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5.4 New Year, New Reads! A whole new year brings a whole host of new releases to look forward to. Time to make some room on the bookshelves!
Read a book where an author's first and last initials are found in HAPPY NEW YEAR. Letters may be used only as often as they appear.
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5.3 Cupid is Coming February 14th is Valentine's Day, so why not grab your beloved and hide from the cold together under your cosiest blanket?
Read a book with MPG Romance. Stand Alone or Embedded (Paranormal Romance)
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5.2- Circle of Dark It's winter in the northern hemisphere. Above the Arctic Circle countries may not see the sun at all during the day - although they might well make up for it with stunning views of the Northern Lights instead!
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the countries or US state that have territory within the Arctic Circle - Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Alaska.
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
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5.1- It's All Natural The best of the weather might be gone for the year, but that doesn't make our natural world any less impressive! From crisp Winter sunrises over mountains and lakes to dramatic pine forests reaching for the skyline, there's still plenty of beauty to appreciate even in the coldest of seasons.
Read a book with a cover depicting a natural landscape scene. The landscape cannot contain any human or man-made objects - only animals, plants, water, landforms, etc.
Examples:
Does not work:
(umbrella in the sky)
(person standing in field)Required: Post the cover
Robin P wrote: "I think I am missing 2 IAF points. Through post 1850, you have 6 but I have 8 I have the following:
Post 93 - Task 5.2
Post 508 - Task 25.5 - 2 nonfiction books
Post 673 - Task 15.7
Post 834 - Ta..."
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Jessica S Message 1900 The Silent Prince is ebook only in Goodreads. To claim this book, you can get it verified in the eBook Verification thread.
Apple Message 1887 25.4 Option 1 requires the list with the name used be added to the post.
Please repost with the list you chose added.
Tien Message 1758 The book Tainted was first published in 2016.
The task calls for a book first published in 2002 or 2020
CHANDNI Message 1752the Book Death Rites is ebook only in Goodreads. To claim this book, you can get it verified in the eBook Verification thread.
It's that time again! Let's brainstorm some fun ideas for the Winter Challenge.The bonus theme is It's A Wonderful World: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
As in past challenges some tasks may revolve around the seasonal theme of Winter. Others may reflect the bonus theme. Other tasks may have nothing to do with either of those themes, they’re just fun or unique ideas to stimulate your reading.
Feel free to post as many ideas as you can come up with. Don’t worry about repeating what someone else has might have already suggested. The more ideas, the better!
The moderators will draw from these ideas as well as their own to create the 5, 10 and 15 point tasks. This thread will be open for ideas until November 14. Fall tasks will begin to be posted on November 15. We look forward to seeing what you come up with!
50 Points50.1 - Jen B's Task: ‘Bored’ Games
Help Thread
When my boys were little, entertaining them during long waits was always a challenge. So, we would play “Bored Games” – quick things that we could do with whatever pens and paper were in my purse. Now they are typical phone-wielding American teenagers, but occasionally I can get them to take a little trip down memory lane with me to play one of our old favorites.
This task requires three books totaling at least 750 pages.
No books with the genres children or kids on the main book page may be used.
Books whose main page lists any of these genres: Sequential Art, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga may not be used.
Choose one of our Bored Games below and read 3 books to satisfy each option listed for that board game.
Required: State the option.
Option 1: Tic Tac Toe
Pretty much everyone knows this game in some form. The idea is to match three Xs or Os either horizontally, diagonally, or vertically in a grid of 9 squares.
For this option, read 3 books by 3 different authors who share the same name. The names must be in the same position (first, middle, or last) and must match exactly. So, if they are a nickname or variation, they must all be that nickname/variation. For example,
Jennifer Weiner and Jen Lancaster and Jenny Colgan would NOT work because they are all different variations.
However, Kate Quinn and Kate White, and Kate Spencer do work since they are the same variation.
Option 2: MASH
MASH was an 80s elementary school favorite that my thoroughly modern kiddos ended up finding hilarious. In this game, you “predict” your future life by listing multiple options in different categories, like marriage partners, cities to live, jobs, and whether your home will be a Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House (hence, MASH). Then, you pick your magic number from 1-10 and count your way through all the options in your categories using that number, crossing off each option that you land on. Eventually, you are left with one option in each category and, voila! That’s your future! You can even play it online!
https://mashapp.com/play-mash-online-...
