2014 Scavenger Hunt Challenge! - BOARD TWO

[MK]

This challenge is a scavenger hunt - who doesn't love a scavenger hunt!? :-). This challenge was adapted from a challenge in another group, where they had a list of 20 or so things to 'find' in books you read. You list the book title next to the 'scavenge hunted' item, to 'collect' that item. For here, we go without a ready-made list, and build the list of items to collect on the hunt, from each new challenger who joins the hunt :).

We can run it for the year (2014), adding new rounds as needed, if someone collects all the items :). For each person who joins the hunt, please bring along two new list items for hunters to 'collect'. They can be characters, like a vampire, a teenager, a fisherman; an experience, like a flight, or a dive, or a carousel ride; a thing, like a goblet, a ring, a pair of travelling pants ;-). Whatever, basically.

With each new entrant, we can just edit our lists of items to scavenge, to add on. Please join in, 'late' starters very welcome!


The great 2014 Scavenger Hunt! - BOARD TWO - happy hunting :)

Completed Board Two:
· Hunter's Name - done

- please join us on BOARD ONE, as well! The hunt goes for the entire calendar year :)

It begins! TY, Kathy, for starting us off on Board #2!

1.) (Kathy) - A robin
2.) (Kathy) - A piano
3.) (Connie) - a newspaper and
4.) (Connie) - a hospital
5.) (Janet) - opium
6.) (Janet) - rattlesnake
7.) (Apoorv) - A Rainbow
8.) (Apoorv)- A Grandmother
9.) (Tytti) - A prison
10.) (Tytti) - An interpreter
11.) (Julia) - a QUILT (the homemade kind, not just a bedspread)
12.) (Julia) - and a MUSEUM! This is fun!
13.) (MK) a broken coffee cup
14.) (MK) a goblet
15.) (Annina) saxophone
16.) (Annina) canoe
17.) (Daisy) China (the country)
18.) (Daisy) porcelain (could be anything - dishes, tiles, a vase, statuary, etc.)
19.) (Miranda) a kitchen apron
20.) (Miranda) a bumblebee
21.) (Kyle) Buckler (small shield)
22.) (Kyle) Treasure
23.) (Amy) a smoking pipe (tobacco, etc...)
24.) (Amy) a metal pipe (lead pipe, plumbing pipe, etc...)
25.) (caallas) fried chicken
26.) (caallas) a paintbrush
27.) (Kelly) Windchimes
28.) (Kelly) A king
29.) (Aidan) Mirror
30.) (Aidan) Tattoo
31.) (Frances) Diary
32.) (Frances) Scaffold
33.) (Maarit) university
34.) (Maarit) cemetary
35.) (Nathan) an amputee (missing eye counts)
36.) (Nathan) a talking animal


:-)


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The great 2014 Scavenger Hunt! - BOARD ONE - Connie's first!

[MK]

I am still thinking about what I want to add for two new items for the next round ....

Maybe by March 1st I'll think of some.

I invite all members to contribute two items for hunters to find, whether you're participating in this round, still working on round one, or not. That way, those who have finished round one will still be able to participate, via all of us, giving them, a new list to collect :).

And also, new hunters can join in at a new spot - no need to complete round one, before jumping into round two! If you weren't here when the last round started, or you were, but didn't want to join the scavenger hunt then, but would like to now, please join in.

Hopefully a list will begin to assemble .... sometime soon-ish :)

Happy Scavenging!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

It is March. And almost spring here in the Northern Hemisphere.

How about looking for:

1) A robin (Songbird)
2) A piano

[MK]

ahh, fabulous! We need to 'unlock' a new board, for players to play!

I'm still noodling on the 'perfect' items! Will return late this afternoon .... after I beat the library closing time to return Doctor Zhivago :)

[Apoorv]

Round Two under way and I am still scavenging the items in Round One (as I joined it just recently). Hope we have some really cool items to hunt around this time (just as what I am experiencing currently in Round One).

This indeed is exciting and intriguing at the same time.

