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Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge
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Nov 02, 2014 01:11AM
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Like I said, classics such as Anne of Green Gables or even the HP books, the parents already are familiar with because they're very well-read people. :) This is why it's hard. I could get them a Little House book, but the values contained within aren't what they're looking for. I realize my sisters have pretty specific tastes and clauses, so maybe we could just open another thread for general Christmas presents suggestions, instead.Also, I know that The Neverending Story can be enjoyed without the Auryn, but as it is a present from me to them, I want the book to have it.
Aitziber -- Ophelia & The Marvellous Boy is an excellent book for 6-10 year olds. Ruby Lu, Brave & True is a great series. The Tale of Despereaux is fun. The Borrowers series. The original Heidi or the What Katy Did books for classics. Chronicles of Narnia, though religious, can be read as simply magical tales.I just became an Aunty & cannot wait to share books with my niece! Have fun shopping for titles :)
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Also, Mrs. Mike was a wonderful book I read in that age range. It was based on a true life story. And I just discovered was continued in a series of "Mrs. Mike" books.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret was lovely and combines the graphic novel element nicely.
I didn't know Mrs. Mike was a series! I'll check that out.
Sandy wrote: "This is leaving a lot of research to you, unfortunately, but hopefully I'm pointing you in the right direction. :-) "Sandy, this actually helps a lot. I'd been thinking of looking at children's lit award winners as the quality is likely to be better. It's tricky because while a synopsis is written to make a book marketable, sometimes what marketing people think it's marketable may sound unappealing. :P It'd be easier if I'd actually read these books. So yes, research is in order.
Prepping for 2015 and wondering if the Genre Challenge will be running again in 2015? I joined the group too late to do it this year, but it looks like fun if it's going again next year :)
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Yes! The genres will be slightly different, just to mix things up a little, but it's kind of our signature challenge, so it'll be back. :)
Faye wrote: "S.J. wrote: "Prepping for 2015 and wondering if the Genre Challenge will be running again in 2015? I joined the group too late to do it this year, but it looks like fun if it's going again next yea..."
Great, I'll make a spot for it in my personal challenge area :)
Great, I'll make a spot for it in my personal challenge area :)
Question for the mods-are members allowed to start threads in the 'Book Chat' section, or is that a mod only thing? I thought it would be fun to start a thread, asking what people's top reads of 2014 were, but I didn't want to start a thread if I wasn't supposed to :) I'd love to hear what books people loved this year-my TBR list could use a few new additions :D
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Go right ahead and make it. It's an excellent idea, and could spark some really interesting discussions!
Holly wrote: "Of course members are allowed to make threads, in generally any section! We try to encourage it, but we often don't see many people making them. We'd love for people to make more! :)
Go right ahea..."
Great, I'll start one now :)
Go right ahea..."
Great, I'll start one now :)
(If this would be better in another threat let me know I couldn't find one so went for this one). I was wondering, do people here read a couple of books simultaneously or do you wait until you've finished one before picking up another.
I have always read one at a time but am tempted now to go for two
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The Group Wide Points is a fun way to encourage members to join group activities and interact.
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Last year, I had a widget on my blog for this challenge, and I would like to have one again this year, but can't find the code for it on GR. Don't know if I'm just unobservant or ... ?
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Do you mean the group or the reading challenge?
All the goodreads blog widgets can be found in: Click on your profile up in the right corner > Edit profile > widgets. Then there will be boxes with the codes in for you.
Being new to any form of online reading groups, what is the best way to find other readers in the group to discuss particular books with? I am hoping that is one of the things that can be done through this group. It appears that this group is for any reading genre, which is perfect for those of us who cross into different genres.
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If you want to just talk about a book, we've got the 'Specific Book/Author Discussion' folder where you can make threads about a specific book.
If you are looking to do a buddy-read (essentially, an organised, un-official group read where a set of people read it at the same time), you can post in this thread to see if anyone is interested in doing a buddy-read of the book.
And if it fits in with any of our monthly challenges, found here, you can post in the respective threads.
Hope this helps! If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask. :)
Thank you, Holly. That's just what I needed to know!
