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Task 21-25 planning and points
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Reading starts on 1 July 2013!
21) Read a book in which the main character stands out in some way/is different from the rest because they either have or lack something the others lack or have.
22) Read a book in which the main character is a leader of some sort. (Leads a family, a business, is in a board etc.)
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant.
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility.
25) Read any book that is somehow connected to the book in a way that is not mentioned in the first 24 tasks. You can make your own connection to the series so long as it isn't based on gender or nationality of the author or main characters.
If you have doubts if a book will count, just ask in this thread.
The books of the series itself will only count for bonuspoints and can not be used for the tasks.
This thread is for planning your challenge and updating your points. Please post your progress in a new message stating the book you've read and the task you read it for and not just in your planning.
Reading for these final 5 tasks will start on 1 July 2013 and the final day of reading will be on 31 October 2013. On 1 September I will open up the first 4 task topics and you can finish all the task that are unfinished.
Happy reading and good luck!
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22) Read a book in which the main character is a leader of some sort. (Leads a family, a business, is in a board etc.) Elphame's Choice by P.C. Cast
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant. Heart of a Hero by Janet Chapman
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility. Georgiana Darcy's Diary by Janet Chapman
25) Read any book that is somehow connected to the book in a way that is not mentioned in the first 24 tasks. You can make your own connection to the series so long as it isn't based on gender or nationality of the author or main characters. Grave Dance by Kalayna Price, part of a series of which aal books have a titlae containing the word grave.
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The lead character becomes the first ever Confessor. Her nature - always seeking the truth of all things - stands out among all the corrupt people in her city.22)
Main character is the Chief Medical examiner of Richmond.23)
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility.
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Main character's job only exists in the unique world of this series of novels (& associated spin off series).
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✔22) Read a book in which the main character is a leader of some sort. (Leads a family, a business, is in a board etc.) Druid Lords
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant.
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility. - Suddenly Royal
25) own connection - Book from a series where all the titles are similar - Obsidian All start with O and refer to black.
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✔22) Leader Code - leader of group of kids who solve crimes
✔23) Maid The Help
✔24) Nobility The Scottish Prisoner Lord John Grey
✔25) Other link Shades of Grey - Main character's job only exists in the unique world of this series of novels (& associated spin off series).
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Adam is the Antichrist
22) Read a book in which the main character is a leader of some sort. (Leads a family, a business, is in a board etc.)
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant.
Howl's Moving Castle Sophie is Howl's maid for most of the book
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility.
The Dragon at Noonday about Prince Llewellyn of Wales
25) Read any book that is somehow connected to the book in a way that is not mentioned in the first 24 tasks. You can make your own connection to the series so long as it isn't based on gender or nationality of the author or main characters.
Midnight Riot The book is set in London and full of supernatural and mythical creatures that have been assimilated in modern London society.
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant.
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility.
Progress: 3/5
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As long as no one else can see them or just 1 or 2 other people then yes it would!
25) Read any book that is somehow connected to the book in a way that is not mentioned in the first 24 tasks. You can make your own connection to the series so long as it isn't based on gender or nationality of the author or main characters. Any suggestions? I have not read any books from the PP series.
Can I use any of these:
- Changeless: major character does not age (eg. eternal youth, a god)
- Heartless: main character/villain is someone you'd consider heartless
- Blameless: main character is accused of something of which he/she is innocent.
- Book from a series where all the titles are similar eg. A Song of Ice and Fire (all book are A Something of Something)
You can make your own connection to the series so long as it isn't based on gender or nationality of the author or main characters.So we can't use an English setting as a connection? My brain isn't working today...
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The Blameless one is OK for your purpose. You are going to have fun when you get to the bonus books!
Location may be an easy one to manage so books set in London, Florence (Blameless), Scotland (Changeless), Egypt (Timeless) will all work.
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@Claudia: setting wouldn't work as we had to read a book set in Victorian England. That covers both setting as time period.
Remind me to post all the tasks in one place so we don't have to go back and forth between the different topics.
I am going to bed now since I have to get up ridicously early so I won't answer any more of your questions tonight. But I will be back tomorrow. Sweet dreams everybody!
21) Read a book in which the main character stands out in some way/is different from the rest because they either have or lack something the others lack or have.22) Read a book in which the main character is a leader of some sort. (Leads a family, a business, is in a board etc.) Finale (leader of blackhand army)
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant.
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility.
25) Read any book that is somehow connected to the book in a way that is not mentioned in the first 24 tasks. You can make your own connection to the series so long as it isn't based on gender or nationality of the author or main characters.
21) Read a book in which the main character stands out in some way/is different from the rest because they either have or lack something the others lack or have.22) Read a book in which the main character is a leader of some sort. (Leads a family, a business, is in a board etc.)
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant.
Breathe - the heroine is a maid and the chief housekeeper plays a prominant role
24) Read a book in which the main character is a member of the nobility.
The Earl's Inconvenient Wife
25) Read any book that is somehow connected to the book in a way that is not mentioned in the first 24 tasks. You can make your own connection to the series so long as it isn't based on gender or nationality of the author or main characters
23) Read a book with a prominent butler or maid or some other servant.Would A Storm of Swords count? There are several warriors/knights who also function as servants - Jorah Mormont, Bronn, Brienne of Tarth (to Catelyn, sort of). And there's Hodor.
Alternatively, can I use it for the leader task?
