This or That? Decision Made (Reporting Thread)

[Stephanie]

I don't think so :( I don't remember any that fit the categories :( I will have to skim through though to make sure I didn't miss anything :)

[Janice, Moderator]

ok, thanks

[Ava Catherine]

Father of the Rain by Lily King


10 pts. = my words
lily=author's name: Lily King
dress=Darby (main character, daughter; Darby begins with d like dress), Darby wears dresses
ocean=Atlantic Ocean (New England coast; house right on the beach) is setting of book
blue=cover of book is blue
moon=Mother (main character, name begins with m like moon;
Michigan (where Darby gets her PhD)
3 pts.= Genre: chick lit
3 pts.= 354 pages

Bonus:

3 pts. infant under the age of 1: When Mallory meets Daley at the beach, she brings her infant and breastfeeds him which makes an impression on Daley.
3 pts. main character has a sister: Daley has 2 stepsisters
3 pts. character quotes poetry: Nora quotes poetry to Daley.

Total points: 25

[Stephanie]

Janice wrote: "ok, thanks"

The MC has sisters I will update my post :) there are children mentioned but I couldn't find any ages to qualify for that bonus point.

[Janice, Moderator]

Awesome, Thanks Stephanie.

[Elsbeth]

I just finished my book Dezembersturm by Iny Lorentz.

My chosen words and how they fit (I used all the first letters from main characters and 1 place of setting):
Lily - Lore = main character
Moon - Mary Penn = friend of Lore
Owl - Ottokar = Lore's awful uncle
Flowers = Fridolin = Lore's nice uncle
Lake = London = place where part of the story takes place

My points:
10 for using all the words
0 for genre (it is historical fiction)
5 for pages (it has 540 pages)
3 for bonus - red on the cover
3 for bonus - main character has a sister - I'm not sure about this one, since Lore's sister dies at the beginning of the story...

So total points: 18 or 21

[Lori Z]

I read Blackberry Pie Murder for this challenge.

Scoring:

10 pts. for all 5 words:
Sugar or Spice - Sugar - it was actually an alias for one of the characters, plus it was almost always an ingredient in the recipes throughout the book.
City or Country - Country - there was a character named Carly Richardson.
Dress or Jeans - Jeans - the victim was wearing expensive jeans.
Flowers or Chocolate - Chocolate - mentioned multiple times all kinds of different chocolate cookies, plus saying how it always makes you feel better. :)
Cat or Dog - Cat - there's 2 cats in the book, Moishe and Cuddles

Genre:
2 pts - mystery

Pages:
3 pts - 340 pages

3 pts: main character has 2 sisters in honor of Sister's Day

Total points: 18

[Shannon SA]

Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay

All 5 words - 10 points
Plane or boat - boat - Brother Fish is a fisherman and he and Jimmy Oldcorn buy a fishing boat and go into partnership
Hawk or owl - owl - character Jimmy Oldcorn
Country or city - country - c for author name Courtenay
Beer or wine - wine - war takes up over 50% of the book and is the major theme of the book
Cat or dog - cat - c for Chinese and China, where about 1/3 of the book takes place

Bonus points:
500+ pages (book is 1 078 pages) - 5 points
Brother Fish has a sister, Sue - 3 points
Brother Fish quotes poetry a lot - 3 points

Total points: 21

[Teanka]

by Conn Iggulden; HF
10 pts for all 5 words:
Spice: part of the action took place in the castle of Saumur, where Margaret d'Anjou, one of the characters in the novel, was born and brought up.
Hawk: there were only falcons in the novel, unfortunately. But king Henry VI took part in the story.
Dog: noblemen were using dogs during hunting.
Jeans: Jack Cade, a rebellion leader, was one of the protagonists.
Blue: Derry Brewer was also one of the main characters' name.

Additional points: 5 pts for length of the novel, 507 pages
Margaret d'Anjou has a sister, Yvonne, who appears several times throughout the story - 3pts;
3 pts for red on cover - there is a red rose of the House of Lancaster on the cover (and a white one for the House of York, but that is irrelevant)
3 pts for an infant who appears in the story - Cecily Neville gives birth to her 7th child, later to become king Richard III. Later there is a scene where her husband the Duke of York holds the newborn and gives him the name of Richard.