Kudos to the makers and the participants ! :)

[MK]

I envision playing it like Bingo Boards, with players playing as many or as few 'boards' simultaneously as they'd like. BUT, only 'unlocking' a 'new board' (round?) when someone has 'finished' a board.

That way, we ALL win, when someone finishes *grin*. Because it's fun to think up new items {:D.


Also! members who aren't hunting can contribute items for scavengers to collect, too!! All can participate, as much, or as little, as they'd like.

So fun that you like it so much, Apoorv! Makes me smile. I love scavenger hunts. Reminds me of summer, Acadia, wee ones, and family. And fun!

[Tytti]

A robin? Do you mean some kind of a small bird? The dictionary gives several translations, though none that I can actually recognize... I am not a bird person.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Tytti wrote: "A robin? Do you mean some kind of a small bird? The dictionary gives several translations, though none that I can actually recognize... I am not a bird person."

Yes it is a bird, that is a harbinger of Spring in North America.



The American Robin (Turdus migratorius), also known as the robin, is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the flycatcher family.

The American Robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to some sources, the American Robin ranks behind only the Red-winged Blackbird (and just ahead of the introduced European Starling) as the most abundant, extant land bird in North America.

So I guess it is a harder find, unless you read a book from the US, Mexico, or Canada. If it is impossible to find, I am okay with changing to a songbird.

[Connie]

Love this challenge!

I would like to suggest a newspaper and a hospital

[Apoorv]

MK wrote: "I envision playing it like Bingo Boards, with players playing as many or as few 'boards' simultaneously as they'd like. BUT, only 'unlocking' a 'new board' (round?) when someone has 'finished' a bo..."


I so agree with you, MK ! This indeed is, and by the way it is proceeding, is like a family playing around together and enjoying every bit of it.. a race but not a competition ! The one who comes first, wins yet no one loses.. absolute fun ! :D

I suggest you to continue this over many rounds in the future as well.. what I love is that we read with more eye to details and it makes it more interesting.

Also, birds like Robin (in this round) and Canary (in round One) are the tricky ones to locate unless you really read the descriptions in the prose well.

Amazing suggestions. Now I want to finish Round One as early as possible and move over here. Damn ! ;-)

[Tytti]

Apoorv wrote: "Also, birds like Robin (in this round) and Canary (in round One) are the tricky ones to locate unless you really read the descriptions in the prose well."

Though the difference is that canaries are also pets and can be found even "working" in mines but robins live only in certain areas. I probably think "small birds" and go from there. I have a preference to tits because they are more common here. (Here, not hear, I can spell!)

[Apoorv]

Tytti wrote: "Though the difference is that canaries are also pets and can be found even "working" in mines but robins live only in certain areas. I probably think "small birds" and go from there. I have a preference to tits because they are more common hear. ."

Tytti, what a nice way of elaborating the subtle difference and variety in the use of the term 'canary'. I kinda got a big time clue which I had potentially overlooked. Thanks a lot. :)

[Janet]

opium

[MK]

Connie, Janet, I'm adding yours to the list now :). Janet, do you have another?

Tytti, Apoorv, do you have two items to add to the collectors' tally sheets?

For everyone: Please help build our BOARD TWO tally sheet! Each person can contribute two items for collectors to scavenge. Two things to note ;-):

1. You do NOT have to have completed BOARD ONE to start collecting on BOARD TWO. You can play either, both, or none of the boards, however suits your fancy.

2. All group members are invited to contribute two items to the hunt, whether participating with your own tally sheet or not :).

Thanks to all!

[MK]

Apoorv wrote: "I so agree with you, MK ! This indeed is, and by the way it is proceeding, is like a family playing around together and enjoying every bit of it.. a race but not a competition ! The one who comes first, wins yet no one loses.. absolute fun ! :D
..."

ahhhhhh, thanks, Apoorv! You made my weekend >^_^<

[Apoorv]

MK wrote: "Apoorv, do you have two items to add to the collectors' tally sheets?"


