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Should be fixed now. I added the wrong edition to my shelf. Oops.
I'm done!
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Pages: 396
Date: 206/06/26
Task: None yet, but works for Fantasy (716), YA (529), Historical Fiction (159)
Location: Shearing (fictional I think)
Rating: 3.5 stars
Ooh, I like the map thing. Could I be purple please?I've got:
Soulless - London, UK - 5 stars
Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time -Jigalong, Australia (They travel throughout the outback, but this is where the book starts and ends) - 3 stars
Ink Exchange - Huntsdale, Pennsylvania (this town is fictional, so I guess just pick somewhere in Pennsylvania) - 2 stars
Oh, my boyfriend and I are big fans of Max Brooks, My boyfriend doesn't read much (*gasp*), but he does like Max Brooks.We actually had a chance to meet him when he was a guest at our local comic con. We weren't attending the day of his talk, but he had a booth in the trade fair. He signed all my boyfriend's books.
I'm not sure if you have read the book/seen the movie for World War Z, but the movie is super different from the book and we were pretty disappointed. So my boyfriend asked him while he was signing, what did he think of the movie version of World War Z? His response: "It had a good title."
I really liked that response. :)
Oh Joyce, I'm a little jealous! I really want to visit NY.
Sumit, I'm glad you enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time. 10-year-old me would have been offended if you didn't.
Rachel, I was also giggling as I browsed Google Images!By the way, I started A Curse Dark as Gold last night. It works as a bonus for YA or fantasy.
I'll try this one. Option 5 (I love scavenger hunts!)Start date: 2016/06/24
Words found: 63/90
Books used: 11
A
astrophysics
I'm in charge of the astronomy and astrology portions.
...(or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom").
B
...the old woman lifted the beaker from the fire...
biochemistry
Biology friends?
...one must know botany, be able to distinguish between plants...
the almost-invisible blue flame of a Bunsen burner with the gas adjusted perfectly...
burette
C
It rearranged you, cell by cell, and that made the cells sick.
If researchers wanted to figure out how cells behaved in a certain environment, or reacted to a specific chemical...
But that's chemistry for you.
...to test different delivery methods, and make sure the cells could survive long trips in any climate...
climatologist
...using a series of subtle hand motions to control its movements and actions.
cuvette
D
...I picked up some data sheets from the hotel's front desk...
datum
E
Magic sometimes had an odd effect on electricity...
electrochemist
The suit protected Holly from the worst of the elements...
You have bad psychic energy.
entomology
"...and having a separate evolution is really what a species is all about."
I experiment, and I hack...
F
He was referring to the fact...
"Several flasks appeared in an instant."
...we got that energy from burning fossil fuels...
...Artemis Fowl's mocking tones carrying down the metal funnel.
G
The brightness of his eyes wasn't some genetic fluke...
geology
geophysics
There were gallon-sized tin coffee cans full of utensils and glassware...
graduated cylinder
...her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity...
H
herpetology
And, without listening to the chemist, who was still venturing the hypothesis...
I
ichthyology
Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University...
L
...last night's violence apparently broke out in a meth lab...
Ben was a computer geek working at the Pacific Northwest Nation Laboratory...
In Missouri there are laws for that sort of thing.
lepidoptery
M
Rodolphe with Madame Bovary was talking dreams, presentiments, magnetism.
...twice the size and mass of anyone else...
...plant matter filled the air.
...desperate times call for desperate measures/
Now, I'm not meteorologist, but even I knew...
meteorology
His mother was a microbiologist...
Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University...
Under the microscope, a cell looks a lot like a fried egg...
The Tuskegee team mixed thousands of litres of Gey culture medium each week, using salts, minerals, and serum...
mineralogy
Not even molecules could escape the time-field...
...instead of just going throuh the motions...
O
...other than to observe that...
observatory
...was denied on the grounds that no living organism could be considered an invention.
ornithology
P
paleontology
...shiny suits of armor and particle effects...
...a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put them in a petri dish.
...that phase of my life.
physical science
...he wouldn't have had the control it took to managethe physics of swinging the two attached mattresses...
It involved scraping cells from the cervix with a curved glass pipette...
Q
quantum mechanics
R
radiology
...you don't need to do research or check reviews...
...but I had a retort.
S
...filled you with a sense of scale.
...in the name of science.
...the scientists immediately began looking for a virus or bacteria...
The seismology section had a million probes...
T
telescope
Our temperatures get up well over a hundred in the summers...
...tall contraptions with long, thin metal arms that squirted HeLa cells into one test tube after another.
...the Hitchcock blond theory.
...but the thermometer on the outside of the shed read 107 degrees.
...she was getting a tissue.
V
One less variable in the equation.
...a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought...
volcanology
At one point he said the cells "would reach a volume greater than that of the solar system."
volumetric flask
W
watch glass
There's no good weather for a funeral...
...they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons...
Z
zoology
I'm going to try for option 5!Start date: 2016/06/24
Words found: 74/110
Books used: 15
A
acrobat
...a somewhat macabre admission.
...like weary overgrown children at some nightmarish amusement park.
...little erasers that are shaped like animals.
applaud
...she had become the festival's main attraction.
Now that I had a receptive audience...
B
balancing act
...even though they were just enormous balloons...
...for a medieval rock band.
"Harte painted a glorious banner..."
...gummy bears encased in multiple layers of dirt...
Agnes Landquist needed her bicycle repaired...
big top
...lingering at a merch booth to buy a T-shirt.
...I should bow to him...
bumper cars
C
"I built a cage in the basement, he said.
calliope
...some sort of gummy candy money.
...send in the cannon fodder first...
The folds of his duster spread out with his turn in an effect nearly cape-like.
played happy carnival-style music for every scene...
The restaurant was a carousel of...
cashier
...single clown car and drove home.
corn dog
...expensive sea captain's costume...
Neon pink or cotton candy?
county fair
D
"...like an earnest dog...
E
If those things could stop an elephant, I had to believe they'd make a vampire sit up and take notice too.
...I didn't have even my iPhone to enterntain me.
entertainer
My teacher, Sensei Johanson, doesn't teach the "pretty" karate most Americans learn for exhibition and tournament.
F
"...I'd even seen the harvest fair..."
fairground
Seems like a pretty easy feat...
The three of them climbed onto the Ferris wheel as usual...
...with a traveling festival..."
You can see we've got a festive occasion-
fire breather
fire eater
Great fun...
fun house
G
"...the children's games...
...with giant arms that swung around...
On either side of her booth are two arching rows of grandstands.
...the sinewy muscle might suggest a gymnast, or perhaps a professional spelunker.
H
...a lovely silver hoop on it...
...plus the game had horses...
house of mirrors
human cannonball
J
And, more ready than a juggler...
K
...our knife thrower would be on his merry way...
L
leotard
I must have looked like that lion at the beginner of an MGM movie.
lion tamer
Not for lack of soil or livestock...
log flume
M
...with his vampire magic.
"Fancies himself a magician."
...sneak up behind me outside a hedge maze...
merry-go-round
...the cells used in neutralization tests came from monkeys, which were killed in the process.
...or a music teacher...
N
That was the problem with casting a wide net.
P
...with Charice's parade of guests...
Vendors and performers were arriving with handcarts...
petting zoo
...I would have brought popcorn, too.
...wasn't your typical M. C. Escher posters...
...game-show contestant happy with his parting prizes.
R
A ride with Charice...
"...shone down on a ring scratched in the dirt..."
ring toss
ringmaster
...the vehicle settled like a roller-coast car after the ride.
S
...or a seal breaking the waves.
...just like on the cop shows.
side show
somersault
...the cheers of the spectators..."
spinning plates
She looked like a movie star...
state fair
stagehand
...mostly abandoned collection of old stilt homes in the water near Cape Florida.
strong man
...one of my million stuffed animals...
swag
...I could "swing by" if I need anything.
sword swallower
T
...preachers in tents could lay hands on Elsie to heal her...
thrill ride
...cost to buy a ticket to Phoenix...
"Stefan and Warren are bouth out hunting tigers with slingshots," I told him.
...children balanced upon them like tightrope walkers...
And I wanted to wear a white top hat.
...I also found ways in my daily life to train for birth.
...I enrolled him in puppy training.
