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April 2016 Challenge - Giving Tribute
Here is an example using Christopher Lee.I would pick the letter L because he was a character in Lord of the Rings. Lord would be my word.
Books I could read:
The Lord of the Rings
Day of Infamy by Walter Lord
Another cool challenge Janice - I'm in - thanks! Now for my thinking cap....BTW, I've no idea how you mods come up with creative ideas month after month - amazing.
Cool, Janice. I definitely know who I will honor. He just passed away on Monday.
Great idea Janice :-) I think I know who to pay tribute to and what I'm going to read but I'm going to keep thinking to see if anything else crops up.
Wow! This one needs some thinking! Love the creativity :D
Great challenge, Janice! I think I know who I'll pay tribute to, I'll have to think for the book.
Definitely need to think on this one. I know who I want to pay tribute to already though. :) Great, creative challenge!
Very unique challenge, Janice. Thank you! I will have to think on this one for a while. Hmmm .....
Lilisa wrote: "Another cool challenge Janice - I'm in - thanks! Now for my thinking cap....BTW, I've no idea how you mods come up with creative ideas month after month - amazing."To be honest, I was scrambling for an idea for April. Last night, I decided to review the suggestions that members put forward, hoping for inspiration.
Sarah, and a couple others were talking about doing a challenge around tributes. My friend's sister passed away yesterday from a long battle with cancer, so this one really appealed to me. I just had to twist it up a bit. :)
Obviously, my friend's sister will likely be the one I pay tribute to next month.
I also found my person to pay tribute to, and I have a word I can work with, but I haven't decided on the book yet.Sorry to hear about your friend's sister Janice.
Sorry to hear of your friend's sister as well, Janice :(
I'm also sorry to hear about your friend's sister, Janice.
It is very sad, isn't it? I feel for my friend. She will miss her sister keenly.
Janice, I am so sorry about your friend's sister, especially for all that she must have gone through.
Janice wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "Another cool challenge Janice - I'm in - thanks! Now for my thinking cap....BTW, I've no idea how you mods come up with creative ideas month after month - amazing."To be honest, I ..."
So sorry to hear about your friend's sister Janice. What a great way to honor her with the YLTO challenge for April.
I'm in and my little girl wants to be in too. My person is my Dad, whose birthday was in April. He died in 2005. Katie says she's picking me (you can tell she isn't a teen yet). She's gonna join the group.... and will post below. We'll make her a wall of fame page.My letter will be L because he was a librarian, and I'm going with the word Library. Probably will be a setting....
Katie says she is picking the word Reading because I love to read (she's got that right). Actually now she's changing it to Animal which she knows I love
Hi. I am doing this with my mom. She is who I'm honoring and I am using R=read cause she loves to read. I will go make a Wall of Fame page and we will have to figure out my book.
Hi Katie! Welcome to YLTO. I think that's pretty special that you are honouring your mom in this challenge. I'm looking forward to hearing what book you pick.
Katie - Welcome to the group and to the challenge. Beth & Katie - You don't need to make a wall of fame. The mods will take care of that after you earn your first badge. :)
Beth wrote: "I'm in and my little girl wants to be in too. My person is my Dad, whose birthday was in April. He died in 2005. Katie says she's picking me (you can tell she isn't a teen yet). She's gonna join th..."So now we know why you love books. You inherited the gene. It looks like your daughter did too.
My dad's birthday is in April too.
I'm changing my word to A=animal. Mom and I both love animals and I have some animal books in mind.
I've decided to pay tribute to my friend's sister, Debbie. She has a house in Phoenix and spent Christmas there. It was an oasis for her. So I'm going to read Phoenix Rising. I have it on hold at the library with 2 people ahead of me.
Katie,welcome many of us love animals too. I am looking forward to hearing about your book.
I am paying tribute to my grandad, who died in 2005. My word is 'Roses' because he loved gardening and roses were one of his favourite flowers. I am going to read a historical non-fiction book called Blood & Roses: the Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses
Yesterday, March 25th was Read JRR Tolkien Day, which made me think about all of the pleasure I have received from the author's imaginative books and the movie versions of the stories. Coincidentally, the theme for Tolkien Reading Day 2016, was life, death and immortality.
JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. I am going to read, Out of Africa.
(Information on Read JRR Tolkien Day:
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/society...)
JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. I am going to read, Out of Africa.
(Information on Read JRR Tolkien Day:
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/society...)
My tribute is to my sister. She is always an inspiration to me, in so many ways. The book I have chosen is Inspirations: Poems, Commentaries, and Short Stories by Christopher J. Thomasson.
Completed 4/29/2016
I think it's going to be interesting to see the names of those being honoured this month. I'm off to read about JRR Tolkien Day.
I'm going to start with honoring my mom as well. She was born in April, so I'm using A for April and am going to select a book published that month.
I think I'm going with David Bowie. I have chosen the word Idol for I. Idol is synonymous with Hero (and David Bowie wrote a song called Heroes). I've decided to read a book about superheroes (although they aren't exactly the nice kind of superheroes who help out the human race but more supervillains as they are power hungry), also known as Epics, who are idolised (and hated at the same time) by the main character David (note same name as Bowie). I plan to read Firefight by Brandon Sanderson. Not sure whether this is a tenuous link or not so let me know Janice if it's not what you're looking for.
I'll give tribute to Tomás De Mattos, an Uruguayan writer who died last week. (Although I live in the US, I'm Uruguayan, if there's still someone out there who doesn't know :) ).De Mattos was also a Librarian. He was actually the Director of the National Library of Uruguay in Montevideo (capital city of Uruguay). I'll read a book from the digital library of the National Library of Uruguay (http://www.edu.mec.gub.uy/biblioteca_...). I haven't decided which one yet.
I will honor my sister. She's only 29 but she has several health issues (invisible from the outside) that cause her a lot of trouble and pain. Still, she's always positive and optimistic and very strong, and I admire that.She went on a holiday to a tropical island recently, so island is my word. I will read a book either with island in the title or set on an island.
Peggy wrote: "I will honor my sister. She's only 29 but she has several health issues (invisible from the outside) that cause her a lot of trouble and pain. Still, she's always positive and optimistic and very s..."Sorry to hear about your sister, Peggy. I sympathise, I also have a long term chronic illness which causes me a lot of pain and trouble and is also largely invisible from the outside so I completely understand what she is going through. It's great that she is so positive and optimistic, it's the best way to be.
I will honour my friend who's had a bone marrow illness for the last 16 years. Her favourite things are potatoes, so I will read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in her honour.
Sarah wrote: "I think I'm going with David Bowie. I have chosen the word Idol for I. Idol is synonymous with Hero (and David Bowie wrote a song called Heroes). I've decided to read a book about superheroes (alth..."I was thinking around the same lines for my tribute. I am honoring my father, who passed away several years ago. He was my hero. I have a bunch of words I can relate and I'm having some trouble deciding. I was thinking about "pets" because he loved animals and always had pets. Many of his pets were birds (he loved birds) so I was thinking of reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I wasn't sure if that was too loosely linked, since my word is pet and that specific word isn't in the title... You did tell us to be creative with how our word is represented, Janice. ;)
I do have some other ideas, if that doesn't work and other people's ideas are giving me even more ideas. lol
Ooh, if DeMattos is translated to English, one of his books could work for me!
Sarah wrote: "Not sure whether this is a tenuous link or not so let me know Janice if it's not what you're looking for. ..."
I think it works. David Bowie = Idol = Firefighters in which the heroes are idols. It is a bit tenuous, but I'll accept it.
I will pay tribute to Alan Rickman who is one of my favorite actors. He passed away last month.
A - Alan Rickman was an actor.
One of my favorite movies is Sense and Sensibility, in which Rickman played Col. Brandon. I will read Colonel Brandon's Diary.
Thanks Janice. I'll keep thinking to see if i can find a better link.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to complete January's challenge. I had so many things to do with school that I couldn't read much.Anyway I'm in. the person I'll like to honor is Emmeline Pankhurst. She's my role model and I think she was really courageous.
Anyway there's a lot of letters which could represent her, for example she was an Activist. But I'm not sure this word is in the book I'm planning to read.
