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Paris - I'm like you - no clue what the song means other than we should keep our old friends close at heartI'm in - will figure my books later :D
Foreman Paris - Auld Lang Syne
Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
Pint Cup: BR w/Ezi ~ Into the Dreaming 3♥ 1/20/14
BR w/Leslie Cry Wolf 1/9/14 4♥
Br w/Ezi Consequences 1/20/14 5♥
Run About the Slopes: Biting Cold 1/12/14 4♥
Glad I'm not alone Melissa. Thanks for joining.Foreman Paris - Auld Lang Syne
Duration: 1/1/14 - 1/31/14
0/? Completed
Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
Pint Cup: Buddy read a book with a friend this month.
Run About the Slopes: Read a book that has snow in it or on the cover.
Picked the Daisies: Read a book with a character named Daisy or with daisies in the book or on the cover.
Paddled in the stream: Read a book where someone goes swimming
Seas between us broad have roared: Read a book that takes place on the East coast of the US or across the pond.
Good Will Draught: Read a book where friends get drinks together.
Auld Lang Syne: Read a book that takes place in Scotland since Auld Lang Syne is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns.
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Old Acquaintance (Melissa): Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends--will chose from participants:
Pint Cup (BR w/Melissa):
Run About the Slopes:
Picked the Daisies (umm, will any flower do?):
Paddled in the stream: Read a book where someone goes swimming:
Seas between us broad have roared (East Coast):
Good Will Draught:
Auld Lang Syne (Set in Scotland):
Oh Ezi, I was having a difficult time figuring out what to do for my challenge and then I figured why not be super random. lol
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It's creative. I am jealous of your creativity. Im so lame
My creativity just comes from randomness most of the time. oooh and I'm almost done with the January in History challenge and I think you're really going to like one of those. lol
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i'll check it out. That's one challenge that I never participate in...but I will see what you've got cookin' over there
I should be putting it up later if I can make it through the list. Stupid job. lol I should have stayed home
Paris wrote: "I should be putting it up later if I can make it through the list. Stupid job. lol I should have stayed home"damn that work for getting in the way,lol
I'm with all of you ladies, I don't know WTH it means either but it does make a cool challenge. I'm not sure how many I'll be able to find but I'll give it a try.READ: 5/5
✔Run About the Slopes: Cold Copper - Devon Monk (blizzard in first chapter) 1/14
✔Paddled in the stream: The Navigator - Clive Cussler (lots of underwater swimming) 1/9
✔Seas between us broad have roared: Lizard World - Terry Richard Bazes (set in Florida) 1/21
✔Good Will Draught: Hour Game - David Baldacci 1/30
✔Auld Lang Syne: Never Seduce a Scot - Maya Banks (in Scotland) /10
CHALLENGE COMPLETE
TCF Auld Lang Syne ChallengeI'm in. This song never made sense to me either.
FWIW - Auld Lang Syne is translated to mean old times. So the first line asks if old times should be forgotten. It is supposed to be a rhetorical question or answered no since the rest of the verse/song reminisces about old times. (I googled it and found this info in an article.)
Progress: 8 books
Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Pint Cup: Buddy read a book with a friend this month.
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder
Run About the Slopes: Read a book that has snow on the cover.
Brush with Death by Karen MacInerney
Dead Men Don't Ski by Patricia Moyes 1/18/14
Picked the Daisies: Read a book with a character named Daisy.
Damsel in Distress by Carola Dunn - MC is Daisy Dalrymple - 1/23/14
Paddled in the stream: Read a book where someone goes swimming
Dead in the Water by Carola Dunn 1/31/14
Seas between us broad have roared: Read a book that takes place on the East coast of the US.
Berried to the Hilt by Karen MacInerney 1/02/14
Good Will Draught: Read a book where friends get drinks together.
Clammed Up by Barbara Ross 1/11/04
Auld Lang Syne: Read a book that takes place in Scotland.
Death of a Perfect Wife by M.C. Beaton 1/24/14
Death of a Hussy by M.C. Beaton 1/26/14
Ooooh. Thanks Nell. That makes it make a little more sense.
Foreman Paris - AULD LANG SYNE challengeBEGIN: 01Jan14 / END 31Jan14
No requirement - have fun!
✔ Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
I confess that I didn't ask her specifically, but Diana S gave me this book over a year ago, so I know she recommends it! The Untelling ✔ – 07Jan14
✔ Pint Cup: Buddy read a book with a friend this month. - Reading this with a group over on Shelfari ... Almost Heaven ✔ – 21Jan14
Run About the Slopes: Read a book that has snow in it or on the cover.
Picked the Daisies: Read a book with a character named Daisy or with daisies in the book or on the cover.
✔ Paddled in the stream: Read a book where someone goes swimming
Rules of Civility ✔ – 22Jan14 - pg 89 – “... Tinker would swim there and back ...”
✔ Seas between us broad have roared: Read a book that takes place on the East coast of the US or across the pond. - takes place in England - Mrs. Jeffries and the Mistletoe Mix-Up – 03Jan14
✔ Good Will Draught: Read a book where friends get drinks together. - More than once! The Poisoner's Handbook – 05Jan14
Auld Lang Syne: Read a book that takes place in Scotland since Auld Lang Syne is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns.
