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I'll post as I go - aiming for at least 2 books per color (achieved for black, white, red, blue, orange, brown, grey)Start date: 8/3/2017
Books completed: 30
Black - 5
9/6/2017
9/26/2017
3/4/2018 
4/8/2018
11/10/2018White - 5
(This is the OverDrive audiobook I listened to, which has a white cover. The copy I own is black, though...) 8/20/2017
12/24/2017 
8/23/2018
8/21/2018
10/28/2018Red - 5
9/27/2017
10/21/2017
2/20/2018
4/15/2018
10/15/2018 Blue - 4
9/14/2017
1/14/2018
5/28/2018
8/22/2018 Orange - 3 read
11/6/2017
4/23/2018Orlando 11/17/2018
Grey/Silver: 3
6/20/2018
11/3/2018
11/11/2018Brown - 2
1/11/2017
10/16/2018Green - 1
Yellow - 1
2/21/2018Purple - 1 so far
8/23/2018other colors
Gold - 1 so far
8/13/2017Pink - 1 so far
8/27/2017
Duration: You Set the PaceOption 1: Best of....
►Read books from "Best of.." lists on Goodreads or Bestsellers.
Start date: 7/3/2017
lists planned
Best Books of the Ancient World
Best Medieval Literature
Best Books of the 19th Century
Best Books of the 20th Century
Best Weird Fiction Books
Best Feminist Science Fiction & Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Best Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Copy and add your name:Author/Setting:
Detour: Daire, Nikki, Beth
Spell-it-out:
My preference for the next stop is detour, or otherwise spell-it-out.
Option 5: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle►Pick a level and find the words below in the books you read. There is no limit to the number of words per book
Start date: 7/27/2017
75 words found
level: Go back to
A - 4 words
Age - The Republic of Plato 163 "the age of procreation"
Analyze The Republic of Plato 380 "Socrates brings Achilles to the foreground in order to analyze his character and ultimately to do away with him as the model for the young."
Annal 19 Beren and Lúthien “the annals of Beleriand”
Ape The Republic of Plato "And aren't flattery and illiberality blamed when a man subjects this same part, the spirited, to the mob-like beast; and, letting it be insulted for the sake of money and the beast's insatiability, habituates it from youth on to be an ape instead of a lion?"
B -3 words
bit The Republic of Plato 45 "'You seemed to,' I said, 'or else you have no care for us and aren't a bit concerned whether we shall live worse or better as a result of our ignorance of what you say you know.'"
bout The Republic of Plato 28 "drinking bouts and feasts"
breath The Republic of Plato 271 "But the higher they go on the slope of the regimes, the more their honor fails, as though it were unable to proceed for want of breath."
C - 6 words
Chant The Republic of Plato 89 "Rather, with neither shame nor endurance, he would chant many dirges and laments at the slightest sufferings."
Chapter The Republic of Plato 9 "The difference from age to age in the notions of the translator's responsibility is in itself a chapter of intellectual history."
Chorus The Republic of Plato 84 "When someone says such things about gods, we'll be harsh and not provide a chorus"
Continue The Republic of Plato 320 "Between them sat judges who, when they had passed judgment, told the just to continue their journey to the right and upward"
Clock Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 9 "But there was never any thing — only perhaps a mirror or an antique clock."
Cycle The Republic of Plato 322 "Souls that live a day, this is the beginning of another death bringing cycle for the mortal race."
D -5 words
Delineate Babel-17 83 “they talked so slowly, taking such impossible time to say what could be so quickly delineated…”
Din Beren and Lúthien202 “loud rose a din of laughter hoarse”
depict The Republic of Plato 460 "When the poets depict the gods"
draw The Republic of Plato 65 "I must draw a shadow painting of virtue all around me"
Duration Babel-17 14 “her reputation was only a phenomenon of three years’ duration”
E -5 words
Echo The Republic of Plato 195 "the rocks and the very place surrounding them echo and redouble the uproar of blame and praise."
Epoch The Republic of Plato 6 "One can search in other historical epochs and cultures, but the foundations of this perspective will not be found elsewhere."
Eternity 29 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell “the power to keep that person by our side for all eternity”
Examine The Republic of Plato 433 "Homer is the teacher of the Greeks, and his title to that role must be examined."