I'm not sure it's a group problem, but I noticed that "my books" stats page is not updating. The overall 2015 reading challenge correctly shows 3 books read in 2015, but if I go to "my books" stats, I can only see 2 as the number of books even if it correctly shows 3 icons when I select "details". I did some digging and found some old Goodreads threads dealing with the same issue and they suggest waiting for 24 hours as there may be a delay in the update, I have finished my latest book yesterday, but it still isn't showing.
Is one of the moderators also a Site admin, it appears that it is a known issue on Goodreads and it needs a "refresh of my shelf count" to fix it? see here
Hi Kiwi - I'm not a site admin but I do know one of the other mods aren't admins either. Holly, Faye, Renee...are any of you Admins?
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And it's not a problem I've come across in my GR travels so I can't even stitch together any advice. Sorry, Kiwi. :(
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And it's not a problem I've come across in my GR travels so I can't even stitch together any advice. Sorry, Kiwi. :(
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The overall 2015 reading challenge correctly shows 3 books read in 2015, but if I go to "my books" sta..."
It looks to me like you're not setting your "date read" dates. They only appear on the overall challenge widget if you give them the date you finished reading it.
Hi Faye, no the finished date is not the problem. For my books I put them into "currently" reading state first, and then keep the number of pages/progress updated along the way. The book statistic shows all of the reading progress dates and at the end it shows 01/07 "marked as read". For me the overall challenge widget is updated instantly, it is the book stats page that is not up-to-date.I have now suspended the add of completed books, the last one was more than 23 hours ago, it's now a matter of waiting 1 more hour to see if the problem get resolved by the 24 hours delay.
update: seems that the count updated just now. Almost 24 hours later.
Holly wrote: "If you are confused about anything within the group, please ask about it here. We'll try to get back to you as soon as we can."I am spending too much time trying to navigate the group and not enough time reading or doing anything else. I'm sure it suits other people but I find it way too confusing. how do I leave the group?
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Say, Renee, are we going to do Calendar Crazy: Summer Edition? I already have books picked out. :D
There she is - our favourite troublemaker is back and already influencing us with more challenges. That's why we love you Melissa!
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Renee wrote: "Does anyone know why I can only have two widgets? Two went through and are updating nicely, but my genre widget won't play along. I've tried renaming. I've tried creating a whole new shelf and movi..."Look to see if it moved off the screen. I have three, but only two show up on the main group page.
When you say "won't play along" do you mean the books are not included in the challenge and the count is wrong? or simply you can't see the challenge on the main page?As Becca said, under the challenges header (in grey background) only 2 challenges are visible on the group page, but the remaining shows up by selecting "More challenges ..." link. I do not know of a way to make them all show up or even reorder them.
If the count is wrong, I've noticed that after marking a book as read and ticking the box for the appropriate challenge shelf the counter takes some time to catch up, but if you are able to follow the link to show the books in your challenge it will update immediately. Hope it helps Renee :)
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I guess you have double checked the spelling (I have made this silly mistake myself :). Have you tried creating the shelf first and then setting up the challenge by assigning the shelf to challenge
Alternatively try the opposite, set up the challenge assigning a new shelf name and see if it automatically creates the shelf for you
then go through your global GR 2015 Reading Challenge list and tick the books from there and see if it updates?
These are the only things I can think of. I have created the challenges and their shelves at the beginning of the year and I can't remember exactly how I did it...
How frustrating Renee :(
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Quick question, would Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars, a nonfiction book dealing with Japanese whaling in and near Australia, be an appropriate title for the World Literature Challenge for the month of November? Biggest reason I ask is because it's non-fiction and I generally think of literature as works of fiction (or at least mythology).It actually seems as if it could fit into any of the three challenges for the month of November, but I already have a volume of essays in mind for the Non-Fiction Challenge.
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We're not overly specific with how we attribute books to our challenges. It's more about how you'd like to fit it into them. We're not going to come round and tell you a book isnt allowed, and demand you change!
That book, along with sounding fascinating, would be fine for the World Lit month. But as I said, fit the books how you'd like to, its wholly up to you.
Hi! I'm having the same difficulty as Renee. My World-Lit and Non-Fiction challenges tally fine each time I add a book to the shelf but the Genre challenge won't tally any book I add to the shelf. Very strange. I've read a Science Fiction book this month, have put it in the genre shelf but it will not record it - even after waiting many days. Any suggestions?
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