That's why I'll go with her surname Pankhurst because she wrote a book I want to read.
Katie wrote: "Ooh, if DeMattos is translated to English, one of his books could work for me!"GoodReads only has listed his books in Spanish, Katie. Is my guess that his books, if translated to English, will probably be difficult to find.
Are you looking for authors who are librarians too? We could help you here.
This weekend I visited my mom with my family and my sister. My children found grandma's drawer full of old records. So we started to listen them - Michael Jackson, Madonna, Tina Turner, Cher, Boney M, ABBA etc (mostly American pop-stars).Those artists were all big favourites of myself, my sis and my mom.
And one moment I thought - I will pay tribute to all American great artists whose music was to us finally also freely available after the dissolution of the Soviet Union (my country (Estonia) gained it's independence in 1991)!
1. Since this challenge requires one person, I will pay tribute to Michael Jackson - his songs and especially the words in those songs have affected me in my teenage years the most (Earth Song, Heal The World, They Don't Care About Us, sigh...).
2. Michael Jackson was American "King of Pop".
3. I think I'm gonna go with title this time (not using my creativity much here, lol): American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
PS! This is great challenge, Janice - gives also chance to know so much more about our group members! :)
I have a lot of that music on my iPad, Elinay. :)
I've decided to pay tribute to my grandad who died in 2009, aged 95. He was born in August (A) (pretty sure his and my nan's wedding anniversary was in August too) so I'm either going to with a book published in August or by an author who was also born in August. First thoughts are HP Lovecraft (The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre), Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451), and The Gargoyle.
Elinaly, what a coincidence! I just met a woman from Estonia. she was walking her toddler grandson and I was walking my dog. Her optimism and faith in America and the future was inspiring. She came here with political asylum. I had decided to pay tribute to her and the refugees who make America great. So I'm looking for a book that has a tie to Estonia.
Joan wrote: "Elinaly, what a coincidence! I just met a woman from Estonia. she was walking her toddler grandson and I was walking my dog. Her optimism and faith in America and the future was inspiring. She came..."Thank you so much for sharing this! :)
And wow... I'm speechless. Yeah, many of us (Estonians) escaped to USA in those difficult times. And those who couldn't had to live behind the Iron Curtain.
What a coincidence indeed - it's just that there are so few of us compared to the other nations and you happen to meet one!
It's also so heart-warming to hear that in this challenge you try to find connection with Estonia! Thank you!
Sigh... I am just truly speechless :)
I am paying tribute to my grandmother, who will turn 89 this year. I recently learned that she became an immigrant during WWII, so that's the word I'll be using.I will read a story of an immigrant, still not sure what book it will be.
Ariane wrote: "I am paying tribute to my grandmother, who will turn 89 this year. I recently learned that she became an immigrant during WWII, so that's the word I'll be using.I will read a story of an immigrant..."
A good one is The Golem and the Jinni
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Step One - Name a person to whom you would like to pay tribute. That person may be living or dead, and may be a celebrity, a person of note, a historical figure, or someone in your life.
Step Two - Pick a word that starts with one of the letters A-P-R-I-L that represents that person in some way. Examples:
A - Picasso was an Artist.
P - Jim Morrison is buried in Paris.
R - Wolfman Jack was a Radio personality.
I - Indira Ghandi's first name was Indira.
L - Christoper Lee acted in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Step Three - Use your creativity and decide how your chosen word will be represented in the book that you choose. It could be in the title (sub-titles excluded), the author's name, a theme of the book, set in the location, an occupation, a character. It could even be that person's favourite genre!
When you report the completion of your book in the reporting thread, you will need to explain your process as to how you arrived at your book choice.
There will be no scoring for this challenge.
General Rules:
1. The book may be in any format - paperback, ebook, audiobook.
2. The book may be in any genre.
3. The book may NOT be combined with the Year Long Geocaching Challenge.
4. The book must be read between April 1 - 30, 2016 (based on your own time zone).
5. The challenge is for one book. You may read more books if you chose.
6. The book must be 175 pages or more determined by the issue you read. If reading eBook or audiobook page numbers will be determined by the issue that comes up first on a Goodreads search.
7. Sub-titles are not included.