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YA Reading Challenge #1: Tasks & Discussion
30.1 (part 1) I didn't think Guardian Children's Fiction Award should of been given to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon But thats my opinion. I didn't quite grasp why. Might have to go back and read or listen to it again.
Alexis wrote: "Quick question: For 25.3, does it need to be contemporary? I'd like to use Bewitching Season, which takes place in England during the Victorian era. I live in NYC but it occurred to me that the p..."
You're fine Alexis. If it needed to be contemporary, it would have been specifically stated in the task.
Ok, here is my list:30:1 Finding Violet Park and Good Master...
30:2 The Graveyard Book
30:3 Fairest
25:1 I Capture the Castle, Robyn's Story and The Glass House
25:2 Fatgirl and Does Snogging Count As Exercise (did the spin and point at Border's yesterday)
25:3 The Endless Steppe
25:4 Uglies and Pretties
20:1 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
20:2 It's Kind of a Funny Story
20:3 A Countess Below Stairs
20:4 Watership Down (I am really old!)
20:5 Wild Swans
10:1 I Want to be Your Joey Ramone
10:2 Graceling
10:3 I Am the Messenger
10:4 Here Lies Arthur
5:1 What My Mother Doesn't Know
5:2 Through the Looking Glass
5:3 The Road Home
5:4 One of Those Hideous Books where the Mother Dies
I have another question. (Sorry...)I am reading the Chronicles of Narnia right now, and so I want to fit as many into the challenge as I can. For the genre task, where would they fit? I feel like they are Christian Lit, or they could be Fantasy, or... They fit in more than one place. So, is there one place I should put them over another?
I believe there is a discussion in the Fantasy section for them now... So, if I wanted to use one book for a genre task in Christian Fic, and one of the books for one that I need to contribute to the discussion on, would that work? (Did that come out clear? Sorry...)
To be a little clearer, can I use one Narnai book for 25.1 as a Christian Lit genre, and then another for 10.3 and comment in the discussion in the Fantasy section? Would that be ok?
So, what you're asking is if you could use, for example, Prince Caspian for a fantasy genre task and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe as Christian Lit genre? I would think you could do that, as they are separate books within the series. You'd just have to make sure that they are both over 100 pages.
That is right. That's a great series to use for this Challenge, because they could be construed as fitting into several different genres. Good choice, Ashley & good call, Becky.
Awesome! Thank you so much! I just wanted to make sure it was ok that I am switching genres a bit. Thanks again both Becky and Laura!And Laura, thanks in general! This challenge is looking to be a lot of fun!
Fiona wrote: "Contemporary is defined as anything after 1945 - so a classical books is anything published before that period. I'd probably say anyhitn before 1950 as YA wasn't a recognised section of books befor..."I'm glad I saw this. I was thinking of reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or The Catcher in the Rye for the classical genre, but they were both published after 1950.
ETA: Oops, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn was 1943, so that's ok. I'll work the Catcher in the Rye into the challenge somewhere else.
Holy crap, there are already 6 pages.... I'll read tomorrow. I'm just really glad I left most of my YA books for the end of the Spring Challenge, so I can overlap!
Ashley, you could actually use those for several tasks. For example:
Lion, Witch, Wardrobe - Christian Lit Genre
Prince Caspian - Fantasy Genre
The Last Battle - Action/Adventure genre
Voyage of the Dawn Treader & The Horse and His Boy - 2 books from a series
The Magician's Nephew - Classic YA
There's a LOT you can do with The Chronicles of Narnia!
I'm new here - just discovered this group today - so I'm definatrly going to join in and hopefully get to know the group, not sure how many I'll manage.
Heather, to answer your question from before... The page count from the most popular edition of the book on GR is what's used for the page count for the challenge. So even if you read an edition which has 124 pgs, you get credit for 187 pgs if that's what the most popular edition on GR has. :)
On the first of the 10-pt. tasks, about reading a new book by a new YA author, I just read Sherman Alexie's first YA book. Would this qualify?
Under the 5 point tasks is to choose a book from the "Top YA Novels" thread -- where is it?
Here's the Top YA thread: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...And I think that to qualify as a "new" YA author, the author's first published book has to have been published in 2008 or 2009.
Heather wrote: "On the page numbers....Are we only using the GR page numbers for books that are audio'd? Or are we supposed to use the GR page numbers for every book we read, even if our books' page numbering is d..."To be fair to everyone, we've decided to use GR's first listing of a novel's page numbers, since the number of pages read may become key to winning.
Lydia wrote: "On the first of the 10-pt. tasks, about reading a new book by a new YA author, I just read Sherman Alexie's first YA book. Would this qualify?"Hi Lydia - For that task, we're looking for a first book published that was ALSO published in 2008 or 2009. But assuming you are not a Native American, then Sherman Alexie's books would work for Task 25.3 - as I believe all of his books center on the Native American culture.
I just joined this group, and I like the looks of this challenge - I think I'll give it a whirl!BTW, sorry for any confusion I may cause, being a second Linda...
Thanks Becky! The way I have it now, I think I have more than half, but I might be able to fit a couple more in, looking there! Yay! Thanks again!
Here's the start of my list, which may take me some time to compile. I'll just add to it as I decide on my titles:30.1 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (British) and Summer of the Swans (American)
30.2 The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
30.3 Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
25.1 Coraline (Fantasy); Love's Abiding Joy by Janette Oke (Christian); Stargirl by Spinelli (Contemp)
25.2 Two random library picks
25.3 Ten Things I Hate about Me
25.4 Uglies & Pretties
20.1 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
20.2 Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner
20.3 Bless the Beasts and Children - takes place in and near Prescott, where my family visited and considered moving to a few years back.