Completed task 25 with Dark Places by Gillian Flynn: 1/5
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Would A Storm of Swords count? There are several warriors/knights who also function as servants - Jorah Mormont, Bronn, Brien..."
As a leader it would definitely count. I am not so sure about the servant task. The knights are first knights and then serve a lord. They are not servants in the stricktest sense of the word. Hodder is also not really a servant.
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Love and marriage between a Scottish Werewolf and a "not quite human" woman.
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Barbara wrote: "As a leader it would definitely count. I am not so sure about the servant task. The knights are first knights and then serve a lord. They are not servants in the stricktest sense of the word. Hodder is also not really a servant. "OK, thanks!
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The main character is a transvestite - I hope that is different enough for you? :)
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Or I suppose you could also look at it the other way and say he/she has a penis which other "girls" lack. Lol :)
I was wondering about this too, because I was thinking of using a book where a character stood out because her family had been brutally murdered when she was a child, and it's made her into a kind of minor celebrity. I would have said she has the experience of escaping a multiple murder or losing her family to murder and she stands out as a result.I would say the transvestite has the experience of being a transvestite, which most people lack.
But in my case, and possibly in Lauren F's, there are other similar people (people who've escaped multiple murders, transvestites) even if they don't appear on the page. Exactly how unique does the person have to be? And does having or lacking a defining experience count for this task?
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That would mean that the survivor of the family murder is out since the murders are something that happened to her and not something she is and connot help being. Ok she can't change what happened but it is not what she is.
The transvestite is harder to decide on. On the one hand there are people who choose to be one for professional, religious and other reasons but there are also a lot of people who just are that way because they were born that way and cannot help being one whether they want to or not. It's just that in the Netherlands transvestites don't stand out that much. Which clouds my thinking about it. Also if the transvestite is in were would we stand on bisxual or homosexual people? Here they don't stand out at all, but they are in the same line of being different.
If the PPS character can count because she has Italian features in a British society, then presumably you'd have to consider context, so it doesn't matter whether transvestite/bisexual/homosexual people stand out in the Netherlands or anywhere else. Italian features aren't a big deal - that character only stands out because of the country she's in and she wouldn't even be the only person in the country to look like that. I just read a book with societies where strictly heterosexual women are extremely rare, and it wouldn't have made sense to compare that to our heteronormative societies. A straight female character would have stood out.The have/lack thing still confuses me though. For the PPS character it's clear - she lacks a soul, she has Italian features. But you're also defining 'standing out' in terms of who/what a person is (like with the transvestite), but not in terms of having or lacking a defining experience (as in the case of the woman who's family was murdered). So what would you say the transvestite has or lacks? Alternatively, being a survivor of a multiple murder is who my character is,like being a cross-dresser is who the transvestite is. It's more than something that just happend to her, although it's not something she was born with. Does the character have to be born with the thing that sets them apart?
On a side note: I'm using the murder book for a different task; I'm just trying to get a grasp on the task so I know which of my future reads will count.
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If it help the character is also from New Zealand and living in Ireland. So that works for the different from everyone else thing too, in the same way as your "Italian features" does.
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Because it was based on the books I have it in my mind that it is some ability you have or lack or a physical feature. Like the main character stands out because her complexion is naturally dark and that is not done in the ton.
First I was thinking about reading My Soul To Take but now I am reading Ink and that qualifies too.
Let's make it easy on ourselves and let's say: if the character stands out in any significant way that makes them different form the other characters in the book and that standing out is something that is discussed it counts. So if you believe your character stands out than by all means use the book.
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I am going to keep mine then. Because although the main character is quite happily a cross dresser, it does make him different and isolate him from others within the context of the story etc.
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Total- 3/5
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Total- 4/5
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21) Stands out: Odd Thomas - sees dead people
22) Leader: Code - leader of group of kids who solve crimes
23) Maid: The Help
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Would Winter Love work for #21? The heroine, Winter, is a female motor mechanic working in a predominantly male field - she loves fixing cars.
Finished:#23 - Breathe
#24 - The Earl's inconvenient wife
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✔21) Read a book in which the main character stands out in some way/is different from the rest because they either have or lack something the others lack or have. Shadowland
✔22) Read a book in which the main character is a leader of some sort. (Leads a family, a business, is in a board etc.) Druid Lords
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Task 24) Nobility The Scottish Prisoner Lord John Grey
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Task 25) Other link Shades of Grey - Main character's job only exists in the unique world of this series of novels (& associated spin off series).
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Finished this section of challenge
FINISHED entire challenge, including bonus books!
I neglected to post any updates. Sorry Barbara, here they are:21)
The lead character becomes the first ever Confessor. Her nature - always seeking the truth of all things - stands out among all the corrupt people in her city.22)
Main character is the Chief Medical examiner of Richmond.23)
25)
Main character's job only exists in the unique world of this series of novels (& associated spin off series).
4/5
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Howl's Moving Castle. The main character is the wizard's maid for most of the book.
1/5
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Midnight Riot. The book is set in London and has a cast of supernatural and mythical creatures that have been assimilated in modern London society
Completed task 21
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Adam is the only antichrist.
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I read The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino for task 21 - 3/5
Finished # 21Vampires Rule - The heroine is able to suck out the souls of werewolves - the only one who can do so
I had originally used this for #25 but have decided to change it as it fits in much better for #21
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Yes it would. Earlier we settled that if you say the main character stands out then he/she does. So that is one task done. :)
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