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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2013
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Summer Challenge 2013: Questions/Problems in Completed Tasks
Dlmrose wrote: "Chaitra post 1509task 30.5 This connection is too attenuated- there is little relationship between Life After Life the war in Britain, the blitz and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Re..."
Eeep. I was hoping world war ii would be enough of a connection. Luckily I did read another book that may work. Off to Sandy's thread to check before I make another booboo!
Edit: Well. I'd cleared another book with Sandy and then switched the places of this book and that in my personal records. Arrgh, my brain! Now I just need to finish reading Troublesome Young Men.
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task 30.3
option R- All the Lovely Bad Ones
option A Jacob Have I Loved
Books with the genre "childrens" or "kids" that are between 100 and 299 pages may only be used for 5, 10, and 15 point tasks and those with specific "NOTE" allowances
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Please check your total
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task 25.18 option 5 requires " Please include both the Goodreads and the Tomatometer ratings with your post." Please repost this task with the required information
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task 30.3 option X requires "Read a book that shows a place where you would like to be to sit and read a book.
Required: Tell us why you chose that place AND Post the Cover."
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When you are claiming a GR author, please include the name of the author in your post - it really helps with the process.
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task 30.3 option X. You must include the cover in your post. If your edition needs to be added to Goodreads you may ask for help in anyone with librarian status
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Please check your total, 530 in post 1542 plus 5 = 535
Dlmrose wrote: "Jasmine post 1540
Please check your total"
edited.
Please check your total"
edited.
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It isn't necessary to edit or repost a previous total. But knowing that there is a discrepancy lets us both know if something was missed that may need correcting and keeps a problem from continuing.
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Please do not delete posts. Records are kept with the post numbers and if you delete a post all the numbers change.
That is why the title of the Completed Tasks thread is
"Summer Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)"
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Please report tasks in task number order
Dlmrose wrote: "MiduPlease do not delete posts. Records are kept with the post numbers and if you delete a post all the numbers change.
That is why the title of the Completed Tasks thread is
"Summer Challenge ..."
I'm sorry!
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task 30.10 requires "confirm that both authors are new-to-you when you post." Please repost just this task with the required information
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task 5.4 requires "specify what the circle is." Please repost this task with the required information
task 25.5 Cursed is an ebook without a print edition
If your book is an ebook with no print version, you must have it approved for length before posting in the ebook page verification thread: Ebook page verification.
If you claim a book in Completed Tasks that exists ONLY in ebook format, you must provide a reference to the ebook verification document when you post ex."Approved @ line #" or provide the post number in the ebook verification thread where it was approved ex. "Approved post #"
Please repost this task with the required information
task 30.4 Eternal Eden is an ebook without a print edition- see above
Dlmrose wrote: "Nancy NY post 1564Please report tasks in task number order"
Just edited. Sorry about that!
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task 50.1 option 10. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice The edition you linked has less than the required 250 pages.
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task 5.4 requires "specify what the circle is." Please repost with the required information
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task 5.4 requires "specify what the circle is." Please repost this task with the required information
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task 25.5 option B
does not work as a blue and white cover, but your books still work if you switch options as Outlander has the genre Romance and 
has a blue and white cover. No need to repost
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task 15.8 requires "The genre Civil War must appear on the main book page", not the genre page.
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task 25.7 book A For I Have Sinned is an ebook without a print edition
If your book is an ebook with no print version, you must have it approved for length before posting in the ebook page verification thread: Ebook page verification.
If you claim a book in Completed Tasks that exists ONLY in ebook format, you must provide a reference to the ebook verification document when you post ex."Approved @ line #" or provide the post number in the ebook verification thread where it was approved ex. "Approved post #"
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Please check your total, 100 in previous post plus 105 (5 + 20 + 25 + 25 + 30) = 205
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task 30.10 You MUST include links to the book editions you read. Please repost this task with the required information
Dlmrose wrote: "KarenKnits post 1593task 50.1 option 10. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice The edition you linked has less than the required 250 pages."
I must have carelessly selected the wrong edition when I did the search for the book link. My edition has 256 pages (which is why that book was pre-approved, as note). I will repost the task. Thanks for the catch.
Dlmrose wrote: "KarenKnits post 1593"BTW, re: this post, my current readerboard score doesn't match the number it should be.
Without the 50 for the book I have to re-post, I still get 20 for the other task, which should give me a total of 385.
If you disallow my entire post, I should have a total of 365.
Right now, my readerboard score is 360, five points less than it was before I made my last update. Can you please check? Thanks so much.
I really appreciate all the work you put into this. The Challenge is so much fun for all of us, and I wanted to make sure you knew of my gratitude. Thanks!
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BTW, re: this post, my current readerboard score doesn't match the number it should be.
Without the 50 for the book I have to re-post, I still get 20 for the..."
Did you resolve post 211 in this thread? You did receive points for 20.6 in post 1593
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task 15.1 is a two book task.
Dlmrose wrote: "Please explain the underground/underwater connection. It is not included in the book's description The Rime of the Modern Mariner"Sorry I didn't see this earlier. In this modern re-interpretation of Coleridge's classic, the mariner spends much of the second half of the book underwater, and he has visions of the future of the world's oceans. I don't think he is ACTUALLY underwater, but in his hallucinations he imagines himself underwater, and he sees first-hand the impact of man's abuse of the environment on the creatures who live in the sea. He eventually finds his way ashore, and spends the last bit of the poem on dry land.
Dlmrose wrote: "Did you resolve post 211 in this thread?"OMG, no! I didn't even see it until you mentioned it just now. So, so, so sorry. I've addressed it above.
Thanks for helping me fix my math. Sorry for my oversight. :)
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OMG, no! I didn't even see it until you mentioned it just now. So, so, so sorry. I've addressed it above.
Thanks for helping me fix my..."
Got it- @ 385 now
Dlmrose wrote: "Janet F post 1634task 15.1 is a two book task."
opps!
I reposted it now.
Thanks!!
Dlmrose wrote: "Marscha post 1625Please check your total, 100 in previous post plus 105 (5 + 20 + 25 + 25 + 30) = 205"
My math was off, you're right it should be 205. Sorry!
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task 50.1 mansion 8- Page numbers for large type books are determined the same way as ebooks and audio books (rule 13) The mass market paperback of A Nun In The Closet has 223 pages, less than the required 250 pages
Dee wrote: "Eilis - wrong thread ;)"Ah shoot :) Thanks :)
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Please check your total. You had 850 @ August 4 post plus 90 = 940
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task 25.10 Your links did not come through-
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
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tak 30.4 option B requires "Include the cover when you post." Please repost this task with the required information
Dlmrose wrote: "Eilis post 1691task 25.10 Your links did not come through-
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14..."
Wow, I don't think I'm destined to get this right.... I shall try again :)
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task 30.10 requires "confirm that both authors are new-to-you when you post." Please repost this task with the required information
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For ebooks, the page count for BB tickets is determined by the various paper editions. From the Rules of the Challenge:If you read an ebook, or audiobook use the page count for the mass market paperback if one exists. If there is no mass market paperback edition, use the paperback edition and if no paperback is available use the hardcover edition.
Your link for City of Bones is for the kindle edition, and neither the hardback nor the paperback edition appears to have 500 or more pages.
Dlmrose wrote: "Elizabeth B post 1687Please check your total. You had 850 @ August 4 post plus 90 = 940"
Thanks! The number of tasks is also wrong, it should be 51!
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Welcome, Lacee. We don't have a Lacee on the Readerboard Names list. If you have a different Readerboard Name, please repost and include it. If you need to set one up, please request one at Readerboard Names
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The book you linked to for 15.1B, Firefly Lane has only 479 pages. If you read an edition with >500 pages, please repost with the link to that edition to claim a BB ticket.
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task 25.9 option 2- Queen Melantha is mentioned prominently in the book's description in addition to Snow White and Raven. This option specifies "Books with more than 2 equally important female characters will not work. There may be other women, but in minor roles only. " Please explain how this book fits the task
She isn't the protagonist but the villain.
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You didn't include a task number- 25.6? Please repost this task and include the task you are claiming
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task 30.5 This connection is too attenuated- there is little relationship between Life After Life the war in Britain, the blitz and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption a US soldier in a Pacific theatre POW camp