Winter Challenge 2015: Questions/Problems in Completed Tasks

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Jody post 924, 926

We have many Jodys in the challenge. If you have a Readerboard name please repost and include it at the top of your post. If you need a Readerboard name, you may request one here

Completed task posts must include a link to the books you read. Please see Posting Requirements

[Jody]

Was awaiting approval on jchas, got no response...

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

Papermaker post 929

All posts must include links, including reposts to claim BB/GO tickets.

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Cynbaxter post 930

Task 20.8 Out of My Mind has AR BookFinder scores of IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8.0
Books that have an IL designation of MG MUST have a BL of 5.0 (or higher) AND AR Pts of 7.0 (or higher).

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Nick KY post 942

Task 25.9 Book 2 Weedflower The genre childrens is present on the main page.
genres at review:
Historical Fiction 164 users
Young Adult 75 users
Historical 34 users
Fiction 32 users
Cultural 18 users
Childrens > Middle Grade 17 users
See top shelves..

From posting requirements
If your book has the genre "childrens" or "kids" on its main page, it must meet the criteria specified in the Rules of the Challenge. AR Bookfinder information MUST be posted when the book is claimed for points or no points will be awarded (You can copy the AR BookFinder ratings)

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Julia103 post 946

Task 15.6 requires " Include the cover" Please repost this task with the required information

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Scarlett post 949

Task 30.7 option 2 The Turnip Princess and other newly discovered fairy tales The genre childrens is present on the main page.
genres at review:
Fantasy 40 users
Fiction 36 users
Classics 28 users
Short Stories 25 users
Folklore 12 users
Fantasy > Fairy Tales 10 users
Literature 10 users
Fantasy > Mythology 5 users
Childrens 4 users
Cultural > Germany 3 users
See top shelves..

From posting requirements
If your book has the genre "childrens" or "kids" on its main page, it must meet the criteria specified in the Rules of the Challenge. AR Bookfinder information MUST be posted when the book is claimed for points or no points will be awarded

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

EMurphy post 954

Goodreads Author tickets are no longer awarded. They have been replaced with:
20.4 GOLDEN OLDIES - Players may earn a ticket for each book FIRST published in or before 1950. A random ticket will be drawn from the ticket pool to determine who creates this task. Challenge finishers are not eligible for the drawing. Players must specifically request a ticket in the post by claiming "Golden Oldie" and stating the original publication year. See the current season's Posting Requirements for more information.

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Allison I post 966

Goodreads Author tickets are no longer awarded. They have been replaced with:
20.4 GOLDEN OLDIES - Players may earn a ticket for each book FIRST published in or before 1950. A random ticket will be drawn from the ticket pool to determine who creates this task. Challenge finishers are not eligible for the drawing. Players must specifically request a ticket in the post by claiming "Golden Oldie" and stating the original publication year. See the current season's Posting Requirements for more information.

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Colette G post 955

Task 20.2 is a one book task. I have credited Bradstreet Gate to this task. You may use Fates and Furies for another task.

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Donna Jo post 986

Task 25.13 option 1 requires "Post the cover/s when you post." Please repost this task with the required information

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Julia103 post 994

You already claimed task 15.6 in post post 591

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Mary post 995

We have several Marys and MaryBeths in the challenge. Please use your Readerboard name. Please repost

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KarenF post 996

Task 20.9 option C requires "State that you have not read any book in the series before." Please repost this task with the required information

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Kathy post 998

We have many Kathys in the challenge. If you have a Readerboard name please repost and include it at the top of your post. If you need a Readerboard name, you may request one here

Completed task posts must include a link to the books you read. Please see Posting Requirements

Completed task posts require links to the book you read

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Mave post 999

It's fine to include more than one newly completed task in a post. If you do include more than one task, the tasks must be listed in numerical order, lowest to highest. Please repost these tasks in task number order

[Donna Jo]

Dlmrose wrote: "Donna Jo post 986

Task 25.13 option 1 requires "Post the cover/s when you post." Please repost this task with the required information"

I'm sorry: I've reposted.

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Anna post 1021

We have many Annas in the challenge. If you have a Readerboard name please repost and include it at the top of your post. If you need a Readerboard name, you may request one here

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M1NKS post 1023

Task 20.3 requires "a book that is a minimum of 250 pages long." The Scarlet Letter is 228 pages.

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Jonquil post 1036

Task 20.9 The Sword of Summer The genre childrens is present on the main page.
genres at review:
Fantasy > 1,103 users
Fantasy > Mythology 596 users
Young Adult 518 users
Childrens > Middle Grade 207 users
See top shelves..

From posting requirements
If your book has the genre "childrens" or "kids" on its main page, it must meet the criteria specified in the Rules of the Challenge. AR Bookfinder information MUST be posted when the book is claimed for points or no points will be awarded

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Gabriella post 1046

Task 5.8 requires "Read a book with a word ending in -ISM in the title or subtitle." Aphorisms on Love and Hate Aphorisms does not terminate in -ISM. Books must be 100+ pages. This book is 64 pages. Please see The Rules of the Challenge

Task 20.2 A Casa Da Madrinha has AR BookFinder scores of IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4.0.
Books that have an IL designation of MG MUST have a BL of 5.0 (or higher) AND AR Pts of 7.0 (or higher).

