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WINTER CHALLENGE 2013
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Winter Challenge 2013: Questions/Problems in Completed Tasks
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15.4 requires that the author's first or last name match the first or last name of a character from Clue. Brett Easton Ellis and Eileen Brennan do not have any names in common.
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You linked to a book with only 94 pages for this task. Candide. If you read an edition with >100 pages, please repost, linking to that edition.
I thought 15.4 meant initials-- ok, will use for another task.
To the mods:I just posted for 15.1 in post 916. I didn't realize that 15.1 was a two part task. So I have one book done. I will have to repost when I read the second one. Sorry about that.
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I just posted for 15.1 in post 916. I didn't realize that 15.1 was a two part task. So I have one book done. I will have to repost when I read the second one. Sorry about that."
Thanks for the early heads up - I'll just ignore that post when I get to it.
To the mods:I checked my total in readoboard and its shows 205 while should be 230 (or I cannot see something again :(). I checked "problems board" and Im not mentioned about last post (890). All my finished tasks are:
15.4
15.5
15.8
15.9
20.3
20.6
20.9
25.10
25.11
30.1
30.5
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I checked my total in readoboard and its shows 205 while should be 230 (or I cannot see something again :(). I checked "problems board" and Im not mentioned about last post (890). All ..."
The problem is found and fixed, Aleksandra. Your total should be correct in the next update. Thanks for the quick heads up!
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Please check your totals - you should have a grand total of 50. No need to repost, this is just so you can correct your own records.
DeborahI only have 11 GRA tickets recorded for you. You have 12 in your total. Am I missing one? I've recorded GRA from the following posts:
16 - Jen Campbell
50 - Kevin Hearne
79 - Donna Andrews
258 - Jeaniene Frost & Maggie Stiefvater
400 - Aimee Laine
604 - Karin Slaughter
821 - Rainbow Rowell
854 - Vannetta Chapman
936 - Neil Gaiman & Margaret Mallory
I only have 11 GRA tickets recorded for you. You have 12 in your total. Am I missing one? I've recorded GRA from the following posts:Post #787 I believe UnSouled by Neal Shusterman GR Author
Sandy wrote: "Jenifer post 874You linked to a book with only 94 pages for this task. Candide. If you read an edition with >100 pages, please repost, linking to that edition."
Thanks, I will repost the correct edition. I was actually planning on switching this book to a different task anyways so I guess it works out.
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In your post, you claimed Fate. This book appears to only exist in e-book form.
The rules of the challenge provide that
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. "ebook Approved post #"
Deborah wrote: "Post #787 I believe UnSouled by Neal Shusterman GR Author"Thanks, Deborah! I've added that one to your totals. After the next update, our numbers should match.
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Please post both books of a two book task in the same post. No need to repost - I've got the task recorded.
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Please correct your total in your records - should be 25 points. No need to repost, this is just to keep our records in sync.
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Task 30.7, option 5, requires an anthology, with at least 2 transitional books (books with series number that are "in between" the regular books, with .5 or such as the series numbers). Divergent is not an anthology, nor does it have a transitional series number.
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For task 20.1, you need to include the option you're using. "20.1A" isn't enough, since 3 of the options have "A" choices.
Task 20.5, option 5 (or E) requires a book about football. From the GR description, Adam Canfield of the Slash appears to be about a middle school newspaper reporter and there is nothing in the GR description to indicate that the book involves football in any significant way. Please explain how this book fits the task.
Task 20.7, option 2, requires that science fiction or alternate history be listed as a genre on the book's main page. TimeRiders: Day of the Predator has no genres listed on its main page.
The points for 20.4 have been recorded, so please do not repost for that task.
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Task 20.8 is a one book task. I have recorded the points, but you will probably want to use one of these books for another task. When you post for the other task, please note that it was unnecessarily used for this task, so that I am reminded that you are not trying to use the same book twice!
Sandy wrote: " Stefanie post 966In your post, you claimed Fate. This book appears to only exist in e-book form.
The rules of the challenge provide that
If you claim a book in Completed Tasks t..."
Hi Sandy, I am sorry, I did not realize Goodreads only showed Ebook, there is a paperback version on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Trilog...
Stefanie wrote: "Sandy wrote: " Stefanie post 966In your post, you claimed Fate. This book appears to only exist in e-book form.
The rules of the challenge provide that
If you claim a book in Com..."
A classic case of badly imported data and missing combination of editions. I combined all editions and now it should show both ebook and paperback.
Kimber - post 1054Only one GRA ticket is issued per book so you get one ticket for Beautiful Chaos even though both authors are GRAs. Please adjust your final total.
For more info on GRA and BB tickets please see: Clarification of Goodread Author and Big Book Rules
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As of post 946 my total should be 285 not 255. I didn't see any issues on that post. Do you know why the Readerboard is incorrect?"
Unfortunately, it looks as if my post in this thread didn't go through. In your post #946, task 30.6, you did not include the identity of the lists you used for option 1 - that's a required element of your post. It at least cuts in half the number of lists I have to look through to try to find your books!
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Thanks for taking care of this, Fandury!
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Unfortunately, we don't have time to research posted books - that's why we have to go with what shows up on GR, and, more particularly, by what shows up on the link you provide.
Best thing to do is to check this before you post - then, if the GR data is inaccurate, you can get a GR librarian to fix the problem before you post.
You'll need to repost this task.