Total points: 24.

[Lara]

I chose:
Dress or Jeans: Jeans
Beer or Wine: Beer
Cat or Dog: Dog
Ocean or Lake: Ocean
Blue or Pink: Blue

And I read A New Hope

Scoring:
10 pts - all 5 words (4 are on the cover, and characters drink beer with dinner)

Genre:
3 pts - Chick Lit

Pages:
3 pts - 300-399 pages long (paperback)

August Observances:
3 pts - red on the cover, in honour of Stop on Red Week (whatever that is)
3 pts - if the main character has a sister, in honour of Sister's Day (Aug 2)

TOTAL: 22 points

[Liz]

I read Kafka on the Shore

All 5 words: 10 points
Beer- (mentioned 3 times- drank with meal )
Blue- color on cover, blue dress is significant in storyline
Jack- setting of the story is Japan
Ocean- pictured on cover, also character named oshima and ocean
Moon - (object) - discussed in detail several times

Genre: 0 points
Pages: 468 pages- 4 points
Bonus: 6 points
Main character has a sister- looking for her is significant to the plot
Lots of poetry is quoted as the main character lives in a library,
specializing in poetry, for most of the book

Total: 20 points

[Susan]

I read by Sarah J. Maas and really liked it. It’s apparently the first of a series (though I am not using it for my series challenge – the next isn’t due till 2016).
My word choices:
Sugar or Spice – Spice “Spice, salt and sugar—rare commodities for our village, impossible for most of us to afford.”
Rose or Lily – Rose the title word plus “A soft breeze laced with the scent of roses, slipped in through the open windows to caress my face.”
Sun or Moon – Sun “…along with the part of me that marveled at the way the sun illuminated the leaves…”
Flowers or Chocolate – Chocolate “Though dinner was to be served soon, Alis had a cup of molten chocolate brought up and refused to do anything until I’d had a few sips”
Cat or Dog – Dog “...if the High Fae start turning up – or even worse one of the High Lords. They would make the martax seem like dogs.”

10 points for all 5 words
4 points for Paranormal Romance (?)
4 points - 416 pages
3 points for Red on Cover
3 points for Sisters (MC Feyre, Nesta and Elain)
3 points for Poetry (Tamlin writes scandalous limericks for Feyre)

total = 27 points I think

[Tejas Janet]

The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal

10 points - for all five words (boat, beer, leather, by dog all occur more than metaphorically, and lily is the author's first name)
5 points - nonfiction genre
3 points - page length (320 pgs)
3 point bonus - color red on cover
3 points - various characters quote poetry (including a Shakespeare sonnet and poems by Mark Van Doren and Rose Hartwick Thorpe)

24 points

[Josée Leon]

I read The Three by Sarah Lotz

Scoring:

10 pts - all 5 words
Plane (plane on the cover)
Ocean (Orz man - online name used by one of the character's)
Jeans (Jess is one of the survivors)
Hawk (Hiro Yanagida is one of the survivors)
Leather (Lillian Small - survirvor Bobby Small's grandmother)

Genre:
2 pts - Mystery (most popular genre as per reader's shelves)

Pages:
5 pts -500+ pages long (paperback edition I read had 511 pages)

August Observances:
3 pts - red on the cover - Title is in red
3 pts - if the main character has a sister - one of the main characters, survivor Jess's twin sister died on plane
3 pts - if a character quotes poetry - poetry quoted on p. 149, line from a W.H. Auden poem "Stop all the Clocks" at a memorial

Total Score : 26 points

[Cherie]

My words were:
Lily, Owl, Jeans, Ocean, and Blue

I read Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans by Joanne DeMaio

Points:
5 words = 10 pts
Blue and Jeans in title,
Ocean is in the setting and on cover,
Lily - one of the MCs in the story is named Lauren.
Owl - the name of a town is Olde Addison and one of the MCs is addressed as Officer (he is a policeman).