I actually have 3 that fleeted past my mind, you can choose any 2 as you deem correct.

- A Rainbow
- A Grandmother
- Long Hair

:P

[Tytti]

I couldn't think of another but now I got it. So mine are:

- A prison (I have at least two books with a prison in them... :-P)
- An interpreter

[MK]

argghhh those are hard to choose from, Apoorv! :p

lol Tytti, stacking the deck are ya? ;-) (teasing!!)


Thx for some good ones, Apoorv and Tytti! Adding them to the OP ...


edit: I couldn't throw Granny out, Apoorv, and rainbow sounded so delightful! so ... I went with the first tow :)

[Tytti]

In my other book there are prison camps (war time) so it's easy to see why it was on my mind. I have no imagination...

[MK]

laffin ...

[Janet]

MK wrote: "Connie, Janet, I'm adding yours to the list now :). Janet, do you have another?


rattlesnake

[Julia]

How about a QUILT (the homemade kind, not just a bedspread) and a MUSEUM! This is fun!

Happy hunting!

[Julia]

Also where do we post when we find the items? Or do we?
And can a book contain more than one item?

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

My Finds:

1. (Kathy) - robin
2. (Kathy) - piano Whistling Past the Graveyard
3. (Connie) - newspaper Whistling Past the Graveyard
4. (Connie) - hospital
5. (Janet) - opium
6. (Janet) - rattlesnake
7. (Apoorv) - Rainbow
8. (Apoorv)- Grandmother The Brides of Rollrock Island
9. (Tytti) - prison The Beggar Queen
10. (Tytti) - interpreter The Last Days of the Incas
11. (Julia) - Quilt Whistling Past the Graveyard
12. (Julia) - Museum
13. (MK) a broken coffee cup
14. (MK) a goblet The Last Days of the Incas
15. Annina) saxophone Breadcrumbs
16. (Annina) canoe
17.) (Daisy) China
18.) (Daisy) porcelain Ship Breaker
19. (Miranda) A Kitchen Apron Whistling Past the Graveyard
20. (Miranda) A Bumblebee
21. (Kyle) Buckler (small shield)
22. (Kyle) Treasure
23. (Amy) a smoking pipe (tobacco, etc...) War and Peace
24. (Amy) a metal pipe (lead pipe, plumbing pipe, etc...) Ship Breaker
25. (caallas) fried chicken
26. (caallas) a paintbrush
27. (Kelly) Windchimes
28. (Kelly) A king Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
29. (Aidan) Mirror Breadcrumbs
30. (Aidan) Tattoo

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Julia wrote: "Also where do we post when we find the items? Or do we?
And can a book contain more than one item?"

Yes you can get more than one item from a book. Happy hunting.

[Connie]

I'll start my list now and add to it as people suggest more items. It looks like an interesting list so far!

1. (Kathy) robin Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake Macdonald
2. (Kathy) piano Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
February by Lisa Moore
The Best Of Times by Penny Vincenzi
3. (Connie) newspaper Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Hellgoing: Stories by Lynn Coady
If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
4. (Connie) hospital A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
Tough Customer by Sandra Brown
5. (Janet) opium O'Hara's Choice by Leon Uris
A Leaf in the Bitter Wind by Ting-xing Ye
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
6. (Janet) rattlesnake To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. (Apoorv) rainbow If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
8. (Apoorv) grandmother If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
The Best Of Times by Penny Vincenzi
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
9. (Tytti) prison A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by GilCourtemanche
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
10. (Tytti) interpreter A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
11. (Julia) quilt If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
February by Lisa Moore
12. (Julia) museum Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. (MK) a broken coffee cup Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
14. (MK) a goblet Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
15. (Annina) saxophone Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
16. (Annina) canoe February by Lisa Moore
17. (Daisy) China (the country) O'Hara's Choice by Leon Uris
A Leaf in the Bitter Wind by Ting-xing Ye
18. (Daisy) porcelain A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
19) (Miranda) kitchen apron Black House by Stephen King
Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20) (Miranda) bumblebee Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
21) (Kyle) buckler (small shield) Holy Bible
22) (Kyle) treasure Book Of Souls by Glenn Cooper
23) (Amy) smoking pipe Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
24) (Amy) metal pipe (lead pipe, plumbing etc.) Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake Macdonald
25) (Caallas) fried chicken Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
26) (Caallas) paintbrush The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock
27) wind chimes Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
28) a king The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
29) mirror Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
30) tattoo Twelve Drummers Drumming by C.C. Benison
31) diary The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
32) scaffold The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33) university Honor Bound by Sandra Brown
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
34) cemetery The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
35) amputee Black House by Stephen King
36) talking animal Black House by Stephen King

