30.6 - Kate S's Task: Beginnings and Endings

[Ann A]

Dlmrose wrote: "Ann A wrote: "Dlmrose wrote: "Ann A wrote: "For Option 1B, I want to use Paul Auster's The Locked Room, which is on the first list. However, this book is the third in a trilogy, so I wan..."

Will do. Thanks, Dlmrose!

[Sarah]

Dlmrose wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Question about option 2: what if we choose an award in which the newest winner is announced during the challenge dates? I'm thinking particularly of the Printz, though it may be true ..."

Thank you!

[Dee]

can I get for Eloisa James her first/last approved, I see
Potent Pleasures as her first (recently re-released)
Once Upon a Tower as her most recent (her next newest not due out until March 2014)

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Dee wrote: "can I get for Eloisa James her first/last approved, I see
Potent Pleasures as her first (recently re-released)
Once Upon a Tower as her most recent (her..."

I'm not sure if Kate is around
Those books are the first and most recently published

[Dee]

thanks ;)

[❀Tea❀]

Just checking if I got right books for option 3 ☺
Sandra Brown
first published: Love Beyond Reason
last published: Deadline

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Just checking if I got right books for option 3 ☺
Sandra Brown
first published: Love Beyond Reason
last published: Deadline"

According to this article inTexas Monthly Love's Encore was Sandra Brown's first book, originally published as Rachel Ryan and rereleased as Sandra Brown.

Deadline is the most recently published

[❀Tea❀]

Dlmrose wrote: "According to this article inTexas Monthly Love's Encore was Sandra Brown's first book, originally published as Rachel Ryan and rereleased as Sandra Brown.

Deadline is the most recently published "

OK thanks.
*going to search new book*

[Rosemary]

For option 1, is it okay to pick a book from the 100 Best First Lines from Novels for option A and then a book from Stylist Best 100 Closing Lines for option B, or do you have to go with either 100 Best or Stylist consistently?

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Rosemary wrote: "For option 1, is it okay to pick a book from the 100 Best First Lines from Novels for option A and then a book from Stylist Best 100 Closing Lines for option B, or do you have to go with either 100..."

Yes, it is ok, you may use either list within each option

[Claire]

Option 1A: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Option 1B: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[Marscha]

Can you please check these for option 3?

Janet Evanovich
Hero at Large 1st published
Takedown Twenty most recently published

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Marscha wrote: "Can you please check these for option 3?

Janet Evanovich
Hero at Large 1st published
Takedown Twenty most recently published"

Yes, that works
Takedown Twenty is the most recently published by Evanovich solo
"Co-author writing teams may be treated as one author with both books by the same team"

[Delmy]

what is the book length for this task?

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Delmy =^.^= wrote: "what is the book length for this task?"

Standard SRC rules

[Lois]

For option 3A, according to the biographical blurb on her web site (http://www.anitashreve.com/), Anita Shreve's first published book is Eden Close, originally published in 1989.
Her second book, Strange Fits of Passion, was published in 1991. The Goodreads date (1985) for this book seems to be incorrect.
I can read either of these books, but would like to get approval for whichever one would be accepted as her first for this task.

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Lois wrote: "For option 3A, according to the biographical blurb on her web site (http://www.anitashreve.com/), Anita Shreve's first published book is Eden Close, originally published ..."

The task calls for "Book A: Read author’s first full-length published book." Anita Shreve published some non-fiction books before her first novel- some have a co-author like Working Woman: A Guide to Fitness + Health with Patricia Lone but her first solo book appears to be Remaking Motherhood: How Working Mothers Are Shaping Our Children's Future in 1987

http://www.bookseriesinorder.com/anit...