Reading with Style discussion

Post your completed tasks here. In order to help us better manage our score keeping:
PLEASE ONLY POST ONE BOOK PER MESSAGE.

Please use the add book/author link for the book titles. When claiming combo points, tell how the book qualifies, and, if requested in the task description provide a link.

Reading w/Style (RwS) Sample Completed Tasks Post:


10.3 - Borrowing from the Mods

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

+10 task (Liz M read 2002)
+5 combo (10.4 - Scrabble: stories)
+10 not-a-novel
+5 prize worthy (National Book Award for Fiction)
+10 canon
+5 jumbo (622 pages)

Task total: 45
Grand Total: 435

(This assumes the post is mid-challenge, and that you had previously posted 390 points)

Reading Globally sample post:

15.6 - Europe

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

+15 task
+5 pre-1990
+5 500+ pages
+5 non-fiction

Task total: 30
Grand Total: 465

20.6 Crime
Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity by Jason Lucky Morrow

+20 pts - task
+ 5 pts - combo (10.4 - vintage)
+10 pts - not a novel

Task total -35 pts
Grand Total - 35 pts

20.6 - Paris

Paris Letters by Janice Macleod

+20 task (21 out of 33 chapters are set in Paris)
+5 combo (10.4 - "letters")
+10 NaN (non-fiction)

Task total: 35 points
Grand total: 35 points

20.1 - 1886

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

+20 task
+5 combo (10.4 - strange)

task total: 25
grand total: 25

20.5 - #24

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

+20 task
+20 combo (10.4 - heights, 20.7 - Penguin, 20.10 - Emily Bronte, 20.4)
+10 canon

task total: 50
grand total: 75

15.1 - North America - Author born and lives in Canada, book set in Canada

Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood

+15 task
+5 bonus (1983)

task total: 20
grand total: 95

20.9 Nameless

Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya

+20 task

task total = 20
grand total = 20

Task 10.6 - Women's Ed:
Read a book written by a woman who has earned a doctorate (not an honorary degree). Please provide a link when claiming points for this task.

Here is Valerie Paradiz’s website where she says that she has a Ph.D.

http://www.autismselfadvocacy.com/

Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales (2004) by Valerie Paradiz (Paperback, 222 pages)
+10 Task
+10 Not-a-Novel: Non-fiction

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20

Grand Total: 00 + 20 = 20

10.9 – Tried & True

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

+ 10 task

Grand total: 10

20.6 Crime

The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

+20 task
+15 prize-worthy, has 4 prizes listed on goodreads
____
35

Running total: 35

20.2 Series

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

+20 task (Old Man's War series)
+5 combo (10.9 Average rating 4.00, 251 034 ratings)


Task total: 25
Grand Total: 25

15.1 Reading Globally
Middle East - Israel

Rhyming Life And Death by Amos Oz

+ 15 task

task total : 15
grand total : 35

15.1 North America - United States

Virgin River by Robyn Carr

+15 task (author American, set in US)

Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15

20.8 - Spring Break!

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost

+20 task
+5 combo (10.4)
+10 not a novel

total= 35

10.6 Women's Ed
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore

+10 task (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_L...)
+10 not a novel--biography
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20

10.9 Tried and true

Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie who has an average rating of 3.93 from 1,545,390 ratings!

+10 task
+10 not a novel (short stories)
______
20

Running total: 55

10.4 Scrabble

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Pursuit is a 7-letter word.

+10 task
+10 not-a-novel

task total: 20
grand total: 20

10.4 - Scrabble!

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia by David Stuart MacLean

+10 Task (Amnesia = 7 letters)
+10 Not-a-Novel (nonfiction)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 20

(edited 3/14 to correct style point value)

20.2 - The Tudor Court series - approved

The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

+20 task
+5 combo (10.6 - PhD in 18th C. Literature)

task total: 25
grand total: 120

http://www.philippagregory.com/biography - info on PhD

15.2 - EU - England

Fortress Britain by Glynn James

+15 task

task total: 15
grand total: 135

10.4 - History

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

+10 task

task total: 10
grand total: 145

10.7 Weird (love this category!)

Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

+10 task (shelved 7x as weird)
____
10

Running total 65

10.7 Weird
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ( Lexile 820) ( which Neil Gaiman book ISN'T on this list ?!)

shelves 13 times

+10 task
+ 10 combo ( 10.3, - Sam read this in Aug 2010; 10.9 - 4.09, 222,872)
+15 prizeworthy ( Hugo, 2009; Newberry, 2009; Locus 2009. All prizes mentioned on GR page.)

task total : 35
grand total : 70

10.2 – Women's Lit

Transformations by Anne Sexton

+10 Task
+10 Not a Novel

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 20

20.1 - Zola

The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

+20 Task: 1870
+ 5 Combo: 20.2 - Series

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 45

15.1 Reading Globally
North America-US
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
+ 15 Task
+ 5 nonfiction
Task total 20
Grand total : 40

Task 10.4 – Scrabble!

Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II (2014) by Vicki Croke (Hardcover, 368 pages)

+10 Task (word: COMPANY)
+10 Not-a-Novel: non-fiction

Task Total: 10 + 10 = 20

Grand Total: 20 + 20 = 40

10.1 Rants and Raves
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

10 pt. task
+20 combo (10.3 - Sam, 10.4, 10.9, 10.8 http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 30

10.4 Scrabble
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

10 pt. task
+10 combo (10.1, 10.8 - http://booksonthenightstand.com/2014/...)

Task total: 20
Grand total: 50

RG
15.1 North America
Matched by Ally Condie

Author is born in US and nationality is American.

Task +15
Book Total: 15
Grand Total: 15

Task 10.1 Rants and Raves

(Winter 14/15) Post #0284


Magic of the Angels (Doctor Who: Quick Reads #6) (2012) by Jacqueline Rayner

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 40 + 10 = 50

15.1 – Central America

The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Miguel León-Portilla

+15 task (approved here)
+5 pre-1990
+5 non-fiction

Task total: 25
Grand Total: 50

20.2 Series

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

+20 task (Mars trilogy)
+ 10 prize worthy (Hugo award, Locus award)
+10 jumbo (784 pages)

Task total: 40
Grand Total: 90

20.6 Crime

The City & the City by China Miéville

+20 task
+15 combo (10.5 - 2010, 10.7, 10.8)
+15 prize-worthy (Hugo, Locus, Arthur C. Clarke)

Task total. 50

Grand total 50

podcast link:
http://writerandcritic.podbean.com/e/...

20.9 Nameless

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

+20 task
+25 combo (10.3 Kate, 10.5 - 2015, 10.7, 10.8, 20.2)

Task total 45

Grand total 95

http://bookrageous.podbean.com/e/book...

10.1 Rants and Raves

Soulless by Gail Carriger

+10 [reviewed by Jayme(the ghost reader) in Winter 14/15, post #358]

Task Total = 10

Grand Total = 10

15.2 Reading Globally
Caribbean - Antigua (and Barbuda)

See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid

+15 task

task total : 15
grand total : 85

Addition to post #28,

I've found The Graveyard Book listed on the Books on the Nightstand book list ( http://booksonthenightstand.com/booki... , pg.2 if it doesn't come up ), so need to add 5 combo points for 10.8

Adjustments:
Task total: 40
Grand total : 90

15.1 North American

Fiend by Peter Stenson

American Author, takes place in the US

+15 task

Task Total: 15

Grand Total: 15 points

20.1 Zola
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
First published in 1886.

Task + 20
Style + 10 (Combo 10.7 on page 5 of the Weird list, 10.4 Scrabble-Strange)
Book Total: 30
Grand Total: 45

10.8 Podcast Reading

The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan

+10 task (episode 19)
+ 5 prize worthy (Ditmar award 2013)

Task total: 15
Grand Total: 105

20.9 Nameless
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.3 Kate read Jan 2014, 10.5, 10.7, 10.9)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 80

Reading Globally
Task 15.1 Asia - Eastern (China)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Setting China, author born in China

+15 Task
Task Total = 15
Grand Total = 15

20.6 - listed as crime 586 times

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

+20 task

task total: 20
grand total: 165

itpdx wrote: "20.9 Nameless
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.3 Kate read Jan 2014, 10.5, 10.7, 10.9)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 80"

Doesn't this earn style points for prize worthy? It won the Locus Award in 2014, Specsavers national Book Award of the year in 2013, This is on the GR page

20.1 Zola

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

+20 Task (pub. 1894)
+10 Not a novel (play)

Task total: 30
Grand total: 30

Rebekah wrote: "itpdx wrote: "20.9 Nameless
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.3 Kate read Jan 2014, 10.5, 10.7, 10.9)
Task Total: 40
Grand Tot..."

The Locus award is a "people's choice" award so doesn't count. And I couldn't quite figure out the Specsavers award, it seems to be some combo that includes most read. So I will leave that up to the mods.

10.4 Scrabble

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.3,10.8 http://bookrageous.podbean.com/e/book...)

Task Total=20
Grand Total=20

itpdx wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "itpdx wrote: "20.9 Nameless
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

+20 Task
+20 Combo (10.3 Kate read Jan 2014, 10.5, 10.7, 10.9)
Task Tot..."

I think Locus was included on the Wiki list posted in the help thread, which is why I included it in my pts total ( that said, the comment did say *most* of the prizes should work, but perhaps not all ).