[Tytti]

And mine:

1. (Kathy) robin
2. (Kathy) piano
3. (Connie) newspaper
4. (Connie) hospital
5. (Janet) opium
6. (Janet) rattlesnake
7. (Apoorv) rainbow
8. (Apoorv) grandmother
9. (Tytti) prison
10. (Tytti) interpreter
11. (Julia) quilt
12. (Julia) museum

[Connie]

Julia wrote: "Also where do we post when we find the items? Or do we?
And can a book contain more than one item?"

Last time Dr. Zhivago contained several items. this is such a fun challenge!

[Apoorv]

Connie wrote: "I'll start my list now and add to it as people suggest more items. It looks like an interesting list so far!


Connie, all the best specifically to you.. coz you are the, so far, lone completer for the first round. So now, you have to beat your own record. ;-) :P

[Connie]

Apoorv wrote: "Connie wrote: "I'll start my list now and add to it as people suggest more items. It looks like an interesting list so far!


Connie, all the best specifically to you.. coz you are the, so far, lo..."

Thank you, Apoorv. I think I was quite lucky the first time around and managed to read the right books. Some of the items on Board 2 might be a little more difficult. Good luck to you - have fun with this.

[MK]

Julia, welcome! And, yep, you just copy/paste the tally list, and start collecting! Happy hunting! There's another tally sheet on board one, too, so you can play two boards at one, if you'd like!

Apoorv, you too! You Don't ave to finish one before tallying on two :-D.

Janet, the for second item! Julia, the for two new items! I will edit the op in a bit, to expand list. I'm on my kindle right now. Editing is easier on the desktop :-).

More items! :-). All members members are invited to contribute items to the scavenger tally sheet, whether collecting yourself, or not. :-D

[MK]

Connie, you rocked it! 'twas fun to watch :-)' I love that you love the scavenger hunt challenge!!

[MK]

Me too!
I'm not done with BOARD ONE, yet, but I'm IN for BOARD TWO :))

MK's Tally Sheet - 'The great 2014 Scavenger Hunt! - BOARD TWO - happy hunting :)'
(MK's board two tally sheet here)

1. (Kathy) robin
· The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Mar 3, 2014 (view spoiler)[the robin is present throughout much of the book, being one of the first five people who Mary liked (hide spoiler)]

2.) (Kathy) - A piano
· And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini - Mar 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[in Paris, "The tinkling of a piano meanders up through the window and to my ears.", p. 401 (hide spoiler)]

3.) (Connie) - a newspaper and
· Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford - still reading (need to fill in page/info)

4.) (Connie) - a hospital
· The Unintentional Time Traveler, by Everett Maroon - Mar 5, 2014 (view spoiler)[Hospital is present a few times througout the book, in relation to Jack's epilepsy and his doctor (hide spoiler)]

5.) (Janet) - opium
· A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle - Apr 2, 2014 (view spoiler)[p. 25 - "5. Knowledge of Botany. — Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening." (hide spoiler)]
^^ In Sherlock Holmes #2 too! ;-) (p.96)

