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SRC Moderator’s comments from the The Seasonal Reading Challenge group.

20.1 Most Improved Player: XBM's Task: Enjoy a Summer Road Trip

One of our goals in retirement is to finish up visiting all 50 states (we’re currently at 37). Road trips are one fun way to do that. Even if you can’t physically make the trip, Goodreads came up with a list of 50 books representing each state, so you can read your way around the states. Using their recommendations, I created a list. Your task is to read a book from this Roadtrip Across America list, and identify the state it’s about.

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Ssummer 2024 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge

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15.10 Summer Months

June, July, and August are the 6th, 7th, and 8th months of the year. Read a book that has exactly 6, 7, or 8 words in the title (not subtitle). All words (including a, an, the etc.) count.

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15.9 Summer Blockbusters

Summer is a busy time for cinemas, as movie-makers scramble to draw in the audiences and claim the season's biggest hit. Of course, as we all love to claim, the book is always better than the film... or is it?

Read a book which appears on one of the following lists:

The Book Was Better Than The Movie
The Movie Was Better Than The Book

Required: State which list and which page of the list your book is found on.

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15.8 Summer Sweets

Strawberries and cream is a dessert that crops up almost every summer (and invariably makes an appearance at the Wimbledon tennis tournament) - it's a simple but effective combination.

Read a book with two authors either writing under both names (e.g. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman), or using a single name (e.g. Nicci French, the combined pen name of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French).

Required: For two authors writing under a single name, provide a reference if this is not clear on the GR author bio page.

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You might find this list helpful, but you are by no means restricted to books on the list: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

15.7 Jailbreak

Jailbreak is a team game which is a combination of hide and seek and tag. One team hides, while the other team seeks. The seeking team must tag the player they find and bring them to jail. The remaining hidden players will attempt to free their teammates by breaking the jail open (usually just tagging a spot and bellowing "jailbreak!") without being tagged themselves.

Read a book where the main character is jailed or arrested, or is an ex-prisoner.

Required: If the connection is not apparent from the GR description, provide a reference.

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15.6 Don't Move

Red Light, Green Light (known elsewhere in the world as Statues, Fairy Footsteps, or Hot Chocolate among a whole host of other names) is a popular game where players must cross a field without being spotted by the player at the finish line - if you're caught moving when the spotter turns around, you're out. A sinister variant of this game appeared in the 2021 dystopian series Squid Game, in which contestants who were unlucky enough to be caught moving faced a rather more literal form of elimination!

Read a book with the MPG Dystopia or Dystopian.

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15.5 Do You Have A Flag?

Capture The Flag is a team game that often makes an appearance at summer camps. Teams vie to cross the playing field to steal their opponents' flag (or glowstick, for a night-time variant) and make it back safely to their home base - all without being tagged by the opposing defenders.

Read a book whose author's initials are found in CAPTURE THE FLAG. Middle initials can be ignored, and letters can only be used as often as they appear.