliteration)
+ 5pts - Series (part of a trilogy)
35 pts - Task Total
720 pts - Grand Total?
Liz M wrote: "Ellen wrote: "10.7 - Karen's 3rd Place Task: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway+10 Task
+5 Oldies (1952)
Tiles: e-d-m-a-
Word: dame
Task Total: 15..."
If you read the edition you linked,..."
Ah, so that's what you mean by the tiles. Thanks for correcting that for me. C: I edited my previous post. I apologize for all my mistakes. : P
Task 20.1 AlliterationParker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie
+20 Task
+5 Series (Parker Pyne)
+10 Oldies (1932)
Task Total: 35
10.7 Scrabble
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Letters: a g d e g
Word: egg
+10 Task
+5 Series (Inspector Lynley)
Task Total: 15
Post Total: 50
Grand Total: 50
(edit: please see post 470 for correct totals)
Denae, we don't get to claim combo points for the 15-pointers, either way. 15-pointers don't get combo points, and the 10- and 20-pointers don't get combo points for the 15s. (Shucks, I often wish we did.)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Denae, we don't get to claim combo points for the 15-pointers, either way. 15-pointers don't get combo points, and the 10- and 20-pointers don't get combo points for the 15s. (Shucks, I often wish ..."OK, I'll edit it. So, 10 & 20 pointers get combo points for each other and 15s get nothing, right?
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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
10 task points
+10 published 1913 = 20
Total points = 85"
+5 series points"
Ah, missed that, thank you!