Chic Lit = 3 pts

249 pages = 2 pts

Bonus points:
3 pts = baby in the story. Part of the plot deals with a younger sister of the MC that was given up for adoption as a baby @ < 1 yo.
3 pts = sisters two of the MCs have sisters
no red on the cover = 0 pts
no clown in the story = 0 pts
no poetry = 0 pts :0(

Total pts = 21

[Tasha]

My words were: owl, jeans, wine, ocean and dog.

I read The Drowning Tree. Not a fan, gave it 2 stars.

Scoring:

10 pts - all 5 words: ✔owl(screech owl in a barn), ✔jeans (mentioned while MC doing laundry, people wearing jeansj), ✔wine(date brings over a bottle of wine, glasses of wine), ✔dog(MC has 2 rescue greyhounds), ✔ocean(mentioned several times within a myth, sea is used as well)

Genre:
2 pts - Mystery

Pages:
3 pts - 300-399 pages long


August Observances:

3 pts - there is an infant under the age of 1, in honour of National Breastfeeding Month. (MC's flashback with 8mo daughter, myth mentions breastfeeding an infant)

3 pts - if a character quotes poetry, in honour of Bad Poetry Day (Aug 18)(Tennyson and more)

Total points: 21

[Cherie]

Hey Tasha, what about red on the cover. Is the boat red? On my iPod so can't really tell.

[Tasha]

unfortunately it's more orange looking. thanks though!! :)

[Cherie]

Tasha wrote: "unfortunately it's more orange looking. thanks though!! :)"

too bad. :0)

[Tasha]

yeah. :)

[Almeta]

Tasha wrote: "unfortunately it's more orange looking. thanks though!! :)"

Sure looks red from here!☺

[Almeta]

Emily of New Moon
Cat or Dog ~ Cat on the cover
Ocean or Lake ~ Atlantic Ocean
Sugar or Spice ~ Spice and the St. Lawrence River
Sun or Moon ~ Moon in the title
Flowers or Chocolate ~ Flowers on the cover

10 pts - all 5 words
3 pts - 339 pages long
3 pts - Aunts Elizabeth and Laura ,who foster Emily, are sisters of Emily's mother.
3 pts - Emily writes and quotes poetry,

Whoopee, 13 19 points!

[Janice, Moderator]

Just 13, Almeta? No babies or other exciting things?

[Almeta]

Janice wrote: "Just 13, Almeta? No babies or other exciting things?"

Now that you mention it!

I did review the points and have "found" 6 more.

[Jkmays]

I read Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. Finished 8-29-15.

Boat--Beau is a character
City--Calvin is a character
Jeans--article in the book
Dog--Diane is a character
Chocolate--Connie is a character

Used all 5 words 10 pts
Nonfiction 5 pts
Pages 386 3 pts

Total 18 pts

[Lynn]

Scoring:

8 pts - 4 words
Item in book - Moon, City, Jeans, Wine

Genre: 0pts

Pages: 2 pts - 200-299 pages long

August Observances: 0pts

Total: 10 pts

[Kulbir]

Book read for this challenge
NOS4A2

Scoring:
10 points - all 5 words used

Sugar or spice - Spice - Sugar Creek, location
Sun or moon - sun – brought up a few times through the book
Ocean or lake - ocean – Ocean, 1 of the 1st places Vic travels to on her bike.
Hawk or owl - hawk – pg 150 Vic felt like she was soaring like a hawk
Dress or jeans - jeans – people putting on jeans
Genre – 0 points
500+ pages long – 5 points
August Observations:
3 points – Red on cover, in honour of Stop on Red Week
3 points – Infant in book who turned out to be one of the main characters. Baby Wayne, Vic’s son
3 points – Poetry throughout different parts of the book. One on page 265
Total points - 24

[jaxnsmom]

I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane

country = takes place in the country
moon = many times, but my favorite is when there's a moon at the front of the house, while the grandmother 'made' a full moon to be seen from the back of the house since that was her favorite.
chocolate = he had an emergency supply of chocolate, which he ate
dog = none :(
ocean = title

8 pts - 4 words

August Observances:

3 pts - if the main character has a sister, in honour of Sister's Day (Aug 2)

