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Someday my prince will come
Someday I'll find my love
And how thrilling that moment will be
When the prince of my dreams comes to me

He'll whisper I love you
And steal a kiss or two
Though he's far away I'll find my love someday
Someday when my dreams come true

Someday I'll find my love
Someone to call my own
And I know at the moment we meet
oh, my heart will start skipping a beat

Someday we'll say and do
Things we've been longing to
Though he's far away I'll find my love someday
Someday when my dreams come true

Someday my prince will come
Someday we'll meet again
And away to his castle we'll go
To be happy forever I know

Someday when spring is here
We'll find our love anew
And the birds will sing and wedding bells will ring
Someday when my dreams come true

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20.3 - Best Review - Katy's Task: On Trend

When I visit bookstores, I'm always fascinated to see trends come and go. For this task, pick a trend and read a book that fits the trend:
Required: State the option.

1. The "book blob" -- Have you noticed the countless covers that are just splashes of abstract color blobs? For this trend, read a book from this list Colorful Blob Book Covers
Required: State the page.

2. The Mad Lib Title - Read a book with a title that fits this pattern:
The ___ (Adjective/s) ___ (noun) of ___ (proper name). Subtitles are excluded.
Examples - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester,
The 22 Murders of Madison May

3. Names and Sentences - Read a book with a title that consists of a complete sentence that includes a proper noun. A complete sentence includes a subject and an action. A proper noun is a name used for an individual person, place, or organization. Imperative and interrogative sentences that include a proper noun work. Subtitles are excluded.
Examples: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,
Delilah Green Doesn't Care,
They Call Me Alexandra Gastone,
Get a Life, Chloe Brown,
Where'd You Go, Bernadette

4. Direct Address - Read a book that uses "you" or "your" in the title. The word must match exactly- no variations.
Examples: Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide,
Your Driver Is Waiting,
I Have Some Questions for You,
You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories,
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Nancy J's Task: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

When I taught college, my favorite course was Change Management. Change is accelerating. We’ve all experienced it. We can’t avoid it, so we might as well learn how to adapt, change ourselves, and try to influence positive change where we can. My reading tastes and habits have changed along with all the other changes in my life, and reading has been a real solace. Six years ago I never even heard of reading challenges, and now here I am attempting the most challenging one I've seen yet!

Read one book, from one of the options below.
Required: State the option you used.

Option 1. CHANGE
My course focused on organization change, but the concepts apply to personal change, groups, communities, social change, and activism. I love when I discover the concepts in different genres, e.g. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, How High We Go in the Dark, Parable of the Sower, and Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe.

A. Read a book about change from the first 25 pages of this list: Change
Required: State the page.
OR
B. Read a book with the word “Change” in the title or subtitle. Variations of the word are acceptable if they retain the meaning. Changes, Changing, and Changed are fine, exchange and changeling do not work.

Option 2. CULTURAL
For many years in my life, I only had the time to read for work and school. Fiction was for summer vacations and long plane rides. Since I retired, my reading habits and interests seem to be changing and expanding every year, thanks in good part to Goodreads groups. I especially liked reading books about other countries, cultures, and subcultures, e.g. Small Things Like These, Afterlives, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, and The Round House.

Read a cultural book from the first 25 pages of this list: Cultural
Required: State the page.

Option 3. BEAUTIFUL PROSE
I love a good plot, but while reading books like Their Eyes Were Watching God, I started paying more attention to the beautiful writing. It felt like a small part of my brain was waking up, and I wanted more. Station Eleven, Circe, and What the Wind Knows had the same effect.

A. Read a book with beautiful prose from the first 25 pages of this list: Beautiful Prose
Required: State the page.
OR
B. Read a book with MPG Literary Fiction, no variations.

30.8 - Kaora's Task: Chicken Katsu

This task is to celebrate my puppy, Katsu who joined our family in April of last year and has just turned one. Katsu is a Shiba Inu, a Japanese breed, that is used to hunt small game.

Choose two options and read a book for each.
Required: State the options.

Option 1. Shiba Inu means "Brushwood Dog", as it is used to flush game. Read a book that has all the letters SHIBA in the title and/or subtitle.

Option 2. Katsu is a color called red sesame, which means his hair is red with black at the tip. Read a book that has a cover that is at least 50% red or 50% black according to Tineye. https://labs.tineye.com/color/

Complete directions for using Tineye can be found here: How Do I Use Tineye?
ex.
79.9% black
70.4% black
86.6% red
96.3% red

Required: Cover required when posting

Option 3. Katsu was born 2/16/2022. Read a book with at least two of these digits in the page count. The numbers may only be used as often as they appear (only 2 can be used twice). Numbers: 0, 1, 2, 6

Option 4. Katsu is a type of Japanese dish of breaded chicken or pork covered in panko crumbs. Read a book by an author that has a name part that begins with a "K", such as Kelley Armstrong, Philip K. Dick, or Robin Wall Kimmerer

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