20.4 I Never Promised you a Rose Garden (publ. 1965, my brother's birth year)
20.5 The Book of Lost Things
10.1 Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
10.2 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon or Graceling
10.3 The House on Mango Street
10.4 The Land by Mildred Taylor
5.1 The Hunger Games
5.2 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5.3 Messenger by Lowry - rec. by a student
5.4 The Bean Trees by Kingsolver
Is it fine if I don't publish my list? I like to make spur of the moment decisions and figure out how to fit them in so I would probably be changing my list every other day if I posted a list...
Absolutely fine. The decision to post your list is a personal choice.
I see 2 Lindas. Me and the one above. Is that going to be confusing?
Yeah, I'm not going to post mine either. I just don't know yet on most of them... and I change my mind all the time. I even read a couple of YA books yesterday, but I'm not sure where I want to put them yet. I'm not going to rack up anywhere near as many pages as some of these ladies! I really should read The Sweet Far Thing though....Would it be okay if I read Princess Diaries IX or X and watched Princess Diaries 2? The movie, which is a complete Disney-fication, would, in theory, take place AFTER Book 10, so... I dunno--let me know!
Also, I saw that for Task 20.4, someone was reading a book published the year their little sister was born. Is this cool? I've found a few books published in 1983, but it seems to be a dud year in my opinion... Well, not completely, but there aren't any books I'm interested in reading. I would love to be able to read one from one of my siblings' years ('85, '90, '93)!
Yes. You're both in California. What the heck? I don't want to say your ages. Just tell me how you want to be shown in the Leader Board. Thx.
I think I need a nickname like Titch :)
haha I will change my name in my settings and you can use that for the leaderboard
Is that better? That's my first and middle name. I haven't finished a book yet, so it should be fine.
Awww, what a beautiful name. Yes, thanks Linda, I appreciate you doing that.
No problem. And thank you. :) Laura is pretty too... ;)
I'm a sucker for Grace, I think it's a timeless name.
I like it as well. I have been thinking about naming my daughter that when I have a girl. My dad chose Linda Grace and I have always loved my name. :)
Need help from groupies!I am currently reading Anne of Green Gables. I read it before but it was 20+ years ago and I dont recall much of it. I dont know which task to classify it under.
2. Read a Wild Things group read and contribute to the discussion.
3. Re-read a book that you enjoyed when you were younger OR read a book that a young person in your life recommended to you.
Natalee, I'd probably use it for the Group Read task, as there are only two books to choose from for that task at this point. Although the challenge is going to last for 3 months, so technically there would be at least 2 more later.
Natalee, I too would use it for the Group Read, unless you are going to read the Graveyard Book as well and have not yet used that one for another task.
I just wanted to make sure it wasnt "cheating", for lack of a better word, since I read it already - eventhough it was a looooong time ago. Let's not say how long ago again because I am starting to feel old. :-P
Are we allowed to change our mind on the books we picked for each task after we tell you? So, if I take points for one novel, and then later decide I want to use it for a different task, is that ok? Just checking...
Fiona and Laura said Re-reads were okay, so even though you have read it already it is still okay to use for that task.
Ashley wrote: "Are we allowed to change our mind on the books we picked for each task after we tell you? So, if I take points for one novel, and then later decide I want to use it for a different task, is that ok..."It's fine Ashley, as long as you make it clear what your new total is and how you arrived at that when you make the swap.
I would imagine so Ashley, you'd just have to make sure that Laura knows you're claiming different points for the task. She's pretty flexible. :)
Linda Grace wrote: "Fiona and Laura said Re-reads were okay, so even though you have read it already it is still okay to use for that task."Yes re-reads are fine, but you can't re-read the SAME book twice and use it for two tasks. Each title may only be used once.
sounds good! Thanks for your patience while I get the hang of this. :-)
Well keeping mind that I'm still getting the hang of this too, I'm sure we all muddle through. I'm just glad this is a happy group, whose members all enjoy YA, and that is all I need right now to make me smile.
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Sara TX wrote: "I've found a few books published in 1983, but it seems to be a dud year in my opinion... Well, not completely, but there aren't any books I'm interested in reading."We're the same age! I had similar difficulty, so I'm using my brother's year, 1991.
4. Read a book published in the year you were born OR in the year any of your children or siblings were born
Am I too late to join the challenge? It looks like fun! I just found & joined the group yesterday (happened to notice you on the "active groups" list and loved the name). And you are an ACTIVE group! Especially for such a new group! I didn't have time last night to read a lot of the posts, so here I am today - trying to catch up. :)
Luann, the Challenge Queen from the Shelf Challenge. OOooh, you're gonna be some fierce competition. Welcome in, and welcome to Wild Things Luann!
*whispers to Fiona*Luann is a reading tornado to beat all reading tornados. Watch the whirlwind go! She tore us ALL up in the Shelf Challenge.
Hi Luann glad you are joining us...this challenge only started on May 1st...so please join in...now please tell what is this shelf challenge you speak of Laura?
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I'd like to use Bewitching Season, which takes place in England during the Victorian era. I live in NYC but it occurred to me that the purpose of this one might be for a contemporary setting in another country/culture. I think it's okay but I just wanted to check. Thanks!