6.) (Janet) - rattlesnake
· Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut - May 5, 2014 (view spoiler)[p.124 "He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show how much they believed that Jesus would protect them."; p.162/p.163 "He looked about as pleasant and relaxed as a coiled rattlesnake now. It was his bad chemicals, of course, which were compelling him to look like that. A real rattlesnake looked like this: (illustration of coiled rattlesnake in book)"; (hide spoiler)]
· also in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee - May 8, 2014 (view spoiler)[p.155 "Miss Rachel Haverford's excuse for a glass of neat whiskey every morning was that she never got over the fright of finding a rattler coiled in her bedroom closet, on her washing, when she went to hang up her negligee." (hide spoiler)]
· also in The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt - currently reading (view spoiler)[p.10 (hide spoiler)]

7.) (Apoorv) - A Rainbow
· And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini - Mar 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[cresent rainbows, playing on Odie's hands and wrists, during solar eclipse watching on Tinos, with Markos and Thalia, p. 344 (hide spoiler)]

8.) (Apoorv)- A Grandmother
· And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini - Mar 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[Pari the sister, last chapter, introducing Pari the daughter to her children and grandchildren (hide spoiler)]

9.) (Tytti) - A prison
· The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle - Apr 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[the prison camp in the Andamans, where the four, and the two prison guards, made their deal" (hide spoiler)]

10.) (Tytti) - An interpreter
· And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini - Mar 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[translator for Markos and Nabi, p. 128; translator for Pari the sister, when she returns to Afghanistan, p. 380 (hide spoiler)]

11.) (Julia) - a QUILT (the homemade kind, not just a bedspread)
· The Unintentional Time Traveler, by Everett Maroon - Mar 5, 2014 (view spoiler)[p. 216 "I rubbed my eyes and pushed aside heavy blankets. There was some geometric pattern on them—handmade quilts." (hide spoiler)]

12.) (Julia) - and a MUSEUM! This is fun!
· The Unintentional Time Traveler, by Everett Maroon - Mar 5, 2014 (view spoiler)[p. 182 "The museum was once a home; two rooms in the front were lined with glass cases filled with pictures and trinkets of earlier times. I asked the greeter where the oldest items
were. She pointed me to the next room." (hide spoiler)]

13.) (MK) a broken coffee cup
· And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini - Mar 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[Markos, on Tinos, dropped the tray he was carrying, shattering the porcelain cup, p. 286 (hide spoiler)]

14.) (MK) a goblet
· Ireland, by Frank Delaney - still reading (view spoiler)[p 102 "The weather smiled on them, and they made arrangements to feed all these strangers - chicken and beef and lamb and pork, bread made of wheat and goblets of ale and warm milk, all set down on a long wooden table." (hide spoiler)]

15. (Annina) Saxophone
· Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford - still reading (all throughout the book, major character sax player)
· Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman - Apr 9, 2014 (view spoiler)[also in Anansi Boys - p.8 "... what appeared to be a very small New Orleans jazz band. There was a saxophone and a sousaphone and a trumpet. There was ..." (hide spoiler)]

16. (Annina) Canoe
· Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer - April 22, 2014 (view spoiler)[p.258 "Earlier in the day, Falsey and Ewell had sat through a seemingly endless film about a little wooden carving of a canoe with a male Native Canadian figure in it traveling down various waterways." (hide spoiler)]

17.) (Daisy) China (the country)
· Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman - Apr 9, 2014 (view spoiler)[p.11 "... I may go to Africa. And China. I like Chinese food. ... Her postcard from Nanking told him that she certainly didn't like what passed for Chinese food in China ..." (hide spoiler)]

18.) (Daisy) porcelain
· And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini - Mar 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[Porcelain coffee cup, carried on tray by Markos, on Tinos p. 286 (hide spoiler)]

19.) (Miranda) a kitchen apron
· Runaway, by Alice Munro - Apr 9, 2014 (view spoiler)[p. 284 "Nancy was wearing an apron that tied around her waist - not the sort of apron worn for serious kitchen work. She took it off and hung it over the doorknob and fluffed up her hair in front of a small mirror by the kitchen door." (hide spoiler)]

20.) (Miranda) a bumblebee
· A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster - Apr 8, 2014 (view spoiler)[p. 299 Ralph Moore, brother-in-law of Fielding, got stung on his arm/wrist by several bees" (hide spoiler)]

