Grimm Readers ~ How to Play, Help, & Discussion

[Jenne]

You can start a task 2 today but in order to count for task 2 you'd have to finish tomorrow.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jenne wrote: "Does anyone know if you can read Marie Hall's fairy tale series out of order?"

I read book 2 yesterday...it was clear that something happened in book 1 that I should have been aware of. I would say don't read it out of order...but I needed a green book so...

I think book 5 is peter pan retelling, so I will just jump to that one next.

Basically, you should read in order. I am NOT doing that because I don't care about the series enough.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jenne wrote: "You can start a task 2 today but in order to count for task 2 you'd have to finish tomorrow."

Don't confuse me Jenne. you know I am easily muddled. Above response seems incorrect as Tomorrow is July 1.

Any books finished tomorrow should count towards Task 3--right?

[Jennifer H]

This is probably asking too much but I thought I'd check anyways :) What if you have a book that has a pink cover with a male and female on it but an alternate cover has no pink but just one male. Can we use both covers and claim it as pink and claim it for the mini-challenge?

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jennifer ♔Princess Penguin♔ wrote: "This is probably asking too much but I thought I'd check anyways :) What if you have a book that has a pink cover with a male and female on it but an alternate cover has no pink but just one male. ..."

yep, asking too much right there JPP, LOL!

[Jennifer H]

Oh well, I tried :)

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jennifer ♔Princess Penguin♔ wrote: "Oh well, I tried :)"

big hugs!

[Susan A]

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Jenne wrote: "You can start a task 2 today but in order to count for task 2 you'd have to finish tomorrow."

Don't confuse me Jenne. you know I am easily muddled. Above response seems incorrect as..."

Ezi --

I think you're mixing up mini challenges and tasks. Task 2 starts July 1, mini challenge 3 starts july 1

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Susan A wrote: "Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Jenne wrote: "You can start a task 2 today but in order to count for task 2 you'd have to finish tomorrow."

Don't confuse me Jenne. you know I am easily muddled..."

Ezi --

I think you're mixing up mini challenges and tasks. Task 2 starts July 1, mini challenge 3 starts july 1


yes. It seems that I am confused

[Jenne]

Whatcha confused about hon?

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jenne wrote: "Whatcha confused about hon?"

you have answered my question.

[Jenne]

Ok if anyone would rather see the transition from task 1 to task vs me explaining it lol :)

I just finished updating my team. Here's what our spreadsheet looks like and here's the recap for our team https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Jennifer H]

I know I remember this question being asked before but I can't remember the answer...Does it have to be a retelling or can it be a new fairytale?...ie

[Jenne]

If it's been shelved as a fairy tale at least 5 times or it it's on a fairy tale listopia. I'm gonna go take a quick peek at it.

[Jenne]

Yeah you're good it's been shelved over 300 times as a FT.

[Jenne]

So as of what's turned in to the finished tasks thread here's where everyone is at.

Sleeping Beauty 5750
Red Riding Hood 7020
Little Mermaid 6430
Beauty & the Beast 5540
Peter Pan 8460
Snow White 4640
Cinderella 4915



**If anyone has a teammate that hasn't checked in, in over a week please let me know**

[Stacie]

Jenne, for this book:

there is red on the cover but all the editions seem to be under 150 except one that says 206. Can I use it even with all the varying lengths?

[Jenne]

Yes we had a case of that earlier this week, just post both covers so you're covered.

[Nancy]

Jenne, Sallie read a book which was large print so obviously had more pages than the regular book. Should I do the Page Number points it as if it were the regular one?

[Jenne]

Yeah use the hard copy or ebook version.

[Nancy]

Fabulous - thank you.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jenne wrote: "Yes we had a case of that earlier this week, just post both covers so you're covered."

I don't think that's fair to use two covers. People should be limited to one cover.

[Lauren]

Jenne, would the Others in qualify as demons?

[Angie ~aka Reading Machine~]

Jenne~Can I use as fairy tale book?

[Anita Reads]

Is it OK if I find a book tagged Demons, and it will work for the task. If so how many times does it have to be tagged?

Ex:
is tagged demons 27 times, is that enough?

[Jenne]

Lauren wrote: "Jenne, would the Others in qualify as demons?"

Lauren I don't remember there being demons in that one, but it's been a long time since I read it. I know lots of us have read it around here, anyone remember demons being in it?

[Jenne]

Angie ~aka Reading Machine~ wrote: "Jenne~Can I use as fairy tale book?"

Yep it's been shelved 100 times as a fairy tale =]

[Jenne]

Anita wrote: "Is it OK if I find a book tagged Demons, and it will work for the task. If so how many times does it have to be tagged?

Ex:
is tagged demons 27 times, is that enough?"


For this we're not going by tags. For those of us that have demons, werewolves, etc it's pretty easy to come by so I'll be a little stricter. I've read that one though and I remember more mythology than demons.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

by Shéa MacLeod counts for author initials right? (SL) not SM?

[Jenne]

Yeah SM MacLeod is one word. I need to catch up with the last couple on that one.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jenne wrote: "Yeah SM MacLeod is one word. I need to catch up with the last couple on that one."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Well, it's a PKC rec from Shy, so I gotta listen to it.
thanks Jenne

[VNerdbooks]

Jenne, would S.L. Jennings be SL or SJ ?

[Jenne]

SJ hon :)

[VNerdbooks]

yeeaaahhh I thought so, well it was worth a shot lol.
Thanks Jenne x

[Angie ~aka Reading Machine~]

Jenne wrote: "Angie ~aka Reading Machine~ wrote: "Jenne~Can I use as fairy tale book?"

Yep it's been shelved 100 times as a fairy tale =]"

Thank you!

[Lauren]

Jenne wrote: "Lauren wrote: "Jenne, would the Others in qualify as demons?"

Lauren I don't remember there being demons in that one, but it's been a long time since I read it...."

Nah, I don't think it specifically said they were demons. We'll find something else. Thanks.

[Jenne]

I'm putting up mini #4 a little early since it's a holiday weekend.

Mini Challenge #4

[Ora]

Quick question. so I read a book that's 176 pages but the actual book was only 60% of that the rest was excerpt from other books that author has written. can I count this book if I read the excerpts?

[Jenne]

What's the book? Chance are there's an edition with the right pages.

[Kayla]

jenne: it's called

finding Cinderella by Colleen hoover

[Jenne]

You're good hon, there's 4 editions that are enough.

[Kayla]

Awesome :) thanks Jenne

[Jennifer H]

Jenne, Kayla's book Finding Cinderella isn't shelved as a retelling but she says it is like a modern day Cinderella story. Can we still claim it as a fairytale retelling or does it need to be shelved as such?

[Jenne]

If it's obviously a retelling without being shelved it's cool. I'd its iffy and no shelving I wouldn't.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jennifer ♔Princess Penguin♔ wrote: "Jenne, Kayla's book Finding Cinderella isn't shelved as a retelling but she says it is like a modern day Cinderella story. Can we still claim it as a fairytale retelling or does it ..."

It's not long enough (pages)

[Jennifer H]

Jenne told Kayla it was enough in post 763. The paperback version is 176 pages.

[Nancy]

Jenne, if a book had a homecoming queen mentioned in it, would that be enough for our "Evil Queen" main task?

[Jenne]

Yep :)

[Berit☀️✨]

Does redhead Count for red? Also if the main characters last name is Castle does that count towards the MC?

[Jenne]

No to both Berit :(

The only way redhead would work was if it was red head which I've not seen it like that.