Extent The Republic of Plato 11 "It is only because he did not see the extent of the loss that he could be so cavalier with the original."
F - 4 words
fake Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 184 "fake spells"
feature Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 64 "his features were all extremely bad"
follow The Republic of Plato 11 “one might learn a great deal if one could follow such problems throughout Plato's works. “
future The Republic of Plato 235 “since it's not only now that these things must be heard, but they must all be returned to many times in the future”
G - 2 words
generation The Republic of Plato ”I suppose you'll say the sun not only provides what is seen with the power of being seen, but also with generation, growth, and nourishment although it itself isn't generation."
go back to The Republic of Plato 165 ”It must be high time for us to go back to our city,"
H - 2 words
hand over The Republic of Plato 160 ”you, their lawgiver, just as you selected the men, will hand over the women to them”
hour Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 23 "Mr Norrell had named a very early hour of the day"
I - 5 words
illustrate The Republic of Plato “Socrates illustrates this in the account of his beliefs and practices given by Xenophon” 431
imitate The Republic of Plato 96 “whether we'll let the poets make their narratives for us by imitation; or whether they are to imitate some things and not others,”
instance The Republic of Plato 288 "look at pleasures that don't come out of pains, so that you won't perhaps suppose in the present instance that it is naturally the case that pleasure is rest from pain and pain rest from pleasure."
interruption The Republic of Plato 423 “Once more, his interruption takes the form of an accusation”
investigate The Republic of Plato 68 “If you want, first we'll investigate what justice is like in the cities.”
L - 4 words
languish Beren and Lúthien 184 “who welcomes death and torment sooner than in guard/of kind intent to languish, barred”
life The Republic of Plato 5 “Socrates argues that it is imperative to think about how the development of the passions affects the whole of life”
likeness The Republic of Plato 68 “considering the likeness of the bigger in the idea of the littler?”
lull The Republic of Plato 4 “Between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s there was a lull in music's power over the soul”
M - 5
mirror The Republic of Plato 301 “if you are willing to take a mirror and carry it around everywhere”
mock The Republic of Plato 472 “This is another reference to the mock trial of Socrates.”
model The Republic of Plato 78 “both the greater and the smaller must be taken from the same model and have the same power”
moderate The Republic of Plato 92 "… we’ll not let our men believe that Achilles - the son of a goddess & Peleus, a most moderate man and third from Zeus, Achilles who was reared by the most wise Chiron— was so full of confusion as to contain within himself two diseases that are opposite to one another"
moment The Republic of Plato 4 “and at such moments”
month The Republic of Plato 163 “of all the children born in the tenth month”
N - 1
narrate The Republic of Plato 98 “the more common he is, the more he'll narrate everything”
O - 2
occasion The Republic of Plato 115 “they must do what on each occasion seems best for the city.”
overturnThe Republic of Plato 296 "those that would overturn his established habit he will flee"
P - 5
paint The Republic of Plato 306 "A painter, we say, will paint reins and a bit."
parody The Republic of Plato 394 “a distasteful parody of the reason on which the society prides itself;”
past The Republic of Plato 9 “There seems to be an opinion that the thought of the past is immediately accessible to us”
persist The Republic of Plato 461 “This encourages decent men to persist in their efforts to be virtuous;”
point The Republic of Plato 6 “the starting point”
portray The Republic of Plato 453 "Poetry, taken on its own ground, portraying those subjects on which it can best reveal its powers,"
practice The Republic of Plato 12 “all nonphilosophic practice of the virtues”
Q - 2
quarter The Republic of Plato 4 “a quarter-century ago”
quote The Republic of Plato “The central quote among the seven at the beginning of Book III refers to Teiresias”
R - 2
recapitulate The Republic of Plato 405 “In a scene that recapitulates the beginning of the dialogue"
reign Beren and Lúthien127 “there reigns king Felagund”
S - 9
Season The Republic of Plato 191 “for the true pilot it is necessary to pay careful attention to year, seasons,”
Second The Republic of Plato 38 “in the second place”
Show The Republic of Plato 38 “What if I could show you another answer about justice besides all these and better than they are?”
Spell The Republic of Plato 64 “he will injure just and unjust alike with certain evocations and spells.”