11 points

[Amanda (Mandy)]

I read:
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Scoring:

10 pts -all 5 words

Country --MC hikes the Pacific Crest Trail so the whole book is set in the wilderness/ country.
Chocolate --consumed numerous times in the book
Cotton --she mainly wears t-shirts, but doesn't specifically say cotton so just to be safe the author and MC are the same person and her name is Cheryl.
Ocean --she hikes through Oregon
Boat --the end of her journey/hike is a place called the Bridge of the Gods

Genre:
5 pts - non-fiction

Pages:
3 pts - 300-399 pages long

August Observances

3 pts - red on the cover, in honour of Stop on Red Week (whatever that is)
3 pts - if the main character has a sister, in honour of Sister's Day (Aug 2)
3 pts - if a character quotes poetry, in honour of Bad Poetry Day (Aug 18) --she doesn't quote poetry, but she reads a book of poetry throughout and talks about how important it is to her. One of the people she meets on the trail is an amatuer poet. Also she quotes a few famous poets like Emily Dickinson on the cover pages of the chapters.

Total: 22 points

[Camilla]

I read A Month of Italy: Rediscovering the Art of Vacation by Chris Brady

Sun - on the cover
Wine - several mentions about drinking wine and even one chapter titled "The journey of a wine snob"
Chocolate - character Chris
Cat - character Christine
Ocean - the family visits the oceanfront several times, e.g. "By far, though, the most breathtaking part of the view is the calm, dark blue Mediterranean Sea stretching to the horizon."

Scoring:
10 pts - all 5 words
Genre:
5 pts - non-fiction
Pages:
3 pts - 337 pages
August Observances:
3 pts - if a character quotes poetry: Chris quotes a poem By Michelangelo:
"Giovanni, come to the rescue
Of my dead painting now, and of my honor;
I'm not in a good place, and I'm not a painter."

Total 21 points

[KimeyDiann]

Run by Blake Crouch

10 Points All 5 words

Rose: Main Character drove his car through a rose garden
Moon: multiple mentions of the moon
Chocolate: Crouch, author
Dog: Dee, character
Ocean: Reminiscing on a Christmas spent on the Sea of Cortez and opening gifts on the beach.

2 Points Mystery

2 Points 289 Pages

Total Points: 14

[Mariab]

Sorry I didn't posted my points til now (having a hard time at work)
If it is still time, here I go:

I read Nice Dragons Finish Last

10 pts - all 5 words
4 pts - Paranormal Romance (I think it is)
3 pts - 300-399 pages long

...3 pts - there is an infant under the age of 1, in honour of National Breastfeeding Month.
(the main character is a baby dragon, 24 years old, I dont think it would count...?)

3 pts - if the main character has (many) a sister, in honour of Sister's Day (Aug 2)

Total: 20 points

[Janice, Moderator]

You're okay, Mariab. I will get to the badges soon.

[Erica]

I read Life After Life for this challenge but was not able to finish it on time. :(

[Janice, Moderator]

Badges are posted!

Congrats to Theresa~OctoberLace, our winner and to Lynn, our glue stick winner.

Please let me know if I've missed anyone.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Bugger. I didn't report in time. Would you still like me to report properly Janice? I finished Ready Player One for the challenge. Sorry about that!

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Thanks for the badge. I got lucky on this one.

[Lynn]

Hurrah, my second glue stick :D

[Ronyell]

Thank you so much for the badge!

[Stephanie]

Woohoo! Thank you for the badge, Janice :-)

[Janice, Moderator]

Rusalka wrote: "Bugger. I didn't report in time. Would you still like me to report properly Janice? I finished Ready Player One for the challenge. Sorry about that!"

Nah! I'll just post your badge.

[Thing Two]

I read Blue Moon by my friend James Ponti.

Scoring:
6 pts - 3 words Blue, Moon, and City

Pages:
3 pts - 300-399 pages long

Bonus:
3 pts - if the main character has a sister, in honour of Sister's Day (Aug 2)

12 points

Sorry it took me so long to report!

[Janice, Moderator]

No problem, Thing Two. Your badge is on the wall.