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M1nks post 1024

I'm sorry, but a Golden Oldies ticket cannot be awarded for a book published in 2009, even if the individual items contained within the collection were published earlier. We go by the publication date of the book you read, not by the individual items within. The different book you cited to is not the same book - it's a different collection that appears to have actually been published before 1950, but it's not the same book you read and it's only 70 pages long, so would not work for SRC purposes.

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Adina post 1026
To claim a Golden Oldies ticket, you must include the date of publication in your post. See the Posting Requirements.

If you repost to claim a GO ticket, be sure to indicate at the beginning of your post the reason for reposting, so that Dlmrose doesn't have to review the post for substance. Remember that reposts must be complete, including links.

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Deedee post 1038

Goodreads Author tickets are no longer awarded. They have been replaced with:
20.4 GOLDEN OLDIES - Players may earn a ticket for each book FIRST published in or before 1950. A random ticket will be drawn from the ticket pool to determine who creates this task. Challenge finishers are not eligible for the drawing. Players must specifically request a ticket in the post by claiming "Golden Oldie" and stating the original publication year. See the current season's Posting Requirements for more information.

[Nicola]

Sandy wrote: "M1nks post 1024

I'm sorry, but a Golden Oldies ticket cannot be awarded for a book published in 2009, even if the individual items contained within the collection were published earlier. We go by ..."

I know it was, it was to show that the stories themselves were published around the time I mentioned and obviously not 2009. I thought the convention in Goodreads was to publish the date of the original works in the book itself and not the book date in the 'first published' slot so the publication details of the one I actually read was incorrect. They will be similar stories it is just a smaller anthology. As Charlotte Perkins Gilman euthanized herself in 1935 none of her writings are going to be later than that...

If you won't accept it though then that is that. Unless requesting a librarian to adjust the originally published date to the correct 1892 would satisfy?

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

I think that the date the book is published is the date the book, not the contents, were published - for instance, English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology is shown with the publication date of 1998, the date the book was published, even though obviously the poems within were written all prior to that date.

I looked at the librarians manual and briefly at the Goodreads Librarians Group, but didn't see anything suggesting that GR would assign a made-up publication date based on the contents of a book, rather than the date the book was published. Doesn't mean something isn't there, but I don't have time to hunt through all the posts in that group.

For SRC purposes, however, we go with the date a book is actually published, not with the dates that contents were first written.

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Gabriella post 1058

If you are claiming a BB ticket, you must specifically claim one and include the number of pages in the specific book. A tally at the bottom of your post is not sufficient. Please see the Posting Requirements.

[Nicola]

Sandy wrote: "
For SRC purposes, however, we go with the date a book is actually published, not with the dates that contents were first written.

I must be misunderstanding what you just said. For example with The Complete Stories and Poems or Frankenstein here you do not go by the date that your own book was published, but when the story (or stories) was (were). Which is why Goodreads has the definition of Published May 6th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published 1818) for Frankenstein and, if claiming a Golden Oldie ticket it is the 1818 date that is used and not the 2003 one . If you only accepted the publishing date of the book that we are physically holding in our hands then virtually no books we read would be older than a few years and getting Golden Oldie Tickets would be next to impossible.

I have asked a librarian to adjust the first published date because it's wrong; Charlotte Gilman did not write these stories 80 years after she died :-). And of course I don't expect you to go hunting through Goodreads to verify, that was why I published a link to a book that had the same sorts of stories as the one I posted and which had the correct date, so it wouldn't be difficult for you to check.

[Bea]

As a librarian, I looked at the stories in The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings and found that they ranged in publication year from 1890-1915. Given that much of a range, the first publication date will need to reflect the date the book itself was published or any copy of the book that had the exact same stories. As best as I can determine, that would be 2009.

[Anna]

Dlmrose wrote: "Anna post 1021

We have many Annas in the challenge. If you have a Readerboard name please repost and include it at the top of your post. If you need a Readerboard name, you may request one here"

Sorry, I forgot to put my reader board name at the top. It is G.Q. Thanks!

[Pia]

Hi!
Regarding Nicola's (M1nks) post, I checked in the GR Librarians Group, and they allowed me to change the original publication date for this edition.

It's 1915, as this is the year the last story/writing was published.

[Nicola]

Pia wrote: "Hi!
Regarding Nicola's (M1nks) post, I checked in the GR Librarians Group, and they allowed me to change the original publication date for this edition.

It's 1915, as this is the year the last st..."

Thank you very much Pia. Hopefully that clears that up :-) It is rather confusing with collections as they have a range in dates. Using the last published work date seems a sensible way of working out which one to use.

I'll repost if needed.

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Anna wrote: "Sorry, I forgot to put my reader board name at the top. It is G.Q. Thanks! .."

