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@Tara - you have His Face is the Sun listed as working for an O in the spell-out. Is it a character? If so, name?
We've got a new country. United States of America. So a nice long spell-out there!
Tara wrote: "Aiswrya wrote: "New task:Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the South American continent"
Bochica can work - set in Colombia. Quick read, will be able to finish..."
Did you start this one already? It looks like Bernadette has one that would also work.
If you have a Kindle (not a device/phone with the Kindle app) you can search for a word and it will search the text of all books on your Kindle. I have 30 books with the word Tango. I can read one of them if no one else has anything.Here a few:
Thick as a Brick - only 174 pages, but I read it in April
Found in Bliss - it's Tangoes, not Tango
Embattled Hearts - again Tangos, not Tango
Crush on You
Fate's Fools
The Forever Play
Good Guy
Hunter
Inside The Maelstrom: Part One
Lords Of Ruin
Pitch Black
Elizabeth Hunter has a couple of books set in Ethiopia. The Thirteenth Month was pretty good. Although it didn't get a lot of attention so I don't think she's continuing the series.
Catching Fire can cover that last E in Greece.
Jacqueline wrote: "Princess Diaries… we have a few!"Oh. Sorry. I think all of them. So if you haven't read any of them you should start at the beginning.
Priya wrote: "My current read has a character attend a musical show (STOMP) Is that enough?"My quick google search shows that STOMP is both a Broadway musical and a percussion group. So it depends on which your character goes to.
Jacqueline wrote: "I have some of them....tell me which ones so I can pul lit before I leave school today."None of them. :(
Books that work that I do not recommend because I didn't care for them:Gone Girl
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Books I absolutely recommend:
The Martian
I Capture the Castle
And of course there is always the classics, like Anne Frank, Bridget Jones, Go Ask Alice, Georgia Nicolson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
One on my TBR, but that I'm not ready to read right now is Piranesi
So I just checked the word count on the first 5 Wimpy kid books and the first 8 Dork Diaries and none of them are long enough for the challenge. So obviously we need a new Diary plan. :)The Princess Diaries does work.
Jacqueline wrote: "Sure .... no problem! What vilumes were on the list?"It wasn't a list. It's tags/shelves. So from the book's main page, under the list of genres, click 'more', then click 'show all'. That will get you a list of all the ways the book has been tagged. Any of them that are tagged at least 10 times (probably most of them) work.
Hold on a minute. Let me take a look. The first Wimpy Kid is not long enough for the challenge.
New Task!Read a book tagged "Journal" at least 10x
It turns out that there are about 14 books on Goodreads that fit this task, so the mods expanded it to include Diary tags. I already listened to The Princess Diarist for the Diary task, so this one will be up to someone else.
Jacqueline - feel like reading a Wimpy kid or Dork Diaries book still?
The Sea of Monsters is on the Summer list. Be right back!
For the 1970 task I was thinking of picking up either a Narnia book, a Little House book, or a Nancy Drew book.
New task!Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the European continent
Our open tasks:
1. Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the Antarctica continent - Silje reading
2. Read a book that is in the Have Passport Will Travel List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...)
3. Read a book where the first word in the text is "They" - Jacqueline reading
4. Read a book published before 1970
5. Read a book with a cityscape on the cover
6. Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the African continent
7. Read a book first published in November of any year
8. Read a book tagged "Time Travel" at least 10x - Ashley reading
9. Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the European continent
10. Read a book tagged "Journal" at least 10x
Laura wrote: "Three new tasks!Read a book that is in the "Best Unknown but must be Known books " Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...)
Read a book firs..."
Why in the world are there so many Night Huntress books on that list? I think people ignored the "Unknown" part of that list!
I've slotted Ashley's This is How You Lose the Time War into the Time Travel task.
ETA: We have a banked book on the list. Stay tuned for a new task.
Three new tasks!Read a book that is in the "Best Unknown but must be Known books " Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...)
Read a book first published in November of any year
Read a book tagged "Time Travel" at least 10x
Priya wrote: "I added a couple of books that fit mini tasks.. Book title containing 'STEAK' and a book that's set in my home state."You also have Hunting Evil on your Tower shelf. Can you add it to the spreadsheet, please? Even if it doesn't fit a task just yet, we can use the page count for points.
Thinking about the next cheese, whatever it may be and however much time we might have with it. For the difficult letters, we have 2 Us available already. We have an X now that I finished that awful book. We have several Zs available. But we are a little light on Is, Es, and Os. And we have no Qs. Please make sure you put spell-out letters it works for in the Other Tasks column (Q). Thanks!