21.) (Kyle) Buckler (small shield)
· The Magicians, by Lev Grossman - Apr 27, 2014 (view spoiler)[p. 327 "Fen picked up a pebble and tossed it lightly, sidearm, at one of the fauns (they had evil fauns now?), who let it bounce off a round leather buckler strapped to his forearm." (hide spoiler)]

22.) (Kyle) Treasure
· The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle - Apr 7, 2014 (view spoiler)[the Agra Treasure, in a locked wooden treasure box, first mentioned on p.29 but appearing throughout." (hide spoiler)]

23.) (Amy) a smoking pipe (tobacco, etc...)
· Ireland, by Frank Delaney - still reading (view spoiler)[the storyteller uses a pipe as one of his storyteller props, it's present throughout the story, in multiple locations (hide spoiler)]

24.) (Amy) a metal pipe (lead pipe, plumbing pipe, etc...)
· Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut - May 5, 2014 (view spoiler)[p.293 "Kazak was crouching behind a pile of bronze pipe which the Maritimo Brothers had bought cheap from a hijacker earlier that day." (hide spoiler)]

25.) (caallas) fried chicken
· Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer - April 22, 2014 (view spoiler)[^^^^ *almost* had it (in Calculating God! It was chicken ... coated in Rice Krispies even. But then they grilled it instead of frying it :p. Boo for heathier (? lol) cooking! hah
· caallas says it counts! *grin*. I'll look for actual fried chicken throughout the year too, tho :D
(p.46 "Susan had grilled some chicken legs coated with Rice Krispies; she'd also prepared green beans and mashed potatoes, made with real cream, and ...") (hide spoiler)]

26.) (caallas) a paintbrush
· The House on Tradd Street by Karen White - still reading (view spoiler)[audiobook - Part 2, 00:46:10, Chapter 5 - "Unless you think they'll take pity on me and sneak in at night with paint and paintbrushes>" (hide spoiler)]
· The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt - still reading (view spoiler)[also in Goldfinch - will fill in later, was in Hobie's shop" (hide spoiler)]

27.) (Kelly) Windchimes
·

28.) (Kelly) A king
· The Magicians, by Lev Grossman - Apr 27, 2014 (view spoiler)[p. 400-401 "Eliot had acquired a pair of immense white feathery wings somewhere that spread out behind him, with which he hovered on an intangible wind. On his head was the golden crown of Fillory that Quentin had last seen in Ember's underground chamber ... 'We're going back to Fillory,' Janet said, 'and we need another king. Two kings, two queens.'" (hide spoiler)]

29.) (Aidan) Mirror
· Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut - May 5, 2014 (view spoiler)['mirror' appears 19 times in the text, it was a continuing joke/gimmick throughout the text, that 'mirrors' were called 'leaks' because they were really 'leaks' from one universe into another. (hide spoiler)]

30.) (Aidan) Tattoo
· The Magicians, by Lev Grossman - Apr 27, 2014 (view spoiler)[book already back at library, so no page #s, however, upon graduation, each graduate was tatooed on their back with a caged demon, which could be released to fight for them one time - so they were warned to save it for when they needed it most (hide spoiler)]

31.) (Frances) Diary
· Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov - June 4, 2014

32.) (Frances) Scaffold
·

33.) (Maarit) university
·

34.) (Maarit) cemetary
·

35.) (Nathan) an amputee (missing eye counts)
·

36.) (Nathan) a talking animal
·


:)

[Apoorv]

As is permitted, while simultaneously hunting for Round One.. I am participating in Round Two as well. Hopefully I end up finishing both at the same time ;-)

Challenge : Scavenger Hunt - Round II
Duration : March, 2014 - February, 2015
Task : Collect the below mentioned items