... frolicking on a three-legged trampoline...
trapeze
The trick about them...
They were talking of a troupe of Spanish dancers...
...and the musty trunk...
U
unicycle
V
vanishing act
W
water park
...she'd storm down there, drag him out of the water, and whip him.
So I just googled gooey duck...Yep, crazy stuff. Definitely don't have those in the middle of the prairies.
I'm totally in to spell the planets!Start date: 2016/06/23
Mercury (6/7)
M - Margi Preus - West of the Moon - 7/2
E - Elizabeth C. Bunce - A Curse Dark as Gold - 6/26
R - Raziel Reid - When Everything Feels Like the Movies - 8/3
C - Changeless - 8/12
U - The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss - 6/30
R - Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - 9/11
Y
Venus(5/5)
V - Lynn Viehl - Disenchanted & Co., Part 1: Her Ladyship's Curse - 7/21
E - Each Step is the Journey - 9/6
N - Neil Gaiman - InterWorld - 8/30
U - Undermajordomo Minor
S - Sarah J. Maas - Heir of Fire - 8/29
Earth (5/5)
E - Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl - 9/11
A - Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - 8/1
R - Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl - 10/11
T - Thomas King - Green Grass, Running Water - 8/16
H - Here, There Be Dragons - 8/18
Mars (4/4)
M - Madame Bovary - 9/28
A - Alias Hook - 8/24
R - Richard Adams - Watership Down - 10/24
S - Kristen Simmons - The Glass Arrow - 9/24
Jupiter(7/7)
J - Jessica Lidh - The Number 7 - 7/20
U - The Undomestic Goddess
P - Pariah - 7/10
I - I'd Rather Wear Pajamas - 7/12
T - Twenties Girl - 12/14
E - Ernest Cline - Ready Player One - 9/27
R - Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - 10/30
Saturn (5/6)
S - Shadowbloom - 10/29
A - Catherine Aird - The Religious Body - 9/6
T - Anne R. Tan - Raining Men and Corpses
U
R - Rhys Bowen - Her Royal Spyness - 11/26
N - Blake Nelson - The Prince of Venice Beach - 12/19
Uranus (4/6)
U
R - Richard Wagamese - Indian Horse - 12/27
A - The Arctic Incident - 10/01
N - Nora Roberts - Lessons Learned
U
S - Angela Scott - Wanted: Dead or Undead - 11/5
Neptune (3/7)
N
E - Ella in Perfected - 10/04
P - Patricia Briggs - Blood Bound - 9/16
T - Timothy Ferriss - The 4-Hour Workweek
U
N
E - The Eternity Code - 10/8
Pluto (3/5)
P - Patricia Briggs - Iron Kissed - 11/8
L - Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter - 8/30
U
T - Laini Taylor - Daughter of Smoke & Bone
O - Oryx and Crake - 7/30
Oh, I love me some scavenger hunts! I'll do option 5!Words found: 120/150
Books used: 19
'The year is A.D. 436.'
abolish
abolitionist
..in the face of aggression...
Alexander the Great
...for forming an alliance against the Sixers.
...it wasn't smart to withhold information from one of the few allies I had left.
...regarded Masako as an ally...
The "ambush" could not have gone worse.
amendment
No doubt our ancestors had been grateful...
...which have been lost to lack of usage and also antiquity.
apartheid
...classified proprietary information on IOI's intranet architecture...
In desperation, the clans decided to break out the heavy artillery.
(or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom").
The realizations continued to detonate in my brain like atomic bombs going off.
atomic war
The Hippocratic Oath, written in the fourth century BC...
Babylon
...something that applied to barbarians and dictators, not to American doctors.
Caesar
...make sure he was an upstanding citizen.
city-state
'I'm big on civil liberties.'
...a science teacher and civil rights activist...
...after the Civil War they moved on to someplace else.
'When any civilization is dust and ashes...'
...masquerading as someone in the upper-middle class.
...that was not your classic fantasy trope.
He was charged with violating a federal conflict of interest law...
Because of the Korean War, Congress had just lowered the minimum age for military service...
...I just HAD to conquer this sewing thing!
...this was not the time to detail my sexual conquests.