Sandy wrote: "Mai post 1044Task 20.8 is a one book task. I have recorded the points, but you will probably want to use one of these books for another task. When you post for the other task, please note that ..."
Duly noted. Thanks for pointing that out!
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Task 25.6 requires that you include in your post the name of the country where you currently live.
Please do not repost the other tasks in your post - they have been recorded.
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All tasks must be posted in numerical order, lowest to highest. This is necessary to try to streamline the record keeping procedures (our spreadsheets go left to right, lowest to highest). See the first post in the completed tasks thread and the Posting Requirements.
Please repost your tasks.
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The book you linked to, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose, only shows an ebook editions. If this also exists in paper, please post with the link to the paper version, or have the editions combined by a librarian. If it only exists as an ebook, please ask for length approval in the ebook verification thread.
Kristi (Passion for the Page) wrote: " Kimber - post 1054Only one GRA ticket is issued per book so you get one ticket for Beautiful Chaos even though both authors are GRAs. Please adjust your final total.
For more in..."
I wasn't sure about that so thank you for setting me straight. I'll adjust my totals.
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Task 25.6 requires that you include your country of residence in your post. Please repost with the required information.
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For task 20.8, option 1, the word must be found in the "title, subtitle or author's name." Series titles are not included.
Please do not repost the other tasks in post 1193 - those points have been recorded.
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We have a number of participants with one form or another of the name Barbara. Please repost with your readerboard name included.
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Task 20.6 require that you use a 10, 15, or 20 point task that you did not complete in Fall or Summer 2013. 5 point tasks are not included in the task description.
Elizabeth P - post 1231According to Rule 8 of the Challenge Rules, ebook page count should be determined as follows:
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.
The paperback edition of The Atopia Chronicles has 496 pages and is, therefore, not eligible for Big Book tickets.
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For task 30.5, you posted Riddle in Stone. That book does not appear to have a paper edition.
The rules of the challenge provide that
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. "ebook Approved post #"
Please do not repost the other tasks in the post - those points have been recorded.
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Task 20.4 option 3 requires that the title/subtitle and author combined contain exactly 3 "E"s. The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle contains 3 Es in the title and 2 more in the author's name, so will not work for this task.
OOps---sorry about that.I will use it somewhere else. :-)
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Task 30.6, option 3, specifies "Book A: Read author’s first full-length published book." Interpreter of Maladies is Jhumpa Lahiri's first full length published book, so The Namesake will not work here.
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Task 20.2 requires that the author be new to you and that you state this in your post.
Please do not repost task 20.5 - that has already been recorded.
Sandy wrote: "Sue T post 846The book you linked to, The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Success, only shows 2 ebook editions. If this also exists in paper, please post with the link..."
Sandy, that's very strange, because when I click on "other editions" a paperback is the first one listed The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Sucess.
Do I need to repost?
Sandy wrote: "Elizabeth B post 1279Task 30.6, option 3, specifies "Book A: Read author’s first full-length published book." Interpreter of Maladies is Jhumpa Lahiri's first full lengt..."
Sandy, The interpreter of maladies is a collection of short stories and the books were approved at msg#39 of the task thread by Kate S (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
Kristi,I should have 6 Big Book Tickets as of post 1278
I have read:
Battle Cry 694 Pages
Fairy Tales 688 Pages
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 689 Pages
Executive Power 544 Pages
Winter Solstice 504 Pages
Judgment Call 512 Pages
Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Kristi,I should have 6 Big Book Tickets as of post 1278
I have read:
Battle Cry 694 Pages
Fairy Tales 688 Pages
[book:Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manso..."
I'm running behind Sandy. If you look at the top of the GRA and BB posts, you'll see it still says (updated through post 1250). As soon as I get through post 1300, I'll update the GRA and BBs. Then you'll have 6.
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We're going to take this one, because it was specifically approved.
Please note, however, that this pair does not fit the task, which calls for reading the first published book, not the first published novel. Unfortunately, before she stopped answering questions in the help thread or responding to our questions, the task creator approved a couple book pairs that do not fit the task as she designed it.
So, we will accept book pairs that were specifically approved in the help thread, since you relied on this. Nobody should, however, generalize from this - a published collection of short stories would count as the first published book in any other situation.
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All "cover" tasks, including 20.1 option 3, require that you include the cover in your post.
Please do not repost 5.1 - those points have been recorded.
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The book you linked to, The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Success, only shows 2 ebook editions. If this also exists in paper, please post..."
I looked at the librarian change log, and this paperback edition was added (or editions combined) January 19, after you posted the task - so, when you posted, there was no paper edition listed.
don't repost - I've done the research now, and don't want to have to remind myself again!
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All tasks must be posted in numerical order, lowest to highest. This is necessary to try to streamline the record keeping procedures (our spreadsheets go left to right, lowest to highest). See the first post in the completed tasks thread and the Posting Requirements.
Please repost your tasks.
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Task 15.6 requires a word from the title of one of the songs in the title of the book. The task specifically says that plural/singular and possessives of the word are allowed, but no other variations. "Lightness" will not work for the song title word "light."
Also, please see message 119 in this thread.
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All tasks must be posted in numerical order, lowest to highest. This is necessary to try to streamline the record keeping procedures (our spreadsheets go left to right, lowest to highest). See the first post in the completed tasks thread and the Posting Requirements.
Please repost your tasks.