State The Republic of Plato 30 “one should not be willing to tell someone in this state the whole truth.”
Stage The Republic of Plato 77 “For at that stage it's most plastic”
Steal The Republic of Plato 33 “of course, a good guardian of an army is the very same man who can also steal the enemy's plans…”
Stretch The Republic of Plato 72 “they will stretch out on rushes”
Study The Republic of Plato 11 “This is a subtle question, one that requires long study”
T - 4
Tide - The Republic of Plato 416 "Socrates expects to be drowned in tides of ridicule for this paradoxical assertion."
Trace The Republic of Plato 37 “with just a trace of a tremor, I said”
Track The Republic of Plato 103 “track down the nature of what is fine and graceful”
Turn the tables The Republic of Plato 433 “the tables are turned”
U
V - 1
Version The Republic of Plato 12 “One who opened Jowett's version at random”
W - 3
Wane The Republic of Plato 247 "elements that make like and unlike, and that wax and wane"
While The Republic of Plato 213 “while the other is king of the visible.”
Withdraw The Republic of Plato 95 “But when he had withdrawn from the camp”
X
Y - 1
Year - The Republic of Plato 191 "necessary to pay careful attention to year"
Z
Reading Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse but it might take me a week or two to finish - I've been busy trying to finish The Republic for a group read during this stop. Sorry.
Translation TangoDURATION: You set the pace
I'l try for Interpreter Level (26).
Books read so far: 17
Option One:
Chose a level and read books that have been translated from their original language to the language you will be reading it in
1. The Republic (ancient Greek) 7/29/2017
2. Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse (Chinese) 8/4/2017
3. The Harvard Classics - Plutarch's Lives 9/6/2017
4. Frogs by Aristophanes 9/24/2017
5. The Birds 10/28/2017
6. Njal's Saga 2/1/2018
7. Invisible Cities 5/28/2018
8. One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback 6/11/2018
9. The Aeneid 6/20/2018
10. Utopia 7/6/2018
11. Tao Te Ching 7/14/2018
12. The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone 7/27/2018
13. Hecuba 7/28/2018
14. Andromache 7/28/2018
15. The Iliad 8/9/2018
16. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 8/21/2018
17. Tales of Moonlight and Rain 11/3/2018
planned:
Metamorphoses (own)
Songs of Kabir (own)
The Golden Ass
Meditations
We
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Conference of the Birds
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Solaris
3. Ningbo, ChinaDetour: Read a book that is in the "Best Humorous Books" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...) (Is this the wrong list? It takes me to a sci fi list)
Copy and add your name:
Author/Setting: Zuzana, Heather, Daire
Detour:
Spell-it-out: Nikki, Beth
I'm kind of torn on this one... either way I might need longer than a week for this stop - I will be traveling in the next few days (going to get a medical evaluation, out of town) and also trying to get caught up on books that might not fit for this challenge.
96% done, currently 462 pages. I'll try to join a sprint tomorrow too.
:05 for 25?
done! pgs 330-356 in 23 min 78% so far
Ok!
I will check in for the next 5-10 minutes, if anyone's on(:20 from start?)
Still there?What does T/l stand for?
Sure
Anyone around?
I'll try to join the next one, if anyone's available to sprint soon
start date: 6/9/2017Option 2: Quests & Legends Themed Books
►Read books with quests or legends as the theme.
13/25 read
1. Beren and Lúthien 8/25/2017 (quest story)
2. War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad 10/9/2017 (Greek myths)
3. The Lord of the Rings (reread) 11/2/2017 (quest story)
4. The Once and Future King (reread) 12/24/2017 (Arthurian legend)
5. The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats (Irish myths)
6. Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World (legends)
7. Njal's Saga 2/1/2018 (legends)
8. The Story of Kullervo 2/20/2018 (legends)
9. The World's Wife 5/28/2018 (legends)
10. The Aeneid 6/20/2018 (quest story + myths)
11. The Iliad 8/9/2018
12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo 12/19/2018
13. The Odyssey 3/4/2019
books planned:
Metamorphoses
Lavinia
Troilus and Cressida
Jason and the Golden Fleece
The Golden Ass
The Sagas of Icelanders
The Kalevala
The Faerie Queene