...he proposed fixing what he believed was "an error" in the U.S. constitution that promised equality for all people.
After eighteen solid hours of sleep and a light continental breakfast...
The Vikings. The Crusades. Genghis Khan
In some culture, somewhere...
...efficient description of the current state of the fairy kingdom...
current events
Then, seeing that this declaration brought no reaction...
Declaration of Independence
I didn't want to delegate responsibility.
...that were part of a Tour of Democracy.
...becoming the first of Henrietta's descendants to attend graduate school.
desegregation
...something that applied to barbarians and dictators, not to American doctors.
...patients were just glad to be getting treatment, since discrimination in hospitals was widespread.
...he is a shadow of San D'Klass, the third king of the Frond Elfin dynasty.
What did antiperspirant have to do with ancient Egypt?
It was also time to elect the president and VP of the OASIS...
...his father later freed his slaves nearly sixty years before Emancipation.
...this emigration fever is like a contagious disease!
"And then, Opal Koboi becomes your empress, I suppose?"
...indigenous peoples throughout the Empire had...
...my long, dark era of unemployment.
...a reference to Great Britain or Europe...
He was part of my guild, the Event Horizons.
...Stefan had told me, that she had been exiled from Italy.
With regard to your...disapproval for a wide exploration of the HeLa strain...
...Gey took Henrietta's cells with him to the Far East in 1953 to study hemorrhagic fever...
...politicians hadbeen introducing state and federal laws...
Yeah, there was the occasional feud, but it was over pretty fast.
This is not feudal Japan
I didn't know him well enough to know if he was friend or foe.
forefathers
...Robert Weir, founder of the biomedical ethics center at the University of Iowa...
'I feel like a founding father.'
CHAPTER 8: The Boomerang Generation
...Lena and Effie were spending two months in Greece with their grandparents...
Gerhard agreed that a guerrila army would send a clear message...
...she were the heroine in a Daphne du Maurier novel.
Hilter. Hiroshima. Mao.
House of Representatives
...was a scourge on immigrant ships.
I didn't think we'd ever see Independence...
...most of them in India.
They seemed very international...
...and thus prevent a possible invasion of privacy.
lowgrade wishes that she'd liberated from other traders.
liberator
All the literature agrees.
...or The Lord of the Rings Online.
Thanks for the welcome!
I think this book will work for the current stop. It wasn't published in 2014, but that shows up as a top shelf. Is that correct?
Jen: I didn't know they were also called Mountain Oysters, And yes, I do enjoy them! Here we usually bread them and fry them. I like them with a squeeze of lemon!
Hello everyone!It looks like you have picked up a second hitch-hiker today: me! Thanks for letting me join in on your team!
Ok, finished 2 books today!
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
Pages: 352
Date: 06/23/16
Task: I-7 - read a book shelved as paranormal by at least 10 people
Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington
Pages: 135
Date: 06/23/16
Task: F-6 - read a book where the audio version is narrated by a female
Hi Katie. I'm brand new to the challenge, but I'd be excited to join your team. :)
Week 1 Firebird 5Q1. What was your favorite book as a child and why?
Well, I grew up in the Harry Potter generation, so there's that obviously. Also, I remember reading A Wrinkle in Time in grade 5 and it opened a whole new world for me. Meg Murray was my literary best friend for a while.
Q2. What is THE most exciting thing you've ever done in your life?
Travel! There's just something about getting on a plane or in a car and going somewhere you've never been before.
Q3. If someone wrote a book about your life, what would they title it?
One Hobby Too Many
Q4. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Prairie oysters.
Q5. Name one book you read but hated, and explain why you hated it.
I really try not to hate on books and usually give up before I get to the hate stage. But one book that comes to mind is Special Topics in Calamity Physics. I was actually enjoying the book, but hated the ending so much that I actually threw the book across the room in disgust. Back when I was young and dramatic.
I also have an audiobook on the go that I should finish in a few days. It's Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time The only open task it fits is F-6 - read a book where the audio version is narrated by a female, although it will work as a bonus for I-8 - read a book shelved as non fiction by at least 10 people if I hold off on finishing it until that opens. I'll leave it to the captains to figure out where to fit it.
