January 2013 Challenge REPORTING - Let me tell you a story...

[Cathie]

Hey, I read the same book as Naomi but only gave myself 29 (or 26 points) points; I didn't realize that some of the content was worth points, from other European tales.

I want whatever points Naomi gets!!!(Sounding like a little kid, lol). She's much better at math than I am :-).

[Rusalka, Moderator]

4 days to go people! I bring you a bed time story to get you in the mood. It's from Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Modern Tales for Our Life and Times which is hilarious. And I had this particular story as a university prescribed reading. Got to love Sociologists. Enjoy!:


Politically Correct Three Little Pigs

Once there were 3 little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and in harmony with their environment. Using materials that were indigenous to the area they each built a beautiful house. One pig built a house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of dung, clay and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work and settled back to live in peace and self-determination.

But their idyll was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry in both a physical and ideological sense.

When the pigs saw the wolf, they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and banged on the door, shouting, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

The pigs shouted back, "Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture."

But the wolf wasn't to be denied what he thought was his manifest destiny. So he huffed and puffed and blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot pursuit. Where the house had stood, other wolves bought up the land and started a banana plantation.

At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little, pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

The pigs shouted back, "Go to hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!"

At this the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share condo resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fibreglass reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkelling and dolphin shows.

At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

This time in response, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.

By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see the situation from the carnivore's point of view. So he huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over dead from a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods.

The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their lands. This new brigade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine-guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal health care and affordable housing for everyone.

Please note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Also. Connie: foot is recovering. Thankyou. Not nearly as colourful as one would hope after not being able to stand on it for 2 days. But it is healing. Should be right for next weeks game... hmmm...

Cathie: heh. Add in your points. You can have more than one in each category if it is true and correct.

[Debra]

I love the Politically Correct story books. Thanks for the 3 Little Pigs story. I didn't remember reading that one. It's hilarious!

[Ava Catherine]

I, too, adore your piggy and wolf story! ROFL!!

I used a funny made-up version of the Three Little Pigs to teach the elements of literature to my classes, but I love this one!

[Janice, Moderator]

LOL! Wolves to the slaughter. :)

[April]

LOl. thanks for the story, Rus!

[Marcus]

Done with: Krampus: The Yule Lord

Theme: Quest - 4pts
Origin: Other European- 6pts
Title: Main Character and colon- Krampus: The Yule Lord
5pts + 4pts
Cover: Imposing male- 5pts

Total: 24pts

[Cathie]

Hi Rusalka :-). How do I add in my points? (in response to your post #107 and in reference to posts 104 & 105).

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Under your comment you should have the option between reply and delete to edit (this only shows on your comments). Hit that and it opens the text box back up, and just tidy it up with the new points!

[Cathie]

Thanks Rusalka :-)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

LAST CHANCE PEOPLEZ

If you're super keen or just pushing through that last little bit of the book, it's now 12 hours to go (Eastern) Aussie time (so 10 hours if we have any Kiwis).
If you're in Hawaii, you have 35 hours.
Everyone else, you have something between 10 and 35.
GO GO GO!

[Tejas Janet]

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

I've been trying to hurry to get to "I" in my ABC read so this book can count for 2 challenges. Finally was able to start this book yesterday. Looks like I'm track to finish before midnight.

I wasn't familiar with the Russian folk tale that this story retells, but it's quite capitivating, and I love the author's imagery about the Alaskan terrain and environment.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

A couple of you guys have read that book for this challenge. It's definitely pipped my interest.

Glad you're enjoying it!

Although... I think I am going to be the bearer of bad news. Challenges unfortunately do not overlap. I didn't pick that up yesterday. I'm so incredibly sorry!!!

So savor the book, and don't rush through it!

[Tejas Janet]

OH!! Oops, I thought they did in some cases, but I'm so new to this that I'm just learning as I go. Thanks : )

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Group Reads and Topplers can overlap with the Monthly or Yearly Challenges. However, the Monthly and Yearly challenges can't overlap with each other :(

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Ding ding ding. Last drinks everyone. 10 mins left in the world of January.

So. Important.

If you haven't reported on your read, please do so now. I will start a tally and then "Everybody has won and all must have prizes."

[Debra]

Love me some badges! Yep, yep!

[Cathie]

Ohhhh, prizes/badges! I never have had them before, me says with a smile and a skipping heartbeat. Me so excited, me is :-)

[Tejas Janet]

Rusalka wrote: "Group Reads and Topplers can overlap with the Monthly or Yearly Challenges. However, the Monthly and Yearly challenges can't overlap with each other :("

Got it now -- thanks!

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Cathie wrote: "Ohhhh, prizes/badges! I never have had them before, me says with a smile and a skipping heartbeat. Me so excited, me is :-)"

Yup, that's easily the best bonus of reading a book here, seeing what the badge is afterwards. >:-)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Okay. Here are all your scores so far. Please let me know if I somehow missed you. And if you still need to report, please do on this thread, as I will leave it open for a little while.

Emily - 5
Travis of NNY - 5
Snoozie Suzie - 10
Janice - 10
Connie - 10
Jmom - 13
Lori - 13
Cherie - 14
Almeta - 14
April - 15
Jenny - 15
Mary Alice - 19
Helen - 19
AmyK - 20
Gaeta - 21
Rusalka - 21
Roz - 21
Lara - 24
Marcus - 24
Debra - 25
Anna - 28
Shanna_redwind - 29
Cathie - 35
Naomi - 35

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I'm posting the last badges tonight.

So speak now or forever hold your pieces.

[Janice, Moderator]

Congratulations everyone on completing the challenge. I hope everyone enjoyed it. :)

[Cathie]

It was a wonderful challenge. I had a really hard time finding a book that would qualify so when Naomi's book qualified and it was really short too boot I read her book :-). I got a lot of new books on my TBRlist now thanks to this challenge :-)

[Debra]

I got more points than I thought I would. Those 2, Cathie and Naomi, with 35 amaze me! You go gurls!

[Cathie]

Lol Debra; I didn't give myself all those points...I don't know how to count that high, heehee. And I'm not very good at knowing sources of stories, but Naomi knew so i whined when she put more points than i did and our fair moderator told me to go back and change my point posting :-). Go see the beautiful badge we got; I was (am) awed :-). Thank you Rusalka for making my first challenge a great experience! :-)

[Debra]

Well that's really good, Cathie, especially for your first time! Woohoo!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Indeed! Grats all round everyone.
Twas fun!!

Now to find a fruitcake...

[Ava Catherine]

Congratulations, Cathie and Naomi! Super!!!! : )

Shanna_redwind, Congrats to you, too! Not too shabby!

[Tejas Janet]

Though I didn't earn a badge, I wanted to say that because of this challenge I was inspired to read two books that I otherwise would not have read. Really enjoyed both:



Came across The Child Thief while looking for books that met the challenge; read The Snow Child, though not in time to meet the challenge, but that's okay because it's counting towards my ABC challenge. Congrats to all participants, whether you earned badges or not!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Next time Gadget, next time...

[Debra]

Tejas Janet wrote: "Though I didn't earn a badge, I wanted to say that because of this challenge I was inspired to read two books that I otherwise would not have read. Really enjoyed both: "

That's the danger of belonging to this group. You read one book and add two. Your TBR list will just keep growing, too!

[Cathie]

My TBR list is out of control, thanks to this group :-)

[Janice, Moderator]

Cathie wrote: "My TBR list is out of control, thanks to this group :-)"

We do try to warn new members. hehehehe!