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@Paris:
for #1 Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
May I instead let the person with the most comments in this group (not a mod) make a recommendation to me?
That would be Melissa (message 2)
OR
Oldest active member (not Shellebelle), which would be ~Jennifer~’s
Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: " @Paris:
for #1 Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
May I instead let the person with the most comments in this group (not a mod) make ..."
Sure Ezi!
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@Melissa,
can you recommend for me?
(*ahem, Consequences for a BR since it just came out on audible?)
*snickers* picking her own book,lolOf course we can do
as a BR - pretty sure I'll want to comment my way through this one!! Let me know when you are thinking for this one ~ I'll set up a Buddy Read thread for us.
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Of course we can do
as a BR - pretty sure I'll want to comment my way through this one!! Let me know when you are thinking fo..."I just gently guided you...but you are welcome to hit up my TBR pile and let me know if there is something else you want me to read.
I am scared to read this! It's freaking 20 hours on audio. Here I was complaining about Jane Yellowrock being 14hrs.
Oooooohhhhh
such a mindfuck of a book. I hope you ladies love it.
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such a mindfuck of a book. I hope you ladies love it."I don't know if I will...but I am stepping out of my comfort zone with it
Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "Paris wrote: "Oooooohhhhh such a mindfuck of a book. I hope you ladies love it."I don't know if I will...but I am stepping out of my comfort zone with it"
This is why I picked it.... even though I was guided,lol
I actually figured I wanted someone to read it with me. Look at buddy read thread - we
It is definitely something that I think is better read with others if you can do it.
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such a mindfuck of a book. I hope you ladies love it."I don't know if I will...but I am stepping out ..."
we are at 5 people now. Awesome:D
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the challenge or the Buddy Read of Consequences?
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
FOREMAN PARIS - JANUARY
Duration: Jan 01, 2014 - Jan 31, 2014
Completed: 4
Run About the Slopes: Read a book that has snow in it » A few snow storms.
Hild | Nicola Griffith ★★★★ (01/02)
Paddled in the stream: Read a book where someone goes swimming » Duro & Laura.
The Hired Man | Aminatta Forna ★★★ (01/31)
Seas between us broad have roared: Read a book that takes place on the East coast of the US » North Carolina.
Serena | Ron Rash ★★★★★ (01/04)
Good Will Draught: Read a book where friends get drinks together » Piper & Reba Mae.
Rosemary and Crime | Gail Oust ★★★ (01/26)
The Challenge FactoryForeman Paris - Auld Lang Syne
Duration: 1/1/2014 - 1/31/2014
Completed: 10
Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
Pint Cup: Buddy read a book with a friend this month.
Run About the Slopes: Read a book that has snow in it or on the cover:
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah - ***** - 1/15/2014
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan - **** - 1/21/2014
Picked the Daisies: Read a book with a character named Daisy or with daisies in the book or on the cover.
Paddled in the stream: Read a book where someone goes swimming:
When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James - *** - 1/9/2014
Night Road by Kristin Hannah - ***** - 1/27/2014
Seas between us broad have roared: Read a book that takes place on the East coast of the US or across the pond:
Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - ***** - 1/8/2014
Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl - **** - 1/12/2014
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris - **** - 1/14/2014
Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger by Beth Harbison - ***** - 1/16/2014
Good Will Draught: Read a book where friends get drinks together:
Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life by Melissa Joan Hart - ***** - 1/10/2014
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard - ***** - 1/14/2014
Auld Lang Syne: Read a book that takes place in Scotland since Auld Lang Syne is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns.
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Auld lang syne means times long past.... I found pretty good info on wikipedia here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lan...Good challenge idea, Paris
GO HAWKS!
1. Old Acquaintance: Stewart, Mariah Coming Home 2. Read with Friend: Coble, Colleen Tidewater Inn: Hope Beach
3. Snow: Giff, Patricia Reilly Winter Sky
4. Daisy.
5. swimming: Cooney, Caroline B. Diamonds in the Shadow
6. on East coast or across the pond:
7. drinks together: Parker, Robert B. Pale Kings and Princes
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WEll done
Congrats to those who finished this one!
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I’ve never really understood the meaning of the song Auld Lang Syne and after reading the lyrics, I still don’t, but it gave me an idea for my January Foreman Challenge, so confusing or not, it works. There are no levels and you can do each option as many times as you want. Just have fun and happy reading!!
Old Acquaintance: Get a book recommendation from one of your oldest Goodreads friends.
Pint Cup: Buddy read a book with a friend this month.
Run About the Slopes: Read a book that has snow in it or on the cover.
Picked the Daisies: Read a book with a character named Daisy or with daisies in the book or on the cover.
Paddled in the stream: Read a book where someone goes swimming
Seas between us broad have roared: Read a book that takes place on the East coast of the US or across the pond.
Good Will Draught: Read a book where friends get drinks together.
Auld Lang Syne: Read a book that takes place in Scotland since Auld Lang Syne is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns.
Auld Lang Syne
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
and surely I’ll buy mine !
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine† ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give me a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS