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Sammy wrote: "And now I'm hungry..."I did say they were delicious! :D
and I've not even got a pic of the ginger shaggie coo yet!
spiral horned sheeps! we love those too! all the horns, frankly!ETA and the beige ones are fab! we defo need some lighter animals, with our black Welsh cattle, brown Loaghtan sheeps and ginger shaggie coos
Chaos mod lurking too! And I can advise that District 10 has some delicious eye candy up already!
And our livestock are completely friendly to our friends - even mischief making chipmunk wranglers like you Sonia!
The shaggies will be in for sure!
Oh they are mighty fine! Gorgeous colour
oh, I should also add, please do pop into other teams to say hello (or do some smack talking!) In particular District One will be worth checking out....
Other livestock books I thought of:
- on my TBR, so not a recommendation per se!
- not so much about livestock for food, but horses are used in management of herds (even if this horse is not a working horse). I really enjoyed the voice of Velvet in this one, though much of it was hard reading (content, not writing style)
- Terry does kids book!
For livestock, I am going to suggest the awesome many-horned Loaghtan sheep, native to the Isle of Man. look at the magnificent head of horns there, not to mention the fleece!
Hello everyone, and welcome to District 10 of Book Games!
I'm Cat (she/her/hers) of London, UK and of course the Mod Squad, and very excited to be captaining this team. I know many names and faces, but a couple of new people so intro:
- long-time NBRC challenger
- big reader of all sorts, most especially SFF (I love me some Pratchett)
- very willing to pick up all sorts of dross in the name of completing a mini task
- very willing to share my pain at reading all sorts of dross in the name of completing a mini task!
- challenge shelf: hunger-games
And, in the spirit of District 10 being all about Livestock, how about suggestions for appropriate reading fodder?
I'm thinking James Herriot's memoirs (All Creatures Great and Small) or perhaps Animal Farm.
What are your recommendations on the Livestock theme?! And what livestock would you have in the district?
Melindam wrote: "Thank you. I'll probably go for the audio version. :)"I recommend the audio too! Joe Jameson is such a good voice actor, I love all his readings!
it's the blackness of it - if it were a wood one he'd whittled whilst whistling I'd be much happier!the piercing I decided to overlook. and I'm impressed the goat isn't bothered by the massive predator skin he's wearing.
still not a patch on the tyre-trews!
I have no idea why the pipe!
Melindam wrote: "Love Cat's AI sheep with the curly fleece and the golden horns, btw. 😊"When we were discussing teams I was "nah, not bothered, randomise me" Then Karen did the images and there was squealing and demanding of sheeps!
Sammy wrote: "You can do it guys! Maybe squeeze in one before Book Games starts, in case things go off track? 😉"I've one in progress at the moment, and will cast about for another before Book Games.
We can get that pesky line, E!
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Hi everyone! Welcome to Book Games, which promises to be all sorts of new fun :)Whilst it's inspired by Hunger Games, there is no need to be an expert, fan or even to have seen the films - any book over 100 pages is fair game (lighter text books, like kids / graphic novels / plays subject to word count or audio length checks, as ever)
Full rules can be found here, and any official updates will be posted there too.
As a team game, there are some team behaviour expectations, which can basically be summed up as:
- communicate with the captains
- be kind to each other
- read and have fun!
Communicate
Each team has been balanced by sign up book numbers, so if life serves up a curve-ball do let us know! Post here, PM the captains or even the mod account, just let us know if you need to step down from the challenge, read less or whatever.
Similarly, team games are the most fun when we chat - about books, the weather, pets, kids, whatever! And if you don't want to be chatty, we'd still like at least a "still here!" each week :)
Kindness
We all know how easy it is to misinterpret what people mean when you only have text comms to work with. Please assume the best, not worst, of a message - everyone's playing to have fun, so be generous if someone's message rubs you up the wrong way - it is almost certainly not intentional!
Read and Have Fun!
The most important bit - reading and enjoying!
Any book that meets the page / word count is fair game for the challenge, and if you are contributing 1 book or 15 books, they are all equally important!
During the challenge additional tasks might pop up - these are optional (though captains will try and press your books into any slot they can wrangle) - you can claim a task or not, but do bear in mind that captains will reshuffle as new books come in - and all books will be put to their best possible use.
BOMs
Some more optional reading and having fun in participating in the BOMs each month (starting with May's themed BOM).
Feel free to volunteer to write discussion questions (honestly not as scary as it sounds!) for bonus points, or just answer them (and read the book during the challenge) for points too.
District 10 Livestock