Please repost. We never go back to review a completed task post. Please read Post 1 in the Completed Tasks thread..

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Alexxy post 1063

Task 5.1 Anne of Green Gables The genre childrens is present on the main page.
genres at review:
Classics 1,432 users
Childrens 1,391 users
Historical Fiction 1,018 users
Young Adult 824 users
Historical 427 users
Cultural > Canada 388 users
Young Adult > Coming Of Age 222 users
Literature 221 users
Romance 213 users
Childrens > Juvenile 198 users
See top shelves..

From posting requirements
If your book has the genre "childrens" or "kids" on its main page, it must meet the criteria specified in the Rules of the Challenge. AR Bookfinder information MUST be posted when the book is claimed for points or no points will be awarded

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Jasmiina F post 1069

Task 5.10 Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search The genre childrens is present on the main page.
genres at review:
Sequential Art > Graphic Novels 98 users
Sequential Art > Comics 94 users
Fantasy 77 users
Fiction 24 users
Young Adult 17 users
Sequential Art > Manga 16 users
Adventure 14 users
Graphic Novels Comics 12 users
Comics > Comic Book 11 users
Childrens 5 users
See top shelves..

From posting requirements
If your book has the genre "childrens" or "kids" on its main page, it must meet the criteria specified in the Rules of the Challenge. AR Bookfinder information MUST be posted when the book is claimed for points or no points will be awarded
Task 5.10 states "REQUIRED: If using this exemption, state that the book is not found in ARBookFinder. "

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

Nicola wrote: "I'll repost if needed.
..."

you will need to repost if you want to claim a GO ticket.

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Gabriella post 1085

Task 25.2 option 3 requires " Include cover when posting."
Reposts must include all task requirements including previously posted requirements as well as the missing requirements.

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SPOUNS post 1091

Task 10.3 requires " a book whose title/subtitle shares a word (4 or more letters long) with the title of one of Renoir's paintings. The words must match EXACTLY - no variations."
Chrysanthemums does not match Chrysanthemum exactly.

[Lindsey]

I don't see my big book ticket I claimed in #503 on the readerboard. I also couldn't find #503 mentioned in here. Did I do something wrong, or was it an oversight? Thank you! :) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Lindsey wrote: "I don't see my big book ticket I claimed in #503 on the readerboard. I also couldn't find #503 mentioned in here. Did I do something wrong, or was it an oversight? Thank you! :) https://www.goodrea..."

Sorry, Lindsey, found and fixed. It will show up in the next update.

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Donna S post 1101

Task 20.6 Completed task posts must include a link to the book you read. Please repost this task with the required information

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G.Q. post 1108

Task 5.4 The Wee Free MenThe genre childrens is present on the main page.
genres at review:
Fantasy 1,476 users
Young Adult 721 users
Fiction 582 users
Humor 536 users
Science Fiction Fantasy 149 users
Childrens 146 users
Fantasy > Magic 128 users
Humor > Comedy 128 users
Adventure 122 users
Humor > Funny 118 users
See top shelves..

From posting requirements
If your book has the genre "childrens" or "kids" on its main page, it must meet the criteria specified in the Rules of the Challenge. AR Bookfinder information MUST be posted when the book is claimed for points or no points will be awarded

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Nick KY post 1115

Task 20.3 requires "a book that is a minimum of 250 pages long." Wishful Drinking is 163 pages.

[Nick]

Dlmrose wrote: "Nick KY post 1115

Task 20.3 requires "a book that is a minimum of 250 pages long." Wishful Drinking is 163 pages."

Thanks Dlmrose. Well, that's twice in the last week I've not paid close enough attention. My new year is starting off badly. It's still early enough to put this one in some other task.

[Lois]

I think I've made a mistake in my point total in post #1075. It should have been 115 instead of 105. Now my Readerboard total is off. My most recent post was #1110 for a total of 135.
So sorry for the error. Could you check my totals?
Thank you!

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Lois wrote: "I think I've made a mistake in my point total in post #1075. It should have been 115 instead of 105. Now my Readerboard total is off. My most recent post was #1110 for a total of 135.
So sorry for ..."

I have 135 through post 1110

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Allison I post 1120

Goodreads Author tickets are no longer awarded. They have been replaced with:
20.4 GOLDEN OLDIES - Players may earn a ticket for each book FIRST published in or before 1950. A random ticket will be drawn from the ticket pool to determine who creates this task. Challenge finishers are not eligible for the drawing. Players must specifically request a ticket in the post by claiming "Golden Oldie" and stating the original publication year. See the current season's Posting Requirements for more information.

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Allison I post 1120

Just FYI
Please check your total- 135 + 75 = 210

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Harm NL post 1122

Reposts must be complete including link to the books you read.

Just FYI- Individual posts cannot be moved to other threads. All completed task posts must be made in the Completed Tasks thread.

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Ava Catherine post 1124

Just FYI
Task 20.7 is a one book task. Option 1 has been credited. You may use the other book for another task. If you want to rearrange the books please let me know.