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✔ (Kathy) Robin
A Separate Peace - John Knowles (3/31/2014)
✔ (Kathy) Piano
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
✔ (Connie) Newspaper
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini - Mark Leyner (3/5/3014)
✔ (Connie) Hospital
Netsuke - Rikki Ducornet (3/2/2014)
✔ (Janet) Opium
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini - Mark Leyner (3/5/3014)
✔ (Janet) Rattlesnake
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini - Mark Leyner (3/5/3014)
✔ (Apoorv) Rainbow
Netsuke - Rikki Ducornet (3/2/2014)
✔ (Apoorv) Grandmother
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini - Mark Leyner (3/5/3014)
✔ (Tytti) Prison
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini - Mark Leyner (3/5/3014)
✔ (Tytti) Interpreter
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini - Mark Leyner (3/5/3014)
✔ (Julia) Quilt
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
✔ (Julia) Museum
Netsuke - Rikki Ducornet (3/2/2014)
✔ (MK) A Broken Coffee Cup
As The Crow Flies - Craig Johnson (6/8/2014)
✔ (MK) A Goblet
One of Ours - Willa Cather (6/29/2014)
✔ (Annina) Saxophone
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
✔ (Annina) Canoe
A Separate Peace - John Knowles (3/31/2014)
✔ (Daisy) China (the country)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
✔ (Daisy) Porcelain
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
✔ (Miranda) A Kitchen Apron
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
20. (Miranda) A Bumblebee
✔ (Kyle) Buckler (small shield)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain (4/11/2014)
✔ (Kyle) Treasure
Netsuke - Rikki Ducornet (3/2/2014)
✔ (Amy) Smoking Pipe
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
✔ (Amy) Metal Pipe
A Separate Peace - John Knowles (3/31/2014)
✔ (Callas) Fried Chicken
Killer in High Heels - Gemma Halliday (5/21/2014)
✔ (Callas) Paintbrush
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (3/27/2014)
✔ (Kelly) Windchimes
Carrie - Stephen King (4/19/2014)
✔ (Kelly) A king
Carrie - Stephen King (4/19/2014)
✔ (Aidan) Mirror
Carrie - Stephen King (4/19/2014)
✔ (Aidan) Tattoo
After Dark - Haruki Murakami (5/3/2014)
✔ (Frances) Diary
After Dark - Haruki Murakami (5/3/2014)
✔ (Frances) Scaffold
Moloka'i - Alan Brennert (5/31/2014)
✔ (Maarit) University
After Dark - Haruki Murakami (5/3/2014)
✔ (Maarit) Cemetery.
Killer in High Heels - Gemma Halliday (5/21/2014)

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Summary :
Total Items Collected : 33 / 34
Books Read and Referenced : 11

[Connie]

Apoorv, you are off to a great start! Keep it up!

[MK]

Hmmm ... I'm going to go with:

13.) (MK) a broken coffee cup
14.) (MK) a goblet


*grin*

[MK]

Connie wrote: "Apoorv, you are off to a great start! Keep it up!"

Indeed! ^5, Apoorv!

[^5 = 'high five' ;-)]

[Apoorv]

Connie wrote: "Apoorv, you are off to a great start! Keep it up!"


Connie, I am merely following your footsteps. As I said you are gunning to beat your own record.. I am hoping to follow suit and complete my challenge.

Thanks again to MK for such innovative and amazing ideas. (and with the two new additions that you have put in, I need to think seriously hard with my next books) ;-) :P

[MK]

LOL! I aim to please, Apoorv ;-). No worries tho, you have all year! *grin*

[Annina]

Yes! I tried to think of 2 things, which won't come across right away.

saxophone
canoe

[Annina]

The great 2014 Scavenger Hunt! - BOARD TWO - happy hunting :)