Book 1 - Read a book with the word Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House in the title. Plurals and possessives are ok, but no other variations.
Book 2 - Read a book with a person’s name in the title
Book 3 - Read a book with a city name in the title
Required: If the city name is not obvious (i.e. it is a well known city), please provide a reference.
Option 3: Draw It!
For this one, I’d pull out my phone and someone would choose an object to Google a picture of. We’d land on a picture, and then we’d all have to draw whatever it was. This produced some good drawings, and some hilarious ones.
Book 1 - Read a book whose main character is an artist
Required: if not evident from the book's description, provide a reference
Book 2 - Read a book by an author whose first and last initials are in DRAW
Book 3 - Read a book with a writing utensil (pen, pencil, crayon, paintbrush, chalk, etc) on the cover. This list may help (but your book does not have to be from the list) https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Required: Post the Cover
This is the thread for the logo design contest. Each season, group members will have the opportunity to design a new logo that will represent the group during the duration of the following challenge. You may submit a masthead banner design to accompany your logo.Pictures and anything used to create the logo should be original material (i.e. no copyrighted images, including AI generated art).
Images must be between 1KB and 6MB and of type: jpg/jpeg/gif/png/tiff/tif
Logos are best in square or slightly rectangular (either vertical or horizontal) shapes. Some images may be cropped by GR.
A working size would be approximately 340px X 340px.
Mastheads are 3:1 or 970px wide by 245px high
On the group's homepage the logo overlaps the masthead at the lower left.
You can post a picture directly in this thread, provide a link to the image or send one of the moderators a message for help. The logo should reflect in some way the season, bonus theme or purpose of the group.
The Winter 2024 bonus theme is: It's A Wonderful World - Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
This thread is open for submissions and it will close at Midnight EST on November 15, 2024 - voting will start the next day and run until the end of the GR day on November 30. The winning submission will replace the current logo on December 1st. Good luck to everyone!
50.1 - Jen B's Task: ‘Bored’ GamesWhen my boys were little, entertaining them during long waits was always a challenge. So, we would play “Bored Games” – quick things that we could do with whatever pens and paper were in my purse. Now they are typical phone-wielding American teenagers, but occasionally I can get them to take a little trip down memory lane with me to play one of our old favorites.
This task requires three books totaling at least 750 pages.
No books with the genres children or kids on the main book page may be used.
Books whose main page lists any of these genres: Sequential Art, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga may not be used.
Choose one of our Bored Games below and read 3 books to satisfy each option listed for that board game.
Required: State the option.
Option 1: Tic Tac Toe
Pretty much everyone knows this game in some form. The idea is to match three Xs or Os either horizontally, diagonally, or vertically in a grid of 9 squares.
For this option, read 3 books by 3 different authors who share the same name. The names must be in the same position (first, middle, or last) and must match exactly. So, if they are a nickname or variation, they must all be that nickname/variation. For example,
Jennifer Weiner and Jen Lancaster and Jenny Colgan would NOT work because they are all different variations.
However, Kate Quinn and Kate White, and Kate Spencer do work since they are the same variation.
Option 2: MASH
MASH was an 80s elementary school favorite that my thoroughly modern kiddos ended up finding hilarious. In this game, you “predict” your future life by listing multiple options in different categories, like marriage partners, cities to live, jobs, and whether your home will be a Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House (hence, MASH). Then, you pick your magic number from 1-10 and count your way through all the options in your categories using that number, crossing off each option that you land on. Eventually, you are left with one option in each category and, voila! That’s your future! You can even play it online!
https://mashapp.com/play-mash-online-...
Book 1 - Read a book with the word Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House in the title. Plurals and possessives are ok, but no other variations.
Book 2 - Read a book with a person’s name in the title
Book 3 - Read a book with a city name in the title
Required: If the city name is not obvious (i.e. it is a well known city), please provide a reference.
Option 3: Draw It!
For this one, I’d pull out my phone and someone would choose an object to Google a picture of. We’d land on a picture, and then we’d all have to draw whatever it was. This produced some good drawings, and some hilarious ones.
Book 1 - Read a book whose main character is an artist
Required: if not evident from the book's description, provide a reference
Book 2 - Read a book by an author whose first and last initials are in DRAW
Book 3 - Read a book with a writing utensil (pen, pencil, crayon, paintbrush, chalk, etc) on the cover. This list may help (but your book does not have to be from the list) https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Required: Post the Cover