1.) (Kathy) - A robin
2.) (Kathy) - A piano Iiris Lempivaaran levoton ja painava sydän by Riikka Pulkkinen
3.) (Connie) - a newspaper Opettajainhuone by Annika Luther
4.) (Connie) - a hospital Iiris Lempivaaran levoton ja painava sydän by Riikka Pulkkinen
5.) (Janet) - opium A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
6.) (Janet) - rattlesnake The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
7.) (Apoorv) - A Rainbow The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8.) (Apoorv)- A Grandmother Opettajainhuone by Annika Luther
9.) (Tytti) - A prison The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
10.) (Tytti) - An interpreter
11.) (Julia) - a QUILT (the homemade kind, not just a bedspread) Divergent by Veronica Roth
12.) (Julia) - MUSEUM The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
13.) (MK) a broken coffee cup Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
14.) (MK) a goblet Opettajainhuone by Annika Luther
15.) (Annina) saxophone Iiris Lempivaaran levoton ja painava sydän by Riikka Pulkkinen
16.) (Annina) canoe The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
17. China (the country) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
18. porcelain (could be anything - dishes, tiles, a vase, statuary, etc.) Opettajainhuone by Annika Luther
19. a kitchen apron A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
20. a bumblebee Hytti nro 6 by Rosa Liksom
21. Buckler (small shield) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
22. Treasure The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
23. a smoking pipe (tobacco, etc...) A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
24. a metal pipe (lead pipe, plumbing pipe, etc...) Divergent by Veronica Roth
25. fried chicken The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
26. a paintbrush The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
27. Diary The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
28. Scaffold Hytti nro 6 by Rosa Liksom
29. an university Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
30. a cemetary Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
31. an amputee (missing eye counts) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
32. a talking animal Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
33. Wind chimes Hytti nro 6 by Rosa Liksom
34. A king A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

[MK]

Nice ones, Annina! I tried to do the same. :D. We'll see!! Happy hunting :)

[Julia]

I don't know if my books count, since they aren't necessarily classics, but on this board so far I have:
2. piano in Alan Bradley's The Dead in their Hallowed Arches (finished March 4, 2014
4. Hospital in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore (which I'm not done with, but I'm past a hospital scene. I probably should wait until I'm done though, right?)
5. opium and 11. Quilt in Pearl Buck's the Good Earth (finished 1/21/2014)
3. Newspaper, 7. Rainbow and 8. Grandmother in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose (finished 3 March 2014)
9. Prison (Fresnes prison) mentioned in Cara Black's Murder in the Sentier (finished March 1, 2014)
14. goblet from Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season (finished Feb 12 2014)

Is this how I'm supposed to do it?

[MK]

All your books count, Julia. The group is classics, but the challenges are just regarding books read in 2014 :). Classics, pulp, whatever ;-).

There's no one way to do your tally sheet. Everyone is doing whatever works best for them. The only thing I'd suggest regarding yours, is new lines for each numbered item. Easier to read that way. Also, you're kicking it! WTG!

[MK]

I collected interpreter! ^_^. "And the Mountains Echoed"' :)

[Janet]

I found 3 items in one book (My Antonia).

[MK]

Janet wrote: "I found 3 items in one book (My Antonia)."

^5, Janet! That sounds like a bountiful book heh

[Daisy]

Here are a couple of words:

1. China (the country)
2. porcelain (could be anything - dishes, tiles, a vase, statuary, etc.)

[MK]

Daisy wrote: "Here are a couple of words:

1. China (the country)
2. porcelain (could be anything - dishes, tiles, a vase, statuary, etc.)"

Fabulous! Thx, Daisy :). We need more items because Apoorv is collecting almost as fast as we build the list :-D (wtg, Apoorv!).

Also, wow and cool on quite a coincidence. I *just* saw mentioned a porcelain coffee cup. Which shattered in the next paragraph when the person carrying the tray dropped it. 'Porcelain' and 'broken coffee cup' all in one go! :-p

[Apoorv]

Hehe ! MK, the last book that I read (as mentioned in the list above) really helped me find the whole bunch of items in our list. :P

I guess, I will continue reading more non-fiction coz that seems to yield most of my answers here ;)

'Porcelain' and 'broken coffee cup' all in one go! :-p

I know ! Isnt it amazing when you collect many items in a jiffy, makes you want to read more and find as many as you can.

I just love this challenge ! Hope we add many more items to the list :)